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Designer, Educator, Author & Social Design Researcher

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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.

Type of Project
  • Client Work
  • Experiential Design
  • Research
Subject Matter
  • Discrimination
  • Prejudice, Stereotypes and Bias
  • Racism
  • Social Justice
  • Structural Violence
Network of Mutality title card on the entry wall. Art can be see in the background.

Summary

22 Artists and designers
5 Supporting institutions
27 Weeks on display

I initiated this project to call attention to the progress (and lack thereof) that we as a society have made in terms of race and racial oppression since the Civil Rights Movement.

Together with Ruth Lozner, I selected provocative works that addressed the injustices that led to the Civil Rights Movement and prompted a reconsideration of where we are today in terms of racial progress. The exhibition coincided with the 50-year anniversary of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Martin Luther King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” and his “I Have a Dream” speech, among other events.

Exhibiting artists and designers included Glenn Ligon, James Victore, Kenneth Gonzales-Day, Michael Paul Britto, Archie Boston, Michael Platt, Faith Ringgold, Chaz Maviyane-Davies, Luba Lukova, Karina Aguilera Skvirsky, Frances Jetter, and Tam Joseph. We also included a participatory chalk wall to engage audiences in conversation about the works.

The exhibition opened at The Art Gallery on UMD campus and traveled to the Levine Museum of the New South.

Co-curator

Ruth Lozner

Collaborating Partners

David C. Driskell Center, The Art Gallery at UMD, Lafayette College

Details

1963 began with newly inaugurated Alabama Governor George Wallace proclaiming “Segregation today . . . segregation tomorrow . . . segregation forever.” The year ended with President John F. Kennedy being assassinated after he initiated what would become the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964.

A KKK uniform, Lynching photos, photos by Ken Gonzales-Day
Photos on walls by Ken Gonzales-Day
A view of photos of pairs of people. Two chairs are placed for viewing.
Photo of work by Julie Moos

How Would Your Life Be Different? Chalkboard

This prompt asks visitors to consider how their life might be different of they had been born of a different race, gender, religion or sexual orientation.

A view of the exhibit. To the left is a chalkboard. Two soldiers are looking at it.
A chalkboard with thoughts written on it in chalk.

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Onlookers at the Sticks and Stones exhibit
Teaching:
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.
A group of students around a pillar showing images of other students.
Teaching:
InDEFYnable
InDEFYnable: Stand Together, Struggle Together was an event to promote APA students’ coexisting cultural and individual identities.
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