Black Wall Street Journey: Notes on the Great Migration

5701 South Woodlawn Avenue,Chicago IL 60637

18 January, 2023

Description

In this conversation, the Houston-based artist Rick Lowe will discuss his recent experiments in painting – including the series of works currently on view at the Neubauer Collegium – and the enduring influence of his “social sculptures” in the context of broader historical, economic, and sociological concerns. The overarching question powering Lowe’s socially engaged practice has always been what art can do – more specifically, how (not if) art can effect social change. This question will once again be asked of his new paintings’ relation to the complex challenge of economic revitalization on Chicago’s South Side. Panelists Kathleen Cagney (Director, University of Michigan Institute for Social Research) Adam Green (Associate Professor of American History and the College, University of Chicago) Rick Lowe (Artist; Associate Professor of Art, University of Houston) Derek A. Neal (William C. Norby Professor in Economics, the Committee on Education and the College, University of Chicago) Dieter Roelstraete (Curator, Neubauer Collegium) Tara Zahra, moderator (Roman Family Director, Neubauer Collegium)