{"id":780681,"date":"2026-07-23T22:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/780681\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T22:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:32:11","slug":"ode-to-public-housing-how-it-shaped-creatives-and-their-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/780681\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to public housing: How it shaped creatives and their art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Public Housing Museum is hosting the artwork of <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/nphm.org\/exhibition\/nathaniel-mary-quinn-a-love-letter-to-my-mother\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nathaniel Mary Quinn<\/a>, including a recreated Robert Taylor Homes living room he grew up in. Quinn\u2019s exhibit \u201cA Love Letter to My Mother\u201d explores the complexities of family, living in public housing, and love.<\/p>\n<p>In the Loop talks to artists from Chicago as they reflect how their time in public housing has shaped them and their work.<\/p>\n<p>GUESTS: Floyd Webb, filmmaker and producer, former resident of Harold L. Ickes Homes<\/p>\n<p>Toni Asante Lightfoot, poet and creative writing instructor, former Hilliard Homes resident<\/p>\n<p>Toya Wolfe, writer and author of Last Summer on State Street, former resident of Robert Taylor Homes<\/p>\n<p>Tiff Beatty, associate director, National Public Housing Museum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Public Housing Museum is hosting the artwork of Nathaniel Mary Quinn, including a recreated Robert Taylor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-780681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}