FRAUHAUS: The Women of the Bauhaus, 2022

SAIC Fall Undergraduate Exhibition, 2022

This project retells the story of the Bauhaus to highlight female contributions that have beeen institutionally overlooked in design history. The final project was printed as a risograph book that illustrates the underrepresented voices of the Bauhaus, and their legacies as designers.
The content of this book emphasizes the lives, teachings and creative practices of Gertrud Arndt, Marienne Brandt and Gunta Stolzl. Their personal biographies and contributions to the Bauhaus make up the majority of the written content, while miniature spreads are embedded within the book dedicated to displaying thier respective works.





Radical Design in Chicago, 2021




This book aims to compare and contrast two design groups from Chicago— the New Bauhaus School of Design and AFRICOBRA. The New Bauhaus School of Design and AFRICOBRA are key examples of art movements founded on radical change that were built in, and by, the city of Chicago. The development of these groups tell the greater story of Chicago’s art world in the late 20th Century.  

After considerable research and iterative design process, the final project was printed as risograph book that illuminates the challenges faced by the respective groups, how they led to radical change in Chicago, as well as their legacy within the city.




Palante: The Young Lords, 2021




This book is an appropriation of Jorge Luis Borges’s magical realist short story “Museum: On Exactitude in Science,” in which the ‘empire’ of the original text has been re-imagined in relation to the history of the Puerto Rican civil rights group, The Young Lords Organization. 
This new contextualization allows for The Young Lords to act as a metaphor for the rise and inevitable fall of Borges’ empire. Photographs of the group as well as written English and Spanish text are included in order to provide historical context and accompany the illustrations that tell Borge’s story.




Her Body & Other Parties, 2021

“Mary Magdelene as Meloncholy”, Artemisia Gentileschi, 1625, oil on canvas.
9x12 in. hand-carved Linoleum block alongside
printed image.

This project reimagines the cover design of Carmen Maria Machado’s 2018 collection of short stories entitled, Her Body and Other Parties. Inspired by the deep vein of feminism that runs through the stories in this book, I was drawn to incorporate graphics of a recent linoleum-cut print I made based on Artemisia Gentileschi’s 1625 portrait of Mary Magdeline.

I felt Gentileschi and Machado both shared an interest in reclaiming female narrative, which easily lent itself to the design process of this new cover. While the viewer may take the design at face value, and recognize the woman composed of green lines on the cover as a reference to the book’s first protagonist, a woman with a mysterious green ribbon around her neck, there lies beneath the image a deep signifier to a long history of feminist art making.




The Colonizer & The Colonized, 2020

The contents of this book have been organized in a hierarchy that reflects the power structures embedded  in the colonization of indigenous peoples of the Caribbean. The scale of each spread reflects the relative power of each group in order to illustrate the socio-political disparities that have shaped the development of this region.

All texts and images included have been excerpted from Wikipedia articles about each group; referencing the lasting effects of these power structures on our collective understanding of history.