Conversations with Renée Ater, This is America series

In April 2021, I moderated a series of three conversations with artists and designers who have created monuments and memorials to the slave past. I was fortunate to be speak with Vinnie Bagwell, Manuelita Brown, Becci Davis, Ed Hamilton, Katie MacDonald and Kyle Schumann (After Architecture), Shane Allbritton and Norman Lee (RE:site Studio), Julian Arrington and Dayton Schroeter (SmithGroup), David S. Newton, Mario Chiodo, and Jerome Meadows. The conversations were part of the This Is America series (a series of conversations about racial slavery, its legacies, and anti-Black racism), sponsored by the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice (CSSJ) at Brown University.

This is America: Black Monument Builders, April 2021

This is America: Design Practices and Memorializing Difficult Histories

This is America: Memorializing Black Death