About this Webinar 

Monument Lab is a public art and history studio based in Philadelphia that works with artists, students, educators, activists, municipal agencies, and cultural institutions on participatory approaches to public engagement and collective memory. Monument Lab critically engages our inherited symbols in order to unearth the next generation of monuments that elevate stories of resistance and hope. The Monument Lab Field Trip is a free hands-on activity guide to help participants take a closer look at the monuments in their city or town. The Field Trip initiative was inspired by the challenges presented this year to reckoning and reflecting on our monument landscape at a moment with fewer opportunities for in-person engagements to historic sites and museums.

Different activities of the Field Trip invite participants in social distance or virtually from their homespaces to investigate historical monuments in their community, ask questions about art and justice in public spaces, and propose their own ideas for a monument. Join Monument Lab’s Paul Farber, Patricia Kim, and Kanyinsola Anifowoshe to discuss the Field Trip as a platform for engagement, imagination, and dialogue.

Participants will learn about:

• Designing public art and history engagements in the midst of COVID-19 and reckoning over the commemorative landscape
• Shaping remote and self-directed engagements, facilitations, and methods for art and education
• Building pathways to encourage hyperlocal explorations of art and culture that also address connections to social justice