https://lishanaz.com/project/ Recent content in Projects on Lishan AZ Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Wed, 14 Feb 2024 00:15:59 -0700 https://lishanaz.com/eugenes-cove-book/ Wed, 14 Feb 2024 00:15:59 -0700 https://lishanaz.com/eugenes-cove-book/ Co-edited by Nnaemeka Ekwelum With a foreword by Felicia Bishop With original poetry and prose by: Marcela Adeze Okeke Stephen Hamilton Torkwase Dyson Jheanelle Brown Camille Bacon Joshua Parks On July 27, 1919, at a segregated beach on the south side of Chicago, 17-year-old Eugene Williams was stoned to death after floating across the imaginary color line in Lake Michigan. Building on the legend of an underwater paradise prevalent in African folklore, Eugene’s Cove imagines an underwater world where those we thought drowned actually sank and became something more. https://lishanaz.com/eugenes-cove-exhibit/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 00:15:59 -0700 https://lishanaz.com/eugenes-cove-exhibit/ On July 27, 1919, at a segregated beach on the south side of Chicago, 17-year-old Eugene Williams was stoned to death after floating across the imaginary color line in Lake Michigan. Building on the legend of an underwater paradise prevalent in African folklore, Eugene’s Cove imagines an underwater world where those we thought drowned actually sank and became something more. Drawing on mythology and historical events from across the Black diaspora, this exhibit celebrates the ways we reclaim water as a source of freedom. https://lishanaz.com/staring-at-the-dark/ Sat, 09 Jul 2022 00:15:59 -0700 https://lishanaz.com/staring-at-the-dark/ “They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.” –Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God Solo Exhibition at Antenna Gallery in New Orleans, LA On View: July 9 - August 7, 2022 https://lishanaz.com/tracking-ida/ Mon, 01 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://lishanaz.com/tracking-ida/ Tracking Ida is an educational alternate reality game (ARG) inspired by the pioneering investigative journalism of Ida B. Wells in the 1890s. Players uncover Ida B. Wells’ crusade against lynching and use her strategies to investigate police and vigilante killings today. Along the way, they solve puzzles, decode messages through a phonograph, role-play as investigative journalists, and interview members of their community. Awards: 2017 Best Gameplay at Games for Change in New York, NY 2017 Impact Award at the Independent Games Festival (Indicade) in Los Angeles, CA Selected Festivals and Exhibits: 2019 SAAM Arcade @ Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC 2017 Finalist Exhibit @ Independent Games Festival (Indiecade) in Los Angeles, CA 2019 Arcade @ Museums and the Web in Boston, MA 2017 Finalist Exhibit @ Games for Change in New York, NY 2017 Group Exhibition @ Tokyo University of the Arts Museum in Tokyo Japan 2017 Electronic Entertainmetn Expo (E3) in Los Angeles, CA Collaborators: