‘Other Washingtons’ Art Installation Aims to Reimagine Who We Choose to Remember

'Other Washingtons' Obscures Monument To George With Black Icons Who Share His Name

Artist Amanda Williams’ new piece pays tribute to dozens of Washingtons, famous and not — from mayor Harold to high-schooler Kennedy — alongside a monument to America's first president.

Amanda Williams’ ‘Other Washingtons’ monument asks, ‘Who should be remembered?’

Amanda Williams is focusing her artistic lens on local monuments, asking what it might look like to have monuments that look different than what we would think of historically.

‘Other Washingtons’ Art Installation Aims to Reimagine Who We Choose to Remember

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Just George no more. ‘Other Washingtons’ adds inclusive dimension to South Side monument

In her new public art project, Amanda Williams is grappling with what’s in a name. Specifically: Washington. It is, of course, the surname of America’s first president, memorialized in bronze in the South Side park named in his honor, where Williams’ latest work was unveiled Thursday. In “Other Washingtons,” commissioned by the Chicago Monuments Project, Williams looks beyond George. The work honors everyone from Harold Washington, the city’s fi…