Who are the artists that consider themselves part of contemporary artist-run culture? What is the public purpose for our work? How are we organized?
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The Hyde Park Art Center was founded in 1939 by Senator Paul Douglas and other leaders of the New Deal. Very much in the spirit of the time, Harold Hayden, a Chicago artist and the Art Center’s first director, proclaimed that “art should be found wherever people work and live.”