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The Madre del Mundo Statue was created by artist/potter/sculptor Marsha Gomez; she designed the Madre to be inclusive of all women, so each could see herself in the image, whether African-American, Asian, American Indian, Hispanic or white. Many see the image as Mary;...

Standing outside the Gloucester County Courthouse, the bronze statue of an unarmed soldier holds aloft an American flag. Commissioned by the county's veteran's commission, it was sculpted by Deptford, NJ artist Frank A. Seder Jr., who said he hoped his piece would...

Founded in 1993, the Peace Garden, situated along the Susquehanna River in the two blocks just north of the Pennsylvania Governor’s Residence, is a collaboration between the city of Harrisburg and the Harrisburg-Hershey chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility....

Palomas de la Paz is known by the locals as "La Cola de la Ballena," because, although it represents two dove in profile, also bears the shape of a whale's tale, in honor of the many species of whale that populate the Sea of Cortez, as well as the California Gray...

After the 1968 shootings of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr, San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto led a voluntary gun turn-in program that accumulated a symbolic 1,968 weapons. Beniamino Bufano, a Bay Area artist, was asked to sculpt something with the melted gun...

The James Meredith monument was dedicated in 2006 a symbol of racial reconciliation for a state that continues to struggle with how to move forward from a violently racist past. It commemorates the 1962 enrollment of James Meredith at Ol' Miss, forced by Federal...

"Non-Violence" is a bronze sculpture by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd of an over-sized Colt Python .357 Magnum revolver with a knotted barrel and the muzzle pointing upwards. Carl made this sculpture after singer, songwriter and peace activist John Lennon...

When this statue was unveiled in 1995, the UK Independent called it a "tank sandwich." The 5,000 ton pyramid was designed by Armand Fernandez, who tried to peddle the concept to the city of Strasbourg, France during D-Day celebrations in the early 1970s and then to...

This skeletal house was installed Buffalo Bayou in 1990 in commemoration of the French Bicentennial. The images embedded in the gables abstractly reflect issues of human rights, freedom of expressions, contemplative ideas, elements of history and contemporary concerns.

When Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show came to Paris to perform, Utah sculptor Cyrus Edwin Dallin had several Indians pose for him as models. In 1889, he began working on a sculpture depicting an Indian chief on horseback holding a staff with a feather on it, symbolizing...

Completed in April, 2005, this sculpture is a memorial created to honor the Jews who were murdered by fascist Arrow Cross Militiamen in Budapest in 1944-45, during World War II. The Brigade would line up as many Jews as possible and shoot them on the river’s bank to...

Dedicated on the campus of the Community College of Philadelphia in 1994, The Freedom Ring celebrates the theme of freedom as it relates to peoples and cultures migrating across oceans in pursuit of refuge in Philadelphia. A “cosmogram” 24-feet in diameter, the...

Today is the anniversary of the 1962 murder of East German bricklayer Peter Fechter, who was shot crossing the Berlin Wall. A cross was quickly placed on the western side near the spot where Fechter was shot and slowly bled to death. At the invitation of Willy Brandt,...

A new public artwork inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s message of non-violence was unveiled July 29th at Pittman-Sullivan Park on the city’s East Side.The 32-foot tall sculpture, entitled “Open Hand, Open Mind, Open Heart,” consists of perforated steel and...

Hiroshima Peace Memorial (広島平和記念碑 Hiroshima heiwa kinenhi), commonly called the Atomic Bomb Dome or Genbaku Dōmu (原爆ドーム, A-Bomb Dome), in Hiroshima, Japan, is part of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996. The...