University of Maryland students explored how physical and digital museum spaces can be more inclusive and accessible and how design might interrogate ideas of “normal” and ableism.
Redefine/ABLE
BMORE Than The Story
Students attending a public high school in Freddie Gray’s neighborhood collaborated with University of Maryland design students on an exhibition about the 2015 Baltimore Uprising, Gray’s death, structural violence, police brutality, and related issues.
#SayItLikeItIs
#SayItLikeItIs was a daylong symposium for Baltimore area high school students. They discussed violence in their schools and neighborhoods, how art could help promote their mental health, and ways to improve their school environments.
Black Women: Image & Perception in Popular Culture
This exhibit addresses the stereotypes that our culture places on Black women, highlights women who defy these characterizations and prompts visitors to consider ways to thwart these stereotypes.
Nations of Resilience
University of Maryland students collaborated with Native students to create this exhibit, which spotlights the challenges and successes of U.S. Native American populations.
InDEFYnable
InDEFYnable: Stand Together, Struggle Together was an event to promote APA students’ coexisting cultural and individual identities.
Network of Mutuality
Network of Mutuality: 50 Years Post-Birmingham brought together works that address the injustices of 1963 and contrast today’s contentious-yet-critical issues of race, representation, and otherness.
Sticks + Stones 2010: Culture, Migration and Representation
Students from six international universities explored ways graphic design perpetuates and can negate stereotypes. Their work culminated in an exhibit at the DesignTransfer Gallery in Berlin, Germany.
Sticks + Stones 2006: A Collaborative Exchange Exploring Labeling and Stereotyping
Sticks + Stones: A Collaborative Exchange Exploring Labeling and Stereotyping was a multi-university collaboration that prompts students to explore interpersonal and intercultural issues with others diverse in ethnicity, religious practice, heritage, gender, and sexual orientation.