Krhettn
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Monuments and Memorials in Cambridge project
editHi! I’m working on a project to gather information on the monuments and memorials in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This part of this project is supported by a Cambridge Arts grant. (Here is the logo I am supposed to include with any project description -- https://www.cambridgema.gov/-/media/Images/artscouncil/Logos/CA_logo_CMYKhighres.jpg -- but as far as I understand the wikipedia rules, I can't upload it to wikipedia.)
This project started in preparation for a class I taught on public art during lockdown in 2020. I couldn’t find a comprehensive list of monuments and memorials, as a category of public art (they exist in many forms - as property of the city, privately owned, in art collections, etc.), so I started compiling one, and found a lot of unique monuments around Cambridge. I applied and got a grant from Cambridge Arts to continue researching them and share what I find here.
My goals are to make articles for the monuments and memorials in Cambridge that don’t have one yet and add information to some of the existing articles. I hope to make sure each has the artist, location, dates, and medium, and links to and from the artist and subject, when it’s possible. I started a category also.
If some turn out to not have enough for a whole article, I might also make a list article so that those can be included (thank you for the suggestion @Sj).
Photos
I have taken a lot of photos and hope to add them also once I understand the requirements for fair use photos of newer artwork. I’ll stick to adding pictures of the historical ones until I understand how exactly to add the newer ones or get permission to use the photos I took of newer ones.
Updates
So far I have added to or corrected some information in several existing articles and added links back and forth to their artists and subjects, and added the Prince Hall Monument page. I'm working on drafts of some others.
Thank you for all the advice and pointers @Sj ! : )
Hi @Another Believer ! I see that you edit monument articles in Cambridge a lot, so I wanted to make sure you saw this. I’m new at making articles from scratch, so feel free to message me here or on other talk pages about any bloopers! Thank you for the suggestion already about the category and the Prince Hall one. : )
Krhettn (talk) 01:11, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
- Hello, so nice to see this progress. If you want you can post the index of all monuments here, noting which ones you are working on. We could organize a photo walk soon for those that still lack good photos. – SJ + 17:04, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
- @Krhettn@Sj Always happy to see collaboration around public art. I've created the project page Wikipedia:WikiProject Sculpture/Cambridge, Massachusetts for tracking and discussing public sculpture in Cambridge, if you're interested and/or find this helpful. Thanks! ---Another Believer (Talk) 17:17, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
- Wonderful, thanks. For now I suppose we can put all of the monuments there and discuss any that might be potentially non-sculpture or mixed format, like some of the subway installations. – SJ + 17:29, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
- @Krhettn@Sj Always happy to see collaboration around public art. I've created the project page Wikipedia:WikiProject Sculpture/Cambridge, Massachusetts for tracking and discussing public sculpture in Cambridge, if you're interested and/or find this helpful. Thanks! ---Another Believer (Talk) 17:17, 20 January 2024 (UTC)