The State of Public Memory

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.

[lenwoodsloan]

I have always felt that the well conceived review process is like a diagnostic assessment and a census of our field.

We need truth tellers to really see the urgency of the moment.

Identifying the field, the Frontline, the Crossroads is essential and public art forms the markers and GPS of the movement. So the work is not the product but the Wayfinder.
Leni Sloan

[lenwoodsloan]

I greatly appreciated the discussion about the combination of staff review and panel engagement and exchange.
Also the idea of "technical assistance " for those who were sent other places.
Grant making, in any process, is as much the art of rejection as philanthropic. How you assist those who are not successful in the application process can be monumentally Also.

Lenwood Sloan