Mission
M2M creates new models for collective participation and responsive culture, within artistic feminist practices, to build a more humane and just world.
Vision
Together we envision creating Monuments to Movements. We work to more greatly reflect our collective achievements and challenge the tradition of individual hero worship in monuments and public art. Using intersectional feminist practices and processes, we evolve an equitable and participatory society to honor and investigate our past, present and future.
Deploying artistic-feminist practices, our vision is to:
Elevate artists’ practices in the public realm/systems of space and ideas
Dismantle the dominant culture and move to a collective and responsive culture
Redesign the experiences of public spaces equitably and with community partnership/collaboration
Establish intersectional feminist practices and processes as the most effective tools for supporting inclusive participation.
Shift ideas around the accepted form and function of monuments and the process of monumentalizing/commemorating
Elevate collective action over “hero worship”
Deepen the public consciousness around what it takes to make change
Create engaged, community collaboration of artistic production
“Monuments to Movements creates an important dialogue about who and what leads to social change... By working collaboratively through Monuments to Movements those involved will feed off of each other's ideas and talents in order to create a variety of tributes that celebrate the full and complex reality of all who work to make a difference in the world.”
— Michelle Duster, professor, activist, author: Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells
Image caption: Lead artist Michael Toombs, KC Art on the Block Mural Project, NW Briarcliff & N. Mulberry Dr., Kansas City, MO, 2020. Ph: Max McBride; Paris Climate Conference (COP), Installation at Place de la Republique, Paris, France, Ph: JMS 2015.