Join us for a lively conversation, at The Walters Art Museum, on contested history, collective memory, power, and aesthetics of public space, including a discussion about what to do with Baltimore\u2019s decommissioned Confederate monuments and their former sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Location<\/strong>: The Walters Art Museum auditorium (600 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21201) Register here<\/a>! (This is event is free! Registration requested)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Speakers<\/strong>: Nekisha Durrett<\/strong> is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans public art, installation, sculpture, painting, and social practice. Durett is especially drawn to stories of Black life, labor and imagination that have been forgotten or intentionally erased, creating spaces that hold both remembrance and possibility. Her permanent public artworks are found at Arlington Arts in Virginia, the Baltimore Museum of Art, Miami Dade County, the Phillips Collection and MLK Jr. Memorial Library in Washington DC, the City of West Palm Beach, and Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. Her commission for the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, Hem of Heaven<\/em>, is in production and scheduled for unveiling in summer 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Martha S. Jones<\/strong>\u00a0is a writer, historian, legal scholar and public intellectual whose work aims to understand the politics, culture, and poetics of Black America. She is the author of:\u00a0The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir, Vanguard, and Birthright Citizens\u00a0<\/em>and director of the\u00a0Hard Histories at Hopkins Project<\/a>\u00a0at Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hamza Walker<\/strong> is the director of The Brick (formerly LAXART), a nonprofit alternative art space in Los Angeles. An award-winning curator, writer, and educator, his practice explores the rhetoric of race in the United States, racial identity, and politics. He is the curator of the Monuments<\/em> exhibition currently on view at MOCA in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Event sponsored by the Walters Art Museum and the Johns Hopkins University’s SNF Agora Institute and Program in Museums and Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Join us for a lively conversation, at The Walters Art Museum, on contested history, collective memory, power, and aesthetics of public space, including a discussion about what to do with Baltimore\u2019s decommissioned Confederate monuments and their former sites. Location: The Walters Art Museum auditorium (600 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21201)Date\/Time: 5:30-7:00pm on March 5, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":3370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/museums-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/museums-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/museums-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/museums-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/museums-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3371"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/museums-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3441,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/museums-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371\/revisions\/3441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/museums-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/museums-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/museums-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/museums-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Date\/Time<\/strong>: 5:30-7:00pm on March 5, 2026; reception from 7:00-7:45pm following the discussion<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hannah Burstein<\/strong> is a curator, researcher, and public programmer. Her interests include contemporary interventions with historical objects, constructions of race in public space, alternatives to traditional museum interpretation, and horror. She is the curatorial associate of The Brick and the MONUMENTS<\/em> exhibition at MOCA in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n