Check website for hours and opening dates and they are subject to change throughout the year.
The Stony Island Arts Bank is a hybrid gallery, media archive, library and community center – and a home for Rebuild’s archives and collections. Designed by William Gibbons Uffendell and built in 1923, the bank at 68th Street and Stony Island Avenue was once a vibrant community savings and loan. By the eighties, the branch had closed and the building remained vacant and deteriorating for decades. Reopened in October 2015, the radically restored building serves as a space for neighborhood residents to preserve, access, reimagine and share their heritage – and a destination for artists, scholars, curators, and collectors to research and engage with South Side history.
The Arts Bank collections include:
For more information contact info@rebuild-foundation.org
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Taught by Rebuild’s Darren Wallace, this free course features less an emphasis on formal cinematic grammar but rather developing participants’ own filmic language to articulate their stories and document their community.
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\r\n\r\nPresented by UChicago Arts and the Department of Art History, with additional support provided by the Department of Cinema and Media Studies and the Film Studies Center.
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\r\n\r\nPresented by UChicago Arts, the Department of Art History, and Black Cinema House, with additional support provided by the Department of Cinema and Media Studies and the Film Studies Center.
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\r\n\r\nWe are seeking instrumentalists, poets, singers, researchers and a DJ to participate in the creation of two albums. In return, choir members will receive copies of the albums produced, food and hydration, paid external performance opportunities, possible solo opportunities on the albums, and increased knowledge of conceptual practices.
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Also – IN CONVERSATION WITH LINDA JOHNSON RICE:
\r\n\r\nJUNE 28, 6-7 pm
\r\n\r\nTheaster Gates will be in conversation with Linda Johnson Rice discussing the stewardship, preservation and promotion of Black excellence, from 6–7 pm.
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As part of Art Design Chicago, a year-long celebration of Chicago’s art and design history spearheaded by the Terra Foundation for American Art, Rebuild Foundation presents A Johnson Publishing Story, organized by artist Theaster Gates and on view at the Stony Island Arts Bank.
\r\n\r\nFounded in Chicago in 1942, the Johnson Publishing Company (JPC) held dominance over the African American publishing and media landscape for many decades with publications Ebony and Jet and the nationally syndicated TV show Ebony/Jet Showcase. A Johnson Publishing Story will examine the role of the JPC in defining and disseminating a black aesthetic and culture to national and international audiences in the mid-20th century.
\r\n\r\nThe exhibition will spotlight materials from the Johnson Publishing Archive, which features more than 15,000 items donated to Rebuild Foundation by JPC including books, periodicals, ephemera, paintings, and sculpture. The archive also includes original furnishings and interior design elements custom-designed for JPC’s downtown Chicago offices by Arthur Elrod. Known as the Ebony/Jet Building, designed by John W. Moutoussamy and now a designated Chicago Landmark, the offices at 820 South Michigan Avenue. opened their doors in 1972 with 11 floors of individually decorated private offices, work areas, and entertainment spaces. During the exhibition, Stony Island Arts Bank will be transformed, with the second floor Johnson Library becoming “The Johnson,” a small lounge and reading room reflecting the design sensibilities of JPC and Eunice and John Johnson, and the third floor exhibiting photography.
\r\n\r\nResponses to the Johnson Publishing Archive by contemporary artists on display in the exhibition will highlight the ongoing relevance of JPC’s legacy in American culture. A book will be produced to detail JPC’s rise to prominence as the largest African American-owned publishing firm in the United States. Together, these project components will demonstrate JPC’s influence on popular conceptions of Black identity and culture, in and beyond Chicago.
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Over 50 years ago, in response to racism and the aggressive marginalization of blackness in America, the Black Panther Party formed to build equality for oppressed peoples around the world. They became catalysts for nationwide change, beginning by empowering local communities with free food programs, clinics, community newspapers, and neighborhood patrols against police brutality. Since 2016, ICONIC: Black Panther has been celebrating the legacy of the Black Panther Party in American history, interpreted through pop up group shows featuring emerging and legendary artists alike.
