A guided mural tour with Hector Duarte

Since moving to Chicago in 1985 from Michoacan, Mexico, Hector Duarte has fused the Mexican Mural tradition with the American Barrio Mural Movement to create a cityscape all his own. The beneficiary is Chicago, and the people who come and go and take the time to look around. Join Dante Mozie in the tour he took with Duarte.

For immigrants, art provides sense of personal pride, self-esteem

Stories of immigration come from all places and in many forms and textures. Dante Mozie reports on how quilting is taking a place in the passing of stories from generation to generation.

Public art faces gentrified facelift in immigrant communities

Public art follows the immigrants who move into a community. But when communities change, what comes of the art? Dante Mozie explores some of Chicago’s more recent clashes over gentrification.  

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