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Terra Foundation Launches Art Design Chicago: A Citywide Event and Exhibition Series
Art Design Chicago—an initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art in partnership with local artists and arts organizations.
Reflections on Community Engagement from Terra Foundation Senior Engagement Fellow Pascale Ife Williams
Art Design Chicago highlights the voices and stories that are part of Chicago’s unique artistic heritage and creative communities.
Terra Foundation Launches Art Design Chicago: A Citywide Event and Exhibition Series
Art Design Chicago—an initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art in partnership with local artists and arts organizations.
Reflections on Community Engagement from Terra Foundation Senior Engagement Fellow Pascale Ife Williams
Art Design Chicago highlights the voices and stories that are part of Chicago’s unique artistic heritage and creative communities.
Follow Art Design Chicago–Now on TikTok!
For the latest on Art Design Chicago exhibitions, events, and the stories behind them, follow Art Design Chicago on social media.
Pascale Ife Williams leads Art Design Chicago Community Engagement Learning Community
A key goal of Art Design Chicago is to build and strengthen relationships between Chicago-based visual art institutions and the communities they serve.
Chicago Partnerships: Supporting Arts and Culture in the City
The Terra Foundation for American Art’s support for art and culture in Chicago isn’t new.
The Story of the Art Design Chicago Logo
Although its colors and styling are recently refreshed, the Art Design Chicago logo has a long history behind it.
Center for Native Futures: Dreaming and Funding a Different Future for Indigenous Art
Showing up and supporting Native-led spaces is fundamental to broadening understandings of American Art.
Native Futures: An Artist-Led Gallery Reclaiming Indigeneity
Sixty Inches from Center's Tonal Simmons talks with attendees at the Center for Native Futures' inaugural exhibition opening.
it wants to lie down, you want it to stand up: a letter to Ruth*
A letter written to artist Ruth Duckworth (1919-2009) is the most recent composition to come out of the editorial partnership between Art Design Chicago and Sixty Inches from Center.
Questions with a Curator: Cesáreo Moreno
A conversation with Cesáreo Moreno, Visual Arts Director and Chief Curator at the National Museum of Mexican Art, about his experience curating Carlos Cortéz 100 AÑOS.
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Inside look
Dreaming of a Future, A Conversation with Artist Regina Agu
Threewalls, a partner of Art Design Chicago, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.
6018North, Trash to Treasure
6018North, a sustainability-driven partner of Art Design Chicago, has been working with artist Tria Smith
Newcity Profiles Carla Acevedo-Yates, curator of the MCA’s “entre horizontes”
A feature in Newcity by Jennifer Smart
A Look at “entre horizontes” in the Chicago Sun-Times
MCA exhibit explores sense of place, intertwined history between Puerto Rico and Chicago
The Art Newspaper Covers Art Design Chicago Announcement
Chicago Tribune Highlights Art Design Chicago’s 2024 Return
In the
News
HYPERALLERGIC Examines Ruth Duckworth’s Defiance as a Ceramicist
WTTW Looks at Art Design Chicago and its Mission to Highlight Local Artists and Organizations
In The News
HYPERALLERGIC Examines Ruth Duckworth’s Defiance as a Ceramicist
