Patricia Andrews-Keenan

Participants in Chicago to the World Convening this Friday, October 23rd at the Logan Center. One Day, One Room, a Global Conversation This Friday, October 23, Chicago opens its doors to the world. Pigment International’s Chicago to the World convening brings together artists, curators, institutional leaders, and cultural stewards to ask how our city’s creative legacy can travel, and how the world can invest in it in return. The convening is the organization’s culminating event for Black Fine...

Left - Cecilia Hunt and Chris Devins at the celebratory toast for Devins' mural of Richard Hunt. (Photos provided by Chris Devins) By LeeAnn Trotter Chicago’s very first mural of iconic sculptor Richard Hunt - who grew up in Chicago- is now on display in Hyde Park at 54th and Lake Park! “A tribute to Richard Hunt was long overdue,” says artist Chris Devins. Author & public historian, Michelle Duster, approached Devins about creating the mural of the late sculptor after Hunt finished a...

Works created by the winners of Ashro's Upward and Onward art competition Amuri Morris and Julia Ferguson Ashro Onward & Upward Artist Showcase has named its 2026 winners under the theme Community. Amuri Morris of Richmond, Virginia, took the Grand Prize for Eternal Embrace, an oil painting about the bond of sisterhood. Morris describes the soft blue as a newfound serenity, with the women cloaked in each other’s arms. Julia Ferguson of Providence, Rhode Island, won the Young Adult Scholarship...