21C’s Curator Conversations is a monthly series that asks a local art curator to chat with an artist of their choice with ties to the Chicago arts community. Working under the pseudonym Stitch Gawd, McKee is a non-traditional cross-stitcher and is known within Chicago’s rap community as “the only hip-hop cross-stitcher.” McKee and Sykes will discuss McKee’s recent work featuring a 9-foot-tall portrait of Fred Hampton, former Chairman of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party. To learn more about Sykes and Mckee, their work, and Chicago’s rich arts community through an in-depth discussion, register for the July 20 event.