Monumenta Archive

The Monumenta Archive locates, documents, analyzes, promotes and elevates public art works that represent stories of movement-making and collective action. The 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. Movements “collections” include: Women-led Revolutions, Domestic Worker & Labor, Black Joy, LGBTQ Rights, Reproductive & Health Justice, and many more.

To learn more about the project and some of the contributing artists, click here to catch a conversation about the launch of the archive.

Want to contribute a work to The Archive? Please do! Click here.