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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Looking Back: Chicago Design Milestones

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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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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Wabi-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,…

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