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The South Side Community Art Center is a community art center in Chicago that opened in 1940 with support from the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project in Illinois. [1] Opened in an 1893 mansion in Bronzeville , it became the first black art museum in the United States [ 2 ] and has been an important center for developing Chicago ...
Past Times is a 1997 painting by Kerry James Marshall. It is made with acrylic paint with collage on canvas and measures 9 ft. 6 in. × 13 ft. (289.6 × 396.2 cm). [1] It depicts African-Americans enjoying leisure activities including boating, croquet, and golf. Some subjects are having a picnic.
The Hyde Park Art Center's educational programs serve both South Side neighborhoods and the Chicago area. Begun in 1940, HPAC's Oakman Clinton School and Studio Program has educated thousands of children and adults in ceramics, sculpture, painting, drawing, photography, stained glass, and other visual art practices in classes taught by ...
The List of painters in the Art Institute of Chicago is a list of the artists indexed in the Art Institute of Chicago website whose works in their collection were painted. The museum's collections are spread throughout eight buildings in Chicago, and not all works are on display.
The woman-run swimming initiative is smashing the racist stereotype that Black people don't swim. The post Black People Will Swim is ‘smashing’ racist stereotypes with swim lessons appeared ...
The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center, formerly the DuSable Museum of African American History, is a museum in Chicago that is dedicated to the study and conservation of African-American history, culture, and art named after Jean Baptiste Point du Sable.
Visual arts of Chicago refers to paintings, prints, illustrations, textile art, sculpture, ceramics and other visual artworks produced in Chicago or by people with a connection to Chicago. Since World War II , Chicago visual art has had a strong individualistic streak, little influenced by outside fashions.
Black People Will Swim, based in Queens, N.Y., teaches hundreds of New Yorkers of color, with limited pool access, how to swim each year.