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9.16–11.19.2017 #monumentlab Issue #3 / Fall 2017 Proposing Monuments for Philadelphia

WRITTEN BY Paul M. Farber & Ken Lum Monument Lab Curators

onument Lab: A Public Art and History Project operates around a central M guiding question: What is an appropriate monument for the current city of Philadelphia? This line of inquiry is aimed at building civic dialogue and stoking historical imagination as forces for social change. From September 16 to November 19, the Monument Lab curatorial team and Mural Arts Philadelphia have installed temporary prototype monuments by 20 artists across 10 sites in Philadelphia’s iconic public squares and neighborhood parks, plus three special projects in Kensington, West Philadelphia, and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA). These site-specific, socially engaged artworks are presented together with research labs, where creative monument proposals are collected from Philadelphians and visitors. The proposals will become a dataset of public speculation presented in a final report to the city. During the exhibition, the entire collection is on view at the Morris Gallery at PAFA. Philadelphia is a city full of monuments and The Battle Is Joined © 2017 City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program / Karyn Olivier, Vernon Park. Photo by Michael Reali. memorials. Philadelphia is also a city full of monumental histories, many of which are little Drawing on meaningful modes of social known, obscured, or simply unacknowledged. engagement through creative response, the project These underrepresented histories often exist in is an invitation to not only answer a shared tension with officially acknowledged narratives. question but to explore, excavate, and reflect on The projects that make up Monument Lab address multiple forms of historical knowledge. Rather than issues of social justice and solidarity, including asking for only the feasible or practical, Monument matters of race, gender, sexuality, class, and Lab seeks ideas that speak to the evolving core CITY national belonging. The monuments proposed values and visions of the city. through this exhibition are made of stone and The Monument Lab Curatorial Team is led by bronze, as well as recycled materials, images, Paul M. Farber and Ken Lum. sounds, and the byproducts of community process. Five years ago, Monument Lab emerged from WIDE a series of classroom conversations. In 2015, it grew to include the installation of a pair of outdoor KEY DATES: classrooms in the courtyard of City Hall through a discovery phase funded by The Pew Center for Arts September 16 – & Heritage. In the continued spirit of collaborative learning, this current citywide exhibition with Mural November 19 Arts uses monuments to understand the ways All Projects and Research Labs we live together with our histories, our ideas for Open to the Public uplift, and our urgencies. As we experience this moment of intensity and uncertainty around Friday, October 6 public monuments—especially those that symbolize Promument Party at PAFA 9 weeks. the enduring legacies of racial injustice and social inequality—we are reminded that we must find new, critical ways to reflect on the monuments Wednesdays & Saturdays 10+ sites. we have inherited and imagine future monuments Featured Public Programming we have yet to build. Throughout the Fall 20+ artists. 2 A Public Art + History Project 3

onument Lab asks a central question: What is an appropriate monument for M the current city of Philadelphia? The more you think about it, the tougher the question is to answer. What would it mean for a monument to be appropriate? Might we imagine new kinds What is a Monumental of monuments for our city? Who should decide? For every monument installed in public, there remain hundreds unbuilt, resulting in a vast, unknown backlog of stories untold and moments uncelebrated. By posing this question, we invite Monument? Data a fresh look at our monuments today, and what they might be in the future. The curators of Monument Lab have invited WRITTEN BY WRITTEN BY 20 artists to create temporary prototype monuments Jane Golden Laurie Allen around the city. In the research program of Executive Director, Mural Arts Philadelphia Monument Lab Research Director Monument Lab, we invite Philadelphians and visitors to reflect on these prototypes, and on the city itself, and to offer their own proposals for Philadelphia monuments. Each proposal is an idea to be considered, an inspiration to be admired, and an additional perspective on our history and our future. They are collected at learning labs in public squares and city parks, adjacent to the prototype monuments by artists invited by the curatorial team. In 2017, we must recognize that the story told by our monuments is not our city’s

full history. LAB

The labs are housed in converted shipping containers and staffed by youth researchers, artists, and community members. There, we engage visitors in conversations about monuments, both real and imagined. Their proposals are transferred to a display at the exhibition hub at PAFA and an online map available at the Monument Lab website. Later they are transcribed and analyzed, uploaded as an open dataset, deposited into a local library, and channeled common definition states that a During this challenging time in our country, into a final report to the city. monument commemorates something or when there is a great debate about our beliefs and

