Art in the Atrium: The Documented Border

  • Monday, September 21, 2015 to November 2, 2015
  • All Day
  • Alesia Mc Crary, amccrary1@LUC.edu, 708.216.3325
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    Drawings by Lawrence Gipe

    In the summer of 2012, journalism student Sam McNeil began writing an article exposing the details of *Operation Streamline,* the Department of Homeland Security's 2005 plan to increase the *efficiency* of deportation. Because photography is prohibited in
    federal court, he needed to find another way to illustrate the proceedings that had come under fire for being wasteful, cruel, and potentially unconstitutional.


    Enter Lawrence Gipe. Leaving the academic classroom for a politically charged setting, Gipe sketched every aspect of *Operation Streamline,*-deportees, lawyers, judges, and border patrol agents. And 20 court proceedings later, he was left with one of
    the few visual chronicles of a nationwide controversy.


    The sketches are now a part of *The Documented Border: A Digital Archive,* an interactive project devoted to controversial or hidden border issues, which was made possible entirely by a grant from the University of Arizona's Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry.


    The exhibit opens September 21 and lasts until November 13.