Voices of Pitt: Narratives of Resilience is a gallery program designed to provide opportunities for the Pitt community to learn about each other across difference. Many students report feeling isolated or that they don't belong because they don't connect with others and their differences from other students keep them from being part of shared groups.
Here, we leverage lessons learned from the "Human Library" project, in which individuals share their stories as books that could be taken out on loan from a library. Viewers can interact with the individual stories through the QR codes next to the portraits in our physical gallery.
Artist Morgan Overton has created space for our imagination through her beautiful portraits as we listen to four of Pitt’s stories of resilience. These stories are all around us and we hope this inspires more conversation and space for belonging.
Share your story of resilience with us at: https://forms.gle/1T3gXLctbfT8cwdX9
Organized by Natasha Tokowicz and Robin Kear
Featured Voices
Artist, Morgan Overton
Acknowledgments
Funding for this project was provided by the University of Pittsburgh’s Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and the Office of Institutional Engagement and Wellbeing’s Mini Grant Program.
Special thanks to our participants for sharing their stories, artist Morgan Overton, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Dean Adam Leibovich, University Library System staff for their assistance in creating the exhibit, and Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences staff for their work in creating the website.