Tolerance

Museum of Cultural Arts Houston and the Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance at Rice University hosted a religious tolerance program that took high school students to 16 religious sites to learn about difference. The students created a public art project following their visit. Prairie View A&M students attending the revealing ceremony to engage in dialogue and photograph the event.

The Body Project

Students push back against mediated representations of their bodies through installation art and photography.

Flickers of Faith: Performance

Student performances show promise for engaging in civic dialogue.

Civility

Students from Photojournalism (Comm2703) visit various cites to learn about civil discourse and engagement. Photographs reveal lessons learned and new ideological shifts.

The Forgiveness Quilt

Students participate in an installation art project called the Forgiveness Quilt. I ask students to be transparent about their biases. They share those publicly, simultaneously asking for forgiveness as they let those biases go, replacing them with a celebration of difference.

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