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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Forward, Together Forward Memorial

Memorial Design Approx. 8’x12’ Projected Stories on Sheer Sheets Fulton Gallery, 2013 — On February 14, 2008 at Northern Illinois University, a former student opened gunfire on a lecture hall, killing five, injuring over thirty, and rocking an entire community. As a student on campus that day, I have my story, as do others. Yet,…

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