Exhibition 02: I Used to Live in Chicago
Opening: Friday, April 10, 5-9PM
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We can't wait to welcome you through our doors for the second exhibition of our 2026 program:
"I Used to Live in Chicago" is a multidisciplinary exhibition exploring memory, displacement, and cultural resilience across Chicago's historically black neighborhoods.
Curated by Anefertiti Bowman, the exhibition brings together leading contemporary artists
@normanteaguedesignstudios ,
@maxsansing , and
@steve_bravo , alongside elder Chicago artists
@suradupart , Tyrue “Slang” Jones, &
@mccoypatric . Together, their work forms a layered, intergenerational dialogue rooted in lived experience, cultural memory, and the evolving realities of the city.
At its core, I Used to Live in Chicago is both a love letter and a retrospective. It holds the emotional weight of change while honoring the communities that have long defined the city’s cultural fabric. We invite viewers into a space of reminiscence and nostalgia, of pickles and peppermint, of front porch conversations that felt like ceremony, of a time when ease lived more readily in our bodies and belonging felt less fragile. It gestures toward a Chicago many remember not as perfect, but as deeply alive, rooted in connection, creativity, and possibility. A city where basslines from passing cars became a shared soundtrack, and community existed not just in proximity, but in practice, embodied and lived in real time.
See you on Friday!
