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Past Exhibitions, Events & Performances
The Air We Breathe
This sound series curated by 6018North for the Art Institute's Jean-Luc Mylayne pavilion, focused on breath to create a sonic landscape that complements Mylayne's method of photographing birds. The inimitable Claire Chase, flutist from ICE, kicked off the series Friday, June 26.
Performances:
Friday, June 26 – Claire Chase
Friday, July 3 – Alejandro Acierto
Friday, July 17 – Douglas Ewart
Friday, July 24 – Graham Stephenson
Friday, Aug 7 – Carol Genetti
Friday, Aug 14 – Katherine Young
Friday, Aug. 21 – Nomi Epstein and Kenn Kumpf
Friday, June 26 – Claire Chase
Friday, July 3 – Alejandro Acierto
Friday, July 17 – Douglas Ewart
Friday, July 24 – Graham Stephenson
Friday, Aug 7 – Carol Genetti
Friday, Aug 14 – Katherine Young
Friday, Aug. 21 – Nomi Epstein and Kenn Kumpf
One Long Table
July 26, 2015
6018 North
One Long Table connects neighbors through art, games, magic, spoken word, and international food.
Rooting (India)
The Knowledge Project
at the Kochi Biennale, India
December 12, 2014 - February 12, 2015
The Knowledge Project
at the Kochi Biennale, India
December 12, 2014 - February 12, 2015
Rooting (India): The Knowledge Project connects art, food, and ecology through projects by artists, activists, and farmers from primarily India and the United States. This “knowledge hub,” within an organic garden (with free organic tea served daily) presents photographs, drawings, diagrams, artists’ books, and pamphlets that highlight how communities are redefining their critical needs and devising their own solutions for long-term sustainability. This exhibition – and its companion show at Spice Harbour – creates an inviting conversational space to connect, discuss, and discover potential solutions to ecological, social, and economic challenges faced by farmers and consumers around the world.
www.rootingindia.blogspot.com
www.rootingindia.blogspot.com
Rooting (India): The Knowledge Project presents a discussion
12/18/14 at 5:00pm at Aspinwall House, Kochi, India:
Cross Pollination: How to connect Art, Food & Nature
If we believe we are what we eat, what would happen if we truly valued food and its creation? This discussion connects the creative work of artists, cultural activists, small businesses, and organic farmers to address some of the extreme environmental, social, and economic challenges facing local and global communities in India and the US.
Speakers:
Akshay Raj Singh Rathore , Arunkumar HG, Kiran Sadanandan
Moderated by:
Tricia Van Eck
12/18/14 at 5:00pm at Aspinwall House, Kochi, India:
Cross Pollination: How to connect Art, Food & Nature
If we believe we are what we eat, what would happen if we truly valued food and its creation? This discussion connects the creative work of artists, cultural activists, small businesses, and organic farmers to address some of the extreme environmental, social, and economic challenges facing local and global communities in India and the US.
Speakers:
Akshay Raj Singh Rathore , Arunkumar HG, Kiran Sadanandan
Moderated by:
Tricia Van Eck
Rooting (India): The Knowledge Project presents a second discussion
02/09/15 at 5:00pm at Aspinwall House, Kochi, India in the ongoing series:
Cross Pollination: How to connect Art, Food & Nature
If we believe we are what we eat, what would happen if we truly valued food and its creation? This second discussion connects the creative work of artists, cultural activists, small businesses, and organic farmers to highlight how they are addressing environmental, social, and economic challenges facing their local communities.
Speakers:
Ravi Agarwal, Jason Taylor, Cheruvayal Raman, Kiran Sadanandan
Moderated by:
Akshay Raj Singh Rathore
02/09/15 at 5:00pm at Aspinwall House, Kochi, India in the ongoing series:
Cross Pollination: How to connect Art, Food & Nature
If we believe we are what we eat, what would happen if we truly valued food and its creation? This second discussion connects the creative work of artists, cultural activists, small businesses, and organic farmers to highlight how they are addressing environmental, social, and economic challenges facing their local communities.
Speakers:
Ravi Agarwal, Jason Taylor, Cheruvayal Raman, Kiran Sadanandan
Moderated by:
Akshay Raj Singh Rathore
Images from the YOUSUF ART GALLERY India
A FLUX-EVENING - An evening of Contemporary Fluxus Performance
Saturday, February 21
7-10 pm at 6018 N. Kenmore
As part of FLUXFEST 2015, Fluxers from around the globe present an evening of performance, interactive events, mailart making, sound works, and playful mayhem. Fluxus performances blur the boundaries of art and daily experience with actions ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous, quiet and contemplative to loud and interactive. Curated by Keith Buchholz and the Worldwide Contemporary Fluxus Community.
A LISTENING PARTY: PSYCH RECORDS
Sunday, February 22
12-5 pm at 6018 N. Kenmore
The final event of FLUXFEST 2015 is a listening party for Psych Records. Founded in 2011, Psych Records has released a staggering array of vinyl LP's, audiocasettes, and cd's documenting both contemporary Fluxus sound work, and previously unpublished works by classic Fluxus artists such as Wolf Vostell and Milan Knizak. Kommisar Hjular & Mama Baer create limited edition releases, often available with one-of-a kind collage or sculptural covers. Many of the LP's include sound work by artists present.
FLUXFEST CHICAGO is an annual event, in its 5th season, that brings together avant-garde artists from around the globe, to interact for 4 days at various venues throughout Chicago.
Saturday, February 21
7-10 pm at 6018 N. Kenmore
As part of FLUXFEST 2015, Fluxers from around the globe present an evening of performance, interactive events, mailart making, sound works, and playful mayhem. Fluxus performances blur the boundaries of art and daily experience with actions ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous, quiet and contemplative to loud and interactive. Curated by Keith Buchholz and the Worldwide Contemporary Fluxus Community.
A LISTENING PARTY: PSYCH RECORDS
Sunday, February 22
12-5 pm at 6018 N. Kenmore
The final event of FLUXFEST 2015 is a listening party for Psych Records. Founded in 2011, Psych Records has released a staggering array of vinyl LP's, audiocasettes, and cd's documenting both contemporary Fluxus sound work, and previously unpublished works by classic Fluxus artists such as Wolf Vostell and Milan Knizak. Kommisar Hjular & Mama Baer create limited edition releases, often available with one-of-a kind collage or sculptural covers. Many of the LP's include sound work by artists present.
FLUXFEST CHICAGO is an annual event, in its 5th season, that brings together avant-garde artists from around the globe, to interact for 4 days at various venues throughout Chicago.
The Transformative Power of Art: Change Comes From Within
Sunday, October 19 12 - 3:30pm at 6018North
What is transformation? Is it changing the world or changing how we view the world?
This event pairs three unique transformational experiences. Timed during Chicago Artists Month, this event is for artists to nurture themselves, since many of CAM events involve artists giving to others. While artists are often called on to create group or societal transformations, this event offers unique ways of experiencing transformation together.
Noon-12:30pm: Lunch
12:30 - 1:30pm: Gift Circle with Lara Oppenheimer and Maureen Walrath (starts promptly at 12:30pm)
What is a gift circle? A gift circle is a simple from of gift economy - the original economy, the family economy, the tribal economy -- a shared economy. In a gift circle, you ask for what you need and you offer from your abundance.
You express a need -- every need is acceptable -- to the group with no expectation of it being fulfilled. Then the circle goes around again and you offer a gift, something you would like to share with no expectation of it being accepted. A wide range of things have been shared: a bag of pears, an external hard drive, an Indian dinner delivered to your door, editing skills, conversation in Arabic, French, Italian & Spanish, studio visits, research help (from a librarian), etc., etc. Afterwards, people check in with the folks whose gifts/needs/wishes spoke to them and schedule exchanges. Bring your calendars/planners/phones!
1:45- 2:00pm & 3:00-3:15pm
Lumetype One on One with Caro D'Offay and Laura Gilmore (1 minute sessions with half of group)
What is Lumetype? Lumetype is a process that transforms objects into a light source through phosphorescent paint and photographic paper.
Each person is invited to use their hands to illuminate photo-paper, which is then developed using photographic chemicals. Unlike photography, the phosphorescent paint reveals the wave/particle duality of light, scattering and revealing depths. This individual Lumetype of your hand potentially reveals how light works dualistically, but how the world may also be working and revealing itself -- both logically and creatively -- at this moment in your hand.
2:00 - 3:00: Frames and Perception with Alice Berry
Frames and Perceptions is a group engagement in a therapeutic experience. If art is an agreement between an artist and an observer, group therapy is a similar pact between participants to experience together. This shared moment -- an hour long client-centered therapeutic session for the group -- explores the connections between perception and therapy; and art and experience. Following the Gift Circle, Frames and Perceptions offers a therapeutic space to meditate together upon the issues and concerns that often accompany the acts of giving and receiving.
ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble) Community Residence
October in Edgewater and Uptown
in Schools and at 6018North
October in Edgewater and Uptown
in Schools and at 6018North
Bling Bling at EXPO Chicago
September 18-21
From the Incas to kings and queens, popes and bishops, celebrities, and hip hop rappers, bling has transfixed our eyes and captured our imagination. Bling Bling examines optical excess, pairing it with protest and glamour, presenting a social experience of luxury. This second floor blinged out space - replete with a faded Louis Vuitton garden, a disco pumping protest songs, a series of performances including a portrait dress-up studio, and a group exhibition - offers an experiential, social, and sensorial experience that highlights art’s connection to bling, spectacle, and democratic self-expression.
