Monuments and memorials have become a focal point for conversation, protest and activism in the city of Chicago. In response, the City (DCASE working with the Chicago Park District and Chicago Public Schools) has created a committee to review the city’s collection of monuments and recommend solutions.
The Chicago Monuments Project intends to grapple with the often unacknowledged – or forgotten – history associated with the City’s various municipal art collections and provides a vehicle to address the hard truths of Chicago’s racial history, confront the ways in which that history has and has not been memorialized and develop a framework for marking public space that elevates new ways to memorialize Chicago’s true and complete history.
THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 6-7:30PM
SPEAKER SERIES
Alt Monuments: Considering New Forms
MONDAY, MARCH 15, 12-1PM
INFO SESSION
Artist Information Session: Request for Ideas (Reimagining Monuments)
THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 6-7:30PM
SPEAKER SERIES
Remembering our Journeys: Narratives of Migration and Immigration
