School Material

2024

Client: Gallery 400, UIC, Chicago, Illinois

Role: Artist/ Designer/ Coder/ Fabricator

This piece was created with contributions from Teju Adesida, Rebecca Baruc, Rahila Coats, Ayako Kato,

Jessica Mueller, David Sprecher, Leticia Pineda, SHENEQUA, Francesca Wessely, and Patty Whitehouse.

school material is a collection of responses and prompts gathered from the experiences of teaching artists and educators working within public school classrooms in and around Chicago. It was included as part of the Learning Together: Art Education and Community exhibition at Gallery 400 in Chicago, Illinois.

Push the button to receive your school material, which may be a suggestion of action, an idea for consideration, a question to ask yourself, a question to ask someone else, or a question to ask the universe. Ask aloud. Ponder to yourself. Perform an action. Evoke an intrusion. Summon the joys, frustrations, curiosities, and banalities of classroom experiences into this space, making school material.

Materials: school desk, classroom teaching experiences, thermal printer, arcade button

The name of this piece was taken from a work by Jorge Lucero.

Fabricated with the assistance of David Sprecher.