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Exhibition text courtesy James McAnally. One North, Topping Out Day engages a complex history of architectural erasure and the undulating developments of the Gateway Arch…

Warm Welcome presents a series of intimate gestures, sketches, artifacts, and artworks culled from the studio and home of Sage Dawson. A seemingly antithetical collection…

A collaboration between Sage Dawson and Meghan Grubb, Stopgap is a site-responsive sandbag shelter for one, printed with silver chain-link and barbed wire fence patterns….

I Dream of a House, a poem by André Lafon originally published in Poèmes Provinciaux, 1908, was published as a book for the zine library…

Exhibition essay courtesy James McAnally: The blue, bordering violet, does not match the color of the morning but the suffrage of the evening. A blue…

Drift Field is a site-responsive work that examines the urban landscape surrounding The Pulitzer Arts Foundation. A constellation of points and signals meander, and like a…

Demarcation and designation–for example, an address–is critical to a site’s identity. This naming allows for a site’s inclusion in public records and maps–systems which can…

On Austin Boulevard in Columbus Park sits one of two Tudor-style comfort stations that still stand in Chicago. Built in 1936, the Columbus Park Comfort…

Recent hate crimes across the country highlight the difficulties that persist politically and socially, especially for minority and marginalized communities. We Stand is a collection…

DEMO Project works on paper imagine the moments leading up to, during, and just after the house is torn down. Many of the works envision…

Brick Myth is inspired by Persian pleasure-pavilions: ornate, paneled tents pitched outdoors for entertaining and gathering. This tent utilizes ornamental patterns based on rescued 19th-century…

Little Tavern examines the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. area hamburger restaurants built in a Tudor style that first opened in 1928. The chain was sold…

The National Building Arts Center, a conservatory at the former Sterling Steel Casting Company building in Sauget, Illinois, houses more than 300,000 historic building artifacts…

Not Unlike a Buried City hybridizes architectural and decorative art forms found in the American Midwest, as well as Byzantine, Islamic, Roman, Palestinian, Persian, and…

Dust examines the identity of DEMO Project, a former house-turned-gallery-space, which is slated for demolition. To emphasize the space’s impermanence, and to persuade viewers to…

Emblem poetically focuses on the identity of the Summerville neighborhood of Augusta, Georgia, in which the neighborhood becomes a political structure. The work examines housing…

“…after the wall-paper was changed it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the…

Ghost is the final project examining the Summerville district in Augusta, Georgia. A collection of mixed media lithographs are based on plants that were picked…