The Land School

5.0 (10)attraction

7200 South Dorchester Avenue

A vast South Side cultural center housed in a former school, uniting creative studios, gardens, and an auditorium for house and jazz.

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Created by artist Theaster Gates through Rebuild Foundation, this cultural center occupies a former Catholic elementary school on Chicago's South Side. The site houses a ceramic studio, media studies, Kenwood Gardens, and an auditorium designed to host house, jazz, and experimental music where art, wellness, and education function as formal technologies for cultural survival.


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