Graduate Projects
Interested in the work some of our graduates have produced? Check out the links below to get started!
Zj Johnson: GENDER GLITCH: Undressing Trans* Expression and Joy Through Fashion
Sara Velasquez: Mapping Dogpatch Memories: a Family Oral History Project
Mapping Dogpatch Memories utilizes oral history and mapping practices to document the lived experiences of Sara Velasquez’s family members while exploring how growing up in a small Colorado neighborhood shaped their identities and sense of community. Grounded in place-based communication, the project examines how memories, stories, and cultural connections are tied to physical spaces and passed across generations. Dogpatch, located on the east side of Pueblo, was home to Sara’s grandparents who were among the neighborhood’s earliest residents and continues to be a place where members of her family live today.
Brooklynn Gray: Essence of Us
https://essenceofusexhibit.my.canva.site/
Sofie Hecht: Conversations with Archives: A Community Workshop for New Mexico Downwinders
This website documents a community archival workshop in collaboration with the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium that developed as an extension of the long-term storytelling project A Matter of When: Stories of New Mexico's Downwinders that documents the impacts of radiation contamination from the Trinity test on New Mexico residents. Guiding the workshop was the question, "What are these images from the past trying to tell us and how can we communicate back to them?" with the goal of drawing out the specific details, moments, smells, and textures of memories. The workshop encourages participants to imagine and dream beyond the spaces of enclosure created by historical narratives that exclude the emotional, affective, and specific experiences of downwinder grief. This website archives some of the work that was created together and offers spaces for others to use these tools in their own communities.
