What's Your Walt Disney World Moment?│Disney
What's Your Walt Disney World Moment?│Disney
 No One Asked You│Ruth Leitman
No One Asked You│Ruth Leitman
 Celebrate and Shop│Walmart
Celebrate and Shop│Walmart
 Radioactive: Stories from Beyond the Wall│Maria Gaspar
Radioactive: Stories from Beyond the Wall│Maria Gaspar
 The Area (Trailer Editor)│David Schalliol
The Area (Trailer Editor)│David Schalliol
 Science Fair│Pop-Tarts
Science Fair│Pop-Tarts
 Larry from Gary (Trailer Editor)│Dan Rybicky
Larry from Gary (Trailer Editor)│Dan Rybicky
 Spill the Tea│KLA Beauty
Spill the Tea│KLA Beauty
 Back Alley Jazz
Back Alley Jazz
 Stormy and the Admirals (Trailer Editor)│Dan Rybicky
Stormy and the Admirals (Trailer Editor)│Dan Rybicky
 Looking at the Speculum│University of Chicago Arts & Sciences
Looking at the Speculum│University of Chicago Arts & Sciences
 Under One Roof│University of Chicago Arts & Sciences
Under One Roof│University of Chicago Arts & Sciences
 Mobilize Creative Collaborative
Mobilize Creative Collaborative
 FrankenToy Mobile
FrankenToy Mobile
 Gary Lights Open Works│Heat, Light and Water Cultural Project
Gary Lights Open Works│Heat, Light and Water Cultural Project
 People Powered Fiber Shredder │The Weaving Mill
People Powered Fiber Shredder │The Weaving Mill
 How to Decarbonize a State!
How to Decarbonize a State!
 Stateville Calling (Trailer Editor)
Stateville Calling (Trailer Editor)
 WWFM International Anthem Awards
WWFM International Anthem Awards
 The 51st (Free) State│Dance Performance
The 51st (Free) State│Dance Performance
What's Your Walt Disney World Moment?│Disney
No One Asked You│Ruth LeitmanComedian, disruptor-extraordinaire Lizz Winstead (co-creator of The Daily Show), and Abortion Access Front crisscross the U.S. to support abortion clinic staff and bust stigma. Pop culture icons and next-gen comics fuel this six-year road film activating small-town folks to rebuild vandalized clinics, exposing wrongdoer politicians, anti-abortion extremists, and media neglect as the race to the bottom ensues. A bold call to action reminds us that even as our rights burn down, joy will prevail.
Celebrate and Shop│Walmart
Radioactive: Stories from Beyond the Wall│Maria GasparRadioactive: Stories from Beyond the Wall is a series of community-engaged radio/visual broadcasts located between the largest architecture of Chicago’s West Side, the Cook County Jail, and the working-class residential area of the Lawndale communities. Radioactive centers the voices of those currently incarcerated by broadcasting and projecting intimate and creative stories from inside Cook County Jail to outside its' border.
The Area (Trailer Editor)│David SchalliolA South Side Chicago community’s five-year fight for respect in the face of displacement.
Science Fair│Pop-Tarts
Larry from Gary (Trailer Editor)│Dan RybickyA dedicated dance teacher continues inspiring his current and former students even after the arts high school in Gary, Indiana where he's taught for decades is shut down by the state.
Spill the Tea│KLA Beauty
Back Alley JazzBack Alley Jazz is inspired by the original jazz alley jams that took place in various locations on the South Side in the 1960s and 70s, and which still continue today in different forms, including the annual Universal Alley Jazz Jam. The project creates a contemporary neighborhood “happening” that animates, builds on, and celebrates Chicago’s history and the continuum of culture and art within communities.
Stormy and the Admirals (Trailer Editor)│Dan RybickyA group of elderly feminists living in a senior apartment building in Chicago called The Admiral decide to support Stormy Daniels by going to see her strip at a gentlemen's club - also called The Admiral. 
Looking at the Speculum│University of Chicago Arts & SciencesThe current design of the vaginal speculum was developed by American physician J. Marion Sims in the 1840s. Sims conducted his medical experiments on enslaved women, some of whom endured up to 30 surgeries without anesthesia. This project investigates the clinical use and social implications, pasts, histories, and futures of the speculum. Through artistic experimentation, archaeological consideration, and anthropological method, Emma Gilheany (PhD student, Anthropology, UChicago) and Efrat Hakimi (MFA candidate, Painting and Drawing, SAIC) will examine the social and material life of this instrument to create an installation that critiques the speculum through its function as a viewing tool. This project will consider the particularity of a woman’s embodied experience, and the relationships between curiosity, intimacy, and intrusion. This collaboration seeks to expose, deconstruct, and oppose the violence embedded in seemingly quotidian protocols that women encounter.
Under One Roof│University of Chicago Arts & Sciences
Mobilize Creative CollaborativeThe Mobilize Creative Collaborative is a collective led by four artists who utilize bicycle-based maker spaces to provide free, creative workshops for youth and adults in public spaces.
FrankenToy Mobile
Gary Lights Open Works│Heat, Light and Water Cultural ProjectAs an inaugural project of the Heat, Light and Water Cultural Project, Gary Lights Open Works begins by engaging Gary residents in the process of designing custom streetlights while modeling new possibilities for the intersection of art and city infrastructure.  Throughout 2017 and 2018, artists David Rueter and Marissa Lee Benedict developed and installed a series of 10 lighting installations in public parks across the city of Gary, Indiana. The “streetlight” installations, in conjunction with a series of public workshops for youth, adults, and seniors, comprise the artist’s collaborative research initiative Gary Lights Open Works (funded in 2016-17 by the National Endowment for the Arts and The Legacy Foundation).
People Powered Fiber Shredder │The Weaving MillFabric and yarn waste are inevitable parts of a textile studio practice: thrums, yarn clippings, fabric scraps all pile up in the process of making. However many alternate uses we might come up with for these trimmings, there comes a point at which they are simply not very useful. However: disaggregate any material enough and it becomes a raw material in its own right. It is in this spirit that we began work on an in-house fiber recycling program. Working with designer/builder Erik Newman, we have developed a people-powered-fiber-shredding machine to process the scraps, off-cuts and fiber waste of our studio into a usable fluff byproduct: our goal is to develop infrastructure that deals with waste at the scale at which it is produced and to find a meaningful life for the materials that fall off the table in the process of making.
How to Decarbonize a State!
Stateville Calling (Trailer Editor)
WWFM International Anthem Awards
The 51st (Free) State│Dance Performance
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