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“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 narrowed by the Digital Age, but deepens our compassion. Bringing the art gallery to the street was also the perfect venue for this limited edition of the ongoing “Unsung Heroes” series. Displayed in the iconic JCDecaux bus shelters around Chicago the summer of 2024, Chicagoans began to look at each other with interest, sparking not a few conversations and a sense of real connection. The public exhibition also brought Studs Terkel (Chicago’s Pulitzer Prize-winning author, historian, television and radio broadcaster) to audiences new and old—-after all, it was Studs’ work which inspired this series. Stamped with a QR code adding audio and a unique website to each portrait, although the original exhibition in bus shelters around Chicago is over, it will continues indefinitely online.

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