Jerome Meadows

Jerome Meadows was born in the Bronx, New York. He received his B.F.A. in 1973 from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence; and an M.F.A. in 1981 from the University of Maryland in College Park. He has served as part of the faculty for North Adams State College, Massachusetts; the Baltimore School for the Arts, Maryland; and the College of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C. His major public sculptures include: the Martin Luther King Living Memorial in Anchorage, Alaska; Truths that Rise from Roots Remembered in Alexandria, Virginia; To Create the Beloved Community in Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Carry the Rainbow on Your Shoulders in Washington, D.C.

Meadows moved to Savannah, Georgia, in 1997 when he accepted a commission to design and create the Yamacraw Public Art Park, which pays tribute the area’s various residents throughout its history: the Muskogee Indians of Yamacraw Bluff, the congregation of the First Bryan Baptist Church, immigrant settlers, and African Americans. The park opened May 13, 2006. Upon settling in Savannah, Meadows established the Indigo Sky Community Gallery at 915 Waters Avenue in a building that once served as an old-fashioned ice house, where ice was stored and sold.