Artists include:
Steve Atkins, Lise Haller Baggessen, Christine Harrison Frei, Beth Kamhi, Jason Pallas, Christopher Saclolo, and Sadie Woods. Performances by Murat Adash, Nelly Agassi, Alice Berry, Kendall Delashment, Christine Harrison Frei, and others.
Water Music on the Beach
September 7 2-5pm
Sunday, Sept. 7 from 2-5pm at the beach next to The Waterfront Cafe
This series of live performances responds to and highlights Chicago’s proximity to water. The compositions and scores - involving multiple performers and solo performances - reflect, react to, or personify the sounds of water.
Artists include:
Alejandro Acierto
Simon Anderson
Articular Facet: Ryan Dunn, Jeff Kowalkowski
Extraordinary Popular Delusions
Jesse Malmed
William Jason Raynovich
This series of live performances responds to and highlights Chicago’s proximity to water. The compositions and scores - involving multiple performers and solo performances - reflect, react to, or personify the sounds of water.
Artists include:
Alejandro Acierto
Simon Anderson
Articular Facet: Ryan Dunn, Jeff Kowalkowski
Extraordinary Popular Delusions
Jesse Malmed
William Jason Raynovich
City Alive With Dreams
Sunday, Aug. 24 from 6-8pm
City Alive With Dreams is a two year long pubic art project of filling the city with musical interpretations of people’s sleeping dreams.The initial phase of collecting the dreams of one person a week was part of 6018North's Home: Public or Private? exhibition. The second phase transformed the dreams into artwork and poems, which became songs – since music is such a prominent part of Chicago’s heritage – performed throughout the City. If dreams, art, and culture are the soul of a city, this performance in the verdant backyard of 6018North, aims to reawaken your dreams as a source of inspiration for you as well as the City as a whole.
City Alive With Dreams is created by artist Carron Little who is an In The Works Artist in Resident for Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
Artists include: The Queen of Luxuria, Richard Blakeney, Christian Cruz, Alana Parekh, Nora Sharp, and others.
City Alive With Dreams is created by artist Carron Little who is an In The Works Artist in Resident for Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
Artists include: The Queen of Luxuria, Richard Blakeney, Christian Cruz, Alana Parekh, Nora Sharp, and others.
One Long Table
July 27
6018North
One Long Table connects neighbors through art, games, and international food.
This year's One Long Table at 6000 block of Kenmore connects with Winthrop
This year's One Long Table at 6000 block of Kenmore connects with Winthrop
Dressed to the Nines images by Christine Harrison Frei (taken during One Long Table) will be included in 6018North's Bling Bling exhibition at EXPO.
To see all images go to 6018North.tumblr.com
To see all images go to 6018North.tumblr.com
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6018North, Pivot Arts, & Edgewater Sustainability Project Presents
Art, Architecture, and Energy: What is to be done?
June 4 at 7pm
6018North
This panel discussion interweaves three fields with the power to shape and transform our world
Lee Bey, WBEZ architecture critic moderates
Panelists:
Marissa Lee Benedict, sustainable artist
Howard Learner, Director of Environmental Law and Policy Center
Peter Nicholson, Founder of Foresight Design and Green Drinks
Jennifer Walling, Executive Director of Illinois Environmental Council
Frances Whitehead, Lead artist designing the 606
Monica Willemsen, Architect and Designer of Loyola”s Center for
Environmental Sustainability
Michal Samama performs with a plastic bag on 6018North’s porch as people arrive.
Lee Bey, WBEZ architecture critic moderates
Panelists:
Marissa Lee Benedict, sustainable artist
Howard Learner, Director of Environmental Law and Policy Center
Peter Nicholson, Founder of Foresight Design and Green Drinks
Jennifer Walling, Executive Director of Illinois Environmental Council
Frances Whitehead, Lead artist designing the 606
Monica Willemsen, Architect and Designer of Loyola”s Center for
Environmental Sustainability
Michal Samama performs with a plastic bag on 6018North’s porch as people arrive.
College Arts Association presentations:
presented at CAA (College Arts Association) conference
Thursday, February 13 – Saturday, Feb. 15 at the Hilton Chicago (720 S. Michigan Ave)
Do you see what I see?
as part of Why Marriage? Chuck Thurow's and Mia Ruyter's
Saturday, February 22 6-9pm at David Darst Center (2834 S. Normal Ave)
presented at CAA (College Arts Association) conference
Thursday, February 13 – Saturday, Feb. 15 at the Hilton Chicago (720 S. Michigan Ave)
Do you see what I see?
as part of Why Marriage? Chuck Thurow's and Mia Ruyter's
Saturday, February 22 6-9pm at David Darst Center (2834 S. Normal Ave)
Risky Encounters
Saturdays, March 8 and 15 – 7:00-9:00pm
Sundays, March 9 and 16 – 4:00-6:00pm
Reservations required. See below *
6018North presents five artists’ new installations and performances that involve the audience in the works’ creation and/or reception. The artists offer an intimate exchange and dissemination of ideas about the possibilities of risk in public encounters and social engagement. The various forms of risk taking not only stimulate ideas about physical and psychological risk but question how empathetic encounters in art and social practice can effect social and artistic change.
Artists include Kirsten Leenaars, Murat Adash, Alyssa Moxley, Michal Samama, and Sanaz Sohrabi. Experimental food by Guerilla Smiles (March 8, 9) and by Joshua Kent (March 15, 16). Experimental drinks by Mathew Paul Jinks.
Suggested donation of $20 is waved with a commitment to engage in a generous act with a stranger met during the event.
6018North is located at 6018 North Kenmore
Parking is limited street parking.
Bus #147 Express from Water Tower Place to Thorndale
Red Line El to Thorndale
Sundays, March 9 and 16 – 4:00-6:00pm
Reservations required. See below *
6018North presents five artists’ new installations and performances that involve the audience in the works’ creation and/or reception. The artists offer an intimate exchange and dissemination of ideas about the possibilities of risk in public encounters and social engagement. The various forms of risk taking not only stimulate ideas about physical and psychological risk but question how empathetic encounters in art and social practice can effect social and artistic change.
Artists include Kirsten Leenaars, Murat Adash, Alyssa Moxley, Michal Samama, and Sanaz Sohrabi. Experimental food by Guerilla Smiles (March 8, 9) and by Joshua Kent (March 15, 16). Experimental drinks by Mathew Paul Jinks.
Suggested donation of $20 is waved with a commitment to engage in a generous act with a stranger met during the event.
6018North is located at 6018 North Kenmore
Parking is limited street parking.
Bus #147 Express from Water Tower Place to Thorndale
Red Line El to Thorndale
Encounters include various types of risk taking (those taken previously, in the moment, and those that involve the artist and/or the audience):
- Kirsten Leenaars' screening of her film NOT IN ANOTHER PLACE, BUT THIS PLACE… (HAPPINESS), 2013 is accompanied by a live performance by Leroy Bach, Dan Bitney, and Matthew Lux. The work was originally created in Edgewater as part of 6018North's Happiness Project, where Leenaars asked 46 Edgewater residents what would make a more perfect society. These answers informed the film and many of the interviewees are the actors.
- Murat Adash's Body Building, 2013 is a durational work for multiple performers who observe the audience while the audience observes the performers.
- Sanaz Sohrabi in As if they fall, 2013 performs under heavy stones suspended from 6018North's walls. The audience is invited to move through the performance.
- Alyssa Moxley's Same Side of the Street, 2013 is a camera obscura installation that projects the images and sounds of people outside the front entrance of 6018North onto speakers made of translucent paper.
- Michal Samama's Move Like A Body, 2013 is performed for two hours within a locker, which functions as a frame for her body. Moving throughout the evening within an institutional locker, while breathing through a whistle, her vulnerable body mediates between the dynamics of body, voice, power, and vulnerability.
- Peter Ferry, Staying the Course, (ongoing) Each note in David Macbride’s score represents an American solider killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
- Joshua Kent's The flowers in the field are free, 2013 is a subtle performance installation that is revealed at the end of the evening when the artist discusses the divisions between life and art, poverty and surplus, and invisibility and aesthetics.
Risky Encounters is created in collaboration with Columbia College's RISK: Empathy, Art, and Social Practice exhibition, Feb. 10-April 26, at Columbia College Glass Curtain Gallery, Curated by Amy Mooney and Neysa Page-Lieberman, with The Hyde Park Art Center, 6018North, and Rebuild Foundation. RISK: Empathy, Art, and Social Practice considers the interdependent role of empathy and risk in socially engaged art as practiced by Chicago contemporary artists. The exhibition focuses on artists who work in a public arena to foster connections between individuals and to activate communities. The work is divergent in medium, content and scope, but shares an interest in initiating and negotiating relationships through personal interaction. Working with cultural partners and sites across the city, RISK highlights some of the most exciting projects emerging in this field and explores artists’ motivations and viewers’ expectations of social art practice.
