About this Event
The New Jersey Monuments to Migration and Labor Project invites you to participate in a public conversation about the migrant and immigrant labor, past and present, that built Paterson.
What aspects of this history are most valuable to share and commemorate now, in this challenging moment for immigrants everywhere?
The New Jersey Monuments to Migration and Labor Project is a collaborative initiative involving public stakeholders, artists, scholars, and community organizations from across the state of New Jersey. Through dialogues taking place in 2025-2026, we will gather stories that document New Jersey’s diverse history of migration and labor, past and present. New Jersey publics are invited to work with local and nationally recognized artists to commemorate and honor immigrants contributions to the state as laborers. Through this process, together we will work to make public art and monuments to migration and labor that are visible features of New Jersey’s commemorative landscape, and that challenge audiences to reconsider what they know about migrants and their labor.
In Partnership With:
- Mellon Foundation
- Newest Americans
- Center for Migration and the Global City
- Rutgers University
- Hamilton Partnership for Paterson
- The Cultural Fit
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
39 McBride Ave, 39 McBride Avenue, Paterson, United States
USD 0.00
