Please visit our new website at 6018North.org for current exhibitions and projects.
Why Are We Called 6018North?
When the Chinese artist, designer, and urbanologist Jiang Jun first visited the house, about its historic street numbers 6018, he said:
6 is “lucky/fortunate” and represents flow.
0 is “you.”
1 is “are going to be.”
8 is “prosperous.”
6018 extended to artists and neighbors alike, is a collective you that is fortunate, flowing, and prosperous.
6 is “lucky/fortunate” and represents flow.
0 is “you.”
1 is “are going to be.”
8 is “prosperous.”
6018 extended to artists and neighbors alike, is a collective you that is fortunate, flowing, and prosperous.
Our Location
6018North's dilapidated mansion is located in Edgewater, one of Chicago’s most diverse neighborhoods. Located in Edgewater’s Kenmore-Winthrop dense corridor of apartment buildings home to CHA, Section 8, trans-gender residents, and international refuges, as well as single family homes and condos, this neighborhood is diverse on multiple levels -- economics, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, and education. Yet diversity does not necessarily create a diverse community. Therefore 6018North asks how artistic encounters can connect neighbors and create a space to meet through art, food, architecture, and/or performance?
6018North is also itinerant. We create exhibitions and events in storefronts, on the beach, streets, gardens, and in classrooms. Wherever we are, we invite artists to transform spaces through art while drawing people together. Currently we are located in the Yousuf Art Gallery's garden in Kochi India offering organic to tea to people who visit Rooting (India): The Knowledge Project which presents artists' sustainable solutions to pressing issues within an organic garden.
6018North Artistic Director
Tricia Van Eck
After 13 years of working at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, where she was Associate Curator, Tricia Van Eck left to focus on 6018North. Her last project at the MCA was the Chicago presentation of Mark Bradford's Retrospective and his community residency exhibition. At the MCA she presented over 70 exhibitions much of which were audience engaged, interactive, or extended the MCA's reach into the community such as Interactions: A Four Month Series of Artist and Audience Activations as a companion to Without You I Am Nothing: Art and Its Audience; Jan Tichy's Project Cabrini Green,; Theaster Gates: Temple Exercises; Tino Sehgal’s Kiss; Here/Not There; and Hide and Seek: An Out of Gallery Experience. She curated the MCA Chicago presentations of various traveling exhibitions such as Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe; Italics: Tradition and Revolution, Italian Art from 1968-2008; and Andy Warhol: Supernova. She coordinated numerous exhibitions including the Jeff Koons retrospective and curated numerous exhibitions of Chicago artists including Mapping the Self and Kerry James Marshall: One True Thing Meditations on Black Aesthetics as well as many artists’ book shows and UBS 12 x 12: New Artists/New Work exhibitions, which showcased the work of emerging Chicago artists. About this opportunity, Tricia Van Eck said, "I am indebted to the remarkable artists with whom I have collaborated at the Museum of Contemporary Art and I am very excited to bring this experience to a new and experimental cultural space that aims to increase opportunities, visibility, and audiences for Chicago artists."
Tricia Van Eck has lived in the Edgewater neighborhood for more than 18 years and has worked with the community in various capacities, most notably in co-designing the Harmann and Lotte Shaalman garden on Sheridan Road, as an oasis of calm for the multiple groups that gather together in nature.
Awards & Grants
6018North has received grants from the Illinois Arts Council Agency, which fosters creativity and working artists, and DCASE's Community Arts Assistance Program (CAAP) 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/
6018North 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
September 20 - 25, 2015 6018North will host artist Marjetica Potrc and 10 Hamburg HBK (The University of Fine Arts/HFBK in Hamburg) students from her Design For The Living World class. We will use the Jean-Luc Mylane Pavilion as a site to host a series of conversations about soil, water, and food and how communities can nurture all three. We Care A Lot - Stewardship of the land in the neighborhood will include site visits to artists and spaces who care a lot about the land including Dan Peterman, Emmanuel Pratt, the Plant, Jenny Kendler, Claire Pentecost, Hull House, http://designforthelivingworld.com
October 2013, 6018North hosted Gregory Chapusiat, one half of the Swiss artists, the Chapusiat Brothers, who are developing a large scale project for 6018North's outdoor space In Wood We Trust. He had numerous exchanges with artists in the EdgeUp Festival and will return in 2015 to meet with his collaborators.
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.
October 2013, 6018North hosted Gregory Chapusiat, one half of the Swiss artists, the Chapusiat Brothers, who are developing a large scale project for 6018North's outdoor space In Wood We Trust. He had numerous exchanges with artists in the EdgeUp Festival and will return in 2015 to meet with his collaborators.
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.