The Initiative for Public Art-Reston is awarded the Arts Impact Award RestonReston by the Arts Council of Fairfax County Friday, Oct. 12. Page 10 Sports, Page 18 ❖ Classifieds, Page 15 Classifieds, ❖ Entertainment, Page 12 ❖ Opinion, Page 6 WhatWhat WouldWould $155$155 MillionMillion BondBond RestonReston PackagePackage Buy?Buy? News,News, PagePage 55 RecognizedRecognized SimonSimon ForFor PublicPublic ArtArt HostsHosts ConnollyConnolly News,News, PagePage 33 FundraiserFundraiser News,News, PagePage 33 Photo by Connection Alex McVeigh/The online at www.connectionnewspapers.com www.ConnectionNewspapers.comOctober 17 - 23, 2012 Reston Connection ❖ October 17-23, 2012 ❖ 1 News Photos by Photos Alex McVeigh /The Connection The living room of the home of David and Joanne Bauer, which faces the Glade stream valley. The home was one of several on the annual Reston Home Tour Saturday, Oct. 13. Homes Tour Shows Life on the Edge Tommy Castle of Reston. “I really Annual Home like how the walls were white, Tour features clean, and how there was only one or two paintings, simple ones, in homes next to each room. It makes everything seem so wide open.” Reston’s features. Most of the pieces are by artist Ginny Herzog of Minneapolis, The modern home of Matt Lammers, next to Lake By Alex McVeigh Minn., whose abstract paintings Audubon, one of the stops on the Reston Home Tour The Connection reference architecture. His house Saturday, Oct. 13. also features paintings by Slack, a his year’s Reston Homes fellow Reston lake-dweller. TTour featured the usual The home of David and Joanne assortment of houses fea- Bauer also features plenty of art- turing exceptional architecture, work on the wall, also by a local interior design and other unique Reston artist. In fact, Joanne Bauer designs, but this year’s theme also has created most of the pieces on focused on the adjacent areas. display in her home in her studio, “Living on the Edge,” the theme, with her sons Reid and Ian the was designed to highlight how The office of the home of Bill subject of many of them. various Reston residents are mak- Beyer and Laura Urgelles, “I think it’s really cool to have ing do while living near some kind one of the stops on this your own paintings, particularly of of community feature. year’s Reston Home Tour. your children, hanging all over the The neighboring homes of Glade Drive, but once she heard house, [it] really lets you feel truly Connie Slack and Bill Beyer and that lots on Lake Thoreau were at home,” said Jen Southern of Laura Urgelles on Cutwater Court available, she decided to make Herndon. “They are so fascinating share many things in common. another move. too, not your typical child por- The main feature of both is that “What more can you ask for than traits, your eye just goes straight they are located on Lake Thoreau. a house on the water without the to them.” They also share the same wood- Bay Bridge to cross?” she said. David Bauer is an avid working, by Desantis Design, birdwatcher, which makes their which constructed doors, trims ANOTHER HOUSE ON THE house’s location next to the Glade and cabinetry in the home of Beyer TOUR located on the water was stream valley ideal for his hobby. and Urgelles, and cabinetry made the residence of Matt Lammers on of bird’s eye maple in Slack’s Lake Audubon. Bought when he FROM THEIR LIVING ROOM home. was only 28, Lammers and his fa- with large picture windows facing “The woodwork in both houses ther, both architects, designed a the woods, he can spend each was just breathtaking, it’s so pretty renovation plan that allowed the morning with coffee in one hand, it almost makes the views of the lake work to be done over a number of binoculars in the other. an afterthought,” said Sharon years. “I think the homes along the lake DeBarre of Vienna, who went on the The work transformed the house offered some great views, but I’ve homes tour for the first time this by adding 2,000 square feet to the always been more of a forest per- year. “Usually cabinetry is an after- 1,800-square-foot house, adding son, which made this house my thought, or maybe you just notice six remote control skylights in the favorite on the tour,” said James the color, but I could stare at these two-story atrium and a two-level Coleman of Reston. “I don’t think for hours, the grain, the intricacy of curved wall. there is anything better than A view of the living room of Connie Slack, an artist who the design is just amazing.” “This house is simply beautiful, watching the woods in the rain, lives on Lake Thoreau. Slack’s home was one of several Slack originally moved to Reston simple, elegant but unlike almost and this would be the perfect place homes shown as part of the annual Reston Home Tour on Sugarberry Court, located off anything I’ve seen before,” said to do it.” Saturday, Oct. 13. 