Video: Mikki Ferrill’s Garage Series, Art Institute Essentials Tour
In this episode of Art Institute Essentials Tour, learn about Mikki Ferrill, a Chicago-based photographer who documented The Garage, an improvised music venue that popped up every Sunday in a car garage at 610 East Fiftieth Street.
Ferrill photographed these events regularly for ten years (1970–80), creating images that demonstrate her relaxed relationship with her subjects, members of a close-knit community who saw The Garage as a place for uninhibited expressions of Black identity.
"Video: Mikki Ferrill's Garage Series, Art Institute Essentials Tour," in Never a Lovely So Real: Photography and Film in Chicago, 1950–1980, ed. Michal Raz-Russo, with Grace Deveney and Romi Crawford (Art Institute of Chicago, 2025).
© 2025 by The Art Institute of Chicago. This work is licensed under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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