Learning Together: Art Education and Community

UIC Gallery 400, September 05, 2024–March 15, 2025

Over the last century, Chicago has led the nation in progressive arts education for K-12 students, as teachers and their students linked art education to movements for social justice, access, and self-determination. In the first broad telling of this history, Gallery 400’s Learning Together centers the progressive art pedagogy of a diverse group of Chicago artist educators from the mid-1960s through the 2010s, highlighting the unique pedagogical practices of educators working across Chicago’s diverse neighborhoods. Artworks co-created by students and educators, sketchbooks, ephemera, and images of public artworks in situ in and around K-12 schools are paired with teaching artists’ artwork inspired by their work with Chicago’s youth.

In addition to Faheem Majeed, exhibiting artists include Paulina Camacho and Nicole Marroquin, Margaret Burroughs, Casa Aztlan, Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education, Chicago Public Art Group, Community TV Network, Diana Solís, Dixon Elementary School, Gallery 37, Jordan Knecht, Keith Haring, Little Black Pearl, Pros Arts Studio, Spiral Workshop, Stockyard Institute, Yollocalli Arts Reach, among others.