OOPS & HOOPcycle
Conceptualized by artist Marisa Morán Jahn and architect Rafi Segal, the mobile art installation HOOPcycle offers a reimagined sports experience that challenges norms and unites communities through play.
Resilient Hues
Amanda Williams, Chicago, IL, and Olalekan Jeyifous, Brooklyn, NY, 2024
Some of the paint chips that inspired Resilient Hues.
Public Art Installation
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Main entrance
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Amanda Williams and Olalekan Jeyifous blur the lines between art and architecture in their collaborative work, reimagining social spaces and examining the relationship between race, place, community, and the environment.
Resilient Hues draws inspiration from paint chips that the Museum collected and preserved after the last remaining residents moved out of this building, which was once part of the Jane Addams Homes. The installation shouts out the exuberance of public housing residents, many of whom decorated their apartments in vivid colors in defiance of the Chicago Housing Authority, which offered residents only a few options of paint color, such as beige and light green, if they got to decide at all. The scattered paint chips are also testimony to the painful and enduring diaspora of public housing residents displaced from their homes to make way for urban renewal, new developments, and gentrification.
In 2019, Williams and Jeyifous won a national competition to design the threshold to the National Public Housing Museum.
Major funding for Resilient Hues was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art, The Joyce Foundation, and De and Paul Gray.
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