Exhibition Design & Branding Chicago Design Archive (CDA) Archeworks, 2019 — In the first public event hosted by the CDA, this exhibit showcases highlights of the collection in Chicago Design Milestones. Developed in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago and Columbia College Chicago, the Chicago Design Milestones installation visualizes the evolution of Chicago design by…
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History Lessons: Everyday Stories from Chicago Public Housing
Exhibition Design National Public Housing Museum, Summer 2018 Named #6 in the Chicago Tribune’s top 10 exhibitions in Chicago in 2018. Instead of showcasing rarefied objects in the standard museum fashion, this one put on display mundane things from public housing residents — a mason’s tools, a Pyrex dish, a garden hose — and told…
Read MoreOpen 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,…
Read MoreWabi-Sabi Creative Retreat
Event Branding Judson University, School of Art & Design Creative Retreat, 2017 — In the fall of 2017, Judson University’s Art & Design Department took their students to Camp Wandawega in Elkhorn, WI, for a weekend retreat exploring the idea of Wabi Sabi. The Japanese aesthetic of Wabi-Sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent,…
Read MoreOpen 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,…
Read MoreRedefining Democracy: Jane Addams and the Hull-House Settlement
Exhibition Design Hull-House Museum Core Exhibition, 2010 — The Museum serves as a dynamic memorial to social reformer Jane Addams, the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, and her colleagues whose work changed the lives of their immigrant neighbors as well as national and international public policy. The Museum preserves and develops the…
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