About the program
Join the Smart Museum of Art for this guided tour of the restored Stony Island Arts Bank, one of artist Theaster Gates’s most notable building projects. New architecture and design installations will be on view as part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial.
Designed by William Gibbons Uffendell and built in 1923, the bank at 68th and Stony Island was once a vibrant community savings and loan. Today, the restored Stony Island Arts Bank provides the South Side of Chicago with 17,000 square feet of space for innovation in contemporary art and archival practice. The project is managed by Rebuild, Gates’s land-based, non-profit artistic project that demonstrates the power of artistic agency in the reconstitution of disused and dispossessed archives and spaces on Chicago’s South Side.
Offered in conjunction with the Smart Museum’s exhibition, Theaster Gates: Unto Thee, this program is co-presented by the Chicago Architecture Biennial and Dorchester Avenue.
RSVP forthcoming.