MONUMENT The public proposals collected at the labs someone, in order to uplift and keep it in our values, it is imperative to ask these questions. A represent an astonishing range and depth of public memory—an enduring symbol. Here in As James Baldwin once said, “Not everything that perspectives about our city. Taken as a collection Philadelphia, our city is full of monuments, many is faced can be changed, but nothing can be of individual public proposals, they remind us crafted in bronze and marble. There are changed until it is faced.” of the powerfully diverse city in which we live, monuments to war, to culture, and to individuals. Monument Lab, created in collaboration with where many histories coexist, only a few of which Murals can be monuments, too—ones that citizens across the city, is steeped in complexity are called out as statues, plaques, and markers. speak to people in personal and intimate ways. and nuance, much like Mural Arts’ larger portfolio Our monuments have meaning. They are a In Philadelphia, our collection of murals has of work. For over 30 years, we’ve engaged with city’s way of telling its story, of picking out become a growing map of human experience, countless communities, brokering differences, moments in history for elevation, and for making representing our heroes, our struggles, and our building connections, stimulating creativity and a statement about who and what deserves to aspirations. A mural has power, and when paired action, and using art to recognize diversity within be honored and remembered. In 2017, we must strategically with programming, it can change commonality. Over time, our work has become recognize that the story told by our monuments the conversation, unearthing underrepresented as much about truth and reconciliation as it is is not our city’s full history. Help us elevate a histories, experiences, and perspectives, and about art. Monument Lab asks us to contend richer reading of our history and move creatively inspiring new advocates for social justice. with larger issues in the same way—to mine the toward a better future. It is precisely our love for the power of art that range of our experiences, to share what is most Please contribute a proposal, visit the proposals drew Mural Arts to Monument Lab when curators important to us, and to consider how we want on display at PAFA, and help us make meaning Paul M. Farber and Ken Lum approached us three to be represented. from the data that emerges from artists, public years ago. As they explained, Monument Lab By doing this work, we—Mural Arts Philadelphia proposals, and the spark between them. invites artists and citizens to re-imagine what an and the curators—hope to demonstrate our deep appropriate monument looks like in today’s world. faith in the authenticity of people’s voices and our So, we asked ourselves: How do we look at the deep belief in everyone’s right to be seen and to core values of Mural Arts, our deep-seated belief be heard. If we could imagine a city—our city—where LAB HOURS in art and social change, and apply it to the diversity, equity, and justice were illuminated definition of a monument? and celebrated in our physical spaces, what would Monument Lab challenges and invites it look like? Now, we want to hear from you: CITY HALL: Philadelphians to think about monuments and What is your monument? Open daily: 12pm – 7pm to speculate—together—about the future of our city. We are asking: Who do we want to honor? ALL OTHER SITES: What values do we hold dear? What are the untold stories that need to be told, and who Wednesdays and Thursdays, 4pm – 7pm are the storytellers? Fridays and Saturdays, 12pm – 5pm THE TIMES © 2017 City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program/ Tyree Guyton, A Street & East Indiana Avenue. Photo by Steve Weinik. monumentlab.muralarts.org #monumentlab 4 A Public Art + History Project 5 SITE 01: START City Hall Location: Broad and Market Streets HERE: Namesake: City Hall Hank Willis Thomas Established: 1682 Michelle Angela Ortiz B. 1976 • AMERICAN • B. 1978 • AMERICAN/LATINA • Built: 1871–1901 BASED IN NEW YORK CITY Monument BASED IN PHILADELPHIA Lab at PAFA Seguimos Caminando All Power CENTRAL EXHIBITION HUB: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (We Keep Walking) to All People Morris Gallery of the historic Furness Building Throughout her body of work, families. The animated images in Situated across from City Hall on as a testament to innovation.” 118 – 128 North Broad Street Michelle Angela Ortiz engages with her moving monument originate experiences of immigration in from compiled writings from two Thomas Paine Plaza, Hank Willis The temporary monument is placed Philadelphia, especially through mothers sharing their stories while Thomas’ All Power to All People here as a symbol and site, as the At the Exhibition Hub, visitors can view images family stories and intergenerational detained at Berks. Ortiz worked is a public art intervention around artist adds, “to highlight ideas of all 20 prototype monuments by the Monument histories. For Monument Lab, Ortiz’s on Seguimos Caminando with the identity and representation in related to community, strength, Philadelphia. Thomas’ Afro pick perseverance, comradeship, and Lab artists. Additionally, all creative monument Seguimos Caminando (We Keep Shut Down Berks Coalition and Walking) imagines the gates of the mothers detained at Berks, sculpture stands at eight feet tall and resistance to oppression.” Thomas’ proposals gathered at learning labs around City Hall as a space of imaginative and will organize a creative action weighs close to 800 pounds. The work recalls the scale of Pop artist the city will be on display, projecting a new projection, juxtaposed with with Shut Down Berks during Afro pick, as Thomas notes, “exists Claes Oldenburg’s monumental hundreds of sculptures on the the Monument Lab exhibition. today as many things to different everyday objects, such as the museum of ideas and creative data, built by and building that mark the historic and people: it is worn as adornment, Clothespin and Paint Torch, while a political emblem, and signature marking the lack of commemorative for public participants. A rotating section of LAB HOURS: mythic past of the city. In a series the gallery, “Re-Imagining Monuments,” features of animated projections held SEGUIMOS of collective identity. The Afro statues that address equal justice Open Daily: 12pm – 7pm on Wednesday and Friday evenings CAMINANDO pick continues to develop itself and belonging. artistic projects ranging from data visualizations throughout the exhibition, Ortiz PROJECTIONS to engagements with contemporary monuments. will honor mothers previously or Wednesday and Friday LAB PAFA is also the point of departure for Mural PUBLIC NEAREST currently unjustly detained at Berks Evenings, 8pm – 10pm Detention Center, a prison outside North Apron of City Hall Arts Philadelphia tours, public programs through TRANSIT INDEGO ACCESS STATIONS of Philadelphia for immigrant the exhibition, and a special project produced REGIONAL RAIL: 15th Street and with artist Tania Bruguera and PAFA students. Suburban Station Market Street

MARKET-FRANKFORD Thomas Paine Plaza LINE: 13th Street Station, 15th Street/ GALLERY HOURS: City Hall Station

Tuesday – Friday: 10am – 5pm BROAD STREET LINE: Saturday – Sunday: 11am – 5pm City Hall Station TROLLEY: 10, 11, 13, MONUMENT Closed Mondays & Legal Holidays 34, and 36

Free and Open to the Public BUS: 4, 16, 17, 27, 31, 32, 33, 38, 44, 62, 78, 124, 125, 400, 401, 402, 404, 406, 408, 409, 410, 412, 414, 417, and 555 Mel Chin B. 1951 • AMERICAN • BASED IN EGYPT, NORTH CAROLINA SPECIAL EVENT

SEPTEMBER 16

Saturday Spotlight 1pm – 4pm Two Me

Mel Chin’s Two Me invites the public artwork balances the longing for to pose as living monuments in the individualism with the foundational Stop by Tableau at PAFA for courtyard of City Hall. Visitors may spirit of coexistence embedded ascend fully accessible ramps to within American culture. Chin a snack after your visit and get PARTNERS AND FUNDERS one of two identical seven-foot-tall modeled these pedestals directly 10% your purchase when you The City of Philadelphia; The Office of Arts, pedestals, inscribed simply with after John Wanamaker’s Citizen Culture and the Creative Economy; and the the word “Me.” Individually, each statue on the west side of City Hall, present this coupon! Department of Public Property visitor attains monumental status and invites the two visitors to greet Major support for Monument Lab projects staged when reaching the top. Together, each other back at ground level in Philadelphia’s five squares has been provided across both platforms, visitors create and further explore their collectivity. by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. a “We,” as in “We the People.” Chin’s #TwoMe

monumentlab.muralarts.org #monumentlab 6 A Public Art + History Project 7 SITE 02: SITE 03: Franklin Logan

Square Kara Crombie Square Location: Between Race Street/ B. 1975 • AMERICAN • BASED IN PHILADELPHIA Benjamin Franklin Parkway Vine Street Expressway and 6th/7th Streets between 18th and 20th Streets Namesake: Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) Namesake: James Logan (1674–1751) Established: 1682 Established: 1682 Renamed: 1825 Renamed: 1825 Logan Squared: Ode to Philly © 2017 Emeka Ogboh, Parkway Central Library, Sample Philly 1901 Vine Street / Logan Square. Photo by Steve Weinik.

