Following her fellowship grant from United States Artists and exhibition at Wrightwood 659, Dimensions of Citizenship exhibitor Keller Easterling sits down with Evan Moffitt @frieze_magazine to expand on migration and capital flight. Read more here: https://t.co/owlVsxeo0d
On Saturday April 6, 2:00-4:00PM, join artist and celebrity braid stylist, Shani Crowe, for a hands-on braiding workshop learning basic braiding and cornrowing techniques! Hair products, supplies, and braiding hair will be provided. https://t.co/gaS40NGKlh
Join us, Saturday, April 6th, 1:00-3:00PM at Overton School for an afternoon of local films and tips on preserving your home movies with South Side Home Movie Project and the Chicago Film Archives! Read more at: https://t.co/Ql6TMdFSmB
Friday March 29th, Jeanne Gang, Amanda Williams, and Marlon Foster, will discuss how we can think differently about overlooked urban spaces to cultivate greater belonging. Moderated by Dimensions of Citizenship co-curator Ann Lui. Reserve your tickets on https://t.co/2gRNvaKSjR!
Join us this Friday, March 15 at 6:30PM for "Night and Day"—a performance by Rashayla Marie Brown at Wrightwood 659, where she traces a narrative of art history brushing against popular culture by responding to real-life events of Amanda Williams on the reality TV show, Artstar!
>> REMINDER ALERT: Join us for our panel discussion TOMORROW, March 7th, 6pm @GrahamFound, for "Satellite Citizens: Cartographies and Cosmologies" with @lifewinning, @de_monchaux, Rania Ghosn, El Hadi Jazairy and @jnthnslmn
Join us for a panel discussion @GrahamFound, "Satellite Citizens: Cartographies and Cosmologies" on Thursday, March 7th 6pm.
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Panelists include: Ingrid Burrington, Nicholas de Monchaux, Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy. Moderated by Jonathan Solomon, Director of AIADO at SAIC.
>> JOIN US THIS FRIDAY: March 1, 12-1:30 PM Chicago Architecture Center @chiarchitecture: Dimensions of Citizenship Roundtable Discussion: Mimi Zeiger, Shannon Harvey, Jeremiah Chiu, Robert Gerard Pietrusko and Alissa Anderson. RSVP: https://t.co/Ho56vLvzEU
"Dimensions of Citizenship: Architecture and Belonging from the Body to the Cosmos" opens February 28, 2019 and will be on view for the first in the United States Wrightwood 659 in Chicago until April 27th, 2019. Reserve your tickets now at: https://t.co/Gcdbpcmdht
We're excited to share that Dimensions of Citizenship will travel to the US after closing at #BiennaleArchitettura2018. The exhibition opens on February 15 @Wrightwood659: a new space for socially engaged architecture and art. https://t.co/2VKdCBR3gV
"Architects are turning towards justice...Now faced with nativist, reactionary, and exclusionary politics, we look to design concepts that emphasize inclusion, equity, and local, community-oriented solutions." — Kian Goh @kiangoh https://t.co/DLrLSNBnGW
"The United States’ four hundred years of slave codes followed by Jim Crow segregation have laid firm groundwork for legislating where black people belong. Enslaved Africans belonged in the fields, not the big house." — Mabel O. Wilson, "Mine Not Yours" https://t.co/mjBylw6FmZ
"Far from shying away from the topic the curatorial team had in fact pulled off a masterstroke. [...] they had elevated the discourse on citizenship to notions of belonging, immigration, sovereignty, and ecology." — Giovanna Dunmall in Curbed: https://t.co/VQcjGeT3yI
"The most important event on the international architecture calendar, the Biennale is where nations have sent their greatest thinkers to hash out the most pressing themes and issues gripping their industry--and society at large." — Allyssia Alleyne in CNN https://t.co/fCQZJsSDkN
"The Venice Architecture Biennale is known for corralling big thinking. And for this year’s presentation, the United States Pavilion is looking all the way to the cosmos." —Ted Loos @nytimes https://t.co/OA9fTvpyrL