Sites in Focus

Sites in Focus

Gallery 400

For over 40 years, UIC's Gallery 400 has served as a non-collecting contemporary art space dedicated to social interaction, transformative experiences, and humanities-based research collaborations, fostering community building through exhibitions and public programs.

Gallery 400 has addressed climate and environmental justice through projects such as The Earth Will Not Abide (2017), which examined changing land use and environmental racism, and Garden for a Changing Climate (2018), a participatory public art project engaging diverse Chicago communities in visualizing the effects of climate change through a traveling garden.

With the Heritage Climate Action Plan, Gallery 400 aims to transform its facilities and operations to achieve carbon neutrality, zero waste, and net zero water usage, while publicly sharing this transition and developing exhibitions and programs that creatively engage artists, students, scholars, activists, and communities in climate action.

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum (JAHHM), one of Chicago's oldest cultural institutions, continues the legacy of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jane Addams and fellow reformers who founded Hull-House in 1889 to advance democracy, social justice, and community well-being, including advocacy against industrial pollution.

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