MCA Chicago's The Mark Bradford Project connects MacArthur Fellow and contemporary artist Mark Bradford with different Chicago communities to interact around the creative process. Bradford's personal interest in working with teenagers served as a catalyst for a yearlong residency project with students at Lindblom Math and Science Academy, as well as teenagers in Digital Youth Network's YOUmedia Chicago program at the Harold Washington Library. The project culminated in an exhibition of the youth artists’ works, which coincided with Bradford’s own exhibition at the MCA, May 28 - September 18, 2011.