• Cleveland, Ohio
• 2022
• Memorial Design

 

“The Tamir Rice Memorial makes sacred a space of devastating injustice in the remembrance of a vibrant young Black child full of possibilities. It uses the forms of the butterfly and the box to signify what Tamir was, the flight of freedom, and what society assigned for him, the darkness of confinement.” Diane Jones Allen

The memorial is located in Cudell Park, at the spot where Tamir was fatally shot by police while playing with a fake gun, then 12 years old. The design builds off of the existing butterfly garden dedicated to Tamir’s sister, who witnessed the tragedy, and connects it to an engraved central stone which memorializes Tamir. A walking path, and dry creek connect the two parts of site, and the creek carries rainwater into the butterfly garden.