The Interpretive Center at Stone Mountain Park, GA
A mountain, a carving, and the century of storytelling around them.
Stone Mountain: History, Memory, and Myth opens the new Interpretive Center at Stone Mountain Park and takes on one of the most contested landscapes in the South: the Confederate memorial carved into the mountain's face, and the park that grew up around it.
The story unfolds in chapters. It begins with the Indigenous peoples of the area and the spread of plantation slavery, then follows the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Lost Cause, Gutzon Borglum's first carving and D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, Georgia's revival of the carving in the 1950s as a symbol of segregation, and the debates that continue today.
Encore was the interpretive planner for the exhibition, shaping its story and creating its content, and consulted on its design.
