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Hacking the Library
WVU Libraries Art in the Libraries

Chris Revelle

Living Monuments questions the production and dissemination of history. Through lesson plans for teachers and pro-Confederate books in classrooms and libraries, the United Daughter of the Confederacy reshaped history and taught children to be “living monuments”. Appropriating the Jim Crow-era school books, the works are transparent resin casts of the originals. The false histories of the books have been hidden, while the words and writings of James Baldwin have been memorialized by the casing of the book.

Artist Gallery

Community Connections

This work could create controversial responses and I feel it encompasses what libraries stand for in the present and the future. Libraries have the opportunity to serve all history and identities.

Marion Hudson

Librarian/Archivist

The category of censorship, banning, and what is deemed as being "allowed" to be accessed and who decides this is front and center. Ultimately, the librarians and libraries as a group fight for equity and this is a great representation of this concept.

Harry Brake

President, Delaware Association of School Librarians

This is PROFOUND! The truth will make itself known - it is solid, the false is an illusion.

Danielle

Public LIbrary Director, Paden City Public Library