Monday, March 5, 2018

Norman Teague

Designer :: Educator

Norman Teague is a Chicago-based designer and educator whose practice focuses on using design as an agent for change and as a mechanism to empower black and brown communities. Using contemporary aesthetics and locally-sourced materials, he creates furniture, objects, and spaces that transform common typologies of form to create original works representative of twenty-first century modernism and design. Teague studied pre architecture at Harold Washington College, he holds a BA from Columbia College Chicago and a Masters of Fine Arts in Designed Objects from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In 2012, Teague worked with Theaster Gates and John Preus on 12 Ballads for Huguenot House DOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, Germany. He also served as lead craftsman and co-founder of the Design Apprenticeship Program at the University of Chicago's Arts Incubator. In 2015 Teague has exhibited in Milan for design week at Spazio Rossana Orlandi, 2015. In February 2017 he took part in the Chicago Cultural Center exhibition titled “Wall of Respect”. He was also hired to assist with the exhibitions team, Ralph Appelbaum and Associates as a creative collaborator on the Obama Presidential Library. This July, Teague & Fo Wilson launched BlkHaUS studio, an L3C organization with a socially conscious efforts to influence and educate future designers, artists, patrons and civic leaders. For more info email: info@blkhuasstudios.org