Virtual "My America" Exhibit
The My America website includes videos of featured writers who are immigrants, refugees, and second-generation U.S. citizens, clips of related programs and information on upcoming virtual author events, as well as student activities and resources for teachers and parents.
Click here to explore the exhibition.
Submitted by American Writers Museum from Chicago
A lavishly-illustrated romp through Chicago Imagist art: the Second City scene that challenged Pop Art’s status quo in the 1960s, then faded from view.
This short video documentary by Mark Loucks shows the artistry involved in restoring a large, hundred-year-old Tiffany window. This is important preservation work that involves an artist's eye and rare skill.
Chicago and a Century of Design is an evolving timeline of Chicago's cultural and design history, constrained by a single image per year.
Soldiers in 1942 during WWII preparing to fight for our freedom. In that era, you would not have seen a black man and a white man cleaning guns next to each other because of segregation. As one American general famously said, "Why are we spending so many resources to separate each other? The Germans do not care who they are shooting at."