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Navy Pier is host to Bob Faust’s Ways & Means during Chicago Exhibition Week, with the flag installation on view from September 14 and an opening across September 19 and 20 during Chicago Live, the Pier’s East End arts and culture festival.

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Bob Faust: Ways & Means

September 14 – October 22, 2026

Through a series of typographically driven designs, Faust reclaims the American flag while treating it as a canvas for collective beliefs. The series comprises 12 transparent, double-layered flags featuring rainbow-stitched stripes, and 24 paired tenets that define and reflect patriotism to Faust: the values we teach our children, and who we aspire to be as a country.

Organized around the “ways” forward and the “means” by which to get there, Faust transforms one of the most recognizable symbols of the nation into a platform for reflection, dialogue, and civic participation.

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