Mabel O. Wilson: Memorials, Monuments & Memory Lecture Series

Mabel O. Wilson
March 31, 2022
6:30pm

Cultural historian, architectural designer, and curator, Mabel O. Wilson teaches Architecture and Black studies at Columbia University, where she also serves as the director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies. With her practice Studio&, she was a member of the design team that recently completed the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia.

The Memorials, Monuments & Memory Lecture Series brings to campus a number of artists, architects, and scholars whose work addresses the role of monuments and memorials in society. Presented in tandem with the spring INQ 300 capstone course by the same name, the Memorials, Monuments & Memory Lecture Series invites students and the public to examine the intersection of art, public memory, and history. The speaking series precedes planning for the school's commission of a new memorial commemorating the enslaved persons who built the College and contributed to the wider region.

Speakers, Charles Gaines, Mabel O. Wilson, and Nicholas Galanin were selected through Roanoke College’s partnership with Creative Time, an international nonprofit arts organization that is guiding the College’s development of a comprehensive plan to honor and recognize, on campus, the role of enslaved people in the history of the College and greater Southwest Virginia.