About the Initiative

The Riverdale Park Public Art Initiative is a collaborative program sponsored and enabled by the Town of Riverdale Park, launched in 2015. The Initiative is facilitated and implemented by Hyattsville Community Development Corporation (CDC). The Initiative’s partners extend their thanks to the private property owners for donating their land for this effort and for their ongoing support.

The Initiative offers the Riverdale Park community with a rotating, year-round outdoor, town-wide sculpture gallery to bring public artwork to delight and enliven the Town, its residents and its visitors. In addition, the Initiative emphasizes the creation of promotional opportunities for local artists to extend their audience and their boundaries.

For more information on the Initiative, browse our updates via the Blog and Call for Artists. Join the HyCDC Mailing List here .

A Community Rich with History and the Arts

Riverdale Park is a community rich with history and support for the visual and performing arts. As an historic inner-beltway suburb of Washington, DC in Prince George’s County, Riverdale Park, MD is also now gaining recognition as an emergent development market, with forthcoming private investments and revitalization activity. The Riversdale Mansion, and the Town’s highly successful farmers’ market anchors its downtown core as an area destination.

Riverdale Park also serves as an important connector for over 50,000 vehicles daily that travel to nearby University of Maryland, College Park, Hyattsville, and the Port Towns via connectors US Route 1, Kenilworth Avenue, and E-W Highway. Just minutes from two Metro Green Line stations, and home to its own MARC Station; Riverdale Park is also a member of the Maryland Milestones’ Anacostia Trails Heritage Area.

As more activity builds in the Route One Corridor, the Town of Riverdale Park, the Hyattsville CDC and the Initiative's partners look forward to exploring additional opportunities to enhance the town’s civic destinations with public art.

Note: The works displayed will be made available for purchase at the end of their tenure in the program (and possibly during, by request, at the discretion of the Hyattsville CDC).

On Display

View MapWith the Initiative's first permanent acquisition now installed, visitors and residents can enjoy the rotating year-long sculpture displays sited across the Town in prominent locations.

Browse our walking guide and map here.

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