Derval Fairweather has been drawing and painting since he was a young boy. Soon, one of his paintings will be replicated and placed in the hands of many as it becomes the design on the membership card for the new National Public Housing Museum opening soon in Chicago. 

Mr. Fairweather’s piece was selected from a NYCHA-wide art competition hosted with the Public Housing Community Fund, the National Public Housing Museum, and NYCHA’s Office of Public-Private Partnerships. 

The National Public Housing Museum is the nation’s first cultural institution dedicated to telling the story of public housing in the United States. Mr. Fairweather has a long relationship with public housing: He’s worked for NYCHA for four years as a Web Designer in the Department of Communications and from the ages of 10 through 30, he was a resident of Amsterdam Houses in Manhattan. He was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and moved to the United States when he was 9 years old.