Following groundbreaking exhibitions in Oakland and Los Angeles, SEPIA Collective is thrilled to announce the third exhibition of ICONIC: Black Panther, at Stony Island Arts Bank in Chicago, IL. In recognition of one of the most influential political movements in the past century, this exhibition will be taking place in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party’s Illinois chapter. The heartland exhibition of ICONIC: Black Panther will feature a mix of local emerging and established artists, as well as internationally renowned artists like Emory Douglas, Dr. Samella Lewis, Rashayla Marie Brown, and Amanda Williams.
For show producer Rosalind McGary, ICONIC: Black Panther is a way of cataloguing and archiving the continued legacy of this social justice and political movement. \"The Black Panthers were phenomenal,” says McGary. “These young people created over 20 needed survival programs all while protecting their communities against predatory policing. We are fortunate to have created a vehicle like ICONIC for acknowledging their contribution to this country’s history, and for how they inspired oppressed people the world over. ICONIC: Black Panther makes room for courageous dialogue around our current circumstances, helps us learn from the successes and mistakes of our elders, and allows artists the honor of participating in caring for them now.\"
Image: Father, Son, Remixed, Emory Douglas
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A Raisin in the Sun is a deeply resonant tale of dreams deferred. The story follows the Younger family, an underprivileged black family living in a cramped South Side of Chicago apartment. The Youngers are awaiting a $10,000 check from the deceased Mr. Younger’s life insurance policy. Instead of providing salvation, the money causes intense disagreements over what should be done with it. This 1961 film adaptation vibrantly executes Hansberry’s sharp observations on generational divergence, housing discrimination, the shifting political and social currents, and multiplicities of experience within black life in midcentury America.
Image: Still from Raisin in the Sun film
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Madd Crates is the last Sunday of each month from 12pm – 6pm.
This event is free and open to all ages, no RSVP required.
The Arts Bank’s popular Bring Your Own Vinyl day is BACK for 2019, hosted by DJ Sean Doe. Friends and neighbors from all over are welcome to come through with their records of choice to spin and mix on our equipment. If you don’t have a crate of your own, just come dance and enjoy the vibes in the Johnson lounge. A perfect way to spend a Sunday afternoon.
The Johnson Lounge is now open during open hours at the Stony Island Arts Bank! Join us for a drink, as we now have cocktails, beer, wine, and nonalcoholic beverages for sale. Please note that the bar is currently only accepting cards for payment.
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“No sustained transformation can take place without going within, to experience our essential nature and allowing it to come forth to guide our lives.” -Kamau Abayomi, Creator of Black Divinity Meditation Day
Saturday April 6th, within the New Moon energy, will be Black Divinity Meditation Day.
Black Divinity Meditation Day is a global event beginning at sunrise on April 6th, asking black people to commit to at least 30 minutes of meditation–privately and/or publicly–and have someone take a photo and/or video and share it under the hashtag #blackdivinitymeditation and #blackpeoplemeditating.
In honor of Black Divinity Meditation Day, spiritual guide and transformational healer Stacy Patrice is leading an hour-long ‘cosmic meditation for the soul’ at the Stony Island Arts Bank. If an hour sounds like a challenge, come and experience what you are capable of. No one will be turned away based on previous experience and all meditators will be supported. We are inviting experienced meditators alongside those in the Black community who do not know about meditation, its purpose and how to do it, to join and learn.
In preparation: Attend Soul Healing Yoga with Stacy Patrice every Wednesday from 630-730pm and every Sunday from 1-3pm at Dorchester Art & Housing Collaborative (1456 E 70th Street). Prepare your body physically for sitting in ease and be guided to increase your personal meditation time weekly, up to the Black Divinity Meditation Day.
This event is 2-hours, start to finish. Please arrive on time. Meditation begins at 9:30 sharp. To avoid distracting meditators, late arrivals will not be permitted.
You will get:
an introduction to meditation
a short q&a for our site-specifics
a timed hour long meditation with assistance as needed
adjustment time at the closing
You will need:
the intention to be still and go within for an hour as to equalize everyones meditation experience
a shawl or sweater in case its drafty
a yoga mat and/or cushion or any props you use to comfortably cushion yourself for longer periods of sitting
a water bottle to hydrate just before and after meditation
Let’s fill the main floor of this historical space with the presence of our divine selves on Chicago’s Southside, united together, in meditation. For this collective event, we will arrange the photography.
