Project Timeline
The ARCH Project is in its 4th year of a 5-year collaboration with Monument Lab and students, staff, faculty, and alums to undertake a thoughtful process for commissioning a lasting campus public artwork that responds to the legacy of exclusionary practices at the College. This vital work builds on previous and ongoing College-supported efforts across the Bryn Mawr community to reveal and repair historical harm, ensuring a reckoning with Bryn Mawr College’s history to create a path toward inclusion, reconciliation, and repair.
Year Five (2025-2026)
Commemorating will include commemorative activation of “Don’t Forget to Remember (Me)” through a suite of programs and events aimed to create new legacies for the artwork and the ARCH Project.
Year Four (2024-2025)
Year four includes the final fabrication of Nekisha Durrett’s “Don't Forget to Remember (Me)” in the Cloisters; a dedication of the artwork slated for April 24, 2025, which will include a campus-wide day of celebration, commemoration and reflection.
Year Three (2023-2024)
Year three included the early fabrication of Durrett’s campus monument to be placed in the Cloisters at the center of Old Library; work with the College’s Special Collections and student researchers to locate the names and histories of historically underrecognized Black Staff members; a campus dialogue with Durrett and then-President Kim Cassidy about this project and the college’s broader efforts of historical reckoning; and a trip to Washington DC for a behind the scenes tour of Durrett’s studio and the early fabrication of “Don't Forget to Remember (Me)."
Year Two (2022-2023)
Year two included the formation of an Artist Advisory Committee comprised of students, staff, faculty, Board members and alums; an open call for artists resulting in over 115 submissions and five finalist proposals that were presented in a public forum to campus audiences in spring 2023; and the selection of Nekisha Durrett and her proposal for “Don't Forget to Remember (Me),” a braided spiral of engraved pavers including the names of those Black staff members whose work was critical to building and operating the College, particularly in its early decades, but whose contributions are historically underrecognized.
Year One (2021-2022)
Year one included the hiring of paid student researchers to conduct engaged research on campus with students, staff, faculty, and alums around the central question, “What stories are missing from Bryn Mawr College’s campus?” The outcomes of this engaged research included key themes around “Commemorating Support Staff Past and Present,” “Acknowledging Campus Architecture and Spaces of Belonging,” “Advancing Knowledge of ‘the Tunnels’ and their Role on Campus,” “Marking the Legacy of the 2020 Strike,” and “Healing the Psychic Wounds of the Perry House and Perry Garden.”