New Exhibitions Focus On Different Aspects of Chicago's Design History

WDCB’s Gary Zidek takes a closer look at 3 design-focused exhibits currently on display in Chicago. Curators from the Chicago History Museum, the Design Museum of Chicago and the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs sit down for a in-depth conversation about their respective exhibitions.

LISTEN

WDCB's Gary Zidek sits down with curators from the Chicago History Museum, the Design Museum of Chicago and the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs for roundtable discussion of 3 new design-focused exhibitions.

All 3 exhibits are under the Art Design Chicago umbrella. The roundtable was recorded at the Terra Foundation’s Chicago office.

DCASE’s Daniel Schulman and WDCB’s Gary ZIdek

WDCB’s Gary Zidek sat down with Olivia Mahoney, senior curator at the Chicago History Museum, Daniel Schulman. Arts Programming Director for the city of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events and Lauren Boegen, Executive Director of Operations and Collections at the Design Museum of Chicago for a discussion about their institutions’ new exhibitions.

(left to right) Daniel Schulman, Gary Zidek, Lauren Boegen, and Olivia Mahoney

On display (all the way through December 1, 2019) at the Chicago History Museum, a new exhibition titled MODERN BY DESIGN: CHICAGO STREAMLINES AMERICA.

Over at the Chicago Cultural Center, AFRICAN AMERICAN DESIGNERS IN CHICAGO: ART, COMMERCE AND THE POLITICS OF RACE is on display (through March 3).

And the Design Museum of Chicago’s KEEP MOVING: DESIGNING CHICAGO’S BICYCLE CULTURE is on display (through March 3) at Expo 72.

All three exhibits were made possible by the yearlong ART DESIGN CHICAGO initiative. Go to artdesignchicago.org for a complete schedule of all the programming still going on.