Exhibition Opening

Opening Reception for Rick Lowe: Notes on the Great Migration

10.25.2022 ● 07:00 PM

Event Summary

This opening reception celebrated an exhibition of new paintings by Rick Lowe, the acclaimed Houston-based artist who was a Visiting Fellow at the Neubauer Collegium from 2019 until 2021. Lowe’s “notes” on the Great Migration took shape in the wake of another Chicago-centered project begun in 2019: his Black Wall Street Journey, part of the Toward Common Cause exhibition celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the MacArthur Fellows Program. (That exhibition, in turn, was informed by the Black Wall Street Journey research project at the Neubauer Collegium.) The centerpiece of Notes on the Great Migration was a new mode of presenting Lowe’s two-dimensional work – in a manner fitting for the artist’s pioneering contributions to American “social sculpture.”

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Exhibition

Abstract painting by Rick Lowe in blue and green.

Rick Lowe: Notes on the Great Migration

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10.25.2022 – 02.10.2023

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Research Project

Black Wall Street Journey

This project drew on methods from the visual arts, social science survey research, and community engagement practice to study the economic and social health of several neighborhoods on Chicago’s South Side.

The Black Wall Street Journey (BWSJ) project brought together the visual arts, social science survey research, and community engagement to study the economic and social health of several neighborhoods on Chicago’s South Side. The research team's work centered on producing the content of ...

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2020 – 2021

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