What this Series is about…

“Unsung Heroes of Uptown: Art of People ON the Streets IN the Streets” encourages us to see the “remarkable” in everyone. Taking the time, even for a moment to talk to each other, expands not only our individual worlds severely shrunken by the Digital Age, but deepens our compassion. Bringing the art gallery to the street was perfect venue for this limited edition of the ongoing “Unsung Heroes Series.” Displayed in JCDecaux bus shelters around Chicago (May through early Fall 2024) Chicagoans began to look at each other with renewed curiosity—-and many conversations followed. The series also brought Chicago’s Pulitzer Prize-winning author, historian, television and radio broadcaster Studs Terkel to audiences new and old—-after all, it was Studs’ work which inspires this series. Each portrait contains a QR code leading to audio and a unique website for each subject. Now that the original exhibition in bus shelters around Chicago is over, it continues indefinitely online.

More about Studs can be found at: https://studsterkel.wfmt.com