WORKS FOR ALL: Remembering William Walker’s “All of Mankind”
@ Art on Sedgwick
1404 N Sedgwick St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Friday, October 25th, from 3:30PM - 6:30PM
Visit the Art on Sedgwick Gallery on Friday, October 25th from 3:30 to 6:30pm for the unveiling of a co-created exhibit and Sam Kirk’s new mural. The exhibit showcases a community- wide project with art inspired by William Walker’s 1972 murals, All of Mankind: the Unity of the Human Race.
Performance and new mural unveiling will start at 4PM.
This event is co-created and co-presented with community partners:
After School Matters
Franklin Fine Arts Center
Lincoln Park High School
Manierre Elementary School
Noble Academy
Reuben Salazar Bilingual Education Center
Tumbling 4 Success
Collaborating artists & Educators:
Jorge Lucero
John Bakker
Jacob Boglio
Aespyne Brooks
Coach Perry Browley
Pierce Cruz
Beatrice Golden-Henderson
Kiki McGrath
Silvia Gonzalez
Diedre Grimm
Persida Louison-Hachim
Lawrence Wright
William Walker (1927 – 2011) is considered the founding father of the community mural movement. In 1967, as the organizer of the Wall of Respect — a mural depicting images of significant black heroes on a two story shuttered tavern at 43rd Street and Langley — he was the first to create accessible artworks in and for the community as a reflection of the people’s aspirations and pride. This helped launch the public art movement in Chicago and is estimated to have inspired at least 1,500 community murals across the country.
All of Mankind: the Unity of the Human Race: In the early 1970s, a progressive priest petitioned the archdiocese to use the shuttered San Marcello Mission Church (later Northside Stranger’s Home Missionary Baptist Church) as a base for service and ministry to the people living in the adjacent William Green Homes. As part of his outreach, he commissioned Walker to paint murals on the interior and exterior walls. Considered one of Walker’s finest works, All of Mankind illuminated the triumph and struggles of the people, the mourning of religious and civil rights leaders lost to violence, and the hope for human equality and harmony across differences in race, gender, and religion.
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