Open Mike Eagle: Interview and Performance

Join us in for an interview and performance with Open Mike Eagle, the museum’s newest Artist as Instigator, to celebrate and launch his 2026 residency!

As the National Public Housing Museum’s seventh Artist as Instigator, Open Mike Eagle will leverage his residency to capture and preserve the stories of artists and musicians raised in housing communities that have been erased.

Over the next year, Eagle will develop an immersive audio-visual experience, conduct one on one interviews, and present intimate performances, exploring the lives and music of artists that lived in public housing to honor and celebrate the unheralded generations of families that lived, loved, laughed and died in these spaces.

FREE. Light bites and refreshments included.

LIVESTREAM will also be available. Register to receive the link.

Artist as Instigator

This event is the launch event for Open Mike Eagle’s 2026 Artist as Instigator residency, which leverages arts and culture to make creative public policy interventions around housing and related issues.

Generous support for the 2026 Artist as Instigator residency at the National Public Housing Museum is provided by the Mellon Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, and the Illinois Arts Council.