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The Arquin Slide Project in Panorama
Since late summer 2023 my colleague Dr. Emily Fenichel and I worked on a 2000-word piece on The Arquin Slide Project. The funded NEH grant to digitize, catalogue, and make public the slides officially concluded in Spring 2023 and the project is officially launched. After almost three years of work with students cataloging and translating… — read more
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Annotated Bibliography of Diseño Gráfico en Colombia
Since the fall of 2021, I have been conducting a literature review of sources related to the history of visual communication and design in Colombia. The sources include books and articles dealing with topics such as indigenous symbols and lan¬guages, typography and printing since colonial times, and publishing and periodicals in the early republic. Other… — read more
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The Arquin Slide Project
The National Endowment for the Humanities grant will support our project “Arquin Slide Collection Digitization Project: Preserving the Heritage of Latin America,” which will make approximately 15,000 slides available to the public. Photographed by artist and art educator, Florence Arquin in the 1940s and 50s, the slides provide a glimpse into cities across the world… — read more
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Translations of Place: Plats in the Florida Spanish Land Grants
This ongoing project merges together two interests I have as a design scholar. First, a creative and experimental engagement with data visualization, in this case, of archival documents. And second, an ongoing question on how a Hispanic identity has been part of the United States since long before the massive immigration of the last decades.… — read more
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Hispanic U.S. Now Interactive
Early this year I made a visualization of a collection of cities and towns of hispanic origin in the U.S. I departed from a database I created of about 80 places across the U.S. where I included name, state, population and a short text on the origin of the name. My initial visualization was created… — read more
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Vice and Virtue Walking Tour
21 Memorials to Vincent A. “Buddy” Cianci Jr. Collaboration with Sara Emmenecker and Anya Ventura Vincent A. “Buddy” Cianci Jr. is the longest serving mayor in the history of Providence. He is credited with spearheading the pivotal Providence Renaissance, yet his mayoral tenure abruptly ended in 2002 when he was sentenced to four years in… — read more