Artist Steve Gillman Medium Granite Year 1984 | Type Sculpture Created 1984 | |
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Location Portland, Oregon, United States Similar In the Shadow of the Elm, Abraham Lincoln, Farewell to Orpheus, Theodore Roosevelt - Rough Ri, Portlandia | ||
Peace Chant is an outdoor 1984 granite memorial sculpture by Steve Gillman, located at Southwest Park Avenue and Southwest Columbia Street in the South Park Blocks of Portland, Oregon.
Description and history
Funded by the National Park Service and the City of Portland's Housing and Community Development department, it is the first known peace memorial in the state. Gillman intended for the sculpture to "create a space where people could sit and have quiet time" and wanted to "express his own advocacy for peace as well as that of the nearby churches".
The installation is composed of three large pillars. Displayed with the sculpture is a poem chosen by Gillam:
The Smithsonian Institution categorizes Peace Chant as both abstract and allegorical ("peace"). In May 1985, City Council named the block on which the sculpture is installed Peace Plaza.