Columbia College Chicago Diane Dammeyer Initiative
The Diane Dammeyer Initiative Youth Photography Project was established in 2017 to promote photography as a tool of self-expression and to give voice to the youth in the United Sates and beyond. For Toward Common Cause, the Initiative offered a series of photography workshops for youth at Centro Romero in collaboration with MacArthur Fellow Wendy Ewald.
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Wendy Ewald is an artist defined by collaboration. Over a 50-year career she has distributed cameras to children and adults, teaching them rudimentary photography skills and asking them to photograph their lives—the quotidian and extraordinary, what happens during their days and their dreams. When asked which aspects of her work are too often omitted from…
Through scholarly research, collaborative artmaking, and community organizing Jason De León, Wendy Ewald, and Daysi Funes address critical immigration, migration, and human rights issues. Join these panelists for a virtual conversation as they reflect on recent projects including Ewald’s current Toward Common Cause initiative, Daily Life and Dreams in the Pandemic: Photographs by Youth in Rogers Park organized at…