Public Art & Creative Placemaking
ArtsFairfax is proud to catalyze, celebrate, and support the creation of public art and creative placemaking throughout Fairfax County.
Public Art Locator
ArtsFairfax invites you to discover and explore public art in and around Fairfax County through this interactive web application. Free and easy to use, the Public Art Locator populates an inventory for cultural planning in Fairfax County.
Features
How To Use
Background
ArtsFairfax worked closely with Fairfax County Department of Information Technology’s GIS & Mapping Services Division to leverage Fairfax County aerial imagery and other data to put the power of arts engagement in the hands of every resident. By crowd-sourcing public art in our community, we can better measure how public art and creative placemaking drives public engagement and transforms a space into a place.
Public art is defined as art in public places visible and accessible by the general community, such as sculpture, murals, and installations enhancing public spaces including but not limited to public furniture, walls, street and bridge enhancements, earthworks, light-based or multimedia works, and other pathfinding, interactive, or participatory installations.
In an initiative to bring the arts to where people are in their daily lives, we collaborate with public and private partners to transform their spaces into venues for local artists to present their work.
By reimagining existing spaces as part of “ArtsFairfax Presents,” we create lower-cost opportunities to host arts programming while absorbing the administrative burden to artists.
Exhibit at Tysons Corner Center
Local artists are invited to apply for temporary art exhibitions as part of Tysons Corner Center’s THE COLLECTION, where art meets fashion.
Through this partnership with Macerich, the owners and developers of Tysons Corner Center, ArtsFairfax showcases the diversity, creativity, and quality of visual artists from the Fairfax region.
ArtsFairfax Projects
ArtsFairfax Services
ArtsFairfax draws on best practices from the field to advise on public art and creative placemaking at any stage, from early idea to installation.
- RFQ/RFP
Development - Project
Administration - Community Engagement
& Promotion - Online Application
Management
ArtsFairfax can lead you through a process to narrow the scope and define your artist call, working with you to develop an artist call that is specific to meet your needs by working with you to develop a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) or a Request for Proposals (RFP) that will attract potential artists or artist teams
ArtsFairfax has a track record of serving on and overseeing committee work for defining project scope, site selection, and artist selection. By regularly engaging County leadership in Planning & Development, Public Works, and district offices, among others, we can bring disparate stakeholders together to strengthen your process and advance your project.
As grant administrators, ArtsFairfax has the infrastructure in place to manage your online application to ensure that information is collected completely, and all applicants are processed equitably. We can design your application and pre-screen with prospective applicants.
“Economic development in the traditional sense, does not make an area ‘cool.’ Cool comes from the authentic creative expression of a people or culture that designates a sense of place.”
-Evan Kaufman, Executive Director, Southeast Fairfax Development Corporation
Creative Placemaking Partners
Stay curious...
Calls
→
Artist Survey
→
Allison Mui
→
Director of Advocacy & Communications
amui@artsfairfax.org
Additional photo captions and credits (top to bottom): Ethos by George Bates and Nicole Tong (courtesy of WMATA); Tysons Corner Center’s The Collection (c) Timeline Media.