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The Home We Made: Illustrating Filipino Migration
The Filipino migrant worker’s story takes place across continents, resulting in gaps and silences within their story when viewed from a single perspective. How can techniques in illustration be used to challenge linearity and dominant perspectives? How can it be used to record and retell histories of marginalized/migrant populations? In a collaboration with Damayan Migrant Workers Association and Barnard College History Department, the project utilizes both art-based research and field work methodologies toward an illustrated visual essay of the experience of the Filipino migrant domestic worker in New York City. It looks at how illustration can be used as a tool for documentation and journalism. Illustration can record and inform, but it can also fill silences in the archive, as well as protect subjects who may be undocumented or trafficked, especially in contexts in which photography might have jeopardized their safety. Field work, reportage drawing, and interview aid in recording my experience as a volunteer staff member in Damayan. In late 2023, I illustrated and designed 20 Years of Damayan, a visual historical timeline for the organization, assisted by collaborative archival research with Barnard College History. I then brought my illustration methodology to Little Manila, the Filipino im/migrant enclave in Queens, New York.
Judaica: An Embodied Laboratory for Songwork
New Americans’ Pavilion: A Space of Cosmopolitan Cooperation in Syracuse, New York
The New Americans’ Pavilion at Salt City Harvest Farm (SCHF) is an interdisciplinary community-university partnered design project that supports food sovereignty for refugees in Syracuse, New York. The building is an important social hub for the refugee diaspora, and also a research testbed for an innovative off-the-grid, solar-powered cold storage system that is intended to become a model for small community farms. Syracuse is home to more than ten thousand refugees, with origins ranging from Somalia to Bhutan to Cambodia. Many refugees live in areas of the city with limited access to a variety of fresh food. SCHF was established in 2014 to provide the refugee community with farmland where they can grow the kinds of food they want to eat, as well as educational programs where they can learn to farm and bring their produce to market. In 2020, SCHF began a collaboration with faculty and students at Syracuse University to design and build the New Americans’ Pavilion. The pavilion includes covered space for washing, packing, and storing produce from the farm, as well as flexible space for dining and educational events. The building was designed and constructed over a three-year period by a team comprising university faculty and students, community volunteers, professional contractors, and Salt City Harvest Farm staff. The project was supported by funding from the Chobani® Community Impact Fund, the Central New York Community Foundation, the Reisman Foundation, and an Innovative and Interdisciplinary Research Grant from Syracuse University.
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Invited commentary on Vibrant Ecologies of Research
Ecologies of Transdisciplinary Research
There is a need to bridge the arts with the sciences to fully address the social and environmental crises facing the planet. Transdisciplinarity can meet this need if certain barriers are overcome: namely, delimited thinking and dysfunctional institutional structures.
Reviewer commentary on Choreografish: an arts-based, virtual reality, anxiety intervention for autism
Last Word on Reviewing “Choreografish” for Ground Works
Veronica Stanich
July 2021 · 10.48807/2022.1.0008
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