Rockville’s Art in Public Places Program celebrates its 40th anniversary this year and members of the public can learn more about the city’s works of art through a free, narrated photographic tour, courtesy of Peerless Rockville.
The presentation, “Public Art and the Rockville Cityscape,” will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11, at the F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre’s social hall, 603 Edmonston Drive. Presented by architectural historian Teresa Lachin, the presentation will feature highlights of the city’s outstanding AIPP program, launched in 1978, which boasts numerous works of art throughout Rockville’s parks, public spaces and neighborhoods.
Over the last 40 years, the Art in Public Places Program has worked to enhance Rockville’s public spaces with traditional and conventional pieces, as well as abstract, modern and post-modern works.
Lachin will discuss art that is well-known (“Spirit of Rockville,” in Courthouse Square), and others hiding in plain sight (“Rockville,” in Monument Park). For more information about Peerless, an award-winning, community-based nonprofit founded in 1974 to preserve buildings, objects and information important to Rockville’s heritage, visit PeerlessRockville.org or call 301-762-0096.
In addition, Rockville City Hall will host an exhibition of the city’s permanent works of art from late October through December. The exhibition will display photographs and descriptions of Rockville’s Art in Public Places Program. City Hall is located at 111 Maryland Ave.
To learn more about the AIPP and link to an interactive map of the city’s public art, visit www.rockvillemd.gov/AIPP.