Bradley McCallum

Bradley McCallum received his BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1989 and his MFA in Sculpture from the Yale School of Art in 1992. During the past decade he has created site-specific community based artworks built from a collaborative process of gathering oral histories and testimonies that are then utilizes as the primary material for his sculptural installations. His past works include an installation at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford CT titled, The Manhole Cover Project: a Gun Legacy, a work that juxtaposed utility covers made from confiscated fire arms with the audio recordings of those who have been impacted by gun violence. His work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally. Witness: Perspectives on Police Violence, a work in collaboration with Jacqueline Tarry, is McCallum's first public project in New York City.

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Jacqueline Tarry

Jacqueline Tarry brings to the visual arts a background in both philosophy and logic, two influences which inform her conceptual art practice. Her Bachelor of the Arts degree in philosophy, from State University College in her native Buffalo, New York. Raised in a racially diverse urban environment, Tarry approaches artistic production with an acute awareness of urban dynamics and the role of violence and conflict in inner city neighborhoods.

Witness: Perspectives on Police Violence represents Jacqueline Tarry's first formal collaboration with Bradley McCallum as well as her first experience creating public art. Over the past several years, Tarry and McCallum have developed this work previewing it in Boston's Kings Chapel, as fellows at the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue at Harvard University. The work culminated in an installation within the sanctuary of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in November and December of 1999. They share a goal of creating public art that addresses sociopolitical issues through the infusion of art and public discourse.