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Claiming Space: Student Activism Collages Commemorating High School Walk Outs, 1968-1973

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Claiming Space: Student Activism Collages Commemorating High School Walk Outs, 1968-1973
  • Nicole Marroquin Artwork
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Nicole Marroquin uses art, archives, and living testimonies to make connections between youth-led political movements and spatial justice. Her collaged screen prints chronicle the high school walkouts organized by Black and Latinx students in Pilsen and Little Village neighborhoods on Chicago's West Side between 1968-1973. At the time, students advocated for themselves, agitated and were brutally confronted by Chicago police. As a companion exhibit to the Claiming Space: Creative Grounds and Freedom Summer School exhibition (on second floor of museum), Marroquin’s work reflects on the ways in which the experiences of student activism fight to claim and reclaim spaces.