SE Chicago Archive & Storytelling Project
(2024)The Southeast Chicago Archive & Storytelling Project is part museum archive, part documentary, addressing everyday life in the region and its relationship to the steel industry. Working with the Southeast Chicago Historical Society, a volunteer organization run by current and former residents, the project has digitized over 1,000 items from the Historical Society’s Museum (located in Lake Michigan’s Calumet Park) and created four unique documentary stories using selected items from the Museum along with contemporary video.
This project is in collaboration with filmmakers Christine Walley and Chris Boebel, who previously released their film Exit Zero (2018), addressing similar themes and offering an intimate portrait of the former steel mill community of Southeast Chicago.
The Southeast Chicago Archive & Storytelling Project has been supported with generous funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelly Foundation, the Anthropology Program and School of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Illinois State Historical Records Advisory Board.
Roles
Interactive Lead
Co-Project Manager
Creative Director
UX & UI Designer
Front-End Programmer
Recognition
2022 WCSA Studs Terkel Award
Visit Project https://www.sechicagohistory.org
