NO SPACE LIKE HOME, 2019
Our 2019 exhibition partnered with Gem City Market, Welcome Dayton and the Hanley Sustainability Institute to examine themes around landscape and migration and to critique environmental racism and redlining. Students from majors including photography, graphic design, engineering, biology and dietetics shared creative research about local and regional narratives of place that highlighted migration, land use and the troubling practices that have created systemic inequities in our society. Our dinner event was a forum to discuss opportunities for creating community and enacting opportunity in a time of widespread division.
Design by Jack Hadley (Graphic Design, ‘20)
Guests Gabriela Pickett, Ndidi Achebe and Amaha Sellassie join others at the table to discuss the legacies of redlining and opportunities for transformation in Dayton while enjoying local cuisine. (Photo by Jillian Parker)
Art and Social Practice students Hannah Brinkman, Caitlin Mahoney and Alyssa Foristell serve “Hooverville Stew,” based on recipes from The Great Depression for this makeshift dish prepared in camps across the USA
Art works investigating the negative legacies of redlining inform visitors to DDK IV.