You can make a 30 minute appointment here on Tock. No RSVP is required for the outdoor gathering, but an appointment is required to see the exhibition inside our gallery space. To celebrate the opening of Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40, all are welcome to join us for an outdoor reception in our courtyard from 2-5pm on Saturday, September 25, weather permitting. MacArthur Foundation and curated by Abigail Winograd, MacArthur Fellows Program Fortieth Anniversary Exhibition Curator, Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago. Toward Common Cause is supported by the John D.

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 across Chicago. Together these projects provide a glimpse into the historical and contemporary realities of life within the Latinx communities of Chicago and beyond.

The Devil is Leaving His Cave is likewise a collaborative photographic endeavor, made with Mayan and Ladino children in Chiapas, Mexico, in 1991. The exhibition features the students’ own photographs and stories, made and recorded during their year working with the artist, alongside portraits taken by Ewald and the students. The first is a newly commissioned work developed in partnership with 15 young people at Centro Romero, an immigrant service organization on the city’s Northwest side. Ewald presents two collaborative photographic projects: Daily Life and Dreams in the Pandemic: A Project with the Centro Romero Youth Program (2020–2021) and The Devil is Leaving His Cave: Photographs by Children from Chiapas (1991). Her own family settled in South Chicago in the early twentieth century her Circle of Ancestors installation (1996) is currently on view at the National Museum of Mexican Art.

Mesa-Bains’ Dos Mundos reflects on the historical constitution of the Mexican-American community. The installation at Weinberg/Newton Gallery features newly commissioned works by Amalia Mesa-Bains and Wendy Ewald. Organized by the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago in collaboration with more than two dozen exhibition, programmatic, and research partner organizations, Toward Common Cause features work by 29 visual artists who have been named MacArthur Fellows since the award program’s founding in 1981.

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