Columbia College Chicago

Columbia College Chicago (CCC) is an educational institution based in downtown Chicago. Its public programming attracts a wide range of audience members. This event is part of the Collective Impact series of exhibitions and performances designed to look at community engagement and social justice in artmaking.

Meiselas and Ewald are co-authors of Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography along with Laura Wexler, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, and Leigh Raiford.  The book sets collaborative practice as the framework through which to examine photographic history and authorship. Columbia College Chicago (CCC) is piloting the use of the book within the curriculum of CCC’s Photo Social Practice course in early 2024, and the research team (Meiselas, Ewald, Wexler, and Peter Fitzpatrick at CCC) plans to mentor students on incorporating elements of the framework in their own projects within the South Loop community.  There will be an exhibition of work that will coincide with the CCC public arts festival Manifest. A public discussion among the co-authors is also set to take place in April of 2024. 

In general support of the Sherwood Conservatory of Music (over two years).

In support of general operations (over five years).

For research on the ecological sustainability of ornamental fish in the Peruvian Amazon.

To support Democratic Vistas, a series of educational and cultural events exploring cultural policy and the role of art in our society.