This week’s featured gig poster was created for the Federal Music Project of the Works Project Administration, most likely designed by artist Ralph Graham in 1937.
Tag: WPA
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Charles White finally gets his due with a retrospective at the Art Institute
His work was a corrective to the rampant misrepresentation of African-Americans in art and history.
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A look back at Chicago’s public housing
On the 50th anniversary of a landmark desegregation lawsuit, the Reader and Blvck Vrchives offer this visual sampler of the city’s segregated housing past.
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On the south side, art tackles a problem
The South Side Community Art Center’s “Maleness to Manhood” offers an arts expo grounded in a Chicago reality.
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Marguerite Horberg’s post-HotHouse venture, Portoluz, revisits the WPA
Here’s a business model for hard times: hit the street and sell whatever you’ve got. Marguerite Horberg, founder and longtime potentate of the now defunct world-music club HotHouse, was doing it last week, on the sidewalk in front of Robin Richman’s shop on Damen during Richman’s annual yard sale. Horberg was offering passersby vintage clothing […]