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UT alumnus Kevin McCalla works the night shift at the front desk of Jester East, where he creates elaborate whiteboard illustrations that have become a staple of the dorm.

When she was little, UT alumna Alex Guillen recreated the designs from Disney movie posters, which her mom would later copy and send to friends. Years later in college, she would be asked to design movie and theater production posters for fellow students.

Jordan Blumberg can answer the question “Where are you from?” in more than three different ways. 

“I don’t have a good answer,” said Blumberg, an electrical engineering freshman. “No one understands that (I’ve) lived all over the world, just the same way that (I) don’t understand that they’ve lived in the same place for their entire lives.”

Featuring artists from across the Black diaspora, “In Their Own Form” brings a range of narratives to UT that unites their experience through time and space.