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Today is Giving Tuesday! We are excited to participate in this global movement to unleash the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world. Join us to support our transformative programs that will be housed in our permanent museum space!
https://www.nphm.org/donate
Did you miss our Artist as Instigator, Marisa Morán Jahn's talk with us last week? You can watch the whole conversation now on our YouTube channel!
https://youtu.be/RIqv-QsjF7c
The newest episode of our oral history podcast, Out of the Archives is out now! This episode, "There's So Much Magic in a Place," shares stories from across the country about how residents and the relationships to their homes have shaped, and have been shaped by, their identities as individuals and communities.
The oral history narrators featured in this episode are: Ramona Ferreyra, who has lived in NYC's Mitchel Houses from 2019 to the present day, Dante Hamilton, who lived in the Garden Valley Neighborhood Projects from 1961-1979, Connie Lindsey, who lived in Milwaukee's Lapham Park Housing Project from 1965-1974 and Willie McShan, who lived in Chicago's Altgeld Gardens from 1944-1951.
Stream from your favorite podcast platform by following the link:
https://linktr.ee/thenphm
Happy Veterans Day from NPHM! In honor of this important moment, we acknowledge the nearly 1.5m veterans at risk of homelessness and the need for more coordinated efforts to provide secure and supportive housing assistance to those who have served this country.
(Image courtesy of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.)
Join NPHM’s 2022 Artist as Instigator Marisa Morán Jahn () to learn about how she uses art and design to create civic innovations and tackle public policy issues. She’ll share projects like Carehaus, the U.S.’s first intergenerational care-based co-housing project co-founded with architect Rafi Segal, and Careforce, a collaboration with the National Domestic Workers Alliance, helping to amplify the voices of America’s fastest growing workforce — caregivers.
Also — sneak peek into how Marisa and NPHM are thinking about using art, storytelling, and play to impact public policy during her year-long residency with the Museum! Special guests including 2021 Artist as Instigator Tonika Lewis Johnson () join Marisa to share their ideas, feedback, and questions!
A live captioner will be present for this event. Please contact Mark Jaeschke,
[email protected] for additional needs or requests for accommodations
Link in our bio to register for this online conversation!
Thanks to all who attended the “Hypocrisy of Justice: Sights and Sounds from the Black Metropolis” Performances and Symposium, which happened on October 7 and 8, 2022!
Presented as part of “Hypocrisy of Justice: Sights and Sounds from the Black Metropolis,” HOME was a panel discussion that considers both the historical and current state of housing, and include the exploration of discriminatory practices, displacement, eviction, and strategies for change.
Panelists for the conversation included André Perry, Shana Griffin, Tonika Lewis Johnson. Moderated by: Natalie Moore
NPHM at the Taylor Streer Farm today with ABLA family, EHUB and friends. We picked the lettuce and ate it!
Celebrate Latinx Heritage Month with the NPHM and Blu Rhythm Collective & the Crew. and our self-guided tour of a people's history of Lincoln Park, Stories from the Redline: Fire Fire Gentrifier!
The tour is available through PocketSights Tour Guide, a free mobile phone app.
This tour features music by Pinqy Ring (.ring), photos by Carlos Flores, and stories by Cha Cha Jiménez, Billy Che Brooks, and Professor Jacqueline Lazu.
This tour excavates some of the hidden and repressed history of urban renewal and explores the struggles of the Young Lords. The Young Lords were a Puerto Rican street organization turned human rights activists focusing on police brutality, housing inequity, racism, and more, to organize, raise political awareness, and resist gentrification and displacement from Lincoln Park in Chicago's north side.
https://www.nphm.org/stories-from-the-redline-fire-fire-gentrifier
Happy Birthday and Congratulations to AW Originals (Amanda Williams) for being selected to be one of the new
MacArthur Foundation Genius Award Fellows. Amanda, in collaboration with Olalekan Jeyifous, is designing the entrance to the future home of the National Public Housing Museum.
This is the day so many have dreamed of.
We celebrated groundbreaking on the National Public Housing Museum. Executive Director Lisa Yun Lee, Board Chair Sunny Fischer, the Board, and Staff were joined by Mayor Lori Lightfoot, CHA CEO Tracey Scott, Commissioner of Housing Marisa Novara, Khalia Ali, and many more to mark this incredibly special occasion at the site of the last remaining building of the historic Jane Addams Homes.
We wouldn’t be here without the unwavering support of people like you—public housing residents, city officials, housing advocates and activists, preservationists, donors, friends and family, who have helped make today possible. Also spotted in the crowd: Miss Mary Baggett (ABLA), JR Fleming (Cabrini-Green), Francine Washington (Stateway Gardens), Crystal Palmer (Henry Horner), Reverend Marshall Hatch (Jane Addams Homes), Jellystone Robinson (Ida B Wells Homes) and arts, humanities and culture leaders: Dr. Haki Madhubuti, Alex Kotlowitz, Elizabeth Todd Breland, Jamie Kalven, Ben Austen, Rich Cahan, Reginald Robinson, Laura Washington, Chirag Badlini, DCASE Commissioner Erin Harkey, Commissioner Rachel Arfa, Carlos Tortelaro, Anne Lazar, Amanda Williams, Ellen Alberding, Brad White, and more!!
Now announcing 2022 Artist as Instigator, Marisa Morán Jahn!
New York City-based multidisciplinary artist Marisa Morán Jahn was chosen as NPHM's 2022 Artist as Instigator because of her history of making creative and innovative interventions in housing policy. Her past work with immigrant communities, and on issues related to housing as a human right as well as her own lived experience in an affordable housing complex in NYC, make her a sincere collaborator with the Museum.
Marisa is the Museum’s fourth artist in residence, joining Chicago-based artists William Estrada, Jen Delos Reyes, and Tonika Lewis Johnson.
Now announcing 2022 Artist as Instigator Marisa Morán Jahn ()
New York City-based multidisciplinary artist Marisa Morán Jahn was chosen as NPHM's 2022 Artist as Instigator because of her history of making creative and innovative interventions in housing policy. Her past work with immigrant communities, and on issues related to housing as a human right as well as her own lived experience in an affordable housing complex in NYC, make her a sincere collaborator with the Museum.
Marisa is the Museum’s fourth artist in residence, joining Chicago-based artists William Estrada (), Jen Delos Reyes (), and Tonika Lewis Johnson ().
Click the link in our bio to learn more about Marisa!
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