History Lessons: Everyday Stories from Chicago Public Housing

History Lessons: Everyday Stories from Chicago Public Housing Exhibition DesignNational 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 […]

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Wabi Sabi: Design in Nature Retreat

Wabi Sabi: Design in Nature Retreat Event BrandingJudson 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 […]

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Housing as a Human Right: Social Construction

Housing as a Human Right: Social Construction Exhibition DesignNational Public Housing MuseumChicago Architecture Biennial, 2017–2018 A pop-up exhibit on housing as a human right for the Chicago Architecture Biennial, this exhibit tells a brief history of public housing using artifacts that will be featured in the forthcoming National Public Housing Museum. Exhibit designed for the National […]

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Open Engagement — JUSTICE

Open Engagement — JUSTICE Print, Web, Collateral, and Site DesignOpen Engagement, A Socially Engaged Art Practice ConferenceChicago, 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, […]

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To / Through

To / Through Approx. 15’x20’ Projected Prose on Smoke from Fog Machines, 2015 To/Through explores the relationship between visual and written storytelling, memory, and history via letterforms, words, and phrases projected onto smoke. Words and phrases only become readable as light catches the smoke—a reference to the ephemeral nature of recollection and memories.

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