Now on Your Cell Phone or iPod: A Tour of Fairmount Park Art
Published: June 10, 2010
KYW Newsradio 1060 AM
By KYW’s Karin Phillips
An audio tour of the public artworks along Kelly Drive and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway has been launched.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Charles Fuller is just one of more than 100 voices heard on the new “Museum Without Walls” audio tour, which explores 51 of Philadelphia’s outdoor sculptures in Fairmount Park.
He was happy to take part in the project: “For a long, long time, long after I’m gone, I’m sure people will be listening to the same tapes. And that’s a wonderful legacy, I think.”
Penny Balkin Bach of the Fairmount Park Art Association (now Association for Public Art) is executive producer of the tour:
“It’s basically a walking program, from the Love sculpture in Love Park all the way down to the John B. Kelly statue along Kelly Drive, at the rowing stand.”
For the bicentennial celebration in 1976, artist Robert Indiana lent the city a large aluminum sculpture of his “love” image. Indiana first produced this design as a painting in 1964.
Logan Square, Benjamin Franklin Parkway and 20th Street
The Honorable Samuel Beecher Hart, a Pennsylvania legislator and captain of the Gray Invincibles, proposed a memorial to the state’s African American military men who had served the United States in wartime.
