Art and Art History students in the Spring 2025 course Socially Engaged Art: Curating and Community Engagement, taught by Professor Grace Aneiza Ali, spent the semester researching how art can serve as a catalyst for connection, community building, and social transformation. Their work culminated in the creation of a student-produced zine, Engaged, which documents Tallahassee’s creative changemakers.
Through months of interviews, fieldwork, and visual storytelling, students turned their curatorial lens locally—spotlighting artists, collectives, and cultural spaces such as Janelle Jewelry, The Bark café, fiber artist Tenee Hart, Bwembya’s Market, and WVFS radio. The zine serves as both archive and platform, celebrating how art in our city is not only being made but also making change, amplifying voices, and reshaping the social fabric.
The student authors / editors of Engaged:
Mackenzie Broome (English Literature & Humanities, Museum Studies minor)
Kamila Cascardo (Art History)
Sadie Craddock (Classical Archaeology)
Sebastian Diaz-Herrera (Art History, graduated spring 2025)
Genna Dulcio (Art History & Economics, graduated spring 2025)
Julia Feldner (Art History & Public Relations)
Sophia Laver (Art History)
Alana McLaughlin (Art)
Beyonce Zheng (English, Art Entrepreneurship minor)
RIGHT: sample pages from Engaged. View the whole zine here.