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Sighted Eyes/ Feeling Heart  will be screened on Monday, May 7th from 4-6pm in Richardson Library 115. Lorraine Hansberry, author of A Raisin in the Sun and other plays, was a Chicago native.  Raisin was the first play by an African American woman (a young and unknown artist at the time) to run on Broadway, and it was also the first black drama to be directed by an African American director (Lloyd Richards).  The play was also a huge commercial success.  But while her contemporaries James Baldwin, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison have often captured… Read Article →

Lifting as They Climbed: Mapping a History of Black Women as Chicago’s South Side: A Self-Guided Tour. with authors Mariame Kaba and Essence McDowell   Tuesday, April 10 5:00-7:00 pm Arts and Letters 103 Refreshments provided   Lifting as They Climbed is a guide/tour book that features Black women who contributed to the development of Chicago from the mid-19th century to today. This publication tells a story of some Chicago Black women who have shaped the city’s history, including Marjorie Stewart Joyner, Mary Richardson Jones, Ida B Wells-Barnett, Margaret Burroughs, Alice C Browning, Gwendolyn Brooks, Elder… Read Article →

Monday, March 5, 2018 DePaul Student Center, Room 120 2250 N Sheffield Avenue, Chicago 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.    Screening of F for Fake (dir. Orson Welles, 1974), and pre-show gallery of original artwork by such artists as “Cézanne.” 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.    Lectures and Performances The standard reading of Plato is that a physical pipe is a shadow, a poor imitation of the more real Pipe—the perfect abstract Form.  A painting of a pipe is thus twice removed from perfection: a shadow of a shadow. For this reason, artists were to be banned from… Read Article →