Friday 10
After photographer Roland L. Freeman heard Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech, he dedicated himself to documenting black people’s lives. Freeman’s principal project has been the African-American diaspora, especially the migration from rural to urban areas. His work is being exhibited in Roland L. Freeman: Witness Documentarian, which opens today at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, 600 S. Michigan. The museum is also featuring ‘O, Write My Name’ Harlem Heroes, American Portraits: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten and Black Photographers 1840-1940. The free shows run through March 29, and are part of the museum’s Black History Month celebration. Doors are open 10 to 5 Monday through Friday, and noon to 5 Saturday. Call 663-5554 for more.
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Monday 13
Dance outfits, beadwork, finger weavings, wood carvings, and birch-bark and split-ash baskets are featured in Beacon Street Gallery’s Woodland Indian Art Exhibition, which runs through March 10. Most of the items featured are for sale, some have been borrowed from private collections. On Saturday, February 18, Nick Hockings, who is Ojibwa, will talk at 2 PM about the Indian medicine wheel and conduct an Indian-dance workshop. The gallery, 4520 N. Beacon, is open Monday through Saturday from 5:30 to 8:30 PM. It’s free. Call 561-3500.
