Monument Lab Re:Generation supports a 2024 cohort of ten teams working to create new or to expand existing public art, public history, or public humanities projects. Each selected Re:Generation team receives a total of $100,000 in unrestricted funding towards their commemorative campaign or project rooted in the living history of a neighborhood, city, or region. As a central part of Monument Lab’s commitment to expanding the American commemorative landscape, Re:Generation emphasizes the selection of projects with creative representation and interpretation of erased, suppressed, or threatened stories and histories, particularly in states which have passed legislation limiting the teaching of accurate and diverse American history.

The Monument Lab Re:Generation 2024 project sites:

Memphis, Tennessee – Calvary Episcopal Church 
St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana – The Descendants Project 
Laramie, Wyoming – High Iron 
Memphis, Tennessee – Klondike Community Remembrance Project 
Baton Rouge, Louisiana – Mapping Trans Joy 
Tacoma, Washington – Melting ICE 
Miami, Florida – The Miami AIDS Memorials Project 
Mobile, Alabama – Mobile County Training School Heritage Space and Archives 
St. Simons Island, Georgia – Reclaiming Ebo Landing 
Minneapolis, Minnesota – You Betcha! Farmer-Labor Solidarity is Possible 

More about the Re:Generation 2024 teams

Memphis, Tennessee

Calvary Episcopal Church, as part of a solid coalition of community partners and allies, is proposing a design process towards an enduring memorial and archive honoring the estimated 3,800 enslaved people sold on the adjoining property, which was the site of a slave market run by Confederate general and noted white supremacist Nathan Bedford Forrest in Memphis, Tennessee.
Team Members include: Reverend Scott Walters, Rich Watkins, Earnestine Jenkins, Tim Huebner, Margaret Haltom, Annie Parker, Dorothy Wells, David Lusk, John Ashworth and Margaret Craddock

St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana

The Descendants Project proposes a landscape architecture intervention: a labyrinth, meditation ground, and site of public memory dedicated to liberation struggles and victories against slavery, colonialism, and industrial encroachment. Rooted in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, it will be produced in collaboration with surrounding communities and in support of potential Landmark status by the National Park Service.
Team Members include: Jo Banner, Joy Banner and Mary Niall Mitchell.

Laramie, Wyoming

High Iron will be a traveling piece of public art—a modified train car—that will travel westward from Laramie, Wyoming, connecting former rail towns along the Interstate 80 corridor. It will house an interactive labor exhibit, an oral history collection station, and will be a center of accompanying community programming in each city it visits. High Iron will travel stories of ancestors who built the transcontinental railroad, shining light on buried narratives of an incredibly diverse state, a culture of care, and immigrant contribution.** 
Team Members include: Aubrey Edwards, Laura Zorch McDermit and Conor Mullen. 

Memphis, Tennessee

Klondike Community Remembrance Project will gather oral histories and archive community records as part of efforts to revitalize this historically Black neighborhood through a community land trust. The archive will find its home in a museum and cultural center located in the historic residence of Memphis, Tennessee hero Tom Lee.
Team Members include: Ms. Quincey Morris, Corey Davis, Dr. Eziza Ogbeiwi-Risher, Randall Garrett, Margaret Haltom, Tracie Allen, Reginald Johnson, Sr., Joyce Cox and Diamond Thompson-Smith.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Mapping Trans Joy combines physical interventions, public art installations, public events, and oral history collection in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and at partner sites across the south-east, including Lafayette, Louisiana; Jackson, Mississippi; Nashville, Tennessee; Gainesville, Florida; southwest Virginia; and southern West Virginia.
Team Members include: Sophie Ziegler, SK Groll, Nathalie Nia Foulk and Morgan Udoh.

Tacoma, Washington

Melting ICE will feature an integrated public art exhibit and banner display that focuses on one of the most marginalized and vulnerable populations in U.S. society: undocumented detainees. The project will highlight the stories and experiences of people being held at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington, and will support the advocacy efforts of La Resistencia, a grassroots organization fighting to end the detention of immigrants and stop deportations.
Team Members include: Wendy Pantoja, Rufina Reyes, Bob Bussel, Lilliana Chumpitasi, Sonia De La Cruz, Maru Mora Villalpando, Quintin Mattson-Hayward and Alejandra Gonza.

Miami, Florida

The Miami AIDS Memorials Project will make HIV/AIDS history visible in Miami’s built environment by activating two public artworks and by planning for commemorative interventions at three sites related to distinct populations and communities impacted by the local history of the epidemic.
Team Members include: Dan Royles, Dudley Alexis and Julio Capó, Jr..

Mobile, Alabama

Mobile County Training School Heritage Space and Archives is the next phase in a standing collaboration of Africatown affiliated groups, in collaboration with current students and alumni of the former Rosenwald school site. The project combines archival and archeological projects with current middle school and university students into the creation of a community heritage center.
Team Members include: Alexandra Jones, David Messenger, Amber N. Mitchell, Barbara House, Anderson Flen, James Patterson and Bill Green.

St. Simons Island, Georgia

Reclaiming Ebo Landing combines performance and visual art, K-12 curricular interventions, and public history to reassert the importance of a pivotal narrative of resistance to enslavement and the fight for freedom, which is at risk of erasure from public memory and our national story.
Team Members include: Melanie Pavich, Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier, Amy Lotson Roberts, Montu Miller and Christopher Lawton.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

You Betcha! Farmer-Labor Solidarity is Possible seeks to revive and commemorate Minnesota's forgotten Farmer-Labor movement history by engaging in an embedded-artist process that uses facilitated, collaborative visioning grounded in the remarkable legacy of the most successful third-party movement in U.S. history and a lost legacy of unity across diverse backgrounds.**
Team Members include: Thomas U. Beer, Randy Croce, Alanna Galloway, Anna Kurhajec, Amy Livingston, Thomas O'Connell, Raquel (Rocki) Simões, Amie Stager and Cassie J. Williams.

** These projects are mobile or multi-location.

These projects are all tremendously exciting, and we believe that they will enrich the field as well as provide strong support and opportunities for growth for each other through participation in the cohort and Re:Generation initiative.

Re:Generation Team

Project Lead: Sue Mobley
Project Management: Greta Gabriel and Aubree Penney
Research Associate: Kareal Amenumey
Research and Historical Advisors: Thomas J. Adams and Laurie Allen
Monument Lab Team: Paul Farber, Kristen Giannantonio, Nick Jenisch, Stephani Pescitelli, Nico Rodriguez, and Cleary Rubinos
Communications: Florie Hutchinson, Dina Paola Rodriguez, and Bella Rodriguez
Documentation: MING Media
Designer: Jonai Gibson-Selix
Contributors: Emilie Taylor Welty, Taylor Holloway, Rashidah Williams, Bryan C. Lee Jr., Michael Grote, Paul Harang, Dasjon Jordan, Charlotte Lewis, Andrea Douglas, and Jordy Yager
Project Partners: The Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design at Tulane School of Architecture
Monument Lab Board of Directors: Lola Bakare (Secretary), Ellery Roberts Biddle, Amari Johnson, Monica O. Montgomery (Vice Chair), Michelle Angela Ortiz, Stephan Nicoleau (Treasurer), Samala, Kirk Savage, and Tiffany Tavarez (Chair)
Featured Image: Klondike Community Remembrance Project team (Reginald Johnson Sr.)

Major support for Re:Generation is provided by the Mellon Foundation.