project overview
Carpenter Art Garden
Artist: Jeanne Seagle, Fletcher Golden
Budget: $50,000
Upcoming benchmark/update: Final Completion
BACKGROUND
About Carpenter Art Garden:
Carpenter Art Garden’s (CAG) mission is to work with the children of Binghampton to promote each one’s creative potential and self-worth through exposure to artistic, educational, and vocational programs.
Concept Statement and Scope of Work:
Tillman Sculpture Park is a space, statement, and environmental symbol of "growth." It resonates with Carpenter Art Garden's mission of growing young creatives through art education, intervention, and therapy programs, while inhabiting a space that both negates blight and births creativity and culture. Binghampton's geographical history began as a small town outside of the city of Memphis. Immersed in farmland and railroads, Binghampton resided south of the Pope Cotton Plantation. According to the 1900 U.S. Census, the neighborhood reflects early inhabitants of various backgrounds and more specifically, a Black collective of citizens who worked predominantly on farms and railroads. We believe that from the complexities of history, a blossom of arts and culture emerged and continues to manifest on the landscapes of Binghampton and throughout the city. Through the birth of Tillman Sculpture Park, CAG hopes to uncover more of Binghampton’s geographical and anthropological history and identity and pay homage to joy, wonder, and our creative identity as a neighborhood.
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
