MONUMENTAL WOMEN 

For over 40 years, Meredith Bergmann has been making sculpture that deals with complex themes in an accessible, beautiful, and provocative way. Working within the tradition of narrative sculpture, she draws on her love of the history of art, literature, and mythology to make the past speak to the present. Blending the sensuality and power of representational sculpture with her own subtle sense of mischief, her work evokes multilayered responses.

She works both on public monuments and on a private scale, exploring issues of history, social justice, race, human rights, disabilities, and the power of poetry and music. Her work has been shown in more than two dozen exhibitions and appears in 10 institutional collections. Her largest public commission, unveiled in 2003, was for the Boston Women’s Memorial on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston’s Back Bay. Her FDR Hope Memorial for New York City’s Roosevelt Island will be unveiled this year and she is currently sculpting the first statues of historic women for New York City’s Central Park.

Lisa Ackerman currently serves as Executive Director of Columbus Citizens Foundation, an organization devoted to Italian American heritage. Lisa Ackerman previously served as Interim CEO of World Monuments Fund in 2018 and 2019, where she served from 2007 to 2018 as Executive Vice President, developing international collaborative projects in heritage conservation. During that time, she oversaw approximately 100 projects in 60 countries.