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Santa Monica readies to celebrate new sculpture and park Feb. 24, 2021 at 6:00 am Santa Monica unveiled the city’s newest sculpture this week ahead of Sunday’s grand opening celebration of Historic Belmar Park. Residents driving down 4th Street towards Pico Avenue Tuesday afternoon caught a clear glimpse of “A Resurrection in Four Stanzas,” an outdoor exhibition created by artist April Banks that seeks to illustrate the stories and dreams of the Santa Monicans who were displaced from the city. Banks’ sculpture imitates the architectural style of a shotgun house, which was a prominent structure in the Belmar community that thrived in the first half of the 20th century before the City of Santa Monica took control through eminent domain in the 1950s to build the Civic Center.

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