Sample Philly is an interactive musical expression are not uniformly sculpture honoring Philadelphia’s accessible, Crombie envisions rich musical history. Doubling as an her monument as a space for the outdoor boombox and functioning city’s youth to remix the city’s music production studio, soundscapes. Crombie will continue participants can produce their own adding songs and samples to this fantasy musical compositions from kiosk through the fall. She can be a vast archive of songs recorded reached at [email protected] in and about the city. Kara Crombie’s for additional requests and sample bank includes snippets from contributions. Crombie initially hundreds of notable Philadelphia proposed Sample Philly as songs and crowdsourced samples a speculative monument during uploaded by local musicians, Monument Lab’s discovery phase blending the sounds of the past and in 2015, supported by The Pew present. In this time when tools of Center for Arts & Heritage. LAB HOURS: LAB HOURS: Ursula Rucker. Photo by Steve Weinik. Wednesdays & Thursdays: Wednesdays & Thursdays: 4pm – 7pm 4pm – 7pm

Saturdays & Sundays: Saturdays & Sundays: LAB 12pm – 5pm 12pm – 5pm

LIBRARY INSTALLATION: PARK HOURS PUBLIC Sundays from SEPTEMBER TRANSIT Daily: 10am – 7pm ACCESS September 24 – November 19

OCTOBER REGIONAL RAIL: 2pm – 4:30pm Sunday to Thursday: Jefferson Station 10am – 7pm MARKET-FRANKFORD LOGAN SQUARED Friday & Saturday: LINE: 5th Street/ LISTENING STATIONS: 10am – 9pm Independence Hall MONUMENT and 8th Street 24 Hours NOVEMBER Daily: 10am – 5pm BROAD STREET LINE Emeka Ogboh (RIDGE SPUR): Chinatown Station PUBLIC NEAREST featuring Ursula Rucker NEAREST TRANSIT INDEGO B. 1977 • NIGERIAN • BASED IN BERLIN/LAGOS INDEGO BUS: 47, 47M, and 57 ACCESS STATION STATION REGIONAL RAIL: Free Library of 6th and Race Streets Suburban Station Philadelphia, Parkway Central Library TROLLEY: 10, 11, (1901 Vine Street) 13, 34, and 36 SPECIAL EVENT BUS: 32, 33, and 38 Logan Squared: OCTOBER 7 Ode to Philly

SPECIAL EVENT Saturday Spotlight As a monument to Philadelphians’ of this composition. Visitors may 1pm – 4pm voices and visions, Emeka Ogboh’s access the sound monument SEPTEMBER 27 Logan Squared: Ode to Philly at listening stations around the features a collaboration with beloved square where they can plug in their Monument to Philadelphia poet Ursula Rucker, headphones to access the members of the Chestnut Street composition, or attend a special the Philly Poet: Singers, and hundreds of weekly multichannel sound PARTNERS AND FUNDERS 6pm – 8pm Philadelphians whose ideas were installation on the Skyline Terrace Historic Philadelphia documented during Monument Lab’s of the Parkway Central Library. In discovery phase. Throughout his the rooftop version, attendees are Major support for Monument Lab projects staged work, Ogboh creates soundscapes invited to experience a multichannel in Philadelphia’s five squares has been provided to honor and understand cities. For sound installation, including by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. PARTNERS AND FUNDERS Monument Lab, Ogboh conceived the sounds of Rucker’s poem and The City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Parks & of a collaboration to channel public a special choral arrangement of Recreation, Friends of Aviator Park, Free Library participation and reflection. Louis Gesensway’s Four Squares of Philadelphia, and the Barnes Foundation Responding to the Monument Lab of Philadelphia: “Logan Square at Major support for Monument Lab projects staged open dataset, Rucker composed an Dusk,” as well a singular view of Sample Philly © 2017 City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program / Kara Crombie, in Philadelphia’s five squares has been provided epic poem serving as the backbone the city from above. Franklin Square. Photo by Steve Weinik. by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. monumentlab.muralarts.org #monumentlab 8 A Public Art + History Project 9 SITE 04: SITE 05: Rittenhouse Washington

Square Alexander Rosenberg Square Marisa Williamson Location: Between Walnut Street/ B. 1981 • AMERICAN • BASED IN PHILADELPHIA Location: Between Walnut Street/ B. 1985 • AMERICAN • BASED IN NEW YORK CITY Rittenhouse Square and 18th/19th Streets South Washington Square and 6th/7th Streets Namesake: David Rittenhouse (1732–1796) Namesake: George Washington (1732–1799) Established: 1682 Established: 1682 Renamed: 1825 The Built/Unbuilt Square Renamed: 1825 Sweet Chariot: The Built/Unbuilt Square provides gatherings, renderings of constructed The Long Journey to Freedom Through Time a journey into Rittenhouse Square’s and proposed structures from past historical landscape with the help eras, and animations conveying Sweet Chariot is an interactive video a story from Philadelphia’s African of augmented reality technology. the square’s vitality and mythos. Users scavenger hunt, conceptualized American history. As viewers Passersby are invited to look into can shift the angle of the viewfinder and directed by artist Marisa experience each video on location, a pair of viewfinders—a traditional to reveal multiple views of the Williamson. Using the Sweet Chariot the ultimate goal is to follow device often placed on the edge location they are currently inhabiting. image-recognition smartphone app protagonist Amelia Brown (inhabited of important monumental vistas— Together, the viewfinders of The and scratch-off map, audiences will by Williamson) on her way “home” with each facing inward at the park. Built/Unbuilt Square attempt to uncover a series of site-specific through interactions with historic Within the scope of each viewfinder, collect the stories, fragments, and videos that reveal hidden moments figures such as Margaret Forten, the park can be seen as layered numerous evolutions of the park in the landscape of historic Octavius Catto, and W.E.B. DuBois. with archival images of historical into a shared frame. Philadelphia, opening a window Brown is based on a real Philadelphian onto the African American struggle whose gravestone was excavated in for freedom. The journey begins in a former burial ground for Mother historic Washington Square, and Bethel AME Church under current- Learn more about the Rittenhouse Square invites viewers to look for clues hiding day Weccacoe Park. Sweet Chariot’s LAB HOURS: LAB HOURS: artists and their projects at a special in plain sight, including images on scratch-off map is available at the Wednesdays & Thursdays: exhibition at the Philadelphia Art Alliance. Wednesdays & Thursdays: signs, plaques, and murals. Each Washington Square Lab and at the 4pm – 7pm 4pm – 7pm unlocked video presents a creative Exhibition Hub at PAFA. 251 South 18th Street and collaborative interpretation of

Saturdays & Sundays: September 13 – November 20 Saturdays & Sundays: LAB Tuesdays through Sundays, 12pm – 6pm 12pm – 5pm Closed Mondays 12pm – 5pm

PARK HOURS NEAREST PARK HOURS PUBLIC Open 6am – 1am Daily INDEGO Open 24 Hours Daily TRANSIT STATION ACCESS PUBLIC Rittenhouse Square NEAREST REGIONAL RAIL: TRANSIT (1911 Walnut Street) INDEGO Jefferson Station ACCESS STATIONS MARKET-FRANKFORD LINE: 8th Street Kaitlin Pomerantz REGIONAL RAIL: 4th and Walnut Streets and 11th Street B. 1986 • AMERICAN • MONUMENT Suburban Station 9th and Locust Streets BUS: 9, 12, 21, 42, BASED IN PHILADELPHIA BROAD STREET LINE: Sharon Hayes and 47 Walnut-Locust Station B. 1970 • AMERICAN • BASED IN PHILADELPHIA TROLLEY: 10, 11, 13, 34, and 36

