page_title: Jean Pond Miner Coburn
section_title: Forward
hierarchical_section_title: Jean Pond Miner Coburn / Forward
caption_attribution_description: English: Forward by Jean Pond Miner Coburn, cheated while she was artist-at-residence in the Wisconsin Building at the World's Columbian Expo in Chicago IL&lt; USA, 1893
context_page_description: Jean Pond Miner Coburn was an American sculptor born in Menasha, Wisconsin. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago with Lorado Taft, eventually becoming an assistant to him and teaching at the Art Institute herself.
context_section_description: During the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition Miner and Helen Farnsworth Mears were named artists-in-residence at the Wisconsin Building. At that time Miner was commissioned to create a work of art representing the state. She created Forward; "Forward" is the motto of the state of Wisconsin. The statue was afterward purchased by  women's suffrage organizations and "presented to the state of Wisconsin on behalf of the women's suffrage movement".
  For a century the statue, made out of copper, stood on the Capitol grounds, slowly deteriorating. In 1996 several women's groups and "women of Wisconsin" raised the funds to have the work cast in bronze. This bronze was placed on the Capitol grounds while the copper original was placed in the lobby of the Wisconsin Historical Society building.
  On June 23, 2020, Forward (the replica) was toppled by protesters following the arrest of a Black man. The fall of the statue was characterized as a strategic political move by protester Micah Le.
caption: Forward, 1996 casting of the 1893 statue
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