After a year of controversy, Mayor Kenney and Creative Philly announced the winning design and artist for a new Harriet Tubman statue to be erected outside City Hall.
Sculptor Alvin Pettit spoke at the podium as his winning sculpture of Harriett Tubman was unveiled at Philadelphia City Hall on Monday.A Higher Power: The Call of a Freedom Fighter
The selection of an artist to design the statue of Harriet Tubman has been fraught with controversy for nearly two years.in March 2022 that they asked sculptor Wesley Wofford, of North Carolina, to design a permanent statue of Tubman after he had brought a traveling version of a statue he created in 2017, titledstood outside City Hall to honor the 200th anniversary of Tubman’s birth, and to recognize Black History Month in February and Women’s History Month in March.
However, when it came time for members of the public to talk to Wofford directly, the meeting did not go as planned.They said that because the statue will be public art, the process should have been opened to other artists to compete for the commission. One activist, Michelle Strongfields, a physician and Black community health organizer, called on Wofford to “resign this commission and allow the process to begin anew.”But the activists, led by the “Celebrating the Legacy of Nana Harriet Tubman Committee,” began both a letter-writing campaign and an online petition calling for an open-call process.
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