Forward, Together Forward Memorial Approx. 8’x12’ Projected Stories on Sheer Sheets, 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, our […]
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Report to the Public: An Untold Story of the Conservative Vice Lords 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 […]
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Preservation Detectives 7” x 10” Educational Workbook, 2011 Part of a preservation initiative at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, visitors with children were given an activity book as an interactive guide to the historic house. Through hand-drawn illustrations and type, historic content and images are become relevant to a younger audience.
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Unfinished Business: Art Education Hull-House Museum Social Justice Exhibit, 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 […]
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Redefining Democracy: Jane Addams and the Hull-House Settlement 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 […]
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