Generously supported by a grant from The Joyce Foundation.
Artists also on display at 6018North:
Teresa Albor, Lise Haller Baggesen, Sarah and Joseph Belknap, Sandra Binion, Deborah Boardman, Stephanie Brooks, David Coyle, Meg Duguid, Andre Fiebig, Vicki Fowler and Trevor Martin, Candida Hofer, Vlatka Horvat, Jennifer Karmin, Irena Knezevic, Margaret Lee, Curtis Mann, Christian Marclay, Jesus Mejia and Ruth, Harold Mendez, Eliza Myrie, William O'Brien, J. Thomas Pallas, Casilda Sanchez, Montgomery Perry Smith, Jan Tichy, and Amanda Williams
Special thanks to:
Amy Mooney and Neysa Page-Lieberman
Penelope and Robert Steiner
Columbia College
School of the Art Institute
Illinois Arts Council Agency
The Propeller Fund, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Art
Generously supported by a grant from The Joyce Foundation.
Artists also on display at 6018North:
Teresa Albor, Lise Haller Baggesen, Sarah and Joseph Belknap, Sandra Binion, Deborah Boardman, Stephanie Brooks, David Coyle, Meg Duguid, Andre Fiebig, Vicki Fowler and Trevor Martin, Candida Hofer, Vlatka Horvat, Jennifer Karmin, Irena Knezevic, Margaret Lee, Curtis Mann, Christian Marclay, Jesus Mejia and Ruth, Harold Mendez, Eliza Myrie, William O'Brien, J. Thomas Pallas, Casilda Sanchez, Montgomery Perry Smith, Jan Tichy, and Amanda Williams
Special thanks to:
Amy Mooney and Neysa Page-Lieberman
Penelope and Robert Steiner
Columbia College
School of the Art Institute
Illinois Arts Council Agency
The Propeller Fund, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Art
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Saturdays March 8 and 15 performance schedule:
7:00 - 9:00pm
Michal Samama, Move Like A Body Alyssa Moxley, Same Side of the Street 7:30 - 8:00pm Kirsten Leenaars, NOT IN ANOTHER PLACE, BUT THIS PLACE…(HAPPINESS) Leroy Bach, Dan Bitney, and Matthew Lux perform 8:00 - 8:30pm Murat Adash, Body Building Sanaz Sohrabi, As if they fall 8:35 - 8:45pm Peter Ferry, Staying the Course 8:50 - 9:00pm Joshua Kent, The flowers of the field are free |
Sundays, March 9 and 16 performance schedule:
4:00 - 6:00pm
Michal Samama, Move Like A Body Alyssa Moxley, Same Side of the Street 4:30 – 5:00pm Kirsten Leenaars, NOT IN ANOTHER PLACE, BUT THIS PLACE…(HAPPINESS) Leroy Bach, Dan Bitney, and Matthew Lux perform 5:00 - 5:30pm Murat Adash, Body Building Sanaz Sohrabi, As if they fall 5:35- 5:45pm Peter Ferry, Staying the Course 5:50 - 6:00pm Joshua Kent, The flowers of the field are free |
Nance Klehm's Earth Cavities/Soil Horizons
August - November
Nance Klehm digs a hole in 6018North's front lawn. This soundscape of the soil allows people to sit within and learn about the soil, its composition, texture, smell, and history. For more information about this hole (with footage of Nance digging this hole) and the other hole, click here: http://www.archeworks.org/aweventblog/
New City recent review of Earth Cavities/Soil Horizons:
http://art.newcity.com/2013/07/30/art-break-nance-klehm-dug-a-hole/#more-14421
Listen to sound artist Paul Dickinson's recording from the hole:
https://soundcloud.com/paul-dickinson/sets/earth-cavities-soil-horizons
August - November
Nance Klehm digs a hole in 6018North's front lawn. This soundscape of the soil allows people to sit within and learn about the soil, its composition, texture, smell, and history. For more information about this hole (with footage of Nance digging this hole) and the other hole, click here: http://www.archeworks.org/aweventblog/
New City recent review of Earth Cavities/Soil Horizons:
http://art.newcity.com/2013/07/30/art-break-nance-klehm-dug-a-hole/#more-14421
Listen to sound artist Paul Dickinson's recording from the hole:
https://soundcloud.com/paul-dickinson/sets/earth-cavities-soil-horizons
Eva's launch: solo mesoporos
Art Boat Connects Edgewater with Uptown
Hollywood Beach 5757 N. Sheridan
Sunday, October 27 - 9am
Artist Marissa Benedict rows her handmade wooden boat built with wood from fallen Chicago trees. She rows with artist Olympic rower/artist Lia Rousset, from Edgewater to Uptown’s southern beach (Montrose). Meet them at 11am. 12pm join Marissa at 6018 North at 6018 N. Kenmore.
Art Boat Connects Edgewater with Uptown
Hollywood Beach 5757 N. Sheridan
Sunday, October 27 - 9am
Artist Marissa Benedict rows her handmade wooden boat built with wood from fallen Chicago trees. She rows with artist Olympic rower/artist Lia Rousset, from Edgewater to Uptown’s southern beach (Montrose). Meet them at 11am. 12pm join Marissa at 6018 North at 6018 N. Kenmore.
EdgeUP: A dynamic art festival that celebrates Edgewater and Uptown
“where democracy occurs does matter in how democracy occurs”
EdgeUP kicks off Chicago Artists Month’s spotlighting Edgewater’s and Uptown’s unique diversity. Through exhibitions and artistic encounters at the lakefront, in unique spaces, and on the streets, we connect neighbors and artists to dynamically build community through art.
“where democracy occurs does matter in how democracy occurs”
EdgeUP kicks off Chicago Artists Month’s spotlighting Edgewater’s and Uptown’s unique diversity. Through exhibitions and artistic encounters at the lakefront, in unique spaces, and on the streets, we connect neighbors and artists to dynamically build community through art.
The American Dream: The (W)holy Grail Exhibition
FLATS Studio
1050 W. Wilson Avenue in Uptown
Thursdays 2-7pm
Saturday and Sunday 2-5pm and by appointment - closes Oct. 31
Housed within a former bank, this multi-media art exhibition. emphasizes diverse and holistic interpretations of the American Dream. Created for EdgeUP – a Chicago Artists’ Month festival of Edgewater and Uptown – the exhibition celebrates these neighborhoods as successful examples of the melting pot. The works reflect the neighborhoods’ unique diversity and emphasize utopian ideas of community. While some works point out problems, other works highlight the people maintaining America – its ideals, land, gardens, and public spaces – as well as the artists and groups who holistically and dynamically build community through art. FLATS Studio space is generously donated by Cedar Street Co.
Highlighted by Time Out: 5 Art Shows to See
http://www.timeoutchicago.com/arts-culture/art-design/16460786/5-art-shows-to-see-this-weekend
FLATS Studio
1050 W. Wilson Avenue in Uptown
Thursdays 2-7pm
Saturday and Sunday 2-5pm and by appointment - closes Oct. 31
Housed within a former bank, this multi-media art exhibition. emphasizes diverse and holistic interpretations of the American Dream. Created for EdgeUP – a Chicago Artists’ Month festival of Edgewater and Uptown – the exhibition celebrates these neighborhoods as successful examples of the melting pot. The works reflect the neighborhoods’ unique diversity and emphasize utopian ideas of community. While some works point out problems, other works highlight the people maintaining America – its ideals, land, gardens, and public spaces – as well as the artists and groups who holistically and dynamically build community through art. FLATS Studio space is generously donated by Cedar Street Co.
Highlighted by Time Out: 5 Art Shows to See
http://www.timeoutchicago.com/arts-culture/art-design/16460786/5-art-shows-to-see-this-weekend
The American Dream: The (W)holy Grail Exhibition Artists:
Lise Haller Baggesen, Deborah Boardman (Edgewater resident), Stephanie Brooks, Derek Chan, Andrew Balster, Pate Conaway, Helen Maureen Cooper, Lamont Hamilton (Uptown resident), Erol Scott Harris, Kirsten Leenaars, Tony Lewis (Edgewater resident), Jesus Mejia and Ruth, Judy Natal, Phil Peters, Cheryl Pope, Jason Reblando (Edgewater resident), Macon Reed, Montgomery Perry Smith, Christine Tarkowski, and Vince Tiley
For an in depth look at the artists visit: flatsstudio.com/artist
Lise Haller Baggesen, Deborah Boardman (Edgewater resident), Stephanie Brooks, Derek Chan, Andrew Balster, Pate Conaway, Helen Maureen Cooper, Lamont Hamilton (Uptown resident), Erol Scott Harris, Kirsten Leenaars, Tony Lewis (Edgewater resident), Jesus Mejia and Ruth, Judy Natal, Phil Peters, Cheryl Pope, Jason Reblando (Edgewater resident), Macon Reed, Montgomery Perry Smith, Christine Tarkowski, and Vince Tiley
For an in depth look at the artists visit: flatsstudio.com/artist
This Saturday
Dissecting Adam
opera performances at 7pm (1050 W. Wilson)
Scenes from improvised opera Dissecting Adam by Julia A. Miller with members of the Improvised Opera Workshop collective. Saturday, Oct. 12 at 3, 5, 7pm. Full opera performance, Saturday, Oct. 26 – 7- 9pm
For a full listing, see below or https://www.facebook.com/EdgeUP2013
visit: edgeup2013@tumblr.com
Dissecting Adam
opera performances at 7pm (1050 W. Wilson)
Scenes from improvised opera Dissecting Adam by Julia A. Miller with members of the Improvised Opera Workshop collective. Saturday, Oct. 12 at 3, 5, 7pm. Full opera performance, Saturday, Oct. 26 – 7- 9pm
For a full listing, see below or https://www.facebook.com/EdgeUP2013
visit: edgeup2013@tumblr.com
Piano Playing in Public
is free within The American Dream FLATS Studio space.
