Thanks to Elizabeth Alexander, the Mellon has committed $500 million to preserve, relocate and generate discussion about monuments — and it's changing the nature of monuments.
You could say Elizabeth Alexander was raised among monuments. Growing up in Washington, D.C., she was surrounded by them. When she was a toddler, her parents took her to the March on Washington in 1963, where hundreds of thousands of protesters brought ebullient life to the steps of the temple-like Lincoln Memorial. When she was a girl, someone told her that the obelisk-shaped Washington Monument was actually 'God's pencil.
, for example, Mellon has supported a project called Ireichō, led by USC professor Duncan Ryūken Williams, that centers on a book. It weighs 25 pounds and contains the names of the more than 125,000 Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II. Visitors can make an appointment to stamp the book as a gesture of acknowledgment. 'There are so many ways we mark spaces to tell stories,' says Alexander. 'This monument is a book.
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