The Fall of the House of Lead
Toward Common Cause exhibiting artist Mel Chin inaugurates the Civic Arts Church at Sweet Water Foundation as headquarters for the Chicago Fundred Initiative: A Bill for IL.
Presented on the 12th anniversary of the Fundred Initiative, Chin will be joined by Sweet Water Foundation Executive Director Emmanuel Pratt and participants from the Smart Museum and SkyART teen programs to collectively imagine a future free from lead poisoning.
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This program is co-presented by the Smart Museum of Art, Sweet Water Foundation, and Public Media Institute.
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The Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago is a site for rigorous inquiry and exchange that encourages the examination of complex issues through the lens of art objects and artistic practice. Plan your visit Visits to the Smart Museum of Art are free, but reservations are recommended. Open Tuesday–Sunday 10 am–5 pm;…
Public Media Institute (PMI) is the media partner for Toward Common Cause, broadcasting Gómez-Peña’s Mex Files on Lumpen Radio 105.5 FM and Lumpen.TV, and providing live-streaming and other services for virtual programs. PMI is a non-profit, community-based art and culture organization headquartered in the neighborhood of Bridgeport. Its mission is to create, incubate, and sustain…
SkyART offers a broad range of free visual art programs to young people in the South Chicago neighborhood, balancing individual empowerment and collaborative action with community-building and experimentation. SkyART is one of the key cultural partners forMel Chin’s Chicago Fundred Initiative: A Bill for IL.
Using creativity to fight lead poisoning as part of Toward Common Cause.
I think what art can provide is an option that has not been considered before, and I think that's important because those options might be the liberating factor that is necessary to understand how to cope with what is going around us.
Sweet Water Foundation is a nonprofit organization based on Chicago’s South Side that practices Regenerative Neighborhood Development, a creative and regenerative social justice method, that creates safe and inspiring spaces and curates healthy, intergenerational communities that transform the ecology of so-called “blighted” neighborhoods. Plan your visit Visits to Sweet Water Foundation are by reservation only.…