University of Alabama highlights Bicentennial sculpture Project

April Terra Livingston and Daryn Glassbrook, Director of the Mobile Medical Museum, with Motherwork, one of three commissioned works.

Photo credit: Olivia-Megan-Partin

“Alumna Casts Sculptures for Bicentennial Project” is the title of a feature in the University of Alabama Department of Art and Art History alumni news. The feature highlights the completion of my sculpture, Motherwork, which celebrates the vital role of midwifery today and in history, using a term coined by scholar Patricia Hill Collins. The cast iron sculpture is one of three works commissioned by the Mobile Medical Museum in Mobile, Alabama.

The three cast iron works are the centerpiece of the museum’s exhibit, Dreaming at Dawn: African Americans and Health Care, 1865-1945, that tells the story of African American medical practitioners in Mobile during the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras. The exhibit will be on view in the Mary Elizabeth and Charles Bernard Rodning Gallery at the museum through July 2019. For information about the exhibition, visit https://www.mobilemedicalmuseum.org/.

My sculptures for the Mobile Medical Museum were designated a Bicentennial project by the Alabama Bicentennial Commission.

Learn more about the Commissioned Project.