A community initiative plans to use the materials to create a new work of public art it intends to gift to the city.
Share on linkedin Foundry workers cut the statue into pieces so it would fit in their furnace. Photo: Courtesy of Swords into Plowshares/Eze AmosA casting of Robert E. Lee that presided over downtown Charlottesville for nearly a century has been reduced to bronze ingots." plans to use the materials to create a new work of public art it intends to gift to the city.
Foundry workers told the Post the resulting ingot Bronze seemed impure. "It's cursed," the owner said. Photo: Courtesy of Swords into Plowshares/Eze Amos"Now we embark upon an opportunity to create something beautiful and positive," Jalane Schmidt, one of the project's lead organizers, said in a statement.City leaders approved the plan in 2021, but lawsuits by pro-Confederate groups delayed any action until last month.
Their goal is to name a finalist in 2024 and install the work in 2027, the tenth anniversary of the deadly rally.Share on linkedin
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