Welcome, Hogan

The Harrison Center holds a special place in my heart. My mind is filled with memories of running around First Friday with friends in middle school, feeling like we ran the place, and dance classes in the gym, pretending I knew what I was doing, and many years of volunteering and sweating in the hot weather of those June IMAF Saturdays. 

I’ve had the privilege of being an intern for the Envelope Project once before this summer, as a rising junior. The Envelope Project is the Harrison Center’s annual project where they turn envelopes into little pieces of art and mail them out to community members. I was the assistant on this project during summer 2018, and that summer was full of rolling ink, pressing down linocuts, and addressing So. Many. Envelopes. I loved addressing every one of those five thousand envelopes so much that I’ve wanted to come back and be the actual Envelope Project intern for years. 

With my design this summer, I really decided to make it as hard for myself as possible by coming up with six separate designs that all combine to become one long neighborhood street. They feature people and places that the Harrison Center is involved with and supporting constantly. It’s a really unique experience to be able to make a visual record of what is happening in Indianapolis through the Harrison Center at this moment in time.

I’m being equipped with even more skills to create and build community and can now bring more and more people into the intentionality of the Harrison Center that I’ve been able to experience for almost half my life. My mind will be filled with so many more memories of intern lunches and IMAF 2021 and hours printing in the Sky Gallery from this summer, and I am looking forward to it.