The Other Border Wall Project
Creative Resistance to Borders
2017 - 2021
The Other Border Wall Project was a multicultural team effort with Tereneh Idia and Leah Patgorski and Jennifer Nagle Myers. During our active years we created a podcast, the traveling group exhibition ‘The Border is a Weapon’ curated by Gil Rocha, and other collaborations with artists and activists connected directly to the US/MX border or indirectly through the diaspora.
We received critical financial support for our efforts from the A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation, the Social Justice & Arts Grant from the Opportunity Fund, and the PNC Charitable Trust Grant.
This project is archived on our instagram (not active but still present)
@otherborderwall
Other Border Wall Podcast
Bridges Over Walls
2020-2021
Find us wherever you get your podcasts!
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The Border is a Weapon
Group exhibition curated by Gil Rocha
2021 - 2024
A traveling group show of artists from the US/MX border region curated by Laredo artist and educator Gil Rocha.
Where is all began in 2017….
The Other Border Wall Proposals, 2017 - 2019
Working as J.M. Design Studio with Tereneh Idia, Leah Patgorski, Jennifer Nagle Myers (Meridian)
Phase One (Feb - April 2017): Ink drawings on paper, text, scanned and submitted as a PDF document to Customs and Border Protection
Phase Two (January - May 31, 2018): Request For Designs, website, exhibition, continued planning for the next phases, and more.
Phase Three (June 2018-June 2019): Broadside of Anita Endrezze’s poem printed by Commonwealth Press, planning for Phase 4.
About: The Other Border Wall Proposals were submitted by J.M. Design Studios on April 4, 2017 to the United States Customs and Border Protection Agency, part of the Department of Homeland Security for their "Other Border Wall" Request For Qualifications. J.M. Design Studios submitted six original ideas. The studio includes Tereneh Mosley, Leah Patgorski and myself. We are based in Pittsburgh, PA. This was Phase One of our commitment to remain in dogged step with this administration's attempts to build a wall.
Visit us here:
@otherborderwall
Major Press Highlights from Phase One
Hyperallergic
The Verge
The Wall Street Journal
CNN Money
Time
NPR
Slate
The San Diego Union Tribune
The Guardian
The Chicago Tribune
The Verge
Business Insider
The Huffington Post
Next Pittsburgh
Public Radio International
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
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