The Architect’s Newspaper: Beyond Granite: Pulling Together stages six installations on the National Mall that recall underrepresented American histories

The Architect’s Newspaper / by Charles Gebbia / Published August 3, 2023

“We’re inspired by these moments that have endured in the public memory almost as importantly, or as significantly as the monuments that are there for posterity,” Tillet said in an interview with AN. “And so Pulling Together and its title comes from a quote from Mary McLeod Bethune when she was watching Marian Anderson’s performance in 1939. We’re inspired by how she saw that moment as a possibility, or a pulling together of American democracy.”