Individuals who were integral to the Black Wednesday Wall public art project share insights about the process of reimagining the space and what they ultimately envision it to be. This event is a continuation of last fall’s Arts + Design Mondays conversation which focused on the history behind Black Wednesdays (see https://youtu.be/yZ9t9JNMWjs). Panelists include Cheryl Wright, president of the Black Alumni Association; Melissa Charles, assistant director of the African American Student Development Office; quame patton, UC Berkeley alumni and former staff and Ourstorian; Chidube Okoro, UC Berkeley alumni and former African American Student Development Student staff leader; Brian McGhee, UC Berkeley alumni and former student-athlete; Dominick Williams, UC Berkeley alumni and former student TRIAD leader; Lishelle Blakemore, UC Berkeley alumni and associate vice chancellor of development in the University Development and Alumni Relations; Naniette Coleman, UC Berkeley PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology, and founder of Night Out/Night Off for graduate students of color at UC Berkeley; and Leigh Raiford, associate professor in UC Berkeley’s Department of African American Studies. The event will be moderated by Takiyah Jackson, director of the African American Student Development Office and Fannie Lou Hamer Black Resource Center; and Mia Settles-Tidwell, assistant vice chancellor and chief of staff in the Division of Equity & Inclusion. Presented by UC Berkeley’s African American Student Development Office. ----------------------------------------- Arts + Design Mondays is organized and sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Arts + Design Initiative. The series is co-curated by the African American Student Development Office; Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive; Berkeley Center for New Media and the History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series; College of Environmental Design, the Arcus Endowment Diversity Platform Committee and the Arcus Chair in Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment; Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies; Future Histories Lab, a project of UC Berkeley Global Urban Humanities Initiative; Graduate School of Journalism; California Humanities and Villa San Francisco. Technical support and presentation offered by UC Berkeley College of Letters & Science, Division of Arts & Humanities. The 2021 series of Arts + Design Mondays is made possible thanks to the generous financial support of Nancy Olson and Buzz Wiesenfeld. In-kind support provided by BAMPFA. For more information, visit artsdesign.berkeley.edu/mondays. All events will be live captioned. If you require captioning to access a pre-recorded event on our site, please contact Paris Cotz at pariscotz@berkeley.edu. Please expect 7-10 days for captioning to be provided.