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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editor’s note:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> \u003cem>This interview includes a discussion of rape and sexual abuse\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> published \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/us/harvey-weinstein-harassment-allegations.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a story\u003c/a> chronicling decades of sexual harassment abuse against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. 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She listened to her grandma. She did what she was supposed to do. She did her work. She got her chores. Why did this happen to her? It was such a beautiful thing for me to have that connection. I felt just less alone to have a story in the world that I could even connect to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On doing a lot of self work to realize that the reason why she was abused had nothing to do with her \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I often wonder why this person picked me. It could be something that he saw in my personality. It could be any number of things, but it’s all the depravity in his mind, it had nothing to do with who I was as a child or anything that I did as a child. There’s been all kinds of research, and we’ve seen stories, even anecdotal stories of predators telling about how they pick the children that they decide to go after and why. 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"content": "\u003cp>After a yearlong ordeal, Lava Thomas’ design for a monument to honor Dr. Maya Angelou at the main branch of the public library has finally been approved by the San Francisco Arts Commission. On Nov. 2, the commissioners voted unanimously to terminate the second request for qualifications (RFQ) launched by the SFAC in January and paused in August, and award the $250,000 project to Thomas, the 2019 review panel’s original selection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Resolving this embarrassing delay in the city’s attempt to increase the representation of women in public monuments (there are currently only \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/dosw/sites/default/files/DOSW%202019%20Report%20Representation%20of%20Women%20in%20City%20Property.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">three monuments to specific women\u003c/a> in San Francisco; 91% of the city’s monuments honor or depict men) became a top priority for Acting Director of Cultural Affairs Denise Bradley-Tyson when she assumed her position in early October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13889000,arts_13884238,arts_13883431' label='SFAC in the news']In just the past month, Bradley-Tyson moved swiftly to organize meetings with members of the arts commission, leveraging her personal connections to Mayor London Breed, Thomas and other stakeholders to pave the way for the Nov. 2 decision. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With this issue—the discord around it had been going on for so many months—there was truly a willingness among all parties to find a path forward, to begin healing and focusing on the project itself,” says Bradley-Tyson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arts commission publicly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13884238/sfac-apologizes-to-lava-thomas-for-mishandling-maya-angelou-monument\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">apologized to Thomas\u003c/a> in early August during a meeting that saw nearly two hours of public comment criticizing the SFAC’s mishandling of the project. In September, Mayor Breed and Supervisor Catherine Stefani, who authored the original legislation to increase the representation of women in city monuments, and who favored “a significant figurative representation of Maya Angelou” as opposed to Thomas’ book-like design, met with Thomas privately and apologized to her. And in the Oct. 21 meeting of the SFAC’s visual arts committee, Stefani made a public apology, saying, “For the pain I caused you, Ms. Thomas, and the process you have had to endure, I am truly sorry. And to the others who have felt they were not seen or heard over the past year, I am also truly sorry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m certain that Dr. Angelou’s spirit can rest knowing that justice has been served here today,” Thomas said to the visual arts committee on Oct. 21, accepting Stefani’s apology. “It has been a long time coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past year, as rumors swirled of exactly who blocked Thomas’ design (some named the mayor, others pointed to an anonymous private donor) and why, the conversation around which figures public monuments should recognize—and how—has become an international one. San Francisco is now \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13883431/city-to-evaluate-public-monuments-but-community-questions-its-track-record\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">evaluating\u003c/a> all its existing monuments, after protestors targeted statuary in Golden Gate Park and the SFAC preemptively removed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825103/san-francisco-removes-controversial-christopher-columbus-statue-on-telegraph-hill\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Christopher Columbus\u003c/a> statue near Coit Tower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13889111\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/Denise-Bradley-Tyson-Headshot-Photo-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1442\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13889111\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/Denise-Bradley-Tyson-Headshot-Photo-copy.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/Denise-Bradley-Tyson-Headshot-Photo-copy-800x961.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/Denise-Bradley-Tyson-Headshot-Photo-copy-1020x1226.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/Denise-Bradley-Tyson-Headshot-Photo-copy-160x192.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/Denise-Bradley-Tyson-Headshot-Photo-copy-768x923.