Our Streets & Our Stories

Art at the National Public Housing Museum expands horizons and inspires a more just future.

Join us to celebrate the addition of new stories and outdoor interactive audio stations that share neighborhood voices from the museum’s oral history archive. Listen in the Alphawood Sculpture Garden, as several generations of Jane Addams Homes, Robert Brooks Homes, Loomis Courts, and Grace Abbott Homes (ABLA) residents share their memories of .

Then, learn about the changing neighborhood while walking down Taylor Street, listening to stories that share personal and community histories of displacement, resistance and renewal.

Plus, enjoy a reception and explore the museum’s public art installations by Amanda Williams and Olalekan Jeyifous, Andrea Carlson, Marisa Morán Jahn, William Estrada, and Dorothy Burge.

Thank you!
Many thanks to the residents, whose stories are included in the installation: Mary Baggett (ABLA), Ida Brantley (ABLA), James Purgatorio (ABLA), JonTia Pegues (ABLA), Byron Dickens (ABLA), Allen Schwartz (Jane Addams Homes), and Janetta Pegues (ABLA).

Support
These installations are made possible by generous support from the Alphawood Foundation Chicago, City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Joyce Foundation, Chicago Association of Realtors, Terra Foundation for American Art, National Endowment for the Arts, Denis and Martha Pierce, and Dedrea and Paul Gray.

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