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Exhibition view of people near an art object.

Gallery installation-in-progress with artist Indira Freitas Johnson, "What is Seen and Unseen," South Asia Institute. Photo courtesy of Shelly Bahl.

Image of people on stage sitting with microphones.

Artist Talk presented during “Designing for Dignity 02: A Convening of Possibilities” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Photo by Sara Pooley

Headshot of person smiling.

Sheridan Tucker Anderson at the opening celebration for "Of Her Becoming: Elizabeth Catlett’s Legacy in Chicago," June 14, 2024. Photo by Natasha Moustache.

Image of statue-like figures near water.

Andrea Carlson, Perpetual Genre, 2024. Oil, acrylic, gouache, ink, color pencil, and graphite on paper; overall: 45.5 × 61 in. (115.6 × 154.9 cm). Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Block Board of Advisors Endowment Fund purchase, 2024.2a-d. © Andrea Carlson. Courtesy of the artist and Bockley Gallery.

Canvas with shades of dark colors, including green, grey, and blue.

Jessica Winters, born in Makkovik, Nunatsiavut, Newfoundland and Labrador, in 1996, Lichen (Hopedale 1), 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 91,5 x 91,5 cm, MMFA, purchase, the Paradis family fund in memory of Claude Paradis, Photo MMFA.

A group of people sitting together smiling in front of a wool textile set on a table.

Woven in Wool curatorial team. Seated, left to right: Chepximiya Siyam’ Chief Janice George, Tillie Jones, Buddy Joseph. Standing, left to right: Siseenaxalt Gail White Eagle, Bethany Palkovitz, Katie Bunn-Marcuse, Kelly Robinson, sa’hLa mitSa Susan Pavel, Bridget Johnson, Olive Keilholtz, Michelle Cohen, Roxanne Hockett, Rose Mathison, Ashley Verplank McClelland. Salish blanket of mountain-goat wool in foreground. Burke Museum, Nov. 3, 2023. Photo Credit Burke Museum/Timothy Kenney.

Collage image of Church and exterior mural beneath towers (top left); William Walker, 1972 (top right); close-up of the exterior mural.

Stranger’s Home M.B. Church and exterior mural beneath Cabrini-Green's “White Walls” towers (top left); William Walker, 1972 (top right); close-up of the exterior mural; the whitewashed church building at 617 W. Evergreen St., courtesy of Karen-edid Barzman, Art & Architecture Historian, Newberry Library Scholar in Residence and the Save All of Mankind Coalition

A picture of three people looking at a breechcloth on a table.

Big Soldier family (Iowa Tribe) reunited with their grandfather’s breechcloth at First Americans Museum, 2023 [NMAI 027462.000]. Photo by James Pepper Henry.

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A person standing on the front porch of a house, with his hand on his chest, next to a ladder.

Folded Map, "unBLOCKED" project, Delon Adams in front of his home on construction day.

A group of people stand in front of an artwork in a gallery.

Opening reception for Native Futures. Photo courtesy of Center for Native Futures.

Blue page with purple lettered graphic notes from an Art Design Chicago event.

Art Design Chicago, Engagement R&D Learning Exchange, graphic notes by Hunter Shackelford, June 29, 2023