This event is free and open to the public. Doors will close at 9:30 AM sharp and arrivals past that point will not be allowed entry. Please RSVP in advance here.
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Arts Bank Cinema is proud to present the BPP Ten Point Program Film Series, hosted the first Sunday of each month in partnership with members of the IL Chapter of the Black Panther Party. Each month’s program will use cinema and dialogue to explore one point of the Black Panther Party’s ten point platform. Facilitated community discussions centering activism, resistance, and the ongoing struggle will be held following the films. For April, we explore point four, “We Want Decent Housing, Fit for the Shelter of Human Beings.” through the Chicago film THE AREA.
THE AREA is the five-year odyssey of a South Side Chicago neighborhood, where more than 400 African-American families are displaced by a multi-billion-dollar railroad corporation. The film follows homeowner-turned-activist Deborah Payne and the “Row-Row Boys” a group of teen friends who must start a new life across gang lines.
The story is a visceral representation of corporate abuse, government overreach, and the vulnerability of homeowners, but the battle Deborah wages against the railroad also reveals the strength of a community.
This event is free and open to the public, RSVP here. RSVP does not guarantee admission. Read below for our RSVP policy.
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All film screenings are free. RSVPs through Eventbrite open approximately two weeks before a screening. While seats are not guaranteed, RSVPing through Eventbrite will grant primary access to the screening room when doors open 30 minutes before a screening.
If Eventbrite lists the screening as “sold out,” you can join the online waitlist. If online ticketholders cancel their order, you will be given the option to be assigned an RSVP. (You must claim the RSVP within 24 hours to be moved from the waitlist.)
Doors open 30 minutes before the screening starts. Each person in your party must arrive to the screening early to take advantage of their RSVP. Seats cannot be saved.
Any walk up attendees who do not have an RSVP will be placed on an onsite waitlist. If seats remain at five minutes before showtime, waitlisted attendees will be let in, in the order they arrived. The onsite waitlist is first-come, first-serve.
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“At the end of a presidency, everybody scurries about trying to figure out what that president’s legacy will be. I did not want to highlight big moments – moments like the signing of the Affordable Care Act, the Iran Nuclear Deal, or the capture of Osama bin Laden – I wanted to depict a very measured, intellectual, capable statesman who showed up to work everyday and led; a leader with a long list of accomplishments we, as a nation, would be proud of.” – Rob Pruitt
Rob Pruitt began The Obama Paintings as a means of recording, and through recording, honoring, Barack Obama’s historic presidency. Beginning with the inauguration on January 20, 2009, each morning Pruitt created a two-foot-by-two-foot painting of President Obama, with particular imagery drawn from news of the day. The work was completed on January 20, 2017, Obama’s last day in office, and is comprised of 2,922 individual paintings.
The process for creating each work in The Obama Paintings was the same: a canvas was covered in a spectrum of red to blue; once an image was selected, often for its aesthetic qualities and composition, Pruitt painted it in white expressionist brushstrokes onto the background. This meditative process is further emphasized by the installation of the unframed works in a non-chronological, seamless grid. The expansive work incorporates the full scope of Obama’s presidency, from such seminal events as his first State of the Union address to seemingly mundane activities such as walking the dog or spending time with his family. Each canvas is given equal importance, regardless of the traditional metrics of newsworthiness of the moment it depicts.
Rob Pruitt’s The Obama Paintings serves as a monument in and of itself, as well as an examination of presidential monuments in general. The work considers the dissemination of images of past presidents and how they function in our society. The Obama Paintings is intended to be seen as a full picture of Obama’s two terms in office, presented not in chronological order, but rather as an integrated picture of the entire presidency.
OPENING WEEKEND EVENTS for THE OBAMA PAINTINGS
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Rob Pruitt began The Obama Paintings as a means of recording Barack Obama’s presidency. Beginning with the inauguration on January 20, 2009, each morning Pruitt created a two-foot-by-two-foot painting of President Obama, with particular imagery drawn from news of the day. The work was completed on January 20, 2017, Obama’s last day in office, and is comprised of 2,922 individual paintings.
