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Date: Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Time: 5:30 - 7:30 PM
Location: Sinclair Community College, Building 12, Charity Early Auditorium
Registration includes a parking pass to the Building 12 Underground Parking Garage.
Approved for 1.0 AIA LU.
Program Overview
The Seed of Life team consisting of architect Terry Welker, FAIA, sculptor and urban designer; Jes McMillan, artist and community builder; Sierra Leone, poet, educator, and community builder; and James Pate, artist, designer and community builder, will be part of a panel discussion hosted by AIA Dayton on December 10 at Sinclair Community College.
The group was selected by the 8/4 Memorial Committee from 39 other submissions. The location of the memorial is in a plaza next to the Trolley Stop in the Oregon District.
Each team member brought his or her own expertise to creating the memorial. Jes McMillan, founder and executive director of the Mosaic Institute, created a large mosaic, which is the Memorial's primary design element. More than 10,000 volunteer from across Dayton participated in putting chips of porcelain in place as a means of emotional release.
Sierra Leone, co-founder of Oral Funk Poetry Productions, wrote a series of poems dedicated to the victims, first responders and survivors of the tragedy. Phrases and words from the poems were imbedded in the mosaic and bench designs.
James Pate assisted Terry Welker in the sculptor component to create a grouping of nine, 7-to-9-foot tall leaf forms in stainless steel, which emerge from the seeds centered in the mosaic, and serve as the backdrop of the site.
The project was dedicated on the fifth anniversary of one of Ohio's deadliest mass shootings on August 4, 2024.
AIA Dayton is holding this public lecture on Tuesday, December 10 from 5:30 - 7:30 PM with all the artists as its Focus on Design Lecture program. There will be refreshments prior to the lecture from 5:30 - 6:00 PM.
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