Public Events

Join us for a bi-weekly radio program with artist Jim Duignan and invited guests. The radio station, located at DPAM as part of the exhibition Stockyard Institute: 25 Years of Art and Radical Pedagogy, will broadcast past and present Stockyard Institute radio projects. Key collaborators include Davion Mathews and Jeff Kowalkowski, who have worked with Stockyard Institute for decades to create community sound projects and radio broadcasts in schools, art spaces, public parks, and beyond. The radio station was built by Charlie Vinz of Adaptive Operations with generous funding from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

DePaul’s Class “Community Audio Art” with School of Music Professor Jeff Kowalkowski will be assisting to produce the broadcast.

Dates of upcoming radio programs: 10/7, 10/21, 11/4, 11/18

Stay tuned!

Recordings will be available every other Friday on Stockyard Institute's SoundCloud

Ahead of the exhibition Remaking the Exceptional: Tea, Torture, and Reparations | Chicago to Guantánamo opening to the public on March 10, 2022, DePaul Art Museum hosts an online panel conversation which will observe 20 years of Guantánamo as an extra-legal prison and the 7 years since the passage of the Jon Burge reparations ordinance, the first and only of its kind in the United States. Panelists included are Aislinn Pulley (Chicago Torture Justice Center), Kilroy Watkins (Chicago Torture Survivor), Mansoor Adayfi (Guantánamo Torture Survior and author of Don’t Forget Us Here), and moderated by Joey L. Mogul (People’s Law Office). Curators and artists of the exhibition Aaron Hughes and Amber Ginsburg will introduce this panel, a speculative reparations bill as an advocacy tool in anticipation of U.S. recognition of harm, and a citizens reparations fund.

Presented by DePaul Art Museum in partnership with DePaul’s Law Library. This program is generously supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

In conjunction with the exhibition Learned Objects, Rochele Royster presents her work Dolls4Peace included in the exhibition, in which she invited children, teachers, and community members across Chicago to create handmade dolls as a means for addressing trauma and gun violence. Royster has worked for the last 20 years integrating art therapy into the educational setting and has worked with youth, adolescents, and young adults with various learning differences. Royster will be in conversation with Jim Duignan, artist and founder of Stockyard Institute.

On Friday, May 6, 2022, the 7th anniversary of the reparations ordinance, and the 5th anniversary of the opening of the Chicago Torture Justice Center, Chicago Torture Justice Memorials will hold a commemorative banner walk in conjunction with “Remaking the Exceptional.” In 2014, CTJM created 120 vertical black banners, each inscribed with the hand-painted name of a known police torture survivor, and the date they were tortured. On April 4 of that year, the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, we held a march and rally downtown with the banners, culminating in CTJM’s First Annual Participatory Memorial Action. We have re-created this performance in the years since, at other marches, exhibitions, and vigils. The public activation at DePaul will be another iteration of this “living memorial.”