Bio: Anna Callahan

Community artist Anna Callahan will be working with EOTU in 2003-04 to create visual maps of the University of Illinois that draw from and provide visual environments for EOTU student research. Anna’s work will become a extraordinary visual gateway to student life and research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Anna is committed to the visual mapping of narrative. Recently she collaborated with the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District in her project On the Bus, which consisted of signs in area buses as well as an audio/visual kiosk in the Transit building and materials for distribution (postcards and bookmarks). In that project she audio-visually mapped interviews with riders about their routes and futures. In another recent project, the Danville Commercial-News and the Danville Public Library funded Anna to produce an audio-visual encyclopedia of local knowledge in Danville; for that project she interviewed people of all ages and walks of life on their knowledge (e.g., Alzheimer’s mother, taking care of; paper air planes, making). To look at Anna’s work, see www.anna-callahan.com.