Common Ground Tacony
COMMON GROUND TACONY IS AN ORAL HISTORY PROJECT.
As a Summer 2018 Artist-in-Residence with Mural Arts Philadelphia at their Tacony Arts Lab location, I conducted a cumulative series of interviews with Philadelphians from the Northeast of Philadelphia, specifically with memories of Tacony. Each interview is coupled with portraits made as large fabric cyanotypes. The cyanotypes hang on exhibition and will travel, while the audio interviews are available for listening on StoryCorps.org.
In the future, these audio interviews ideally will be woven together as a 30 minute highlight reel of the interviews (I am seeking funding to support these intricate edits, so they will remain unedited until funding is found).
All of the unedited interviews are archived with the US Library of Congress once they are uploaded to the StoryCorps website (see links of audio below). Announcements of new interviews are made on my Instagram @jackiephotog and Facebook – http://facebook.com/jackiephoto
Common Ground Tacony was created at the Tacony LAB Community Arts Center, a project of Mural Arts Philadelphia and the Office of Councilman Bobby Henon. The Tacony LAB is made possible by support from the City of Philadelphia, Division of Housing and Community Development. Special thanks to Maria Möller, LAB Project Manager, and Barb Baur, LAB Coordinator.
