Art Design Chicago Talk Series: Designing for Change
@ Lumpen Radio
105.5FM Chicago or lumpenradio.com
Opening Wednesday, September 11th, from 12PM - 2PM
On view through Friday, June 28th
Tune in to Lumpen Radio for a conversation about the Chicago History Museum’s exhibition, Designing for Change: Chicago Protest Art of the 1960s-70s, with exhibiting artist Monica Trinidad, curator Olivia Mahoney, and Erica Griffin, the Museum’s Director of Education. The exhibition centers the role of art in promoting social justice in Chicago, with a particular focus on the 1960s and 70s. The program explores the importance of art as a powerful tool for expressing dissent and catalyzing change, as well as the intersections of race, gender, and class in social movements of that era. The discussion delves into the ways in which art disrupted dominant narratives to support social justice efforts.
The Art Design Chicago Talk Series airs every 2nd & 4th Wednesday of the month at 11am on 105.5FM Chicago or lumpenradio.com.
The Art Design Chicago Talk Series airs every 2nd & 4th Wednesday of the month at 11am on 105.5FM Chicago or lumpenradio.com.
About the Exhibition
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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