This week’s Murals and Mosaics newsletter takes a look at a mural on the Southeast Side, a new painting celebrating the Chicago Bulls and another piece of art in Austin chronicling Black history in Chicago.
The rap group “baptized me into hip-hop music and culture,” the artist says, with lyrics that helped instill in her “the spirit of activism and being able to question things.”
GROSSE POINTE FARMS Even as a child, Jared Lee Gosselin had an ear for music. He can still remember his first records Run-DMC’s “Raising Hell” and Public Enemy’s “It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.
As his new book The Creative Act: A Way of Being is published, the legendary Def Jam founder and producer sits down with Jefferson Hack to discuss living a creative life and his storied music career