Lowe, a MacArthur Fellow and artist in residence at the U-M Institute for Social Research, has decades of experience creating meaningful community-based arts projects. But upon learning about the multitrillion dollar contribution of the Black community to the U.S. economy each year, Lowe began thinking about how to gather, understand and represent that data in a way that could give the information life. Learn more about Black progress in real time—public art from Rick Lowe informed by U-M social research >