Paul Farber is co-founder and director of Monument Lab, a nonprofit public art and history studio facilitating conversations around American monuments, and a senior research scholar at the Center for Public Art and Space at University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design. He previously curated the artist in residence program at the Philadelphia district attorney’s office and was the inaugural scholar in residence at Mural Arts Philadelphia. Farber authored A Wall of Our Own: An American History of the Berlin Wall and co-edited Monument Lab: Creative Speculations for Philadelphia. A curator of exhibits including Points of Connection and Making Home Movies, his writing on culture has appeared in The Guardian and Art & the Public Sphere, among others.
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More than beautifying our common spaces, public art has the capacity to stimulate conversation and to move us as a community. As debate continues over how we retell and commem...