US at 250: Civic Action in Chicago includes local artist responses to four founding documents—the Declaration of Independence, US Constitution, Northwest Ordinance, and the Thirteenth Amendment.
OPENING JANUARY 19, 2026. Self-Evident: A Letterpress Exploration of the Declaration of Independence is a series of letterpress prints created from artist Vida Sačić asking immigrants and their descendants: “What do these words from the Declaration of Independence mean to you today?” Those words are: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Vida Sačić is a Chicago-based artist. Born and raised in Croatia, she moved to the United States as a student and eventually earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from Indiana University Bloomington. Upon moving to Chicago, she was awarded a residency at The Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College, where she focused on working with print media, which continues to be her primary medium. Sačić’s art installation is a response to the Declaration.
Read the Declaration of Independence.
