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Notes: D.C. artist chosen for next spring’s public art at Alexandria’s Waterfront Park

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The seventh artist has been chosen to create public art at Waterfront Park next spring.

Alexandria’s Office of the Arts recently announced that D.C. mixed media artist Nekisha Durrett will create the seventh piece of art in the Site See series.

“The Site/See series has made Alexandria’s waterfront into a destination for engaging contemporary art,” said Diane Ruggiero, deputy director of the city’s Department of Recreation, Parks and Cultural Activities. “We love how the public has embraced these installations and we can’t wait to bring Nekisha to Alexandria to create the next chapter.”

According to the City:

Born in Washington, DC, Durrett’s recent large-scale projects include Queen City, a 35’ tall “vessel” in Arlington, VA that pays homage to 903 individuals displaced for the construction of the Pentagon in 1941, and Airshaft, a two-story installation at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.  She was recently awarded the commission for the ARCH Project at Bryn Mawr College in partnership with Monument Lab.

The project must meet approval of the Alexandria Commission for the Arts, and Durrett’s contribution will follow installations by Studio KCA (2024), Nina Cooke John (2023), R&R Studio (2022), Mark Reigelman (2021), Olalekan Jeyifous (2020) and SOFTlab (2019).

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