Tickets are now on sale for Promument, Monument Lab’s Annual Fundraising Event, Awards Ceremony, and Party. Join us for an evening of music, art, food, and celebration on May 23, 2024 at the Independence Visitor Center.
How do we create powerful sites of reckoning and memorial? How can we think differently about what a monument or memorial can be and do? Could the built landscape be considered a monument? This discussion will explore relationships between sites, their contexts and the histories of communities they represent. Speakers will consider how temporal and formal landscapes can inform and transform a monument’s potential, how sites can commemorate events, ideas and themes beyond people, and how to combine representational and non-representational monuments and memorials to tell a shared story. Panelists include Chicago-based artist and architect Amanda Williams, Author of Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museumsand Columbia University Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Mabel Wilson and Chief Curatorial Advisor at Monument Lab, Ken Lum.