The Monumenta Archive is a collaboration between the Monumenta initiative <www.monumentaart.org> and the Urban Art Mapping project <www.urbanartmapping.org>
The Monumenta Archive locates, documents, analyzes, promotes and elevates public art & monuments that represent stories of MOVEMENT MAKING and COLLECTIVE ACTION. These works - sculpture, street art, performance and beyond - gathered in the Monumenta Archive support a shift in society's thinking away from monumentalizing "heroes" through statues, and towards monuments to progress enacted through group action. The archive also explores public works that intentionally dismantle the dominant culture of white supremacy, colonialism and patriarchalism in our public spaces and which build and encourage a more inclusive culture. The crowdsourced archive is a repository for images that document public art made about social movements. The images are collected and made available for research and education (commercial use is not allowed). The metadata allows for an analysis of the themes, issues and mediums that constitute monuments in public spaces, and are explored in relation to local experiences, responses and attitudes.
Want to add a new work, or a whole new collection idea? Please do!
Use this link:
https://monumenta.omeka.net/contribution/
Questions? Email neysa@monumentaart.org
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