“Ups and Downs of Chi-Town” Student Project
Academic Semester students Jessica and Erin created this fabulous poster for their media project in the “Chicago Communities and Cultures” Seminar.
Jessica writes,
“We actually have been building similar “mural walls” on our bedroom walls with newspaper clippings that have caught our attention politically, emotionally, artistically, etc. The project is definitely a micro version of those, as our bedroom murals are much more extensive.
“In the poster, we wanted to incorporate the four main ideas that Erin and I have become the most passionate about here in our Chicago term (Gentrification, Arts, Social Awareness, and Politics). We both felt that in many ways there are positive and negative tensions within all of those categories and we attempted to show those through newspaper clippings that we had been collecting throughout the term and quotes that had distinctly stuck out in our experiences. The brick wall with graffiti writing ties back in to our mural wall part of this term. These four ideas Erin and I are going to continue to be involved in past this term in Chicago.”