Inside/Outside: The Connection Between Parks, Housing, and Vibrant Communities
Exploring how safe, accessible, and high-quality outdoor spaces can strengthen public housing communities, in collaboration with Trust for Public Land
Opening and Garden Party
Living in the Shade
The flower bed at Lafayette Gardens, designed and tended by the 411 Gardeners for the annual NYCHA competition for best flower garden, 1972. (Courtesy of the LaGuardia & Wagner Archives.)
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National Public Housing Museum, 919 S. Ada Street, Chicago, IL 60607
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Join us to mark the opening of Living in the Shade, a new exhibition that explores the role of open space in creating more livable, healthy, and thriving public housing communities.
Enjoy refreshments, cool off with a paleta, explore the exhibition, and meet and mingle in the Alphawood Foundation Sculpture Garden.
FREE. Please register in advance, so we can make sure there is enough food and refreshments for everyone.
Connecting Chicago’s Newest Cultural Destinations
The reception is co-hosted by Dorian H. Nash (National Public Housing Museum) and Lisa Lindvay (Intuit Art Museum). Join us later this summer at Intuit for another art-filled program! Community Day: IAM Everywhere (August 23, 11 am–6 pm) features engaging activities for all ages and a chance to explore the newly expanded Intuit Art Museum.
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