Marisa Morán Jahn

The CareForce

The CareForce is a transmedia public art project and mobile studio (the CareForce One) that bolsters America’s fastest growing workforce — caregivers — and those championing a movement for affordable care options and domestic worker justice. Who’s behind the wheel? Lead artist Marisa Morán Jahn in collaboration with filmmaker Yael Melamede, co-pilot Anjum Asharia, National Domestic Workers Alliance, and Caring Across Generations. 

Check out our calendar to join us for workshops, exhibitions, dance practice, and outreach at the Brooklyn Museum, Oakland Museum for Open Engagement, worker centers, and other pit stops across America: www.careforce.co

El Bibliobandido

Initiated by Marisa Morán Jahn, El Bibliobandido (‘book bandit’) is a masked bandit who eats stories and terrorizes kids until they offer him fresh stories they’ve written. 

Jahn “invented” this chief character everyone loves to hate with a Honduran community with an 80% illiteracy rate. After training a cadre of 15 middle schoolers in 2010 how to create 8 simple books out of ordinary paper and glue, the Honduran youth leaders began to train other teachers, librarians, and youth in much-needed literacy activities by bringing El Bibliobandido and a new cast of characters to 19 surrounding villages. Since this time, El Bibliobandido workshops reach 500 youth in Northern Honduras each year. Jahn subsequently integrated digital storycrafting and interactive media into Bibliobandido workshops held at venues including Peréz Art Museum Miami, Studio Museum of Harlem, Seattle Public Library, and public schools.

 Media: Art Forum, MIT Arts Cast, Peréz Art Museum Miami blog

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Video Slink Uganda

Marisa Morán Jahn and East African media ethnographer Paul Falzone 

Support: apexart Franchise Exhibition award 

Video Slink Uganda (2012) is a public art project that involves slipping (’slinking’) 7 experimental video shorts by contemporary African diasporan artists onto pirated DVDs that play before the main feature film and screened throughout Uganda. 

Collaborators: Paul D. Miller a.k.a. Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid, Rashaad Newsome, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Kamau Patton, Zina Saro-Wiwa, Hank Willis Thomas and Terence Nance, Saya Woolfalk

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The NannyVan

Created by Studio REV- (lead artist: Marisa Jahn) with The National Domestic Workers Alliance, the NannyVan is a mobile design studio and sound lab that “accelerates the movement for domestic workers’ rights.” To date, the NannyVan has engaged more than 10,000 nannies, housekeepers, and caregivers in storytelling and creative media workshops. Team NannyVan has engaged millions more through media coverage in the New York Times, BBC, Fusion TV, Good Magazine, Univision, La Prensa/El Diario, Art in America, Hyperallergic, Boston Globe, parenting and nanny blogs. The NannyVan plays a key role in the CareForce, a public art and transmedia project about one of America’s fastest growing workforce — caregivers.