September 18 - January 8, 2016
at the Arts Incubator
Chicago, IL
Co-curated by Paola Aguirre

Forms of Imagination reveals the ways that the Arts + Public Life Initiative creates ambitious public design and architecture projects that foster creative communities in Chicago's mid-South Side. The exhibition and related programs shift the gaze from design product to design process, giving audiences and visitors the opportunity to examine how Arts + Public Life uses its spaces, programs and other resources, as well as its unique partnerships with local artists, designers, students, youth, business owners to enhance the built environment, cultural landscape and livability of Washington Park. The exhibition included projects by Carlos Rolón/Dzine, PORT Urbanism, Mikel Patrick Avery, as well as the leading architects’ visions for the Green Line Art Center, a future arts space on Garfield Boulevard. 

Featured Artists
Mikel Patrick Avery
PORT Urbanism
Carlos Rolón/Dzine


Presented by Arts + Public Life with additional support from Theaster Gates, Eric McKissack, the Office of the Provost, Amy and John Phelan, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP, and Arts + Public Life’s Place Lab.

Photos by Sara Pooley.