Artist Gloria Talamantes discusses The Brown Wall Project and municipal policy impacts on public art.

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Moderated by RAISIN Curator Asha Iman Veal and SAIC Being a Woman of Color in the Arts Class

In 2005, artist Gloria Talamantes founded The Brown Wall Project—a citywide public art initiative to beautify Chicago’s neighborhoods against brown buffed walls. These buffed walls are not only detrimental to the aesthetics of our communities, they are also a constant reminder that many neighborhoods are consistently isolated, forgotten, and deemed unsafe. Gloria is also a member of Mujeres Mutantes (MM), an all-woman Latinx art collective with roots all across Chicago’s South and West Sides.

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September 17 - December 18, 2021