FREE ENTRY / Monument Lab - Open call for the William H. Gray Lii 30th Street Station

The William H. Gray III Memorial Foundation, in partnership with Amtrak and Monument Lab, is conducting an Open Call for Artist Ideas to envision and build a monumental “living memorial” to Congressman Gray’s legacy and values. The memorial will be situated within the great hall of Gray 30th Street Station, the historic train depot in Philadelphia that engages over 100,000 people each day. The memorial process is an opportunity to create a new, iconic landmark for the city and its main train station gateway.

In 2014, the late Congressman William H. Gray III—a Philadelphia-area political leader, international statesman, and pastor who was deeply committed to civil rights and social justice around the globe—was honored through federal legislation with the renaming of Philadelphia's iconic train depot to the William H. Gray III 30th Street Station. Congressman Gray represented Pennsylvania’s second Congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives between 1979 and…