Black Wall Street Journey: Notes on the Great Migration

Join the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society and the University of Chicago for a panel discussion about the role of the arts in community development.

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.