Sculpture Project Opening

For the last year, I have been helping the National Museum of Women in the Arts fundraise for their New York Avenue Sculpture Project.


It's a really cool public art project in DC. Four statues were placed on the median of New York Avenue in front of the Museum. The goal is to extend the project for 4 blocks until it reaches the Convention Center. Every year or two, the statues will be changed for new statues by a women artist.

The inaugural statues are by Niki de Saint Phalle. They are colorful and cheerful statues. They are definitely not to everyone's taste. But, they are a vibrant start to the project.

Last Thursday, Mike and I were invited to attend the opening party for the Project. It was a really fun event at the Museum. It was a pretty fancy event but not stuffy. Everyone was all dressed up, but the atmosphere was very low key.


There was a jazz band performing in the Museum lobby. There were fun colored rum drinks chosen to match the colors of the statues. There were carnival entertainers who created origami type things for people. You could tell this man anything that you wanted and he would create it out of a paper plate. Seriously, it was crazy.


There was a man juggling a plate on the end of a stick. Mike got to try that and it was a blast to watch. And, there were performancee artists dressed like the statues.

We had a really great time.