The Nebraska Mosaic project of the College of Journalism and Mass Communications will be the focus of a photography exhibit, “Cultural Livelihood in Lincoln: Nebraska Mosaic Photojournalism,” in the Nebraska Union’s Rotunda Gallery.
The exhibit highlights student photographs taken as part of the course since the project’s debut in the fall of 2010.
The project, in which students report on Nebraska’s growing refugee and immigrant communities, was funded initially by a grant from J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism at American University’s School of Communication in Washington, D.C., and later became the operating partner in a grant from the Knight Communication Information Challenge to the Lincoln Community Foundation.
Nebraska Mosaic is taught as a capstone course by Timothy G. Anderson, an associate professor in the journalism sequence at the college. He has been helped by two graduate assistants: first, in 2011-12, by Charlie Litton, now a communications associate at UNeMed Corporation in Omaha; and currently by Amanda Mobley Guenther.
Students in the class, now in its seventh semester, have produced nearly 250 stories for the Nebraska Mosaic website, which welcomes roughly 3,000 visitors each month. Among the stories are 33 produced as videos, which together have been viewed more than 16,000 times.
The exhibit runs through March 14.
