Comics, Posters, PAR&D
Participatory Action Research & Design
Curated by Jon McKenzie and StudioLab S25
MACRE, 414 N Tioga St, Ithaca, NY 14850
EXHIBITION April 18-May 9
OPENING April 18 4PM-7PM
Support provided by Mellon Rural Humanities/Society for the Humanities, Einhorn Center for Community Engagement, and Department of Literatures in English.
Comics, Posters, PAR&D features information comics and posters created by first-year students at Cornell University. Combining old school and new school, writers mix argument and story, idea and image using forms of transmedia knowledge and strategic storytelling to tackle issues ranging from AI and griefbots to tariff wars and time travel.
Ry Ferro, founder of MACRE, sharing the film Move When The Spirit Says Move: The Legacy of Dorothy Foreman Cotton. Cornell students research and present work across different genres and media in
StudioLab’s first-year writing studio.
At the Johnson Museum of Art, writers explored how Human Ecology students had curated a show marking that College’s 100th anniversary. Teams focused on the ways that designers worked with architecture and sculpture, fashion and furniture design, as well as photography and video to weave different stories and places through a single installation.
Student projects present research from their own fields of interest using a variety of media genres: journal articles, abstracts, proposals, annotated bibliographies, info comics, posters, Pecha Kucha presentations, conference panels, and a public design exhibition at MACRE, a new media arts collective and resource exchange in Ithaca, NY.
The StudioLab pedagogy bridges expert and common knowledge to address the crisis of learning and living in times of eco-anxiety, pandemics, culture wars, and economic uncertainties.