The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs selected six finalist proposals for a monument honoring Billie Holiday in Queens, where she lived and performed. The winning design will be announced over the summer and installed adjacent to a reflecting pool on the front lawn of the Jamaica Performing Arts Center. The finalists are all Black artists from around the world, invited after a site visit and meetings with scholars and relatives of Holiday. The proposals range from realism to abstraction. La Vaughn Belle imagines Holiday in a pensive mood before performing. Nikesha Breeze portrays a triumphant Billie Holiday in towering black marble with a white gardenia behind her ear. Tavares Strachan, Tanda Francis, Thomas J Price, and Nekisha Durrett are also finalists.
"The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs has selected six finalist proposals for a new monument that will pay tribute to the legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday in Queens, the New York borough where she once lived and performed. The winning project will be announced over the summer and will eventually be installed adjacent to a reflecting pool on the front lawn of the Jamaica Performing Arts Center (JPAC)."
"The six proposals all come from Black artists, hailing from around the world, invited to submit designs after a site visit and meeting with scholars and relatives of the late singer. Finalists include the Bahamian conceptual artist Tavares Strachan, La Vaughn Belle from the US Virgin Islands, the Brooklyn-based sculptor Tanda Francis and Nikesha Breeze from Portland, Oregon. Rounding out the list are the British artist Thomas J Price and Nekisha Durrett from Washington, DC."
"The artists' designs vary from realism to abstraction, at times falling somewhere in between. Belle imagines Holiday in a pensive mood before performing, while Breeze portrays a triumphant Lady Day in towering black marble with her signature white gardenia tucked behind her ear."
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