''Peace Chant'' is an outdoor 1984 granite memorial sculpture by Steve Gillman, located at Southwest Park Avenue and Southwest Columbia Street in the
South Park Blocks of
Portland, Oregon
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Description and history
Funded by the National Park Service and the City of Portland's Housing and Community Development department, it is the first known peace memorial in the state. Gillman intended for the sculpture to "create a space where people could sit and have quiet time" and wanted to "express his own advocacy for peace as well as that of the nearby churches".
The installation is composed of three large pillars.
[ Displayed with the sculpture is a poem chosen by Gillam:
Let us be "Called...by the hopes of children
to a world of endless wheat and barley sugar...
whatever--the skies now lifted
and the poppies bloomed
and the men and women fed the children
and the long long lives of elders
kept the history green."
The ]Smithsonian Institution
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categorizes ''Peace Chant'' as both abstract and allegorical ("peace").[
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See also
* 1984 in art
Events from the year 1984 in art.
Events
* November 6 - The Turner Prize is awarded for the first time, to Malcolm Morley.
* Neue Slowenische Kunst is established.
* First Nordik art historians' conference held, "Nordic art around the turn of ...
* '' From Within Shalom'' (1984), another Portland sculpture by Gillman
References
External links
''Peace Chant''
at the Public Art Archive
''Peace Chant'' (1984), Portland, Oregon
at Waymarking
{{Portal bar, Oregon, Visual arts
1984 establishments in Oregon
1984 sculptures
Abstract sculptures in Oregon
Allegorical sculptures in Oregon
Granite sculptures in Oregon
Monuments and memorials in Portland, Oregon
Outdoor sculptures in Portland, Oregon
Peace monuments and memorials
South Park Blocks