Re-envisioning Blackness

1934 sculpture by  artist Maurice Glickman (Jewish Romanian, 1906–1981). Courtyard, Interior Department https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negro_Mother_and_Child

By Daniel Gillette Olney, a terra cotta frieze, Langston Terrace Dwellings, 21st Street and Benning Road N.E. Washington DC.

Donated by Delta Sigma Theta, Howard University

Saint Martin de Porres statue, by Thomas McGlynn, Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, 1600 Morris Road, S.E.

Josh Gibson is a public artwork by sculptor Omri Amrany, located at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., United States.

A bust of Dr. King from mid torso up, including his upper arms, wearing a suit and tie. Eyes downcast in a contemplative mood.

Rotunda, US Capitol,  2013, Artist  Eugene Daub. Daub and Firmin Studios, LLC https://www.aoc.gov/explore-capitol-campus/art/rosa-parks-statue

Sojourner Truth  (nee Isabella Baumfree,)  bust, US Capitol (Emancipation Hall), by Canadian sculptor Artis Lane

Exterior  of  South African Embassy 9 feet height  3051 Massachusetts Avenue, NW  Sculptor Jean Doyle  (2013) Public transit access; N2 or N4 Metrobus, Nearest Metro station: Dupont Circle Unveiled on September 21, 2013

Alley adjacent to 1313 U St, NW Artist: Aniekan Udofia with Mia Duval (2017) Note: The mural has changed a good deal since its 2017 dedication.

West Potomac Park,   1964 Independence Avenue, SW Sculptor:  Lei Yixin

5 Henry Bacon Dr NW, Washington, DC 20002 Access: Metro stations:  "Foggy Bottom/George Washington University" on the Orange, Blue, and Silver lines.  Sculptor:  Frederick Hart Dedicated November 11, 1984

(dedicated 1897) Patinated plaster version on display in the National Gallery of Art Sculptor: Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907)

Lincoln Park, Washington DC An interesting place to begin our reflections on race, art, and place in Washington, DC is Lincoln Park, which contains two very different sculptural works dedicated a century apart.

Lincoln Park, Washington DC. Depicted as a standing elderly woman, the famed educator and civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune, stands holding in her right hand a walking stick presented to her by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Bust of A. Phillip Randolph  (1889 – 1979) in Union Station by Ed Dwight, 1990

Designed by Ed Dwight, with the Madonna and Child by Dwight and also the Ancestors relief by Dwight (the sculptures of the four apostles and of the crucified Jesus Christ are by different artists).

d Hamilton’s two sided sculptural assemblage is organized around a curved wall-like shape with rippled markings that may resemble a vast wave perhaps a wave of freedom.

Donated By: DC Mayor Muriel Bowser
.  Artist(s): Anonymous
..Year: 2020. Location: Black Lives Matter Plaza (800 and 900 blocks of 16th streets, NW  Immediately north of Lafayette Square Park, which is just north of the White House complex, Washington DC  https://muralsdcproject.com/mural/black-lives-matter/

Public artwork by African American DC artist Allen Uzikee Nelson, located at the intersection of, located at the intersection of Kansas Ave NW, Georgia Ave NW and Varnum St NW in the Petworth neighborhood in Washington, D.C.  Located in a small triangular public park. Sign partially damaged.