Ruth Burke
MFA ’17, Art
This socially-engaged art project explores acts of storytelling and mark-making through the experiences of marginalized women in Detroit. I will collaborate with 20 women who utilize the YWCA, the only domestic abuse shelter in Metropolitan Detroit, and record anonymous video narratives that illustrate a memory in or at a specific location in Detroit. We will create a mark from powdered pigment at the specific places and, through photographic documentation, record its evolution over a four-week period. The YWCA does not currently have arts planning. As we engage in this collaborative creative gesture, this work allows women and their stories to be heard, respected and acknowledged as active and valuable members of the community.
Library Mentor: Meredith Kahn