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October 23rd, 2019

10/23/2019

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Ed Hamilton's Sculpted Life

On a warm April afternoon in 1973, Ed Hamilton, sporting a large Afro, steered his puttering beige Volkswagen Beetle down a stretch of Frankfort Avenue crossed by railroad tracks. Hamilton had to pick up blocks of clay at a shop for his students at Iroquois High School, where he was helping to teach ceramics and sculpture.

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Cast in Bronze: An Artist’s Legacy

7/8/2019

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Cast in Bronze: An Artist's Legacy

The ongoing debate over whether to remove Confederate statues in the South (and beyond) demonstrates how public art highlights what a society finds significant. By that measure, Ed Hamilton was pretty insignificant when he was growing up black in the 1950s and 1960s. All the public art he saw around him in his hometown of Louisville, Ky.

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March 5, 2019 - Whitney Plantation adds Ed Hamilton Works to Collection

3/5/2019

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Ed Hamilton's sculpture 'Spirit of Freedom' was dedicated in July 1998, it depicts three infantrymen and a sailor defending freedom. The Memorial is dedicated to those who served in African American units of the Union Army in the Civil War. 

Ed's personal sculpture collection included the bronze heads of the infantrymen and sailor which have now become apart of the permanent collection of the Whitney Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana. 

Within the boundaries of the “Habitation Haydel”, as the Whitney Plantation was originally known, the story of the Haydel family of German immigrants and the slaves that they held were intertwined. 

In 2014, the Whitney Plantation opened its doors to the public for the first time in its 262 year history as the only plantation museum in Louisiana with a focus on slavery. Through museum exhibits, memorial artwork and restored buildings and hundreds of first-person slave narratives, visitors to Whitney will gain a unique perspective on the lives of Louisiana's enslaved people.

Ed and his family are excited the Whitney Plantation added these pieces to their collection as a permanent fixture of African-American Civil War history.
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How do you bring a Charlotte civil rights hero to life? A sculptor listens ...

1/16/2019

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Creating statue of Julius Chambers for Charlotte's Trail of History | Charlotte Observer

Five years after Julius Chambers died, large photographs of the renowned Charlotte civil rights attorney hang in an artist's studio in Louisville, Ky. How do you capture a man and his legacy? Sculptor Ed Hamilton stares at the photographs, searching for an answer.

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