In its 2 years of operation, 6018NORTH has received Best of Year accolades in both 2011 and 2012 from New City and in 2012 from The Chicago Tribune. Frieze Magazine also included 6018NORTH in its Chicago highlights of 2012 http://blog.frieze.com/looking-back-looking-forward-part-4/
6018NORTH - Intersection of art, community, and ideas
6018NORTH asks how we can best create, nurture, and share the power of creativity to enhance the quality of life for ALL?
6018NORTH Mission Statement:
6018NORTH is a green, non-profit platform for experimental culture, performance, sound, and installation art within and for the community. Located at 6018 NORTH Kenmore in the Edgewater neighborhood on Chicago's North side, its innovative projects include artists performing, creating installations, and directing communal engagement events involving food and conversation.
6018NORTH promotes and models experimentation, dialogue, creativity, and cultural engagement in its neighborhood, city-wide, and beyond. Partnering with artists, community leaders, organizers, thought leaders, and entrepreneurs, 6018NORTH connects individuals and groups from diverse fields to discuss and employ art, ideas, and public policies to reinvigorate the potential of a community (Edgewater) while building a local and international cultural dialogue to enhance and sustain Chicago's creative community.
Located in the most diverse neighborhood in Chicago and home to many arts organizations, 6018NORTH's innovative programming and conversational events reflect and build upon the breadth of this diversity by connecting the many groups and individuals that call Edgewater home.
What do we do?
6018NORTH employs art, food, music, and dialogue to foster creativity, build community, and enhance quality of life. It invites artists to create unintimidating yet rigorous, audience-friendly yet innovative, communally engaged exhibitions, discussions, and events in public space. All 6018NORTH’s free events provide food and time for conversation between neighbors, artists, and patrons. 6018NORTH is where audiences not only listen, but talk to the artists, and to each other. The Happiness Project, on the streets, alleys, and in classrooms and unused storefronts, asked the public to demand policies promoting quality of life; Water Music on the Beach highlighted Edgewater’s beach location; and Home: Public and Private? offered home tours of 27 artists’ performances and installations, including sidewalk public seating, feral cat viewing, and a public address system for singing, playing music, reading poetry, and even complaining about parking.
Exhibitions:
Sara Schnadt, Jennifer Mills, George Maciunas: Fluxus Never Dies, The Happiness Project, The Jettisoned, CURE, Home: Public or Private?
Musical and Performance events:
John Cage: Centenary Celebration, Water Music on the Beach, Miss Julie, FluxFest performances
Discussion events:
Conversational dinners to foster Chicago’s creativity
Fable Festival’s conversation: Art as a vehicle for community engagement
Jennifer Karmin’s 4000 Words, 4000 Dead Iraqi community discussion and potluck dinner
Kira O'Reilly's Feasting Ecologies Salon: the ecologies of body, food, and waste
Residencies and Fellowships:
Jessie Schlesinger was 6018NORTH's first Resident as part of Home: Public or Private?
Katrina Petrauskas and Kirsa Molina were 6018NORTH's first Fellows as part of Home: Public or Private?
National and International exhibitions:
Koffer Kunst/Suitcase Art: Chicago + Detroit in Hamburg, Germany
Kim Schoenstadt’s Art Platform LA
Why do we do what we do?
We believe that people are craving for unique life-enhancing experiences. We also believe that connections create opportunities. 6018NORTH is a new model for creating unique experiences through connecting people, bridging disciplines, and supporting artistic excellence and innovation. Its Artistic Director, former MCA curator’s hallmark is community engagement and incubating now famous Chicago artists because she encourages relevance and risk taking. 6018NORTH's nimbleness promotes risk taking and cross disciplinary experimentation. Through its community building efforts, 6018NORTH encourages artists to work not in a vacuum but with and for society, to collaborate, and to advance new ways of making art and engaging audiences in Edgewater, where they themselves live, and beyond.
