Finished Sans Varnish

Sidewalk elements

Mural is complete and colors are being painted on the 5' sidewalk squares.

Plumb line

Adjustment to site contours. Working with assistants to plumb top edge of the mural

Stripes of Many Colors

We're on schedule. Our days work is careful attention to edges. Michael Hammond, Jose Piedra and I are working on stripes.

Anne Marchand

Jose Piedra

Anne Marchand and Michael Hammond

RED DAY Team, Crystal City, VA

We're at the halfway mark today. Our work schedule has been 9:30 - 5:30 daily. Since it's Saturday, we started an hour later and finished an hour earlier leaving time for the assistants to play in the evening. I'm doing inventory of how much more paint and supplies we will need. We had more visitors and great comments today.

Saturday and the team tunes in to the color RED.

Anne Marchand, Washington, DC Artist

Siobhan Gavagan

John Grunwell joins us for a day.

Eve Hennessa

A day's work on Prism Mural, Crystal city, VA.

Friday at the Prism Mural

South side of the 18th Street Underpass in Crystal City, VA

Today we do finishing details on the previous days work and begin drawing panels 17, 18, and 20. The weather is cooler and the paint is drying faster. I'm happy with the middle passages of greens which creates a soft glowing luster against the light blues. - Anne Marchand

Valerie Theberge Mosaics

Everyday, my team and I look across to the north side of the 18th Street Underpass in Crystal City, VA and watch the dazzling mosaics go up on the wall. Valerie Theberge's team is at it all week installing the last mosaics that adorn the wall. The mosaics are simply gorgeous! Sparkling and Radiant. The piece is called Radiance and the mirrored tiles twinkle and light up the underpass like fireflies. When the sun is low, rays of sunlight bounce off the tiles. Now that's dazzling.

The Crystal City Business Improvement District commissioned Valerie Theberge to create a mosaic mural on the 18th Street underpass outside the Crystal City Metro. The mosaic consists of individual mosaic pieces ranging from 4-9 feet in size spanning the length of the 160 foot wall. The mosaic is created from colorful glass tiles, stained glass,and mirror. Each piece is hand-cut and assembled in Valerie's studio.