Many thanks Francesco @studiobergini for having us today and sharing your super duper inspiring work! Hot type, delicious textures, analog processes, handmade joy, great energy⚡️⚡️⚡️
London adventures continue. We had a fantastic visit to @made_thought last week. Thanks and gratitude to Narcis and Phoebe for such an energizing presentation and discussion. 🙏
Last week we gathered at UConn Art + Art History for a day on anti-oppressive, liberatory design pedagogy and practice. We talked about how we teach, who gets to be in the room, and what we owe our students and each other. ✨
Thank you to everyone who made it possible:
🎤 Our Read morekeynotes, Amy Papaelias and Ramon Tejada
🗣️ Our panelists, nicole killian, Chris Sancomb, Cheryl D. Miller, Luciana McClure Lewis, and Alex Heard
👋 John Richardson, Department Head, for opening Common Ground
🤝 Our moderators, Emily Larned & Melanie Uribe
🖼️ The student exhibitions by SCSU Art + Design and UConn Graphic Design
💛 Our supporters: UCHI Humanities Institute, the SFA Dean’s Office, the Department of Art + Art History, the Studio Theater, SCSU Art + Design, and AIGA Connecticut
✋ Everyone else who helped in between and behind the scenes
🌱 Plus everyone who showed up, asked questions, got books, and stayed for the conversations in the hallway
This is only the beginning. More to come. 🌍
Common Ground Symposium was organized by Dina Benbrahim.
Swipe through for moments from the day → 💚
Join us at 5pm on Monday November 16 when Asjha Malcolm of inspiring @jaaahjaaahhhhh press will give a talk about her design, painting, & publishing practice! Art Building 108 (Design Center) from 5-6:20, open to all. Presented by ART/WGSS3125 Art Books, Book Arts, & Publishing as Radical Read morePractice, thanks to the Art & Art History Visiting Artists & Scholars Fund. 🥳🥳🥳
Always such an inspiring visit to @kellenbergerwhite !! Amazing work and such thoughtful process. So grateful@for Sebastian’s time and insight ❤️
Hungry? 🍎🥗🧁 We’ve got free food for students in the Design Center today at 3:30 p.m. Stop by, take what you need, and say hi! ✨
The Common Ground class photo 📸🩷
Thank you to everyone who filled the room yesterday, to everyone who made it possible, and all who came with questions, generosity and care.
We spent the day thinking together about liberatory design pedagogy and practice. We talked about Read moreauthorship, permission to fail, love letters, feminist participatory methods, multiscript futures, and the risks our bodies carry into classrooms. We also asked what teaching teaches us, and how we help students take responsibility for the work they put into the world. And so much more.
Thank you to our keynotes:
+ Amy Papaelias on Alphabettes Soup, a decade of feminist type community made with care and hot feminist butter.
+ Ramon Tejada on puncturing the canon to make room for home and many ways of knowing.
And to our panelists:
+ Kelly Walters on The Black Experience in Design, a collective book, and a little library that puts it in people’s hands.
+ nicole killian on queering typography as a shared, bodily practice, and gathering to read together as liberation.
+ Chris Sancomb on materials, and our responsibility to understand what’s behind them.
+ Jill Desimini on play as design inquiry in community
+ Cheryl D. Miller on creating the scholarship that was missing, so we don’t repeat the history of our racist visual culture.
+ Luciana McClure Lewis on feminist design as transformation merged with aesthetics, turning silence into language and action.
+ Alex Heard on soft sculpture, parades and community making for more joyful futures.
The conversation continued at the book signing, in the meditation space turned reading room, in Amy’s type workshop and in the exhibitions.
📷 Kári Björn
📚🩷 Get a special signed copy of Alphabettes Soup: Feminist Approaches to Type by Amy Papaelias, Black, Brown + LatinX Design Educators: Conversations on Design and Race by Kelly Walters, and Where the Black Designers Are: A Life in Advocacy by Cheryl D. Miller.
Tomorrow at VAIS from Read more2–3 p.m. (Art + Art History Building) during the Common Ground Symposium.
💚🩷 Common Ground Symposium 🩷💚
We are very excited for tomorrow! Today is the last day to reserve your spot for free. We are almost sold out.
🔗tinyurl.com/common-ground-symposium
