RP Staff Eve in Recession Exhibition at SSCAC

  RECESSION
April 2–May 2 , 2010
Reception: Friday, April 2, 2010, 6:00–9:00 p.m.
South Side Community Art Center, 3831 S. Michigan Ave.

Recession chronicles the only remaining Works Progress Admin­istration art institution in the U.S., the South Side Community Art Center (SSCAC). SSCAC and SAIC have maintained a long history together as SAIC alumni founded the art center in the late ’30s. SSCAC’s impact was immeasurable as it served as one of the few venues where black artists could exhibit their work and engage in critical discourse. To honor its legacy, work will be shown by SAIC alumni and students, including Margaret Burroughs, Jonathan Green, and Archibald Motley, Jr.

Participating Artists
Aleksandrovna Amerik, Greg Bray, Sylvester Britton, Margaret Burroughs, Elizabeth Catlett, Colleen Coleman, Julius Dorsey, Leah Gipson, Jonathan Green, Richard Hunt, Calvin Jones, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Rodney Lee Jones, Geraldine McCullough, Leonard Moody, Archibald Motley, Ray Noland, Lorenzo Pace, Eva Richardson, Duhirwe Rushemeza, Eve Sanford, Margaret Tarr, Al Tyler, Anna Tyler, Charles White, John Yancey

RECESSION programming includes:
Conversation on Black Contemporary Artists
April 3, 2010, 1p.m.
Lorenzo Pace, Professor, University of Texas at Edinburg
John Yancey, Chair, Department of Art & Art History, University of Texas at Austin

WPA Discussion
April 17, 2010, 1p.m.
James Parker - Art Collector/Former SSCAC Board Member
David Lusenhop - Gallerist/Art Scholar, Daniel Schulman - Art Historian

For more information contact
Multicultural Affairs
maffai@saic.edu or 312.629.6869