(2011) Trans History Resides Here: UIC Residency
This two-month residency kicked off with a multimedia exhibition that incorporated populist art, oral history interviews, and archival materials. It continued with bimonthly workshops: Storytelling 101, Collecting Trans Histories, DIY Oral History You Can Do At Home, and Movement Building and Breaking: Complicating LGB-centered Movement History. (Image: TOHP North East Chapter Director visiting Trans History Resides Here in March 2011).
(2015) Making Chances
From 2005-2015, Chances Dances was a legendary dance party that held space for gender outlaws, queer art wierdos, and BIPOC folks to create culture. After the death of one of thier organizers, Chances Dances began offering microgrants to local QTBIPOC artists with money from the door. Chances Dances awarded the Critical Fierceness grant to Trans Oral History Project in 2009, making it our first funding. When the group decided to sunset, they create a Making Chances, a multimedia exhibition and festival that highlighted ten years of grantees through a multimedia timeline that at Gallery 400 (associatd with the University of Illinois, Chicago). TOHP exhibited a supercut of footage from interviews with trans and nobinary artists across Chicago (Image: TOHP Chicago Chapter Retreat January 2013).
