In conjunction with its Art Design Chicago exhibition Dawit L. Petros: Prospetto a Mare, the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) extends the term of the museum’s Community Engagement Fellow (Solome Bezuneh) by four months, through December 2024. As part of her fellowship, Solome has helped to plan programming for the exhibition, which features the work of Dawit Petros, an Eritrean-born artist based in Chicago whose project explores links related to colonization, migration, and modernism between Italy, East Africa, and Chicago. The fellow is fostering partnerships as well as planning and facilitating programs with the Eritrean and Ethiopian communities in Chicago, overseeing the planning of a workshop, and assisting with the coordination of a scholarly symposium to take place this fall. MoCP’s education staff was terminated in the staff reductions made across Columbia College Chicago (MoCP’s parent organization) this summer. The foundation’s supplemental award will help the museum welcome the public and engage audiences with the exhibition.