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National Public Housing Museum

The National Public Housing Museum is the first cultural institution in the United States dedicated to interpreting the American experience in public housing and the right of all people to a place they can call home. Filled with history, memories, music, and art, the Museum is a dynamic and welcoming community gathering place that honors the stories and experiences of public housing residents. Through partnerships and programs, the Museum also serves as a civic incubator that inspires visitors to take informed action to advance housing justice. The museum is located in the last remaining building of the Jane Addams Homes on Chicago’s Near West Side.

On display inside and outside of the museum are art installations that engage with personal and community histories of displacement, resistance, and renewal, including works by Amanda Williams and Olalekan Jeyifous, Andrea Carlson, Edgar Miller, Marisa Morán Jahn and Rafi Segal, Dorothy Burge, and Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.

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Housing for All, Art for All, Posters for the People

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Exploding with color, dynamic typography, and uncompromising messages about race, equity, power, and protest, Amos Paul Kennedy Jr.’s prints are as joyful as they are provocative. On view in the National Public Housing Museum, "Housing for All, Art for All, Posters for the People" connects the New Deal-era commitment to artists and cultural workers with the museum’s present-day commitment to arts, culture, and public policy. The exhibition links to the origins of public housing during the Works Progress Administration (WPA) with ongoing activism, protest, and civic dialogue about public health, public safety, and public education through an installation of prints by Kennedy. A selection of Kennedy’s prints are also available for museum guests to take away, for free.

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