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 MoreReport to the Public: An Untold Story of the Conservative Vice Lords
Exhibition Design & Branding Exhibition at Art In These Times, 2012 — Regarded by some as innovative grassroots organizers and others as violent criminals, the history of the Chicago gang, the Conservative Vice Lords Inc. provides a lens for understanding the potential of grassroots organizing in urban communities.This evolving, multi-site project is a partnership between the…
Read MoreForward, 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,…
Read MoreUnfinished 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…
Read MoreUnfinished Business: Art Education
Exhibition Design Hull-House Museum, 2011 — A community curated, participatory art exhibition that explores the importance of the arts and insists on cultural rights as part of a thriving democracy. The exhibit makes connections between Hull-House history and the contemporary moment, and seeks to unleash radical imaginations about a collective future. Interactive art-making stations throughout the…
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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