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco’s Acting Director of Cultural Affairs Denise Bradley-Tyson. \u003ccite>(Courtesy SFAC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Against a background of calls for racial justice and increased transparency (many of them led by Thomas herself), the artist selection process for the Maya Angelou monument has spanned the tenure of three separate leaders of the SFAC. Tom DeCaigny departed after eight years as San Francisco’s director of cultural affairs at the beginning of 2020, and Deputy Director Rebekah Krell stepped in as acting director. When Krell left for a position in the city’s COVID Command Center in October, the mayor appointed Bradley-Tyson, former executive director of the Museum of the African Diaspora, in her stead. Bradley-Tyson will remain in the role until newly announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13889000/theres-a-new-director-of-cultural-affairs-in-san-francisco\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Ralph Remington\u003c/a> becomes DeCaigny’s official replacement in early 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite her short tenure—or perhaps because of it—Bradley-Tyson has led the SFAC to effective action on the Maya Angelou monument. She quotes the famous writer, as many involved in the project are wont to do: “‘There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like this was one of those untold stories,” she says of Thomas’ spurned design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the decision to cancel the second RFQ was finalized, a collector of Thomas’ work had actually approached the city offering to fund Thomas’ Maya Angelou monument and then donate the bronze sculpture to the city, ensuring it would enter the civic art collection, if in a more roundabout way. But this was an imperfect solution for many, since it meant Thomas’ design would retain second-tier status, and would have to be installed elsewhere in San Francisco (the SFAC’s commission would claim the space just outside the main branch of the public library). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when canceling the second RFQ became a possibility, Bradley-Tyson and members of her office lead discussions with Thomas, the collector and library staff about turning that proposed funding towards other purposes. “We have someone who loves Lava’s work, loves what it stood for,” Bradley-Tyson says. “Rather than see this money go away, we had a discussion about how could this money be redeployed in terms of activating the monument so that it could be a living, breathing monument.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The donor (who will be named once the paperwork is finalized) has promised $160,000 to create programming inside and outside of the library that centers around “the spirits and legacy of Dr. Maya Angelou,” Bradley-Tyson explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13864655\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Back_1200.jpg\" alt=\"The verso of Lava Thomas' 'Portrait of a Phenomenal Woman.'\" width=\"1200\" height=\"970\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13864655\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Back_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Back_1200-160x129.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Back_1200-800x647.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Back_1200-768x621.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Back_1200-1020x825.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rendering of Lava Thomas’ proposed monument to Maya Angelou, ‘Portrait of a Phenomenal Woman.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Eren Hebert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While some of the public comment at the SFAC’s Nov. 2 meeting touched on ways this long process might forever taint the Maya Angelou monument moving forward, Bradley-Tyson is more optimistic. “This is just the first step in reframing our city’s art collection to be one that includes women and people of color who are universal heroes, who inspire all of us,” she says. 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Tom DeCaigny departed after eight years as San Francisco’s director of cultural affairs at the beginning of 2020, and Deputy Director Rebekah Krell stepped in as acting director. When Krell left for a position in the city’s COVID Command Center in October, the mayor appointed Bradley-Tyson, former executive director of the Museum of the African Diaspora, in her stead. Bradley-Tyson will remain in the role until newly announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13889000/theres-a-new-director-of-cultural-affairs-in-san-francisco\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Ralph Remington\u003c/a> becomes DeCaigny’s official replacement in early 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite her short tenure—or perhaps because of it—Bradley-Tyson has led the SFAC to effective action on the Maya Angelou monument. She quotes the famous writer, as many involved in the project are wont to do: “‘There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like this was one of those untold stories,” she says of Thomas’ spurned design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the decision to cancel the second RFQ was finalized, a collector of Thomas’ work had actually approached the city offering to fund Thomas’ Maya Angelou monument and then donate the bronze sculpture to the city, ensuring it would enter the civic art collection, if in a more roundabout way. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco officials hit pause on plans to erect a monument to poet Maya Angelou once again Monday, this time in response to criticism from the Bay Area arts community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been nearly a year since the SFAC came close to green-lighting a proposal by local artist Lava Thomas for a public artwork honoring Angelou. But in October 2019, city officials rejected Thomas’ design, saying the artist’s book-shaped sculpture etched with an image of Angelou’s face wasn’t what they had in mind: a traditional, figurative statue of the poet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"arts_13883431,arts_13870742,news_11794018\" label=\"public art in sf\"]So the SFAC restarted the entire process in January, issuing a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfartscommission.org/find-opportunities/calls-for-artists/statue-honoring-dr-maya-angelou-san-francisco-library-main\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">request for qualifications\u003c/a> (with an increased budget of $250,000, up from $180,000). Thomas declined to be considered. In March, the commission’s pre-qualification panel selected a short list of 19 artists. Another panel was scheduled to select finalists later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas, meanwhile, says her efforts to make contact with the SFAC or gain further understanding about what happened to her proposal went largely unacknowledged during the past year. She appeared at a July 15 Visual Arts Committee meeting to offer public comment during a discussion about evaluating the city’s monuments; Thomas questioned SFAC’s desire to remove symbols of white supremacy while seeking to honor Angelou in the very same visual language. Her comment was cut short by a two-minute time limit—a move that subsequent public commenters and presenters objected to as disrespectful, calling