by Susan | Oct 2, 2023 | Monuments
After a number of violent crimes that occurred in the community, several Duluthians saw a need to address the community healing through commemorative artwork. The sculpture is a cast bronze of several forearms and hands which at the top rest a dove, with wings...
by Susan | Jun 19, 2023 | Monuments
This series of sculptures illustrates the ancient craft of origami and folding a peace crane. Words of peace are engraved at the central base in 23 languages. The surrounding walking path includes peace stones, taken from ground zero in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, with...
by Susan | Feb 7, 2022 | Monuments
Created as a tribute to Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. , this weathered steel form is an abstract symbol of two wings, which represent freedom. The wings cross each other at the center from opposite directions, forming a cross. The artist, Daniel LaRue Johnson,...
by Susan | Apr 27, 2020 | Monuments
The Nicollet Lanterns feature twelve original poems by Sagirah Shahid, Moheb Soliman, R. Vincent Moniz, Jr. (Nu’Eta) and Junauda Petrus. Each poet wrote three poems of approximately 100 words. The lanterns, created by Blessing Hancock, were part of a 2015-2017...
by Susan | Mar 13, 2017 | Monuments
On June 15, 1920, Black circus workers Elmer Jackson, Elias Clayton, and Issac McGhie, falsely accused of rape, were hanged in Duluth while a white mob of 10,000 looked on. The lynchings made headlines throughout the whole country. The Chicago Evening Post wrote,...
