Featured Project: I Am Queen Mary
La Vaughn Belle + Jeannette Ehlers
Video documentation of I Am Queen Mary by Frank Heath and Jesse Wakeman
Featured Project Artists La Vaughn Belle and Jeannette Ehlers were commissioned by the Ford Foundation Gallery to create I Am Queen Mary for the exhibition, Radical Love, which ran from June to August, 2019.
I Am Queen Mary installed at the exhibition “Radical Love” at the Ford Foundation Gallery. Photo by Sebastian Bach and courtesy of Ford Foundation Gallery
Project Duration
June 2019
Project Team
Andy Barrett, Tim Daly, Art Domantay, Jeremy Gender, Dan Quinn
Processes

FABRICATION AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Powerhouse Arts
SPRAY FINISHING: Alchemy Paintworks 
CNC MILLING: Digital Atelier

Project Management

Materials & Services: Project Management

This work is a replica of a 24 feet public sculpture on view at the Danish West Indian Warehouse in Copenhagen, Denmark. The piece commemorates a slave revolt led by three women in St. Croix in 1878, and challenges Denmark’s role in slavery and the commemoration of its colonial past.

The artists and the Ford Foundation approached Powerhouse Arts to oversee the fabrication of the artwork from start to finish, with an ambitious timeline of four weeks. Powerhouse’s team managed the highly collaborative project from budgeting and scheduling to design, modeling and installation. Powerhouse Arts managed two partners for work fabrication – Digital Atelier for CNC milling and Alchemy Paintworks for spray finishing.

“I Am Queen Mary would not be here without your support, skill, enthusiasm and project management prowess! Gina, Art, and your entire universe of rock stars are beyond amazing. Thank you – I am glad our lives at Powerhouse and Ford get to intersect and I’m looking forward to more collaborations.”
Lisa Kim, Gallery Director, Ford Foundation