“Robert and Rosetta” Sculpture Honors History Hidden in Plain Sight

A new forged-iron sculpture, its elegant curves accented in bright hues, now graces the plaza of the marketplace where one of its subjects was once sold—and the other worked—as a slave. Titled “Robert and Rosetta” and designed by Christopher Kojzar, an Andrew Harris Fellow in UVM’s Program in Art and Art History, and his mother, noted artist Oletha DeVane, the artwork memorializes two enslaved...