Unveiled in September 2010, in time for the 25th anniversary of his Senate hearings on music censorship and celebrated with a Baltimore mayor-declared Frank Zappa Day and a free street concert by Dweezil Zappa and the Zappa Plays Zappa band, this bust of Frank Zappa is a tribute to the rocker, classical composer, film producer, and all-around avant-garde Baltimore icon who passed away in 1993.

Sitting in front of the latest addition to Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Free Library, the bust is a replica of a similar sculpture in Vilnius, Lithuania, by Konstantinas Bogdanas. The duplicate was donated to Baltimore by the Lithuanian non-profit and Zappa-fan organization ZAPPART. A few years after the original memorial was erected, the popularity of Frank Zappa in Lithuania had grown and ZAPPART decided to give a bust to Zappa’s hometown of Baltimore. During the Christmas season, the bust is adorned with a Santa hat. The street near the library has also been (unofficially) renamed Frank Zappa Way.