Monument Lab
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Nonprofit public art + history studio. We cultivate and facilitate critical conversations around the past, present, and future of monuments.
Philadelphia, PA
Joined January 2015
As we move into reflection & learning from Beyond Granite: Pulling Together, we want your voice to continue shaping the future of how we reimagine monuments together. We invite you to take a short survey about your experience of the exhibition.
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Monument Lab is thrilled to welcome Kerry Bickford, as our new Senior Project Manager. Kerry is a curator and artistic producer whose work focuses on the intersections between art and local urban ecologies.
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On October 26, at 5:30pm, join us at Michigan Theater for the Penny Stamps Speaker Series featuring artist Cannupa Hanska Luger in conversation with Monument Lab director @paul_farber.
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Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger will be joined in conversation with Paul M. Farber, Director and Co-Founder of Monument Lab.
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Yolanda was one of the featured speakers in our very first exhibition in 2015; participated in our “Monument to the Philadelphia Poet '' public program during our citywide Philadelphia exhibition in 2017; and was a team co-leader of Re:Generations’s ConsenSIS in 2022.
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We are thrilled to announce that Yolanda Wisher will be joining the Monument Lab team as Senior Curator!. Yolanda is a visionary curator, educator, writer, and performer.
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On 10/6 & 10/7, join us for “Monumental Concerns,” a daylong symposium hosted by Syracuse University artist-in-residence Carrie Mae Weems. The symposium will consider the role of monuments & their contested histories in contemporary society. Register:
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Interspersed within the creature’s body are artworks from @ummamuseum’s collection selected by Luger & the exhibition’s curators to reflect on the historical and contemporary destruction and extraction of land as an expendable resource.
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The “snake” is a serpentine monster made of riot gear, ceramics, fiber, steel, oil drums, concertina wire, ammunition cans, trash, beadwork, & other found objects.
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An enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara and Lakota), Luger was born and raised on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. This is Not a Snake was created there, in the aftermath of the 2016 Dakota Access Pipeline protests.
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“Meat for the Beast” comprises two works by multidisciplinary artist Cannupa Hanska Luger: This is Not a Snake and The One Who Checks and The One Who Balances.
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We love the incredible proposals coming in for Monument Lab Re:Generation 2024! We want more! Get your team’s application in before midnight on October 2nd so we can read it too. Learn more and apply:
Thinking about applying for Re:Generation 2024? Monument Lab is seeking ten teams of two or more individuals working together to create a new or expand an existing public art, public history, or public humanities project.
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RT @SmithsonianSec: Denied a venue elsewhere by racist policies in 1939, Marian Anderson sang to the nation at the Lincoln Memorial—and sto….
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Today is your last chance to view the Beyond Granite: Pulling Together exhibition on @TheNationalMall!. Thank you to the artists, curators, the Monument Lab staff, exhibition team, & our partners at @TheNationalMall, @NCPCgov , @NationalMallNPS, & @MellonFdn.
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Artist Paul Ramírez Jonas (@prjnyc) focuses on ways to inspire civic participation and exchange. Let Freedom Ring is interactive belltower where passersby can ring a giant bell to complete an unfinished version “My Country Tis of Thee” & declare their own visions for freedom.
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Don’t miss your chance to view the first-ever curated art exhibition on @TheNationalMall! . Beyond Granite: Pulling Together closes September 18.
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Interested in applying for Monument Lab Re:Generation 2024? Join us for a informational webinar on September 15th at 5pm EST to learn more. Register:
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RT @CBSSunday: The first-ever curated exhibition on the National Mall, in Washington, D.C., presents works from a diverse range of artists….
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RT @CBSSunday: The first-ever curated exhibition on the National Mall, in Washington, D.C., presents works from a diverse range of artists….
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Join us this Saturday, for a live evening performance of @ashoncrawley’s HOMEGOING, led by the artist & Clifton Ross III (Musical Director), James Johnson (Assistant Musical Director), and Abdul Hamid Robinson-Royal (Lead Musician). Register:
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Join us on 9/9, for a public dialogue on @TheNationalMall with leaders/organizers focusing on the interconnected stories of diverse diasporic refugee & immigrant communities + a mapping workshop to trace participants’ own roots & routes. Register ⬇️
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Monument Lab is a nonprofit public art and history studio
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