All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 If You Build It

    • October 5, 2018
    • WTTW/Chicago

    The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and sculptor Lorado Taft; the School of the Art Institute; IIT Institute of Design; Exhibition Momentum; South Side Community Art Center; Hyde Park Art Center.

  • S01E02 The Black Metropolis of Art

    • October 12, 2018
    • WTTW/Chicago

    Painter Archibald Motley, Jr.; sculptor Marion Perkins; The Wall of Respect; women in the Mural Movement; ceramicist Marva Lee Pitchford-Jolly.

  • S01E03 Give the Customer What They Want

    • October 26, 2018
    • WTTW/Chicago

    Typeface designer Robert Hunter Middleton; advertising designer Charles Clarence Dawson; Marshall Field's department store; graphic designers Dorothy and Otis Shepard; Helen Hughes Dulany; wood carver Jesus Torres; commercial director Joe Sedelmaier.

  • S01E04 Off the Grid

    • November 2, 2018
    • WTTW/Chicago

    Painter Gertrude Abercrombie; author Thomas Dyja; writer/artist Audrey Niffenegger; author Henry Darger; the Hubbard Street Gallery Scene of the early 1970s; photographer Vivian Maier; artist Joseph Yoakum.