<em>From Absence to Presence, The Commemorative to Enslaved Peoples of Southern Maryland </em>(<span>St. Mary's College of Maryland)</span>
<span>Subject (Topic)<br /></span>Mid-Atlantic United States<br />Public art <br />Public sculpture<br />Slavery--Maryland<br />St. Mary's College of Maryland--History
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Subject (Object Type) <br />Commemorative sculpture
"In From Absence to Presence, the tectonic form of a slave quarter materializes from the ground up evoking how this history was uncovered from archaeological research – making the invisible visible. The surfaces are gradated in a pattern of staggered and alternating Ipe wood clapboard and mirror-polished stainless steel, recalling the staggered pattern of erasure poetry. In our design, rows of text on mirrored surfaces are “redacted” by clapboards to dramatically reveal an emergent narrative. Activist Angela Davis described the sacredness of slave quarters in the lives of enslaved peoples as “the only space where they could truly experience themselves as human beings.” As artists, we envision the private space of the slave quarters as a symbol of resilience, determination, and persistence." From RE:site Studio.
Allbritton, Shane<br /><a href="https://www.resite-studio.com/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RE:site Studio</a>
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Lee, Norman <br /><a href="https://www.resite-studio.com/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RE:site Studio</a>
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Baker, Quenton
Photographs by Renée Ater<a href="https://www.smcm.edu/commemorative/%20" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em></em></a>
Dedicated: November 20, 2020
The Commemorative Selection Committee; Saint Mary's College; Governor Larry J. Hogan and the State of Maryland; Dr. Jeffrey J. Byrd and Mrs. Elizabeth A. Byrd; Maryland Heritage Areas Authority; Maryland State Arts Council; and Southern Maryland Heritage Area.
St. Mary's College of Maryland, 47645 College Drive, St. Mary's City, Maryland, 20686
To see the dedicatory ceremony, please click <a href="https://www.smcm.edu/commemorative/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
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47777 Mattapany Road, Lexington Park, Maryland, United States
<em>Monument to Women’s Suffrage</em> (New York City)
Subject (Topic)<br />Women's Sufferage
Subject (Name)<br />Truth, Sojourner, c. 1797-November 26, 1883 <br />Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, November 12, 1815-October 26, 1902 <br />Anthony, Susan B., <span>February 15, 1820-March 13, 1906</span>
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In July 2018 the Monumental Women Statue Fund unveiled a planned Central Park monument to women’s suffrage, featuring Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. The announcement was met with <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/opinion/central-park-suffrage-monument-racism.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">widespread criticism</a> for, not only its exclusion of African American women but the whitewashing of both Anthony and Staton’s classism and racism. In response to the criticism, Sojourner Truth was added to the design. <br /><br />The redesign now features Anthony, Stanton, and Truth engaged in dialogue around a table. However, as the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/25/arts/new-york-city-monuments.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NYtimes notes</a> “more than 20 academics objected [to the re-design] in a letter that the grouping would be misleading because the white suffragists’ rhetoric “treated black intelligence and capability in a manner that Truth opposed.”"
Bergmann , Meredith
Bergmann, Meredith
Forthcoming
Public Design Commission; Monumental Women Statue Fund
To read more about the redesign, click <a href="https://hyperallergic.com/513303/controversial-monument-to-womens-suffrage-redesigned-to-include-sojourner-truth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
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<em>Sojourner</em> (Sacramento, CA)
Subject (Topic)<br />Abolitionists--United States<br />Antislavery movements--United States<br />Public art<br />Public sculpture
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Subject (Name)<br />Truth, Sojourner, c. 1797 – November 26, 1883
Subject (Object Type)<br />Commemorative sculpture
Unlike many sculptural representations of Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Catlett’s work is geometrized and slightly abstracted. Truth is shown with her arms crossed at her chest as she tilts her head skyward, her eyes closed. The flared skirt of her form-fitting dress adds to the work's sense of upward movement. The stone is polished smooth, save for Truth’s hair, which, although abstracted, is shown uncovered in cropped curls.
Catlett, Elizabeth, 1919-2012
<a href="http://sacpedart.com/?p=3840" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pedestrian Art, Sacramento</a>
1999
City of Sacramento; Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission
To learn more about the history of this work, click <a href="http://www.sacmetroarts.org/Programs/Public-Art/Public-Art-Collection/Maintenance-Projects/Sojourner" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
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Originally located at the Sacramento Convention Center (1400 J St, Sacramento, CA 95814), in 2013 it was vandalized and moved to the Crocker Art Museum (215 O Street, Sacramento, CA).
