Alexandra Bell Convocation

 Alexandra Bell was a very engaging speaker. I have been to only a handful of convocations, and a couple of those have made my eyes glaze over. That is not meant to be a knock on other speakers I have heard; I just did not relate to them as much or understand their subject matter in the same way. Bell's art itself is interesting, and engaging. The journalistic style of it is captivating, especially in our current age. The media has a way with spinning topics to be completely polarizing, and de-emphasizing what really matters in a situation. I believe that her work has the potential to make people think deeply about the news articles they consume, and how their formatting and presentation matters. 

ID: Two newspaper articles on a brick wall. The one on the left is the original New York Times Page, marked in red with Bell's corrections and highlighted. The article on the right is Bell's reformatting, with the title "White Nationalist Protest Leads to Deadly Violence" displayed larger, below a larger picture of the incident.


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