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Maria Pacheco says her fifth-grade daughter Kelly is excited about the Tenderloin Clubhouse’s summer program.Lea Suzuki/The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Desiree Almeida (right), health and fitness coordinator, works with Giselle, 9, at the elementary school learning hub, part of the Tenderloin Clubhouse campus.Lea Suzuki/Lea Suzuki/The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Director Michael Vuong outside the Teen Center, part of the Tenderloin Clubhouse campus in San Francisco.Lea Suzuki / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
By Karina Macias
May 10, 2021
San Francisco is planning a new public art installation in Golden Gate Park for Juneteenth. According to the Mayor s press release, the art installation will honor Black lives and the history of African Americans called
Monumental Reckoning. Sculptor Dan King, will be making an installation that consists of 350 sculptures representing the number of Africans forced into slavery.
The sculptural figures created in all black steel with vinyl tubing, each standing four feet high, would surround the empty pedestal where a statue of Francis Scott Key once stood. Key, who wrote the lyrics to the Star Spangled Banner, was a slave owner and abolition opponent. Protestors toppled the statue on Juneteenth 2020.
The sculptural figures will surround the empty pedestal in the park s Music Concourse where a statue of Francis Scott Key who owned slaves and wrote disparagingly of Black people stood before it was toppled by protestors last June.
The installation was approved last week by both the San Francisco Arts Commission and the San Francisco Recreation and Park Commission s Operations Committee. It is currently under review by the Planning Commission and will also need approval by the city s Historical Preservation Committee before it can be installed.
The proposal is for the art to remain for a two-year stay through June 20, 2023.
By Karina Macias
May 10, 2021
San Francisco is planning a new public art installation in Golden Gate Park for Juneteenth. According to the Mayor s press release, the art installation will honor Black lives and the history of African Americans called
Monumental Reckoning. Sculptor Dan King, will be making an installation that consists of 350 sculptures representing the number of Africans forced into slavery.
The sculptural figures created in all black steel with vinyl tubing, each standing four feet high, would surround the empty pedestal where a statue of Francis Scott Key once stood. Key, who wrote the lyrics to the Star Spangled Banner, was a slave owner and abolition opponent. Protestors toppled the statue on Juneteenth 2020.
One year after racist statues toppled in Golden Gate Park, new sculptures could be erected
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After a statue of Francis Scott Key was toppled from its pedestal in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, crews from the city s Recreation and Park Department paint over graffiti, Saturday morning, June 20, 2020.MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images/MediaNews Group via Getty Images
On June 19, 2020, protesters toppled three statues in Golden Gate Park.
The likenesses of Star-Spangled Banner writer Francis Scott Key, Civil War Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Junipero Serra, the creator of California s mission system during Spanish colonization, have disappeared, and now, almost one year later, at least one is expected to be replaced.