Jola Idowu

Jola Idowu is a Master of Architecture and Master of City Planning student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from Chicago, Illinois. She holds a bachelor’s degree with honors from the University of Chicago in Art History and Sociology. She served as the co-editor for Thresholds 50: Before | After, an academic journal published by the MIT Press, and was the co-curator of the exhibition Thresholds 50: Before | After at Keller Gallery. She has previously completed research on the intersection of graffiti and public space in Chicago and the Obama Library. Currently, her interests revolve around the archival recovery of coastal narratives at the intersections of architecture, art, labor, and familial or community bonds.