Projects

Public Programs
Statue Stories Chicago
  • The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation
Ongoing through December 2020

Academic Programs
Chicago: City of Design and Commerce, 1890–1990
  • Newberry Library
September 2017–October 2018

Academic Programs
American Art and Visual Culture Seminar
  • Newberry Library
fall 2017–spring 2019

Academic Programs
Public Art Symposium
  • Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events
October 26–27, 2017

Academic Programs
Midwest Women Artists Symposium 2017
  • Bradley University Art Department
November 2–3, 2017

Exhibitions
Bill Walker: Urban Griot
  • Hyde Park Art Center
November 5, 2017–April 8, 2018

Academic Programs
The Black Metropolis, Between Past and Future: Race, Urban Planning, and Afro-American Culture in Chicago
  • University of Chicago Center in Paris
November 15–18, 2017 at the University of Chicago Center in Paris

Publications
Chicago New Media, 1973-1992
  • Video Game Art Gallery
Published November 2018

Public Programs
Art Design Chicago + Make New History
  • Chicago Architecture Biennial
December 19, 2017 and January 6, 2018

Publications
Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now
  • The University of Chicago Press
Published October 2018

Publications
Art Deco Chicago: Designing Modern America
  • Chicago History Museum
  • Chicago Art Deco Society
Published October 2018


Art Design Chicago Field Trip Program
  • Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
Ongoing in 2018

Public Programs
Art Speaks
  • The University of Chicago Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies
March–November 2018

Publications
Chicago by the Book: 101 Publications That Shaped the City and Its Image
  • The Caxton Club of Chicago
Published October 2018

Publications
Hairy Who? 1966–1969
  • Art Institute of Chicago
Published October 2018

Publications
The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold: Art, Identity & Politics
  • Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago
Published October 2018

Exhibitions
Jose Guerrero, Presente: A Memorial Print Portfolio
  • DePaul Art Museum
January 11–March 25, 2018

Exhibitions
Barbara Jones-Hogu: Resist, Relate, Unite 1968–1975
  • DePaul Art Museum
January 11–March 25, 2018

Public Programs
Art Design Chicago Storytelling Series
  • Chicago Athletic Association
Throughout 2018

Publications
The Time is Now! Art Worlds of Chicago’s South Side, 1960-1980
  • Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
Published September 2018

Digital Resources
Edgar Miller, Renaissance Man
  • Edgar Miller Legacy
Ongoing

Publications
Yasuhiro Ishimoto: Someday, Chicago
  • DePaul Art Museum
Published September 2018

Publications
Up Is Down: Mid-Century Experiments in Advertising and Film at the Goldsholl Studio
  • Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
Published September 2018

Publications
Chicago Calling: Art Against the Flow
  • Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Published June 2018

Publications
A Home for Surrealism: Fantastic Painting in Midcentury Chicago
  • The Arts Club of Chicago
Published June 2018

Publications
Art of Illinois
  • Illinois Executive Mansion Association
Published December 2018

Publications
Charles White: A Retrospective
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Museum of Modern Art
Published June 2018

Publications
Barbara Jones-Hogu: Resist, Relate, Unite
  • DePaul Art Museum
Published March 2018

Publications
Bill Walker: Urban Griot
  • Hyde Park Art Center
Published March 2018

Exhibitions
Arte Diseño Xicágo: Mexican Inspiration from the World's Columbian Exposition to the Civil Rights Era
  • National Museum of Mexican Art
March 23–August 19, 2018

Exhibitions
Into the City: Art in Chicago
  • Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
April 3 —July 22, 2018

Exhibitions
Great Ideas of Humanity: Out of the Container
  • Design Museum of Chicago
April 21–August 18, 2018

Exhibitions
Picture Fiction: Kenneth Josephson and Contemporary Photography
  • Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
April 28–December 30, 2018

Exhibitions
Flesh: Ivan Albright at the Art Institute of Chicago
  • Art Institute of Chicago
May 4–August 5, 2018

Exhibitions
Never a Lovely So Real: Photography and Film in Chicago, 1950–1980
  • Art Institute of Chicago
May 12–October 28, 2018

Exhibitions
A Home for Surrealism: Fantastic Painting in Midcentury Chicago
  • The Arts Club of Chicago
June 7–August 17, 2018

