Projects
Red Wolf Behavior Study
Zine discussing Fall 2022 focal animal behavioral study of captive and wild red wolves for Animal Behavior with Dr. Michelle Rafacz.
GIS Extension Animation discussing land use and reintroduction for Environmental Data Interpretation Spring 2023.

Tyuonyi Model
Scale diorama of the Tyuonyi Dwellings at Bandelier National Monument with accompanying environmental and cultural resource research.
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Model created and researched by Bean for 2021 Models and Miniatures sculpting class under the guidance of former Field Museum exhibitions sculptor Kate Stransky.
Dino Myth Buster
Museum exhibit proof of concept fabricated, animated, researched, and written by Bean for 2022 Dinosaur Evolution and Extinction class. Voted class favorite!

"A Woman's
Work is
Never Done"
Built and embroidered by Bean for 2022 Speculative Sex exhibition to honor and explore women's relationship to domestic labor using their own familial symbiology of the week day tea towel.
Chicago Beet Zine
Researched and written by Bean for 2022 Culture of Climate Change class, exploring the ways that organizers across Chicago are reclaiming unused brownfield and turning it into cleaner and more productive agricultural spaces to address food inequity.
Velvet Western

Blog researched and written by Bean rewriting cultural assumptions about the history and people of the American west. Read more