Who Gets To Make History? Exploring Statues and Monuments
Mon, Jan 20
|ICA Boston
What are monuments for? What do they teach us about who matters? And how can we radically re-imagine monuments to lift up our heroes and reclaim our stories? Join social justice project Wee The People for a special MLK Day edition of the art-filled workshop Who Gets to Make History?
Time & Location
Jan 20, 2025, 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
ICA Boston, 25 Harbor Shore Dr, Boston, MA 02210, USA
About the event
What are monuments for? What do they teach us about who matters? And how can we radically re-imagine monuments to lift up our heroes and reclaim our stories? Join social justice project Wee The People for the art-filled, inter-generational workshop Who Gets to Make History?
In honor of civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr., collage your own mini-monument to Blackness with recycled materials -- boxes, tubes, gems, decorative paper, and wall-to-wall images of Black art, culture, history, and experience. At 1:00pm and 2:30pm, we'll gather in the Book Nook corner for a storytime reading of "The Artivist," an award-winning picture book about how kids can combine art and activism in their daily lives.
Get ready for a blast of collage creativity and monumental joy!