Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40 is a visual anthology of new and recontextualized work, mounted across Chicago, by 29 artists named Fellows since the award program’s founding in 1981. The fellowship provides no-strings-attached, five-year grants to individuals who show exceptional creativity in their fields, including artists, scientists, composers, poets, writers, historians, and occasionally, architects. Organized by the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art in collaboration with partner organizations, the multi-site exhibition began in the spring and will be ongoing through the end of the year.
With an emphasis on institutions on the South Side, Toward Common Cause draws on a variety of resources: some are physical, like buildings and materials (such as soil, water, air, energy), and some are intangible, like information, education, and culture. The works explore ways in which resources can be used or abused, and how they play into the struggle for capital and racial equality.
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