HOME>>>>>>> LINK TO SYLLABUSAfter a semester of learning about Chicago activism, past and present, students produced work for a final project prompting them to incorporate the ideas and values they had been studying all semester into a piece in the medium of their choice. “Before and After Jane”, Claire Evelyn Jacobs, 2025
Inspired by the documentary, “Jane: An Abortion Service”, Claire is reflecting on the quality of care women received from the Jane Collective, and mourning the loss of that care in the current medical industry, even as we are grateful that abortion, at least in the state of Illinois, is legal. “Letters/Cartas”, Odette Sofia Garcia Pichardo, 2025
Odette wrote letters to and from 18 individuals affected by ICE in the last 6 months, one letter to her hometown Tijuana, and one letter to an ICE agent. The letters are in Spanish and in English, with a photograph of the individual on the other side, many of whom she interviewed in person. She then sewed the letters into a hanging quilt, that can be read from both sides. “Creep”, Sakura Melodie Acopian, 2025.
Sakura flips the power dynamics in the relationship between a creepy record producer and the young girls of the popular group AKB48 in the recreation of popular merchandise associated with the Japanese Idol Groups. Her feminist twist shows the world who this man really is, complete with a tiny pair of handcuffs. “Yasushi Akimoto Japanese Record Producer and Lyricist Famous for creating and producing Japns top idol groups like AKB48..... Making underage girls sing songs about sex, saving their purity, and taking their school uniform off.... Creep” “The Weeping Woman”, Andres Zhou, 2025. Andres chose for this project to research the story behind the Picasso painting, “The Weeping Woman”, and made this short video which draws parallels between the horrors of The Spanish Civil War that Picasso’s subject grieves, and contemporary warfare and genocide. “My Nudity is not an Invitation”, Alannah Irmabel Ortiz Hernandez, 2025
“I am not just a body, exposed and vulnerable for your PLEASURE. My nudity is not an invitation- it is simply a form, an expression, a human shape. Why must my beauty imply desire? Why must I be reduced to a the parts you choose to see? I refuse to be carved down to your fantasies”>>>>>>>>LINK TO SYLLABUSChloe Chang, New Art City virtual space, Breathing Bodies in Digital Worlds 2025A public event I organized to showcase the virtual worlds in New Art City made by my class and Joseph Belknap’s class, “Ancestral Simulations”, to whom I introduced the New Art City platform as a means of showcasing the 3-D Blender work they were already making. This event took place as a final celebration in May of 2025, and Joseph and I are already planning one for this spring.Andy Brown, final installation performance for Breathing Bodies in Digital Worlds Spring 2025Viris Olivarez, final installation performance for Breathing Bodies in Digital Worlds Spring 2024Mo Beamon, installation with New Art City virtual navigable world, 2024