Oct 06, 2006Articles: Finalists Chosen For Statue To Harvey Milk
By VZ
(San Francisco, California, USA) An international competition to select an artist to create a bust of slain gay Supervisor Harvey Milk has been whittled down to three candidates. The city's Arts Commission called for submissions to be made by August 1. The three artists who made the cut are Bruce Wolfe of Piedmont, Cedric Wentworth of San Francisco and the Daub, Firmin and Hendrickson Sculpture Group of Berkeley. They will each create preliminary sculptures to be judged by a community panel following public input. The final statue will be about six feet tall and be placed in City Hall. It will cost some $60,000 with the money coming from a grant from the Bob Ross Foundation, named for the founder and former publisher of San Francisco's Bay Area Reporter, and from people around the world.
