Murry DePillars was a Chicago artist prominent in the city’s Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and the artist organization … More
Tag: conversation
“Using the archive against itself”- Onyeka Igwe and Bimbola Akinbola in conversation
In Winter 2021 the Block Museum hosted a discussion between UK filmmaker Onyeka Igwe and Professor Bimbola Akinbola of the … More
“A workshop focused on issues that mattered”: A Conversation with Retake Film and Video Collective co-founder Ahmed Alauddin Jamal [Video]
This groundbreaking drama Majdhar (1984) was among the first to bring the inner lives and struggles of South Asian communities … More
Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the Justice System [Audio]
In October 2018, the Block Museum hosted a panel discussion with Chicago artists committed to prison reform and to using … More
Fred Wilson explores Afro Turk identities in “Afro Kismet” [Video]
Internationally acclaimed artist and MacArthur Fellow Fred Wilson addressed audiences at The Block on April 16, 2019. In his talk, … More
Judith Arcana, Reproductive Rights Pioneer, in Conversation [Audio]
In the four years before the Roe v. Wade ruling made abortion legal in the United States, a clandestine organization … More
Storytelling Series with Art Design Chicago: Amy Beste, Corinne Granof and Jan Tichy [Audio]
In conjunction with the Block Museum of Art’s Up is Down: Mid-Century Experiments in Advertising and Film at the Goldsholl Studio, … More
Flesh of My Flesh: Barry Blinderman and Daniel Berger on David Wojnarowicz [Video]
In July 2018 the Block Museum hosted “Films and Videos by David Wojnarowicz and Collaborators” a screening and conversation presented … More
An Archaeology of Advertising: Hank Willis Thomas opens “Unbranded” at the Block [Video]
Over 350 guests joined artist Hank Willis Thomas at the Block Museum on April 14, 2018 for a talk on … More
Jen Bervin Talks Poetry, Material, and Metaphor [Video]
Artist and writer Jen Bervin embraces subjects as wide-ranging as the Mississippi River, Emily Dickinson’s poetry, and the history of silk, weaving, … More