
Arts Fort Worth and the Fort Worth Public Art program will present the dedication of the "East Rosedale Monument Project" by Christopher Blay.
Blay’s artwork for East Rosedale Avenue recognizes the role of transit buses in the civil rights movement from the 1950s through the 1970s and connects the struggle for equal rights and justice from a national narrative to a local one.
For "'East Rosedale Monument Project," the artist transformed a vintage transit bus into a public artwork as a way of talking about the history of buses in the civil rights movement and preserving that history. From the Montgomery bus boycotts and the Freedom Riders to the busing of students for integration, the transit bus has played a key role in the fight for justice and equality.
Engraved panels within the bus shell focus on these stories along with others who protested the policies of segregation and fought for justice and equality here in Fort Worth. This monument also encourages conversation about national monuments and which stories get to be canonized in the public sphere.
Arts Fort Worth and the Fort Worth Public Art program will present the dedication of the "East Rosedale Monument Project" by Christopher Blay.
Blay’s artwork for East Rosedale Avenue recognizes the role of transit buses in the civil rights movement from the 1950s through the 1970s and connects the struggle for equal rights and justice from a national narrative to a local one.
For "'East Rosedale Monument Project," the artist transformed a vintage transit bus into a public artwork as a way of talking about the history of buses in the civil rights movement and preserving that history. From the Montgomery bus boycotts and the Freedom Riders to the busing of students for integration, the transit bus has played a key role in the fight for justice and equality.
Engraved panels within the bus shell focus on these stories along with others who protested the policies of segregation and fought for justice and equality here in Fort Worth. This monument also encourages conversation about national monuments and which stories get to be canonized in the public sphere.
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Admission is free.