One Woman Rising, Freedom Park, Atlanta, GA, 18 April 2013

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One Woman Rising, Freedom Park, Atlanta, GA, 18 April 2013, #1

This is a sculpture I encountered while walking through Freedom Park, 18 April 2013. The plaque accompanying it identified it as One Woman Rising.

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The plaque read:

One Woman Rising

Inspired by One Billion Rising, a global day of action calling for the end of violence against women and girls, this abstract sculpted dancing woman speaks to the celebration of woman’s release from bondage, empowering her to move into a new creative space.

Commissioned by:

The Chelko Foundation www.thechelkofoundation.org.

Sculptor:

Phil Proctor www.philproctor.com
Geo Brenick/Geo4Design/ http://facebook.com/gbrenick.

Painters:

Scott Fray and Madelyn Greco www.livingbrush.com.

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Note, the links are from 2013 and may or may not still work.

Published by G. M. Lupo

​G. M. Lupo is a writer and photographer from Atlanta, GA. His play, Another Mother, won the 2017 Essential Theatre Play Writing Award, and had its world premiere in Atlanta in August 2017. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and Working Title Playwrights in Atlanta. His most recent publication is Atlanta Stories: Fables of the New South, available at online book sellers and in Kindle format at Amazon.

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