Monday’s Monument: The Arising, Duluth, Minnesota

Monday’s Monument: The Arising, Duluth, Minnesota

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...
Monday’s Monument: Rush-Bagot Monument, Washington, D.C.

Monday’s Monument: Rush-Bagot Monument, Washington, D.C.

After the War of 1812, tensions between the U.S. and Britain were still high. One reason was militarization of the Great Lakes. U.S. Minister and future president John Quincy Adams had proposed the idea of disarmament of the Great Lakes; the British government, liking...