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Stony Island Arts Bank

Name: Stony Island Arts Bank
Address: 6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL, US

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Kekeli

August 28, 2016

So many collections are housed here: Ebony & Jet Magazine...and the Frankie Knuckles vinyl archive. If you care at all about contemporary Black cultural history, this is the spot.

Keith

January 31, 2019

Very cool spaces, wonderful adaptive reuse of a bank!

B And I

August 3, 2018

This is the location of all Johnson Publishing Archive, University of Chicago Glass Lantern Slides and much more about AA history, art, etc. Hours are limited so plan carefully. Not ideal for small kids that like to be hands on as exhibits are archives for careful handling.

Fabián

June 25, 2022

Located less than an 11-minute bike ride from our Airbnb, the Stony Island Arts Bank is a hybrid gallery, media archive, library and community center – and a home for Rebuild’s archives and collections. Designed by William Gibbons Uffendell and built in 1923, the bank at 68th Street and Stony Island Avenue was once a vibrant community savings and loan. By the eighties, the branch had closed and the building remained vacant and deteriorating for decades. The Arts Bank collections include the Johnson Publishing Archive + Collections: Books and periodicals donated by the Johnson Publishing Company, publisher of Ebony and Jetmagazine; the University of Chicago Glass Lantern Slides: Over 60,000 slides of art and architectural history from the Paleolithic to Modern eras; the Edward J. Williams Collection: 4,000 objects of “negrobilia” – mass cultural objects and artifacts that feature stereotypical images of people of color; and the Frankie Knuckles Records: “Godfather of House Music,” Frankie Knuckles’ vinyl collection