Tag: Climates of Inequality

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2023 Bantz Community Fellowship

My colleague Liz Kryder-Reid and I have been awarded the 2023 Bantz Community Fellowship from IUPUI for a project called “Indy Toxic Heritage: Pollution, Place, and Power.” This year, we’ll be partnering with the Kheprw Institute and Indy Parks and Recreation to create an exhibit and a series of public conversations that examine environmental harm and advocacy for justice as part of Indianapolis’s citywide heritage.

This project builds on years of previous work including our participation in the international Climates of Inequality project.

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Now out: The City is an Ecosystem

This new book, edited by Deborah Mutnick, Margaret Cuonzo, Carole Griffiths, Timothy Leslie, and Jay M. Shuttleworth includes a chapter I co-wrote with my IUPUI colleague Liz Kryder-Reid and our partners from the Kheprw Institute, Aghilah Nadaraj and Leah Humphrey.

In “An Environmental Justice Lens on Indianapolis’ Urban Ecosystem: Collaborative Community Curation,” we examine inequity and environmental justice along Indianapolis’s waterways. We also reflect on the work we did together to develop Indianapolis’s contribution to “Climates of Inequality: Stories of Environmental Justice,” an international exhibition and collaborative initiative led by the Humanities Action Lab.

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Climates of Inequality: Stories of Environmental Justice

Climates of Inequality: Stories of Environmental Justice
January 9 – February 16, 2020
Central Library, 40 E St. Clair St., Indianapolis

Installation view, Climates of Inequality at Indianapolis Central Library. Photo by Liz Kryder-Reid

After years of planning, research, and collaboration with local and international partners, it’s exciting to have Climates of Inequality on view in Indianapolis! The collaboratively curated exhibit organized by the Humanities Action Lab features contributions from more than 20 communities that are working to address environmental injustices.

Over the course of 3 semesters IUPUI Museum Studies students partnered with the Kheprw Institute to study and share stories about environmental justice and Indianapolis’s waterways. Their work is part of the traveling exhibition and also included on the project’s digital platform.

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Student Exhibition at Indianapolis Central Library

Tim Faris, View of Fall Creek, Indianapolis.

Fall Creek: A Look at Art and the Environment
December 9, 2019-January 25, 2020
Central Library, 40 E St. Clair St., Indianapolis

This exhibition of work by photographer Tim Faris (MFA, Herron School of Art + Design, 2019) was developed by Museum Studies students in my spring 2019 Exhibition Planning and Design course and carried out by students in Interpreting Environmental Justice (taught by Liz Kryder-Reid). It kicks off a series of programs in Indianapolis related to Climates of Inequality.