If you have ever wanted to play piano in public, now is your chance!! Free participatory playing, free piano lessons and programmed performances.
October hours: Thursdays, 2-7pm, Saturdays and Sundays, 2-5pm.
Piano generously provided by Keys 4/4 Kids.
Performances:
This Thursday: People’s Music School performs 5pm-6pm, Thursdays Oct. 10 and 24
is free within The American Dream FLATS Studio space.
If you have ever wanted to play piano in public, now is your chance!! Free participatory playing, free piano lessons and programmed performances.
October hours: Thursdays, 2-7pm, Saturdays and Sundays, 2-5pm.
Piano generously provided by Keys 4/4 Kids.
Performances:
This Thursday: People’s Music School performs 5pm-6pm, Thursdays Oct. 10 and 24
Be All You Can Be - Skill Shares
4660 North Broadway
October times: Saturdays 2-5pm
Chicago Studios’ visions for Uptown are displayed. Throughout October, self-empowerment talks, skill-shares, and performances are led by artists, actors and entrepreneurs including Keith Buchholz, Iker Gil, Karen Faith, Tom Burtonwood, Carlos Matallana, etc. Brandon Alvendia’s mobile printing studio documents the conversations.
4660 North Broadway
October times: Saturdays 2-5pm
Chicago Studios’ visions for Uptown are displayed. Throughout October, self-empowerment talks, skill-shares, and performances are led by artists, actors and entrepreneurs including Keith Buchholz, Iker Gil, Karen Faith, Tom Burtonwood, Carlos Matallana, etc. Brandon Alvendia’s mobile printing studio documents the conversations.
PEOPLE TEND TO SIT WHERE THERE ARE PLACES TO SIT.
5626 North Broadway, 6050 North Broadway, Lawrence and Wilson red line El stops
Artist Annie Feldmeier Adam’s moveable outdoor chairs, based on urbanist William H. Whyte’s studies of public space, creates public seating in Edgewater and Uptown.
Painted and stenciled chairs with "People Tend To Sit Where There Are Places To Sit," create social space through art.
Chairs painted Friday, Oct. 25 at 5600 Ridge from 4-7pm and
Thursday, Oct. 31 at 1050 W. Wilson from 4-7pm
http://www.peopletendto.com/peopletendtosit.html
5626 North Broadway, 6050 North Broadway, Lawrence and Wilson red line El stops
Artist Annie Feldmeier Adam’s moveable outdoor chairs, based on urbanist William H. Whyte’s studies of public space, creates public seating in Edgewater and Uptown.
Painted and stenciled chairs with "People Tend To Sit Where There Are Places To Sit," create social space through art.
Chairs painted Friday, Oct. 25 at 5600 Ridge from 4-7pm and
Thursday, Oct. 31 at 1050 W. Wilson from 4-7pm
http://www.peopletendto.com/peopletendtosit.html
Englewood in Uptown
Lawrence CTA Red Line station viaduct, 1117 West Lawrence
Artists Amanda Williams and Chelsea Culp collaborated on and completed a public, interactive mural based on colore(d), an exploration of artistic and commercial color choices in Englewood, and Joseph Albers’ color theory.
Lawrence CTA Red Line station viaduct, 1117 West Lawrence
Artists Amanda Williams and Chelsea Culp collaborated on and completed a public, interactive mural based on colore(d), an exploration of artistic and commercial color choices in Englewood, and Joseph Albers’ color theory.
Sunday Afternoon at La Gran Manse
6018 North Kenmore, 1pm on Sundays throughout October
These public studio visits (with food and drinks) at 6018North pair professional artists with self-taught artists to provide critical conversations about art making and how to navigate the contemporary art landscape.
Sunday, Sept. 29: Jane Georges, Claude Lawrence, Hoyun Son
Sunday, Oct. 4: Annie Feldmeir Adams, Katrina Petraukis, Claire
Sunday, Oct. 11: Phil Peters, Gregory Chapusiat, Licha De La Pena
Sunday, Oct. 18: Jenny Kendler, Indira Johnson, Kirsten Leenaars
Sunday, Oct. 25: Judith Brotman, Philomena O'Halloran, and Marissa Lee Benedict
6018 North Kenmore, 1pm on Sundays throughout October
These public studio visits (with food and drinks) at 6018North pair professional artists with self-taught artists to provide critical conversations about art making and how to navigate the contemporary art landscape.
Sunday, Sept. 29: Jane Georges, Claude Lawrence, Hoyun Son
Sunday, Oct. 4: Annie Feldmeir Adams, Katrina Petraukis, Claire
Sunday, Oct. 11: Phil Peters, Gregory Chapusiat, Licha De La Pena
Sunday, Oct. 18: Jenny Kendler, Indira Johnson, Kirsten Leenaars
Sunday, Oct. 25: Judith Brotman, Philomena O'Halloran, and Marissa Lee Benedict
What you missed during the EdgeUP weekend:
Friday, September 27
Chicago Artists Month Opening Night Events
**** Exhibition: The American Dream: The (W)holy Grail
1050 West Wilson opening, 6pm-10pm
This multi-media art exhibition—housed in a former bank—presents various interpretations of the American Dream mirroring Uptown and Edgewater’s diversity. The exhibition emphasizes the art of participation, connections, and ecological healing. Artists include Christine Tarkowski, Jason Reblando, Lamont Hamilton, Kirsten Leenaars, Lise Haller Baggeson, Vincent Tiley, Erol Scott Harris, Macon Reed, Chicago Studio, plus many others. The exhibition space is courtesy of Cedar Street Co.
Special Events & Performances:
Silent Dance Party, 6pm-9pm. Dance with me... is an interactive installation of a silent dance party by artist Meg Duguid. Artist Carl Warnick is dj. (Public may participate with ID for equipment use.)
What Is It? 7pm-9pm. In this special staging by artist Dao Nguyen, players will engage with diverse play styles à la speed dating.
Kuramoto Model bike gatherings, 9pm. Artist David Rueter’s customized, interactive blinking LED lights with microcontrollers and radio units broadcast a radio signal creating a kind of blinking, synchronized mass when gathered together, like certain species of fireflies.
To learn more about the project visit: https://www.facebook.com/1000fireflies
To reserve your light to participate visit: http://1000fireflies.net/
Dissecting Norton, 9pm-10pm. Combining two operas at the same time, this performance, organized by musician Julia Miller, creates unexpected, improvisational moments within order. Additional performances: October 12 (three scenes) 3pm, 5pm, 7pm; October 26 (full opera) 7pm-9pm.
Additional Events:
Uptown Arts Center Open Studios
941 West Lawrence, 6pm-10pm
Uptown Arts Center opens its fifteen artists’ studios plus exhibitions including Community Cartography by Uptownwalks, "Urbs in Horto: 36 views," Poems While You Wait and musicians from Old Town School of Folk Music. Artists include Lowell Thompson, Larry Hart, Josh Kent, Colette Wright Adams and more. Performance by Hope Esser in stairs.
****Be All You Can Be
4660 North Broadway, 6pm-9pm opening. October times: Thursday 5pm-8pm, Saturday 2pm-5pm
Chicago Studios’ visions for Uptown are displayed while, throughout October, self-empowerment talks, classes, and skill-shares are led by artists, actors and entrepreneurs including Karen Faith, Tom Burtonwood, Carlos Matallana, etc. Brandon Alvienda’s mobile printing studio documents the conversations.
Events occurring all weekend, September 28-29
**** Denotes events that continue throughout the month of October
**** The American Dream: The (W)holy Grail
1050 West Wilson, Noon-7pm
This multi-media art exhibition housed in in two locations—both former banks—presents various interpretations of the American Dream mirroring Uptown and Edgewater’s diversity. The exhibition emphasizes the art of participation, connections, and ecological healing. Artists include Christine Tarkowski, Jason Reblando, Lamont Hamilton, Kirsten Leenaars, Lise Haller Baggesen Vincent Tiley, Erol Scott Harris, Macon Reed, Chicago Studio, plus many others. Judith Brotman’s reading performance Saturday, Noon-2pm and 3pm-5pm. The exhibition space is courtesy of Cedar Flats. Hours throughout October: Thursday, 2pm-7pm, Saturday & Sunday Noon-5pm.
