The Floating Museum
Run by Chicago cultural workers Avery R. Young, Andrew Schachman, Faheem Majeed and Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford, the Floating Museum brings art to neighborhoods around the city. Their projects are hard to miss. They docked a barge-turned-gallery along the Chicago River in 2017. Their recent “Founders” project, a twenty-five-foot-tall, thirty-five-foot-wide inflatable sculpture, was installed at public parks near CTA Green Line stops this summer. The museum’s ethos—that folks don’t have to travel to experience Chicago’s creativity, that each neighborhood deserves to enjoy art and be inspired, and that public space can be used communally and sustainably—is one wholly worth celebrating. (Kerry Cardoza)
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Best of Chicago 2019