Tag Archives: Museum
Leaving the Garden of Eden
At work I was known as a lifer. Museum work is exciting and I was living the dream of being in the center of the multi-disciplinary art world. I sought cultural capital, and for almost 25 years, I found it. A few months ago I walked out of meeting and said to myself “You’re not […]
The mystery of the giant corn painting at the Haitian American Museum of Chicago
Elsie Hernandez, the founder and president of the Haitian American Museum of Chicago, wants you to know some crucial facts about Haiti: The French, in typical colonialist fashion, plundered the resources of Haiti using the labor of enslaved Africans to make themselves rich. The enslaved people of Haiti defeated the French, and by liberating themselves, […]
Chad falls in with a biker gang at Chicago’s Leather Archives & Museum
It was the mid 90’s and I was on a train in Chicago. This was a novel experience, since I had only recently arrived from a much smaller town. Seated across from me was husky, bearded man, heavily accessorized with leather straps. No, wait, not just one man; the train was full of men with […]
Picnic at the Cathedral 