Identity, Location, Artists
THIS PLACE HAS A VOICE
Funding provided by the DC Department of Transportation
Administered by the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop
Project Manager: Hannah Jacobson
Art Director: Bruce McKaig
Novie Anne Trump—Viceroy Butterfly
Beth Baldwin—East on E Street Emu
Carolina Mayorga—Carolina Grasshopper
Breon Gilleran—Spider Web
John Yanson — Dog
Evan Reed — Ibus
Charles Bergen—First and F State Dinosaur
Davide Prete —K and 4th Koala
Susan Champeny — Lady Bug
Undine Brod—Narwhal
DC Department of Transportation employees Robert Payton and Leon Barnes installed the ten sculptures on June 24 2014. DDOT point person Charles Stewart booked the team for three days: they finished in three hours. Their expertise was matched by their camaraderie and care: the best art installers in town.
Selection panel:
Carol Grissom
Carol Grissom is the Senior Objects Conservator, Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute, Washington, DC (1984-‐present). Current projects include zinc sculpture in America: 1850–1950 and serving as book review editor for studies in conservation. B.A. in Art History, Wellesley College, 1970, M.A. in Art Conservation, Oberlin College, 1974
Dawn Whitmore
Dawn Whitmore was born in Baltimore, MD, in 1983. She graduated from the Corcoran School of Art in 2005 during which time she also completed a semester abroad at the Camberwell College of the Arts (2004) in London, UK. Her photographs have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries throughout the United States, Lyon, France and London.
Amy Finkelstein
Amy Finkelstein received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston where she was a Deans Discretionary Award recipient. She has shown extensively throughout the east coast and internationally in Italy. She was recently named a semi-‐finalist for the 2013 Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize.
Bruce McKaig
Bruce McKaig has been a visual artist for over thirty years, living in Europe, North and South America, Siberia, and India. Working with chance and surprise, his explorations include darkroom and digital photography, time-‐based works, and photo-‐based sculptures. His works are in museum collections in the USA, France, and Guatemala. He regularly lectures and writes on photography, and has curated group and solo exhibitions of other artists’ work since 1988.
Curator and Lead Artist: Bruce McKaig
Team Artists:
Janelle Fernandez
Jon Lee
Initial funding provided by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (DCCAH) an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Capitol Hill Alphabet Animal Art Project
Project Manager: Hannah Jacobson
Art Director: Bruce McKaig
Team Artists:
(E) Emu Elizabeth Baldwin
(D) Dog John Yanson
(F) Falcarius Charles Bergen
(S) Spider Breon Gilleran
(I) Ibis Evan Reed
(L) Lady Bug Susan Champeny
(K) Koala Davide Prete
(V) Viceroy Butterfly Novie Anne Trump
(N) Narwhal Undine Brod
(G) Grasshopper Carolina Mayorga
Funded by the DC Department of Transportation (DDOT)
Administered by the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop (CHAW)
Project Manager: Bruce McKaig
Project Historian: Mara Cherkasky
Funded by the Humanities Council of DC (DCHC)
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