Early Bird Tickets are now on sale for Promument, Monument Lab’s Annual Fundraising Event, Awards Ceremony, and Party. Join us for an evening of music, art, food, and celebration on May 23, 2024 at the Independence Visitor Center.
After years of discussion and activist work, the controversial Christopher Columbus statue was removed on June 16, 2020 from St. Louis’s Tower Grove Park. Using this moment as a touchstone, this panel discussed the false-hero narrative of Columbus, methods for confronting racist monuments, the power of BIPOC artists, and the act of healing and reclaiming space. The event featured Marvin-Alonzo Greer, Education and Visitor Experience Lead for Soldiers Memorial Military Museum; and Alyssa Lazzeroni, MSW, LMSW, CLC, in conversation with Lindsey Manshack, Research Manager at the Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies at Washington University in St. Louis & PhD Candidate of Indigenous Health at the University of North Dakota.