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These are the guiding questions of the Burroughs Residency Pilot (The Burroughs), a pilot residency and R&D program. Initiated by the Floating Museum, The Burroughs will foster innovative connections between art, community, architecture, and public institutions.
The Burroughs honors poet, print maker, activist, and advocate Dr. Margaret T. Burroughs. Our aim is to continue with the efforts of Dr. Burroughs’–as well as those of Ida B Wells, Frederick Douglas, Simon Pokagon, F.L. Barnett, and others–to remediate the history of excluding specific constituencies from participating in the kinds of exhibitions that recognized and shaped contributions to American and world culture (e.g.,The World's Columbian Exposition and Century of Progress). The residency headquarters is located at Dr. Burroughs' former home–also the site where Dr. Burroughs founded the DuSable Museum of African American History in 1961–in the heart of Bronzeville.
The Burroughs Residency Pilot is made possible with the generous support of the Terra Foundation For American Art and Wagner Foundation!
Click here to read the full Press Release.
What could a “residency without walls” be?
How might our cultural community be served and strengthened by greater connectivity and resource-sharing between artists, creatives, community organizations, cultural workers, community members, and more?
How could artists and creatives in a residence be served by a highly connected network of cultural resources?
How do responses to these questions change–or remain the same–when explored in the context of our global cultural community?
How might our cultural community be served and strengthened by greater connectivity and resource-sharing between artists, creatives, community organizations, cultural workers, community members, and more?
How could artists and creatives in a residence be served by a highly connected network of cultural resources?
How do responses to these questions change–or remain the same–when explored in the context of our global cultural community?
These are the guiding questions of the Burroughs Residency Pilot (The Burroughs), a pilot residency and R&D program. Initiated by the Floating Museum, The Burroughs will foster innovative connections between art, community, architecture, and public institutions.
The Burroughs honors poet, print maker, activist, and advocate Dr. Margaret T. Burroughs. Our aim is to continue with the efforts of Dr. Burroughs’–as well as those of Ida B Wells, Frederick Douglas, Simon Pokagon, F.L. Barnett, and others–to remediate the history of excluding specific constituencies from participating in the kinds of exhibitions that recognized and shaped contributions to American and world culture (e.g.,The World's Columbian Exposition and Century of Progress). The residency headquarters is located at Dr. Burroughs' former home–also the site where Dr. Burroughs founded the DuSable Museum of African American History in 1961–in the heart of Bronzeville.
The Burroughs Residency Pilot is made possible with the generous support of the Terra Foundation For American Art and Wagner Foundation!
Click here to read the full Press Release.
