’Local Metrics: Majeed, Mooses, Myrie’ opening reception

Local Metrics: Majeed, Mooses, Myrie features the works from the 2011-12 artists-in-residence with Arts & Public Life and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture. The exhibition is on display in the Logan Center Gallery through Aug. Local Metrics featured artists will join Hamza Walker and Theaster Gates for a public gallery talk at 6:30 p.m. July 17. Sculptor Faheem Majeed (left) of Chicago's South Side works in metal and other materials to draw attention to culturally specific institutions. These pieces are part of the work of Faheem Majeed, who will hold a public conversation at the Logan Center Gallery at 6 p.m. Aug. Cathy Alva Mooses has a storefront studio in the Pilsen neighborhood, where she is doing research on a pre-Columbian paper-making process to inform her work on immigration and the commodification of culture. These papers are part of the work of Cathy Alva Mooses, who will hold a public conversation at the Logan Center Gallery at 6 p.m. July 23.