Lecture: Monuments and Memorials

As long as humans have sought to honor the present and remember times past, we have built monuments and memorials. Our traditions around monuments and memorials have changed over time. Today, each monument prompts many questions: What should be remembered, and why? And who gets to decide? This interactive Community Conversation is sponsored by Oregon Humanities, as part of their "Beyond 250" community conversations.
Free; please register.
Master Artist Michael Bernard Stevenson Jr. is Black, Italian, Queer, Nonbinary, Neurodivergent, and practices primarily in America. Their collaborative approach results in artwork by and for the people. Their recent work “Mapping the Pipeline” was shown at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art as part of the Policing Justice exhibition. Stevenson is currently working in the Albina community to develop a living archive at Jefferson High School with students, community, and the architectural design team. Stevenson has been involved in conversations surrounding Portland monuments since 2020 and continues to interrogate how the city explores remembering our most significant characteristics as a community of people living life at the same time and in the same place.