What would monuments to Black women look like if they were personal, communally accessible, and tangible? Monument Youth Fellow Kanyinsola Anifowoshe seeks to address this question through her series of workshops
A Call to Peace is a public art and history exhibition that asks the central question: What is a timely monument for Newark? Running October 3–November 11, 2019, the exhibition features temporary monuments and artworks; Thursdays Talks with artists, scholars, and activists; and an interactive research and engagement lab for participants to share their own speculative monument proposals and learn about the complex history of Military Park and the city of Newark.
In collaboration with the Pulitzer Arts Foundation’s Striking Power exhibition, Monument Lab has launched Public Iconographies: a project mapping monuments of St. Louis with a research team in museums, parks, and public spaces around the whole city. To kickoff this project, we spoke to a trio of artists – Matt Joynt, Anthony Romero, and Josh Rios – as they prepared for their own exercise in mapping.
