Re:Generation Grant

The Re:Generation initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, invites teams to apply for $100,000 in unrestricted funding to create or expand public-facing projects. Monument Lab aims to foster diverse commemorative practices and narratives, focusing on underrepresented stories and histories. Selected teams will collaborate throughout the year to promote creative representation, engage with local communities, and contribute to a transformative commemorative landscape. This initiative emphasizes the importance of grassroots collaboration and the need to rethink public memory.

Vision Statement
To illuminate how symbols are connected to systems of power and public memory, we engage critically with our inherited monument landscape and work joyfully with artists, organizations, and movements to imagine the next generation of monuments.
Re:Generation Initiative
Mellon Foundation, Monument Lab is seeking applications for another round of our Re:Generation initiative. Monument Lab Re:Generation supports teams of two or more individuals working together to create a new or expand an existing public-facing project. Each selected Re:Generation team will receive a total of $100,000 in unrestricted funding towards their commemorative campaign or project.
Monument Lab Re:Generation seeks applications from teams of two or more individuals working together.
For this round of Re:Generation we are emphasizing the selection of projects with creative representation and interpretation of erased, suppressed, or threatened stories and histories. We especially encourage applications for projects that have the potential to shift local and regional narratives, particularly in contexts where interventions into the commemorative landscape could foster wider transformations.
Through Re:Generation, Monument Lab is seeking to build a cohort of ten teams that reflect a broad diversity of commemorative practices, participatory research models, and geographic contexts. We are especially interested in applications from underrepresented groups and regions. Selected teams will collaborate across Re:Generation sites, meeting as a cohort virtually and in person over the year, presenting projects synchronously in Fall, and working in coordination with Monument Lab on a broader campaign of public engagement.

Eligibility

Use of FundsWe expect teams to pay stipends to their core team members, and strongly encourage stipends to any interns or researchers, honorariums to any community memory holders, interviewees, artists, among others. ALL of the Re:Generation funding is available for general operating support and can support project materials, permitting and installation fees, hard costs, and other expenditures as well.Each project will need a fiscal sponsor, but having or not having one at the application stage will not impact consideration.