Monument Lab: The Past, Present, and Future of Memorializing w/ Paul Farber

On Thursday, April 8th 2021, ArtsNow, Akron Civic Commons, Akron Zoo, Black Artist Guild, Ohio & Erie Canalway Coalition, The University of Akron, the Sojourner Truth Statue Committee, Conservancy for the CVNP, and Summit County Historical Society hosted Paul M. Farber PhD, Director of Monument Lab.

Monument Lab is a public art and history studio out of Philadelphia that cultivates and facilitates conversations around the past, present and future of monuments. Dr. Farber will explore this important and developing topic and the important role it plays in public art, public space and the community it resides in.

Paul M. Farber is Director of Monument Lab and also serves as Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Public Art & Space at the University of Pennsylvania. Farber’s Monument Lab is the inaugural grantee of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s “Monuments Project,” a $250 Million initiative aims to “transform the way our country’s histories are told in public spaces”, including Monument Lab’s National Monument Audit and the opening of research field offices throughout the country. Farber earned a PhD and MA in American Culture from the University of Michigan and a BA in Urban Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.