Public Programs
Revolutionary Imagination: Chicago Surrealism from Object to Activism
  • The Arts Club of Chicago
  • University of Chicago Department of Art History
June 7–8, 2018

Exhibitions
Charles White: A Retrospective
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Museum of Modern Art
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art
June 8–September 3, 2018

Academic Programs
Art & Public Culture in Chicago
  • Newberry Library
June 11–29, 2018

Public Programs
The Art of Flocking: Cultural Stewardship in the Parks
  • Chicago Park District
June 25–August 11, 2018

Public Programs
Design Explorers With Project Osmosis
  • Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events
  • Project Osmosis
June 2018–March 2019

Exhibitions
Chicago Calling: Art Against the Flow
  • Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
June 29, 2018–February 10, 2019

Public Programs
Art Moves: Chicago's Innovative Structures of Address
  • Museum of Vernacular Arts and Knowledge
July–October, 2018

Public Programs
Dialogo: Virginio Ferrari and Chicago
  • UChicago Arts
July–December 2018

Exhibitions
Sculpting a Chicago Artist Richard Hunt and his Teachers: Nelli Bar and Egon Weiner
  • Koehnline Museum of Art, Oakton Community College
July 12–September 14, 2018

Public Programs
Chicago Archives + Artists Festival: Art Design Chicago Edition
  • Sixty Inches From Center
July 13–14, 2018

Public Programs
Art Institute of Chicago Block Party
  • Art Institute of Chicago
July 21, 2018

Public Programs
Everyone's a Designer/Everyone's Design
  • Illinois Humanities
August, 2018–February, 2019

Exhibitions
Art of Illinois
  • Illinois Executive Mansion Association
July 14–December 31, 2018

Exhibitions
LIONS: Founding Years of UIMA in Chicago
  • Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
August 3–September 30, 2018

Public Programs
Cultural Transit Assembly
  • Floating Museum
August–September 2018

Exhibitions
New to Mia: Art from Chicago
  • Minneapolis Institute of Art
August 16, 2018–January 6, 2019

Public Programs
Designed to be Seen: Art and Function in Chicago Mid-Century Film
  • Chicago Film Archives
September–December 2018

Public Programs
Chicago’s Black Arts Movement in Film
  • South Side Projections
September–November 2018

Public Programs
Teen Printmaking Program at YOUmedia
  • Chicago Public Library
  • Chicago Public Library Foundation
September–November 2018

Exhibitions
Living Architecture
  • 6018North
September 3, 2018–March 31, 2019

Exhibitions
Todros Geller: Strange Worlds
  • Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership
September 6, 2018–February 17, 2019

Exhibitions
Yasuhiro Ishimoto: Someday, Chicago
  • DePaul Art Museum
September 6–December 16, 2018

Exhibitions
Participatory Arts: Crafting Social Change
  • Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
September 6, 2018–May 3, 2019

Exhibitions
The Figure and the Chicago Imagists: Selections from the Elmhurst College Art Collection
  • Elmhurst Art Museum
  • Elmhurst College
September 8, 2018–January 20, 2019

Exhibitions
3-D Doings: The Imagist Object in Chicago Art, 1964–1980
  • Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College
September 8, 2018–January 6, 2019

Exhibitions
South Side Stories—The Art and Influence of Dr. Margaret T. Burroughs
  • DuSable Museum of African American History
September 13, 2018–March 4, 2019

Exhibitions
South Side Stories—The Time is Now! Art Worlds of Chicago’s South Side, 1960–1980
  • Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
September 13–December 30, 2018

Exhibitions
Up is Down: Mid-century Experiments in Advertising and Film at the Goldsholl Studio
  • Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
September 18—December 9, 2018

Exhibitions
Break A Rule: Ed Paschke’s Art and Teaching
  • Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
September 18–December 9, 2018

Exhibitions
George Kokines: Layers Revealed
  • National Hellenic Museum
September 20, 2018–December 22, 2019

Exhibitions
Pictures from an Exposition: Visualizing the 1893 World's Fair
  • Newberry Library
September 28–December 31, 2018

Publications
The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago
  • Northwestern University Press
Published September 2017

Exhibitions
Hairy Who? 1966—1969
  • Art Institute of Chicago
September 26, 2018–January 6, 2019

