Designing for Change: Chicago Protest Art of the 1960s–70s
@ Chicago History Museum
1601 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, May 18th, from 12PM - 2PM
On view through Friday, June 28th
Join Chicago History Museum to celebrate the opening of Designing for Change: Chicago Protest Art of the 1960s–70s. The Museum’s newest exhibition looks at five major social movements of the 1960s and 1970s through the lens of graphic art. The day includes interactive art-making, expert speakers, guided tours of the exhibition, and more!
Included with general admission.
Chicago activists in the 1960s and ’70s used design to create powerful slogans, symbols, and imagery to amplify their visions for social change. Designing for Change: Chicago Protest Art of the 1960s–70s features more than 100 posters, fliers, signs, buttons, newspapers, magazines, and books from the era, expressing often radical ideas about race, war, gender equality, and sexuality that challenged mainstream culture of the time.
As racism, war, gender inequality, and LGBTQIA+ discrimination remain enduring issues shaped by today’s complex world, visitors to the exhibition find works from a new generation of artivists upholding the city’s rich legacy of protest art to fight for social change.
Image info: Open-housing march near Bogan High School in the Ashburn neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, August 12, 1966. Chicago History Museum, ICHi-077685; photograph by Declan Haun.
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