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Rahm Emanuel
Mayor
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Mark Kelly
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50x50 Neighborhood Arts Project
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Artist Application Extended Through March 10
Inspired by Chicago's 50 wards and the 50th anniversary of the Picasso in Daley Plaza and the Wall of Respect that once stood at 43rd Street and Langley Avenue, the 50x50 initiative will provide up to $1 million for new public art projects. Artists-including painters, photographers and sculptors-interested in brightening and enhancing the city are invited to submit their qualifications for the project at cityofchicago.org/yopa.
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Exhibit & Event Highlights
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 Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events
EXHIBIT: The Wall of Respect: Vestiges, Shards and Legacy of Black Power
February 25 - July 30, 2017
Guest curated by Romi Crawford, Abdul Alkalimat and Rebecca Zorach, this exhibition chronicles how the Organization of Black Arts and Culture - a collection of 14 designers, photographers, painters and others - designed and produced one of the most significant projects in Chicago's storied public art history - now covered over, at 43rd St. and Langley Ave.
Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St.
FREE
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 Connie Noyes
ARTWORK: Good Mourning Café
March 1 & 3, 2017, 6-9pm
The Good Mourning Cafe is a traveling art installation, social experiment and community outreach program conceived by artist and psychotherapist Connie Noyes. The cafe provides a free and safe space for Chicagoans to tell personal stories related to death and dying while exploring the painful emotions that accompany mourning.
Elephant Room Gallery, 704 S. Wabash Ave.
Sliding Scale
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Art Institute of Chicago
Talk/Tour: Public Art and the Art Institute of Chicago
Fridays, March 3 and May 5, 2017, 12pm
Organized by the Department of Museum Education
111 S. Michigan Ave., Meet in Griffin Court
FREE with admission
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 Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College
EXHIBIT: Revolution at Point Zero: Feminist Social Practice March 9 - April 24, 2017, 9am-5pm
The launch of an ongoing research project led by Neysa Page-Lieberman and Melissa Potter examining the legacy of feminism in socially-engaged art, this exhibit features women-identified, North American artists whose work focuses on themes of domestic labor; human trafficking; racial and gender justice; healing through consciousness-raising and radical acts of the personal and political.
1104 S. Wabash Ave.
FREE
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Navy Pier, Polk Bros Park
ARTWORK: Impulse
March 10 - May 21, 2017
Impulse
is a publicly activated light and sound experience that allows guests to create compositions with unique, urban instruments. It was originally created for the Quartier des Spectacles Partnership in Montreal, Canada by Lateral Office and CS Design.
Navy Pier, 700 E. Grand Ave.
FREE
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The University of Chicago
TOUR: From Spaces to Places: Public Art Walking Tour Third Wednesdays of the month, March 15 - June 21, 2017, 5:30-6:30pm
UChicago Arts and the Office of Civic Engagement present monthly tours of a small sample of the stunning works that have helped share the University's intellectual and cultural life, from works that boldly claim open spaces to those tucked unexpectedly between buildings.
Starts: Black Sphere, across from Cobb Hall, 5811 S. Ellis Ave.
FREE
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 The University of Chicago
EXHIBIT: Fantastic Architecture: Vostell, Fluxus and the Built Environment
Through March 17, 2017
Presented as part of Concrete Happenings, this exhibition situates Wolf Vostell's practice within the context of the international Fluxus movement and its interest in the built environment.
Organized by the Neubauer Collegium, the exhibition will feature works from the University's Special Collections at the Regenstein Library and loans from local, national, and international collections.
Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, 5701 S. Woodlawn Ave.
FREE
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Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events
EXHIBIT: The Subject is Chicago: People, Places, Possibilities
Through April 9, 2017
Six distinguished artists and curators, Miguel Aguilar, Janice Bond, Jesse Lee Cochran, Tempestt Hazel, Nicole Marroquin and Tricia Van Eck selected one artist from each of Chicago's fifty wards, in order to engage a broad cross-section of Chicago artists, few of whom have exhibited previously at the Chicago Cultural Center.
Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St.
FREE
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Steel Petal Press
ARTWORK: Letterpress Demonstration and Q&A
Second Saturday of the month, Through June 10, 2017, 2-3pm
From printers row to the invention of the flatbed press over 100 year ago, Chicago has a long and rich history in printing arts. Steel Petal Press uses historic machines to demonstrate the process of letterpress printing from start to finish.
2321 N. Milwaukee Ave.
FREE
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The University of Chicago
EXHIBIT: Vostell Concrete, 1969-1973
Through June 11, 2017
Presented as part of Concrete Happenings, this exhibition explores the Fluxus movement co-founder's use of concrete as a material and artistic motif in a surprising number of ways in the late 1960s and early 70s, including his colossal "Concrete Traffic" (1970) sculpture that is part of the University's public art collection.
Smart Museum of Art, 5550 S. Greenwood Ave.
FREE
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Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events
EXHIBIT: Eugene Eda's Doors for Malcolm X College
Through June 25, 2017
This exhibition will reunite all 32 doors painted by Eugene Eda for the stairwells of the original, now demolished Malcolm X College. Painted in 1971 by one of the principal artists of the Wall of Respect, the monumental doors are a landmark of the Black Arts movement in Chicago.
Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St.
FREE
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Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events
EXHIBIT: The Pride & Perils of Chicago Public Art
Through July 30, 2017
For over 200 years, Chicago has been putting art in public places. Sometimes it's loved. Sometimes it's hated. To further complicate matters, times change - and so do people and tastes. See for yourself in this exhibition of stories and historical public artwork of the past 200 years.
Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St.
FREE
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Chicago Children's Museum
EXHIBIT FOR FAMILIES: A Room of My Own
Through November 20, 2017, 10am-5pm
Introduce your children to the world of art at Chicago Children's Museum. Delight in the display of illuminated rooms showcasing children's ideas about being in charge of a "room of their own". Listen to excerpts of conversations with artist Jamie Topper and children who contributed to this unique project.
700 E. Grand Ave. on Navy Pier
FREE Family Night on Thursdays, 5
-8pm
FREE for ages 15 and under on the first Sunday of the month
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The University of Chicago
ARTWORK: Concrete Happenings
Through June 11, 2017
Concrete Happenings invites art-lovers and car-lovers, artists and scholars, drivers and pedestrians to confront the power of public art. This series of exhibitioins and interactive public programs offers opportunities to engage with "Concrete Traffic" - a Cadillac encased in concrete by Fluxus artist Wolf Vostell in 1970 and installed at a University parking garage last year.
University of Chicago Campus North Parking Garage, 5525 S. Ellis Ave.
FREE
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Chicago Children's Museum
PERFORMANCE: Made in Chicago For Families
First Thursday of the month, Through December 7, 2017, 5:30-7:30pm
Introduce your children to the world of music, performance and dance at the Chicago Children's Museum's Made in Chicago monthly performance series. Enjoy a theater-like environment in the museum's Great Hall where you can be certain child-friendly, engaging productions will be performed by Chicago's leading youth talent.
700 E. Grand Ave. on Navy Pier
FREE Family Night on Thursdays, 5-8pm
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