The National Mall is a great canvas, in part because of all the history embedded there. It’s been a place of protest, celebration and mourning. It also hosts some spectacular monuments. But critic <a href="https://www.salamishah.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Salamishah Tillet</a> says there is a lot of history missing from the Mall as a commemorative space, like desegregation and the displacement of Indigenous people.

Kim speaks with Salamishah about the <a href="https://www.beyondgranite.org/exhibition" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">‘Beyond Granite’ </a>exhibition she co-curated on the Mall, and also with <a href="https://www.instagram.com/gerada_art/?hl=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada</a>, the artist who created the largest portrait ever to go on display there. It was a six-acre composite portrait of several anonymous young men who had one thing in common: They all identified themselves as Americans.

See the artwork we discussed:

<a href="https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/new-satellite-image-out-many-one" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Out Of Many, One,</a> by Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada

<a href="https://www.beyondgranite.org/vanessa-german" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Of Thee We Sing,</a> by vanessa german

<a href="https://www.beyondgranite.org/wendy-red-star" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Soil You See…</a>, by Wendy Red Star

<a href="https://www.beyondgranite.org/derrick-adams" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">America’s Playground: DC</a>, by Derrick Adams

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