University of Illinois (Gallery 400)

Log Number: MA-20-13-0330-13

The University of Illinois at Chicago’s Gallery 400 will launch a major initiative addressing how citizens sustain themselves in today’s economy. Gallery 400 will hire a community engagement manager to work with new partner groups in its Near West Side neighborhood and in other critical Chicago neighborhoods on visual arts programming that can best address the employment and economic issues facing Chicago’s citizens. Individuals from these community partners will serve on an advisory board that will take an active role in the gallery’s exhibition and public program planning, presentation, and evaluation processes. Gallery 400 will work with this board to develop three exhibitions and eleven public program lectures, performances, film screenings, and literary events addressing economic issues.