A new building in Chicago from Theaster Gates, which will provide artists and other creative entrepreneurs space to work, broke ground this week.
The art incubator, located at the former St. Laurence Elementary School in the Grand Crossing community on the South Side, is a $10.35 million project slated to be competed by 2023. Theaster Gates and his nonprofit organization Rebuild Foundation purchased the property in 2016, rescuing it from being demolished.
Now, thanks to Gates, the space will…