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Jenny Holzer
YOUVOTE
projection
OCT 26-29, 6-8pm
On October 26th-29th, during the week leading up to the 2020 presidential and congressional elections, the Miller ICA will project a series of animations from Jenny Holzer's YOUVOTE campaign on the outside of our building on CMU's campus. YOUVOTE focuses on key areas through the swing states of Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania to champion broad political engagement, issue awareness, and voter empowerment. This project will be visible from Forbes Ave in front of Carnegie Mellon University, and is part of a broader effort to expand the Miller ICA exhibition practices to include public spaces during the pandemic when access to our space is limited.
Holzer's medium–whether formulated as a T-shirt, a plaque, or an LED sign–is writing, and the public dimension is integral to the delivery of her work. Starting in the 1970s with the New York City posters, and continuing through her recent light projections on landscape and architecture, her practice has rivaled ignorance and violence with humor, kindness, and courage. For more than 40 years, Jenny Holzer has presented her astringent ideas, arguments, and sorrows in public places and international exhibitions, including 7 World Trade Center, the Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Louvre Abu Dhabi.
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Finding Voice
to Empower Life in 2020
A Series of 3 Workshops Guided by Jenn Joy
THURSDAYS 12:30-1:30pm
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OCT 29: Deep & Active Listening/ Being Heard
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NOV 12: Truth, Lies, Myth, and Story.
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This election season is unlike any in living memory; marked by the stressors of the COVID 19 pandemic, the national reckoning on racism, and a deeply contentious and polarized political environment, many are acutely feeling the psychological and emotional impact of these times. As a response, the Miller ICA is reimagining programmatic formats in an effort to emphasize care and repair. This new public programming series draws on the content of the current exhibition to frame a set of free workshops that center the wellbeing of our visitors and aim to reduce the harmful human impact of current events.
Join Reiki Master, Jenn Joy, to engage in active listening, discover the power of story as an agent for change, and learn techniques to connect with the breath and relax the mind and body. The workshops build upon each other; so it is ideal to take them as a series. However, each individual workshop can be a standalone experience as well.
Poster by: Melinda Beck, New York
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AIGA Virtual Tour
of Get Out The Vote
Join us for a virtual tour of Get Out the Vote: Empowering the Women’s Vote poster campaign, in partnership with the League of Women Voters as well as Miller ICA’s PGH edition of non-partisan poster designs from local artists. This non-partisan voter initiative brings together posters from female designers from across the country to commemorate the centennial of the ratification of the 19th amendment in 1920 making it unconstitutional to deny access to voting based on a person’s sex.
The tour will take a closer look at several posters in the exhibition and will be an opportunity to reflect on the history of voting rights in America and the future we hope to shape through the democratic process.
Closed captioning will be provided.
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Annotated Bibliographies
These reading recommendations focus on complex issues surrounding the democratic process.
Full annotations and book descriptions available
on our website.
Jill Chisnell
Art, Architecture and Design Librarian, University Libraries, Carnegie Mellon University
• Craftivism: The Art of Craft and Activism by Greer, B. (Ed.). (2014). Arsenal Pulp Press.
• Shelf Life by Related Tactics (2019).
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Joe William Trotter, Jr.
Giant Eagle University Prof. of History and Social Justice and Director, Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE), CMU
• The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870 by W.E.B. Du Bois (1896, reprt. New York: Russell and Russell, 1965).
• The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study by W.E.B. Du Bois (1899, reprt. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996).
• Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du Bois (1935; reprt. New York: The Free Press, 1998).
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Marysol Ortega Pallanez
PhD Researcher, Transition Design School of Design, CMU
• Las políticas de invitar : Coarticulación de temas en torno a la participación pública en diseño : Politics of inviting : co-articulations of issues in designerly public engagement by Åsa Ståhl and Kristina Lindström
• The Design Politics of the Passport: Materiality, Immobility, and Dissent by Mahmoud Keshavarz
Full annotations and book descriptions available
on our website.
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We are now open for in-person visits from the Carnegie Mellon Community. Walk-ins welcome with CMU ID and mask or make a reservation.
New Hours: Tues-Fri 2-6pm with CMU ID.
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