Pepsy Kettavong sculpture

  In 1983 LUCC sponsored the Kettavongs, a Laotian refugee family fleeing persecution in their homeland.  Pepsy Kettavong, the oldest son in the family, graduated from Rochester Institute of Tecnology in 1995 and has since become a renowned sculptor. 

On Thursday, March 13, 2008 WXXI aired LET'S HAVE TEA.  This documentary, produced by Pepsy, tells a great American stroy of two of the greatest social revolutionaries of the nineteenth century: Susan B Anthony, the suffragist, and Frederick Douglass, the abolitionist.  Kettavong was commissioned to create a bronze sculpture of the two, which is located at the park on the corner of South Avenue and Gregory Street.

 Since then Pepsy has unveiled more sculptures in the area, including one in Geneseo of Founder William Wadsworth.