BUS: 9, 12, 17, 21, and 42 SPECIAL EVENT NOVEMBER 4 On the Threshold If They Should Ask (Salvaged Stoops, Philadelphia) SPECIAL EVENT Saturday Spotlight Kaitlin Pomerantz’s On the Threshold and now line the east side of In a city that boasts hundreds of as Hayes notes, “the persistent OCTOBER 21 1pm – 4pm (Salvaged Stoops, Philadelphia) is Washington Square Park, creating sculptures to historic figures, there and aggressive exclusion of women a monument to a beloved symbol an opportunity for sitting, gathering, are only two dedicated to women: from this form of public recognition.” of Philadelphia neighborhood culture: and reflecting on Philadelphia’s French heroine Joan of Arc and Hayes and these advisors initiated Saturday Spotlight the stoop, or step(s), as it is known past and its future. Washington Bostonian Quaker Mary Dyer. To an ongoing collection of names of 1pm – 4pm in South Philadelphia. As Pomerantz Square Park’s history as both a address the absence of women in Philadelphia-area women who have PARTNERS AND FUNDERS writes, the stoop or step is “a public gathering place and unmarked public monuments in this city, Sharon contributed to the social, cultural, threshold between private and cemetery sparked the idea for Hayes’ sculpture If They Should political, and economic life of the Independence National Heritage Park public space...[it] functions as a site the project, which stimulates Ask marks a long line of Philadelphia city, a selection of which have been Major support for Monument Lab projects staged of social interaction, of relaxation, conversation about architectural women, from the mid-1600s to incorporated into the sculpture. For in Philadelphia’s five squares has been provided and of participation.” Responding and individual memory. PARTNERS AND FUNDERS the present day, who could be or a full list of names and to contribute by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. to recent immense change and could have been recognized with your own, visit iftheyshouldask.com. The City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Parks transformation across city neighbor- monuments. Immersing herself in & Recreation, Friends of Rittenhouse Square, hoods, Pomerantz sought to and the Philadelphia Art Alliance the voluminous array of monuments intercept historic building materials around the city, Hayes has recreated Major support for Monument Lab projects that would otherwise end up in the nine pedestals from existing staged in Philadelphia’s five squares has been (L) If They Should Ask (in-process) waste stream. Over the past six provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. monuments in Philadelphia, scaled © 2017 City of Philadelphia Mural Arts months, she collected marble, them to half-size, and arranged them Program / Sharon Hayes, Rittenhouse Square. Support for Alexander Rosenberg’s project Photo by Steve Weinik. concrete, and brick from recently together in a singular assemblage. and related programming has been provided demolished buildings. The stoop by PECO. Hayes convened a group of inter- (R) On the Threshold (in-process) materials have been reconstructed generational, intersectional, and © 2017 City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program / Kaitlin Pomerantz, Washington on-site using historical and civically-engaged women to discuss, Square. Photo by Steve Weinik. traditional masonry techniques, monumentlab.muralarts.org #monumentlab 10 A Public Art + History Project 11

