Installation of Invitation Wall mural Still Here: Zhegagoynak, Andrea Carlson, 2024.
Exterior
Art is an invitation—an invitation to see, think and feel in a new way and to be changed by the experience. Invitation Wall is the museum’s 40-foot outdoor public art exhibition space that reflects the museum’s commitment to radical hospitality. All are invited, welcome, and valued.
The current mural is by Andrea Carlson (Ojibwe), and called Still Here: Zhegagoynak.
Major funding is provided by Terra Foundation for American Art and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
Experience the texture and fabric of public housing throughout time by visiting three recreated historic apartments showcasing different families’ experiences at different moments in public housing history between 1938 and 1975. The intimate individual, family and community stories become the lens to understand large national public housing policies and their impact…
“What is an object that tells a story about your life and experiences in public housing?” History Lessons: Everyday Objects from Public Housing is a national effort to collect objects from public housing residents in diverse communities across the USA, and work with residents in storytelling and writing workshops to write their own labels…
Still Here uses art, archives, and public dialogue to explore and connect histories of displacement on the land where the National Public Housing Museum is located. As an institution that addresses displacement of public housing residents, we also want to understand the forcible removal of Indigenous peoples that came before and grapple with how those experiences are interwoven…
u003ch4u003eExhibition Resourcesu003c/h4u003ernAdditional resources available at the front desk.
