{"id":949,"date":"2020-08-16T12:19:58","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T16:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/montgomerysinnovators.ca\/?p=949"},"modified":"2021-02-12T10:43:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T15:43:20","slug":"joshua-glover-public-art-memorial-winner-announced-at-montgomerys-inn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montgomerysinnovators.ca\/joshua-glover-public-art-memorial-winner-announced-at-montgomerys-inn\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua Glover Public Art Memorial Winner Announced at Montgomery&#8217;s Inn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">At a ceremony on August 13, 2020 at Montgomery&#8217;s Inn, Mayor John Tory announced that <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vercetty.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.vercetty.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Quentin VerCetty<\/a> had been chosen as the winner of the  Joshua Glover Public Art Memorial competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Joshua Glover escaped slavery and settled in Etobicoke in the 1850s, where he worked for over twenty years for Thomas Montgomery, the owner of Montgomery&#8217;s Inn. (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.etobicokehistorical.com\/joshua-glover.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/www.etobicokehistorical.com\/joshua-glover.html\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">You can read the official announcement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/explore-enjoy\/history-art-culture\/public-art\/public-art-monuments-collection\/public-art-competitions\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/explore-enjoy\/history-art-culture\/public-art\/public-art-monuments-collection\/public-art-competitions\/\">here on the City of Toronto&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Really excited about this vibrant, powerful memorial to Joshua Glover who worked at Montgomery\u2019s inn  and lived in Etobicoke <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/tohistory?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#tohistory<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EtobHistory?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@EtobHistory<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jkCaIaGy1D\">https:\/\/t.co\/jkCaIaGy1D<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Alexandra Kim (@AlexandraKKim) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexandraKKim\/status\/1294018891082063872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 13, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cToronto-based artist Quentin VerCetty has been selected as the winner of a public art competition designed to honor Joshua Glover, a man who escaped American slavery in 1852 and made his way to Canada assisted by the Underground Railroad.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aBD6RkqZw8\">https:\/\/t.co\/aBD6RkqZw8<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Renee Ater (@Renee_Ater) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Renee_Ater\/status\/1294645423576145923?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 15, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Meet the artist from Etobicoke behind the winning design for the Joshua Glover memorial <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MjLP2u5lbh\">https:\/\/t.co\/MjLP2u5lbh<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JRQSwYSOw1\">pic.twitter.com\/JRQSwYSOw1<\/a><\/p>&mdash; CBC Toronto (@CBCToronto) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBCToronto\/status\/1294060679322841088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 13, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-facebook wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-facebook\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/etobicokehistory\/posts\/3328367363921691\" data-width=\"552\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><em>Photo credit (featured photograph): <\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vercetty.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Quentin VerCetty<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a ceremony on August 13, 2020 at Montgomery&#8217;s Inn, Mayor John Tory announced that Quentin VerCetty had been chosen as the winner of the Joshua Glover Public Art Memorial competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[8],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/montgomerysinnovators.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8dcb-joshuaglover_credit_quentinvercetty.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomerysinnovators.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomerysinnovators.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomerysinnovators.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomerysinnovators.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomerysinnovators.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/montgomerysinnovators.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":965,"href":"https:\/\/montgomerysinnovators.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions\/965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomerysinnovators.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomerysinnovators.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomerysinnovators.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomerysinnovators.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}