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4 Events Emeka Ogboh featuring Monument Lab Saturday Spotlight: Monument Lab Ursula Rucker: Live #2: Hidden Washington Square Logan Squared: Ode to Philly Histories & Missing with Kaitlin Pomerantz Calendar and Marisa Williamson Public Tours 4:00pm – 9:00pm Monuments Parkway Central Library, with Kaitlin Pomerantz, Marisa 1:00pm – 4:00pm WANT TO SEE MONUMENT LAB UP CLOSE? How to Do Skyline Terrace, 1901 Vine Street Williamson, Paper Monuments, Washington Square FREE Vashti DuBois, Jarrett Drake, FREE Join us on a public tour! Venissa Santí, and more Monument Lab SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5 6:00pm – 8:00pm To reserve tickets, visit muralarts.org/tours Saturday Spotlight: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Emeka Ogboh featuring or call 215.925.3633 SEPT. Penn Treaty Park 118–128 North Broad Street in a Day $5 / FREE for PAFA members Ursula Rucker: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 with RAIR and Duane Linklater Logan Squared: Ode to Philly SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21 SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS, JUST ONE DAY IN YOUR BUSY SCHEDULE TO DO 1:00pm – 4:00pm 2:00pm – 4:30pm Monument Lab Live #1: SEPTEMBER 16 TO OCTOBER 29 ALL THINGS MONUMENT LAB? How to Make a Penn Treaty Park, Saturday Spotlight: Parkway Central Library, 1301 North Beach Street Skyline Terrace, 1901 Vine Street Choose from one of our Monument FREE Rittenhouse Square FREE With Mel Chin, Tania Bruguera, RAIR, with Sharon Hayes and Alexander Center City ready-made itineraries! Emeka Ogboh, Mayor Jim Kenney, Rosenberg WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8 and more OCT. 1:00pm – 4:00pm Monumental Exchange Mural Mile Meets 6:00pm – 9:00pm Rittenhouse Square FREE #4: Jamel Shabazz Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1 & Special Guest 118–128 North Broad Street Monument Lab If it’s a $5 / FREE for PAFA members Emeka Ogboh featuring SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22 6:00pm – 8:00pm Ursula Rucker: WHYY, 150 North 6th Street 11:00am – 1:00pm Emeka Ogboh featuring FREE $25 per person, advance reservations required SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 Logan Squared: Ode to Philly Wednesday: Ursula Rucker: Starting Point: Monument Lab 2:00pm – 4:30pm Logan Squared: Ode to Philly SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, OPTION 1: Visit a nearby lab to submit your idea for a monument Opening Day Parkway Central Library, 128 North Broad Street that YOU think best represents Philadelphia. Then check out a Skyline Terrace, 1901 Vine Street Saturday Spotlight: 12:00pm – 5:00pm 2:00pm – 4:30pm temporary monument in your neighborhood, whether it’s Karyn FREE Citywide Parkway Central Library, Vernon Park Explore the world’s largest outdoor art gallery and get to Olivier’s The Battle Is Joined in Vernon Park or Shira Walinsky Skyline Terrace, FREE with Jamel Shabazz and Karyn Olivier know the city’s stunning mural collection on this exciting and Southeast by Southeast’s Free Speech in Marconi Plaza. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6 1901 Vine Street FREE guided tour. Weave through diverse neighborhoods on 1:00pm – 4:00pm SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 PROMUMENT foot and get inspired by the incredible public art that Vernon Park, 5800 Germantown Avenue OPTION 2: Head downtown to catch an evening event! makes Philadelphia the mural capital of the world! Guests Saturday Spotlight: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25 FREE Find us at PAFA, The University of the Arts, or WHYY, and hear 7:00pm – 11:00pm will also have a chance to get personal with a variety City Hall Pennsylvania Academy Monumental Exchange firsthand from Monument Lab artists and brilliant thinkers SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12 of Center City Monument Lab projects, including the hub with Mel Chin, Hank Willis Thomas, of the Fine Arts, from Philly and around the country. Close the night with #3: Kara Crombie, space at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; the and Michelle Angela Ortiz 118–128 North Broad Street Emeka Ogboh featuring Michelle Ortiz’s monumental projection at City Hall. $25 / $15 for PAFA members Alexander Rosenberg, courtyard at City Hall; and Rittenhouse Square. 1:00pm – 4:00pm and Ricardo Rivera Ursula Rucker: LAB City Hall Courtyard / FREE Logan Squared: Ode to Philly SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7 moderated by Peter Crimmins VARIOUS + 2:00pm – 4:30pm WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 Saturday Spotlight: 6:00pm – 8:00pm Franklin Square University of the Arts, CBS Auditorium, Parkway Central Library, Monumental Exchange 320 South Broad Street Skyline Terrace, 1901 Vine Street Monument Lab #1: Sharon Hayes & with Kara Crombie FREE FREE If it’s a 1:00pm – 4:00pm Vehicle Tours Karyn Olivier WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15 Franklin Square SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28 moderated by Paul Farber FREE Monument Lab Saturday: Saturday Spotlight: GERMANTOWN 6:00pm – 8:00pm Marconi Plaza Keynote: The Futures OPTION 1: Check out the Saturday Spotlight event happening University of the Arts, CBS Auditorium, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8 of Memory Sunday, September 17 320 South Broad Street with Klip Collective and Shira Walinsky 1:00pm – 3:00pm on this day—bonus points if you travel to a neighborhood you FREE Emeka Ogboh featuring and Southeast by Southeast With Michael Eric Dyson $35 per person, advance reservations required don’t normally get to visit! MONUMENT Ursula Rucker: and Michael Kimmelman, 7:00pm – 10:00pm Starting Point: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 moderated by Salamishah Tillet Logan Squared: Ode to Philly Marconi Plaza, Vernon Park, 5800 Germantown Avenue OPTION 2: Go wandering! Visit the exhibition hub at PAFA to 2800 South Broad Street Saturday Spotlight: 2:00pm – 4:30pm 6:00pm – 8:00pm see monument proposals from all over the city, or try your hand FREE Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, This tour will explore several murals in the Germantown Norris Square Parkway Central Library, at Marisa Williamson’s app-based monument, Sweet Chariot, Skyline Terrace, 1901 Vine Street 118–128 North Broad Street area, as well as featuring the work of artists Karyn Olivier, with David Hartt $5 / FREE for PAFA members starting in Washington Square. FREE SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29 who is “remixing” a current monument to bridge past and 1:00pm – 4:00pm present, and Jamel Shabazz, who has created a monument Emeka Ogboh featuring SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 Norris Square Park, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11 to African American veterans of all wars. 2100 North Howard Street Ursula Rucker: + FREE Monumental Exchange Logan Squared: Ode to Philly Monument Lab #2: Mel Chin & Tyree Closing Day CENTER CITY 2:00pm – 4:30pm SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 Sunday, October 1 Guyton Parkway Central Library, 12:00pm – 5:00pm 1:00pm – 3:00pm moderated by Ken Lum Skyline Terrace, 1901 Vine Street Citywide If it’s a Emeka Ogboh featuring $35 per person, advance reservations required FREE FREE Ursula Rucker: 6:00pm – 8:00pm Starting Point: Logan Squared: Ode to Philly University of the Arts, CBS Auditorium, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Sunday: 320 South Broad Street SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 128 North Broad Street 2:00pm – 4:30pm FREE NOV. Emeka Ogboh featuring OPTION 1: Take a Monument Lab tour! Walking tours are Parkway Central Library, available every weekend through October 29, with neighborhood- Skyline Terrace, 1901 Vine Street Sunday, October 15 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1 Ursula Rucker: specific vehicle tours offered on specific dates. Advance FREE Logan Squared: Ode to Philly 1:00pm – 3:00pm Youth Monument Monument Lab Live #3: $35 per person, advance reservations required reservations are required so plan ahead to snag your seat. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 to the Future Civic Action & Activism 2:00pm – 4:30pm Starting Point: Free Library of Philadelphia, Parkway Central Library, Skyline Terrace, 1901 Vine Street OPTION 2: Enjoy the immense beauty of Emeka Ogboh’s sound Monument to the with King Britt and Joshua Mays With Michelle Angela Ortiz, Shira 1901 Vine Street Walinsky, Bree Newsome, Tarek El- FREE installation, Logan Squared: Ode to Philly, featuring original Philadelphia Poet This tour will highlight the temporary monuments created 5:00pm – 8:00pm Messidi, Reentry Think Tank, and more poetry by Ursula Rucker. Starting on September 24, the Parkway A Marathon Poetry Reading Malcolm X Park, 5100 Pine Street by a variety of renowned artists in and around four of the Central Library will open its Skyline Terrace to visitors on hosted by Michael Days FREE 6:00pm – 8:00pm original five squares of the city, as imagined by founder Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Sunday afternoons to experience Ogboh’s soundscape. 6:00pm – 8:00pm William Penn: City Hall (originally Center Square), Franklin SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15 118–128 North Broad Street Shakespeare Park, Logan Square $5 / FREE for PAFA members Square, Washington Square, and Rittenhouse Square. FREE Emeka Ogboh featuring Ursula Rucker: Logan Squared: Ode to Philly

2:00pm – 4:30pm Parkway Central Library, Skyline Terrace, 1901 Vine Street FREE monumentlab.muralarts.org #monumentlab 12 A Public Art + History Project 13 SITE 06: SITE 07: Penn Treaty Vernon

Park Duane Park Karyn Location: Beach Street off of Delaware Avenue Linklater Location: Between Germantown Avenue/ Olivier Namesake: Treaty between William Penn B. 1976 • OMASKEKO ININIWAK/MOOSE CREE FIRST NATION Greene Street and Chelten Avenue/ B. 1968 • TRINIDADIAN AND AMERICAN • and Lenni Lenape, 1682 BASED IN NORTH BAY, ONTARIO West Rittenhouse Street BASED IN PHILADELPHIA Established: 1894 Namesake: Vernon House (1803–), Former Wister Mansion Established: 1892 In Perpetuity The Battle Is Joined

