“Forever Marked By The Day” World Trade Center focused exhibit at the Muscarelle opens Friday Sept 10, 2021
“Forever Marked By The Day” World Trade Center focused exhibit at the Muscarelle opens Friday Sept 10, 2021
William & Mary Muscarelle’s Museum will mark Saturday’s 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. with the new exhibition “Forever Marked By The Day”. Exhibit opens Friday and will run through Jan. 9, 2022.
There will be Gallery talks about the exhibition on Friday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. This exhibition is centered around the World Trade Center site and recognizes the architects, artists, designers and photographers. Those involved individuals were Daniel Libeskind, Michael Arad, David Childs and Santiago Calatrava
Michael Arad designed the reflecting pools that are located where the Twin Towers once stood.
Muscarelle museum created this exhibition with the aid of many, including the architectural offices of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Santiago Calatrava.
“We’re looking at the whole tragedy through an art lens, through the lens of architecture,” Brashear said. “But really one of my primary motivations was to create a space, almost like a chapel, for reflection. You may or may not as a visitor grasp the sequence. I think it’s going to be fairly clear, but it’s architecture; it’s not paintings.
“It’s photography and it’s architecture, so that’s going to resonate with some visitors, while others may find it a bit more challenging. But if nothing else, my hope is that the galleries serve as spaces for people to think and to reflect and to remember and to find a little peace. And of course, we will honor our beloved William & Mary grads who passed away in the World Trade Center and also in the ensuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, by placing their names on a memorial wall in the exhibition.”
Other commemorations planned for Saturday:
- Colonial Williamsburg’s 9/11 remembrance ceremony on Saturday at 8:45 a.m. at the Colonial Courthouse. The event is free and open to the public.
- Students, including student military veterans, will ring W&M’s Wren Bell 30 times — 20 for the anniversary, seven for alumni lost on 9/11 and three for two alumni and one student killed in military service after 9/11 — at 8:46 a.m. and 10:28 a.m. to commemorate the times the first World Trade Center tower was hit and the second tower fell.
- W&M’s Sunken Garden will feature small American flags, provided by the university’s Young Democrats and College Republicans, honoring those who died in the 9/11 attacks.
- A commemorative wreath will be placed at the top of the Sunken Garden, where the university’s ROTC will stand guard alongside it.
- The Tribe’s first home football game of the year will feature a moment of silence and commemorative red, white and blue W&M logo stickers on players’ helmets as part of the 6 p.m. kickoff against Lafayette at Zable Stadium.
Above information was excerpted from WM website
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