Public Programs
Art on theMART
  • Art on theMART
September 29–December 30, 2018

Public Programs
Creative Chicago: An Interview Marathon
  • Chicago Humanities Festival
  • Navy Pier
  • EXPO CHICAGO
September 29, 2018

Publications
The Arts Club of Chicago at 100: 1916–2016
  • The Arts Club of Chicago
  • The University of Chicago Press
Published November 2016

Public Programs
The New Bauhaus
  • Opendox
Forthcoming fall 2018

Digital Resources
Virtual Asian American Art Museum: Chicago-Midwest Module on Yoshida, Itatani, Numata, and Ishimoto
  • Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University

Publications
Painting the Gospel: Black Public Art and Religion in Chicago
  • University of Illinois Press
Published March 2016

Exhibitions
A Johnson Publishing Story
  • Rebuild Foundation
June 28–September 30, 2018

Publications
Centennial: A History of the Renaissance Society 1915–2015
  • The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
Published November 2015

Public Programs
Art + Design Program Series
  • Newberry Library
September—December 2018

Public Programs
Participatory Arts: The Legacy of Chicago's Hull-House Artists
  • Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
October–November 2018

Exhibitions
Homecoming: Public Art for a Public Museum
  • National Public Housing Museum
Forthcoming

Public Programs
Culture at the Intersection
  • Chicago Cultural Alliance
June–November 2018

Public Programs
A Lost Chapter Read Anew: The Visionary Art & Design of Edgar Miller
  • Edgar Miller Legacy
October 4, October 25, and November 29, 2018

Public Programs
Art and Design in Chicago
  • WTTW
October 5, 12, 26 and November 2, 2018

Exhibitions
The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold: Art, Identity and Politics
  • Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago
October 11–December 21, 2018

Academic Programs
"Say It with Pictures" Then and Now: Chicago's African American Photographers 1890-1930
  • Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago
October 2018

Exhibitions
Keep Moving: Designing Chicago’s Bicycle Culture
  • Design Museum of Chicago
October 27, 2018–March 3, 2019

Public Programs
Fallfest 2018
  • Chicago Humanities Festival
October 27–November 11, 2018

Exhibitions
African American Designers in Chicago: Art, Commerce, and the Politics of Race
  • Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events
October 27, 2018–March 3, 2019

Exhibitions
Modern by Design: Chicago Streamlines America
  • Chicago History Museum
October 27, 2018–April 12, 2020

Public Programs
Art Against the Flow Summit
  • Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
November 1–3, 2018

Exhibitions
Chicago New Media 1973–1992
  • Video Game Art Gallery
  • Gallery 400
November 1–December 15, 2018

Exhibitions
Where the Future Came From
  • Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College Chicago
November 1, 2018–February 15, 2019

Exhibitions
Change the Canvas, Change the World: A Landscape of Cultural Discovery
  • South Side Community Art Center
November 3, 2018–March 2, 2019

Academic Programs
Chicago Design: Histories and Narratives, Questions and Methods
  • University of Illinois at Chicago
November 8–10, 2018

Public Programs
The Figure, Humor and the Chicago Imagists
  • Elmhurst College
  • Elmhurst Art Museum
December 16, 2018

Exhibitions
H.C. Westermann Goin' Home
  • Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
February 6–May 6, 2019

Academic Programs
Expanding Outliers in American Art
  • University of Southern California
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art
February 18–March 2, 2019

Publications
Art for People′s Sake: Artists and Community in Black Chicago, 1965–1975
  • Duke University Press
Published March 2019

Exhibitions
How Chicago! Imagists 1960s & 70s
  • De La Warr Pavilion
  • Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art
  • Hayward Gallery Touring
March–September 2019

Exhibitions
AfriCOBRA: Nation Time
  • Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami
May 11–November 24, 2019

Exhibitions
What Came After: Figurative Painting in Chicago 1978-1998
  • Elmhurst Art Museum
September 14, 2019–January, 12 2020

Digital Resources
Chicago Art and Artists: Oral History Project
  • Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Available, Ongoing

Public Programs
Art in the Park Tour Series
  • Chicago Parks Foundation
May–October 2018

Digital Resources
Chicago Archival Resources Survey and Web Portal
  • Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Available, Ongoing