Goal: to create a lobby exhibition to deepen audience engagement with themes of the show

Results:

• a Social Justice Dreaming Station, where people could respond to prompts related to social justice and share their responses,

• a “Draw Your Own Superhero” station, where we provided papers, comic book templates, and materials for people to draw their own superheroes and then tape to the wall,

• a “Name Your Superpower” board, where we decorated a rolling white board with Marcus Kwame’s art of Black superheroes, like Miles Morales, Black Panther, Luke Cage, and Hobie Brown, and then put a stack of little comic book text bubbles for people to fill out and tape on the whiteboard,

• tables with resources from different organizations including Community Create Studios, MLK Saratoga, the Skidmore Counseling Center, and the Lucy Scribner Library

• a table run by Marcus Kwame Anderson, featuring his mural about the Black history of Saratoga before gentrification hanging up in the background and copies of his books available for sale,

• and an entire room dedicated to reflection and a vigil for Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old Black boy whom the play was based on and who was tragically killed by a white police officer in 2014.

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