Repairing homes as a form of public art, Tonika Lewis Johnson helps Englewood reinvest in the disinvested
PROJECT | UnBlocked
Segregation. Redlining. Land sale contracts, where real estate speculators in the 1950s and ’60s sold homes to Black families on rent-to-own contracts for double — or more — what the property was worth. Artist Tonika Lewis Johnson has been highlighting these decadeslong injustices against the Black community in projects such as “The Folded Map” and “Inequity for Sale.”
