X

Tell us about what you do.

X

Tell us about yourself.

X

Bring your story to life — add a photo.

Please choose/upload an image

This feature is not accessible in this browser. Please use Chrome or Firefox

X

Review your working story.

Edit

“WORKING IN AMERICA” PHOTO/VIDEO RELEASE:

By uploading photo or story content via this website, participant hereby consents to and authorizes Project& and its successors, assigns, licensees and agents (collectively “Project&”) to reprint, publish, edit and distribute any and all photographs/stories in connection with Project&’s advertising, promotion and publications, in print, video or any form of media now known or hereafter developed, including, but not limited to Project& and Working in America’s web sites. Project&-related events, include, but are not limited to any event initiated by or participated in by Project&.

Further, participant understands that he or she hereby assigns all rights for the above-described photographs/stories to Project&. Participant further acknowledges and agrees that he or she will receive no monetary payment, royalties, nor other remuneration of any kind for the use of the photographs/stories and hereby waives, releases and forever discharges Project& from any and all claims, demands or liabilities arising out of or in connection with the use of the photographs/stories.

X

Thanks! Your story has been submitted.

Check back often to see when your story is posted and to see stories from fellow workers.

Next

“It is about a search, too, for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”

STUDS TERKEL — WORKING XI
ENTER SITE

News & Updates

  1. Join Project& for a Working Lunch-Time Conversation with Riva Lehrer

    12.28.16

    Project& invites you to join us for a Working Lunch-Time Conversation with Riva Lehrer, Working in America exhibit participant, artist and activist. She will talk about her working life and Stigma, Beauty & Work.

    This presentation is part of Working in America, a national multimedia initiative created by Project& (projectand.org). The initiative is composed of three components: a photographic exhibit; a 12–part radio series on National Public Radio, “Working: Then and Now;” and an online living community, “Your Working Story” (working.org). Riva Lehrer is a Working in America photographic exhibit participant.

    Artist and activist Riva Lehrer is known for depictions of those who have rarely been the subjects of portraiture. In order to create an image, collaborators talk about what it means to be Disabled, LGBTQ, and/or a member of another marginalized community. The resultant portraits reflect these stories.

    Lehrer will show images and discuss her working method and working life which is centered on the ethics of representing vulnerable subjects. Afterwards, people will be invited to talk about work and related to Lehrer’s work, how they feel about being looked at, and what constitutes wonderful pictures of themselves – or ones that are difficult reflections.

    Project& invites you to join us, Wednesday, January 25th 12-1 pm at the Working in America exhibit at the Harold Washington Library. This event is free and open to the public.