The annual Chicago Sukkah Design Festival celebrates cultural heritage and amplifies solidarity among the Jewish community who lived in North Lawndale historically, the predominantly Black community that resides there today, and the broader Chicago community. During the Festival days the landscape of unique sukkahs (small outdoor pavilions built for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot) is activated with cross-cultural public programming, co-organized with the Lawndale Pop-Up Spot, bringing together intersectional pairings of neighborhood groups. After the Festival, each sukkah is relocated and permanently re-installed at the facilities of the community organizations that co-designed them, as vibrant new program spaces.
The Chicago Sukkah Design Festival celebrates cultural heritage and builds solidarity between the Jewish community, North Lawndale’s Black residents, and the wider Chicago community. The event features unique sukkahs and cross-cultural programming, with each sukkah relocated after the Festival and re-installed as a permanent program space at community organizations.
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An initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art in partnership with artists and organizations across the city, Art Design Chicago is a series of events and exhibitions that highlight the city’s artistic heritage and creative communities.
