By Alex V. Hernandez for Block Club
IRVING PARK — Artists Nick Cave and Bob Faust are asking neighbors to contribute to Amends, a community-based art project aimed at helping to eradicate systemic racism.
Amends is a collection of artwork where neighbors from the city’s more privileged communities share how they have benefitted from structural racism, Faust said.
Cave and Faust are inviting neighbors to visit Carl Schurz Public High School, 3601 N. Milwaukee Ave., so they can add reflections and apologies. The event runs 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Thursday-Sunday.
“It was important to us to not just collect people’s amends but to have them sit with it and write it themselves. When you do personal work like this it takes time. Writing it out, you get a little deeper into it and it helps you think about how change can occur,” Faust said.