What stories belong in public? Join Monument Lab’s Paul Farber and Sue Mobley, in conversation with The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Justin Garrett Moore, to explore breakthroughs, challenges, and possibilities for monuments and public memory. On the heels of Monument Lab’s landmark National Monument Audit, this conversation spotlights innovative local grassroots projects and large-scale coalitional efforts including Re:Generation and The Monuments Project.

This event is hosted through Zoom and takes place live with a limited in-person audience from the Corcoran School of Art & Design at the George Washington University in Washington D.C.

Don't miss our live preview of Monument Lab's upcoming nationwide Re:Generation project on April 20th. Reserve your spot https://monumentlab.com/events/monument-lab-presents-regeneration-public-preview-live-from-washington-dc

The State of Public Memory is a public event for the 2022 Monument Lab Summit in Washington D.C. We will bring together thought leaders influencing and innovating the monument landscape through greater forms of commemoration, acknowledgment, justice, and belonging. Around the theme of “Re:Generation,” Monument Lab will gather to strategize and identify the necessity of systemic approaches to resource the work of local and coalitional public memory. At the Summit, we will be convening local leaders from around the country – including from Montgomery, Alabama; Tucson, Arizona; Los Angeles, California; St. Louis, Missouri; Queens, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Cayey, Puerto Rico; Rapid City, South Dakota; Matewan, West Virginia; and Dinétah, Four Corners Region – as a part of Monument Lab’s nationwide campaign Re:Generation, to transform the monument landscape. Monument Lab's collaborators and partners include The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Open Society Foundations, the Aspen Institute, the Center for Restorative History at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, and the National Park Service – National Mall and Memorial Parks.