Contributors
Washington’s Next! has been supported by countless hours of work by dozens of people, in addition to individual and institutional financial support.
The October 13, 2018 participatory commemoration was presented as part of Art in Odd Places 2018 BODY, curated by Katya Grokhovsky and directed by Ed Woodham; as was the October 2018 exhibition of “Washington’s Texts!” at Westbeth Gallery in the West Village.
The 271 painting hung in front of the statue was painted by Newark-based artist Jae Quinlan.
The March-June 2019 display of materials from the participatory commemoration at the Old Stone House in Brooklyn were presented as part of the group show “Race and Revolution: Reimagining Monuments,” curated by Katie Fuller.
The following units at Rutgers University-Newark have provided support for various aspects of the project:
Office of the Chancellor; Graduate Program in American Studies; Department of History; Department of Arts, Culture, and Media; Department of English; Clement A. Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience; Cultural Programming Committee.
Special thanks to all those who made this project possible, including:
Patricia Bender, Aleia Brown, Zac Bruner, Anthony Bui, Lonnie Bunch, Clarissa Ceglio, Kornel Chang, Anna Chatelain, Corey Clawson, Sara Collini, Jason Cortes, Angela Cress, Gavriel Cutipa-Zorn, Lucy Duncan, Anne Englot, Paul Farber, Eric Gilde, Sara Hames, Kemi Ilesanmi, Andy Ingram, Sydney Johnson, John Keene, Elisabeth Koechlin, Mark Krasovic, Leo Landrey, Katherine Long, Jessie MacLeod, Mel McCuin, Kevin McGee, Marco McWilliams, Clarence Monteiro, Neah Monteiro, Cat Munroe, Amelia Ortega, Maura Pavalow, Lynn Price, Keary Rosen, Jennifer Rosiejka, Jenna Rudo-Stern, Beryl Satter, Andrew Shankman, Christina Strasburger, Jack Tchen, Salamishah Tillet, Jenna Veatch
Additional thanks to the students in Dr. Monteiro’s Fall 2018 “African American History I” course at Rutgers University-Newark; as well as Daniel Fernandez, Lauren O’Brien, Greg Tuttle, Ronnie Vesnaver, and the rest of the students in Dr. Monteiro’s Fall 2018 graduate seminar at RU-N, “Public Histories of Slavery for the 21st Century”; the undergraduate students who participated in the Summer 2019 training to volunteer on the upcoming remounting of “Washington’s Next!”; and those who contributed anonymously to our Go Fund Me campaign.
The “How to Kill a Statues” project, which ran from May 30-August 27, 2021, tracking all statue attacks during the George Floyd Uprisings of the previous summer, grew out of the the work of Hayat Abdelal, Mya Alexice, Tyler Crespo Rodriguez, and the rest of the students in Dr. Monteiro’s Spring 2021 graduate seminar at RU-N, “Public Histories of Slavery.” Research and social media posts through June, July, and August were developed and posted by Hayat Abdelal, Dr. Monteiro, and Tyler Crespo Rodriguez; while the integration of that research into a map of statue attacks in June 2020 was performed by Dr. Monteiro and Tyler Crespo Rodriguez. Other crucial support for the project came from Aleia Brown, who shared her social media and digital humanities expertise; Erin Thompson for sharing her data on the many undead Confederate statues that were removed in 2020, as well as before; and Krista White, Digital Scholarship and Pedagogies Librarian at Rutgers University-Newark who assisted with implementing ArcGIS Online for the project. This project is built out of the work of dozens of organizations and individuals, as well as journalists who documented and compiled the statue attacks during the summer of 2020.