Plan Your Visit to Millennium Park |
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Millennium Park is open! Have you bean? Plan your visit to enjoy the Park's permanent collection of stunning public art and architecture plus temporary installations by Christine Tarkowski (Boeing Gallery South) and Edra Soto (Boeing Gallery North).
Christine Tarkowski is a Chicago-based artist who works in a variety of mediums including sculpture, printed matter, photography and song. Her works range in scale from the ordinary to the monumental. Equally variable is her scope of production which incorporates the making of permanent architectural structures, cast models, textile yardage and temporary printed ephemera. (On February 9 at 4-5pm, join DCASE for Meet an Artist @ Home featuring Christine Tarkowski and Firebird Community Arts, Inc. — part of an ongoing series bringing together fascinating artists and people of all ages and abilities, originally presented in the Learning Lab at the Chicago Cultural Center.)
Constructed from approximately 400 charcoal-hued, 12-inch cast concrete blocks, the 10-foot high Screenhouse by Edra Soto comes out of an ongoing series exploring symbolic transplants of iron grills and decorative concrete screen blocks found throughout the Caribbean and the American South. These decorative screens, known as rejas and quiebrasoles, are ubiquitous in Soto’s birthplace in Puerto Rico.
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Celebrate a Living Landmark: Tim Samuelson |
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Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot and DCASE recently hosted a tribute event to honor Chicago’s first Cultural Historian, Tim Samuelson. Samuelson recently retired after 33 years of public service but will continue as a DCASE volunteer — as Cultural Historian Emeritus. The free virtual event (archived and viewable at YouTube.com/ChicagoDCASE) was emceed by WTTW host and producer Geoffrey Baer and features a greeting from Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot, a music performance by The Galaxie Girls and special guest speakers including First Lady Amy Eshleman, DCASE Commissioner Mark Kelly, Lee Bey, Thomas Dyja, Blair Kamin, Rick Kogan, Reginald R. Robinson and many others.
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Tour the Historic Chicago Cultural Center (Virtually) |
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The historic Chicago Cultural Center remains closed to the public due to COVID-19, so DCASE is piloting new virtual tours of "The People's Palace". The virtual tours are on-demand, on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month, typically at 11am — and cover the stunning architecture and history of the Chicago Cultural Center, completed in 1897. Request your free tour today at DCASEvoluntours.org. (And don't miss new video tours available anytime at YouTube.com/ChicagoDCASE.)
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Honor Dr. King and His Legacy |
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February is Black History Month and a good opportunity to watch (or watch again) last month's 35th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Interfaith Celebration. Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot virtually gathered with civic, business and religious leaders to celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at a ceremony featuring keynote speaker, Keisha Lance Bottoms, Mayor of the City of Atlanta, and the 2021 Chicago Community Healer Honorees: Lawndale Christian Health Center, The Chicago Community Trust, and YWCA Metropolitan Chicago. View online at chi.gov/mlk.
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Shop for Chicago-made Art and Design |
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Shop for Chicago-made art, objects and more at Buddy — a new store created by the Public Media Institute to give Chicago's artists and small manufacturers a place to showcase and sell their goods and artwork. The extraordinary selection of curated art, jewelry, publications, music and toys is now available online at Hi-Buddy.org in anticipation of the store that will be in the Chicago Cultural Center when it reopens.
And show off your Chicago pride with artist-designed Official Summer Festival Merchandise for the Chicago House Music Festival, Chicago Gospel Music Festival, Chicago Blues Festival, Taste of Chicago, Chicago Jazz Festival and the City of Chicago itself — available at DCASE.TSMGI.net. Each T-shirt was designed by a local artist in collaboration with the Design Museum of Chicago, and a portion of sales benefit the Arts for Illinois Relief Fund.
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