6018NORTH employs art, food, music, and dialogue to foster creativity, build community, and enhance quality of life. It invites artists to create unintimidating yet rigorous, audience-friendly yet innovative, communally engaged exhibitions, discussions, and events in public space. All 6018NORTH’s free events provide food and time for conversation between neighbors, artists, and patrons. 6018NORTH is where audiences not only listen, but talk to the artists, and to each other. The Happiness Project, on the streets, alleys, and in classrooms and unused storefronts, asked the public to demand policies promoting quality of life; Water Music on the Beach highlighted Edgewater’s beach location; and Home: Public and Private? offered home tours of 27 artists’ performances and installations, including sidewalk public seating, feral cat viewing, and a public address system for singing, playing music, reading poetry, and even complaining about parking.
Exhibitions:
Sara Schnadt, Jennifer Mills, George Maciunas: Fluxus Never Dies, The Happiness Project, The Jettisoned, CURE, Home: Public or Private?
Musical and Performance events:
John Cage: Centenary Celebration, Water Music on the Beach, Miss Julie, FluxFest performances
Discussion events:
Conversational dinners to foster Chicago’s creativity
Fable Festival’s conversation: Art as a vehicle for community engagement
Jennifer Karmin’s 4000 Words, 4000 Dead Iraqi community discussion and potluck dinner
Kira O'Reilly's Feasting Ecologies Salon: the ecologies of body, food, and waste
Residencies and Fellowships:
Jessie Schlesinger was 6018NORTH's first Resident as part of Home: Public or Private?
Katrina Petrauskas and Kirsa Molina were 6018NORTH's first Fellows as part of Home: Public or Private?
National and International exhibitions:
Koffer Kunst/Suitcase Art: Chicago + Detroit in Hamburg, Germany
Kim Schoenstadt’s Art Platform LA
Why do we do what we do?
We believe that people are craving for unique life-enhancing experiences. We also believe that connections create opportunities. 6018NORTH is a new model for creating unique experiences through connecting people, bridging disciplines, and supporting artistic excellence and innovation. Its Artistic Director, former MCA curator’s hallmark is community engagement and incubating now famous Chicago artists because she encourages relevance and risk taking. 6018NORTH's nimbleness promotes risk taking and cross disciplinary experimentation. Through its community building efforts, 6018NORTH encourages artists to work not in a vacuum but with and for society, to collaborate, and to advance new ways of making art and engaging audiences in Edgewater, where they themselves live, and beyond.
AWARDS and GRANTS
6018NORTH received a Community Arts Assistance Program (CAAP) grant whose goal is to discover, nurture, and expand Chicago's multi-ethic artists and non-profit organizations.
6018NORTH's city-wide The Happiness Project, was a recipient of The Propeller Fund, a catalyst for the creative activity and vitality of the Chicago visual art world. The Propeller Fund believes that self-organized organizations are responsible for much of the complexity and richness in Chicago's art community. The Propeller Fund encourages varied models to spread activities into more diverse areas; to promote the public's interaction with, and public recognition of such activities; and to spark ambitions beyond current formats. http://www.propellerfund.org/
6018 NORTH was honored to be named a 2012 finalist for support from ArtPlace, an unprecedented private-public collaboration of nine of the nation’s top foundations, eight federal agencies including the National Endowment for the Arts, and six of the nation’s largest banks. ArtPlace (based in Chicago) supports creative placemaking with grants and loans, research and advocacy. 6018NORTH joined 128 other organizations in 68 cities working to transform their communities by driving vibrancy through investments in the arts.
http://www.artplaceamerica.org/articles/2012finalists/
6018NORTH Residencies:
6018NORTH hosted its first 5 week resident - Jesse Schlesinger - in conjunction with the exhibition Home: Public or Private where he created a changing installation while meeting individuals advancing Chicago's artistic and food cultural landscapes.
After 6018NORTH's renovations, it will host a series of residencies that aim to articulate Chicago's distinctive vitality of the arts to those outside of Chicago.
6018 NORTH Artistic Director
