Marginalia

Marginalia
Plural noun
— notes in the margin of a book, manuscript, or letter.
— scribbles, comments, annotations, critiques, or illuminations.
— small displays, investigatory series, speculative inquires, and other departures.

Flowers for the Waiting Room
Examined Life Conference, University of Iowa, Roy J.and
Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
October 5-9, 2016

Working with staff and medical students, this project was implemented at the public hospital in San Lorenzo Paraguay. Patients and their families created artworks with text reflecting upon their hopes and experiences with the healthcare system that were displayed in the main corridor of the Museo del Hospital de Clinicas, Asunción, Paraguay. A "sampler" display of this project was on view in the conference lobby area as part of an Examined Life presentation on the larger project. The conference focuses on the links between medicine, the humanities and the arts.

Installation views

Sick Art and Exquisite Bodies
Examined Life Conference, University of Iowa, Roy J.and
Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
April 16-18, 2015

A selection of personal Milagros created by workshop participants in association with a series of Waiting Room: Lost and Found exhibitions were on display in the conference lobby space as part of a presention on waiting room project. The conference focuses on the links between medicine, the humanities and the arts.

Workshop Milagros from: Salina, Kansas, Topeka, Kansas, Saint Joseph, Missouri, Deland, Florida, and Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Installation views

Collect(ive): The Grinnell People's Museum (GPM)
2010, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Iowa

Over a six month period, we mined a variety of college collections and scanned personal objects to engage the community of Grinnell Iowa in place-based creative art making to give visual form to local personal narratives and interests.The result of this process was embedded in three locations: the Drake Community Library, the Joe Rosenfield '25 Center and the Faulconer Gallery.

Description
Installation views
Faulconer Gallery

art+nature/anthropocene dreams

Preserved Landscapes
Mix-media
2009