Johnson Park - "A Gallery of History Reimagined"
The 2020 protests surrounding statues and other public art connected to racist and violent histories opened up important discussions about specific figures but also about how these monuments have suppressed other voices and other visions of the past and present. The Institute for The Development Of Education In the Arts (IDEA) in Camden and Rutgers University-Camden will address a specific work, the frieze “America Receiving the Gifts of the Nation” at the Johnson Library in Camden, while also providing a way to rethink monuments and memorials in general as participatory cultural spaces that are open to a community's past, present, and future.
