The Arts Award, which celebrates the power and impact of Chicago’s artistic community, will be presented to world-renowned sculptor Richard Hunt.
Richard Hunt’s studio is a repository of creativity that can give one whiplash. Upon entering the Lill Avenue cavernous structure, one sees light, shadows, books, cardboard and metal ready to be metamorphosed into something transcendental. Artistic works are in progress, and an artist like Hunt is always in process amid pictures and maquettes of his earlier works with metal.
Hunt’s contribution to public art in the United States consists of over 150 public sculpture commissions. With names like “Chi-Town Totem,” “Sculptural Enlightenment,” “We Will,” and “Uplifted,” a tourist can get an education about Hunt just by traveling through Chicagoland. His “Swing Low” greets you when entering the National Museum of African American History and Culture, a gift to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
“Richard did a piece on the Underground Railroad called ‘Pass Thru’ at the University of Kentucky Art Museum in 1992. And it’s just a few blocks away from the underground railroad stop in Lexington, Kentucky,” Ott said. “If you look at Richard’s monuments, they’ve been done all throughout his life, but you can trace the whole history of the African diaspora from pieces that he did ... Name an aspect of African American history, and he’s done a monument on it in his life.
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