Installation of the Jazz Loft Project exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center. Photograph by Courtney Reid-Eaton.

jazz loft exhibition opening reception july 23rd in chicago

The Jazz Loft Project exhibition features never-before-displayed vintage black-and-white prints and rarely heard audio recordings by photographer W. Eugene Smith, who spent eight years documenting the jazz musicians, artists, and underground characters who inhabited the scene at 821 Sixth Avenue. Curated by Sam Stephenson and Courtney Reid-Eaton of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, the exhibition features more than 200 images, several hours of audio, and 16mm film footage of Eugene Smith working in the loft. The Jazz Loft Project will be on display from July 17 to September 19, in the Sidney R. Yates Gallery at the Chicago Cultural Center. Admission is free.

Chicago Cultural Center
78 East Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602
(312) 744-6630
www.chicagoculturalcenter.org
Open: Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m.-7 p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m.-6 p.m.;
Saturday, 9 a.m.-6p.m.; and Sunday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Closed holidays

opening reception
July 23, 6-8 p.m.
Free admission

gallery talk
August 26, 12 p.m.
A conversation with Sam Stephenson, Jazz Loft Project director and curator of the exhibition.

upcoming events:

September 17-19
The Jazz Loft Project
An audiovisual exhibition with projected images (talk by Sam Stephenson, September 19, 4 p.m.)
Monterey Jazz Festival, Monterey, California