Art in Urgent Times: A Conversation with Rick Lowe
@ The Social Justice Initiative at UIC
750 S Halsted St, Rm 302, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, March 2nd, at 6PM
The Social Justice Initiative presents the last public event in the Geographies of Justice Seminar series, Art in Urgent Times: What is the role of the artist in times of crisis and social transformation?
Please join us for an evening with Rick Lowe, a Houston-based artist and organizer whose unconventional approach to community revitalization transformed a neighborhood in Houston into a visionary public art project that continues to evolve two decades since its inception. Lowe is a distinguished figure in social-practice art and in 2014, he was awarded a MacArthur “genius” fellowship.
In this presentation, Lowe will be joined by Chicago-based artists Isis Ferguson, Associate Director of City + Community Strategy for Place Lab; and Kristiana Rae Colón, a poet, playwright, and co-director of the #LetUsBreathe Collective to discuss what artists can do to impact, change, and advance the cause of social justice.
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