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Ben Tilghman

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RiverArts Salon: What to Do With Racist Monuments?

RiverArts Salons are opportunities for intimate conversation, community connection, learning and fun.

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Some resources for thinking about this question

The Executive Order on Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes of July 3, 2020

The Society of Architectural Historians Statement on the Removal of Monuments to the Confederacy from Public Spaces

What to do with Confederate Statues? Russia Has a Fallen Monument Park (NPR)

"If you build it…" (NPR On The Media podcast)

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Ben Tilghman

Ben Tilghman is Assistant Professor of Art + Art History at Washington College. After graduate work at Williams College (MA) and Johns Hopkins (PhD), he worked as a curatorial fellow at the Walters Art Museum and taught at Lawrence University In Wisconsin. A specialist in medieval art, his interests also include Islamic and Contemporary Art, and ecological themes in the history of art.

A RiverArts member said recently, “the Arts make people and communities whole.” When you give to RiverArts, you are part of an exciting, growing organization, and a pillar of the vibrant Kent County arts scene.