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  • Inheriting the grid #3
    Daniel Tucker
  • Solidarity Stories
    Anonymous | Anthony Rayson | Debbie Gould | Gabriel Piemonte | Kristen Cox | Lauren Berlant | Leticia Cortez | Rogers Park Community Action Network
  • Mexico Solidarity Network
    Ryan Hollon
  • Introducing: Chicago Couriers Union
    Chicago Couriers Union
  • When Art Scene’s Say We: Pilsen Open Studios
    AREA
  • Sending Clear Signals: Radios Populares
    Aaron Sarver
  • The (Original) Rainbow Coalition
    James Tracy
  • Nicaragua Solidarity Committee
    Daniel Tucker
  • The Speculative Landscape: Signs of the Times
    Jason Reblando
  • Introducing: Platypus
    Chris Cutrone
  • Contested Chicago: Pilsen and Gentrification
    Paul Lloyd Sargent
  • How Chicago’s Community of Doulas Is Making it Work
    Bonnie Fortune
  • Introducing: Student Tenant Organizing Project
    Matt Ginsberg-Jaeckle
  • Missing Landfills
    Therese Quinn
  • Cuentos: A Solidarity Story
    Michele Feder-Nadoff
  • W.A.S.T.E.
    Laurie Palmer
  • Solidarity and Its Fracturing in ACT-Up
    Debbie Gould
  • Introducing: School Without Walls
    Ryan Hollon
  • Six Fragments from “The Thrill is Gone”
    Mary Patten
  • Who Are We Now? Getting Connected
    Elena Gonzales
  • Introducing: Chicago Freedom School
    Kristen Cox
  • Introducing: Roll Call Chicago
    Cassie Fennell
  • Practicing Solidarity
    Christopher Hayes
  • Thoughts on Solidarity
    Mary Patten

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Notes for a People's Atlas of Chicago

5 Questions About Socially Engaged Art in Chicago

 

Featuring Interviews with: Mike Bancroft (Co-op Image), Wafaa Bilal, Sara Black (Material Exchange), Brett Bloom (Temporary Services), Aquil Charlton (Crib Collective), Salome Chasnoff (Beyondmedia), Marianne Fairbanks (Mess Hall), Edra Soto Fernandez, Nicole Garneau, Theaster Gates, Amanda Gutierrez, Craig Harshaw (Insight Arts), David Isaacson (Theater Oobleck), Jennifer Karmin (Anti Gravity Surprise), Nance Klehm, Edmar and Rachael Marszewski (Lumpen), Mark Messing (Mucca Pazza), Anne Elizabeth Moore, Sonjanita Moore (Kuumba Lynx), Laurie Palmer, Amy Partridge (CAFF Collective), Mary Patten (Feel Tank Chicago), Coya Paz (Teatro Luna), Dan Peterman (Experimental Station), Jon Pounds (Chicago Public Art Group), Aay Preston-Myint (Chances Dances), Toufic El Rassi, Laurie Jo Reynolds, Elvia Rodriguez-Ochoa (Polvo), Deborah Stratman, Shannon Stratton (threewalls), Brad Thomson, travis (American Veterans for Equal Rights), Dan S. Wang, Rebecca Zorach (Feel Tank Chicago), and more.

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