Conveying Migration Stories: Digital Exhibition
In 2024, high school students from South Shore College Prep, Lincoln Park High School, and Prosser Career Academy worked with artists Dawit L. Petros, Regina Agu, and Jonathan Castillo. Students created photographic portraits and oral history records to capture stories from members of their communities about how people relocated their lives to Chicago. This is a digital exhibition of their work.
An in-person exhibition of this work is on view from January 17 – February 16, 2025 at the Columbia College Chicago Community Engagement Hub located on the first floor of 600 S. Michigan Ave. The gallery hours are Monday – Saturday, 10am – 4pm.
Prosser Career Academy students working with Jonathan Castillo
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Lincoln Park High School students working with Dawit L. Petros
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South Shore College Prep working with Regina Agu
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The exhibition is part of the Arts, Activism, Policy, Power program. The program was facilitated by CPS teachers Kristin Yenior, Sydney Walters, and Erin Jimenez, working with MoCP Curatorial Assistant Kyli Hawks and Curator of Academic Programs and Collections, Kristin Taylor. Art, Activism, Policy, Power is generously funded by the Rowan Foundation, the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation, and the Venable Foundation.
