Hana Bleue Chaussette’s new public art exhibition is called “Unsung Heroes of Uptown” and is for everyone to see and enjoy this summer.
Artist Hana Bleue Chaussette with her portrait of Terry Abrahamson on a bus shelter in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood on May 9, 2024. It is part of her “Unsung Heroes of Uptown: Art of People ON the Streets IN the Streets” series. Abrahamson who wrote Grammy Award-winning song, “Bus Driver” with Muddy Waters. Studs Terkel, who lived much of his life in Uptown, famously did not drive.
More than two years in the making but decades in the percolating, it consists of acrylic-on-paper portraits of five people that were installed on 30 city bus shelters on May 6 and are set to continue through wind, rain and heat, for at least three months, and then will remain online for keeps. Most are in Uptown, but they are also on bus shelters across downtown.
In the late 1980s, she was standing in line at the Chinese Embassy in Osaka when she met a scientist named Rao Pingfan. They married in 1990 and moved in with his elderly parents in Fuzhou, a booming city in southeastern China. It was a bit more difficult to traverse city government but she eventually got to the folks at the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events. One enthusiastic backer was 46th Ward alderman James Cappleman.
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