After a year of controversy, Mayor Kenney and Creative Philly announced the winning design and artist for the new Harriet Tubman statue to be erected outside City Hall.
After a year of controversy, Mayor Jim Kenney and Creative Philly unveiled on Monday the winning design for Philly’s new Harriet Tubman statue — and the artist behind it., one of 50 artists who applied to the city’s Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy, has been commissioned to create the sculpture, which will be erected outside City Hall.“It was the public’s advocacy that made us pivot from direct commission and seek open call,” said Kelly Lee, from Creative Philly.
“I loved the traveling statue and I was angry when the controversy about the commission. But I am happy we have our own,” said Kenney. Pettit’s sculpture depicts Tubman as a Civil War soldier and leader, a role the artist says has received little attention compared to her exploits of leading enslaved people into freedom.in Jersey City in 2013.
Raised in a family steeped in the civil rights movement encouraged Pettit to see connections between social justice and art. He was also influenced by artists such asAfter graduating from the Baltimore School for the Arts in 1988, Alvin earned his BFA in 1992 from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Two years later, he began his first professional job as assistant sculptor to the world-renowned artist Jeff Koons.
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