Belonging: Place, Power, (Im)Possibilities Exhibition

Physical + Virtual Exhibition Design Tonika Lewis Johnson / Chicago Justice Gallery September 2020 — Tonika Johnson chronicles the ways in which nine young people have been made to feel they don’t belong in their own city in a series of portraits and interviews. While Johnson’s portraits of young peoples’ experiences paint a grim picture…

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Cloth Face Mask Cards for CHA Residents

Design & Riso Printing Studio Brazen + National Public Housing Museum May 2020 — As cases of COVID-19 spread throughout Chicago, those who were marginalized before began feeling it even more. Access to PPE was not being provided to folks living in public housing in Chicago. Studio Brazen + the National Public Housing Museum worked…

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Where There Is Not

Branding, 2015 Where There is Not is an organization started by architect and educator, Jae Cha. The organization leads students in creating products that are meant to reach areas in the world that have a basic need for survival and social input. Research and case studies determine areas of focus and products are developed, sometimes as…

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Open Engagement — SUSTAINABILITY

Print, Web, Collateral, and Site Design Open Engagement, A Socially Engaged Art Practice Conference New York City, 2018 — Open Engagement (OE) is an annual artist-led conference dedicated to expanding the dialogue around and creating a site of care for the field of socially engaged art. The conference highlights the work of transdisciplinary artists, activists,…

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Open Engagement — JUSTICE

Print, Web, Collateral, and Site Design Open Engagement, A Socially Engaged Art Practice Conference Chicago, 2017 __ Open Engagement (OE) is an annual artist-led conference dedicated to expanding the dialogue around and creating a site of care for the field of socially engaged art. The conference highlights the work of transdisciplinary artists, activists, students, scholars,…

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Unfinished Business: 21st Century Home Economics

Exhibition Design Chicago Design Archive (CDA) Hull-House Museum, 2012 —— The exhibit tells an untold story of the first generation of home economists who were equal rights advocates, chemists and public health advocates, labor reformers and innovators who sought to redefine domesticity. Filled with participatory experiences and hands-on activities, the exhibit describes the home economists’ visionary work to…

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