Ed Dwight: honouring America's black heroes in sculpture

Picked by JFK to be America’s first black astronaut, Dwight found a second career as a sculptor, memorialising in grand and sometimes subversive public artworks the struggle for civil rightsIn nearly 40 years of imagining clay into models and casting models to bronze, sculptor Ed Dwight has amassed not only a significant body of work, but also a sizeable library to inform his concepts.It contains neither volumes of masters Bernini or Brunelleschi, Rodin nor Remington. Rather, it holds narrativ