The Future of Monuments

Join us for a cross-sector panel to discuss this issue of FORWARD: Monuments & Memorials, and explore what is next for monuments across the world. What do our monuments and memorials say about who we are, what we value and who holds power? How are leaders around the country and world changing this to better reflect the kind of world we want? Our cross-sector panel of leaders will share their thoughts in conversation on this important topic in communities around the world.

Featuring:

• Bethel Abate, Design Director, MASS Design and part of the Public Memory and Memorials Lab
• Darion Jones, Deputy Director, Office of Arts & Culture, City of Portland, OR and involved in the Portland Monuments Project
• Macy Siu, artist, foresight strategist and part of the Memory Work project
• Moderated by Mallory Rukhsana Nezam, FORWARD Curator of Partnerships & Programming

This is part of our conversation series for our new digital publication, FORWARD 7: Monuments & Memorials, which was guest edited by New Monuments Task Force. Forecast Public Art offers this program free of cost, but donations are appreciated. Forecast Public Art is a nonprofit organization.

Read the FORWARD publications:

• FORWARD issue 6: Climate
• FORWARD issue 5: Housing
• FORWARD issue 4: Redefining Sustainable Design in Indian Country
• FORWARD issue 3: Community Safety
• FORWARD issue 2: Transportation
• FORWARD issue 1: Public Health

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Macy Siu photo by Sarah Bodri.

Featured image: In Memory Work, a project by the Memory Work Collective, Toronto artists create a multimedia memorial to “women’s work” that situates themselves in an imagined future in order to demand a different present. Photo by Serena Choi.

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This event is hosted by Forecast Public Art.

Forecast Public Art is a non-profit arts organization founded in 1978 by and for artists working in public space. Forecast activates, inspires, and advocates for public art that advances justice, health, and human dignity.

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