Arts journalist Jeff Heubner will be joining us to discuss his latest
nonfiction release, Walls Of Prophecy and Protest! Come learn about
the rich artistic and political history of Chicago's most famous
muralist, William "Bill" Walker! About Walls of Prophecy And Protest:
Chicago is home to more intact African American street murals from the
1970s and ’80s than any other U.S. city. Among Chicago’s greatest
muralists is the legendary William “Bill” Walker (1927–2011),
compared by art historians to Diego Rivera and called the most
accomplished contemporary practitioner of the classical mural
tradition. Though his art could not have been more public, Walker
maintained a low profile during his working life and virtually
withdrew from the public eye after his retirement in 1989. Author Jeff
W. Huebner met Walker in 1990 and embarked on a series of insightful
interviews that stretched over the next two decades. Those meetings
and years of research form the basis of Walls of Prophecy and Protest,
the story of Walker’s remarkable life and the movement that he
inspired. Featuring forty-three color images of Walker’s work, most
long since destroyed or painted over, this handsome edition reveals
the artist who was the primary figure behind Chicago’s famed Wall of
Respect and who created numerous murals that depicted African American
historical figures, protested social injustice, and promoted love,
respect, racial unity, and community change. About Jeff Huebner: Jeff
W. Huebner is an arts journalist, freelance writer, and longtime
contributor to the Chicago Reader and Public Art Review. His articles
and reviews have also appeared in ARTnews, Sculpture, Chicago
magazine, the Chicago Tribune, and elsewhere. He is the author of
Murals: The Great Walls of Joliet and the coauthor of Urban Art
Chicago: A Guide to Community Murals, Mosaics, and Sculptures and
Chicago Parks Rediscovered. Huebner has received many arts writing
grants and awards. In 2017, he was an inaugural recipient of the
Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation award for arts criticism and
journalism.
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