Monument Lab Summit - WHM

Regular Registration is now open for the 2026 Monument Lab Summit!

The 2026 Monument Lab Summit: “School of Monumaking” invites artists, educators, activists, and cultural leaders to imagine monument-making as a living classroom.

Over three days, participants gather for a dynamic “school day” of screenings, keynote conversations, creative sessions, and collaborative workshops that explore how public memory is made—and remade—through art, care, and collective action. From bold national perspectives to intimate community histories, the Summit centers monument-making as an ongoing practice of learning together: asking who is remembered, how stories are told, and what it takes to build more just public landscapes.

Across keynote talks, “class periods,” film screenings, and hands-on sessions, the School of Monumaking celebrates experimentation, repair, and imagination in public art. Attendees will move between reflection and celebration—learning new strategies, sharing ideas, and experiencing art that expands what monuments can be. Whether joining conversations about national memory, collaborating on creative exercises, or dancing together at the closing celebration, participants will experience a Summit designed as both a classroom and a community.