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Jefferson School leader outlines ‘Swords into Plowshares’ plan to repurpose melted Robert E. Lee bronze
Summary
Andrea Douglas of the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center presented three finalist designs that would reuse bronze from the melted Robert E. Lee statue in distributed public artworks; the project will enter a community engagement phase and finalists are expected to be announced on July 10.
Andrea Douglas, executive director of the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, told the Charlottesville City Council on April 8 that the Swords into Plowshares project is moving from an awareness phase into an intensive community engagement process. Douglas said the project will reuse bronze from the melted Robert E. Lee statue as part of site-specific public art intended to “turn your articles of war into plowshares.”
Douglas said an RFQ issued in February drew 32 responses and a four-person jury narrowed those to three finalist design teams: Hood Design Studio (Walter Hood), MASQ (Model of Architecture Serving Society) with artist Dana King, and Push Studio. Each team’s concept links the bronze to multiple sites across the city, with budgets for the centerpiece work in the neighborhood of $4 million and additional contingency funding planned for installation and…
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