Oakwood Cemetery Chapel

The Chapel is a visitor center where we can, as an act of remembrance, learn about our cultural heritage through the people who were buried in the surrounding cemetery. We share and collect individual narratives to create a framework for the collective human story.

The building has a difficult history, it was constructed on top of existing graves within a section of the cemetery that was segregated by race and class. The research at the Chapel continues as a mission of accountability and equity for the stories of thousands of men, women, and children buried in unmarked graves in this area who were predominantly African American.

Students from Katy McCarthy's UT Austin Core: Time & Technology Class will create 10-15 augmented reality experiences visualizing various aspects of the cemetery including but not limited to: the history of the cemetery, burial and funereal practices, the lives/legends of people buried in the cemetery, as well as using AR to propose new monuments for previously unmarked graves.

The Austin Civilian Conservation Corps participants will display mixed media artworks by artists Baushah Adams, Alexandra Atkinson, Violet Cardenas, Arleni Carreno, Nora Daly, Sasha Dixon, Caleb Hernandez-De Lissovoy, Gabi Lobb, Ruby O'Dair, Porter Plepys, and Stephen Robles.