<em>Sojourner Truth</em> (San Diego, CA)
Subject (Topic)<br />Antislavery movements--United States<br /><span>Abolitionists--United States</span><br /><span>Women's Suffrage</span><br /><span>Public art</span><br /><span>Public sculpture</span>
Subject (Name)<br />Truth, Sojourner, c. 1797 – November 26, 1883
Subject (Object Type)<br />Commemorative sculpture
The life-size bronze figure of Sojourner Truth holds a bible in her right hand and handbag in her left. Clad in a simple, unstructured dress, bonnet, and shawl draped around her shoulders, Truth strides forward.
Brown, Manuelita
<a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com.ph/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g32578-d156632-i276453579-University_of_California_San_Diego-La_Jolla_San_Diego_California.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trip Advisor</a>
Unveiled: Jan. 22, 2015
UC San Diego; Vice Chancellor of Resource Management and Planning, the Vice Chancellor of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, UCSD Alumni, the Black Resource Center
To watch a video of the work's unveiling, click <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxh_MQJ_mdk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
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Thurgood Marshall College Campus, University of California at San Diego, CA
<em>Sojourner Truth Memorial Statue</em> (Florence, MA)
Subject (Topic)<br />Antislavery movements--United States<br /><span>Abolitionists--United States</span><br />Women's Suffrage<br /><span>Massachusetts--History</span><br /><span>Public art</span><br /><span>Public sculpture</span>
Subject (Name)<br />Truth, Sojourner, c. 1797 – November 26, 1883
Subject (Object Type)<br />Commemorative sculpture
The life-size bronze figure of Sojourner Truth stands at the center of a square granite base. Truth is shown bespectacled, wearing a period-appropriate head covering, long scarf, and floor-length dress. Her arms are open at her side, in an inviting gesture. She holds a walking stick in her right hand.
Warren, Thomas Jay, <span>1958-</span>
<a href="https://sojournertruthmemorial.org/about-us/memorial-statue/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sojourner Truth Memorial Committee</a>
Unveiled: October 6, 2002
Sojourner Truth Memorial Statue Committee; Massachusetts Monument Grants program; Florence Savings Bank; Smith College; Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts; Denig Design Associates of Northampton
To learn more about the history of the work's commission, click <a href="https://www.massmoments.org/moment-details/northampton-dedicates-sojourner-truth-statue.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
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121 Pine St, Florence, MA 01062
<em>Sojourner Truth Monument</em> (Battle Creek, MI)
Subject (Topic)<br />Antislavery movements--United States<br /><span>Abolitionists--United States</span><br />Women's Suffrage<br />Michigan--History <br /><span>Public art</span><br /><span>Public sculpture</span>
Subject (Name)<br />Truth, Sojourner, c. 1797 – November 26, 1883
Subject (Object Type)<br />Commemorative sculpture
The monumental bronze figure of Sojourner Truth stands behind a concave wall, on an elevated semi-circular stage. She stands to the left of a lectern, her left arm outstretched at her side as she looks out at an imagined audience. She places her right hand on the book that rests atop the lectern. Truth is shown bespectacled, wearing a scalloped-edge bonnet, fringed shawl, and floor-length dress. A bronze plaque describing Truth’s life and accomplishments is affixed to the front of the lectern. The concave wall behind Truth is embellished with bronze plaques bearing quotes from Truth.
Allen, Tina, 1950-2008
<a href="http://michiganhistory.leadr.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2015/11/20080807_94.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan History</a>
Dedicated: 1999
Sojourner Truth Institute of Battle Creek; The United Arts Council of Calhoun County
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N. Division St & Michigan Ave, Battle Creek, MI 49017, United States
<em>Frederick Douglass</em> (Rochester, NY)
<p>Subject (Topic)<br />Abolitionists--United States<br />Anti-slavery movements--United States<br />New York--History<br />Northeastern United States<br />Public art<br />Public sculpture<br />Slavery--New York</p>
<p>Subject (Name)<br />Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895</p>
<p>Subject (Object Type)<br />Commemorative sculpture</p>
To mark the bicentennial of Frederick Douglass’ birth, the City of Rochester, NY, commissioned Olivia Kim to create thirteen live-size portraits of Douglass, placing them throughout the city at sites significant to Douglass’s life and work. Kim took inspiration from Stanley W. Edwards’ 19th-century statue of Douglass, originally erected in front of the old New York Central Train Station in Rochester, NY. Although the works are fiberglass, Kim recreated the patinated bronze of Edward’s original work. Like Edward's original work, Douglass’ arms are slightly outstretched, his palms open upward. Kim used the hands of Kenneth B. Morris Jr., the great-great-great-grandson of Douglass, to create the hands of Douglass in her own work.
