Meredith Stern & Aaron Hughes in Conversation, Fall 2023, Imagining Human Rights Lecture Series
Document Type
Presentation
Publication Date
12-13-2024
Abstract
As a part of the year-long programming celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Meredith Stern and Aaron Hughes discussed their work engaging with the UDHR. Meredith Stern is an artist who uses linoleum block prints and print collages as her primary medium. Her work focuses on cooperation and mutual aid. Aaron Hughes is an artist, curator, organizer, teacher, and Iraq War veteran, working through an interdisciplinary practice rooted in drawing and printmaking. He develops projects that deconstruct militarism and related institutions of dehumanization. Meredith and Aaron are part of the Justseeds, an artists’ cooperative of printmakers and creative individuals who believe in the transformative power of personal expression in concert with collective action. Aaron’s project, Carving Out Rights, a project that engaged those inside Stateville prison in Illinois with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, was an inspiration to the work developed for the Imagining Human Rights exhibition at St. Norbert College. His project was initially inspired by Meredith’s project of hand-cut relief prints illustrating and illuminating each of the 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The Imagining Human Rights project, exhibition, and lecture series was supported by the Cassandra Voss Center, with additional support from the Norman Miller Center, the Humanities Division, and the Art Department at St. Norbert College.
Recommended Citation
Stein, Meredith and Hughes, Aaron, "Meredith Stern & Aaron Hughes in Conversation, Fall 2023, Imagining Human Rights Lecture Series" (2024). Socially Engaged Art Pedagogy. 14.
https://digitalcommons.snc.edu/sociallyengagedartpedagogy/14
