About the New•Land•Marks project for Elmwood Park, a community-driven project led by the Friends of Elmwood Park to restore the 4-acre park, and to commemorate the community’s legacy of hard work with artwork by artist John Kindness.
Park’s art will have a blue collar: Labor and community to converge in art
Related Artworks
Artwork
The Labor Monument: Philadelphia’s Tribute to the American Worker
(2010)by John Kindness (1951 - )
Elmwood Park, 71st Street and Buist Avenue, Southwest PhiladelphiaCelebrating Philadelphia’s pivotal and unique role in the American labor movement, the artwork transforms Elmwood Park into a community gathering space and an “outdoor history lesson.”