Public Art

For our Civic Term, we focused on the importance of Public Art and mapping throughout Chicago. We had the opportunity to go on Field Experiences every day, for three weeks and visit many public art cites, as well as museums and the Cultural Center. For our last project, we were put into two groups and assigned to go around the neighborhood around our school, to map/categorize buildings as we walked around. Then, after that, we regrouped at school and drafted some questions that we would use to interview people at these mapped buildings, to get a sense of what it is like to work in this neighborhood. Below you will see my group's work:

We (Morgan, Caden, and Nakiya’h) Sophomore, global citizens at GCE Lab School created this public mural proposal for Grossinger of Lincoln Park, to recognize the working citizens of this community. Public art is anything that is created with the intention to portray a message and to be easily accessible by everybody. The meaning behind this public art mural proposal is the societal recognition of non-resident working people of Lincoln Park. We think that it is important to represent working-class people and people of color. It will inform and educate the residents and community members of Lincoln Park on why recognition of the working people at the establishments in the matters and why these workers should be respected. The inspiration for this piece is based on the people we interviewed, who work in this area but don’t live here. They sacrifice their time because they take public transit in order to get to their jobs. These working people build the community of this neighborhood because the residents of Lincoln Park are dependent on the services that they provide. If these people weren’t here, the community would not have its fancy food and dining, entertainment, education, shopping establishments, businesses, and institutions. This art piece is supposed to give credit to the working-class citizens of this community and how they are lifting up the neighborhood, Lincoln Park.

NL, CJH, MEM. Mural Proposal. 2019