Andre and Frances Guichard are owners of the 16-year-old Gallery Guichard in Bronzeville, which has seen corporate efforts toward diversity, equity and inclusion expand to art in the post-George Floyd era. The couple, which also owns the seven-year-old Bronzeville Artist Lofts, has been on a mission to expose patrons to multicultural artists and art in the African Diaspora, along with four other galleries in the Bronzeville Art District.
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A nation reckoning with race has led to a renaissance for artists of the African Diaspora.
That’s because diversity, equity and inclusion efforts by some corporate and academic institutions have expanded to the very art on the walls, some Chicago artists of color say.