Kenwood Gardens
- Designer
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Theaster Gates
BIPOC designer
This project provides a community outlet for art and education. Teaching the youth about the importance and skills of agriculture, and providing a green space featuring art for the community.
- Timeline
- summer 2021- fall 2025
- Completed
- 2025
- Duration
- permanent
- Budget
- $4,500,000
- Project area
- 56,628 square feet
- Community Partners / Clients
- Funders
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- The Chicago Community Trust
- City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events
- Clayco Foundation
- Casa Dragones
- Brinshore Development
- American Airlines
- The Coleman Foundation
- Common Spirit
- Earnes Institute
- Enterprise Community Foundation
- Ford Foundation
- Gagosian Gallery
- Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation
- Good Chaos
- The Falgeson Family Foundation
- The Grand Victoria Foundation
- Illinois Arts Council Agency
- Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity
- Illinois Office of Minority Economic Empowerment
- James Hughes and Tracy Boychuk Fund
- Joyce Foundation
- The JPMorgan Chase Foundation
- The JPB Foundation
- Knight Foundation
- The Kresge Foundation
- League of Chicago Theatres
- MacArthur Foundation
- Mellon Foundation
- The Miami Foundation
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- Prada Group
- Pritzker Traubert Foundation
- Reimagining the Civic Commons
- The Rockefeller Foundation
- Rudin Family Foundations
- San Francisco Foundation
- The Terra Foundation for American Art
- Caleria Carberry and Richard Wright
- Wallace Foundation
- Weasel Fund
- White Cube
- Design Partner
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- Project Partner
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- Contact Information
- theastergates.com
- Press
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- Tending a Garden of Love in Kenwood Oct 2021
- Theaster Gates’ Rebuild Foundation to Bring Ceramics, Yoga Studios to Grand Crossing Dec 2019
- Kenwood Academy Community Garden to Be Paved over in Parking Lot Expansion. Jun 2024
- Theaster Gates Is Transforming a Neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side One Project at a Time. Next Up? The $4.5M Kenwood Gardens. Jul 2021
- Video / Media
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- Introducing: Kenwood Gardens Dec 2021
- Submitted by
- Gregory Balajadia, Hudson Burt, Anthony Erazo, Taylor Beattie
- Last Edited by
- Gregory Balajadia, Hudson Burt
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- Contact: hello@designtrustchicago.org