Creative Works
Creative Works supports alternative approaches to scholarship with a commitment to amplify underrepresented topics and voices. We do this by shaping, sharing, and fueling stories with collaborators in art, exhibits, and digital publishing. PolyPublishing emerged from the Digital Publishing Program: a brainchild of Catherine Trujillo that aims to enhance access to Cal Poly scholarship through a digitally immersive, interactive system that focuses on collaboration, accessible approaches, and recognition of individuals’ places within systems. This structural solution brings inclusive practices, equity, and justice to the forefront of scholarly publishing at Cal Poly centering historically underrepresented identities, perspectives and creativity.
From Creative Works, the Digital Publishing Pilot emerged.
The Digital Publishing Pilot Program, of which poly publishing emerged from, aims to enhance access to Cal Poly scholarship through a digitally immersive, interactive system that focuses on collaboration, accessible approaches, and recognition of individuals’ places within structural systems. This structural solution brings inclusive practices, equity, and justice to the forefront of scholarly publishing at Cal Poly centering historically underrepresented identities, perspectives and creativity. Below, the Project Blueprint was published in the fall of 2020. It describes the beginnings, in progress, and goals of the Digital Publishing Pilot.
Impact: visual communication of information, an exhibit that focused on the diversity of visual communication created by students, faculty, and staff across the university. Photo: Jett Witlin/Kennedy Library
A department in Robert E. Kennedy Library at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Creative Works is run by a team of passionate, creative people:
Catherine trujillo
ctrujill@calpoly.edu| Office: 35-512 | 805-756-6395
Catherine Trujillo was guided into the arts by her maternal grandmother who raised her and who celebrated their ancestors and cultural heritage from New Mexico. She uses a Xicanisma and BIPoC feminist lens as a way to enact radical change. She does this work with collaborators and colleagues to name, question and intervene in racism within the arts, academia, and communities. Her lived-experiences and background in community engagement have shaped her academic career within museums, archives, and libraries growing her expertise in the stewardship of cultural histories, storytelling, publishing and design. Her work focuses on creating long-standing contributions to the cultural life of the community, with a commitment for the preservation and dissemination of underrepresented voices in history and art. She oversees California Polytechnic State University’s Robert E. Kennedy Library Creative Works, which supports alternative approaches to scholarship with a commitment to amplify underrepresented topics and voices.
JAIME DING
jpding@calpoly.edu | Office: 35-35-512 | Zoom: 202 815 7505
jaime ding loves trash in/and public spaces. She works in the Creative Works department at Robert E. Kennedy Library at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo on a digital publishing pilot, rethinking assessment and accessibility of non-traditional digital scholarship. Before Kennedy Library, jaime has learned and worked primarily with trash, beginning in the history and visual arts departments at Princeton University. She earned an M.A. in Decorative Arts, Design History at the Bard Graduate Center in New York City, learning from interdisciplinary questions about cleanliness, beauty and value in material objects and their relation to whiteness. She has worked in waste management, numerous museum education departments, and private corporate archives in Princeton, New York, LA, and Chicago, always working to rethink ideas about the “public,” accessibility, and circulation of knowledge.
JETT WITLIN
Jett Witlin is a third year Art & Design major (Photography & Video Concentration) at Cal Poly. She grew up in the South Bay of Southern California. In the future, Jett plans to work as a fashion and editorial photographer building a diverse body of work, as changes in technology accelerates more opportunities for visual artists.
SOLENA AGUILAR
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ISABELA PRESEDO-FLOYD
Isabela is a 2020 Art & Design graduate o Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and the inaugular Digital Publishing Student Assistant. On campus, she was involved in reviewing manuscripts for sprinkle: an undergraduate journal of feminist and queer studies, designing for Project Jupyter, or counting the number of Japanese magnolias on Cal Poly’s campus. She currently works for Quansight as a UX/UI Designer.
SASHA MENSHIKOVA
Sasha Menshikova is a Cal Poly 2020 Art & Design graduate from San Mateo, California. While at Cal Poly, she served as the Co-President of Cal Poly AIGA and was, and still is, passionate about using her position to support diversity in design. She is the executive producer for The Nightcap Sketch Comedy Team. Driven by an interest in thoughtful and helpful design, Sasha wants to design digital products that enrich life instead of cluttering and confusing it.