MONUMENT LAB
RE:GENERATION
Book Celebration

Please join us at Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore on Sunday, Jan 18 at 4PM EST to celebrate the Temple University Press publication Monument Lab: Re:Generation. Editors Paul M. Farber and Sue Mobley will be in conversation. Followed by a Q&A and book signing. The event will be livestreamed on instagram at @artbookps1.

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Monument Lab: Re:Generation presents case studies that travel across America, highlighting local commemorative campaigns dedicated to advancing public memory. Featuring articles and artwork from the country’s leading monument makers, each project includes a framing essay that provides insights into the varied contexts of location, culture, form, and subject matter. The publication provides innovative, healing, and practical approaches to the United States’ unreconciled past and divided present facing our nation. In doing so, it invites readers to engage with a broader discourse of monuments and public memory.

Edited by Paul M. Farber and Sue Mobley. Contributors: Thomas J. Adams, Kareal Amenumey, Sháńdíín Brown, Jonathan Jae-an Crisman, Kristen Dorsey, Aruna D'Souza, Mariluz Franco Ortiz, Jacqui Germain, Grace Sanders Johnson, Dani R. Merriman, Deirdre Cooper Owens, Naima Murphy Salcido, Kirk Savage, Clint Smith, Tsione Wolde-Michael, Eric Zimmer, and the editors.

Beginning in 2022, the Philadelphia-based nonprofit public art, history, and design studio, Monument Lab, launched a nationwide initiative organized around a central question: Which stories belong in public? The editors and contributors to Monument Lab: Re:Generation responded with creative and impactful projects of reclamation that provide a deeper understanding of how monuments live and function in communities.

Cover Photo: Destiny Folgheraiter (Diné) at the Trail Opening Celebration, August 2022, Four Corners Region, Walking with Dinétah, Monument Lab - Re:Generation(Photo by Marissa Leshnov for Monument Lab).

Temple University Press, 2026 | 320 pages | 6.75 x 9.25 inches | $35.00