Valerie Cassel Oliver - "Community Welcomes Monument"

Valerie Cassel Oliver, the Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), revisits her experiences of bringing "Rumors of War," the first public sculpture created by world-renowned visual artist Kehinde Wiley, to the museum and city of Richmond where its profound significance still reverberates.
This talk is part of the Association for Public Art's 150th anniversary speaker series, "Insights: The Future of Public Art," a program that reflects on the organization's mission to commission, preserve, interpret and promote public art in Philadelphia. Explore other speaker events at associationforpublicart.org/anniversary-special-events