Monument Lab is proud to announce Bulletin Issue 02, a print journal focused on crucial and creative ideas in public art, history, and design.

This issue, themed Reverence, was co-edited by Monument Lab Senior Curator Yolanda Wisher in collaboration with Patrick Weems and Daphne R. Chamberlain of the Emmett Till Interpretive Center.

Together, we honor the 70th anniversary of Emmett Till’s lynching and the enduring legacy of Mamie Till-Mobley, whose public mourning became an act of resistance that galvanized the Civil Rights Movement.

As Till and Till-Mobley’s lives are enshrined in emergent monuments across the country, Bulletin captures a long-in-the-making moment of becoming and reflection. While tracing a lineage of struggle and activism for equal rights in the Mississippi Delta and beyond, the publication explores reverence as an act of beholding and belonging.  

Featuring contributions by The Alluvial Collective, Tony Bolden, Adrienne Brown-David, Daphne R. Chamberlain, Gloria Dickerson, W. Ralph Eubanks, Paul M. Farber, Justin Hardiman, Jerome G. Little, Dick Lourie, Yannick Lowery, Airea D. Matthews, C. Liegh McInnis, January Gill O’Neil, Mark Palacio, Theo Palacio, Aubree Penney, Olivia C. Riley, Sonia Sanchez, Sabrina Santiago, Omar Tate, Wright Thompson, Natasha Trethewey, The Tyler Twins, Ashley Tyner, Elliot Waters-Fleming, Patrick Weems, Steve Weinik, Reverend Willie Williams, and Yolanda Wisher.

Major support for Bulletin is provided by the Mellon Foundation.

Image Credit: 
Graball Landing, Glendora, MS, 2025. Photograph by Sabrina Santiago.