The Museum of Street Culture validates the history and everyday experience of people in public places through diverse forms of art, education, and new ideas, activating social change and building community.

The Museum of Street Culture is a work-in-progress. We are currently fundraising for additional exhibitions and publications. Our outdoor exhibitions, Looking for Home, Picturing Homelessness, and Photography and Social Justice are available for viewing on the walls at the intersection of Park Avenue and Young Street in downtown Dallas.
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Tiny in her Halloween costume, 1983, Photograph by Mary Ellen Mark © Mary Ellen Mark

Looking for Home:
A Yearlong Focus on the Work of Mary Ellen Mark

Exhibition
The Museum of Street Culture, in association with the Mary Ellen Mark Foundation, featured 30 years of Marks' photographs of Erin Blackwell Charles, a.k.a. Tiny. The installation in Encore Park presented a series of curated exhibitions tracing the life of Tiny, a 13-year-old runaway teen when Mark first encountered her in Seattle, Washington, in 1983, while Mark was working on a story for Life magazine. After the article was published, Mark continued to document Tiny's life.

Explore the Collections

Collections

Picturing Homelessness

Education
The Museum of Street Culture with support from The Stewpot staff worked with the children in the Saturday Kids' Club to engage participants, grades 1-5, in a conversation about homelessness. Participants were able to view their works in an exhibition at the opening reception.
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Picturing Homelessness challenged children to explore stereotypes and needs related to family, shelter, food, and pets through collaborative drawings made by small groups of children that were printed for installation on exterior windows of The Stewpot.

Docent Program

Program
The docent program hired homeless Stewpot clients to be paid docents for the Mary Ellen Mark exhibition, Looking for Home. Docents shared their stories with visitors and intensified their experience, connecting the past with the present.
“To have a unique museum like this is something that we can be very proud of. Nobody has really ventured into this area and I really think it's breakthrough.”
~Mike Rawlings, Mayor, City of Dallas
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