Regret letters from Politicians

Regret letters from 5 politicians I invited to my Eagle Scout ceremony in 1976. President Gerald Ford, Sen. Charles Percy, Mayor Michael Bilandic, Sen. Adlai Stevenson, State Sen. Robert Egan. The framed letters were displayed with a flower box filled growing spearmint. Exhibited at the PoorFarm in Manawa, Wi and Krabbesholm, Denmark.

Decommissioned school bus

The decommissioned school bus was transformed into a convertible space called the Utopian Center for Civic Love for the exhibit PUBLIC SCHOOL, organized by Jim Duignan and Rachel L. S. Harper for the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago.

5 podiums at the Chicago Cultural Center

Five podiums at the Chicago Cultural Center as part of a Year of Public Art Chicago.

5 podiums by Jim Duignan, Chicago Cultural Center.

These are a series of heavy, hand-built wooden podiums from materials of Chicago neighborhoods to provide a public platform for children and others, invited cultural spaces, youth performers and activists , and towards spaces in and out of schools to stand behind.

Billboard proposal Chicago

The billboard proposal is a work about the manic incantations of a year and a half period. My school photos will be placed on a billboard overlooking my old neighborhood at Irving Park, Milwaukee, and Cicero in Chicago.