Chromatic Curiosity by Tommy Bobo -- Arlington Art Truck

The Arlington Art Truck is a curated mobile tool box for artists-in-residence to engage the public from April to October in interactive art projects designed to blur the line between participant and presenter, citizen and government in Arlington, Virginia. The Arlington Art Truck was nominated for the 2019 Robert E. Gard Award from Americans for the Arts and launched in 2018 with a National Endowment for the Arts grant. This project with Justyne Fischer is scheduled for the Summer and Fall 2021 season. This project with Tommy Bobo is scheduled for the Fall 2021 season.

Capture the excitement and wonder of a child with a magnifying glass and re-envision the world around you: Chromatic Curiosity provides visitors with a collection of shaped mirrors and colored lenses to creatively explore their surroundings. Manipulative mirrors redirect the sun’s beams, and brightly hued lenses transform ordinary colors into fantastic spectacles. With these tools, form radiant new light compositions on the ground, building walls, or other objects around the Arlington Art Truck. Like wearing rose-colored glasses or looking through a kaleidoscope, viewers can inspect purple apples, blue grass, and the red sky and think about how light plays an important part of our life.

Our Community Partner for this project is AIRE, the Arlington Initiative to Rethink Energy. Learn about Arlington’s initiative to be carbon neutral by 2050, the Arlington Solar and EV Charger Co-Op, and more. AIRE is a division of the Office of Sustainability & Environmental Management.

Video by Richard Howard.
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Arlington Cultural Affairs, a division of Arlington Economic Development, delivers public activities and programs as Arlington Arts. Our mission is to create, support, and promote the arts, connecting artists and community to reflect the diversity of Arlington. We do this by providing material support to artists and arts organizations in the form of grants, facilities and theater technology; integrating award-winning public art into our built environment; and presenting high quality performing, literary, visual and new media programs across the County.

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