Urban Renewal, Buried History book by Drew Sisk, VCU MFA
Urban Renewal, Buried History
8.5”x11” Risograph-printed book

Design, writing, production
An interest in the disruption caused by the construction of the interstate highway system led me to a deeper visual investigation of the Jackson Ward community in Richmond. This historically black community was split in half by the construction of Interstate 95 in the 1950s. The vellum cover of this book lifts a map of the modern interstate cloverleaf ramps to reveal the dense residential district that used to occupy that same part of the city.

A block-wide swath was cut into the cityscape, leaving scars of destruction that still remain unhealed. This publication captures my research into the Skipwith-Roper Cottage, a house built by a freed slave during the antebellum period in Jackson Ward.
Urban Renewal, Buried History book by Drew Sisk, VCU MFA
Urban Renewal, Buried History book by Drew Sisk, VCU MFA
Urban Renewal, Buried History book by Drew Sisk, VCU MFA
Urban Renewal, Buried History book by Drew Sisk, VCU MFA