| What: "Building for Democracy: The Small Town Banks of Louis Sullivan" film screening and panel discussion
When: 6:00 p.m.
Where: Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
4 West Burton Place, Chicago
Tel. 312.787.4071
www.grahamfoundation.org
Description: Reservations are required for this
program and may be made online at www.grahamfoundation.org
or by calling 312.787.4071, x226.
Join us for the first Chicago screening of the new documentary "Building for Democracy: The Small Town Banks of Louis Sullivan" (approximately 35 minutes), produced by the Chicago-based Siena Workshop. The film examines eight bank buildings, scattered throughout the Midwest, that manifest the design power and originality of Louis Sullivan following the precipitous mid-life decline of his career. The bank buildings provided important commissions for Sullivan during this desperate period, although he still died in poverty in 1924. The buildings stand today as testament to Sullivan's unique vision of the expression of democracy in architecture and the high functionality of his designs.
The film screening will be followed by a discussion with Sullivan scholar Lauren Weingarden (Associate Professor of Art History, Florida State University); restoration architect Mike Emerson (VOA Associates, Chicago); and the film's producer and director, Joe Federici (Federici Video/The Siena Workshop).
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Merchants' National Bank, date unknown
R&B Archives, The Art Institute of Chicago
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