The ARCH Project - Art Remediating Campus Histories - is a multiyear collaboration between Bryn Mawr students, staff, faculty, alumnae/i, and Monument Lab (a nonprofit public art and history studio based in Philadelphia). The idea to commission a memorial or public artwork tied to Bryn Mawr’s legacy of exclusion, with a particular focus on reclaiming Old Library, was first made by the Telling Bryn Mawr Histories Work Group in June of 2019. Interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic and informed by experiences that were shared by students during the student-led strike of fall 2020, planning for the project began again during the 2021–22 academic year when Bryn Mawr partnered with Monument Lab on leading the engaged process, artists’ open call, and production of the eventual artwork.

Don’t Forget to Remember (Me) was chosen from 110 artist proposals responding to the question, “What stories are missing from Bryn Mawr College?” The artwork will be installed in the Cloisters of Old Library and will recognize the multiple and unacknowledged histories that “need to be told in order for a space to feel whole.”

Artist: Nekisha Durrett

Negative Space: Artist Representation and Public Art Project Management

Site: The Old Library, Bryn Mawr College

Unveiling: 2024-2025

Learn more at brynmawr.edu & monumentlab.com