Public Art Reston

06/18/2026

06/08/2026

South Lakes High School STEAM Team students presented the mockups of their upcoming artwork on Lake Thoreau spillway. Kudos to the students and art teacher and artist Marco Rando!

06/08/2026

South Lakes High School STEAM Team students presented the mockups of their upcoming artwork on Lake Thoreau spillway. Kudos to the students and art teacher and artist Marco Rando!

05/28/2026

🏅We are thrilled to announce the winners of our first Public Art Poetry Contest, selected by our distinguished judge, Fairfax County Poet Laureate Angelique Palmer! 🎖️
🤩 Check out the winners and read their amazing poems inspired by public artworks in Reston at https://publicartreston.org/public-art-poetry-winners/

05/20/2026

🎉 Congratulations to Tephra ICA for an amazing Arts Festival 2026!! 🎨 We had the honor to sponsor the Arts Tent and spread joy to kids of all ages through the colorful stamp activity by South Lakes STEAM Team students, led by artist and teacher Marco Rando 🫟 Thank you to all who participated! 🤗

05/16/2026

Tephra ICA Arts Festival is on, 🖼️ and we are ready to engage with the community through the innovative art activity with South Lakes STEAM Team! 🫟 Enjoy art, music, and be a part of the collaborative art project! 🎨 Find the art tent at Reston Square Park . See you soon! 🤩
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05/10/2026

Motherhood is the art of loving endlessly without asking anything in return. Happy Mother’s Day! 🌷🌷🌷
*Artworks by Nancy Shon And Erin Henry

05/06/2026

🌷 While we wait for Poet Laureate Angelique Palmer to evaluate and select the winner of our Public Art Poetry Contest, 🎉 we want to share another beautiful poem submitted by Sierra Adams. Enjoy! 🧡

Mercury Fountain by Sierra Adams, inspired by the Mercury Fountain at the Reston Town Center.

The rush of feelings flow through my veins.
Life cuts too deeply not to bleed on others
Will self control lead me away from my pain?
I will die without you, my lover.

This love feels electric, I don’t want it to end.
I want to bathe in it.
Will you be my everything, forever?
I will die for you, only because you felt like comfort.

A flame that burns bright will end quickly.
Only a nourished fire can keep us warm.
Who lit the match? Who added the gasoline?
I would die before I admit, we never built a home.

Streams split, branches break, hills collapse.
The questions run dry; I have accepted.
Death will not come, without learning a lesson.

04/30/2026

✏️ Due to the amazing response to the Public Art Poetry Contest 🤩 —and to give our juror, Poet Laureate Angelique Palmer, enough time to select the best poem— we will announce the winner in May. 🎉 In the meantime, enjoy “Wavelengths” by Jennifer Addie Quarrie.🧡

Wavelengths By Jennifer Addie Quarrie [A pantoum inspired by The Messenger (2023) — Nicholas Zimbro]

Within the energetic tumult of intention
Searching a multitude of wavelengths
An instant of clear connection
Before singularity is swept away again

Searching a multitude of wavelengths
For the language of heart above mind
Before singularity is swept away again
Thoughts colliding never to separate

For the language of heart above mind
Spoken with the lightness of air
Thoughts colliding never to separate
The spectrum collapsing back into white

Spoken with the lightness of air
Carrying perception’s heavy density
The spectrum collapsing back into white
Saying nothing and everything at once

Carrying perception’s heavy density
Within the energetic tumult of intention
Saying nothing and everything at once
An instant of clear connection