for the SFAC to give Thomas additional time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Monday’s meeting, Thomas held the floor with her own agenda item, reading a 10-minute statement that detailed her own experiences and called for the SFAC to take steps towards restorative justice, beginning with pausing the new selection process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way in which this process was handled is an insult to Dr. Angelou’s legacy and the principles that she stood for,” Thomas said. “Mockery of due process, a pattern of disrespect, the erasure of our expertise and intellectual and creative labor, and the insistence of upholding racist tropes to represent one of the most celebrated exceptional Black women of our time in the name of honoring her, is beyond outrageous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commission President Roberto Ordeñana apologized to Thomas on behalf of the SFAC. “I want to remind us all that when there are systems failures, the individuals and communities that end up experiencing the most harm as a result of said failures are those of us who experience oppression and marginalization,” he said. “Due to our failures, we have caused significant harm to an incredibly talented Black woman artist, and we have caused deep pain to members of the Black artist community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13864656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13864656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Front_COVER.jpg\" alt=\"A rendering of Lava Thomas' proposed monument to Maya Angelou, 'Portrait of a Phenomenal Woman,' outside the SFPL main branch.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Front_COVER.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Front_COVER-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Front_COVER-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Front_COVER-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Front_COVER-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Front_COVER-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rendering of Lava Thomas’ proposed monument to Maya Angelou, ‘Portrait of a Phenomenal Woman,’ outside the SFPL main branch. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Eren Hebert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Visual Arts Committee Chair Dorka Keehn also formally apologized to Thomas, announcing that she would recuse herself from future engagement with the Maya Angelou project, as well as from her involvement with the evaluation of the city’s public monuments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In nearly two hours of public comment, artists, curators and other members of the Bay Area arts community stated their support for the demands of Thomas and the collective \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/seeblackwomxn/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">See Black Womxn\u003c/a>, formed late last year. Among the collective’s demands are a public apology from Supervisor Catherine Stefani, the monument’s legislative sponsor; that the SFAC change the language in the RFQ back from “statue” to “artwork”; that Keehn and Stefani resign; and that the SFAC arrange a meeting between See Black Womxn and Mayor London Breed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the public called for Thomas to be paid for the emotional and physical labor she has put into bringing attention to the issue. One commenter played a clip of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9ywTJvBwTc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Angelou reading poetry\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CC32JF5B3yJ/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arts commissioners voted unanimously to pause the selection process in favor of “engaging stakeholders in a meaningful way” to have “clarity and transparency moving forward.” Ordeñana initially proposed a delay of 30–60 days to address the issues raised by Thomas, but conversation between the commissioners following the lengthy period of public comment acknowledged more time would be needed to reestablish public trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acting Director of Cultural Affairs Rebekah Krell said the budget for the publicly funded monument, which was scheduled to be completed by the end of this year, will not be impacted by the delay. However, the board of supervisors or the mayor will need to approve a deadline extension into 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever the time frame is, it is what it is,” said commissioner Linda Parker Pennington, who earlier identified herself as the lone Black woman on the SFAC. “If that requires we have to go back and defer the ordinance, so be it. I really do think we need to allow the time to be taken that’s needed to repair what’s happened.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfartscommission.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Arts Commission\u003c/a> (SFAC) has outlined preliminary plans to evaluate which of the city’s nearly one hundred public monuments and memorials should stay—and which should go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11826151,news_11825103,arts_13870742' label='Monuments in SF']The plan, ordered by Mayor London Breed, comes less than a month after \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/1274374501925453824\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">protesters toppled\u003c/a> several statues depicting controversial historical figures such as Junípero Serra and Ulysses S. Grant, and planned to pull down the statue of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825103/san-francisco-removes-controversial-christopher-columbus-statue-on-telegraph-hill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Christoper Columbus\u003c/a> in front of Coit Tower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a public meeting Wednesday, Visual Arts Committee Chair Dorka Keehn said she welcomes the chance to explore which monuments align with the city’s values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a really important and I think very exciting opportunity to look at our our old memorials and what we want to see represented in the city in the future,” Keehn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keehn explained the city will look at factors like the story behind the historical figure the work depicts, the reputation of the artist who made it, how the community has responded to the work during its existence, and the cost of removing and