Monuments Across Appalachian Virginia (MAAV) seeks and supports collaborations with community members, local organizations, artists, scholars, and educators who share an interest in constructing and reconstructing public narratives.

From 2023-2026, we are working with nine community groups across Appalachian Virginia and Eastern Siouan lands who are creating public art, revitalizing places grounded in cultural legacy, designing walking tours, making performances, documenting oral histories, creating festivals, and sparking new conversations about the past, present, and future. These groups are creating new ways of relating to this region and each other, and uplifting histories that have been silenced or excluded about struggles for the vitality of people and our shared environment.

With a multi-million dollar grant from the Mellon Foundation, we offers technical support to funded teams to build capacity for work that is by and for communities. We support project teams to examine and address their own questions and document aspects of their creative process.