Learning Together: Art Education and Community
January 17–March 1, 2025
UIC Gallery 400
Paulina Camacho and Nicole Marroquin, Margaret Burroughs, Casa Aztlan, Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education, Chicago Public Art Group, Community TV Network, Diana Solis, Dixon Elementary School, Faheem Majeed, Gallery 37, Jordan Knecht, Keith Haring, Little Black Pearl, Pros Arts Studio, Spiral Workshop, Stockyard Institute, Yollocalli Arts Reach
Over the last century, Chicago has led the nation in progressive arts education for K-12 students, as teachers and their students linked art education to movements for social justice, access, and self-determination. In the first broad telling of this history, Learning Together centers the progressive art pedagogy of a diverse group of Chicago artist educators from the mid-1960s through the 2010s, highlighting their unique pedagogical practices across the city’s neighborhoods. Culminating three years of research, including an extensive archive of oral histories with artist educators and contemporary artists active since the 1970s to the present, Learning Together presents unique projects highlighting how arts pedagogy has fostered creativity and imagination, autonomy, cultural heritage, and organizing across Chicago Public Schools, alternative school networks, and community organizations.
Press: Hyperallergic | Art Design Chicago | UIC Today
Photos by Jonas Mikowsch Müller-Ahlheim.