Dreaming of a Future Catalog Launch
@ The Black Arts Consortium, Abbott Hall
710 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Wednesday, July 9th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
Join us as we celebrate the launch of our Dreaming of a Future anniversary project catalog! As a curatorial and exhibition project, Dreaming of a Future calls attention to Threewalls place in this lineage of Chicago-based Black art spaces while doing the work of engaging neighborhood communities and artists with a deep practice of community. Dreaming of a Future also remains a call to collectively participate in resistance. Resistance to accepting the limitations of our current conditions.
The conditions that tell us that we must exist within the status quo. A status quo that is framed by and through the lens of Whiteness, White supremacy, and capitalism. Whiteness, White supremacy, and capitalism work in tandem to distract us from dreaming a future. A future where historically excluded communities have their needs met, access to what they want, and conditions that spur creative avenues to care, love, and reparations.
The publication highlights the work of Regina Agu, Andres L. Hernandez, Norman W. Long and Nnenna Okore who offer responses to the call to dream while also offering their own dreams for a future Chicago. Additional essayists and contributors include Emmanuel Iduma, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, Gervais Marsh, Wisdom Baty, Adia Sykes, Nancy Sánchez Tamayo and Erica Cardwell.
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