Presented in association with the Center for Public Art & Space at Weitzman, the 2024 Monument Lab Summit in Philadelphia will bring together thought leaders influencing and innovating the monument landscape through groundbreaking forms of commemoration, acknowledgment, justice, and belonging around the theme of “Past is Presence.” Monument Lab will gather the monument changemaking community to elevate the power of coalitional public memory and art. Artists, curators, grassroots organizers, federal officials, municipal and civic workers, educators, students, and more from around the country will converge for keynotes, panels, workshops, and field trips. Major support for the Monument Lab Summit is provided by the Mellon Foundation.
Confirmed presenters include:
Elizabeth Alexander (President, Mellon Foundation)
Sonya Clark (Artist, Declaration House)
Jeannine A. Cook (Founder, Harriett’s Bookshop)
Andrew M. Davenport (Director, Getting Word African American Oral History Project at Monticello)
Erica Armstrong Dunbar (Historian, Author of Never Caught)
Paul Farber (Director, Monument Lab; Senior Research Scholar, Center for Public Art & Space at Weitzman)
Salamishah Tillet (Scholar, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic for The New York Times)
Gayle Jessup White (Public Relations and Community Engagement Officer at Monticello, author of Reclamation)
Yolanda Wisher (Senior Curator, Monument Lab)
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