storing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13883457\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13883457\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/ColumbusStorage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/ColumbusStorage.jpg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/ColumbusStorage-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/ColumbusStorage-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/ColumbusStorage-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/ColumbusStorage-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Christopher Columbus statue being removed from its plinth in front of Coit Tower in the early morning of June 18. \u003ccite>(SF Gov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cost is a huge issue. Like other city departments facing cuts in the COVID-19 economic fallout, the city’s civic art budget has been slashed from close to $900,000 to just over $110,000 for 2021. And the bill for preparing and moving the toppled Columbus statue, and storing it for just one year, comes to $110,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keehn said when the criteria are in place, the city will move towards the second phase of the project—assessing the monuments themselves. She added that San Francisco is looking to other cities facing similar challenges with statues, like New York and Louisville, Kentucky, for guidance on that front.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are monuments in other cities that have been vandalized, that have had a negative response from the community,” Keehn said. “And so we’re going to be targeting those artworks first among our our larger group.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFAC is partnering with the city’s Human Rights Commission and Recreation & Parks Department in an effort to engage the community in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the commission may face some pushback in its engagement efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several members of the public, as well as—in a highly unusual move—arts commission staffers, voiced their concerns at the meeting about the city’s broader monuments strategy and past handling of similar projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13864656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13864656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Front_COVER.jpg\" alt=\"A rendering of Lava Thomas' proposed monument to Maya Angelou, 'Portrait of a Phenomenal Woman,' outside the SFPL main branch.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Front_COVER.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Front_COVER-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Front_COVER-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Front_COVER-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Front_COVER-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Front_COVER-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rendering of Lava Thomas’ proposed monument to Maya Angelou, ‘Portrait of a Phenomenal Woman,’ outside the SFPL main branch. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Eren Hebert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Artist Lava Thomas read a statement criticizing the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13870742/sfac-maya-angelou-women-statues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">process to commission\u003c/a> a new monument honoring poet Maya Angelou last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas was prevented from clinching the prized assignment even though she was the arts commission’s leading choice of artist, after city officials said her proposed design wasn’t representational enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The artist accused the city of “weaponizing a European convention of statuary … by insisting that Dr. Angelou be honored ‘in the same way that men have historically been elevated in this city’—the very same men whose monuments embody white supremacy that have been toppled and removed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arts commission officials wouldn’t allow Thomas to finish \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/LavaThomas_MayaAngelou_VAC_07152020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her statement\u003c/a> because of time restrictions. This caused an outcry among other people present at the meeting, including fellow Black artist Sirron Norris, who was presenting a mural design for a construction fence outside the Southeast Treatment Plant in Bayview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s a time where we don’t hamper Black voices and we need to listen,” Norris said. “I’m going to let people know what I just heard because I’m angry. This shit is wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can read Lava Thomas’ full statement, provided to KQED, below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I’d like to address the 2019 RFQ for a Sculpture to Honor Dr. Maya Angelou for the San Francisco Library. First, I’d like to commend the SFAC staff for their professionalism during that process last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Visual Arts Committee failed to approve, under political pressure, the selection of my proposal in the 2019 RFQ for a Sculpture to Honor Dr. Maya Angelou, it upheld practices that are rooted in institutional racism. My proposal was selected, almost unanimously, by a panel that included a critical mass of Black women artists and arts professionals in a process that was transparent and democratic. My proposal was grounded in an ethos of inclusion and Black Aesthetics, followed the project and legislative guidelines which have “statue” crossed out and “artwork” written in its place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Catherine Stefani then demanded that the project be closed, calling for a traditional statue and weaponizing a European convention of statuary to reject my work by insisting that Dr. Angelou be honored “in the same way that men have historically been elevated in this city”—the very same men who embody white supremacy in monuments that have recently been toppled and removed. Stefani’s manner was rude and arrogant, and she left the VAC meeting before I and the other Black women in attendance had an opportunity to voice our concerns. This public display of disrespect and public rejection of Black women’s intellectual and creative labor is an affront to myself and the other Black women who were present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When will the Arts Commission, the Visual Arts Committee, Supervisor Stefani and the SF Board of Supervisors take restorative action to remedy this egregious injustice?