project overview

Carpenter Art Garden

Artist: Jeanne Seagle, Fletcher Golden

Budget: $50,000

Status: Final Completion

BACKGROUND

Managed by the UrbanArt Commission (UAC) in collaboration with Carpenter Art Garden and a team of local artists, designers, and community partners, the project brings together sculpture, murals, mosaics, and landscape design to create a space for reflection, connection, and neighborhood pride.

More than a public art installation, Tillman Sculpture Park represents the power of creative collaboration to reimagine shared spaces and honor the people and stories that shape a community.

Project Overview

Conceived as an environmental symbol of growth, Tillman Sculpture Park reflects Carpenter Art Garden’s commitment to nurturing young creatives through art, education, and vocational programming.

The park recognizes Binghampton’s layered history, including its agricultural and railroad roots and the contributions of the Black community that helped shape the neighborhood. Through art and landscape, the project celebrates the neighborhood’s cultural identity while creating a space for future generations to gather, learn, and create.

The park brings together a range of artistic and environmental elements, including:

  • Figurative bronze sculptures

  • Community-inspired mosaic installations

  • Large-scale murals created with local youth participation

  • Landscape design and native plantings

  • Spaces for gathering, reflection, and community engagement

Together, these elements establish an outdoor setting where public art and the neighborhood’s identity are intertwined.

Artists and Creative Contributors

The project features the work and contributions of:

  • Jeanne Seagle-Golden — Lead Sculpture Designer

  • Fletcher Golden — Sculptor

  • Suzy Hendricks — Mosaic Artist

  • Myrna Treviño — Mural Artist

  • Arelene Braddock — Teen Apprenticeship Team Lead and Mural Teaching Artist

  • Carpenter Art Garden Teen Mural Apprenticeship Team — Mural Artists

Their collective work demonstrates how artistic practice, mentorship, and community participation can shape meaningful public spaces.

About UAC:

The UrbanArt Commission (UAC) works to create opportunities for artists and neighborhoods to connect and shape spaces through public art. Since 2002, UAC has managed the City of Memphis’s Percent-For-Art Program, which allocates funds annually to develop public art in connection to capital improvement projects. UAC also facilitates public art projects throughout the city working with various partners and clients to support artists and new experiences with art.

Selection Committee:

Ayanna Murray, Interim Executive Director of Carpenter Art Garden

Jalesia Saulter, Binghampton Business Owner: The Slay Haven 

Kevin Thomas - Artistic Director, Collage Dance Collective

Dee Franklin - Executive Director of the Binghampton Development Corporation

Mary Powers - Architectural Designer, UrbanArch Associates

Derikah Scott - Art Director, Hemline Theory

Trinity Chism - Anthropologist Teaching Assistant, University of Memphis



Community Celebration