Persistence

(MA) Persistence, a new year-long environmental sculpture installation, is on view to the public on the Arlington Bikeway through October 31, 2021. A response to pervasive plastic pollution, Persistence is a community-based public art project created by Arlington’s first artist-in-residence, fiber artist Michelle Lougee, in collaboration with more than 100 volunteers and 20 organizations. The installation is composed of 37 sculptures crocheted from plastic bags and suspended from trees located along the Minuteman Bikeway, between Swan Way and Linwood Street (near Spy Pond Park) in Arlington. Persistence is the latest and largest commission for Pathways, a four-year-old initiative organized by the Arlington Commission for Arts and Culture to bring public art to the Minuteman Bikeway in Arlington’s Cultural District.