Project Description
Climates of Inequality (COI) is an exhibition produced by the Humanities Action Lab, Rutgers University, Newark. The COI participatory public memory project is created by students, educators, and community leaders from over 20 cities across the US and around the world. This exhibit documents multi-media portraits to expose the roots of current environmental injustice, and share generations of frontline communities’ strategies for resistance, resilience, and mitigation. Milwaukee’s story is critical for building global vision and action around climate and environmental justice. The Buildings-Landscapes-Field school project at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee with their community partners contributes a local exhibit around food and housing justice to the national traveling exhibit. Our exhibit adds to the main exhibit and invites (crowdsources) audience to add local stories of local resistance against injustice. The national and local exhibit will be open to the public between April 1, 2024 and June 1, 2024. It will be hosted by the Milwaukee County Historical Society at 910 N Doctor M.L.K. Jr Dr, Milwaukee,.
Tasks and Responsibilites
Students will learn graphic design and visual artwork skills from Sen and his graduate/undergraduate research team. They will experiment with exhibit layout and explore ways to visually organize research data into infographics and exhibition posters. They will research and study information and neighborhood histories collected and archived at the Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures Field School archives. After a month of research they will create storyboards, exhibit posters, and zines (small artistically laid out brochures). Between February and April they will lay out 10-15 boards using a predetermined template using InDesign software. They will also experiment with improving the graphic quality of 4-5 zines—the data is already researched and organized by public history students.
Desired Qualifications
None Listed.