About this Event
Every third Thursday, IAM stays open until 8 pm with after-hours programming designed to help you end your day inspired.
Monumental Conversations is a series of programs inspired by . Artists and scholars explore public art in Chicago and beyond, reflecting on how it shapes historical narratives and collective memory. In this first lecture, Rebecca Zorach discusses the public murals Wall of Truth and Wall of Respect, which sit opposite one another in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood.
This event is free.
Installation view of Monumental: Sculpture by Dr. Charles Smith.
Rebecca Zorach is the Mary Jane Crowe Professor of Art and Art History at Northwestern University. Her writing and curatorial interests cut across early modern art, science, and culture and post-1960 art and activism in the United States and more broadly. Consistent themes of gender, race, materiality, print media, politics, and ecology resonate through her work across fields. Her books include Blood, Milk, Ink, Gold: Abundance and Excess in the French Renaissance(Chicago, 2005); The Passionate Triangle (Chicago, 2011); Art for People’s Sake: Artists and Community in Black Chicago (Duke, 2019); Temporary Monuments: Art, Land, and America’s Racial Enterprise (Chicago, 2024). She co-edited The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago (Northwestern, 2017) with Abdul Alkalimat and Romi Crawford, and curated The Time is Now: Art Worlds of Chicago's South Side (Smart Museum, 2018).In addition to her academic research, curatorial work, and teaching, she has taken part in several art and activist organizations (AREA Chicago, Never The Same, and Feel Tank Chicago), has served in the leadership of Northwestern’s Faculty Senate, and has sat on the boards of several nonprofit arts organizations, including continuing service on the board of directors of the South Side Community Art Center.
Access Notes
Intuit Art Museum is accessible through the museum's ramp entrance on Milwaukee Ave. Please contact [email protected] with questions related to accessibility.
About Intuit Art Museum
Intuit Art Museum champions the diverse voices of self-taught art, welcoming both new and familiar audiences. Located in Chicago’s West Town neighborhood, Intuit is a premier museum of self-taught art—also known as outsider art. The Museum collects and exhibits work by artists who typically work outside the mainstream and have developed a sustained artistic practice. Some artists may have faced societal, economic or geographic barriers to pursuing extensive training in the arts. The museum’s mission is grounded in the ethos that the instinct to create is universal and the arts must embrace, represent and be accessible to all. Learn more at www.art.org.
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Intuit Art Museum, 756 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, United States
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