This mural is one of the newer ones, completed in October 2016. The mural is the work of Washington, D.C.-based artist Juan Pineda, whose works have popped up in the D.C. area since the mid-1990s in areas like Petworth, Howard University, and Adams Morgan. Bethesda Magazine reported that the mural cost $30,000 with the funds coming from the Bethesda Arts & Entertainment District, Bethesda Urban Partnership, and real estate and investment firm Brookfield. 

WMATA collaborated with the Hyattsville Community Development Corporation to complete this painted mural, located outside the station in a pedestrian track underpass. Behind the mural were local artists Cory Stowers and Henry Portillo of ART B.L.O.C. The mural finished in August 2017.

Maryland-based artist Heidi Lippman and architect Ben Van Dusen completed this glass and stone mosaic frieze, titled, “Dawn and Dusk,” in 1999. To find it, Metro riders will have to go to the New Carrollton’s garage stair, elevator towers, and free-standing clock.

Since 1995, this mural has been on display in the U Street Metro station, between the African American Civil War Memorial entrance and the fare gates. Titled “Community Rhythms,” artist Alfred J. Smith completed the mural in conjunction with a 1992 art exhibition, called, “Memory and Metaphor: The Art of Romare Bearden, 1940-1987.” The National Museum of American Art commissioned the mural.

Along the Metropolitan Branch Trail, there is a 900-foot-long mural, painted just this year as part of the POW! WOW! festival. The mural was a collaboration by mostly local artists who included CHELOVE, Mas Paz, Jordann Wine, Julia Chon, Key Han, Martin Swift, Kaplan Bunce, Decoy, HKS181, Jacob Eveland, and Matt Corrado. It was also a collaboration between WMATA and the NoMa Business Improvement District (BID).

To find all of the mural locations that were created during the 2017 POW! WOW! festival, go to the NoMa BID website here.

Foon Sham, a sculptor and art professor at the University of Maryland, completed this artwork in the Gallery Pl-Chinatown Station in 2000. Titled, “The Glory of the Chinese Descendants,” this artwork is a neon wall sculpture, located at the 7th and H streets NW entrance.

A gift from the Lisbon Subway, this 32-ton, green marble wall sculpture by Jorge Martin was created in order to resemble a wave. It stands 10 feet high and 60 feet long with two engraved poems included: “Prayer of Columbus” by Walt Whitman and “Occident” by Fernando Pessoa.

The Anacostia River is one of this Southeast neighborhood’s most notable features, and it’s also the main topic of this four-foot-high glass mosaic frieze. This artwork is meant to pay homage to the natural and social histories of the Anacostia River. Martha Jackson-Jarvis’ “River Spirits of the Anacostia” was created in 2004 and spans 400 feet.