PAPER MONUMENTS
A public art and public history project designed to elevate the voices of the people of New Orleans, as a critical process towards creating new narratives and symbols of our city
NEW ORLEANS
Partners and Collaborators: Foundation for Louisiana, New Orleans African American Museum, UNO Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies, The Historic New Orleans Collection, the New Orleans Public Library.
Project Budget $195,000
Size: City-wide
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This project predates our CDA/CDO program, but included a robust network of volunteers and community organizers from across the city.
For the full list of incredible artists, writers, and collaborators, click here!
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2017-2019
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05 Center Community Leadership
06 Create, Protect, Reclaim Public Space
07 Cultivate Visions for Just Neighborhoods
Paper Monuments was a public art and public history project designed to elevate the voices of the people of New Orleans, as a critical process towards creating new narratives and symbols of our city that represent our collective visions, and to honor the erased histories of the people, events, movements, and places that have made up the past 300 years as we look to the future.
Paper Monuments combined public pedagogy and participatory design to expand our collective understanding of New Orleans, and invited our citizens to imagine new monuments for New Orleans. The core values of Paper Monuments were equity, integrity, and collaboration. We envisioned the role of our team as coordinating the efforts and supporting the visions of a broad collective of residents, scholars, artists, and activists.
