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End Conscription Campaign: Is War the Cost of Living?
No full textRelated to the Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement Collection is the Orlando Redekopp Collection, where this poster is housed. Access these collections in the College Archives & Special Collections unit of Columbia College Chicago. Contact [email protected] for more information and to view the collections.https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/cadc_caam_posters/1107/thumbnail.jp
United States: Celebrate the Release of Nelson Mandela!
No full textRelated to the Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement Collection is the Orlando Redekopp Collection, where this poster is housed. Access these collections in the College Archives & Special Collections unit of Columbia College Chicago. Contact [email protected] for more information and to view the collections.https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/cadc_caam_posters/1110/thumbnail.jp
Queer Makishi: Black Son Devising Project Research Presentation
No full textJohann (Yo) Wood is a performance artist-scholar, vocalist, and painter. As both an MA and MFA candidate in theatre and devised performance, Johann’s interests are at the intersection of blackness, queer theory, mix & (re)remixing, and jazz aesthetics through embodied, auto-ethnographic research. He speaks about the process of creating the work, Queer Makishi -a short devised film, his performance thesis produced for his MFA in European Devised Performance Practice at Columbia College Chicago.https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/theses_edpp/1001/thumbnail.jp
Guide to the Paul Freeman Collection
Get PDFPaul Freeman was a conductor, composer, and founder of the Chicago Sinfonietta. The collection contains conductor scores, recordings, and other materials related to his conducting performances with the Chicago Sinfonietta and other orchestras.https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/cmbr_guides/1016/thumbnail.jp
Guide to the Theodore Charles Stone Collection
Get PDFTheodore Charles Stone was a Chicago-based opera singer and journalist who served as president of both the National Association of Negro Musicians and Chicago Music Association. The collection provides insight into the African American operatic music scene throughout the 20th century.https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/cmbr_guides/1037/thumbnail.jp
Guide to the Martin Williams Collection
Get PDFMartin Williams was a music critic specializing in jazz and American popular culture and the collection includes published articles, unpublished manuscripts, files and correspondence, and music scores of jazz compositions. He wrote for major jazz periodicals, especially Down Beat, co-founded The Jazz Review and was the author of numerous books on jazz.https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/cmbr_guides/1042/thumbnail.jp
A Genocide in the 21st Century
No full textWHY THIS SUBJECT? The focus of my poster is the genocide happening in Xinjiang, China. The Uyghur Muslim ethnic group is being targeted and put in concentration camps. The communist party in China refers to the concentration camps as education camps. The people in the camps have to go through traumatic experiences such as being separated from family members, being forced to do practices against their beliefs, being used for free labor, etc. These practices are inhumane, and the mass media is barely covering the issue. As a Muslim, it is very tragic for me to see people from my community go through this suffering experience. With the lack of media coverage, I wanted to create a poster to raise awareness.
WHAT SHOULD WE KNOW ABOUT THE WORK? I want people to know that this issue shouldn\u27t concern Muslims only. The is an issue of human rights issue, and everyone should care about it. People are forced into these camps without their consent. As a Muslim, I am hurt, that people from my community have to go through these inhumane actions and traumatic experiences, there aren\u27t many people speaking up on the issue. Even people who manage to escape from there suffer from effects and trauma for the rest of their lives.
WHAT WAS YOUR PROCESS? When designing and creating this poster, I was influenced by the fact that this issue is barely getting media coverage. Therefore I wanted my poster to capture attention. I used saturated colors that are catchy to the eye, yet colors and symbols are symbolic of the issue. Since this is a topic not many people know a lot about. I used symbolism that is meaningful to this issue, because if these symbols are recurring in posters, then people will slowly begin recognizing these symbols. For instance, The woman on the poster is a symbol for the voice of Uyghur Muslims in protests. Therefore I positioned her in the foreground of the poster as she is the voice of the people in the back. I also used text such as “A Genocide in the 21st Century”, because China likes to refer to the concentration camps as reeducation camps, but everything happening follows the criteria of ethnic cleansing and genocide. It is crazy that this is still happening in the 21st century. My thought process was to take artistic decisions that deliver my message more effectively.https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/capturingprotest/1000/thumbnail.jp
The Freedom to Vote
No full textWHY THIS SUBJECT? 2020 has led to so many challenges and difficulties and even with a simple task such as voting that is so familiar, I wanted to showcase the achievements that have been made in the past and yet show how they are all leading for even greater changes in the future.
WHAT SHOULD WE KNOW ABOUT THE WORK? All voices matter and have a right to be heard to continue working towards a fair and equal future. Everyone deserves that chance to be heard. Those who have come before us have been dedicated to making their voices heard for what they believe in and it is our right to be able to continue advancing these notions and to be able to advocate for ourselves and what we believe in.
WHAT WAS YOUR PROCESS? I wanted to initially go from a black and white image demonstrating the past to color of the present, but continued with the black and white to show how someday this will all be one giant piece that blends into a large movement for many generations down the road.https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/capturingprotest/1006/thumbnail.jp
\u3ci\u3eIn The Spotlight at Home\u3c/i\u3e
No full textWHY THIS SUBJECT? I wanted to portray the feeling of what it\u27s like moving home with my parents after being alone and free in the big city of Chicago. I know it is all with love, but they like to check in on me, say hi, and show me funny videos.... a lot! Being the only child at home with them, I feel as if I am caught in the spotlight, having my every move analyzed.
STAYING INDOORS THOUGHTS: It\u27s rough! Thankfully, I am privileged to have my own bedroom as an escape, but after nearly a month of isolation, I have still not completely adjusted to it. I am counting down the (indefinite) days until I can move back to Chicago!
WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT THE IMAGE: This was a project that I have been wanting to try for a while. I created different things in Photoshop (shapes, words, and landscapes) to project onto myself, but ultimately decided that a simple circle articulated my feelings best. This is not only a way that I can experiment with lighting scenarios without accessibility of a lighting studio, but also a way to merge two of my favorite mediums into a single piece of work.https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/stuckindoors/1000/thumbnail.jp
\u3ci\u3eFinding the light\u3c/i\u3e
No full textWHY THIS SUBJECT?: Self portraiture is a great at way to explore yourself in a new way, and being that we are social distancing, it’s a great time to focus on them.
STAYING INDOORS THOUGHTS: It has been hard, but with my family and ever advancing technology, and the beautiful outdoors, I have been doing just fine!
WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT THE IMAGE: For me this image is all about finding the light in the darkness. Lots of people are seeing the negative and everything that stinks about this, but I always try to see the light and find the good things in each day. This image is about fighting to find that even when our lives are blurry and confusing, the light will always appear.https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/stuckindoors/1001/thumbnail.jp