****PEOPLE TEND TO SIT WHERE THERE ARE PLACES TO SIT.
5626 North Broadway, 6050 North Broadway, Lawrence and Wilson El stops
Artist Annie Feldmeier Adam’s moveable outdoor chairs, based on urbanist William H. Whyte’s studies of public space, creates public seating in Edgewater and Uptown. Painted chairs, stenciled with "People Tend To Sit Where There Are Places To Sit," are placed in four locations, including also the Lawrence ell stop and Wilson el stop on Broadway.
Englewood in Uptown
Lawrence CTA Red Line station viaduct, 1117 West Lawrence, 11am-1pm
Artists Amanda Williams and Chelsea Culp collaborate on a public, interactive mural.
****Piano Playing in Public
1050 West Wilson, Noon-5pm
Play piano! Free participatory playing, free piano lessons and programmed performances. VOX2 performs "Chicago Songs," Saturday, 2pm. Keys 4/4 Kids’ "Pianos on Parade" is an interactive, public painting of a piano. Sunday, Noon-5pm. Hours throughout October are Thursdays, 2pm-7pm, Saturdays and Sundays, Noon-5pm. People’s Music School performs 5pm-6pm, October 10 and October 24. Piano provided by Keys 4/4 Kids.
Swing Set Drum Kit at 6018North
6018 North Kenmore backyard, 11am-7pm
Dave Ford’s interactive sonic sculpture encourages kids and adults to build rhythmic sounds through swinging.
Continues Saturday and Sunday, October 5 and 6, 11am -7pm.
****Be All You Can Be
4550 North Broadway, 2pm-5pm
Artist Brandon Alvienda’s mobile printing studio documents this and other self-empowerment talks, classes, and skill shares offered throughout the month. Artists include Karen Faith, Tom Burtonwood, Carlos Matallana, Chicago Studio etc. On Saturday, artist Tom Burtonwood demonstrates how to make 3D-printed architectural books in this storefront displaying Chicago Studios’ visions for Uptown. October hours: Thursday, 5pm-8pm, Saturday 2pm-5pm.
****Ask Me About by peoplmovr
Bryn Mawr from Broadway to Kenmore
peoplmovr (Aaron Cedolia and Geoffrey Jackson Scott) invites the public to connect with businesses in a non-commercial way through shared interests. Ask Me About maps lists businesses and their employees’ interests and expertise for the public to “Ask Me About..”
Saturday, September 28
Art Boat
Berger Park, 6205 North Sheridan, 9am (postponed to October 26)
Artist Marissa Benedict rows her handmade wooden boat built with wood from fallen Chicago trees. She rows with artist Lia Rousset, from Edgewater’s northern beach (Berger Park) to Uptown’s southern beach (Montrose).
Englewood in Uptown
Lawrence CTA Red Line station viaduct, 1117 West Lawrence, 11am-1pm
Swing Set Drum Kit at 6018North
6018 North Kenmore backyard, 11am-7pm
**** The American Dream: The (W)holy Grail
1050 West Wilson, Noon-7pm.
Judith Brotman’s reading program Noon-2pm and 3-5pm
****One Long Scarf
Saturday at three Chicago Park District field houses: Berger Park, Margate Park, and Clarendon Park 1pm-3pm. Knit up! Knit and crochet in the park to create a 2 mile scarf connecting Edgewater to Uptown. Scarf is displayed at 1050 W. Wilson. At the end of October, the scarves are distributed to social agencies in the EdgeUp area.
**** Slow Show
Experimental Sound Studio 5925 North Ravenswood, 1pm-5pm
Features original instruments designed and constructed by John Preus, an artist, musician and woodworker. Curated by Thea Liberty Nichols.
****Piano Playing in Public
1050 West Wilson
VOX2 performs "Chicago Songs," Saturday, 2pm.
Manual of Violence
Edgewater Public Library, 6000 North Broadway, 2pm-5pm
Forum and comic book guide, created by artist Carlos Matallana, discusses how to deal with violence as a subject matter with students through art and tech projects. Includes organizers from ASM, Cease Fire, Gallery 37, Marwen, Enlace, Yollocalli, YOUMedia.
****Be All You Can Be
4550 North Broadway, 2pm-5pm
Artist Tom Burtonwood demonstrates how to make 3D-printed architectural books.
Trailer Park Projects
Edgewater Public Library parking lot, 6000 North Broadway, 4pm-9pm
This mobile u-haul exhibition space, curated by Happy Collaboration as part of IPRAC Chicago, presents artist Victoria Bradford’s "Dinner Dance"—a public installation and performance at the dinner table. The dance is a conversation that happens through movement, and "stages" from front door to kitchen. All guests become participants, creating a company of guests and dancers.
Sunday, September 29
Celestial Bodies: Episode 1
1050 West Wilson, Noon
Jake Myers and seventy collaborators premiere an artist-made, science-fiction, interactive exercise video in six parts, beginning in Edgewater/Uptown. Several live characters help you get into cosmic shape.
****Sunday Afternoon at La Gran Manse
6018 North Kenmore, 1pm
These public studio visits at 6018North pair two professional artists with two self-taught artists to provide critical conversations about art making and how to navigate the contemporary art landscape. Continues throughout October on Sundays at 1pm.
Borderbend Art Collective
People’s Church – 941 W. Lawrence 2-4pm
Interfaith Arts Concert is part of the Chicago Calling Festival organized by musician Dan Godston
Water Music on the Beach
Berger Park Beach next to Waterfront Cafe, 6219 North Sheridan, 3:30pm-6:30pm
Experimental performances involving water on the water next to Berger Park beach including Josh Abrams, Lisa Alvarado, Matthew Hale Clark, Carol Genetti, and others.
Edgewater and Uptown events throughout October (in addition to ongoing events)
Monday, Sept. 30 - 6:30-9pm
Rivendell Theatre - 5779 N Ridge Ave.
Chicago Theater Director Jessica Thebus presents ROUGH MAGIC: A Celebration of Those Standing Up to Youth Violence, a series of daring, inspired, creative innovation with all proceeds donated to three designated charities/organizations who are standing up to the wave of violence in Chicago.
Friday, Oct. 4 - opening 6-9pm
The Salon Series – 1319 W. Wilson
Saturdays, October 5-31
Artist Jenny Kendler’s exhibition "Invasive Species," with artist Alexander Noe, fuses natural and cultural worlds through drawing and sculpture. Artist-led tours on Tuesday, October 8 and Thursday, October 10 in partnership with SAIC
Saturday, October 5 – 1pm
Green walk and talk – begins at 6018North
Tour Edgewater green spaces including Nance Klehm’s Earth Cavities/Soil Horizons, and Akshay Rathore’s and Lia Rousett’s green roof in cooperation with Rootings Symposium, as well as the Edgewater Public Library, Loyola’s sustainability center, and Uncommon Ground.
Saturday and Sunday, October 5 and 6 - 11am -7pm
Swing Set Drum Kit at 6018North
6018 North Kenmore backyard
Friday, September 27
Chicago Artists Month Opening Night Events
**** Exhibition: The American Dream: The (W)holy Grail
1050 West Wilson opening, 6pm-10pm
This multi-media art exhibition—housed in a former bank—presents various interpretations of the American Dream mirroring Uptown and Edgewater’s diversity. The exhibition emphasizes the art of participation, connections, and ecological healing. Artists include Christine Tarkowski, Jason Reblando, Lamont Hamilton, Kirsten Leenaars, Lise Haller Baggeson, Vincent Tiley, Erol Scott Harris, Macon Reed, Chicago Studio, plus many others. The exhibition space is courtesy of Cedar Street Co.
Special Events & Performances:
Silent Dance Party, 6pm-9pm. Dance with me... is an interactive installation of a silent dance party by artist Meg Duguid. Artist Carl Warnick is dj. (Public may participate with ID for equipment use.)
What Is It? 7pm-9pm. In this special staging by artist Dao Nguyen, players will engage with diverse play styles à la speed dating.
Kuramoto Model bike gatherings, 9pm. Artist David Rueter’s customized, interactive blinking LED lights with microcontrollers and radio units broadcast a radio signal creating a kind of blinking, synchronized mass when gathered together, like certain species of fireflies.
To learn more about the project visit: https://www.facebook.com/1000fireflies
To reserve your light to participate visit: http://1000fireflies.net/
Dissecting Norton, 9pm-10pm. Combining two operas at the same time, this performance, organized by musician Julia Miller, creates unexpected, improvisational moments within order. Additional performances: October 12 (three scenes) 3pm, 5pm, 7pm; October 26 (full opera) 7pm-9pm.
Additional Events:
Uptown Arts Center Open Studios
941 West Lawrence, 6pm-10pm
Uptown Arts Center opens its fifteen artists’ studios plus exhibitions including Community Cartography by Uptownwalks, "Urbs in Horto: 36 views," Poems While You Wait and musicians from Old Town School of Folk Music. Artists include Lowell Thompson, Larry Hart, Josh Kent, Colette Wright Adams and more. Performance by Hope Esser in stairs.
****Be All You Can Be
4660 North Broadway, 6pm-9pm opening. October times: Thursday 5pm-8pm, Saturday 2pm-5pm
Chicago Studios’ visions for Uptown are displayed while, throughout October, self-empowerment talks, classes, and skill-shares are led by artists, actors and entrepreneurs including Karen Faith, Tom Burtonwood, Carlos Matallana, etc. Brandon Alvienda’s mobile printing studio documents the conversations.
