We're very excited to collaborate with Frances Cathryn of WIP Projects to bring the Paradice Palase community a special lecture about a campaign to remove three bronze monuments in a public park in Kingston, first presented as a topic for New.Inc at the New Museum. In consideration of the urgent calls for racial justice in America, this is a topical presentation that brings to light important history that has been previously ignored, and educates the public on how these monuments perpetuate white supremacy and bring harm to Black and Indigenous communities.

Any donations made to the program will be sent to The A.J. Williams-Myers African Roots Center in Kingston, an organization that Frances Cathryn has been working closely with as a resource.

The Kingston Monument Project
In this hourlong presentation, Frances Cathryn will discuss her campaign to remove three bronze monuments to Peter Stuyvesant, George Clinton, and Henry Hudson in a public park in Kingston, New York. Frances will explain how her work at a local museum and scholarly research have formed her understanding of the differences between first-hand archival accounts and commemoration of the past, and how public monuments are tools of power to uphold racial and class hierarchies in the city via the historical record.

About
Frances Cathryn has written about collective memory and public art, reclaiming cultural landscapes, the history of child design, race and gender in commemorative gestures, and memorials to the coronavirus, for publications including the Los Angeles Review of Books, ARTnews magazine, the Brooklyn Rail, and Social Text journal. She has held workshops and public talks at Paradice Palase, Yale School of Art, MASS MoCA, the Rhode Island School of Design, New Inc. at the New Museum, and the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, among others.

ZOOM details will be sent with the confirmation message after you RSVP and also emailed to participants day of the presentation. The program will run from 6:30-8pm, with 1 hour for the lecture plus time for questions and engagement.