Historic Germantown Receives Grant from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage for a New Collaborative Project: Elephants on the Avenue: Race, Class and Community in Historic Germantown The historians and artists involved in Elephants on the Avenue include: Barbara J. Bullock, Visual Artist Ife Nii Owoo, Visual Artist Diane Pieri, Visual Artist Sonia Sanchez, Poet and Professor Yolanda Wisher, Poet and Educator Benjamin Volta, Visual Artist, Muralist Dr. Abigail Perkiss, Historia