Children’s book author Natasha Tarpley takes pictures of pages from one of her books displayed as an art installation at the Lawndale Pop-Up Spot’s community museum in the Love Blooms Here Plaza, 3601 W. Douglas Blvd., on June 1, 2024, in Chicago. Tarpley later read one of her books in a space across the street.
The Pop-Up Spot is the brainchild of Ridley and Kelley, who wanted to take museum curation out of the institutional landscape and bring it to the everyday person. Ridley said the idea came to fruition when North Lawndale was coming up with its Quality of Life Plan in 2018. While convening with community members at planning meetings to dispel myths about what a museum is and isn’t and what it could be, Ridley and Kelley started getting buy-in for the facility, building partnerships along the way and letting the vision be molded by the community.
“This commercial corridor … unfortunately, over the last several decades, it’s become disinvested,” Kelley said. “Only now are you starting to see things perk up again. Seeing 16th Street become more active, beautiful, safe and in service through beautification, through people living there, shopping there, dining, just being a more happening corridor … that’s something we’re really excited about.
The Lawndale Pop-Up Spot also co-sponsors the Let’s Move Saturday morning walks starting in Douglass Park, the Litter-Free Lawndale initiative and the annualThe museum’s mission is to collaborate with churches, schools and organizations to bring resources like mental health and physical health services to the area, all of which help the Pop-Up Spot be as rooted in the community as possible.
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