Events occurring all weekend, September 28-29
**** Denotes events that continue throughout the month of October
**** The American Dream: The (W)holy Grail
1050 West Wilson, Noon-7pm
This multi-media art exhibition housed in in two locations—both former banks—presents various interpretations of the American Dream mirroring Uptown and Edgewater’s diversity. The exhibition emphasizes the art of participation, connections, and ecological healing. Artists include Christine Tarkowski, Jason Reblando, Lamont Hamilton, Kirsten Leenaars, Lise Haller Baggesen Vincent Tiley, Erol Scott Harris, Macon Reed, Chicago Studio, plus many others. Judith Brotman’s reading performance Saturday, Noon-2pm and 3pm-5pm. The exhibition space is courtesy of Cedar Flats. Hours throughout October: Thursday, 2pm-7pm, Saturday & Sunday Noon-5pm.
****PEOPLE TEND TO SIT WHERE THERE ARE PLACES TO SIT.
5626 North Broadway, 6050 North Broadway, Lawrence and Wilson El stops
Artist Annie Feldmeier Adam’s moveable outdoor chairs, based on urbanist William H. Whyte’s studies of public space, creates public seating in Edgewater and Uptown. Painted chairs, stenciled with "People Tend To Sit Where There Are Places To Sit," are placed in four locations, including also the Lawrence ell stop and Wilson el stop on Broadway.
Englewood in Uptown
Lawrence CTA Red Line station viaduct, 1117 West Lawrence, 11am-1pm
Artists Amanda Williams and Chelsea Culp collaborate on a public, interactive mural.
****Piano Playing in Public
1050 West Wilson, Noon-5pm
Play piano! Free participatory playing, free piano lessons and programmed performances. VOX2 performs "Chicago Songs," Saturday, 2pm. Keys 4/4 Kids’ "Pianos on Parade" is an interactive, public painting of a piano. Sunday, Noon-5pm. Hours throughout October are Thursdays, 2pm-7pm, Saturdays and Sundays, Noon-5pm. People’s Music School performs 5pm-6pm, October 10 and October 24. Piano provided by Keys 4/4 Kids.
Swing Set Drum Kit at 6018North
6018 North Kenmore backyard, 11am-7pm
Dave Ford’s interactive sonic sculpture encourages kids and adults to build rhythmic sounds through swinging.
Continues Saturday and Sunday, October 5 and 6, 11am -7pm.
****Be All You Can Be
4550 North Broadway, 2pm-5pm
Artist Brandon Alvienda’s mobile printing studio documents this and other self-empowerment talks, classes, and skill shares offered throughout the month. Artists include Karen Faith, Tom Burtonwood, Carlos Matallana, Chicago Studio etc. On Saturday, artist Tom Burtonwood demonstrates how to make 3D-printed architectural books in this storefront displaying Chicago Studios’ visions for Uptown. October hours: Thursday, 5pm-8pm, Saturday 2pm-5pm.
****Ask Me About by peoplmovr
Bryn Mawr from Broadway to Kenmore
peoplmovr (Aaron Cedolia and Geoffrey Jackson Scott) invites the public to connect with businesses in a non-commercial way through shared interests. Ask Me About maps lists businesses and their employees’ interests and expertise for the public to “Ask Me About..”
Saturday, September 28
Art Boat
Berger Park, 6205 North Sheridan, 9am (postponed to October 26)
Artist Marissa Benedict rows her handmade wooden boat built with wood from fallen Chicago trees. She rows with artist Lia Rousset, from Edgewater’s northern beach (Berger Park) to Uptown’s southern beach (Montrose).
Englewood in Uptown
Lawrence CTA Red Line station viaduct, 1117 West Lawrence, 11am-1pm
Swing Set Drum Kit at 6018North
6018 North Kenmore backyard, 11am-7pm
**** The American Dream: The (W)holy Grail
1050 West Wilson, Noon-7pm.
Judith Brotman’s reading program Noon-2pm and 3-5pm
****One Long Scarf
Saturday at three Chicago Park District field houses: Berger Park, Margate Park, and Clarendon Park 1pm-3pm. Knit up! Knit and crochet in the park to create a 2 mile scarf connecting Edgewater to Uptown. Scarf is displayed at 1050 W. Wilson. At the end of October, the scarves are distributed to social agencies in the EdgeUp area.
**** Slow Show
Experimental Sound Studio 5925 North Ravenswood, 1pm-5pm
Features original instruments designed and constructed by John Preus, an artist, musician and woodworker. Curated by Thea Liberty Nichols.
****Piano Playing in Public
1050 West Wilson
VOX2 performs "Chicago Songs," Saturday, 2pm.
Manual of Violence
Edgewater Public Library, 6000 North Broadway, 2pm-5pm
Forum and comic book guide, created by artist Carlos Matallana, discusses how to deal with violence as a subject matter with students through art and tech projects. Includes organizers from ASM, Cease Fire, Gallery 37, Marwen, Enlace, Yollocalli, YOUMedia.
****Be All You Can Be
4550 North Broadway, 2pm-5pm
Artist Tom Burtonwood demonstrates how to make 3D-printed architectural books.
Trailer Park Projects
Edgewater Public Library parking lot, 6000 North Broadway, 4pm-9pm
This mobile u-haul exhibition space, curated by Happy Collaboration as part of IPRAC Chicago, presents artist Victoria Bradford’s "Dinner Dance"—a public installation and performance at the dinner table. The dance is a conversation that happens through movement, and "stages" from front door to kitchen. All guests become participants, creating a company of guests and dancers.
Sunday, September 29
Celestial Bodies: Episode 1
1050 West Wilson, Noon
Jake Myers and seventy collaborators premiere an artist-made, science-fiction, interactive exercise video in six parts, beginning in Edgewater/Uptown. Several live characters help you get into cosmic shape.
****Sunday Afternoon at La Gran Manse
6018 North Kenmore, 1pm
These public studio visits at 6018North pair two professional artists with two self-taught artists to provide critical conversations about art making and how to navigate the contemporary art landscape. Continues throughout October on Sundays at 1pm.
Borderbend Art Collective
People’s Church – 941 W. Lawrence 2-4pm
Interfaith Arts Concert is part of the Chicago Calling Festival organized by musician Dan Godston
Water Music on the Beach
Berger Park Beach next to Waterfront Cafe, 6219 North Sheridan, 3:30pm-6:30pm
Experimental performances involving water on the water next to Berger Park beach including Josh Abrams, Lisa Alvarado, Matthew Hale Clark, Carol Genetti, and others.
Edgewater and Uptown events throughout October (in addition to ongoing events)
Monday, Sept. 30 - 6:30-9pm
Rivendell Theatre - 5779 N Ridge Ave.
Chicago Theater Director Jessica Thebus presents ROUGH MAGIC: A Celebration of Those Standing Up to Youth Violence, a series of daring, inspired, creative innovation with all proceeds donated to three designated charities/organizations who are standing up to the wave of violence in Chicago.
Friday, Oct. 4 - opening 6-9pm
The Salon Series – 1319 W. Wilson
Saturdays, October 5-31
Artist Jenny Kendler’s exhibition "Invasive Species," with artist Alexander Noe, fuses natural and cultural worlds through drawing and sculpture. Artist-led tours on Tuesday, October 8 and Thursday, October 10 in partnership with SAIC
Saturday, October 5 – 1pm
Green walk and talk – begins at 6018North
Tour Edgewater green spaces including Nance Klehm’s Earth Cavities/Soil Horizons, and Akshay Rathore’s and Lia Rousett’s green roof in cooperation with Rootings Symposium, as well as the Edgewater Public Library, Loyola’s sustainability center, and Uncommon Ground.
Saturday and Sunday, October 5 and 6 - 11am -7pm
Swing Set Drum Kit at 6018North
6018 North Kenmore backyard
One Long Table
Sunday, July 28 1-5pm
One Long Table stretches from Thorndale to Rosemont to join neighbors through multiethnic food and music. Various performances occur on 6018north's porch.
Pivot Multi Arts Festival Discussion: The Future of Edgewater and Uptown as an Arts Center
Monday, July 10, 2013 7pm
Moderated by Willa Taylor, Director of Education and Community Engagement at the Goodman Theatre, this discussion focuses on the City of Chicago's artistic and music plans for Uptown and how this impacts artists and neighbors. Speakers include Alderman of the 48th Ward, Harry Osterman; Deputy Commissioner of Arts Programming, Angel Ysaguirre; and Tricia Van Eck.
Fluxfest Chicago 2013
Sunday, February 24 12-5pm
Mailart, John Cage radio performance, door painting, fluxus inspired drinks
Vlatka Horvat Door to Door *
February 9 – March 2: Saturdays and Sundays 2-5pm
(This show remains on view by special appointment)
This site-specific work "reinstalls" the many doors of 6018NORTH to create a physical questioning of borders and their ability to organize space, ideas, and people. The door is a powerful part of theatre of regulating access – a servant to solitude and privacy, an invitation, chance or permission for entrance, a barrier to strangers or intruders. On the other hand, a door that’s been unhinged from its frame enacts a certain abandon of the normative space and normative behavior in such a space. In the process of pushing a dilapidated mansion to be even more physically dysfunctional and yet more open, Vlatka Horvat creates a metaphor for the possibilities and/or limits of artists' intentions to affect the social relations of those who participate within public and private space. Door to Door continues the artistic interventions created for 6018NORTH’s Home:Public or Private? exhibition to question how to make public what is often considered private.
