In collaboration with the Liberal Arts Engagement Hub, I developed and designed promotional posters to represent diverse projects and their community partners. My role involved overseeing the creation of seven unique posters, ensuring that each met high-quality standards and was delivered on schedule. I maintained open and effective communication with clients throughout the project, gathering their requirements, providing timely updates, and thoughtfully incorporating feedback to meet their goals and vision.
Hub Residencies
Client
Liberal Arts Engagement Hub
Year
2023
Liberal Arts Engagement Hub
The Hub is intended to serve as both a welcoming entryway to the University of Minnesota and a location that strengthens the college's culture of community involvement. Through a limited application procedure, residencies are offered funding and space for public engagement initiatives to teachers, students, staff, and/or community members.
Disability Justice In MN
We are a local group of disabled activists, organizers, educators, and advocates working to foster Disability Justice (DJ) in Minnesota. During this Hub residency, we’ll work with our campus partner, the Critical Disability Studies Collective, to form a local DJ organization and plan the inaugural DJ in MN Summit. Our project aims to explicitly promote local disability histories and culture through uplifting the voices of multiply-marginalized disabled folk. By doing so, we’ll prioritize community, connection, and relationships as a radical act toward transformation justice.
The Good Relatives Project
As Indigenous and ally researchers, we grapple with tensions related to our participation in the academy as we seek and maintain (re)connection with our own communities and Indigenous peoples elsewhere/everywhere. In this project, we bring forward opportunities and acts that empower liberatory thinking, ethical research relationships, and re-humanizing pedagogies with Indigenous communities and tribal institutions that center Indigenous environmental issues that can be confronted through the relationship between science, art, and education.
Memorialize The Movement
Community Creates is a year-long series designed to connect University of Minnesota students with local businesses, organizations, activists, organizers, and storytellers. Understanding the “why” and the “how” behind some of your favorite local shops, organizers, and activists lends a unique perspective to students interested in working within a community after college. Memorialize the Movement (MTM) offers students a chance to hear their stories and learn from their lived experiences.
Preserving and Promoting Hmong American History
The Hmong Cultural Center (HCC) Museum opened in the fall of 2021 as one of the only permanent Hmong cultural and historical spaces in the United States. Located on University Avenue in the Frogtown neighborhood of Saint Paul, the museum seeks to introduce the community, both Hmong and non-Hmong, to the culture and history of the Hmong people, including the community’s history in the Twin Cities. The HCC also serves as a resource to recent immigrants, teaching citizenship classes and helping educate Hmong youth in Hmong cultural traditions
The Twin Cities Black Europe Film Festival
The experiences of Black Europeans have been largely excluded from mainstream media both in Europe and in the United States, resulting in a lack of representation and limited opportunities for enrichment, appreciation, understanding, and cultural exchange. The Twin Cities Black Europe Film Festival (TC BEFF) contributes to redressing this gap in visibility and recognition, which contributes to the reproduction of racialized regimes of disempowerment, marginalization, and devaluation of Black lives across the globe.
Sound Stories
Sound Stories is a public composition experiment to explore individual and communal resilience through sound. It will build material artifacts with community members and foster narratives of what it means to voice resistance, resonance, and resilience.
Soomaal House Archive Fellowship
Soomaal House Archive Fellowship is an opportunity for artists, scholars, and researchers interested in the history of Somalia, the Horn of Africa, and Somalis in the diaspora. The fellowship will provide resources, connections, and access for the development and presentation of new research into Somali archive collections. The fellows are encouraged to make scholarly contributions and investigate the materials of Soomaal House Library & Archive Center, which houses three collections: Contemporary Somali Art and Artists, History of Somali Minnesotans, and Historical Archive of Somalia & Somalis in the diaspora.