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The plan, ordered by Mayor London Breed, comes less than a month after \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/1274374501925453824\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">protesters toppled\u003c/a> several statues depicting controversial historical figures such as Junípero Serra and Ulysses S. Grant, and planned to pull down the statue of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825103/san-francisco-removes-controversial-christopher-columbus-statue-on-telegraph-hill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Christoper Columbus\u003c/a> in front of Coit Tower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a public meeting Wednesday, Visual Arts Committee Chair Dorka Keehn said she welcomes the chance to explore which monuments align with the city’s values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a really important and I think very exciting opportunity to look at our our old memorials and what we want to see represented in the city in the future,” Keehn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keehn explained the city will look at factors like the story behind the historical figure the work depicts, the reputation of the artist who made it, how the community has responded to the work during its existence, and the cost of removing and storing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13883457\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13883457\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/ColumbusStorage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/ColumbusStorage.jpg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/ColumbusStorage-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/ColumbusStorage-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/ColumbusStorage-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/ColumbusStorage-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Christopher Columbus statue being removed from its plinth in front of Coit Tower in the early morning of June 18. \u003ccite>(SF Gov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cost is a huge issue. Like other city departments facing cuts in the COVID-19 economic fallout, the city’s civic art budget has been slashed from close to $900,000 to just over $110,000 for 2021. And the bill for preparing and moving the toppled Columbus statue, and storing it for just one year, comes to $110,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keehn said when the criteria are in place, the city will move towards the second phase of the project—assessing the monuments themselves. She added that San Francisco is looking to other cities facing similar challenges with statues, like New York and Louisville, Kentucky, for guidance on that front.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are monuments in other cities that have been vandalized, that have had a negative response from the community,” Keehn said. “And so we’re going to be targeting those artworks first among our our larger group.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFAC is partnering with the city’s Human Rights Commission and Recreation & Parks Department in an effort to engage the community in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the commission may face some pushback in its engagement efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several members of the public, as well as—in a highly unusual move—arts commission staffers, voiced their concerns at the meeting about the city’s broader monuments strategy and past handling of similar projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13864656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13864656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Front_COVER.jpg\" alt=\"A rendering of Lava Thomas' proposed monument to Maya Angelou, 'Portrait of a Phenomenal Woman,' outside the SFPL main branch.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Front_COVER.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Front_COVER-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Front_COVER-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Front_COVER-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Front_COVER-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Front_COVER-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rendering of Lava Thomas’ proposed monument to Maya Angelou, ‘Portrait of a Phenomenal Woman,’ outside the SFPL main branch. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Eren Hebert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Artist Lava Thomas read a statement criticizing the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13870742/sfac-maya-angelou-women-statues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">process to commission\u003c/a> a new monument honoring poet Maya Angelou last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas was prevented from clinching the prized assignment even though she was the arts commission’s leading choice of artist, after city officials said her proposed design wasn’t representational enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The artist accused the city of “weaponizing a European convention of statuary … by insisting that Dr. Angelou be honored ‘in the same way that men have historically been elevated in this city’—the very same men whose monuments embody white supremacy that have been toppled and removed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arts commission officials wouldn’t allow Thomas to finish \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/LavaThomas_MayaAngelou_VAC_07152020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her statement\u003c/a> because of time restrictions. This caused an outcry among other people present at the meeting, including fellow Black artist Sirron Norris, who was presenting a mural design for a construction fence outside the Southeast Treatment Plant in Bayview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s a time where we don’t hamper Black voices and we need to listen,” Norris said. “I’m going to let people know what I just heard because I’m angry. This shit is wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can read Lava Thomas’ full statement, provided to KQED, below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I’d like to address the 2019 RFQ for a Sculpture to Honor Dr. Maya Angelou for the San Francisco Library. First, I’d like to commend the SFAC staff for their professionalism during that process last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Visual Arts Committee failed to approve, under political pressure, the selection of my proposal in the 2019 RFQ for a Sculpture to Honor Dr. Maya Angelou, it upheld practices that are rooted in institutional racism. My proposal was selected, almost unanimously, by a panel that included a critical mass of Black women artists and arts professionals in a process that was transparent and democratic. My proposal was grounded in an ethos of inclusion and Black Aesthetics, followed the project and legislative guidelines which have “statue” crossed out and “artwork” written in its place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Catherine Stefani then demanded that the project be closed, calling for a traditional statue and weaponizing a European convention of statuary to reject my work by insisting that Dr. Angelou be honored “in the same way that men have historically been elevated in this city”—the very same men who embody white supremacy in monuments that have recently been toppled and removed. Stefani’s manner was rude and arrogant, and she left the VAC meeting before I and the other Black women in attendance had an opportunity to voice our concerns. This public display of disrespect and public rejection of Black women’s intellectual and creative labor is an affront to myself and the other Black women who were present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When will the Arts Commission, the Visual Arts Committee, Supervisor Stefani and the SF Board of Supervisors take restorative action to remedy this egregious injustice?