Parsons x SNMVC
In June 2024, the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center will open to the public. It includes a space in which Parsons students get to design and install a project each year.
As a member of the inaugural cohort, I worked collectively with a diverse group of students to develop the ongoing partnership’s theme, Re:Generations, as well as to design and build installations that debuted within the school’s gallery spaces. Pulling at the threads of Stonewall the bar and Stonewall the legend revealed a complex and beutiful tapestry whose histories and lessons demand retelling and sharing. It was an honor to do exactly that.
The timeline’s evolution over the course of the semester, from concept, to further refinement, to execution.
In the final installation, wheatpasted posters accumulate and degrade on a faux construction wall, speaking to the fragile and contested nature of the queer histories that have unspooled since the summer of 1969.
Relinquishing an exhaustive queer timeline and opting for something more impressionistic, emotional, and personal, was key to the installation’s success and its positive reception by SNMVC/Pride Live’s leadership.
