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Sapphire and Crystals emerged during a period of many other feminist groups and artist collectives in Chicago during the 1970s and 1980s. The early planning for Sapphire and Crystals began with conversations between Marva Lee Pitchford-Jolly and Felicia Grant Preston in 1986 as response to the dissolution of the artists' former collective, Mud People's Black Women's Resource Sharing Workshop.
In addition to the world-renown Art Institute of Chicago, which houses nearly 300,000 works of art alone, there are countless independent spaces to explore—which is exactly why we did a deep ...
Jan Cicero Gallery was a contemporary art gallery founded and directed by Jan Cicero (née Pickett), which operated from 1974 to 2003, with locations in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois and Telluride, Colorado. [1]
Jean-Baptiste Wicar (1762–1834), 1 painting : Artic Antoine Wiertz (1806–1865), 1 painting : Artic Guy Carleton Wiggins (1883–1962), 1 painting : Artic
Eleanor Roosevelt at the dedication of South Side Community Art Center (May 7, 1941). Efforts to open a community art center on Chicago's South Side began in 1938. Peter Pollack, a Federal Art Project official, contacted Metz Lochard, an editor at the Chicago Defender, about having the Art Project sponsor exhibitions of African American artists, who often had trouble securing space to display ...
The Hyde Park Art Center (HPAC) is a visual arts organization and the oldest alternative exhibition space in the city of Chicago. Since 2006, HPAC has been located just north of Hyde Park Boulevard, at 5020 S.Cornell Avenue, in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.
A new art gallery has opened in downtown Belleville. Green Root Gallery, located at 125 E. Main St., is owned by Belleville resident Tom Wodarczyk, who bought the building this summer.
Sister Jean has served as the chaplain at Loyola University Chicago for more than 20 years. Born on Aug. 21, 1919, the beloved nun told PEOPLE on her 103rd birthday that her best secret to a long ...