North Lawndale in Chicago in Cook County, Illinois — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)
Kerry James Marshall: Untitled (Circulation)
An Initiative of Toward Common Cause
Photographed by Sean P. Flynn, October 10, 2024
1. Kerry James Marshall: Untitled (Circulation) Marker
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Kerry James Marshall: Untitled (Circulation). An Initiative of Toward Common Cause. Untitled (Circulation) is a new work by Kerry James Marshall (MacArthur Fellow, 1997) designed specifically for the BBF Family Services building. The work is composed of photographs taken by the artist over the past four decades of the Bud Billiken Parade, the largest African American event of its kind in the United States. The parade is a Chicago tradition, begun in 1929, that takes place annually on the city's South Side. The procession begins in Bronzeville on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and ends in Washington Park. Bud Billiken, its mascot, is a symbol of good luck and a guardian of children. Marshall juxtaposes his photos with found images from various disciplines, including astronomy, architecture, engineering, biology, chemistry, and medicine. Together they are a celebration of Black joy and the unlimited avenues for achievement. , , Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40 is organized by the Smart Museum of Art in collaboration with exhibition, programmatic, and research partners cross Chicago. Toward Common Cause is supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and curated by Abigail Winograd, MacArthur Fellows Program Fortieth Anniversary Exhibition Curator, Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago. , ,
This work is part of the multi-site exhibition Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40, a project that explores the extent to which certain resources, air, land, water, and even culture, can be held in common. Raising questions about inclusion, exclusion, ownership, and rights of access, the exhibition considers art's vital role in society as a call to vigilance, a way to bear witness, and a potential act of resistance. Presented on the fortieth anniversary of the MacArthur Fellows Program, Toward Common Cause deploys the Fellows Program as "intellectual commons" and features new and recontextualized work by twenty-nine visual artists who have been named Fellows since the award program's founding in 1981.
Untitled (Circulation) is a new work by Kerry James Marshall (MacArthur Fellow, 1997) designed specifically for the BBF Family Services building. The work is composed of photographs taken by the artist over the past four decades of the Bud Billiken Parade, the largest African American event of its kind in the United States. The parade is a Chicago tradition, begun in 1929, that takes place annually on the city's South Side. The procession begins in Bronzeville on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and ends in Washington Park. Bud Billiken, its mascot, is a symbol of good luck and a guardian of children. Marshall juxtaposes his photos with found images from various disciplines, including astronomy, architecture, engineering, biology, chemistry, and medicine. Together they are a celebration of Black joy and the unlimited avenues for achievement.
Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40 is organized by the Smart Museum of Art in collaboration with exhibition, programmatic, and research partners cross Chicago. Toward Common Cause is supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
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and curated by Abigail Winograd, MacArthur Fellows Program Fortieth Anniversary Exhibition Curator, Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago.
This work is part of the multi-site exhibition Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40, a project that explores the extent to which certain resourcesair, land, water, and even culturecan be held in common. Raising questions about inclusion, exclusion, ownership, and rights of access, the exhibition considers art's vital role in society as a call to vigilance, a way to bear witness, and a potential act of resistance. Presented on the fortieth anniversary of the MacArthur Fellows Program, Toward Common Cause deploys the Fellows Program as "intellectual commons" and features new and recontextualized work by twenty-nine visual artists who have been named Fellows since the award program's founding in 1981.
87° 43.508′ W. Marker is in Chicago, Illinois, in Cook County. It is in North Lawndale. It is on Pulaski Road south of 15th Street. The marker is affixed to the window next to the entrance to the BBF Family Services building. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 1512 South Pulaski Road, Chicago IL 60623, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in the American Midwest and on the Great Lakes. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Viceroyalty of New France, the territory of the Mississippian Culture, and the Northwest Territory.
Excerpt: "The Bud Billikenฎ Parade is more than a procession of bands and floats marching down King Drive, its a commemoration of our past and a celebration of our future. Every summer since 1929, The Bud has united African-Americans throughout the city of Chicago in music, dance, food, and laughter. Its one of the only spaces where we can openly and emphatically praise the historic roots that plant us into the South Side of Chicago."
(Submitted on October 13, 2024, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois.)
Additional keywords. Better Boys Foundation North Lawndale
Credits. This page was last revised on October 23, 2024. It was originally submitted on October 13, 2024, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois. This page has been viewed 174 times since then and 6 times this year. Photos:1, 2, 3. submitted on October 13, 2024, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois.
