The meditative space will sit to the right of the Gregory School Library’s entrance, in the lawn, Plans call for a debut of the work at The African American Library at the Gregory School in summer of 2022. Houston artists Jamal Cyrus and Charisse Weston, the collaborative team that developed the concept, will execute the commemorative artwork. The sculpture is specifically for the Houston Public Library’s African American Library at the Gregory School, according to a press release.Ĭommissioned artwork underway, “ Meditative Space in Reflection of the Life and Work of the late Barbara Jordan,” is described in press materials as a “dynamic, commemorative space wherein free-standing glass panels situated within a tranquil structure function as vehicles to represent, through an intricate photographic and text-based collage of materials, the life and work of Barbara C.
One of Houston’s most cherished and iconic political figures will soon be honored in apropos iconography.īarbara Jordan, the first African American woman from the South to be elected to the United States Congress (1972-1979), will soon be the recipient of a new sculpture commissioned by the City of Houston Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs (MOCA).
