«Creative Time Global Residency: Reports From the Field», New York, NY, December 3, 2013 «Urban Imprint: The Art and Science Shaping Our Cities,» hosted
by The University of Chicago, Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall, New York, NY, November 14, 2013 «Cultural Investment:
Creating a Civic Identity Through the Arts,» CityLab: Urban Solutions for Global Challenges, NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY, October 7, 2013 «One State Together in the Arts» One State Illinois Conference, Quad Cities, IL, June 24, 2013 «Theaster Gates in Conversation with Romi Crawford,»
Black Collectivities, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, IL, May 4, 2013 «LINC Legacy and Advancements in the Field,» hosted
by the Ford Foundation, May 2013 «Constituency Engagement —
Culture - Initiated Redevelopment: Strategies in Innovative Constituent Engagement,» Association of
Black Foundation Executives, Palmer House Hilton Hotel, Chicago, IL, April 6, 2013 «
Creating Heat - The Artist as Catalyst: Theaster Gates at TEDxUNC,» University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, February 9, 2013 «Building CapaCity Session,» World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Davos, Switzerland, January 26, 2013 «Creative Resilience Session,» World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Davos, Switzerland, January 25, 2013 «Transformative Art: Theaster Gates,» World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Davos, Switzerland, January 23, 2013
Like the Organization of
Black American
Culture in the same city, which had
created the Wall of Respect, the first of many murals
by community arts organizations, AFRI - COBRA sought «to liberate its audience and define a national
Black consciousness «9 This effort was in part a response to a climate that permitted what now seem acts of amazing insensitivity
by mainstream institutions.