Visual Storytelling: A Collaboration between PH15 and Kelly Middle School

This special exhibition presents a photographic dialogue between youth in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and students from Kelly Middle School’s Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program. Ph15, a nonprofit organization that uses photography as a tool for visual storytelling, gave cameras to youth in one of the worst slums in Buenos Aires so they could respond to their surroundings.  A selection of those works is being shown alongside photographs taken by Kelly School AVID students, who participated in a two-month workshop program led by Nori Rice, a UO graduate student and JSMA Arts and Healthcare GTF, and university volunteers. The AVID program aims to close the achievement gap by building critical thinking, literacy, and math skills among at-risk and under-represented middle schoolers.