Archinect - News2024-05-04T23:57:25-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/150351792/davidson-college-unveils-plans-for-a-new-memorial-to-enslaved-and-exploited-people-led-by-hank-willis-thomas-and-perkins-will
Davidson College unveils plans for a new memorial to enslaved and exploited people, led by Hank Willis Thomas and Perkins&Will Josh Niland2023-06-01T12:17:00-04:00>2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/d0/d098939fe9f6914677abd854b3a6b718.jpeg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><a href="https://archinect.com/schools/cover/23543830/davidson-college" target="_blank">Davidson College</a> has unveiled its plans for a new memorial to the enslaved and exploited people whose hands built the 186-year-old liberal arts institution. The design effort of the sculpture titled “With These Hands: A Memorial to the Enslaved and Exploited” will be led by <a href="https://archinect.com/perkinswill" target="_blank">Perkins&Will</a> in collaboration with <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/2156051/hank-willis-thomas" target="_blank">Hank Willis Thomas</a>.</p>
<p>The artist of Boston's new <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150336076/mass-design-group-s-touching-hank-willis-thomas-mlk-memorial-commission-debuts-in-boston" target="_blank">commemoration</a> of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King will deliver a similar monumental bronze sculpture that emerges prominently from a refuge-like space nearby the campus’s original Oak and Elm buildings.</p>
<p>Thomas was selected for the commission following a two-year search process led by alumni that reflects similar reconciliation efforts at <a href="https://archinect.com/schools/cover/4499800/brown-university" target="_blank">Brown University</a>, <a href="https://archinect.com/schools/cover/21463505/the-college-of-william-mary" target="_blank">The College of William & Mary</a>, <a href="https://archinect.com/schools/cover/150241982/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill" target="_blank">UNC Chapel Hill</a>, and perhaps most notably, the <a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/33961/h-weler-yoon" target="_blank">Höweler+Yoon</a> project at the <a href="https://archinect.com/uva_sarc" target="_blank">University of Virginia</a> spearheaded by alumna <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/1540671/mabel-o-wilson" target="_blank">Mabel O. Wilson</a>.</p>
<figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/c7/c7939b8899ec191a3a70bedd954b67ab.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/c7/c7939b8899ec191a3a70bedd954b67ab.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Related on Archinect: <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150329521/a-new-documentary-explores-the-process-behind-uva-s-memorial-to-enslaved-laborers-for-the-first-time" target="_blank">A new documentary explores the process behind UVA's Memorial to Enslaved La...</a></figcaption></figure>
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MASS Design Group's touching Hank Willis Thomas MLK memorial commission debuts in Boston Josh Niland2023-01-17T15:57:00-05:00>2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/33/337fea472b173205f6f1d87ebe0d0f8c.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The wait for artist Hank Willis Thomas and <a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/106488/mass-design-group" target="_blank">MASS Design Group</a>’s public memorial to Martin Luther King on the Boston Common finally ended over the weekend with a ribbon-cutting ceremony that included the sculpture's design team and a host of local political dignitaries.</p>
<p>They were on hand to witness the unveiling of Thomas’ monumental <em>The Embrace </em>sculpture that now sits at the southern edge of America’s oldest public park in the newly-created 1965 Freedom Plaza, a short distance away from the 236-year-old statehouse and Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ memorial to the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. By rights, putting the legacy of its subjects in proper place alongside the Hub’s other paragons of social justice causes from centuries past. </p>
<figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/71/710bec944178036e12ae97c1ec3192dd.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/71/710bec944178036e12ae97c1ec3192dd.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Image courtesy MASS Design Group</figcaption></figure><p>Dr. King met his wife, the late Coretta Scott King, at <a href="https://archinect.com/schools/cover/8409630/boston-university" target="_blank">Boston University</a>’s <a href="https://www.bu.edu/articles/2010/martin-luther-king-jr-s-roommate-reminisces/" target="_blank">Myles Standish Hall</a> while the two were both graduate students at different institutions in early 1952. Thomas wanted to create a lasting monumen...</p>