The Mirror Casket was a protest performance and public sculpture created in September 2014 in response to the death of Mike Brown in Ferguson, MO. The casket was built and carried in a performative funeral procession by costume pall bearers from W. Florissant to the Ferguson Police Department, and set in front of a line of local police barricading the building from protestors.

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The piece has since traveled to numerous exhibitions, and was recently acquired by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C.

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Learn why the Smithsonian thinks this piece is one of the powerful objects in their collection!

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The piece is created in collaboration by De Andrea Nichols, Marcis Curtis, Sophie Lipman, Damon Davis, Mallory Nezam, Derek Laney, Elizabeth Vega.