![]() | Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery No. 1 of 3 Algernon Miller's (b. 1945) sketches and models for the Frederick Douglass Memorial Circle plaza depict a sixty-foot-long fountain pricked with stars of the constellations. Lit by fiber optics, the stars glow from beneath a sheet of falling water. The surrounding seating deploys different color granites to evoke quilts with Underground Railroad motifs. www.nyhistory.org |