Here's how the South Side Community Art Center and African-American Children's Museum have promoted African American art in Chicago.
Here's how the South Side Community Art Center and African-American Children's Museum have promoted African American art in Chicago.The South Side Community Art Center was founded in 1940, created under the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project.
"Before centers like ours were in existence many of the artists that first came to Chicago were really showing their works in the Y and church basements. And so, back in the 40s, this gave them the opportunity to have a place and a space to show," Brinkman-Hill said. A recent New York Times article called the center one of eight places across the country that "illuminate" Black history. Brinkman-Hill said hundreds, if not thousands, of artists have passed through the doors of the South Side Community Art Center. Among them are Gordon Parks and Gwendolyn Brooks.
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