Hyde Park Art Center Free Admission Friday

Free Admission Friday from 10am to 4:30pm at Hyde Park Art Center - see INFO below. Raised in the Woodlawn neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, where he still resides, Paige makes artworks in response to the patterns, colors, and materials of everyday Black life. Art and craft merge in Paiges over-half-a-century exploration of the role of beauty to create shared understanding between people, a concept he borrows from African aesthetics. His hand-dyed textiles, cardboard collages, and ceramic tiles, inspired equally by modernist aesthetics and the traditional basket weaving techniques and symbology of West African cultures, seek to encourage liberation for all. His iconic Power to the People design motif of half circles building upward and outward in an organized mesh of individuals expresses how simple gestures and lines can create solidarity. More Info below.