Commemorating the 10th anniversary of President Obama’s first inauguration, the presentation of The Obama Paintings has found a natural home for its first exhibition in Chicago at the Stony Island Arts Bank. Located just a mile from the intended future home of the Obama Presidential Center, the Stony Island Arts Bank was chosen by President Obama to host the inaugural meeting of the Obama Foundation Fellows last May.
Family Portrait Drawing Workshop with Rob Pruitt | April 19, 3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Commemorating the 10th anniversary of President Obama’s first inauguration, the presentation of The Obama Paintings has found a natural home for its first exhibition in Chicago at the Stony Island Arts Bank. Located just a mile from the intended future home of the Obama Presidential Center, the Stony Island Arts Bank was chosen by President Obama to host the inaugural meeting of the Obama Foundation Fellows last May.
Rob Pruitt began The Obama Paintings as a means of recording Barack Obama’s presidency. Beginning with the inauguration on January 20, 2009, each morning Pruitt created a two-foot-by-two-foot painting of President Obama, with particular imagery drawn from news of the day. The work was completed on January 20, 2017, Obama’s last day in office, and is comprised of 2,922 individual paintings.
Commemorating the 10th anniversary of President Obama’s first inauguration, the presentation of The Obama Paintings has found a natural home for its first exhibition in Chicago at the Stony Island Arts Bank. Located just a mile from the intended future home of the Obama Presidential Center, the Stony Island Arts Bank was chosen by President Obama to host the inaugural meeting of the Obama Foundation Fellows last May.
In partnership with EXPO CHICAGO, Art in America, and the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Rebuild Foundation is proud to present the exhibition In The Absence of Light: Gesture, Humor and Resistance in The Black Aesthetic at Stony Island Arts Bank.
Organized by Theaster Gates, in collaboration with Beth Rudin DeWoody and Laura Dvorkin, this exhibition seeks to bring together artistic practices that not only reveal some sense of interiority, but by their very nature, reflect distance through laughter, painting gesture and isolation.
Rebuild Foundation partnered with the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection’s substantial contemporary African diaspora collection to share works by over 20 of today’s most important practitioners within the contemporary art world. The exhibition is anchored by works by Glenn Ligon, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Henry Taylor. For four months, the Stony Island Arts Bank will host these seminal artists along with artist talks, curated walk throughs, public discussions and film series.
The exhibition will be on view from September 19, 2019 through December 29, 2019.
OPENING WEEKEND EVENTS for IN THE ABSENCE OF LIGHT
About the Rebuild Foundation
Rebuild Foundation is an arts, education and cultural development organization committed to transforming urban communities. Founded by artist Theaster Gates, the organization support artists and strengthens communities by providing free arts programming, creating new cultural amenities and developing affordable housing, studio and live-work spaces. Rebuild Foundation also serves as a platform for other mission-aligned organizations by providing space, support and partnership around common goals.
About Beth Rudin DeWoody
Beth Rudin DeWoody, art collector and curator, resides between Los Angeles, New York City and West Palm Beach. She is President of The Rudin Family Foundations and Executive Vice President of Rudin Management. Her Board affiliations include the Whitney Museum of American Art, Hammer Museum, The New School, The Glass House, Empowers Africa, New Yorkers for Children, and The New York City Police Foundation. She is an Honorary Trustee at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and on the Photography Steering Committee at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach. In December 2017, DeWoody opened a private art space in West Palm Beach, which presents viewable storage of her collection, as well as exhibitions. The space also holds private tours and events.
The Collection has been the subject of exhibitions featured at the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach and the Parrish Museum, Southampton, among other institutions. Recently on view at the Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke was Reclamation! Pan-African Works from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection. In December 2017, DeWoody opened The Bunker Artspace in West Palm Beach, Florida to present viewable storage of her collection, as well as annual exhibitions.
