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 Houston-based artist Rick Lowe’s “Stock Tickers,” sculptural interventions distributed in select Chicago neighborhoods in the summer of 2021 as part of Toward Common Cause, a multi-site exhibition organized by the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago and presented on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the MacArthur Foundation’s Fellows Program. The BWSJ research team sought to better understand residents’ perspectives of their neighborhoods and to project this information through the sculptures Lowe created during his residency as a Neubauer Collegium Visiting Fellow. The challenge was three-fold: 1) to design and conduct a sociological study that conceptualizes, gathers, and analyzes data on the focal neighborhoods’ economic and social health; 2) to determine, with residents, what kind of information might be of use to residents of disenfranchised neighborhoods; and 3) to make those data legible in artistic form. The creation of the data, and the tracking of reactions to and engagement with the sculptures, provided social science insights into how community is perceived, described, and documented. The sculptures are a new source of information that constitutes value and facilitates decision-making by residents of low-income, historically divested communities.