Vlatka Horvat (born in Čakovec, Croatia) makes works in sculpture, installation, drawing, performance, and photography. Her projects often focus on re-arranging or reconfiguring objects, built space, and social relations at play in it. She lives and works in London, and was recently an Open Studio resident at the Hyde Park Art Center.
Door to Door, 2011/2013 is created in cooperation with www.in-time-performance.org/
* Door to Door received Time Out's Critic's Pick.
Vlatka Horvat (born in Čakovec, Croatia) makes works in sculpture, installation, drawing, performance, and photography. Her projects often focus on re-arranging or reconfiguring objects, built space, and social relations at play in it. She lives and works in London, and was recently an Open Studio resident at the Hyde Park Art Center.
Door to Door, 2011/2013 is created in cooperation with www.in-time-performance.org/
* Door to Door received Time Out's Critic's Pick.
Koffer Kunst/Suitcase Art: Chicago + Detroit
has now ended. (for more info scroll down below) Hundreds of people saw the show and a photo will be in Hamburg Amblatt January weekend edition. Stay tuned. In the meantime, 6018NORTH continues its Chicago/Detroit artistic connections in Chicago at 6018North...
Between Places: Chicago-Detroit
Opening: Saturday, December 8, 2012
5:00pm until 9:00pm at 6018 North
6018 North Kenmore, Chicago, IL
Between Places is an exchange and exhibition project between students from:
CCS (College for Creative Studies, Detroit, faculty Chido Johnson)
SAIC (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, faculty Kirsten Leenaars)
exploring the following:
What it means to have a sense of place and belonging.
The dream of leaving which is as powerful as its countervailing dream of roots.
The desire of wanting to go elsewhere while at the same time experiencing or creating a sense of displacement.
The first event will be in Chicago, hosting the CCS Students at 6018 North on Saturday December 8, the second event will be in Detroit, hosting the SAIC students at the PLAV gallery, 3105 Holbrook St, Hamtramck, MI, on Sunday, December 16.
Participating students:
CCS: Austin Brady, Megan Leigh Jessup, Sean Maxwell, Tom Burns, Fatima Sow, Andrew Mehall, Maggie Kozma, Benjamin Thompson, Eric Maurer, Kristina Sheufelt, Shaina Kasztelan, Jen Wang, Leucochloridium Paradoxum, Joanna Marie Care, Jordan Stohl. Faculty: Chido Johnson
SAIC: Jonathan Fleming, Nicholas Narai Garcia, Yutao Huang, Jacob Dimuzio, Cassie Kelsey, Kalee Peters, Kelly Sullivan, Savannah Snead, Kendra Bergman, Abby Chieppa, Teak Ramos, Erin Gelke, Lauren Butler, Chrissy Laing. Faculty: Kirsten Leenaars
Both faculty members Chido Johnson and Kirsten Leenaars were included in Koffer Kunst: Suitcase Art: Chicago + Detroit
(see below)
20 artists’ works each from the Midwest cities of Chicago and Detroit were brought together via suitcases to meet with the work of 2 Hamburg artists. Featuring painting, drawing, collage, video, artists' books, photography, and sculpture, the exhibition highlights these distinct urban areas as manifested through art. The individual artworks invited both parallel and contradictory readings in the encounters that happen between the works and the cities in which they are produced. Presented at Kunsthaus Speckstrasse – Hamburg’s famous artists’ community space – the exhibition was co-curated by Tricia Van Eck, from Chicago’s 6018NORTH and Kerstin Niemann from FILTER, Detroit.
Chicago Artists:
Noelle Allen (Drawings), Carol Jackson (Leather collage), Jason Lazarus (Photographic newsprint), Kirsten Leenaars (Drawing), Harold Mendez (Sculpture), Lucky Pierre (Book), Cheryl Pope (Banners), Deb Sokolow (Drawing), Deborah Stratman (Video), Jan Tichy (Video, book, and lightbox)
Detroit Artists:
Brian Baker (Book, print), Christina Galasso (Collage), Scott Hocking (Photography and sculpture), Steve Hughes (Zine magazines), Chido Johnson (Video), Melanie Manos (Video), George Rahme (Collage), Gilda Snowden (Painting), Corine Vermeulen (Photography), Graem Whyte (Sculpture)
Special guests: Cordula Ditz (Hamburg); Karin Jobst (Hamburg)
Opening: 16th of November, 7pm
Duration of exhibition: 16th of November until 2nd of December
Opening Times: 16th November, 7pm
17th. + 18th and 24th + 25th November, 2 – 5 pm*
1st December, 2-5 pm*
2nd December, Finissage, 2pm*
And after appointment: phone: + 49 (0)179 / 6341815
* Curators tour through exhibition, starts at 3pm
Extra events:
Book presentation and lecture talk by Hamburg photographer, Karin Jobst.
Date: Sunday, 25th of November, 4pm
Location: Kunsthaus Speckstrasse, Gängeviertel, Speckstrasse 85, Hamburg
Her publication, “Karin Jobst – Detroit for John, Mary Lou and Mr. Duke,” was recently published by Kerber Verlag.
Lecture discussion by Tricia Van Eck and Kerstin Niemann:
“Art and Art Production in Chicago and Detroit”
Date: 21st of November, 7pm
Location: Amerikazentrum Hamburg
Am Sandtorkai 48, 20457 Hamburg
Afterwards the curators will give an exhibition tour at Kunsthaus Speckstrasse.
http://das-gaengeviertel.info/programm/uebersicht.html
Water Music on the Beach
Sunday, Sept. 30 from 3-7pm at the beach next to The Waterfront Cafe
This series of live performances responds to and highlights Chicago’s proximity to water. The compositions and scores - involving multiple performers and solo performances - reflect, react to, or personify the sounds of water.
3:00pm: Jonathan Chen and Jamie Kempkers
- Jonathan Chen, Composition for Two Strings and Electronics, 2012
3:15pm: Simon Anderson
- George Brecht, Three Aqueous Events, Summer 1961
3:25pm: Frank Rosaly
- Water Mobile, 2012
3:40pm: Simon Anderson
-Chieko Shiomi, Water Music
-George Brecht, Drip Music: 2nd version. 1959-62
-Tomas Schmit, Zyklus
4:30pm: Jonathan Chen & Christopher Preissing
- Alvin Lucier, (Chicago) Memory Space, 1970
4:45pm: Meg Duguid
- Ovation, 2012
5:00pm: a.pe.ri.od.ic
Performers: Billie Howard, Nora Barton, Joseph Clayton Mills, Robert Reinhart, Matthew Oliphant, Jeff Kimmel, Alex Temple, Kenn Kumpf, Brendan Finucane, Shanna Gutierrez, Nomi Epstein
-James Tenney, Swell Piece, 1967
Dedicated to Alison Knowles
6:00pm: Chicago Phonographers
Performers: Eddie Breitweiser, Todd Carter, Chad Clark, Dan Godston, Ed Hermann, Mike Junokas, Christopher Preissing
-Music By For In And Out of the Water, 2012
3:00pm: Jonathan Chen and Jamie Kempkers
- Jonathan Chen, Composition for Two Strings and Electronics, 2012
3:15pm: Simon Anderson
- George Brecht, Three Aqueous Events, Summer 1961
3:25pm: Frank Rosaly
- Water Mobile, 2012
3:40pm: Simon Anderson
-Chieko Shiomi, Water Music
-George Brecht, Drip Music: 2nd version. 1959-62
-Tomas Schmit, Zyklus
4:30pm: Jonathan Chen & Christopher Preissing
- Alvin Lucier, (Chicago) Memory Space, 1970
4:45pm: Meg Duguid
- Ovation, 2012
5:00pm: a.pe.ri.od.ic
Performers: Billie Howard, Nora Barton, Joseph Clayton Mills, Robert Reinhart, Matthew Oliphant, Jeff Kimmel, Alex Temple, Kenn Kumpf, Brendan Finucane, Shanna Gutierrez, Nomi Epstein
-James Tenney, Swell Piece, 1967
Dedicated to Alison Knowles
6:00pm: Chicago Phonographers
Performers: Eddie Breitweiser, Todd Carter, Chad Clark, Dan Godston, Ed Hermann, Mike Junokas, Christopher Preissing
-Music By For In And Out of the Water, 2012
CURE
Monday, July 22 - Saturday, July 28 at 6018NORTH
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Arts as a Vehicle for Community Engagement
Sunday, May 20 at 3pm at 6018North
What can art do? and what is to be done?
