Peace Chant

Peace Chant is an outdoor 1984 granite memorial sculpture by Steve Gillman, located at Southwest Park Avenue and Southwest Columbia Street in the South Park Blocks of Portland, Oregon.

Peace Chant
The sculpture in 2016
ArtistSteve Gillman
Year1984 (1984)
TypeSculpture
MediumGranite
LocationPortland, Oregon, United States
Coordinates45°30′55″N 122°40′59″W

Description and history
Plaque for the sculpture

Funded by the National Park Service and the City of Portland's Housing and Community Development department, it is the first known peace memorial in the state. Gillman intended for the sculpture to "create a space where people could sit and have quiet time" and wanted to "express his own advocacy for peace as well as that of the nearby churches".[1][2]

The installation is composed of three large pillars.[2] Displayed with the sculpture is a poem chosen by Gillam:

Let us be "Called...by the hopes of children
to a world of endless wheat and barley sugar...
whatever--the skies now lifted
and the poppies bloomed
and the men and women fed the children
and the long long lives of elders
kept the history green."

The Smithsonian Institution categorizes Peace Chant as both abstract and allegorical ("peace").[3] In May 1985, City Council named the block on which the sculpture is installed Peace Plaza.[2]

See also

References
  1. "Public Art Search: Peace Chant". Regional Arts & Culture Council. Retrieved October 26, 2014.
  2. "South Park Blocks". Portland Parks & Recreation. Retrieved October 26, 2014.
  3. "Peace Chant, (sculpture)". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved October 26, 2014.
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