Dedication of 'East Rosedale Monument Project'
Sat, Feb 01
|Ella Mae Shamblee Library


Time & Location
Feb 01, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Ella Mae Shamblee Library, 1062 Evans Ave, Fort Worth, TX 76104, USA
About the event
Arts Fort Worth and the Fort Worth Public Art program invite you to the East Rosedale Monument Project dedication on Saturday, February 1, 2025 with a reception beginning at 2 p.m. at the Ella Mae Shamblee Library, located at 1062 Evans Avenue in Fort Worth.
Christopher Blay’s artwork for East Rosedale Avenue recognizes the role of transit buses in the civil rights movement from the 1950s through the 1970s and connects the struggle for equal rights and justice from a national narrative to a local one.
For 'East Rosedale Monument Project,' the artist transformed a vintage transit bus into a public artwork as a way of talking about the history of buses in the civil rights movement and preserving that history. From the Montgomery bus boycotts and the Freedom Riders to the busing of students for integration, the transit bus has played a key role in the fight for justice…