Keep the Conversation Going

Below you can find more information on some of the key people and organizations that continue to animate our discussions around #ALT_MKE.

 

Author and activist LA Kaufmann’s website.
Immigrant rights group Voces de la Frontera, which runs an annual May Day march and demonstration.
The Encyclopedia of Milwaukee, a digital humanities project sponsored by the History Department at UWM.
Transforming Justice is a collaborative effort to create a grassroots history of mass criminalization and incarceration in Milwaukee.
An article on our bus tour organizer, Adam Carr.
The Field School project, an initiative of Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures at UWM’s School of Architecture and Urban Planning (SARUP).
Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures serves students enrolled in the Architecture and Art History doctoral programs at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and Madison campuses, respectively.
Dominic Inouye’s ZIP MKE Project works to reimagine popular conceptions of Milwaukee neighborhoods.
The Overpass Light Brigade is loose and inclusive affiliation of people dedicated to the power of peaceful protest and artful activism. The OLB started in Milwaukee but now has branches in cities across the U.S.
Monique Liston’s Ubuntu Research & Evaluation works to foster research based accountability to create an equitable world.
Nicolas Lampert is a Milwaukee-based interdisciplinary artist and author whose work focuses on themes of social justice and ecology.
Kimberly Cosier is a member of the activist art collective the Art Build Workers and she is founder and director of the Milwaukee Visionaries Project.
Project Row Houses, a Houston-based project by Rick Lowe that empowers people and enriches communities through engagement, art, & direct action.
An article on UWM faculty member and community artist Raoul Deal.
Dick Blau is a UWM Professor Emeritus in Peck School of the Arts, and a celebrated photographer whose work The 730 Project is screening at the conference.
Portia Cobb is a UWM Professor and filmmaker whose stories memorialize African American history and culture, home and place, and illustrate her interest in memory as memorial.
Nirmal Raja is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Milwaukee. Her work straddles the personal and the political, examining notions of memory, identity, place and belonging.
Founded by Dasha Kelly Hamilton, Still Waters Collective is a community project offering a constellation of workshops, after-school projects, and special event series tailored for exciting young people about their own ideas, voice, individuality and agency.
America’s Black Holocaust Museum ABHM builds public awareness of the harmful legacies of slavery in America and promotes racial repair, reconciliation, and healing.