About EXPO CHICAGO
Opening the fall art season each September, EXPO CHICAGO, The International Exposition of Contemporary & Modern Art features leading international galleries alongside one of the highest quality platforms for contemporary art and culture. Hosted within Navy Pier’s Festival Hall, EXPO CHICAGO’s eighth edition will take place September 19 – 22, 2019, in alignment with the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial (September 19, 2019 – January 5, 2020). EXPO CHICAGO presents a diverse program, including /Dialogues (presented in partnership with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago) and Exchange by Northern Trust,an unrivaled talks program for both public and VIP audiences; IN/SITU, dynamic on-site installations highlighting large-scale sculpture, film, and site-specific work; and major public art initiatives, including IN/SITU Outside, public art installed throughout Chicago Park District locations, and OVERRIDE, a curated selection of international artists throughout the city’s digital billboard network. The EXPO CHICAGO program also features an unprecedented commitment to host curatorial initiatives during the exposition, including the Curatorial Forum in partnership with Independent Curators International (ICI), and the Curatorial Exchange, which partners with foreign agencies and consulates to expand the exposition’s global reach. EXPO CHICAGO is the publisher of THE SEEN, Chicago’s only international journal of contemporary and modern art criticism, online and in print.
EXPO CHICAGO is presented by Art Expositions, LLC. Under the leadership of President and Director Tony Karman, EXPO CHICAGO draws upon the city’s rich history as a vibrant international cultural destination, while highlighting the region’s contemporary arts community and inspiring its collector base. For more information on EXPO CHICAGO and EXPO ART WEEK (September 16 – 22, 2019) visit expochicago.com.
Image: Glenn Ligon,Study for Negro Sunshine #88, 2012, oil stick, coal dust and gesso on paper, 12 x 9 inches (30.5 x 22.9 cm) ; Collection of Beth DeWoody, NY, Photographer Credit: Luhring Augustine© Glenn Ligon;Courtesy of the artist, Hauser & Wirth, New York, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, Thomas Dane Gallery, London and Chantal Crousel, Paris
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Organized by Theaster Gates, in collaboration with Beth Rudin DeWoody and Laura Dvorkin, this exhibition seeks to bring together artistic practices that not only reveal some sense of interiority, but by their very nature, reflect distance through laughter, painting gesture and isolation.
Artist talk: Sarah Douglas in Conversation with Theaster Gates and Beth Rudin DeWoody: September 21, 12:00pm – 1:00pm
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We are excited to welcome you to the Arts Bank Lawn for a special outdoor performance with Rebuild Foundation artists in residence the AACM Great Black Music Ensemble, led by acclaimed saxophonist Ernest Dawkins. This concert series is free and open to the public, but requires an RSVP through eventbrite. Capacity is limited, and all guests must wear face coverings and abide by social distancing while on the Arts Bank Lawn. We encourage guests to bring their own outdoor chairs or blankets to enjoy the show at a safe distance from one another. In the case of rain, this concert will be canceled. The interior galleries of the Arts Bank remain closed to the public.
About the AACM Great Black Music Ensemble:
As a premier performing group of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Inc. (AACM), the Great Black Music Ensemble features some of Chicago’s most visionary artists of improvisation and creative music. An intergenerational ensemble ranging in size from three to thirty pieces, the Great Black Music Ensemble performs historical repertoire from the great pool of AACM composers. The Great Black Music Ensemble carries on the legacy of Chicago’s South Side creative music that made its place on the music history map by expressing the excitement of new sounds and rhythms, while invigorating the traditions of black music including funk, reggae, bebop, swing, and African and Caribbean styles.
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Gallery Talk + Collage Activity | Saturday, December 18, 2021 – 2:00pm
at Stony Island Arts Bank
Stony Island Arts Bank, 6760 S. Stony Island Ave
A conversation and creative response to Fred Wilson’s Murano glass sculpture Act V. Scene II Exeunt Omneson display in Toward Common Cause at Stony Island Arts Bank. Presented in conjunction with Court Theatre’s production of The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice. FREE.
Participants will view the Toward Common Cause exhibition, in collaboration with Smart Museum, at Stony Island Arts Bank. The exhibition includes several works focusing on Black identity as well as Wilson’s sculpture, Act V. Scene II Exeunt Omnes. A gallery talk will follow to identify themes witnessed in The Tragedy of Othello that resonate with this work. Following this conversation, guests of all ages will participate in a collage activity to make their own art in creative response.
Reserve your free attendance here.
Programmed during the full moon phases between November and December, Mirrors and Misconceptions is a special series exploring Black identity. It pairs the visual art of Fred Wilson’s Murano Glass sculpture, Act V. Scene II Exeunt Omnes—the final stage direction in Shakespeare’s Othello—with Court Theatre’s production of The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice to build conversation and community while exploring themes on how Blackness is othered and perceived.
