Curated by Jacob Lindgren of Inga Books, Dreaming Inside History is a lecture and video series that revisits histories of alternative art and design education, in and outside schools, across several decades of Chicago history. Featuring works from Chicago Metro School, an autonomous CPS high school “without walls” founded in the 1970s; the Stockyard Institute, a DIY art school and radio station for grassroots community organizing founded in 1995 in the Back of the Yards neighborhood; Street-Level Youth Media, a collective amplifying youth voice, equitable access to new media, and civic awareness; Video Machete, founded in 1994 as a collective of activists, students, and media-based artists running youth media workshops across the city; and Eleanor Boyer & Karen Peugh’s La Maestra (1984), a look at Pilsen’s Maria Luisa Michel Almonte, a flower shop-based community arts and crafts teacher.