Poster Release and Exhibition Opening

Schedule

Thu Apr 16 2026 at 05:00 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

National Public Housing Museum | Chicago, IL

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Grab a free poster and join “citizen printer” Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. for an opening that celebrates public art as infrastructure
About this Event

Exploding with color, dynamic typography, and uncompromising messages about race, equity, power, and protest, Amos Paul Kennedy Jr.’s prints are as joyful as they are provocative.

On view in the National Public Housing Museum, connects the New Deal-era commitment to artists and cultural workers with the museum’s present-day commitment to arts, culture, and public policy. The exhibition links to the origins of public housing during the Works Progress Administration (WPA) with ongoing activism, protest, and civic dialogue about public health, public safety, and public education, and all that makes up our commonwealth. This exhibition, like all of Kennedy’s works, is rooted in movement building and committed to keeping printed matter accessible to all.

At this exhibition opening and poster release party, Kennedy will unveil a new installation that mixes past work with three newly commissioned housing posters. Kennedy’s new commission, along with a selection of his past works, will be available for museum guests to take away, for free.


Support
Posters for the People is supported in part by the Illinois Arts Council.

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National Public Housing Museum, 919 South Ada Street, Chicago, United States

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