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Where There is Discord, Harmony; The Power of Art

Artist: Olivia Gude and Marcus Akinlana

Commissioned by: Unknown

Location: 1801 E. 71st Street

Medium: Mural

Commentary: This huge mural is meant to indicate the importance of art to a community. Art is literally a force which can change discord to harmony. The pedominant symbol is the third eye which somehow brings together the tools of the artist which create beauty and which seem to reenergize the earth with drops of life giving moisture.

Olivia Gude is a major member of the Chicago Public Art Group. Another work by her in this collection is "Where We Come From . . .Where We are Going" under the 56th street Metra tracks.

The building on which the mural is painted was once "One Artists Row", part of a major experiment in creating artist incubators in South Shore. For a number of years this building and "Two Artists Row" across the street were the center of much artistic activity, including music and public performance. It was a wonderful idea based on the fact that South Shore was then he home of a tremendous percentage of African American Artists in Chicago.

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