Based on a poem by Rosanna Warren about what inspired Olmstead to create Central Park. After visiting the South as a journalist and seeing the horrors of slavery, Olmstead’s idea was to create a true democratic space.

Katherine Jackson

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Katherine Jackson is a Brooklyn-based artist who works with drawing, glass and light. Her work has been exhibited extensively in galleries, colleges & universities, and public spaces in New York City, elsewhere in the US, Rome, Berlin, and Venice. Two of her large/scale long term public exhibitions celebrated the centennials of two iconic New York structures, the New York Public Library and the Manhattan Bridge. She was awarded a grant to place a 6 month exhibition addressing immigration in NY’s Tenement Museum. A recent installation was included in both the Venice Architectural Biennale 2021, and the Venice Art Biennale 2022. A poet, and onetime professor of literature, her work often includes or is inspired by poetic texts.