“Beyond Granite: Pulling Together” honors the people and events whose history had yet to be etched in stone in Washington.
On Easter Sunday in 1939, an audience of 75,000 gathered to see the legendary contralto Marian Andersonof the Lincoln Memorial. The Daughters of the American Revolution had barred Anderson from performing at Washington, D.C.’s Constitution Hall because she was Black, and so she made musical history on the National Mall instead.
Activist and educator Mary McLeod Bethune later described the concert as telling “a story of hope for tomorrow — a story of triumph — a story of pulling together, a story of splendor and real democracy.”the first-ever curated outdoor exhibition on the National Mall, takes its name from Bethune’s review. The exhibition, on display through September 18, features the work of six artists tasked with telling stories that had yet to be commemorated in the heart of our nation’s capital.
, one of the exhibit’s curators who is also a professor of African American studies and creative writing at Rutgers University and a Pulitzer Prize–winning contributing critic for the New YorkShe and Farber wanted to work with artists who could strike a balance between democracy and dissent.
Below, see how the six featured artists chose to celebrate those history-making names and events not already etched in stone on the Mall.
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