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Wesley Willis
Downtown Cityscapes, 1984
Mixed media on cardboard
20” x 30”
Promised gift of Paul Young and Margaret Fox Young

The Vernacular Imprint on Chicago art and Artists
March 16, 2006

Press release:
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art will host a panel discussion on The Vernacular Imprint on Chicago Art and Artists Thursday March 16th at 6:00 pm at Intuit, 756 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago . Admission is free and open to the public. The panel features two artists, Bernard Williams and Joyce Owens Anderson, in conversation about how Chicago has influenced their art. With moderator Romi Crawford, they will discuss how the evolution of Chicago has continually shaped their art and that of other Chicago artists. We invite audience members, especially Chicago-based artists, to join the conversation.

Award winning painter Joyce Owens recently became the Curator for Chicago State University and has taught studio painting and drawing at Chicago State University since 1996. Bernard Williams has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago since 1991 and has been the recipient of many grants and commissions for his murals, paintings and sculptures. Both artists’ works deal with African-American historical and personal memory. Romi Crawford is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Director of the Visiting Artists Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work revolves primarily around the topic of race and its relation to American visual and artistic culture.