Campaign to save the UT Fine Arts Library

In the Spring of 2018, I took part in a concerted effort to sustain and maintain the perilous and already diminished position of the Fine Arts Library at the University of Texas at Austin. I, along with a number of classmates, professors, and members of the public, coordinated a campaign to maintain the library and save it from its seemingly preordained destruction. In my own role, I created a wide array of printed matter which applied pressure and supplied a visual identity for our campaign. These physical Risographed posters, Xerox-copied zines, and other printed ephemera, coupled with our online efforts, created enough conversation, awareness, and pressure to save the library and receive allocation for its revival and renovation, transforming it into a more welcoming and usable space. The whole semester long campaign saved this important physical resource from being shipped off to library storage and safeguarded it as a resource for future generations of students to use.

Artist’s Op-Ed written for the Daily Texan

Link to Op-Ed on Daily Texan Website

Letter to the Dean, President, Provost

In conjunction with Center Space Project, a student curatorial collective on campus, we organized a letter writing campaign, organized to appeal to the President, Provost, Dean, and Head of Libraries in order to preserve the libraries and the current footprint of the FAL at the time.