The Armenian American Museum and the Brand Library & Art Center on Saturday, April 30 will host “Commemoration as Public Art”,a discussion panel examining the role of permanent public art and architecture as a form of commemoration, Massis Post reports.
The discussion will be moderated by Ara Oshagan, artist and City of Glendale Arts and Culture commissioner and will feature architect Hagy Belzberg, lead designer of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust; Phyllis Kim, executive director of the Korean American Forum of California and designer of the Comfort Women memorial in Glendale’s Central Park; and Catherine Menard, designer of the City of Pasadena Armenian Genocide Memorial. The panelists will briefly present their own commemorative projects and discuss how commemorative public art can create unique spaces for healing and communal catharsis but also become sites of fierce contention.
“Commemoration as Public Art” will take place at the Brand Library & Art Center in Glendale.
This program is one in a series taking place in conjunction with “Armenia: An Open Wound,” an exhibition presented by The City of Glendale and the Library, Arts & Culture Department in partnership with the Armenian American Museum and curated by the Museo Memoria y Tolerancia in Mexico City.
