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Rahm Emanuel
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Mark Kelly
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In honor of the Year of Public Art, the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events is partnering with Mayor's Emanuel's One Summer Chicago and the Chicago Department of Family and Support Services to create a Public Art Youth Corps. The paid interns will be matched with community organizations to work on public art projects in neighborhoods across the city. Interns participating in the program will also be invited to spend a day at the Chicago Cultural Center to network with other interns and to establish career connections with industry professionals.
Cultural organizations
interested in offering public art-related internships are invited to join DCASE and One Summer Chicago for an informational workshop March 30, 4-6pm, at the Chicago Cultural Center's 5th Floor Millennium Park Room (78 E. Washington Street) or visit onesummerchicago.org and click on the companies/organizations icon.
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March/April Exhibit & Event Highlights
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Roman Susan Art Foundation
EXHIBIT: Property
April 1-30, 2017 (Wednesdays-Saturdays, 10am-4pm)
Opening reception: April 1, 2017, 1-3pm
In a collaborative project by Roman Susan Art Foundation and the Rogers Park/West Ridge Historical Society, this storefront window exhibition features new image-based works that reflect the way neighborhoods grow, mutate and persist as a result of property development.
7363 N. Greenview Ave.
FREE
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 Audience Architects
PERFORMANCE: Chicago Dance Month 2017
April 1-30, 2017
Audience Architects, the leading service organization for building and engaging dance audiences in Chicago, kicks off the fifth annual Chicago Dance Month. Highlighting the breadth, diversity and artistic richness of the Chicago dance community, Chicago Dance Month features a wide variety of performances, classes, educational opportunities, open rehearsals and more.
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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.
600 E. Grand Ave. on Navy Pier
FREE Family Night on Thursdays, 5-8pm
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Steel Petal Press
ARTWORK: Letterpress Demonstration and Q&A
Second Saturday of the month, April 8-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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Highlights of Chicago Press and Bronzeville
TOUR: Great Migration Public Art Tour
April 8 & 22, 2017, 1-3pm
Bernard Turner, founder of Highlights of Chicago Press, leads a tour of Bronzeville's King Drive Walk of Fame, the largest exhibit of public art in Chicago featuring 91 plaques that highlight neighborhood notables such as Richard Wright, Dinah Washington and Gwendolyn Brooks along with artistic benches, murals and monuments.
Starts: Southeast corner of 35th St. & King Dr.
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$15
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The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago
PERFORMANCE: B-Series
Friday, April 14-15, 2017
A celebration of the cultures, histories and aesthetics of hip-hop and street-dance forms such as breaking, popping and Chicago footwork, the B-series spotlights some of the most talented street dancers in the region. Curated by Kelsa Robinson, visiting lecturer at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago.
1306 S. Michigan Ave.
FREE
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The University of Chicago
TOUR: From Spaces to Places: Public Art Walking Tour Third Wednesdays of the month, April 18 - 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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University of Illinois at Chicago and Open Engagement
SPECIAL EVENT: Open Engagement 2017: Justice
April 21-23, 2017
Open Engagement (OE) is the largest artist-led conference dedicated to expanding the dialogue around and creating a site of care for the field of socially-engaged art.
University of Illinois at Chicago
Sliding scale starting at $40
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Out of Site Chicago
PERFORMANCE:
EnChance
Friday, April 21: Sara Zalek, 5-7pm - UIC Halsted Blue Line Stop
Joshua Kent, 5-7pm - Trade Center Plaza
Saturday, April 22: Janet Schmid, 5-7pm - UIC Halsted Blue Line Stop
Out of Site Chicago facilitates unexpected encounters of public performance that directly involve the public. The works by Janet Schmid, Sara Zalek, Nora Sharp, Joshua Kent and Mothergirl demonstrate dance as an interactive medium and empower participants with group choreography.
FREE
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Chicago Park District and Bronzeville Community Development Partnerships
ARTWORK: Sounding Bronzeville
Select dates, April 22- October 21, 2017
A collaboration between the Bronzeville Community Development Partnership and the Chicago Park District, this project constructs several
organic, amorphous sculptural forms. They rise from the site in different heights and shapes, covered with native plant material. Some forms construct the area, some provide seating and others have "sound ports" or "nesting ports."
Burnham Wildlife Corridor Gathering Space north of 31st Street Beach at the Lakefront
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FREE
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Chicago Park District and Contratiempo
ARTWORK/PERFORMANCE: Caracol-A Gathering Space
Select dates, April 29-September 30, 2017
A collaboration between Contratiempo and the Chicago Park District, Caracol (bringing a home with it like a snail) is a community and artist-developed installation program inspired by the themes of migration, language and literature as identity builders. The weekend art programs in this living laboratory among the lakefront's native ecology examines how we connect to the land, the city and across our communities.
Burnham Wildlife Corridor Gathering Space north of 31st Street Beach at the Lakefront
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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 Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College
EXHIBIT: Revolution at Point Zero: Feminist Social Practice Through 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
Through May 21, 2017
Impulse
is
an interactive work comprised of largescale seesaws with special LED lighting and sound, activated through the motion of its users
. It was originally created for the Quartier des Spectacles Partnership in Montreal, Canada b Lateral Office and CS Design.
600 E. Grand Ave.
FREE
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The University of Chicago
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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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 exhibitions 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 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 Wall of Respect: Vestiges, Shards and Legacy of Black Power
Through 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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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.
600 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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