CHICAGO CULTURAL CENTER

 CHICAGO CULTURAL CENTER “Surviving the Long Wars” Reckon and Reimagine

ABOUT:

The culture center was completed in 1897 as Chicago’s first central public library, the building was designed to impress and to prove that Chicago had grown into a sophisticated metropolis. The country’s top architects and craftsmen used the most sumptuous materials, such as rare, imported marbles, polished brass, fine hardwoods, and mosaics of Favrile glass, mother-of-pearl, and colored stone, to create an architectural showplace.

In 1991, the building was established as the Chicago Cultural Center by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, the nation's first and most comprehensive free municipal cultural venue. Every year, the Chicago Cultural Center presents hundreds of free international, national, regional, and local artists, musicians, and performers, providing a showcase where the public can enjoy and learn about the arts.

SURVIVING THE LONG WARS: RECKON AND REIMAGINE

Surviving the long war: Reckon and Reimagine are one of the three featured exhibitions of the second Veteran Art Triennial and Summit. From the “American Indian wars” the Global War on Terror” continues to impact untold numbers of people around the globe. https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/long_wars.html

 PICTURES AT THE CULTURAL CENTER

EXPERIENCE 

Visiting the cultural center, was a good endeavor. I had the opportunity to see the uniforms of the soldiers in the 1800s and also go enlightened on what brought about wars and how peace finally settled everything. I got to learn that without war there is no ideal peace.