ADG Perspective

January-February 2024

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with the lead park ranger when set dressers started littering flyers, napkins, posters and smashed cups all over the Lincoln Memorial to represent the garbage left by two hundred fifty thousand people. She knew it was coming but it still pained her to watch. COVID and other issues shut us down in DC twice, so months and then more months apart, my tired joke was that while Rustin organized the March on Washington once, the Rustin Art Department did it three times. There is a plaque outside Bayard Rustin's Penn South Apartment on 28th Street that explains who he was and what he did for the civil rights movement. I discovered it when I first walked the property taking in the details of the man's life. We were fortunate to find a location of strikingly similar apartment buildings in Pittsburgh, complete with the balconies, and the lucky addition of a corner store across the street we turned into a Chelsea laundromat and watch repair. Rustin would now pass it at the corner of 23rd and 8th a few blocks from home at the beginning of the movie as scripted. Now, every time I walk my neighborhood and look up at those brick buildings, or even just look out my window, I think of Bayard Rustin. ADG E. MARCH ON WASHINGTON PROTEST SIGNS. GRAPHIC LAYOUT BY KAREN TENEYCK. F. BAYARD RUSTIN IN HIS PENN SOUTH APARTMENT. SET BUILT ON STAGE. PRODUCTION STILL. Mark Ricker, Production Designer James F. Truesdale, Super vising Art Director Travis Kerr, Art Director Nathan W. Bailey, Mark Haber, Kevin Kyubyung Yoon, Set Designers Joanna Bush, Illustrator Peter Beck, Stor yboard Artist Karen TenEyck, Graphic Designer Amy Wells, Set Decorator F E

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