Upcoming Events/
Founders will pop up on once a week on Wednesday’s (July 2019 - September 2019) in community sites adjacent to the Chicago Transit Authority Green Line. The sculpture is part of a series by Floating Museum highlighting historical figures that elevate the stories of indigenous people and people of color, honoring the often-overlooked roles they’ve had in shaping our contemporary world. Floating Museum would like to give a special thanks to our exhibition committee who advised on the sculpture: Alaka Wali, Debra Yepa-Pappan, Kate Swisher, and Etzer Cantave.
In partnership with the Chicago Transit Authority and the Chicago Park District Floating Museum’s Cultural Transit Assembly transforms the Green Line into a moving cultural destination. Activating several parks along the south and west ends of the line, the project serves both to celebrate the cultural work being done in these neighborhoods as well as to strengthen the ties between these spaces.
Founders Pop Up Exhibit Location and Schedule
July 24th 2019 – Austin Town Hall
5610 W Lake St, 11am - 6.30pm
July 27th 2019 – Poetry Foundation Block Party (Nat’l Museum of Mexican Art)
1852 W 19th St, 12pm - 4pm
July 31st 2019 – Garfield Park Conservatory
300 N Central Park Ave, 11am - 6.30pm
August 2nd 2019 - Re-Imagining Belonging Cook Out
Englewood Line W 58th St & S Halsted St, 12-6pm
August 7th 2019 – Hadiya Pendelton Park
4345 S Calumet Ave, 11am - 6.30pm
August 11th – Boxville Market Day Boxville
332 E. 51st, 12pm - 4pm
August 14th 2019 – Harding Park
4912 S. Calumet Ave. 11am - 6.30pm
August 21st 2019 – Garfield Park (Next to Conservatory, Central Park Green Line Station)
300 N Central Park Ave, 11am - 6.30pm
832 W 63rd St, 5 pm to 7.30pm
August 28th 2019 – Hadiya Pendleton Park
4345 S Calumet Ave, 11am - 6.30pm
September 4th 2019 – Harding Park
4912 S. Calumet Ave. 11am - 6.30pm
September 11th 2019 – Garfield Park (Next to Conservatory, Central Park Green Line Station)
300 N Central Park Ave, 11am - 6.30pm
September 16th, 17th, 18th 2019 Garfield Park (Next to Conservatory, Central Park Green Line Station) 300 N Central Park Ave, 11am - 6.30pm
September 19th, 20th, 21st 2019 – EXPO Chicago
Navy Pier 600 E Grand Ave, Chicago, 11 am to 7pm
Past Events/
July 13 - Cultural Transit Assembly Launch Party
2018
August 26 - Reassembly of Photo in Grant Park with Move Me Soul
August 24 - Fieldwork Collaborative at the MCA, Move Me Soul
2017
September - Echo Location, in part with Singing Stones, curated by the Palais de Tokyo’s Katell Jaffrès
August 18 - Founder, in part with River Assembly project
2016
September - Calumet Park Assembly, done in collaboration with the Chicago Park District, the Southeast Chicago Historical Society, SkyArt, Consulate General of France in Chicago, and the Arts Pallette.