“I really try to make it feel like it is a safe space for anyone.”
Lederach tried to make a place that people would want to visit and could engage with. His office features fidget spinners and a sensory jellyfish going on in the background.
“[It] is a place where you can come and tool around and look around.”
Breanna Nickel: Thinking space
Plate with 99 names of God in Arabic: “I got that in Palestine the first time I went with students over there, so it’s both meaningful because of the religious aspect … but it is also [meaningful] because of where I got it and with whom.”
The Mennonite icons: “Mennonites don’t use iconography so they are joke items … — at the same time they come from [Keith Miller] who was a previous professor here, … it reminds me of the martyrs’ stories but it also reminds me of him.”
Tiffany Wyse-Fisher: INVITING
“I like creating spaces that fit with my personality … it makes me want to be in it.”
“I am really sensitive to spaces and the way they make me feel.”
Hear Our Voice: “It actually was a poster given to me when I was in Washington at the women’s march in January 2017, they were handing out these posters for the women that were marching for free. It’s by an artist named Lisa Donovan, and it reminds me of that really powerful experience that I had.”
Rocio Dias- Cozy
“It is my happy place.”
When Diaz first started at GC she worked for the Center of Intercultural Studies, and was working with a group of Latino students. She created a good relationship with them and displays some of their artwork.
“I just put things here and there that are meaningful to me.”
David Kendal- Warm
“It’s a nice place to be.” Even with the black walls, “I like the natural light coming here.”
“That painting was one of a series called ‘Gathering,’ … it’s a community piece, it’s a mixed medium piece, so it’s part paint, part charcoal, drawing — but it’s supposed to show people coming together.”
Jessica Baldanzi- Real
“My favorite things are things that reminds me of my students and that have come from my students over the years.” Baldanzi has been a professor at GC since 2006. “Whether it is from an art sale or gifts, or something like that or exchange or even something that they submitted for class.”
“It’s really nice being able to support them when I can.”
