This is America – Monumental Interventions: Projects from AFRI0840

In the fall semester, students from AFRI0840: Monuments, History, and Memory completed projects that required them to intervene in a monument, rethink monumental space, or create a new monument. Four students from the course will present their work. Avery Oliver created “We Dream a World,” an intervention into the Sailors and Soldiers Monument in Providence. Noah Howard designed a new monument and museum, “Providence Slave Trade Memorial and Museum.” Ciara Sing devised the “Acknowledgment Garden” an intervention of the Caesar Augustus Statue on Brown’s campus. Miya Matsuishi-Elhardt reconsidered the National AIDS Memorial Grove in San Francisco with an intervention entitled “The Great Work Tree.”

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Africana Studies and Rites and Reason Theatre.