WHEN:  Friday, December 2, 2016, 3PM

WHERE: Sister Cities Park, 18^th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway

Speakers include: City of Philadelphia Public Art Director Margot Berg, City of Philadelphia Representative Sheila Hess, Office of Immigrant Affairs Director Miriam Enriquez, Philadelphia Museum of Art George D. Widener Director and CEO Timothy Rub, Philadelphia Museum of Art President & COO Gail Harrity, Representative of Artist Robert Indiana, Simon Salama-Caro, Association for Public Art Executive Director & Chief Curator Penny Balkin Bach, Center City District CEO Paul Levy

WHAT:  Robert Indiana’s celebrated sculpture AMOR (1998) will be moved to a permanent home at Sister Cities Park at 18^th and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. It will be formally dedicated at a ceremony on Friday, December 2nd at 3pm by City of Philadelphia officials, along with representatives of the artist, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Association for Public Art and the Center City District. In its new setting, AMOR will become a permanent companion piece to Indiana’s iconic LOVE (1976) sculpture at JFK Plaza/LOVE Park.

AMOR came to Philadelphia during the celebration of the 2015 World Meeting of Families and the historic visit by Pope Francis. The word “amor” means “love” in Spanish, the Pope’s native language, and Latin, the language of the Catholic Church. With funding provide by the City of Philadelphia, the Morgan Art Foundation, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Mrs. Edith R. Dixon and the Association for Public Art, AMOR, has now been acquired for the City of Philadelphia’s permanent public art collection.

Television crews and photographers are invited to cover the event.

DIRECTIONS: Please go to the corner of 18^th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. There will be a designated media area in front of the stage, which will be at the AMOR sculpture. The event will take place outdoors.

Contact: Special Projects Coordinator, Pamela Yau, pamela.yau@phila.gov or (267) 679-4913.