Medical District Park’s reinvention includes new permanent sculpture
Molly Gochman, artist, with her sculptures "Monuments to Motherhood." (Houston Cofield/Special To The Daily Memphian)
A once-controversial Memphis park will soon become a space that honors the community’s caregivers.
On Friday, Feb. 21, at 11 a.m., Medical District Park will celebrate National Caregivers Day by unveiling Monuments to Motherhood, a new public art installation from New York-based artist Molly Gochman.
The work will be the park’s first permanent public art exhibit since the 2017 removal of a statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate Civil War general and Ku Klux Klan grand wizard.
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Aisling Mäki
Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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