Past Projects
Explore projects worked on in collaboration with the Book Arts Lab
The UA team felt there was something missing in existing creative writing publications on campus: BIPOC representation. In a predominantly white institution, and a predominantly white field of study, all we want are our stories told. UA acknowledges that it is equally as important to uplift, amplify, and empower the talented voices of underrepresented students in order to create a more vibrant and diversified campus climate. We hope that this journal will inspire change in the ways we conventionally think about literature. In doing so, we strive to expand the literary canon and encourage our fellow artists to look at creative writing through a multicultural lens.
The Naming Project
Intersections: An Asian American Literature Resource
This website serves as a resource to amplify the expansiveness in Asian American literature. Learning from others and hearing their perspectives allows us to learn how to navigate Asian American literature. Visit the website to learn more about the different branches and facets that exist within Asian American Literature.
Curating Representation: The Art of Micropublishing
This project will serve as a pilot for the emerging Book Arts Lab (BAL) at Cal Poly. The BAL is an interdisciplinary space housed in the Shakespeare Press Museum in the basement of the GrC building so all in-person contact will be masked and socially distanced. The vision for BAL is to provide a space for historically marginalized students to create living artifacts of their experiences and submit them to an archival repository in Cal Poly Special Collections & Archives. While the BAL will be an accessible outlet for the voices of all historically marginalized students, this particular portion of the project will focus on the logistics of mircropublishing to circumvent gatekeeping in literary publishing and editing through the BAL as a literal learning lab. Since this project will result in multi-discursive publications of student projects and experiences they will also be submitted to Cal Poly Special Collections & Archives.