''The Bridge'' is a 1997 sculpture by

Thornton Dial Thornton Dial (10 September 1928 – 25 January 2016) was a pioneering American artist who came to prominence in the late 1980s. Dial's body of work exhibits formal variety through expressive, densely composed assemblages of found materials, oft ...

. It is located at John Lewis Plaza in Freedom Park in

Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,7 ...

at the intersection of

Ponce de Leon Avenue Ponce de Leon Avenue ( ), often simply called Ponce, provides a link between Atlanta, Decatur, Clarkston, and Stone Mountain, Georgia. It was named for Ponce de Leon Springs, in turn from explorer Juan Ponce de León, but is not pronounced ...

with

Freedom Parkway Freedom Park is one of the largest city parks in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The park forms a cross shape with the axes crossing at the Carter Center. The park stretches west-east from Parkway Drive, just west of Boulevard, to the intersecti ...

in the Poncey-Highland neighborhood. The work portrays "congressman

John Lewis John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) was an American politician and civil rights activist who served in the United States House of Representatives for from 1987 until his death in 2020. He participated in the 1960 Nashville ...

' lifelong quest for civil and human rights" and the community's "valiant efforts to stop the road and preserve intown neighborhoods".Plaque at ''The Bridge'' in John Lewis Plaza in Freedom Park

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Landmarks in Atlanta Outdoor sculptures in Georgia (U.S. state) 1997 sculptures Sculptures in Atlanta Steel sculptures in Georgia (U.S. state) 1997 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) Bridges in art {{US-sculpture-stub

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