UNC-Chapel Hill

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Locations

  1. Carolina Arts

    1. Campus Creations

      1. Sculptural Art

        1. Mother of the Dispossessed

          The Mother of the Dispossessed is located outside the Newman Catholic Student Center.

          This sculpture by Gretchen Lothrop stands on the front lawn of the Newman Catholic Student Center Parish, located directly across from the Carolina Inn on Pittsboro Street. Inspired by a painting of the Madonna cradling her newborn, Mother of the Dispossessed is surrounded by seven stepping stones naming the sometimes-forgotten members of society, including the mentally ill and undocumented workers. Lothrop's sculpture also serves, in an even further abstracted form, as the logo for the Parish. At night, the sculpture is illuminated by a circle of floodlights.

          Created by Gretchen Lothrop.