The Monumental Project
Welcome to The Monumental Project, the official companion podcast of the Monuments Toolkit, a project of World Heritage USA that is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to help communities with reinterpreting their monuments landscape. In this podcast, we meet with artists, activists, and academics to discuss how monuments around the world continue to grow and evolve.
The Monumental Project
Monuments as Healing Spaces with Sonja Henderson: The Chicago Monuments Response Project, Part 1
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Welcome to the 5th season of The Monumental Project! We're excited to kick off this season with a three-part series on Chicago's Monuments Response Project. This project commissioned a handful of artists to create their own monuments in the same space as controversial monuments on the city's lakewalk. In this first part, we meet with Sonja Henderson, co-creator of the We Still Here monument along with Sadie Woods who will be featured in the next episode. Sonja shares with us not only her insights in creating this specific monument in response to the equestrian General Sheridan monument in Chicago, but her overall social practice as she works to help mothers in Chicago understand and work through their grief.
Credits
Host: Noah Price
Co-Host: Madeline Bonner
Production: Noah Price
Music by Epidemic Sound: "Falling Flat" by John Runefelt and "Impossible is Nothin'" Elliot Holmes
