Graffiti Harriet (ephemeral)

Graffiti Harriet (ephemeral)

Subject (Topic)
Antislavery movements--United States
Ephemeral art
New Jersey--Hamilton
Public art
Public sculpture
Underground Railroad

Subject (Name)
Tubman, Harriet, 1822-1913

Subject (Object Type)
Commemorative sculpture

A monumental sculpture of Harriet Tubman made of soil, clay, and straw, is scrawled with the words from Frederick Douglass. The sculpture was made from perishable materials, meant to dissolve over the winter. The artist Joyce Scott designed the sculpture so that only the beaded patchwork and gun would remain after the winter weather. The sculpture was installed at the Grounds for Sculpture from October 20, 2017-April 1, 2018.

Scott, Joyce J., 1948-

Photograph: Mike Morgan for Baltimore Magazine

October 20, 2017

Grounds for Sculpture; Lowery Stokes Sims; Patterson Sims; Seph Rodney; Robbye D. and Kevin Apperson; Jacqueline and Rene Copeland; Mike De Paola; Gordon and Lulie Gund; Greg Kucera and Larry Yocum; Barbara Lawrence and Allen Laskin; Martha Macks-Kahn; Henry Thaggert; Alan White; Clifford Ward (resident artist Grounds for Sculpture); Jeff Capes (contractor); Jason Wright; The Seward Johnson Atelier (Hamilton, NJ); John Lash and the Digital Atelier (Mercerville, NJ); and Tim McFadden and McFadden Art Glass (Baltimore, MD)

Grounds for Sculpture, 80 Sculptors Way, Hamilton, New Jersey, 08619, United States

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English

Visual Arts-Sculpture

Grounds for Sculpture, 80 Sculptors Way, Hamilton, New Jersey, 08619, United States

Monument and Myth: Commemorating Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad

180 in. (457.2 cm)

Soil; Clay; Straw; Resin gun with beads; Found objects

Princethal, Nancy. "Inspired by Harriet Tubman: An Artist Takes Glass to Extremes." New York Times, January 4, 2018. Accessed April 1, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/04/arts/design/joyce-j-scott-grounds-for-sculpture-harriet-tubman.html.

Dube, Ilene. "I Was an Artist in Vitro": Joyce J. Scott and Her Darkly Beautiful Art. Hyperallergic, January 30, 2018. Accessed April 1, 2018. https://hyperallergic.com/423894/i-was-an-artist-in-vitro-joyce-j-scott-and-her-darkly-beautiful-art/.

Sims, Lowery Stokes and Patterson Sims. Joyce J. Scott: Harriet Tubman and Other Truths. Exh. cat. Hamilton, NJ: Grounds for Sculpture, 2018.

Souza, Gabriella. "Towering Figure: After Winning a McArthur Fellowship, Joyce J. Scott Charts New Artistic Territory." Baltimore Magazine, 2018. Accessed April 1, 2018. https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/artsentertainment/towering-figure-macarthur-fellowship-winner-joyce-j-scott-charts-new-artistic-territory/.

Renée Ater

Sculpture

180 in. (457.2 cm)