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Shortly after the inauguration of Donald Trump, Margaux Kelly was looking for an antidote to the anger she felt about the president’s attitudes towards women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13872482,news_11794018,arts_13864632' label='Public Art News']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My colleague and I came up with the idea of adding art pieces to the civic art collection,” said Kelly, who at the time was a young aide to then-San Francisco city supervisor Mark Farrell. “We wanted to help add additional female representation in the public realm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their effort is taking off again as the San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) reboots a plan to erect a statue honoring Maya Angelou in front of the main branch of the public library. On Friday, Jan. 24, the SFAC \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Maya-Angelou-RFQ_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">issued a Request for Qualifications\u003c/a> inviting artists to submit proposals for a sculpture honoring Dr. Angelou. Specifically, a “3-dimensional statue depicting Dr. Angelou.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move comes three months after city officials ordered the commission to start the process over again from scratch for failing to deliver an artwork that met their expectations, upsetting many in the local arts community in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly said it was former U.S. Treasurer Rosie Rios’ efforts to put women on U.S. currency that originally inspired her to launch the initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every image that I came across of a woman was an allegorical woman,” Rios said in a \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/FpndNAYmvhs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2017 TED talk\u003c/a> on the topic. “It wasn’t a real woman. Kind of Lady Liberty. Or women in togas. Or sometimes no togas. But every image that I came across of a man was a real man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13870796\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13870796\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Margaux-Kelly-by-Chloe-Veltman_1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Margaux-Kelly-by-Chloe-Veltman_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Margaux-Kelly-by-Chloe-Veltman_1200-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Margaux-Kelly-by-Chloe-Veltman_1200-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Margaux-Kelly-by-Chloe-Veltman_1200-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Margaux-Kelly-by-Chloe-Veltman_1200-1020x765.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margaux Kelly. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kelly and her colleague learned there are nearly 90 statues of nonfictional men scattered across San Francisco’s public spaces, compared to just three of women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So they drafted legislation to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan was to increase the number of women honored with things like monuments and street names by 30 percent before the end of 2020—the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing and protecting women’s constitutional right to vote. (The ordinance no longer specifies 30 percent representation on city property by 2020; that number is now an ongoing goal.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first woman they wanted to honor with a statue was writer and activist Maya Angelou.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly says Angelou was the perfect fit for their ambitious first project. “She lived in San Francisco and she was the first African-American streetcar conductor here,” she explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13864655\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13864655\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Back_1200.jpg\" alt=\"The verso of Lava Thomas' 'Portrait of a Phenomenal Woman.'\" width=\"1200\" height=\"970\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Back_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Back_1200-160x129.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Back_1200-800x647.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Back_1200-768x621.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LavaThomas_MayaAngelouSculpture_Back_1200-1020x825.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rendering of Lava Thomas’ proposed monument to Maya Angelou, ‘Portrait of a Phenomenal Woman.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Eren Hebert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was also fitting that the statue was planned for outside the main branch of the San Francisco Public Library, which Angelou loved to frequent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s arts commission sent out a call to artists late last year. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My colleague and I came up with the idea of adding art pieces to the civic art collection,” said Kelly, who at the time was a young aide to then-San Francisco city supervisor Mark Farrell. “We wanted to help add additional female representation in the public realm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their effort is taking off again as the San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) reboots a plan to erect a statue honoring Maya Angelou in front of the main branch of the public library. On Friday, Jan. 24, the SFAC \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/Maya-Angelou-RFQ_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">issued a Request for Qualifications\u003c/a> inviting artists to submit proposals for a sculpture honoring Dr. Angelou. 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