2025 Art in Public Places Pass in partnership with Dublin Arts Council
Expiration: Apr 14th 2026
Explore 12 must-see public art installations in Dublin, curated by Dublin Arts Council and redeem points for a public art inspired tote bag, illustrated by local artist Bryan Moss.
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Grounds of Remembrance was designed by Lisa Rapoport and PLANT Architects from Toronto Canada to provide a place to honor those who have served and sacrificed themselves for our country. Grounds of Remembrance includes a public gathering place, a bronze loggia, a memory wall where visitors can leave notes of appreciation, a grove of 25 sycamore trees and a walkway paved with dedication stones etched with tributes and messages of gratitude.
In the Neighborhood, by local artists Eric Rausch and Jen Kiko, consists of 3,444 pieces of hand-cut, hand-painted ceramic tiles. The energetic living scene of the natural characters found in the mosaic artwork is inspired by Valentina’s Italian flair and the few things that Ohio and Italy share - Sunflowers (Girasole in Italian) and the Brown Sparrow (Passero, Italy’s national bird) as well as other local flora and fauna.
“One Scene” is installed on the expansive Dublin Recreation Center wall that serves as a backdrop to the entryway pond. The cast bronze and poured glass artworks by Hiroshima, Japan-born sculptor Daisuke Shintani, are evocative of numerous tree leaves with vine branches. Shintani now lives in Allentown, Pa., and his work is exhibited and collected in Italy, Japan, Switzerland, France, Germany, Canada, Russia and the United States.
The Daily Chores sculpture by local artist Michael Tizzano was inspired by Dublin’s historic town water pump that sat in the middle of the intersection of what is now Bridge and High streets in the early 1900s. While the pump was a primary source of drinking water for the town, it was also a community gathering place where residents would come together to share news and connect with one another.
Three larger-than-life snails started out by adorning the front lawn of the Dublin Arts Council building located at 7125 Riverside Drive, Dublin, OH, USA. The artworks traveled from Milan, Italy where they were created by a group of six Italian-based artists known as Cracking Art. Formed in 1993, Cracking Art Group upholds a solid commitment to investigating social and environmental issues through the conception and creation of art.
Middlebrook’s Injection is a majestic bronze and stone sculpture that was installed at the pond’s edge near the Dublin Community Recreation Center in Coffman Park as part of the original Titration exhibition series in 2007.
Injection is approximately 6 feet tall and consists of three unique sections, a steel base, followed by basalt, and topped with a bronze cone-shaped piece that completes the sculpture. The large fingerprint that covers the top of the cone is that of the artist. Date Installed: 2007
When approaching the Coffman Park Recreation Center entrance from Post Road, visitors first become aware of the twelve foot blacked-copper sphere which rises from behind the rim of the 220’ diameter circle mound.
As visitors approach the circle mound, they realize the spherical dome is perforated with cutouts and sets atop a copper-skinned house which is bridging a gap in the circle mound. The artwork’s reference to a planetarium and a house bridging a prehistoric Indian mound is intended as a celebration of the history and symbol of the future of Dublin. Date Installed: 1998
George M. Karrer came to Dublin from Germany in the 1850s. He built the barn on the site in 1876 with tools of his own making. He then relocated his blacksmith shop to the property from across the street and also operated platform scales to weigh large wagons for local farmers and merchants from a location next to the building. Karrer ran the farm with the help of his sons, but his primary business was serving the community with his technical craft. The wheelwright stone that he used to fit metal “tread” onto a wooden wagon wheel remained on the property and has now been incorporated into the artwork. Date Installed: 2010
Leatherlips was executed in 1810 by fellow tribesmen at a location very near Scioto Park. In fact, Leatherlips’ last hunting camp is said to have been located 2 miles north of Historic Dublin along the banks of the Scioto River near the location of the present-day park. Early histories by the white settlers of the time described Leatherlips as intelligent, dignified and peaceful. Leatherlips — known as Šaʔteyarǫnyes in Wandat, the traditional Wyandot language — gained his English name from white settlers because “his word was as strong as leather.” Date Installed: 1988