2 degrees of separation is a conceptual mapping project that examines the diverse ways in which women and girls perceive and navigate urban space. Building on The South Side Atlas, an earlier work that focused on the South Side neighborhood of Pittsburgh, next question added material collected throughout Buffalo but in particular from South Buffalo. next question explored the physical, cultural and emotional geography of the two neighborhoods, mapping them with other women and girls in a series of investigations.

Several groups of girls worked on the project, creating their own artwork based on the subject of women and space. In Pittsburgh, high school girls studying photography examined the South Side block by block, collecting objects and taking pictures of details that they found. In Buffalo, the Urban Girls, a group of middle school and high school poets conducted interviews with a wide range of other girls and women including older girls at several high schools on the East and West Sides of the city.

The installation documenting the project was on view at CEPA gallery in Buffalo as part of Unlimited Partnerships. The catalog for the show is online at CEPA's site.

You can read our catalog essay and see more images of the installation here on the next question site.

Urban Girls Poetry Reading

Carson Street Detectives