A wide shot of a ceramics studio, featuring students working with pottery wheels and other tools.

When Art Changed a City: Michael Dorf on the Making and Legacy of Chicago’s First Cultural Plan

Arts Administration & Policy

Wednesday, November 05

5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. CST

Sharp 327, 37 S. Wabash Ave

A public lecture with Michael Dorf, the director of Chicago’s first Cultural Plan. Nearly forty years later, this conversation revisits how a grassroots, community-driven process reshaped the role of culture in civic life, and asks what it means for cities to truly “listen” today.