Shawna Kearsley
@OnAcornBay · 13:11
HARRIET TUBMAN: The Beacon Of Hope. THE SCULPTOR AS A TOOL AND COLLABORATOR!
That was the first Wolford piece to travel the country. And don't quote me on this, but I think that that was a private commission. Now, what happens is the artist gets an artist proof, and these pieces that you see traveling are what we call artist. So, all right, let me get back to the story. So, Adrienne Greenholmes. That's her name, and she is amazing. And she is the visionary of the beacon of hope with Germaine and her community
Shawna Kearsley
@OnAcornBay · 5:00
If there is a video or something, I will post the link in the description and you can just hit it and check it out, and then you can come back to answering the question. And so we're going to work on this together because I haven't really done this before. First question, what role do you believe public art plays in honoring and preserving the legacy of the historical figures like Harriet Tubman? So we're setting up a conversation and what role do you believe public art plays?
Wesley Wofford
@WesleySculpt · 2:31
Thank you. I believe that public art plays an incredibly important role in honoring and preserving our heroes. As we see throughout the country, we're kind of reexamining our public spaces and having conversations about what these spaces do to the rest of our population. It's a horribly imbalanced ratio of who is represented. I mean, there are a massive discrepancy in the stories represented, and with confederate memorials, stories that are being elevated, that shouldn't be
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Shawna Kearsley
@OnAcornBay · 1:41
That's the other piece for those of you listening, that, Wesley, you can talk about journey and beacon and the beacon in this question. So they had journey, we know, and journey left and everybody got sad. Then what? Give us a story. Thank you. Athlete
Shawna Kearsley
@OnAcornBay · 3:00
And there was so much that goes into it when we talk about monuments. Harriet Tubman, the beacon of Hope monument that just appeared on the corner in front of our government building adjacent to the courthouse. And that speaks volume, because adjacent to our monument, right down, a couple of feet down there, is the reconciliation sign, the lynching and justice and reconciliation sign that is standing on the sidewalk right down there
