Harriet Tubman's family members, Evelyn Green, left, and Danetta Green Johnson, smile during Alvin Pettit's speech as his winning sculpture of Harriet Tubman was unveiled on Monday, Oct. 30, 2023, at Philadelphia City Hall in Philadelphia. Evelyn Green and her sister Danetta Green Johnson sat next to each other on Monday as Mayor Jim Kenney announced that sculptor Alvin Pettit was chosen to design a permanent statue of Harriet Tubman to go outside City Hall.
Evelyn Green, who lives in Philadelphia, said some members of the advisory committee cautioned the Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy, the city arts office known as Creative Philadelphia, that members of the public would reject the idea of “appointing” a statue commission to one person without an open-call process.
Green said she believes wherever you have a public contract, there should be a process that is open. She said some members of the advisory committee also agreed and were speaking to city officials about this even before members of the public began to campaign against the direct commission to Wofford.
Johnson, 17, a senior, said that they were named to the advisory committee when Wofford was expected to design the statue.
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