I don’t want to define space, I want to support it. Gonzalo Guzman
If you talk to the artist Faheem Majeed for more than a few minutes, it s likely that he ll mention the South Side Community Art Center, the storied cultural institution where he served as executive director from 2005 to 2011. In some ways, he s never left, as his art practice continues to explore the institution s legacy and contemporary significance. It has certainly never left him.
The Center, as Majeed calls it, serves as the focal point of his new solo exhibition on view at the Hyde Park Art Center (HPAC), Planting and Maintaining a Perennial Garden: Shrouds. The centerpiece is the monumental
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.