Duane Linklater’s In Perpetuity to historical accounts, was meant Karyn Olivier’s The Battle Is Joined be an instrument and we, too, are serves as a monument to Lenni to last “as long as the rivers and is a mirrored remix of the Battle instruments—the keepers and Lenape Chief Tamanend. It is also a creeks flow, and the sun, moon, and of Germantown Memorial, a 20- protectors of the monument, and in historical reference point to stars shine.” Linklater, an Omaskêko foot-high commemorative structure that role, sometimes we become the understand the broad erasure of Ininiwak from Moose Cree First dedicated to a Revolutionary War very monument itself.” The original Indigenous people from the lands Nation, asked his nine-year-old skirmish between American Battle of Germantown Memorial that now include the city of daughter, Sassa, to handwrite these and British troops in 1777. Olivier was dedicated in 1903, and includes Philadelphia. The artwork is installed words. He then worked with built out a temporary acrylic mirror an engraved map of the battleground on the banks of the Delaware River, Philadelphia-area neon fabricators to encase the monument as a way in colonial Germantown. In her on ground that has served as a to reproduce the phrase in a neon to bring people closer to one updated version, Olivier engages meeting place for Indigenous sign on the edge of the river in order another, their surroundings, and the neighborhood’s rich public communities for thousands of years. to mark the enduring legacy of the their living histories. As Olivier history as a platform for under- LAB HOURS: In 1682, William Penn and Chief Lenape people and the unraveling LAB HOURS: states, “It will transport, transmit, standing inherited symbols from Tamanend met to secure a “treaty of a treaty intended to promote express and literally reflect the the past and envisioning new modes Wednesdays & Thursdays: of friendship.” The scope of the long-standing coexistence. Wednesdays & Thursdays: landscape, people and activities of reflection, interpretation, 4pm – 7pm Lenape’s agreement, according 4pm – 7pm that surround it. We will be and meaning making. reminded that this memorial can Saturdays & Sundays: Saturdays & Sundays: LAB 12pm – 5pm 12pm – 5pm

PARK HOURS NEAREST PARK HOURS PUBLIC 7am – 10pm Daily INDEGO 6am – 12am Daily TRANSIT STATION ACCESS PUBLIC Penn Treaty Park REGIONAL RAIL: TRANSIT Chestnut Hill East Line, Germantown ACCESS Station MARKET- BUS: 23 and 65

MONUMENT FRANKFORD LINE: Girard Station RAIR Jamel Shabazz BUS: 25 (Recycled Artist in Residency) B. 1960 • AMERICAN • BASED IN NEW YORK CITY TROLLEY: 15 F. 2010 • BASED IN PHILADELPHIA SPECIAL EVENT

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SPECIAL EVENT Saturday Spotlight Love Is the Message SEPTEMBER 30 1pm – 4pm Plainsight Is 20/20 Celebrated documentary alongside monumental figures Saturday Spotlight photographer Jamel Shabazz’s Love and artworks in the neighborhood. 1pm – 4pm Throughout the year, RAIR (Recycled altered with development on a Is the Message pays tribute to Additionally, from Memorial Day Artist in Residency) hosts visiting massive scale. Plainsight Is 20/20 African American veterans and their to Veterans Day, Shabazz will artists to source materials and features an excavator holding a large PARTNERS AND FUNDERS families against the backdrop of conduct several pop-up photo inspiration from their studio at a tree—two objects regularly found in Germantown’s historic Vernon Park. sessions welcoming veterans, City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Parks recycling facility in Tacony, which construction sites in the city—and Shabazz, a US military veteran, neighborhood residents, and other & Recreation, The Office of Arts, Culture sees over 450 tons of reusable waste elevates their pairing to monumental served alongside men from visitors for free printed portraits. and the Creative Economy, Friends of PARTNERS AND FUNDERS each day. For Monument Lab, status. The construction equipment, Vernon Park, Historic Germantown, Aces Philadelphia when he served abroad Additional select prints from RAIR’s lead artists, Billy Dufala and wrapped in metallic vinyl, is meant City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Parks & Museum, Germantown United CDC, and in the 1970s and had long planned Shabazz’s work in Germantown will Recreation, and Friends of Penn Treaty Park Lucia Thomé, envisioned a sculpture to stand out from and reflect the iMPeRFeCT Gallery a tribute to their service, style, and be on display at iMPeRFeCT Gallery that stages the tension between landscape, while the tree, diverted An expanded roster and projects at five An expanded roster and projects at five resilience. Through collaborations from September 9 to October 7, 2017. Philadelphia’s identity as a green from the waste stream, is exhibited, neighborhood sites have been made neighborhood sites have been made with partners including Friends possible by a significant grant from the sustainable city and the current roots and all, to evoke the tension possible by a significant grant from the of Vernon Park, the Aces Museum, William Penn Foundation. building boom, in which the civic between nature and progress. William Penn Foundation. the Black Writers Museum, and and often natural landscape is iMPeRFeCT Gallery, among others, Shabazz’s portraits of veterans and neighborhood residents will be featured on a mural near Vernon Park on Germantown Avenue. The mural is modeled after a keepsake Artist Jamel Shabazz photographs veterans photo frame, and features select and their families in Vernon Park on Memorial images of veterans and residents Day, 2017. Photo by Steve Weinik. monumentlab.muralarts.org #monumentlab 14 A Public Art + History Project 15 SITE 08: SITE 09: Norris Malcolm X

Square Park King Britt Location: Between Howard Street, Location: Between Pine Street/ and Joshua Mays Susquehanna Avenue, Hancock Street, Larchwood Avenue and 51st/52nd Streets B. 1968/1973 • AMERICAN • and Diamond Street Namesake: Malcolm X (1925–1965) BASED IN PHILADELPHIA/OAKLAND Namesake: Isaac Norris (1671–1735) Established: 1903 Established: 1848 Renamed: 1995 Dreams, Diaspora, and Destiny

DJ King Britt and artist Joshua Mays and interpret Afro-diasporic images will lead a one-night-only of transcendence. The result is a performance on October 14 in “monumental time portal,” according West Philadelphia’s Malcolm X Park to the artists, that both honors that imagines a youth monument ancestral legacies and envisions to the future. In the summer of utopian futures through sound, 2017, they worked in collaboration poetry, projection, and visual art. with students from Mural Arts The vinyl banners created for this Philadelphia’s Art Education performance will be on display at the

Artist David Hartt works with students at the Norris Square Neighborhood Project, summer 2017. program to draw on historical Malcolm X Park Lab during open LAB HOURS: Photos by Steve Weinik. LAB HOURS: archives, collect sound samples, hours throughout the exhibition. Wednesdays & Thursdays: Wednesdays & Thursdays: 4pm – 7pm 4pm – 7pm

Saturdays & Sundays: Saturdays & Sundays: LAB 12pm – 5pm 12pm – 5pm

PUBLIC NEAREST PARK HOURS NEAREST TRANSIT INDEGO Open 24 Hours Daily INDEGO ACCESS STATION STATION MARKET- Berks Station, PUBLIC 48th and Spruce FRANKFORD LINE: Market-Frankford Line TRANSIT Streets York-Dauphin Station ACCESS BUS: 3, 39, and 89 MARKET-FRANKFORD

MONUMENT LINE: 52nd Street David Hartt Station BUS: 52 SPECIAL EVENT B. 1967 • CANADIAN • BASED IN PHILADELPHIA TROLLEY: 34 SEPTEMBER 23

