A Virtual Salon Talk

Oct 21, 202106:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)Black Fine Art Month continues with an international Salon Talk on the mural tradition here and in Mexico, on Thursday, October 21 st in partnership with Instituto Allende in San Miguel, MX. Artists from Chicago and across the nation studied Mexican muralists, most notably Diego Rivera, and the tradition remains strong to this day. American and Mexican muralists use the medium to express their views on racism, classicism, sexism and a variety of social ills. The founders of Paint the City, a mural movement that sprang up during the racial reckoning of 2020, join with American students who studied at Instituto Allende to discuss how this type of activism plays out today. Moderating the discussion will be Rebecca Zorach, professor of Art History at Northwestern University, who was one of the co-authors of the book The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago.

Black Fine Art Month continues with an international Salon Talk on the mural tradition here and in Mexico, on Thursday, October 21 st in partnership with Instituto Allende in San Miguel, MX. Artists from Chicago and across the nation studied Mexican muralists, most notably Diego Rivera, and the tradition remains strong to this day. American and Mexican muralists use the medium to express their views on racism, classicism, sexism and a variety of social ills. The founders of Paint the City, a mural movement that sprang up during the racial reckoning of 2020, join with American students who studied at Instituto Allende to discuss how this type of activism plays out today. Moderating the discussion will be Rebecca Zorach, professor of Art History at Northwestern University, who was one of the co-authors of the book The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago.

Friday, October 22 6 pm – 8 pm Pigment International is excited to partner with the AARP Experience Core for a very special Black Fine Art Salon Talk with famed international sculptor Richard Hunt. Hunt’s most recent work was unveiled this summer Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood in honor of activist, suffragist and journalist Ida B. Wells.

The conversation will open with excerpts from an interview Hunt did with Studs Terkel on August 1, 1993 on WFMT and end with a discussion with Hunt. The conversation will be moderated by Simone Woods.