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 A
new public art project, commissioned by the City of Richmond,
CA, commemorating the everyday experiences of men and women
who labored in Richmond's WWII shipyards has been installed
on the city's waterfront.
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"Shipyard Stories"
artwork in Vincent Park with Ford Assembly Building in
background.
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Artist Ray Beldner has designed stainless steel
panels combining historic photos and oral histories that tell
stories about life on the Home Front from the worker's perspective.
"It is important that we keep the memories
of the WWII-era alive. I wanted my project to show the next
generation how different this area looked, how important the
shipyards were during the war effort, and how much this area
has changed in peacetime," says Beldner.
Exploring themes of coming to Richmond, the
search for housing, work, race relations, and the closing of
the shipyards, the interpretive plaques are affixed to a replica
of a Liberty Ship smokestack in Richmond's newest shoreline
open space, Vincent Park.
Dedicated last summer, the six-acre park commands
breathtaking views of San Francisco and the entire Bay. It is
one of a series of public recreational spaces interspersed with
housing, office, and other uses that now occupy most of the
former Kaiser Shipyards site in Richmond's Marina Bay neighborhood.
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