Adriana Baler: Sculptor, Ceramicist, and Professor at Montgomery College and The Corcoran Gallery

[ol_ironstomach]

Pedestrians along Takoma Park's Carroll Avenue can enjoy a bit of public art that would be hard to notice from a passing car: for some six or seven hundred feet between Columbia Ave and the firehouse, the sidewalk on the south side has a decorative border of thousands of colored tiles of various shapes and sizes, pieced together in various seemingly nonrepeating patterns, as if someone has transplanted a two-dimensional ribbon of pebble beach into the urban landscape.

This is the work of Silver Spring's Adriana Baler, an art professor at Montgomery College and also at the Corcoran, whose other work includes ceramic wall collages, the Escher-esque solid-surface Peeps tiles in the flagship Peeps store at National Harbor, and the faceted chocolate molds at Fiola Mare.  Baler's design was selected in 2005 by the city's Arts and Humanities Commission from a field of twelve proposals for the "Carroll Avenue Sidewalk Public Art Project".

[artist's signature at "left end" of the artwork, near the firehouse]

[Adriana Baler]

Thanks Ol_ironstomach. i am flattered by all the research that went into this post. you and other readers might be interested to know that I am also a local chocolatier selling through exclusive DC restaurants for the time being. Here's my new chocolate-related (and temporary) website  http://bombonstudio.com/

cheers

adriana baler