New work by Nelly Agassi is installed at Terminal 5, O'Hare Airport Chicago

The $1 billion expansion of O'Hare Airport's Terminal 5 includes 19 new artworks by Chicago artists. Chicago's rich public art scene will be one of the first impressions made on the millions of travelers who pass through the terminal each year. The Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) and Department of Aviation spent $3.5 million to commission and install a collection of works highlighting immigration, neighborhoods and cultural traditions that have shaped Chicago.

 

The Terminal 5 Expansion public art project will include curatorial/design team Ionit Behar, Assistant Curator at DePaul Art Museum (DPAM), and Architect Andrew Schachman (Behar X Schachman), and new large-scale commissions by artists Nelly Agassi, Jonathan Michael Castillo, Assaf Evron, Krista Franklin, Wills Glasspiegel and The Era Footwork Crew, Jenny Kendler, Mayumi Lake, Yvette Mayorga, Cecil McDonald Jr., Ebony G. Patterson, Faheem Majeed, Huong Ngo, Chris Pappan, Cheryl Pope, Edra Soto, Leonard Suryajaya, Selina Trepp, Jina Valentine, and Bernard Williams.

 

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