Call for Artists - Triangle Factory Fire Memorial Sculpture

Fire!

Near closing time on Saturday afternoon, March 25, 1911, a fire broke out on the top floors of the Asch Building in the Triangle Waist Company. Within minutes, the quiet spring afternoon erupted into madness, a terrifying moment in time, disrupting forever the lives of young workers. By the time the fire was over, 146 of the 500 employees had died. The survivors were left to live and relive those agonizing moments. The victims and their families, the people passing by who witnessed the desperate leaps from ninth floor windows, and the City of New York would never be the same.

Call to Artists

The search is on for a public artist to create the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Memorial!

In collaboration with Workers United, the FDNY, NYU, the Kheel Center, the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, family members of the victims, historians and community leaders, we are launching an effort to create a public memorial for the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

If you are an artist interested in designing the memorial please download the RFQ to apply.