Peace Garden artist sought

By Shirley Melikian Armbruster
University Relations

Jane Middleton


Children's Chorus

The Peace Garden Steering Committee has begun the search for an artist to create the Jane Addams monument for the Peace Garden at Fresno State . Design proposals for a bronze sculpture will be sought first from Fresno State students, faculty, staff or alumni. Proposals are due June 1.

The committee hopes to install the sculpture in fall 2005.

At a program in April to kick off the artist search on the site of the future Addams monument, the first three donations to the drive to add the monument were announced. President Welty made the first pledge – $1,000 – to the fund drive to add a monument to Jane Addams.

Calling Addams a wonderful role model for students of all ages as well as adults, Welty said he looks forward to seeing a bronze sculpture join those of Mahatma Gandhi, Cesar Chavez and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Peace Garden.

Welty also challenged the chair of the Addams statue fund drive to match his donation. The chair, Dr. Sharon Brown-Welty, happens to be his wife. She was not able to attend the program but said later she would “happily” meet the challenge.

Another donation also was announced by Dr. Jane Middleton, chair of the Department of Social Work Education. She said her colleagues in the department have donated $500, and she expects that figure to grow.

For more information on Jane Addams, the artist selection process and the Peace Garden see www.csufresno.edu/peacegarden.

Donations to the project may be made to CSUF Foundation and sent to Peace Garden Addams Monument, California State University, Fresno, Human Resources, 5150 N. Maple Ave., M/S JA41, Fresno , CA  93740-8026.