Learn more about Toward Common Cause
Organized by the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, in collaboration with more than two dozen partner organizations across Chicago, Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40 uses the idea of “the commons” to explore the current socio-political moment. Questions of inclusion, exclusion, ownership, and rights of access are constantly being challenged across a wide array of human endeavors.
The Stony Island Arts Bank (SIAB) group show as part of the Toward Common Cause multi-site initiative focuses primarily on the question of race that has been examined by artists for decades and includes artworks by MacArthur Fellows Carrie Mae Weems, Kerry James Marshall, Gary Hill, Whitfield Lovell, Trevor Paglen, Deborah Willis, Dawoud Bey, Fred Wilson and Nicole Eisenman.
COVID-19 Protocol
Face mask is required for attendance.
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GRAY, Congo Square Theatre Company, and Theaster Gates’s Rebuild Foundation are proud to jointly present the Chicago premiere of What to Send Up When It Goes Down, the critically acclaimed play by award-winning playwright, Aleshea B. Harris. The performance will be presented at GRAY Chicago (2044 West Carroll Avenue) from March 31 through April 16, 2022, and Rebuild Foundation’s Stony Island Arts Bank from April 21 through May 1, 2022.
Described as a play-pageant-ritual-homegoing celebration, What to Send Up When It Goes Down responds to the gratuitous loss of Black lives and interrupts discourses that enable the ubiquity of racialized violence in our society. The play intends to create a space for Black-identifying audience members, but all are welcome.
What to Send Up When It Goes Down is a participatory, shapeshifting experience intent on creating space for collective catharsis, cleansing and healing. The performance unfolds as a series of vignettes which employ a variety of forms including parody, song, movement, and facilitated dialogue. Breaking the fourth wall, cast members enact the script differently in each performance as members of the audience are invited not only to behold the piece as spectators, but to become part of the current that holds the story together.
For ticketing information, click here.
Artwork: Jamie Melton.
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Over the last nine years, artist Theaster Gates has been the steward of the Johnson Publishing Company’s ephemera, periodicals, furniture, inventory, and architectural fragments originally housed at the Johnson Publishing Company building on Michigan Avenue in Chicago. The devices for the interrogation of these objects and their permission to be public have created one of the most fascinating mazes of artistic repertoire among contemporary practices. For his Art Design Chicago exhibition, Gates uses his most noted architectural site, The Stony Island Arts Bank, as a space for deep contemplation on the life of Black objects and Black archives. Pulling from his personal archive of Johnson’s architectural fittings and furniture, Gates makes available newly restored objects, everyday office furniture, and works of art owned by John H. Johnson to give insight into the publisher’s artistic practice and one of the most formidable Black companies to have ever existed—the Johnson Publishing Company.
Through this exhibition, the artist hopes to show the responsibility of and urgency for cultural leaders to preserve and create continued access to our cultural treasures. Gates’ reflections on the Johnson legacy are a simple demonstration of what archival and collective care might look like. The Stony Island Arts Bank, the cornerstone of Theaster Gates’s Rebuild Foundation, is temporarily turned to Johnson as a portal for public memory, new conceptual questions, and the archive as a launching pad for new artistic production.
Image: Isaac Sutton, Johnson Publishing Company Archive, courtesy of Ford Foundation, J. Paul Getty Trust, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Smithsonian Institution.
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Design and architecture have been a shared language for Theaster Gates, Heiji Choy Black, and the founders of Volume Gallery, Sam Vinz and Claire Warner, since the beginning of their friendship. The Stony Island Arts Bank and Volume Gallery have long championed many of the greatest contemporary emerging and established designers and artists, bringing their work to the world
from their spaces in Chicago.
In this group exhibition, artists and designers share a common desire to honor where they come from with objects of beauty and brilliance and of enduring meaning and substance. The many perspectives, cultures, and geographies represented in Chicago are brought to life here as these makers intend to better our world through art and craft.
Featuring work by:
Tanya Aguiñiga
Robell Awake
Stephen Burks
Sung Jang
Terumi Saito
SHENEQUA
Larry Tchogninou
Norman Teague
Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave
2nd Fl Gallery
Chicago, IL 60649