Drawn Lives
By CDH, CAH, AG, JN For a quick introduction to this assignment; A small group of three people and I were asked to design an art piece for a large wall near our school building. The piece was supposed to relate to the community and we chose its history. Our combined efforts created the proposed art piece below. The next piece to read, the artists statement, was written by the whole group but split up by category. CDH, CAH, AG, JN. A Changed Place . (2019) Brief history of community: This art piece is for those who aren't aware of the complex history of the Near Northside. For the last week of class, we were researching Near North Side as it was considered the first "bad" neighborhood in Chicago, and we knew it by its other name, "Little Hell." For a brief history it housed Italian & German immigrant in 1820 and had multiple gang wars throughout its lifetime. As different groups such as Puerto Rican and African-American entered the comm...