This past week, Shaun Slifer (Creative Director here at the museum) was invited to be a part of Monument Lab’s Re:Generation Roundtable discussion series, hosted by Matt Jordan-Miller Kenyatta (Director of Justice and Belonging at University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design).

Shaun was representing the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum and our in-process Courage In The Hollers project, which is a proud part of Monument Lab’s 2022 Re:Generation national cohort.

Also on the panel from the cohort is the artist Mercedes Dorame, (The Land Under the Plinth, Los Angeles, CA). We were joined by Tomiko Meeks (Public Historian, Texas Southern University) and Andrea Roberts (Scholar and Professor, The University of Virginia + The Texas Freedom Colonies Project).

One thing we’ve noticed about Shaun is how much he talks with his hands…