The Downtown Somerville Alliance (DSA) is asking certified artists to submit proposals for the creation of a life-size sculpture of Paul Robeson. Robeson, who turned a world-renowned activist, actor, and singer, graduated from Somerville Excessive College, and his father, William Drew Robeson, was a pastor on the Witherspoon Road Presbyterian Church in Princeton, and sometimes preached at Somerville’s Wallace Chapel AME Zion Church.
With a grant of $34,000 from the Somerset County Cultural and Heritage Fee, the DSA desires to position a statue of Paul Robeson on Division Road within the Downtown Somerville Particular Enchancment District.
Proposals are due by September 15, 2023. The decision for artists is at https://downtownsomerville.org/call-to-artists-remembering-robeson-sculpture-project/.
For extra data, contact Downtown Somerville Alliance, 50 Division Road, Suite 501, Somerville, NJ 08876; cellphone: 908-524-0104; e mail npineiro@somervillenj.org.
