Nola.com | February 2022
Design as empowerment, 'but make it chill': Norman Teague furniture is at NOMA
“Design history was not my favorite,” designer and educator Norman Teague said. “Class after class, it was very frustrating. … I couldn't find that historical figure that looks like me. How do we change that?”
Vogue | April 2022
Prada and Theaster Gates Partner to Celebrate and Mentor Designers of Color
(from left to right) Maya Bird-Murphy, Damarr Brown, Summer Coleman, Norman Teague, Tolu Coker, Theaster Gates, Germane Barnes, Kendall Reynolds, Catherine Sarr, and Brandon Breaux. Image: Vogue.com
The Art Center Highland Park | April 2022
Norman Teague: Design, Community, and Compassion
“Compassion, Empathy, and Affirmation.”
Wallpaper* | September 2021
Norman Teague: ‘design history needs to reinvent itself’
Chicago-based designer, maker and educator Norman Teague – named by Theaster Gates as one of his five creative leaders of the future in Wallpaper’s 25th Anniversary Issue ‘5x5’ project – on craft, connecting and community
Norman Teague, still from a film by Hugo Faraco created for the exhibition ‘From Lawn Road to South Chicago’, at New York gallery R & Company, 2020
Block Club Chicago | February 2021
Anonymous Donor Gives $560,000 To Sustain Dozens Of Chicago’s Artist-Run Spaces
The Hyde Park Art Center is giving $8,000 in coronavirus relief funds to all 50 artists who participated in the center's "Artists Run Chicago 2.0" exhibition last year. Starting March 1, local artists can apply for grants from the same fund.
Converso | Basel 2021
Norman Teague: The Bureaus of Reconstruction
"Design covers everything that humans come in contact with…Just imagine if there were more people of color in design."
MacArthur Foundation | September 2020
New York Magazine - Curbed | November 2020
Norman Teague Invites You to Find Your Groove With His Furniture
“…he found a place to create new narratives at the Chicago Art Institute, where he says he was looking for ‘a narrative that reflected me, and I wanted to come up with something that came from an African or an African American sort of cultural place and became a piece of furniture you would be wowed by.’”
November 2020
What's Going On: A Discussion with Norman Teague, Glenn Adamson, and James Zemaitis
Watch a conversation between contemporary artist & designer Norman Teague, design curator & historian Glenn Adamson, and R & Company's Director of Museum Services James Zemaitis
Wallpaper* | September 2020
Redesigning The Silver Room community space in Chicago
This Chicago boutique and community space – which champions local artists, designers, and Black-owned businesses – undergoes a makeover courtesy of architects Future Firm and designer Norman Teague
UChicago News | August 2020
UChicago launches creative business accelerator program in Washington Park
Arts + Public Life opens L1 Creative Business Accelerator with local entrepreneurs; retail shop to come
Blockclub Chicago | October 2019
With $25,000 Award, South Shore Designer Norman Teague Wants To Open An Accessible South Side Art Studio
"I have so many friends that are like, 'Oh my God, there isn't a work studio on the South Side that's affordable or feasible or accessible,'" Teague said. "I'm investigating ways for that to happen."
Obama Foundation | May 2017
President and Mrs. Obama Announce Conceptual Vision for Design of Obama Presidential Center
“The design team for the OPC is led by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects | Partners and Interactive Design Architects. The landscape design team is comprised of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Site Design Group, and Living Habitats. Ralph Appelbaum Associates will lead the exhibition design team for the OPC, in partnership with Civic Projects and Normal, and artists and educators Amanda Williams, Andres Hernandez, and Norman Teague.”
Award | 2016
3Arts Awardee: Norman Teague
Video interview with Norman Teague, designer, educator, artist, and recipient of a $25,000 3Arts Award in 2019. To learn more about the 3Arts Awards, selection process, and other programs, visit https://3arts.org/awards/. Video by studiothread.
Raising Products Lecture Series
Raising Products is a virtual series on art, design, and communities of color. It is about making and unmaking. Join Design Museum of Chicago and blkHaUs studios for the second event of Raising Products, an ongoing discussion between scholars, artists, and designers.
In Transit | Norman Teague
Chicago-based designer and professor Norman Teague was on a holiday earlier this year when he decided to stop by our office in Jakarta. After starting his vacation in Jamaica, he flew to Indonesia, whose hot weather gave Norman quite a shock (when the video was taken last January, Chicago was experiencing a heavy snowstorm). Still, despite the heat and its lack of Afrobeat, Norman thought Indonesia was "dope fun."
Meet Norman Teague
Meet Norman Teague, a designer and educator who focuses on the complexity of urbanism and the culture of communities. We are honored to have had him custom make three tables in Chicago Beyond’s Home for Social Innovation.