The New Jersey Im/migrant Laborers’ Monument Project is a collaborative, participatory project, involving public stakeholders, artists, scholars, and community organizations from across the state of New Jersey. At dialogues and events taking place in 2025-2026, we will produce public art and history that documents and engages with New Jersey’s diverse stories of migration and labor, past and present.
Community and digital artists for each site are responsible for translating stakeholders' conversations at the dialogue into works of public art, in the medium of their choosing, in consultation with project partners. Michael Cagno, Executive Director, Noyes Art Garage in Atlantic City, will work with the South Jersey community artists to develop a program for exhibiting the art produced at dialogues at regional venues. The Noyes Arts Garage is one of the south Jersey sites and will host their dialogue on August 25, 2025, from 5:00-8:00pm. Facilitators for the dialogue are Cynthia Mullock, Harriet Tubman Museum of New Jersey and Ralph Hunter, African American Museum of Southern New Jersey. The dialogue will last approximately three hours.
There is a $3,000 fee paid to the artist for the commission, and a $1,500 production budget. There is also a $1,000 budget for a digital commission, which can be used either to document the in-person commission, or to create a separate work, for exhibition on the project website.
