Photo: The South Side Community Art Center
The South Side Community Art Center (SSCAC) has provided entry to the arts for thousands yesteryear supporting Chicago’s African American artists since 1941.
BLACK CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS
The South Side Community Art Center was purchased by a private committee spearheaded yesteryear the African American human of affairs Golden B. Darby. Garnering the fiscal back upward of the the U.S.A. federal Works Progress Administration (WPA), the art centre was formally dedicated yesteryear Eleanor Roosevelt inwards May, 1941. It officially opened its doors inwards December, 1941.
The SSCAC was founded to come across the community postulate to encourage the evolution of fine arts. It became an establishment where African American artists could develop as well as display their plant as well as develop Black youth inwards the arts. Filmmaker as well as lensman Gordon Parks; artists Margaret Burroughs, Archibald J. Motley, Charles White, as well as Eldzier Cortor; poet Gwendolyn Brooks, as well as author Richard Wright, all honed their crafts at this institution.
Photo: The belatedly fine creative soul Charles H. White (1918-1979)
Photo: The belatedly poet as well as author Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)
The South Side Community Art Center is located at 3831 S. Michigan Avenue, the onetime mansion of White Sox possessor Charles Comisky. It hosts writer's workshops as well as classes inwards painting, drawing, photography, as well as pottery.
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