Future Homes: Speculative design proposal
56 young Chicagoans present radical proposals for development without displacement. What are our most valuable assets in our neighborhoods? What improvements would make the community better for the people who live here now? What must be preserved so that we can remain and thrive in our own communities?
Led by Paulina Camacho (art department chair, Benito Juarez Community Academy High School) and Nicole Marroquin (faculty in Art Education, SAIC)
The Public Studio at the Chicago Cultural Center was a 3 month residency with Nicole Marroquin and Andres L. Hernandez, joined by students from Benito Juarez Academy High School. Students made 3" clay portraits of their homes and neighborhoods. (2016/17)
Future Homes: Speculative design proposal at the Sullivan Galleries at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2017.
56 young Chicagoans present radical proposals for development without displacement. What are our most valuable assets in our neighborhoods? What improvements would make the community better for the people who live here now? What must be preserved so that we can remain and thrive in our own communities?
Led by Paulina Camacho (art department chair, Benito Juarez Community Academy High School) and Nicole Marroquin (faculty in Art Education, SAIC)
Future Homes: Speculative design proposal
Exhibition view from the Chicago Cultural Center, Historical F(r)ictions, 2017
56 young Chicagoans present radical proposals for development without displacement. What are our most valuable assets in our neighborhoods? What improvements would make the community better for the people who live here now? What must be preserved so that we can remain and thrive in our own communities?
Led by Paulina Camacho (art department chair, Benito Juarez Community Academy High School) and Nicole Marroquin (faculty in Art Education, SAIC)
(left) Artist Jose Resendiz visits students. (right) collage by Elizabeth Cardona, 2016
Juarez High School students became co-researchers in a semester-long investigation of archives and media from student-led insurrections in their own community: 1968 at Harrison High School; 1973 at Froebel Extension; 2016 walkouts at Juarez High School. Students used primary sources, social practice and art-based research to develop interventions, art and questions, which they presented at national conferences in 2016.
Benito Juarez Academy High School students work with materials from yearbooks, archives and old newspapers that chronicle the uprisings at Froebel and Harrison high school, which led to the construction of their school.
In 2016, Juarez High School Students present their interventions and arts based research at the National Art Education Association Conference, and at the Inter-University Program for Latino Research conference and symposium, Latino Art Now!
2009. Students at MAS (Multicultural Art School) at Little Village Lawndale High School in Chicago used cell phones to make an animated GIF.
Little Village Lawndale High School, MAS, Bianca Alferes. 2006
Mapping with students at MAS (Multicultural Arts School) at Little Village High School, 2009. Pictured: Tony O.