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Charlottesville's Jackson statue heads to LA museum, fate of Lewis-Clark-Sacajawea statue unclear
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Charlottesville’s Jackson statue heads to LA museum, fate of Lewis-Clark-Sacajawea statue still unclear
Ginny Bixby 1 hr ago
Charlottesville’s statue of Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson is headed to LAXART in Los Angeles for an exhibit that will be installed at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. City Council unanimously voted on the disposition of the statue as part of the consent agenda Monday evening.
According to LAXART’s proposal, the exhibit will include other similar statues, all of which will be exhibited alongside works of contemporary art presented in a manner that will contextualize these monuments socially and historically in order to critique and confront the false narrative and ideology of the Lost Cause. LAXART is reimbursing the city $50,000 for the statue.
At the Dec. 6 meeting, City Council made an eleventh hour decision to give its statue of Robert E. Lee to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, which will melt it and transform it into a new piece of public art. However, councilors agreed to delay voting on the other two statues to the last meeting of the year. During the Dec. 6 meeting, councilors voiced support for the LAXART proposal, but as the proposal asked for both the Lee and Jackson statues, the council delayed the vote in order to contact LAXART about whether they would just want the Jackson statue.
According to the proposal, LAXART plans to design a major education component to accompany the exhibit, as well as a scholarly publication and lectures and panel events that will inform visitors about Lost Cause propaganda. The working title of the exhibit is MONUMENTS.
The council was also slated to vote on the disposition of the statue of Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and Shoshone interpreter Sacajawea on Monday, but chose to delay the vote in light of a miscommunication between the Lewis and Clark Exploratory Center and descendants of Sacajawea and members of the Monacan nation.
City councilors have expressed a preference to give the statue to the Lewis and Clark Exploratory Center in Darden Towe Park, which is joint property between the city of Charlottesville and Albemarle County. LCEC has been in consideration by the city for ownership of the statue since before it was removed. Executive Director Alexandria Searls submitted a proposal for recontextualizing the statue that includes bringing awareness to the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women.
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Charlottesville’s Jackson statue heads to LA museum, fate of Lewis-Clark-Sacajawea statue still unclear
Ginny Bixby 1 hr ago
Charlottesville’s statue of Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson is headed to LAXART in Los Angeles for an exhibit that will be installed at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. City Council unanimously voted on the disposition of the statue as part of the consent agenda Monday evening.
According to LAXART’s proposal, the exhibit will include other similar statues, all of which will be exhibited alongside works of contemporary art presented in a manner that will contextualize these monuments socially and historically in order to critique and confront the false narrative and ideology of the Lost Cause. LAXART is reimbursing the city $50,000 for the statue.
At the Dec. 6 meeting, City Council made an eleventh hour decision to give its statue of Robert E. Lee to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, which will melt it and transform it into a new piece of public art. However, councilors agreed to delay voting on the other two statues to the last meeting of the year. During the Dec. 6 meeting, councilors voiced support for the LAXART proposal, but as the proposal asked for both the Lee and Jackson statues, the council delayed the vote in order to contact LAXART about whether they would just want the Jackson statue.
According to the proposal, LAXART plans to design a major education component to accompany the exhibit, as well as a scholarly publication and lectures and panel events that will inform visitors about Lost Cause propaganda. The working title of the exhibit is MONUMENTS.
The council was also slated to vote on the disposition of the statue of Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and Shoshone interpreter Sacajawea on Monday, but chose to delay the vote in light of a miscommunication between the Lewis and Clark Exploratory Center and descendants of Sacajawea and members of the Monacan nation.
City councilors have expressed a preference to give the statue to the Lewis and Clark Exploratory Center in Darden Towe Park, which is joint property between the city of Charlottesville and Albemarle County. LCEC has been in consideration by the city for ownership of the statue since before it was removed. Executive Director Alexandria Searls submitted a proposal for recontextualizing the statue that includes bringing awareness to the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women.
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