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BMORE Than the Story

AWARDS

Gold ADDY: Washington D.C. Chapter of the American Advertising Federation - Exhibit Design

Best Community Curation: Baltimore City Paper

Runner Up: Core77 - Design Education Initiatives Award

BMORE THAN THE STORY

This was a two-semester collaboration with high school students from the Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts in Baltimore, Maryland and the graphic design students from the University of Maryland College Park. It took place at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African-American History and Culture from April 28th, 2016 through September 4th, 2016.

This exhibit was made to highlight the youth perspective of the Baltimore riots and was to open on the year anniversary of the death of Freddie Gray. The high school students shared their experiences living in Baltimore before, during, and after the riots, allowing their voices to be heard beyond the flood of media reports. 

There were three main parts to the exhibit space: vultures, the wall of names, and the black light exhibit. The vultures represented the police surveillance around the areas where the students live. The wall of names highlighted the history of victims of police brutality. The wall also allowed visitors to add their own entries, turning the wall into a living document. The black light exhibit displayed quotes shared by the media about the riots, but when illuminated with a black light flashlight, revealed the edits that students would have preferred the media to have shown.

As an individual, I worked mainly with the black light group to research quotes, interview the high school students for their edits, and ensure our vision for the section of the exhibit turned out as we had expected. In addition, I designed the three infographics that were placed within the exhibit and inside the catalog. They gave visitors visual data and context to the different parts of the exhibit.