Thank you so much to the students, faculty, staff, and community members who made this project possible!
Interfaith Photovoice is an arts-based approach to interfaith understanding. By using mobile-phone photography, this project is designed to help capture the experiences and stories of participants of diverse worldview identities (religious, secular, or spiritual), to enable students to find their voice through photography.
Prior to each meeting, attendees were given a prompt and asked to take a series of photographs related to it. A sample prompt could be, "In what ways do your beliefs, practices, and values show up in your everyday life?" Through a series of conversations guided by a facilitator, students explored one another’s lived experiences, shared their photos, and organized their ideas into themes.
The cohort culminated in several pop-up gallery exhibitions, curated by the participants with the help of the facilitators. During the exhibitions, participants were stationed around the gallery and given the opportunity to talk with attendees about their experience and the narratives represented in the exhibition.
The goals of this cohort were to strengthen relationships on campus, create a sense of solidarity and belonging among the participating students, raise awareness of experiential differences on campus, and instigate change.
