Creative Push

Seed Grant Semester Awarded

Spring

Seed Grant Award Year

2015

Creative Push is a multimedia art and humanities project about labor and delivery that seeks to create a meaningful dialogue between storytelling and visual art. Creativepush.org is virtual space where people can listen to women’s labor and delivery stories and see artwork based on those stories. If you are interested in contributing your birth story or creating artwork for the project please send a message via e-mail to creativepushproject@gmail.com or send Creative Push a facebook message at https://www.facebook.com/creativepush.org. A pending exhibition of a selection of the Creative Push artworks and audio files is to be show at the Kinsey Institute in Indiana along with artwork from the Kinsey’s permanent collection.

Principal Investigator(s)

Forrest Solis, Associate Professor of Art, School of Art
Cora Fox, Associate Professor, Department of English and Associate Director of the Institute for Humanities Research
Kristine Navarro-McElhaney, Sr. Program Manager, in Public History, in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies
Jacque Wernimont, Assistant Professor, Department of English