Public Square: Photography, community and connection in Green Bay

What helps people feel connected to their communities? And how can journalism better reflect and strengthen those connections?

Public Square is a visual reporting project led by Wisconsin Watch photojournalist Joe Timmerman that explores how people across Wisconsin build community, create belonging and navigate civic life.

Join Wisconsin Watch for a free, live outdoor exhibition and community conversation in Green Bay’s St. James Park. Large-format photography prints from the Public Square series will be displayed throughout the park alongside excerpts from reporting that provide context and insight into each story.

Timmerman will moderate a panel discussion featuring Green Bay residents highlighted in the project’s images. Panelists will discuss their work building community connections, what it means to create spaces of belonging and what it was like to participate in the project. A Q&A will follow.

The live in-person event will not be recorded. Attendees will receive a zine featuring print versions of Public Square stories. Images taken of attendees during the event may be published after the event.

Related reporting from Wisconsin Watch:

• ‘I came from nothing and built a community’: After years of healing, woman takes next step in sobriety
• Meet the teens keeping this northeast Wisconsin village from becoming a news desert
• Three women build a ‘third space’ for Green Bay residents who have felt left out
• Honoring her daughter, Amanda’s House founder seeks to break addiction’s cycle in Green Bay

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