Still Mourning is a community public art project memorializing the lives of Black people fallen in acts of racial injustice and violence in America. Certainly reflective of recent events surrounding the wrongful deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and Elijah McClain, however, this project is also rooted in the ongoing killing of African-Americans throughout US history.

Names of fallen victims and select atrocities, such as the Tulsa Massacre, will be marked along one side of a stand-alone steel structure in the likeness of a grave stone; artists and community members are invited to adorn the opposite side of each grave marker. When complete, the grave markers will create a “cemetery” presented collectively in public spaces, various neighborhoods, churches, and private businesses, as a way for communities to engage with the project.

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The goal of the project is two-fold: create 101 Painted Metal Grave markers, and create a project website enumerating the stories of the fallen, the history of the atrocities, and provide a way for the community to track the migration of the “cemetery”.