On September 19, 2009 the “Sea Warriors” launched at the South Street Seaport in New York City. Flags of eleven historical pirates from 230BC to 1930 were flown between Front and Beekman Streets. Pirates such as Koxinga, Queen Teuta, Mary Reade, Captain Kidd, Barbossa, Sir Francis Drake and others hung from the vintage lampposts throughout the Seaport. “Sea Warriors” was produced in conjunction with The Seaport and was sponsored by the New York Foundation for the Arts.


“Sea Warriors” is an interpretive history of eleven pirates and privateers, and raises questions of piracy from present and past.

 

Sea Warriors: a public art project at the South Street Seaport, NYC

Some historical and alternative discoveries in the neighborhood

Jack Putnam describes the port from 1640 to today

Partners, Friends & Donors

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September 19, 2009

Limited Edition work for sale

The project also aimed to help promote the historical awareness the South Street Seaport. The Seaport stands as a landmark of the passage into New York and America. The Dutch, the English, and immigrants from all over the world entered this port as sailors, farmers, merchants, writers, slaves, wives, adventurers, and pirates: a cross section of the immigrants who built New York into the place it is today.


For more information about the project, please view the

Sea Warriors Press Release.pdf.