Art Installation @the Atlas

For Immediate Release: For More Information Contact
October 16, 2006 Jen DeMayo
jdemayo@atlasarts.org

Art and Elements-The Second Installations of Street Scenes: Projects for DC opens tomorrow at the Atlas Performing Arts Center Dirt Mosaics and Sand Drawings to be installed throughout DC

Washington, DC-

Art & Elements, the second project of an ambitious public arts program, will launch the morning of October 18, 2006, at the Atlas Performing Arts Center (1333 H Street) as two artists, Cal Lane and Linn Meyers, will create temporary installations on the streets of Washington, DC. Art & Elements is an installation of Street Scenes: Projects for DC, which has been established by local independent art curators to mount temporary public art interventions.
Art & Elements—which was created in collaboration with leading art galleries, art institutions, and commercial enterprises of Washington—will showcase the works of two artists who usually work in different mediums. Using sand and dirt, they will create temporary art works at different times and different locations throughout the city over the course of seven days. Cal Lane, an artist and a welder, has created large-scale outdoor sculptures. Most recently, she created a work for the Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, NY. Linn Meyers is
well-known within the Washington art world for producing precise and colorful line drawings.
The project will start on October 18 with an installation at the Atlas Performing Arts Center in the vibrant new arts community on H Street NE. It will end on October 24, with three installations in Chinatown. In contrast to the premier project of Street Scenes, Art not Ads (during which mobile billboards cruised the streets of Washington with poetry, painting and video works), this October project will showcase artists at work at fixed locations. The dirt and sand installations will be on public display at the following locations from October 18 through October 24, weather permitting:

Wednesday October 18 / H Street Corridor NE
Atlas Performing Arts Center,1333 H Street NE

Art & Elements is curated by Nora Halpern and Welmoed Laanstra. Halpern is an independent curator and Vice President for Leadership Advancement at Americans for the Arts. Laanstra, an independent art curator, was the curator and organizer of Found Sound, a public art program that last year presented sound art in sound booths placed on sidewalks across Washington. Found Sound was the first collaboration for Halpern and Laanstra. galleries, artists and local governments.