The project was initiated by the Vel Phillips Task Force in 2020 and raised over $500,000 through the Vel Phillips Legacy Initiative. The statue’s installation coincides with what would have ...

Dane County Boys and Girls Club President Michael Johnson, left, looks on as workers install a statue of Vel Phillips, Wisconsin's first Black secretary of state, outside the state Capitol in ...

The Vel Phillips monument was created by the late artist Radcliffe Bailey. On July 27, a new, historic statue was unveiled in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol. It is a bronze statue of the ...