Hyperallergic is hosting an online member event on April 15 featuring a conversation with social justice artist and 2025 MacArthur Fellow Tonika Lewis Johnson. The event will focus on her community-driven projects, including the "Folded Map Project," and will include readings from her 2024 book, *Don’t Go: Stories of Segregation and How to Disrupt It*.
The event highlights the growing recognition of art as a vital tool for social change and community engagement. Johnson's work, which directly addresses systemic racial segregation and disinvestment in Chicago, represents a significant intersection of artistic practice, activism, and participatory storytelling, offering concrete models for challenging urban inequality.