Seeking 2 artists interested in Black history

[Stephanie Marlin-Curiel]

Hello all,

The Somerville Museum is seeking two more artists for the "Let Freedom Ring" public art project. See somervillemusuem.org/freedom.

Two important 3D printed phone boxes are available. One marking Primus Hal and other soldiers of color that participated in the Continental Army during the American Revolution who rotated through the Winter Hill fortification near Broadway and Main Street.

And one honoring Benjamin Franklin Roberts at 14 Allston Street.  Roberts was an abolitionist printer, and first African-American newspaper publisher (The Anti-Slavery Herald), but he was even more well-known for the lawsuit he levied against the city of Boston to allow his daughter Sarah Roberts to attend a white school that was much closer to her house than the Black school. The case was argued by one of the first Black lawyers, Robert Morris, along with well-known abolitionist lawyer, Charles Sumner. He lost the case but it was cited when desegregation was finally one through the Brown vs. Board of Education case. All of this happened while Roberts lived in Boston, but he then moved to Chelsea, Cambridge, and Somerville once Massachusetts banned segregation in public schools in 1855. She may have been among the first generation of Black students to attend a newly established, integrated public high school in Massachusetts.  

If interested, please send a brief proposal, a portfolio of related work in the style you intend to use, cv, and bio as one .pdf document to step...@somervillemuseum.org by Friday, April 17. 

Somerville Museum
1 Westwood Road
Somerville, MA 02143

somem...@gmail.com

somervillemuseum.org