Gallery360, Curry Student Center
Citizen Artists
November 4, 2019 – January 19, 2020
Jonathan Feldschuh, Elizabeth Demaray, Brandon Ballengée, Raven Chacon, Justus Harris, and Ryan Feddersen
The term “citizen scientist” has become increasingly popular with the rise of DIY and crowdsourcing culture, where volunteer citizens can expand the capabilities and reach of scientists for the creation of larger and more comprehensive studies. Thanks to new apps and web-based platforms, the ability to participate in science is available outside of academia and industry. Citizens from all over the world are helping to solve some of humanity’s biggest and most complicated problems. And some of these citizen scientists are artists.
Gallery360, Curry Student Center
Cuba: Detrás del Bloqueo/Behind the Blockade
Through October 27, 2019
For 60 years, relations between the United States and Cuba have been strained. At the governmental level, that has led to public attacks, military threats from both sides and ultimately sanctions designed to create desperation and push Cuban officials to abandon communism. But both in 2018 and 2019, Northeastern University students from academic programs led by CAMD professors showed that strife between the countries’ power structures does not need to divide their people. Storytelling – through photography and journalism – is a powerful force for human connection.
