Students Aspire

Students Aspire
Artist Elizabeth Catlett
Year 1977 (1977)
Type Bronze
Dimensions 426.72 cm × 140.208 cm (168.00 in × 55.200 in)
Location Washington, D.C.
Owner Howard University

Students Aspire is a public artwork by American artist Elizabeth Catlett, located at 2300 6th Street NW on the Howard University campus in Washington, D.C., United States. Students Aspire was originally surveyed as part of the Smithsonian's Save Outdoor Sculpture! survey in 1993.[1]

Description

This bronze relief shows an African-American male and female figure in profile facing each other. The figures each have one hand on each other's waist and the other hand is raised above their heads. The raised hands are reaching towards a middle disk; part of a set of five which form an arch over the figures. Each disk has an image of a scientific or technological symbol. Beneath the figures is a square relief of the root system of a tree and at the end of each root is a face.

It is signed "EC 77."[1]

Information

A plaque is placed on the wall just beneath the relief reading:

ELIZABETH CATLETT 1915-
1977
THE SCULPTURE AND THE
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING WING
WERE MADE POSSIBLE BY A
GRANT FROM THE
EXXON EDUCATION FOUNDATION[1]

Condition

This sculpture was surveyed in 1993 for its condition and it was determined that treatment was needed.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 SOS! (1993). "Students Aspire (sculpture).". Save Outdoor Sculpture. Smithsonian. Retrieved 10 December 2010.

Coordinates: 38°55′18″N 77°01′17″W / 38.9218°N 77.0215°W / 38.9218; -77.0215

Further reading

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