Artist King Britt works with Art Education students at Mural Arts Philadelphia, summer 2017. Saturday Spotlight SPECIAL EVENT Photo by Steve Weinik. 1pm – 4pm for everyone OCTOBER 14 a garden VIII Saturday Spotlight Reflect 5pm – 8pm PARTNERS AND FUNDERS In collaboration with Caseem, Vicky, Sam, Gabby, City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Ashanti, Nadir, Davida, Carlos, and Anthony Parks & Recreation, and Norris Square on history. David Hartt has spent the past and the neighborhood’s long- Neighborhood Project year working in collaboration with standing investments in their own An expanded roster and projects at five the Norris Square Neighborhood improvement through greening. PARTNERS AND FUNDERS neighborhood sites have been made Project (NSNP), an organization Hartt and his collaborators ask, Imagine possible by a significant grant from the that provides green space and youth “Who participates in the process of Philadelphia Parks & Recreation William Penn Foundation. and Friends of Malcolm X Park education to local residents. In making a city and a neighborhood Support for David Hartt’s project particular, Hartt partnered with youth and how can we imagine a more An expanded roster and projects at five and related programming has been neighborhood sites have been made the future. from NSNP’s Semillas del Futuro inclusive future?” To approach these provided by PECO. summer program to create a film that prompts, their film imagines Norris possible by a significant grant from the William Penn Foundation. explores the connections between Square in 50 or 100 years as forested city planning, community gardens, cityscapes. According to Hartt, Change and civic engagement. Hartt was the film is an inadequate monument initially inspired by the gardens that memorializes the time he maintained by NSNP as connected spent working with the youth here to both Philadelphia’s founding and their shared vision of a the present. vision as a “Green Country Town” possible future. #monumentlab monumentlab.muralarts.org #monumentlab 16 A Public Art + History Project 17 SITE 10: SPECIAL Marconi PROJECT: Kensington Plaza Shira Walinsky and Tyree Location: A Street and East Indiana Avenue Location: Between Oregon/Bigler Streets Southeast by Southeast Guyton PARTNERS AND COLLABORATORS and 13th/15th Streets F. 2011 • BASED IN PHILADELPHIA B. 1955 • AMERICAN • BASED IN DETROIT Namesake: Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937) Heidelberg Project, City of Philadelphia, Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services, Impact Services, Mark Johnston Established: 1926 (Detroit), New Kensington Community Development Corporation, Prevention Renamed: 1937 Point, and everyone who joined for public paint days in Kensington Free Speech THE TIMES

Free Speech is an interactive news by Southeast community hub in THE TIMES is a collaborative present time. A time to act, think, kiosk in Marconi Plaza featuring South Philadelphia—a collaboration installation envisioned by Tyree be and do, here and now.” the stories of immigrant and refugee between Mural Arts Philadelphia Guyton of Detroit’s famed Throughout the last year, Guyton, artists in Philadelphia. Envisioned and the Department of Behavioral Heidelberg Project. Guyton, along along with the Heidelberg Project’s by artist Shira Walinsky, the kiosk Health and Intellectual disAbility with Mural Arts’ Porch Light President Jenenne Whitfield, offers free written and artistic Services—with members of the program, Impact Services, and other visited with neighborhood partners, materials—including postcards, Bhutanese, Burmese, Nepalese, and locally invested civic partners, culminating in a series of summer maps, books, oral histories, and other immigrant and refugee have updated the traditional clock paint days in which collaborators recipe cards—to passersby. Installed communities. For Free Speech, tower with a massive mural of from Kensington, residents from next to SEPTA’s Oregon Station, Walinsky worked with numerous caricature-style timepieces on a other Philadelphia neighborhoods, Free Speech is embedded within Southeast by Southeast artist former factory in the Kensington and visitors from Detroit painted a South Philadelphia neighborhood collaborators, including the neighborhood, a powerful testament clocks that now occupy the factory’s that has long served as a home Sanctuary Poets, Catzie Vilayphonh to recovery and resilience in the exterior. By calling attention to LAB HOURS: for immigrant, migrant, and refugee of Laos In the House, Laura face of adversity. In many of his the urgency and opportunity of our families. The project is informed Deutch of PhillyCam, Ma Kay Saw, installations, Guyton explores the times, Guyton’s work serves as a Wednesdays & Thursdays: by Walinsky’s work over the last six Krishna Tamang, Noor Azizah, symbol of the clock and the concept monument to reframing our 4pm – 7pm THE TIMES (in-process) © 2017 City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program / years at Mural Arts’ Southeast and Mayyadah Alhumssi. Tyree Guyton, A Street & East Indiana Avenue. Photo by Steve Weinik. of time so as to “appreciate the awareness of this historical moment.

Saturdays & Sundays: LAB 12pm – 5pm

PARK HOURS PUBLIC Open 24 Hours Daily TRANSIT ACCESS SPECIAL BROAD STREET LINE: Oregon

BUS: 4, 7, 45, 68, PROJECT: BSO, and G MONUMENT Pennsylvania SPECIAL EVENT Klip Tania Bruguera OCTOBER 28 Collective B. 1968 • CUBAN • BASED IN HAVANA/ Academy of NEW YORK CITY/CAMBRIDGE, MA Saturday Spotlight and F. 2003 • BASED IN PHILADELPHIA Klip Collective Installation the Fine Arts 7pm – 10pm Location: Broad and Cherry Streets Passage :: Migration Founded: 1805 Monument to COLLABORATORS AND New Immigrants PARTNERS AND FUNDERS Klip Collective, led by video and translucent planes of fabric and FABRICATORS City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Parks light artist Ricardo Rivera, will smoke, creating a floating sensation. John Greig, Gary Pergolini, Tania Bruguera’s Monument to Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine & Recreation, Friends of Marconi Plaza, integrate a larger-than-life video By entering, the viewer is an active Britta Valles, and Alessandra New Immigrants is a meditation Arts’ Sculpture Department to create Department of Behavioral Health and projection with critical and part of the installation, as the Saviotti (Estudio Bruguera) on the history and present-day a series of identical clay sculptures Intellectual disAbility Services celebratory storytelling in South projections wash over their body. significance of immigration in placed outside on Lenfest Plaza, An expanded roster and projects at five Philadelphia’s Marconi Plaza. Like this country, once you enter, Philadelphia and beyond. She in line with a view of City Hall. After neighborhood sites have been made possible Passage :: Migration channels the you are a part of it,” says Rivera. SITE PARTNER by a significant grant from the William Penn proposes a physically incomplete days of weathering and outdoor surnames of South Philadelphia’s The work will be installed for a Pennsylvania Academy Foundation. statue of an immigrant child— conditions, the unfired sculpture generations of immigrants into special one-night-only performance of the Fine Arts unmarked by race, ethnicity, or is meant to “deteriorate and slowly Support for Klip Collective’s project and related one immersive experience: “The in Marconi Plaza on Saturday, gender. As Bruguera states, “the disappear,” upon which another programming has been provided by PECO. names pass over and around October 28. statue is not (meant) to represent sculpture takes its place. This cycle the viewer in waves; projected on a particular community, but all repeats throughout the exhibition immigrants…they are not always in until the series of fabricated sculptures one place; part of them is somewhere fully disappears. Bruguera’s poetic else, in their home country.” For series of sculptures monumentalizes Monument to New Immigrants (in-process) © this project, Bruguera collaborated arrival, adaption, and renewal. 2017 City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program / with students and staff from the Tania Bruguera, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Photo by Maria Möller. monumentlab.muralarts.org #monumentlab 18 A Public Art + History Project 19 SPECIAL PROJECT: Lancaster THANK Hans Avenue Haacke B. 1936 • GERMAN • Location: BASED IN NEW YORK CITY 42nd Street and Lancaster Avenue YOU!

