For Immediate Release
October 6, 2008
Contacts:
Viola Coleman 703-324-8300
Fairfax Library Foundation Unveils Statue at Reston Library
Fairfax, VA –Representatives from Initiative
for Public Art – 
Reston
(IPAR) unveiled the statue, Book of Love, at the Reston
Regional Library on Friday, October 3. IPAR sponsored this statue, as well as the statues
at the Centreville
Regional Library, Great
Falls Library, and Tysons-Pimmit
Regional Library, in support of Art
in the Pages, the first ever public art sculpture project in
Fairfax County and the City of Fairfax.
Art in the Pages is a project of the Fairfax Library Foundation, the Fairfax County Public Library and Signature Sponsor, Verizon. Thirty-one large, open-book statues, approximately four feet high are on display at each of the 23 Fairfax County Public Library branches, schools and businesses throughout the county and the City of Fairfax.
Featured in the picture (left to right) are:
Brian Jacoby, President of the
Friends of the Reston Regional Library;
Cathy
Hudgins, Reston District Supervisor;
Anne Nagy, the statue’s
artist and an art teacher for FCPS;
Joe Ritchey, Principal Prospective Inc.,
and Chairman & President of IPAR;
Leila Gordon, Executive Director
of the Reston Community Center;
John Thillmann, Board Member of IPAR;
Ann Rodriguez, President of the
Fairfax Arts Council;
Joan Bissell, Circulation Manager at the Reston
Regional Library;
Marco Rando, an artist and Board Member of IPAR.
Fairfax County Public Library Foundation, Inc., doing business as Fairfax Library Foundation, is a private, nonprofit corporation committed to providing supplementary support to the Fairfax County Public Library. The Foundation, while reinforcing the need for continued and increased public support for the library, serves as a catalyst for attracting private funding from individuals, businesses, organizations and foundations to enhance library services for our community.