Exhibition: NPHM 2025

AFROTOP was chosen for inclusion in this curated exhibition, Still Here: Stories of Displacement. Thank you, RLS for submitting my work, and thank you, Dr. Lucy Mensah, for including it in this impactful exhibition.

Exhibition

• April 4–July 6, 2025
• Special Exhibits Gallery,
  2nd Floor
• Free

Still Here: Stories of Displacement

Still Here uses art, archives, and public dialogue to explore and connect histories of displacement on the land where the National Public Housing Museum is located. As an institution that addresses displacement of public housing residents, we also want to understand the forcible removal of Indigenous peoples that came before and grapple with how those experiences are interwoven.

This exhibition includes a large public wall mural by Andrea Carlson (Ojibwe) that is part of the city of Chicago’s Monuments and Memorials Project.

Curated by Dr. Lucy Mensah. Designed by Bodwe Group, whose mission is to grow the economy and legacy of the Pokagon Band of the Potowatomi.

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Still Here is part of Art Design Chicago, a citywide collaboration initiated by the Terra Foundation for American Art that aims to expand understanding of Chicago’s creative communities, past and present.

Lead support for the exhibition is provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art and the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, with funding from the Mellon Foundation as part of the Chicago Monuments Project.

Additional support provided by Dedrea and Paul Gray, Sunny and Paul Fischer, Marisa Novara, Susan and John Russick, Mark Thiele, and the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO).