Augmented reality experience to show experience of Black Americans in Louisville's business district.
See the media coverage on WTVQ36 for our debut at the Lexington Legends Ballpark on Saturday, June 26th.
Please join us for our presentation to the Architects Foundation and learn how we are reshaping the American Commemorative Landscape.
The Architects Foundation is sharing this video on the I Was Here project to honor our CODAworx award! We're thrilled that they will also be hosting a presentation on I Was Here on June 30th at 5. Stay tuned for more info.
After concluding Doughtery’s story, Dexter introduced the I Was Here project. An effort to reframe the national conversation around racism and slavery.
The jury has voted, selecting the Top 100 most successful design projects that integrate commissioned art into an interior, architectural, or public space.
Read the TOPS Louisville: October 2020 atticle about the impact we are having on the bluegrass.
Renee speaks with artist Marjorie Guyon and Barry Darnell Burton about renewed interest in the I Was Here project that pays tribute to Blacks bought and sold at a Lexington slave auction block.
We are thrilled to share that I Was Here has won the Public Space Budget Category in a competition sponsored by CODAworx. Chosen from 435 total entries, representing 26 countries, the project was voted at the top of its category.
Kentucky Humanities has awarded a $1,500 grant for the creation of an "I Was Here Interpretive Booklet." This booklet is a map of Lexington that pinpoints locations of wounds and accomplishments of Black Kentuckians throughout the history of the Commonwealth.
i was here to Receive $20,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
As Louisville and St. Louis prepare to welcome I Was Here, the people who brought groundbreaking public art to Lexington’s streets are still unpeeling its layers of meaning.
An outdoor art exhibit in Lexington, Kentucky, has transformed the site of a former slave auction into an outdoor museum designed to unify a community.
In a society filled with negative racial stereotypes, Joyce Morton said she finally saw a representation of herself among the I Was Here images hanging in downtown windows. “I saw me,” Morton told the crowd that sat together in the Leeds Center for the Arts auditorium.
Clark County residents will soon take part in the first-ever outdoor museum in downtown Winchester. It will feature more than 20 “hauntingly beautiful ancestor portraits,” which Winchester resident and supporter of the project Syndy Deese said.
They were here. African-American men and women were here, waiting to be bought and sold. They were here — as mothers, daughters, sisters, brothers, fathers and sons — facing unspeakable horrors and stripped of their humanity.
Dozens gathered at Cheapside Park sanctification ceremony. Many say they joined to honor and bless the individuals sold as slaves at Cheapside Park more than a century ago.
I Was Here seeks to sanctify the ground where enslaved Africans were bought and sold and asks us to create a common path forward where all are honored. “We envision These Ancestor Spirit Portraits becoming a permanent memorial in Cheapside Square.”
Windows to empathy on Lexington public square are worth seeing. (Really seeing.) A public art project in Lexington is challenging us to really see each other, at a time when political divisions in this country are so fierce as to be called “tribal.”
An outdoor art exhibit in Lexington, Kentucky, has transformed the site of a former slave auction into an outdoor museum designed to unify a community.
Several works of art in Lexington's Cheapside serve as a reminder to those who frequent the downtown area of what used to happen when it was a slave auction block.
Nikky Finney had a near-daily ritual when she lived in Lexington… ”On one walk, she was stopped cold by Kentucky Historical Marker No. 2122 at the Cheapside slave auction block next to the old courthouse building.
