Monument Lab is re-launching our Student Internship Program with paid opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. The 10-week program works to connect, accompany, and strengthen professional pathways for students in public art, public history, design, and nonprofit leadership.

The William H. Gray III Memorial Foundation, in partnership with Amtrak and Monument Lab, is conducting an Open Call for Artist Ideas to envision and build a monumental “living memorial” to Congressman Gray’s legacy and values. The memorial will be situated within the great hall of Gray 30th Street Station, the historic train depot in Philadelphia that engages over 100,000 people each day. The memorial process is an opportunity to create a new, iconic landmark for the city and its main train station gateway.

Monument Lab launches Bulletin, our first printed public art and history print journal. In our inaugural issue edited by Patricia Eunji Kim, we explore the theme of “Ghosts.” Contributors Charles Athanasopoulos, Jeanne Dreskin, Paul Farber, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Naomieh Jovin, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Shannon Mattern, Nicholas Mirzoeff, TK Smith, and Marisa Williamson consider the specters, haunting sensations, and eerie remnants of the past as they relate to memory cultures. 

Monument Lab opens Declaration House, a public art and history exhibition at Independence National Historical Park featuring the premiere of Sonya Clark’s public artwork “The Descendants of Monticello.” 

Confirmed presenters include :Paul Ramirez Jonas (Artist, Professor, Art Department Chair at Cornell University), Michelle Browder (Founder and Director, I AM MORE THAN…Youth Empowerment Initiative), Laura Huerta Migas (Deputy Director, Office of Museum Services, Institute of Museum and Library Services), Joy and Jo Banner (Co-Founders and Co-Directors, The Descendants Project), and more

The Monument Lab Fellowship program returns this year with a new cohort of monumental thought leaders around the theme and practice of “bearing witness.”