Liberty Sculpture Park

{{Short description|American outdoor art installations}}

{{Infobox artwork

| title = Liberty Sculpture Park

| image = Liberty Sculpture Park 2.jpg

| artist = Chen Weiming{{Cite web|last=Montgomery |first=Quinn |title=Liberty Sculpture Park |work=Atlas Obscura |date=May 24, 2023 |url=https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/liberty-sculpture-park-yermo-california |access-date=December 29, 2024}}

| year = 2017

| city = Yermo, California, U.S.

| coordinates = {{coord|34.908|-116.842|type:landmark_region:US-CA|display=inline,title}}

}}

Liberty Sculpture Park is an American non-governmental nonprofit sculpture park, located next to Interstate 15 in Yermo, California. Primarily a memorial to casualties of communist regimes, its artistic focus is largely on China, with Hong Kong and other attempts at representative democracy receiving attention as well.{{cite web|url=http://www.rfi.fr/cn/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD/20190603-%E5%9D%A6%E5%85%8B%E4%BA%BA%E9%9B%95%E5%A1%91%E4%B8%8E%E6%B4%9B%E6%9D%89%E7%9F%B6%E8%87%AA%E7%94%B1%E9%9B%95%E5%A1%91%E5%85%AC%E5%9B%AD|title="坦克人"雕塑与洛杉矶"自由雕塑公园"|publisher=法国国际广播电台|date=2019-06-03|access-date=2020-04-23|archive-date=2020-02-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200220004218/http://www.rfi.fr/cn/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD/20190603-%E5%9D%A6%E5%85%8B%E4%BA%BA%E9%9B%95%E5%A1%91%E4%B8%8E%E6%B4%9B%E6%9D%89%E7%9F%B6%E8%87%AA%E7%94%B1%E9%9B%95%E5%A1%91%E5%85%AC%E5%9B%AD}}{{cite web|url=https://www.voacantonese.com/a/international-chinese-united-against-xi-virus/5311289.html|title=全球華人聯動抗議習"甩鍋" 洛杉磯"砌"牆積沙成塔|publisher=美国之音|date=2020-03-02|access-date=2020-04-23|archive-date=2020-08-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813112104/https://www.voacantonese.com/a/international-chinese-united-against-xi-virus/5311289.html}}{{cite web|url=https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/64-us-06042019083728.html|title=6.4坦克人雕塑在南加州自由雕塑公園落成|publisher=自由亚洲电台|date=2019-06-04|access-date=2020-04-23|archive-date=2019-06-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190608203758/https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/64-us-06042019083728.html}}{{cite web|url=https://www.worldjournal.com/6317740/article-%E5%8C%BF%E5%90%8D%E4%BA%9E%E8%A3%94%E8%B4%8820%E7%95%9D%E5%9C%B0-%E5%9D%A6%E5%85%8B%E4%BA%BA%E9%9B%95%E5%83%8F%E6%8F%AD%E5%B9%95/|title=匿名亞裔贈20畝地 坦克人雕像揭幕|publisher=世界日报|date=2019-06-04 }}{{cite web|url=https://hk.news.appledaily.com/local/daily/article/20190514/20677879|title=自由雕塑公園展品|publisher=苹果日报|date=2019-05-14|access-date=2020-04-23|archive-date=2020-06-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200625114553/https://hk.news.appledaily.com/local/daily/article/20190514/20677879}}{{cite web|url=https://www.taiwandaily.net/%E8%87%AA%E7%94%B1%E9%9B%95%E5%A1%91%E5%85%AC%E5%9C%92-%E5%9D%A6%E5%85%8B%E4%BA%BA%E7%8E%8B%E5%81%89%E6%9E%97%E9%9B%95%E5%A1%91%E5%8D%B3%E5%B0%87%E7%99%BB%E5%A0%B4/|title=自由雕塑公園 坦克人王偉林雕塑即將登場|publisher=美洲台湾日报|date=2019-06-01|access-date=2020-04-23|archive-date=2021-01-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118051715/https://www.taiwandaily.net/%E8%87%AA%E7%94%B1%E9%9B%95%E5%A1%91%E5%85%AC%E5%9C%92-%E5%9D%A6%E5%85%8B%E4%BA%BA%E7%8E%8B%E5%81%89%E6%9E%97%E9%9B%95%E5%A1%91%E5%8D%B3%E5%B0%87%E7%99%BB%E5%A0%B4/}}

Most of the sculptures focus on Chinese dissidents and their supporters. One such sculpture depicts Nancy Pelosi's visit with two other members of the United States Congress to China to honor the deceased 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrators.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-62343675 |title=Nancy Pelosi's long history of opposing Beijing |first=Melissa |last=Zhu |work=BBC News |date=2022-08-02 |access-date=2024-09-26}} Another statue, critical of Xi Jinping and his government's response to COVID-19, was destroyed by Chinese Communist Party arsonists.{{Cite web |last=Rotella |first=Sebastian |date=2022-03-17 |title=DOJ Charges Defendants With Harassing and Spying On Chinese Americans for Beijing |url=https://www.propublica.org/article/doj-charges-defendants-with-harassing-and-spying-on-chinese-americans-for-beijing |access-date=2024-08-06 |website=ProPublica }}{{Cite web |date=2022-03-18 |title=Stalking a skater. Derailing a campaign. Destroying art. China is behind 'insidious' acts, feds say |url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-03-18/did-chinese-spies-burn-anti-china-sclupture-and-stalk-olympic-skater-and-congressional-candidate |access-date=2024-08-06 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Cabe |first=Matthew |title=Weiming Chen vows to restore 'CCP Virus' after fire destroys artwork in Yermo's Liberty Sculpture Park |url=https://www.vvdailypress.com/story/news/2021/07/23/artist-weiming-chens-ccp-virus-sculpture-destroyed-yermos-liberty-sculpture-park/8079590002/ |access-date=2024-08-06 |website=Victorville Daily Press |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Dafoe |first=Taylor |date=2022-08-29 |title=After an Artwork Critical of Xi Jinping Mysteriously Burned to the Ground in California, the U.S. Blames a Covert Chinese Operation |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world-archives/us-blames-china-operatives-sculpture-burning-2166879 |access-date=2024-08-06 |website=Artnet News |language=en-US}} The statue was rebuilt as CCP Virus II in the span of less than a year and reopened on June 6, 2022, two days after the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.{{cite web | first=James |last= Quigg | title=High Desert artist criticizes China's communist government with sculpture | work=Victorville Daily Press | url=https://www.vvdailypress.com/picture-gallery/news/2022/06/06/high-desert-artist-criticizes-chinas-communist-government-with-sculpture/7532088001/|accessdate=June 16, 2022 }}