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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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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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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Unfinished Business: 21st Century Home Economics

Unfinished Business: 21st Century Home Economics Hull-House Museum Social Justice Exhibit, 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 […]

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Report to the Public: An Untold Story of the Conservative Vice Lords

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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