For the first half of 2021, our team of municipal staff, local organizers, artists, and community partners led an outreach process that led to a robust amount of community feedback to inform the memorialization process to take place in Charlotte Forten Park in Salem, MA. Through a survey and on-site activation process, our team harnessed over 300 community responses to inform the memorialization vision forward. Learn more about the project HERE.

Thanks to NEFA for supporting this imaginings initiative!

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Collective Imagination for Spatial Justice (CISJ) grants support teams of artists, creatives, culture bearers, cultural organizers, and community-based collaborators to do the important work of imagining public art that fosters and contributes to more just futures for our public spaces and public culture.