2 ❖ Reston Connection ❖ October 17-23, 2012 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Reston Connection Editor Kemal Kurspahic News 703-778-9414 or [email protected] Photo by Photo Alex McVeigh Alex /The Connection /The Connection Members of the Initiative for Public Art-Reston are given the Arts Impact Award at the Arts Council of Fairfax County awards luncheon Friday, Oct. 12. Alex McVeigh IPAR Recognized by Photos by Photos County Arts Council Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-11) speaks at the home of Robert Simon Sunday, Oct. 14. Arts Impact Award given for Simon Hosts Connolly Fundraiser IPAR’s public art outreach. By Alex McVeigh ers Woods Elementary School, Reston founder welcomes The Connection and has plans for several new congressman, supporters displays near Reston Town Cen- he Initiative for Public ter and the new addition to to his Lake Anne home. TArt-Reston was recog- Reston Hospital. nized by the Arts Coun- They are also in the process cil of Fairfax County Friday, Oct. of releasing a documentary By Alex McVeigh 12 with the Arts Impact Award about public art in Reston, cre- The Connection for their commission and place- ated by Reston native Rebekah ment of art in public places Wingert-Jabi. upporters of Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-11) as- around the com- Joe Ritchey, IPAR board chair- cended to the top of Lake Anne Plaza, as munity. Founded man, credited SReston founder Robert Simon hosted a in 2007 by local “Our goal is to the response fundraising event Sunday, Oct. 13 at his civic organiza- from the com- home. Due to the 2010 redistricting, the 11th dis- tions and resi- make public art munity on their trict includes Reston in its entirety. dents, the group projects and the “I’m so pleased that through redistricting, we have created a Public accessible all creation of their a new congressman in Gerry Connolly,” said Del. Ken Art Master Plan master plan for Plum (D-36), who was in attendance. “Jim Moran is in 2008 to guide times, to the IPAR’s success. a great man and a great American, but we don’t lose the future of “The quality of anything by having Gerry as our congressman, and I public art. community, to the impact that think he’ll pay a lot of attention to us, because he “Our mission IPAR has been likes representing us.” is to inspire the visitors and able to have is Connolly, who also gained large portions of Tysons community and directly related Corner, Herndon and Vienna in his new district, said educate about people who to the outstand- he remembers thinking, while working in Washing- Reston founder Robert Simon hosts Rep. public art by work in ing quality of ton, D.C. in the mid-70s, “why would anyone live so Gerry Connolly (D-11) at his Lake Anne commissioning leaders we’ve far away?” residence Sunday, Oct. 14. new public art in Reston.” been blessed to “Since then, I’ve seen this community mature, I’ve Reston. Also to have,” he said. seen Bob’s vision come to fruition and then some, work with com- —Anne Delaney, IPAR currently and what he’s built in Reston is a model community “…I’ve seen Bob’s vision come munity and de- executive director of has an exhibit at for not only Fairfax and Northern Virginia, but the to fruition and then some, and velopers to plan IPAR the Reston Mu- country,” he said. “A model of tolerance, of inclusivity, public art at the seum open civic engagement, a model of spirited debate, but what he’s built in Reston is a very early stages of new devel- through Nov. 11, respect for other people’s points of view and other opment,” said Anne Delaney, and will host an panel discus- people. Couldn’t we all use some of that in our na- model community for not only executive director of IPAR. “Our sion Thursday, Oct. 25 at the tional political life?” goal is to make public art ac- Reston Community Center Lake Connolly previously served as the Providence Dis- Fairfax and Northern Virginia, cessible all times, to the com- Anne about he past and future trict supervisor from 1995 to 2003, and served as munity, to visitors and people of public art in Reston. The chair of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors from but the country.” who work in Reston.” event will also feature a screen- 2003 to his election to congress in 2008.