In 1988, the City of Dublin and Dublin Arts Council developed the Art in Public Places Program to enhance the quality of life for Dublin residents and visitors. The geographically dispersed installations are now part of an established public art tour throughout the city. The program has received extensive local and national recognition in publications such as the New York Times and Landscape Architecture magazine.

Dublin Art in Public Places Cell Phone Tour
is now available

The initial stops on the Dublin Art in Public Places Cell Phone Tour have been activated and are now available for residents and visitors to access. Interviews with artists and those close to Dublin’s award-winning public artworks have been recorded and prepared in approximate two-minute segments that speak about the inspiration and creation of each sculpture. The tour encompasses Dublin’s large-scale commissioned artworks and those acquired through the three-year Titration on-loan exhibition series.

The cell phone tour is expected to re-introduce longtime residents to artworks that are part of the Dublin landscape, while educating visitors and newer residents about what the artworks represent, the artists who created them and the stories they have to tell. The tour is available 24 hours per day, anywhere phone service can be accessed, whether from a landline at home or via cell phone while viewing the artworks.

The Dublin Art in Public Places program is more than 20 years old and has grown from one sculpture in 1990 to more than 70 sculptural elements in 2011. The cell phone tour now provides a current, comprehensive and interactive guide to the collection.

Tour content will be updated periodically to include additional information from artists and other professionals who will contribute to a deeper understanding of the collection.

The Dublin Art in Public Places Cell Phone Tour has been generously supported by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, a grant from the Ohio Arts Council and a Bed Tax Grant and in-kind contributions from the City of Dublin.

Access information follows:

614-763-3100       
Leatherlips            
artist Ralph Helmick              
Scioto Park

614-763-3101        
Out of Bounds       
artist Lloyd Hamrol                 
Avery Park

614-763-3102        
Field of Corn
(with Osage Orange Trees)
artist Malcolm Cochran         
Frantz Park
           
614-763-3103       
Rec Center Relief Sculptures  
artists Andrew F. Scott & David Bamber                              
Dublin Rec Center
Coffman Park

614-763-3104         
Jack Nicklaus tribute sculpture     
artists Jeffrey Varilla and Anna Koh-Varilla                      
Muirfield Rd. median

614-763-3105          
Watch House           
artist Todd Slaughter              
Coffman Park

614-763-3106         
Going, Going … Gone!                   
artist Don Merkt                     
Darree Fields Park

614-763-3107         
Ascension                   
artist Brian Russell                     
Coffman Park
                               
614-763-3108         
One Step at a Time   
artist Candyce Garrett                        
Kaltenbach Park

614-763-3109        
Narrow #5             
artist Shawn Morrin                
Coffman Park  

614-763-3110        
Injection                            
artist David Middlebrook         
Coffman Park

614-763-3112          
Exuvia                     
artist Todd Smith                      
Coffman Park

614-763-3113          
One Scene and Untitled                     
artist Daisuke Shintani                      
Dublin Rec Center wall and Municipal Building entrance

614-763-3115         
Sanguine Standing Stone and Jaunty Hornbeam
artist Joseph Wheelwright        
Dublin Arts Center
                               
614-763-3116         
The Simulation of  George M. Karrer’s Workshop  
artist Brower Hatcher                 
Historic Dublin
                               
Signs that include phone numbers have been placed next to each sculpture. An interactive map and additional information will be posted on this site in spring of 2012.

Please click the links below for information on individual artists, projects and locations.

Leatherlips
Out of Bounds
Field of Corn (with Osage Orange Trees)
Dublin Community Recreation Center Relief Sculptures
Watch House
Jack Nicklaus Tribute Sculpture
Going, Going... Gone!

Map

Discover DAC Riverboxes
DAC’s Riverboxes, artist-made public artworks, have been placed discreetly in Dublin parks with access to the Scioto River.  The Riverboxes project, modeled after the popular pastimes of letterboxing and geocaching, is part of the DAC project, Ripple Effect: Artistic Impact of the Scioto River.  To find information and clues about the location of each Riverbox, please click here.

Titration, DAC's outdoor on-loan sculpture exhibition
More information about Titration can be found by clicking on "additional DAC exhibitions" in the navigation bar at the top of this page.