Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts
Grand Rapids, MI
Warm Water is a collection of re-narrated visual works based on the event that sparked the Chicago Race Riot of 1919. These works unfold the story involving five Black teens, and what reportedly caused the death of Eugene Williams in Lake Michigan on the South Side of Chicago.The works document and shed light on the marginalizing oppositions the teens faced during the fragile height of racial socio-political conditions nationwide. This day, July 27, 1919 became the tipping point, and as a result led to a string of violent race riots across the United States.
Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.
Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts
Grand Rapids, MI