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Luminaria is a festival dedicated to the arts, located in San Antonio. At the 11th annual Luminaria festival, Studio Art and First-Year Core Lecturer Rosa Nussbaum, Kevin Choi, MaKayla Rutt and Trent Tunks created a glowing, traveling sculpture called The Ghost of Germantown to roll down the streets of Hemisfair Park.
Hemisfair Park was built on San Antonio’s historic Germantown neighborhood in which Nussbaum and team’s The Ghost of Germantown honors. The former Germantown was demolished for the 1968 World Fair, whose theme was “The Confluence of Civilizations in the Americas.” The roaming sculpture recalls architectural forms, while utilizing reconstructed maps of old Germantown and a tribute to the Toudouze family who Nussbaum said were evicted against their will.
The Ghost of Germantown caught the eye of many Luminaria festival-goers as San Antonio Express-News’ Deborah Martin wrote in her article on the festival.
“One of the pieces that literally stopped many in their tracks was a glowing architectural sculpture that seemed, at first glance, to be moving on its own. More than one person who passed it could be heard to say ‘I see legs!”