Meet celebrated muralist Eugene Eda (Wade) at Oakton's Art Museum

Oakton's Koehnline Museum of Art is hosting special reception and gallery talk with noted artist and educator Eugene Eda (Wade) at 11 a.m., Thursday, June 4, at the college's Des Plaines campus, 1600 E. Golf Road. This event is free and open to the public.

Eda's King Memorial Mural is featured in the current Oakton exhibition, "Art After 1600° Fahrenheit: Enamel Painting in Chicago," available for viewing through Thursday, June 18.

Designed in 1979 by the artist, the mural was painted and installed in Chicago's South Side, where the community once admired the "Wall of Respect." The mural depicted African-American history from the days of slavery to Martin Luther King Jr. After the work was dismantled in 2001 and its concrete structure demolished to make room for a housing development, the mural's original enamel panels mysteriously disappeared.

Eda received his bachelor's degree in art education from Southern University and master of fine arts degree from Howard University. He began painting murals as a student at Howard University and also served as an art professor at Kennedy-King College from 1979, until his retirement in 2005.

Call (847) 635-2633 or visit www.oakton.edu/museum for more information about the reception and lecture with Eda.

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