The Radium Girls

Credits: Letícia Ferreira and xtine burrough

Multi-iterative interactive project which uses a forgotten everyday object, the exit sign, to engage audiences in the story of forgotten American immigrant workers from the 1920, known as the Radium Girls.

Display history:

April 2019 – Portland Design Week – Patterns exhibition, University of Oregon, in Portland, OR.
July 2018 – C ARTE C gallery in Museo Del Traje at xCoAx, Madrid, Spain.
November 2017 – HASTAC conference, Orlando, FL.
May 2017 – Plano ArtFest, Plano, TX
May 2017 – Central Trak, Dallas, TX.
March 2017 – School of Arts, Technology and Emerging Communication, University of  Texas at Dallas.
February 2017 – 16th Biennial Symposium of Arts and Technology at The Ammerman Center for the Arts and Technology at Connecticut College, New London, CT.
November 2016 – Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX.

Publishing History: We wrote extensively about this project and presented it in different conferences. It was published in the proceedings of the 16th Biennial Symposium of Arts and Technology at The Ammerman Center for the Arts and Technology at Connecticut College in 2017, and in the proceedings of xCoAx 2018.