Community Update

Downtown Silver Spring has partnered with local artists and organizations to create eye catching art installations to fill retail space currently in transition.  

There are six costumes on display beside H&M made entirely of paper as part of a collaboration with Pyramid Atlantic Art Center. The display promotes KikiDC, a Wearable Art Runway Competition presented by Pyramid Atlantic.  

Another exhibit in the Macaroni Grill space showcases art from Cultural Exchanges, an initiative by the Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County. 

Both exhibits showcase partnerships with the community and local artists resulting in a creative and eye catching displays that fill retail spaces in transition. 

Wearable Art display left to right (space beside H&M):

"Whispers"

Preston Bencivenga

Made out of tissue paper and origami

"Letter Dress"

Sarah Noreen

Dress made of approximately 500 letters collected over a period of

twenty years by the artist.

"Water Drop"

Rhea Montgomery-Walsh

Bodice made of papier mache 

Skirt made of t-shirt materials and wired around hem

"Decision to be Hopeful"

Lee Anderson

Made out of paper, packing tape and digital prints

"Snowy Owl"

Gina Tepper

Made out of wrapping paper

"Mad Hatter's Tea Party"

Mina Altman

Made with recycled pop tabs, magazines and plastic sheeting

Cultural Exchanges Collection from left to right (Macaroni Grill windows):

Shanye Huang

"Fusion 10"

2010

Winston Harris

"American Made" (Please edit the title so that it does not bleed into artwork)

2013

Shanye Huang

"Trees and Vines Intertwine"

2013

Fetunwork Amedie

"Gathering 3"

2012