9 Artists/ 9 Months/ 9 Perspectives
9 Artists/ 9 Months/ 9 Perspectives features work by the collective, Dandelion Black Women Artists. OPENING RECEPTION RSVP HERE Nine Black women artists engaged in collaborative efforts to […]
9 Artists/ 9 Months/ 9 Perspectives features work by the collective, Dandelion Black Women Artists. OPENING RECEPTION RSVP HERE Nine Black women artists engaged in collaborative efforts to […]
Join us to get a head start on holiday shopping at our first 3831 Holiday Pop-Up, with some of the city's most talented Black creatives! Image courtesy: Limba Gal […]
The second development resource workshop in our series artist development partnership with ILA Creative Studio! SSCAC is thrilled to partner with ILA Creative Studio for their G-to-G Coaching […]
Honoring the future MLK dreamed of, while also bringing in our own visions for the futures we want to create! Join us for an afternoon of vision boarding, as we honor the radical dreaming of Martin Luther King Jr. MLk believed in the dreams of revolution, and creating a society based on […]
Eleven artists with ties to North and South of the Mason-Dixon Line respond to just how much Black life has always been in transit. The Great Migration was one of the largest movements of people in United States history. It has transformed cities like Chicago, Detroit, New York and Pittsburgh between 1916 and […]
Join SSCAC Archives and Collections Manager LaMar Gayles Jr. for an afternoon exploring mixed media art, our collections, and adornment objects from his personal collection. In this participatory program, join SSCAC Collections and Archives Manager LaMar Gayles in exploring examples of adornment and mixed media objects from the archives of the South […]
Join us with photographer Seed Lynn for a free family portrait session! For this Black History Month, we're thrilled to partner with photographer Seen Lynn to offer free family portraits to our community! The Black family portrait, throughout history to the present, has always been an accessible, but vivid practice of self-representation […]
Learn how to successfully document your artwork! In conjunction with our current photo exhibition, 'The Promised Land', in partnership with LATITUDE, we're thrilled to offer a free photo-documentation workshop for artists! If you're interested in learning more about documenting your artwork in an exhibition, for web use, or for your portfolio we'll be […]
'The Promised Land' exhibiting artists join SSCAC Exhibitions Manager and Curator Lola Ayisha Ogbara in conversation. Our current exhibition 'The Promised Land', features eleven contemporary photo and image artists working across a diverse range of visual methods, that re-imagine stories of city life and the Great Migration through the decolonization of the lens, Southern […]
Artists Andres L. Hernandez, Tonika Lewis Johnson and Roland Knowlden consider the many definitions of space, site, and home. Spatial griots Andres L. Hernandez, Tonika Lewis Johnson and Roland Knowlden invite you to consider how socio-economic and geographic oppressions impact the way we see (or don’t see) our environments. Hernandez uncovers embedded histories and […]
Artists Andres L. Hernandez, Tonika Lewis Johnson and Roland Knowlden discuss the intersections of space, architecture, and Blackness with SSCAC Exhibitions Manager and Curator Lola Ayisha Ogbara. Artists and spacial griots Andres L. Hernandez, Tonika Lewis Johnson and Roland Knowlden invite you to consider how socio-economic and geographic oppressions impact the way we […]
An invitation to explore Black archives through collage using maps, magazines, ephemera, and images of Black women to make a "marker". The South Side Community Art Center, in collaboration […]