'Nesaika,' dedicated in 1976, stands right outside the African American Museum of Philadelphia.
John Rhoden beside his public art sculpture "Nesaika" installed at the front entrance of the Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum., but you have walked past it every time you have passed Seventh and Arch Streets. The 9-footbronze sculpture, which stands outside the African American Museum in Philadelphia, was dedicated on June 10, 1976, by Mayor Frank L. Rizzo.
“The original founders who were working on the founding of the museum had all of these ideas about how art and history should come together for the museum … and I think they chose Rhoden for this commission, because at the time, he was a known sculptor who had done commissions,” Webb said. “Black sculptors who had worked on large-scale public works at the time were not many. And was somebody who was known to people who knew about African American art history before that was a known field.
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