De Nichols is a 2020 Monument Lab Transnational Fellow

via Monument Lab:

Monument Lab is proud to announce our 2020 cohort of Transnational Fellows. These artists, activists, and civic practitioners critically reimagine monuments in sites and spaces across North America and Germany. We are excited to learn from and work with the Fellows as they realize their meaningful projects and continue the transnational movement to critically engage the monumental landscape. The Monument Lab Fellows program was founded through a grant from the Surdna Foundation and is facilitated through Slought.

Additionally, Monument Lab Fellows from this and last years' cohorts will be featured in Shaping the Past, a multi-site exhibition and book project that addresses pressing issues around what, whom, and how to remember in public spaces. Shaping the Past is a partnership between Monument Lab, the Goethe-Institut, and the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (German Federal Agency for Civic Education/bpb). 

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Mallory Nezam, De Nichols, and Damon Davis are the artists and designers of MADAD, a collective from St. Louis, MO. MADAD works to reimagine how joy, justice, and interactivity improve public spaces and cultural experiences in St. Louis. Their work seeks to support a new series of interactive public monuments that illuminate spatial injustice and cultural memory gaps in St. Louis, as it relates to racial division, residential displacement, and localized diaspora. Their project, Black Memory STL: Division, Displacement, and Local Diaspora, is a multi-year series of public art installations and interventions that stem from community partnerships developed through their partnerships with the Chouteau Greenway development and the Griot Museum of Black History. The initial sites for the project include the Griot Museum, Millcreek Valley, and Eads Bridge. MADAD’s work seeks to integrate technology to visualize Black oral and spatial histories in interactive installations, projects, and performances.