Corvus Gallery
The Gallery within the Gordon Parks Arts Hall promotes artistic and cultural awareness by exhibiting works of art for the Laboratory Schools, the University of Chicago, and the broader Chicago community. It serves to amplify our aesthetic and intellectual life on campus both by displaying the work of Lab students, faculty, and alumni, and by holding special exhibits. A focal point within the integrated arts environment fostered by Gordon Parks Hall, the gallery provides a forum for promoting visual acuity and for discussing a wide range of questions, both formal and cultural.
Winter 2024
Steve A. Prince is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, and currently resides in Williamsburg, Virginia. He is the Director of Engagement and Distinguished Artist in Residence at the Muscarelle Museum at William and Mary. Prince received his BFA from Xavier University, Louisiana and his MFA in Printmaking and Sculpture from Michigan State University. Prince is a mixed media artist, master print maker, lecturer, and educator. He has taught middle school, high school, college, and has conducted workshops internationally in various media.
Prince has worked with several schools across the nation spreading a message of hope and renewal philosophically rooted in the cathartic nature of the Jazz Funerary tradition of New Orleans. To Prince, art media is like languages to a linguist. He is represented by Black Art in America in Columbus, Georgia, Zucot Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia, and Stella Jones Gallery in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Prince has been awarded the 2010 Teacher of the Year for the City of Hampton, was a 2020 recipient of a VMFA (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts) Grant, and the 2020 Grand Prize Visual Art Winner of the Engage Art Competition. Prince has shown his art internationally in various solo, group, and juried exhibitions.
His work will be on exhibit in Corvus Gallery January 2–March 5.
Join the Laboratory Schools community for the exhibit opening on Thursday, January 25, 4–7 p.m.
Gordon Parks Arts Hall
5815 South Kimbark Avenue