SCHEDULE Digging (Archaeology LEAD MONUMENT LAB PARTNERS: This special project will evolve after the dig begins in early September. Its scope will be fully determined of the Vacant Lot) after exploration of what is discovered under the surface of the lot. As a monument to the layers of upward for public viewing. In history, artist Hans Haacke proposes cooperation with the People’s an archaeological dig to reveal Emergency Center and property COLLABORATORS multiple hidden foundations under owners Alvin and Sheila Bunch, Doug Mooney, AECOM, Alvin and Sheila Bunch, and James Wright a single vacant lot. Haacke, who the triangular lot on 42nd Street and studied at Temple University’s Tyler Lancaster Avenue is now a site for MEDIA PARTNER SITE PARTNERS School of Art in 1961–62 on a excavation and interpretation. This Fulbright Fellowship, returned last single vacant lot once held seven The City of Philadelphia, Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell’s Office, year to Philadelphia and properties, until an automobile and the People’s Emergency Center encountered numerous empty crashed into one of the buildings spaces where buildings once in the late 1990s, causing the stood. Haacke, who works with owner to demolish the remaining monumental sculptures and structures. Haacke’s monument installations, sought a monument imagines the former buildings under MONUMENT LAB SUPPORTERS:

that already exists beneath the vacant lots as not just buried and LAB surface. He requested a site for gone, but as the basis for a living an archaeological dig in which blueprint to link the past and Major support for Monument Lab An expanded artist roster and Lead corporate support Generous additional projects staged in Philadelphia’s projects at additional neighborhood provided by: support provided by: buried building foundations, intact present of the city. five squares provided by: sites made possible by: underground, could be brought

MONUMENT PROJECT GOALS TECHNOLOGY SPONSOR LUMINARIES INNOVATOR Engage Philadelphians in a citywide conversation about history, memory, and our collective future CLAWS Foundation

+ INVENTOR CREATOR PATRONS SUPPORTERS KICKSTARTERS HOSPITALITY SPONSOR Learn from artists through an expansive range Nick & Dee Adams Susanna Lachs Davis Charitable Relief We are grateful to Charitable Fund & Dean Adler Foundation Communications LLC the 432 individuals who supported us of temporary monuments William & Stacey Spector on Kickstarter. Debbie Becker & Ira Brind + Please visit our Parkway Corporation Tiffany Tavarez Wall of Thanks at Joe & Renee Zuritsky monumentlab. Collect publicly sourced monument proposals muralarts.org. in order to build creative datasets that map and empower Support for Monument Lab’s final Support for the research and development publication provided by the Elizabeth of Monument Lab was provided by The Pew new forms of civic knowledge Firestone Graham Foundation. Center for Arts & Heritage and the Hummingbird + Foundation. List as of 8/28/17 Draw on the city’s creative energy to spur engagement, dialogue, and reflection + Change the way we write the history of our city together

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EXHIBITION HUB 08 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) + Special Project 06 01 City Hall Courtyard/ Municipal Services Plaza 12 02 Franklin Square

03 02 03 Logan Square 09 01 04 Rittenhouse Square 04 05 LAB 05 Washington Square 06 Penn Treaty Park 07 Vernon Park 10 08 Norris Square

09 Malcolm X Park 10 Marconi Plaza

11 Special Project: A Street and East Indiana Avenue 12 Special Project: 42nd Street

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Paul M. Farber William Roy Hodgson Jane Golden Todd Bressi Tiffany Tavarez (Chair) Loraine Ballard Morrill Artistic Director Exhibition Strategist Executive Director Interim Director, muraLAB Vice President, Community iHeartMedia Relations & Sr. Consultant, Ken Lum Sebastianna Skalisky Joan Reilly Cari Feiler Bender, Jawad Salah Wells Fargo Chief Curatorial Advisor Web Design Chief Operating Officer Jan Rothschild Klehr Harrison Public Relations Consultants Alliyah Allen Laurie Allen Conrad Benner Karl Malkin Sara Schwartz Haverford College Student Director of Research Social Media Coordinator Chief Financial Officer Chris Newman Social Worker Events Coordinator Jesse Amoroso A. Will Brown Justin Spivey/WJE Caitlin Butler Ed Rendell Amoroso’s Baking Company Deputy Curator Structural Engineering Chief Strategy Officer Emily Cooper-Moore, Former Governor Christina DePaul, Naima Sandra Andino Matthew Callinan Alliyah Allen, Molly Collett, Nicole Steinberg Jenea Robinson Murphy, Mel Regn, Cultural Anthropologist Director of Exhibitions Sarah Green, Will Herzog, Director of Communications and Visit Philadelphia and Meg Wolensky Jabari Jordan-Walker, and Brand Management Conrad Benner Kristen Goldschmidt Development Amy Sadao Esme Trontz StreetsDept.com Director of Curatorial Operations Netanel Portier Institute for Contemporary Art Student Researchers Nancy Davis Director of Project Management Robert Cheetham Justin Geller and Rachel Penny Elaine Simon Azavea Music Director Zambia Greene Tours and Merchandise Urban Studies at the Director of Mural Operations Jess Garz University of Pennsylvania Maya Thomas Lissette Goya, Shiffonne Surdna Foundation Lab Research Coordinator Ellen Soloff Lindsey, and Don Serjani Linda Swain Director of Tours & Merchandise Finance Bill Golderer Swain Entertainment Corin Wilson Arch Street Presbyterian Church Project Coordinator Phil Asbury, Nick Gibbon, Gregory Christie, Donovan Max Tuttleman Maude Haak-Frendscho, Freeman, Ryan Spilman, Amari Johnson Tuttleman Family Foundation Cathy Harris, Judy Hellman, Carlos Vasquez, and Africana Studies at Temple Kellan White Jess Lewis-Turner, Nicole Michael Whittington University Political Consultant McDonald, and Gaby Raczka Crew Members Malcolm Kenyatta Operations + Project Managers Amanda Wagner Greater Philadelphia City of Philadelphia Laura Kochman, Laiza Chamber of Commerce Santos, and Steve Weinik Pamela Yau Claire Laver Communications and Marketing City of Philadelphia Office Make the World Better of Arts, Culture and the Foundation/Urban Roots Creative Economy Randy Mason PennPraxis monumentlab.muralarts.org #monumentlab