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Organize Your Own: The Politics And Poetics Of Self-Determination Movements, Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois

2017-2018

Organize Your Own, curated by Daniel Tucker, features work by contemporary artists that responds to the history of multiracial coalitions organizing against racism, poverty, and oppression. The ATMA was the first stop on OYO's six-leg tour between 2017-2019. For this travelling exhibition, my work focused on two areas: providing more framework in the reading area around the Young Lords, and organizing programming that was specific to our venue.

#Yarnbombqc, Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois

2017-2018

#YarnBombQC brought the sculptor Carol Hummel the the Quad Cities to work with our communities to create crocheted, site-specific, community-based public art on trees in three locations: Augustana College, the Figge Art Museum, and Longfellow Liberal Arts School. This project, like much of the art by Hummel, draws diverse sectors of communities together in a positive, celebratory way to help create major pieces of art for the people, by the people. Well over 100 community members participated by creating crocheted circles, which the artist and her assistants stitched together and installed on the trees. Participants included students from Augustana College, …

4 Artists, 4 Visions, Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois

2016-2017

An exhibition of four artists invited by members of the Augustana Art Department: Oscar Jay Gillespie, Claire Hedden, Tom Lundberg, and Joseph Patrick.

Photos courtesy of the Augustana Photo Bureau

2017 Senior Art Exhibition, Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois

2016-2017

This exhibition features the Senior Inquiry projects of the Augustana College studio art and graphic design majors of the Class of 2017:

Jorge Ambriz, Paris Edwards, Chloe Gale, Giselle Gaztambide, Emily Kathleen Grooms, Ginger Hamilton, Olivia Havens, McKee Jackson, Emily Johnson, Jordan Peklo, Henry Roderick, Glen Williamson

Saga Vol. 80 / 2016-2017, Alyssa Froehling, Elena Leith, Emma Smith

SAGA Art & Literary Magazine

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Witness, Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois

2017-2018

What does it mean to bear witness?

How does this idea manifest itself in the visual arts?

From tourism to war to social critique, at the local, regional, national, or international level, the concept of bearing witness through the arts provides a means by which one can better understand a place, an issue, or a person. It can undermine the powerful, or serve as a tool of propaganda. It can retell the stories that we have heard before, or make space for new voices and new stories.

Visual works, such as the photograph on the right, can play a vital …

Herbarium Tales, Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois

2017-2018

Herbarium Tales features scientific specimens of the herbarium of Augustana, and invites the visitor to explore the intersections between the study of plant biodiversity, art, and the history of the College.