Chicago Cultural Center Exhibition Open House on February 25, 10am-6pm

Festival/Event Highlights

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DCASE Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs _ Special Events

Eugene Eda_s Doors for Malcolm X College _Photo by_ Lee Bey_

Hey You_ Yeah You_ _Alberto Aguilar_ Call to Awareness_ 2016_ Sign paint on butcher paper_

The Wall of Respect: Vestiges, Shards and the Legacy of Black Power

Please join us for the

Chicago Cultural Center Exhibition Open House

February 25
10am-6pm

Celebrate the Winter/Spring exhibitions dedicated to the Year of Public Art. Visit the galleries, talk to artists and curators and attend special programs:

10:30-11:30am: Artist Mariah Karson invites all Davids for a photo shoot around "Modern David," part of The Subject is Chicago: People, Places, Possibilities in the Exhibit Hall.

11am-noon: Artist Eugene "Eda" Wade leads a tour of Eugene Eda's Doors for Malcolm X College in the Sidney R. Yates Gallery

12-6pm: Artist in Residence Aram Han Sifuentes and collaborators will lead visitors in making cloth protest banners as part of her "Protest Banner Lending Library" in the Garland Gallery

12-12:45pm: Artist Meg Duguid will activate her piece "Production with Models," part of The Subject is Chicago: People, Places, Possibilities in the Exhibit Hall

1-2pm: Artists Philip Berkman and Jenny Lam invite the public to create their own work in The Subject is Chicago: People, Places, Possibilities in the Exhibit Hall

1-3pm: Artist in Residence Jacob Yeung presents an open studio of his photography series Face Value: A Portrait of Chicago's Chinatown in the 2nd Floor Artists Studio

1-3:30pm: Roundtable discussion with The Wall of Respect: Vestiges, Shards and the Legacy of Black Power curators Romi Crawford, Abdul Alkalimat and Rebecca Zorach, with artists Darryl Cowherd, Roy Lewis, Eugene Eda and others in Claudia Cassidy Theater

4-5pm: Cultural Historian Tim Samuelson will lead a tour of his exhibition The Pride & Perils of Chicago's Public Art in the Landmark Gallery

Throughout the day: Artists Nicole Marroquin and Andres L. Hernandez will conduct family-friendly printing workshops by the exhibition Nicole Marroquin and Andres L. Hernandez: Historical F(r)ictions in the Michigan Avenue Galleries