The Cloisters is an open, outdoor courtyard in the center of Old Library. Historically, it was the location of Lantern Night, where first-year students are presented with lanterns in their class color. This traditions is meant to represent the light of knowledge being passed from one class to another.
The ARCH (Art Remediating College Histories) Project selected Nekisha Durrett to create a monument in the Cloisters titled "Don't Forget to Remember (Me)," which addresses the historical reckoning of the College's previously excluded stories. This project was unveiled in April 2025.
“Don't Forget to Remember (Me)” embeds braid-patterned pathways made of more than 9,000 pavers into the Cloister’s courtyard ground to form the shape of a knot around the central fountain. Nearly 250 of the pavers are engraved with the names of Black maids, porters, and domestic staff employed at Bryn Mawr from approximately 1900 to 1940, many of whom have long gone unrecognized in the institution’s official history. Illuminated glass pavers interspersed throughout the design represent those whose names have been lost to time.