Columbia College’s Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP)

Led by faculty member Colleen Plumb, the MoCP worked with 95 high school students from Prosser Career Academy and South Shore College Prep. After learning about her practice as an artist and environmental activist working with trees, the students participated in educational tree walks led by Tom Ebeling from Openlands. The students then took part in artmaking workshops with Colleen, creating camera-less cyanotype prints using tree specimens they collected. The video animates the students’ cyanotypes alongside Colleen’s interjections on tree root systems to convey the importance and beauty of Chicago’s urban tree canopy. You see learn more about whole program here and about the Museum: https://www.mocp.org/