Sema the Photographer, J. Schwalm, Nai Turner and Karen Long Freidt
2024
In 2017, Work Program Architects, Downtown Norfolk Council and Sway Creative Labs joined forces to create an artistic sign package for NEON that included pedestrian signs, gateway fixtures and sidewalk “breadcrumbs” to lead visitors around the neighborhood. Two custom fabricated steel signs were placed on Olney Road and Grace Street with attraction listings and windows designed to display local artists’ work, rotating out every other year. The 2024 signs feature works by Sema the Photographer, J. Schwalm, Nai Turner and Karen Long Freidt.
Grace Street:
vision. (digital photography), Sema the Photographer, 2023
Strawberry Smoothie (acrylic gouache on paper), J. Schwalm, 2022
Olney Road:
Can’t Be Everything to Everybody (digital painting), Nai Turner, 2023
Mood (Block printing with digital edits), Karen Long Freidt, 2024
