September 25, 2013
As part of the interactive portion of the Kin Killin Kin exhibit, visitors can write the name of someone close to them who was lost to gun violence and tie it on the chain link-fence memorial part of the exhibit. Ward said tags on the memorial fence grew from three that were tied there as an example of how to use it when the exhibit first opened, to the thousands that have been tied as real memorials there since.
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Art Exhibit Depicts Black-on-Black Carnage
Described as a visual call to action, artist James Pate shines a disturbing light on the countless number of individuals who lost their lives to gun violence in African American communities via a moving exhibition titled Kin Killin Kin--on display at the DuSable Museum of African History, 740 East 56th St., through Nov. 2013.