The launch of a search for an artist and a community fund drive to create a
monument to Jane Addams in the campus Peace Garden at California State University, Fresno will be announced at a program Thursday, April 15, at 10:15 a.m.
The university’s Peace Garden Steering Committee is seeking design proposals for a bronze sculpture of Addams from Fresno State students, faculty, staff or alumni first. Proposals are due June 1. The committee hopes to install the sculpture in fall 2005.
A social reformer, writer and international peace advocate in the early 20th century, Addams will be the first woman represented in Fresno State’s Peace Garden, which has statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Cesar E. Chavez and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. All of the statues were financed through private giving.
Addams was named the Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1931. She was the second woman — and the first American woman — to receive the honor.
She was selected last year by Fresno State President John D. Welty, based on the recommendation of the Peace Garden Steering Committee, which includes campus and community members. Nominations of 25 women were received from the campus and members of the public.
For more information about submitting proposals, contact Dr. Jeannine Raymond, chair of the Artist Selection Committee, at 278-2364.