This discussion, moderated by Willa Taylor, Education Director at Goodman Theatre, discusses the intersection of arts and community. Four Artistic Directors illustrate their efforts to employ the arts as a tool for social change:
Mica Cole, Free Street Theater
Bonnie Metzgar, About Face Theatre
Michael Rohd, Sojourn Theatre
Tricia Van Eck, 6018NORTH
This discussion, moderated by Willa Taylor, Education Director at Goodman Theatre, discusses the intersection of arts and community. Four Artistic Directors illustrate their efforts to employ the arts as a tool for social change:
Mica Cole, Free Street Theater
Bonnie Metzgar, About Face Theatre
Michael Rohd, Sojourn Theatre
Tricia Van Eck, 6018NORTH
Kickoff/Preview for A John Cage Centenary Celebration
Friday, March 30 (7:30pm) at 6018North April 13-15 (full series - across Chicago)
This creative kick-off at 6018NORTH presents a shortened version of Cage's rarely performed Variations #5 and 59 1/2, a piece for cello. The event allows press to meet the artists and composers bringing Cage's works to the city to celebrate the work of this influential composer, musician, and artist. John Cage, a co-founder of Fluxus, was born in 1912 and this celebration of his music - including early and later and featuring some rarely performed works - will be presented in various venues throughout the city during the weekend of April 13-15.
For more information about attending the festival go to: http://www.aperiodicchicago.com/John_Cage_Festival.html
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Read the Time Out Review of the event: http://timeoutchicago.com/arts-culture/exhibitionist-blog/15225521/john-cage-festival-best-thing-i-did-this-week
http://timeoutchicago.com/things-to-do/this-week-in-chicago/15237111/john-cage-festival
For more information about attending the festival go to: http://www.aperiodicchicago.com/John_Cage_Festival.html
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Read the Time Out Review of the event: http://timeoutchicago.com/arts-culture/exhibitionist-blog/15225521/john-cage-festival-best-thing-i-did-this-week
http://timeoutchicago.com/things-to-do/this-week-in-chicago/15237111/john-cage-festival
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Dialogues: Artist Residency Panel Discussion
Monday, April 2 (6-8:30pm) at SAIC Ballroom 112 South Michigan Ave.
Presented in partnership EXPO CHICAGO and The School of the Art Institute
The discussion, moderated by 6018NORTH's Tricia Van Eck, provides information about the wealth of residency opportunities available to Chicago artists. Residencies provide a unique space and time for immersing into one's practice with a community of artists sharing in a similar experience. Panel participants discuss their residencies:
Elizabeth Chodos, Ox-Bow
Brad Killam, Poor Farm
Cortney Lederer, BOLT
Abigail Satinsky, threewalls
Nicholas Wylie, ACRE
Elizabeth Chodos, Ox-Bow
Brad Killam, Poor Farm
Cortney Lederer, BOLT
Abigail Satinsky, threewalls
Nicholas Wylie, ACRE
"The Jettisoned"
Sunday, March 4 6pm
6018 North
"The Jettisoned" - Yoni Goldstein's and Meredith Zeilke's sweeping tableaux vivant, shot in Chicago, Mexico City, and Poland - is 6018NORTH's first installation.
6018NORTH hosts a dinner to celebrate this important three-channel work and to honor and celebrate the individuals who comprise a community of artists central to “The Jettisoned”. Individuals are invited to share text relevant to the theme of the collective and conditional body.
6018NORTH hosts a dinner to celebrate this important three-channel work and to honor and celebrate the individuals who comprise a community of artists central to “The Jettisoned”. Individuals are invited to share text relevant to the theme of the collective and conditional body.
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"Art and Community in Chicago" Panel Discussion at De Paul Art Museum
Monday, Feb. 27 7pm
935 W. Fullerton
Using the exhibition Re: Chicago as a starting point Jeff Heubner, Amy Mooney, and Tricia Van Eck, discuss how Chicago defines itself in relation to other artistic centers, such as Paris, New York or Los Angeles. The discussion connects Chicago's history of community art to present day art practices and events. Rather than submit to the label of “second” city, it presents Chicago as a center in its own right with an artistic perspective and community as distinctive as its geography, economy and politics.
Re: Chicago highlights work by 40 artists, each chosen by a member of the Chicago art world, and invites viewers to join in a conversation about who’s famous, who used to be, and who ought to be.
Re: Chicago highlights work by 40 artists, each chosen by a member of the Chicago art world, and invites viewers to join in a conversation about who’s famous, who used to be, and who ought to be.
Fluxfest Chicago 2012
Fluxus Film Screening
Sunday, Feb. 12 from 12-4pm at 6018NORTH
Derived from the Latin word for “flowing,” Fluxus suggests a playful fluidity between art and life, with a particular emphasis on printed material and performance. The films presented, including a new film by Jonas Mekas as an homage to George Maciunas, explore this fluidity. Roughly 50 years ago Maciunas brought together a wide variety of artists who were expanding the boundaries of what was considered art. This expansion continues in these films.
Due to space limitations, please rsvp to tricia@6018north.net or fill out the contact form.
Due to a flood, 6018NORTH is in a state of disrepair, so please dress appropriately.
For the complete Fluxfest Chicago 2012 schedule for Feb 9 - 12, see Yoko Ono's website:
http://imaginepeace.com/archives/16853
Feb 9 - Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, SAIC - 5-7:30pm
Feb. 10 - Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College - 2-5pm
Feb. 11 - Chicago Cultural Center, 11am -5pm
Feb. 11 - Berghoff's - 6:30pm (New York Correspondence School of Chicago Dinner)
Feb. 12 - 6018NORTH - 12-4pm
Due to space limitations, please rsvp to tricia@6018north.net or fill out the contact form.
Due to a flood, 6018NORTH is in a state of disrepair, so please dress appropriately.
For the complete Fluxfest Chicago 2012 schedule for Feb 9 - 12, see Yoko Ono's website:
http://imaginepeace.com/archives/16853
Feb 9 - Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, SAIC - 5-7:30pm
Feb. 10 - Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College - 2-5pm
Feb. 11 - Chicago Cultural Center, 11am -5pm
Feb. 11 - Berghoff's - 6:30pm (New York Correspondence School of Chicago Dinner)
Feb. 12 - 6018NORTH - 12-4pm
At Work Forum: How to Do Art in Public Spaces
Thurs., January 26, 6 p.m. Chicago Cultural Center, 5th Floor
This panel discussion offers insight into how to create art for the public, with the public, and in the public sphere. The panelists walk you through why they engage "the people" in the streets, plazas, and other public arenas and offer suggestions and guidelines to creating art in public spaces, whether it's visual art, music, street theater, or another creative endeavor. Tricia Van Eck moderates this discussion with Chicago artists and curators who've successfully navigated the public realm to organize cultural performances and projects. Panelists include Chuck Thurow, Former Director of Hyde Park Art Center, Nathan Mason, Curator of Special Projects with the Chicago Office of Tourism and Culture; Lou Mallozzi, Experimental Sound Studio; and Carron Little, Walkabout Theater Company and the Museum of Contemporary Art.
PAST PROJECTS @ The STOREFRONT (1134 W. Granville) and Art Platform LA
Sara Schnadt's Universe
June 18 - July 18, 2011
Sara Schnadt installing "Universe" in a store front in the Edgewater neighborhood in Chicago on Granville.
For this installation, Schnadt scattered thousands of tiny metal nuts to create a field of "stars" that approximate the experience of looking at the night sky and our attempts to locate ourselves within the universe.
Jennifer Mills
Jennifer Mills established her practice of selling "cash & carry" artworks Saturday and Sunday, July 17-18 from 10am - 3pm.
By selling small works of art at low prices, Mills aims to disseminate art throughout the city, presenting an accessible version of the often rarified art market. Intentionally devaluing her labor and the art object, her work focuses on interactions with the viewer and the resulting performative transactions that occur.
By selling small works of art at low prices, Mills aims to disseminate art throughout the city, presenting an accessible version of the often rarified art market. Intentionally devaluing her labor and the art object, her work focuses on interactions with the viewer and the resulting performative transactions that occur.
George Maciunas & Beyond: Fluxus Never Stops
Saturday, July 23 - August 28, 2011
Fluxus performances at 1pm on Sat & Sun, July 23 & 24
When Fluxus originated roughly 50 years ago, George Maciunas brought together a wide variety of artists working outside the boundaries of what was considered art at the time. From found objects to postcards, film, publications, and performance scores, this show of work was organized by Keith Buchholz and created by "The Eternal Network" of artists, poets, and friends who have interpreted the idea of Fluxus aims to honor the legacy of George Maciunas.
Kim Schoenstadt at Art Platform LA
Sept 27 - Oct. 3, 2011
Kim Shoenstadt is a Los Angeles-based artist whose expansive wall drawings reference elements of architecture and landscape as if clashing together. Painted and drawn directly on two contiguous walls and floors, this work conflates and weaves images and vistas of Richard Neutra's architecture in LA, buildings in Salt Lake City, and abandoned 5-star hotels in the Sinai Peninsula.
Kim Schoenstadt
Odd Lots Series: Salt Lake, Sinai, Los Angeles, #3, 2011
Paint and vinyl on wall and floor
Dimensions variable
Courtesy of 6018 NORTH
(Presented at Art Platform LA's 2nd floor, Sculpture/Project Room)
Odd Lots Series: Salt Lake, Sinai, Los Angeles, #3, 2011
Paint and vinyl on wall and floor
Dimensions variable
Courtesy of 6018 NORTH
(Presented at Art Platform LA's 2nd floor, Sculpture/Project Room)