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.”

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