Kim, Olivia, 1979-
Photographs by Renée Ater
Dedicated: July 19, 2018
Rochester Community Media Center (Carven Eison); Rochester Contemporary Art Center (Bleu Cease); Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives; and Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Commemoration Committee.
City of Rochester, Department of Environmental Services, 30 Church Street, Rochester, New York, 14614, United States
<a href="https://www.slaverymonuments.org/items/show/1195" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stanley W. Edwards, <em>Frederick Douglass</em>, 1899</a>
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School 12: Anna Murray Douglass Academy, 999 South Avenue, Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
<em>Frederick Douglass</em> (Rochester, NY)
<p>Subject (Topic)<br />Abolitionists--United States<br />Anti-slavery movements--United States<br />New York--History<br />Northeastern United States<br />Public art<br />Public sculpture<br />Slavery--New York</p>
<p>Subject (Name)<br />Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895</p>
<p>Subject (Object Type)<br />Commemorative sculpture</p>
Sculptor Stanley W. Edwards modeled Douglass with his shoulders back, feet planted squarely forward, and his arms outstretched with his palms open as if he were addressing an audience. Mounted on the statue's pedestal are four bronze plaques, three of which are inscribed with quotes from Frederick Douglass. Photos of the monument were taken in Highland Bowl, Highland Park, Rochester, New York.
Edwards, Stanley W.
Photographs by Renée Ater
Dedicated: June 9, 1899
George A. Benton; Charles R. Douglass; Hester C. Jeffrey; Benjamin Myers; Nathan P. Pond; Governor Theodore Roosevelt; Enoch R. Spalding; William A. Sutherland; Gertrude A. Thompson; John W. Thompson; and John Van Voorhis.
City of Rochester, Department of Environmental Services, 30 Church Street, Rochester, New York, 14614, United States
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Frederick Douglass Memorial Plaza (South Ave and Robinson Drive), Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
<em>Frederick Douglass</em> (Baltimore, MD)
<p>Subject (Topic)<br />Abolitionists--United States<br />Anti-slavery movements--United States<br />Maryland--History<br />Middle Atlantic States<br />Public art<br />Public sculpture<br />Slavery--Maryland</p>
<p>Subject (Name)<br />Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895</p>
<p>Subject (Object Type)<br />Commemorative sculpture</p>
The six-foot-tall bronze head of an elder Frederick Douglass is located in the Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park in Baltimore’s southeastern waterfront. The textured and rough surface of Robinson’s work creates a sense of movement as light reflects off the uneven surface, highlighting the work’s divots and crests.
Robinson, Marc Andre, 1972-
Photograph: Monument City, <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/monumentcity/3335648921/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.flickr.com/photos/monumentcity/3335648921/</a>
Installed: June 2006
Living Classrooms Foundation; Steve Zeiger (Zeiger/Snead Architects); and Michael Vergason Landscape Architects - Landscape Architect.
Living Classrooms Foundation, 802 S. Caroline Street, Baltimore, Maryland, 21231, United States
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Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park, 1417 Thames Street, Baltimore, Maryland, 21231, United States
<em>Frederick Douglass</em> (New-York Historical Society)
<p>Subject (Topic)<br />Abolitionists--United States<br />Anti-slavery movements--United States<br />Public art<br />Public sculpture<br />New York--History<br />Northeastern United States<br />Slavery--New York (State)</p>
<p>Subject (Name)<br />Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895</p>
<p>Subject (Object Type)<br />Commemorative sculpture</p>
A life-size sculpture of the abolitionist Frederick Douglass stands atop the staircase at the West 77th Street entrance to the New-York Historical Society. Douglass gazes forward, holding a pair of books in his left hand, while his right arm rests downward. Fully bearded, Douglass stares off into the distance.
<a href="https://www.studioeis.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">StudioEIS</a>
Schwartz, Ivan, 1951
Photograph: StudioEIS, <a href="https://www.studioeis.com/bronze-sculpture/xe37y3a83pko4kay2tmln13ps3urii" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.studioeis.com/bronze-sculpture/xe37y3a83pko4kay2tmln13ps3urii</a>
Unveiled: October 25, 2011
New-York Historical Society
New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West at West 77th Street, New York, New York, 10024, United States
<a href="http://www.newyorktalkingstatues.com/hear-the-statues-talk.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Frederick Douglass, Hear the New York Statues Talk</a>
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New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West at West 77th Street, New York, New York, 10024, United States