Please join us in the Gallery for our April Exhibition Openings as we welcome Melissa Ann Pinney, whose series Signals & Mysteries: Photographs from Chicago Public Schools is on view throughout the month.

Pinney will deliver an Artist Talk to the public at 12 PM on April 9.

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Signals & Mysteries celebrates Chicago Public School students amid the formidable challenges of our day, and honors the future they are striving to create.

In approaching this project, Pinney considers momentous events such as the pandemic, the merger of segregated schools, #MeToo, Black Lives Matter, racial inequity and gun violence in Chicago as foundational to her work in the Chicago Public Schools. She shares, "As supremacist politics and denial of history permeate our public schools I can’t think of a more crucial subject than the children affected by these policies. My understanding of the ways privilege makes me complicit in systemic racism and my desire to be of service has deepened throughout this project."

Please register to attend. For the health and safety of the artists, Blue Sky staff, and attendees, we are limiting the number of attendees at the talk. Registration is on a first-come, first-serve basis

Masks & proof of full vaccination (including booster), or recent negative COVID test required at entry to attend the talk.