May 4, 2021 at 2:00pm
The Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art is expanding its reach to downtown D.C., where it is installing a sculpture by California artist Gisela Colón.
Titled “Parabolic Monolith Iridium,” the sculpture will be located at the top of James Monroe Park near the National Mall, and it will be on view starting this Saturday (May 8). It is Colón’s first public sculpture by in the D.C. region.
“We’re thrilled to bring Gisela’s work to Washington,” Tephra ICA Executive Director and Curator Jaynelle Hazard said. “The Parabolic Monolith Iridium is an object that speaks to the future, to transformation, and especially to hope. It’s symbolism is very much aligned with how we aim to position ourselves and our perspective as an institution.”
More travel executives get their mission-critical industry news from Skift than any other source on the planet.Tell me more
The concept of community-based tourism, in which businesses are owned and operated by local communities with revenue, in turn, targeting rural development, dates back to the 1970s. Pre-pandemic, a greater number of community enterprises were entering the tourism value chain as travelers increasingly sought culturally immersive experiences with travel dollars going directly to local communities.
But this model wasn’t as widespread nor as prioritized by mainstream tour companies. Communities lacked access to training and resources to set up their own businesses to compete, while governments and for-profit travel companies focused on selling established mainstream tours over the more complicated task of doing commerce with local communities.
industry, but york county has long been reliably republican. this is trump country. and these folks want you to hear this. you know, you got to give him a chance. no matter which side of the fence you came down on, i think you should give the man a chance. reporter: and just in case you didn t get it they got to give the man a chance. reporter: york is a red county with a bit of blue downtown and reflects the quantum shift that s happening in the state. just this year the pennsylvania republican party says it enrolled almost a quarter million new voters and saw nearly 100,000 democrats switch to the gop. this guy gets it. if you can t trust your garbage man, who can you trust? reporter: garbage is scott wagner s business. he knows waste when he sees it. we need to fix harrisburg. reporter: that s part of why he ran a write-in campaign in 2014 against a democrat and a republican who is already on the ballot. he won. what did you tap into two and a half years ago th
this. you know, you got to give him a chance. no matter which side of the fence you came down on, i think you should give the man a chance. reporter: and just in case you didn t get it they got to give the man a chance. reporter: york is a red county with a bit of blue downtown and reflects the quantum shift that s happening in the state. just this year the pennsylvania republican party says it enrolled almost a quarter million new voters and saw nearly 100,000 democrats switch to the gop. this guy gets it. if you can t trust your garbage man, who can you trust? reporter: garbage is scott wagner s business. he knows waste when he sees it. we need to fix harrisburg. reporter: that s part of why he ran a write-in campaign in 2014 against a democrat and a republican who is already on the ballot. he won. what did you tap into two and a half years ago that you re still tapping into now? it s anger. people are fed up with