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Gordon Parks-Inspired Arts Workshop 

1/28/2015

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Monday, February 9th
(6:00-7:00, 7:15-8:30 p.m.)

Mozart Park Fieldhouse
2036 N. Avers Ave.
Chicago, IL   60647

all ages, free & open to the public

You are invited to come to our next arts workshop, when we focus on the life and legacy of Gordon Parks, who was a photographer, filmmaker, poet and composer. We will:
  • Talk about Parks' biography, including his connection to Chicago;
  • Look at and discuss a some of Parks' photographs;
  • Watch a clip of one of his films; and
  • Write poetry and create visual art inspired by Gordon Parks.

Bring your musical instruments, your poetry, your art supplies! These workshops are interactive and multidisciplinary. We have supplies and equipment on hand that workshop participants can use -- including pencils, pens, paint, a piano, other musical instruments.  

Location: Mozart Park is in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood. It's on the north side of Armitage Ave. -- several blocks east of Pulaski Rd., just south of Dickens and Shakespeare Streets. Our workshop series happens in the room to the left of fieldhouse lobby; some workshop sessions may happen outside in the park, weather permitting.  

Transportation & parking: Mozart Park can be reached by public transportation (such as the #73 Armitage Ave. bus, and not far from the Logan Square and Western Ave. stations on the 
CTA's blue line. Mozart Park has a parking lot on Armitage, east of Avers. 

Registering for Chicago Portraits & Arts Journeys: You can register for this workshop series at the Chicago Park District website. 

Additional info: You can contact us by clicking here (if you have questions about this workshop or to RSVP). Click here to find out more about the Chicago Portraits & Arts Journeys workshop series.

Above: Photographs by Gordon Parks. Courtesy of and copyright The Gordon Parks Foundation.

Links:
  • "Gordon Parks: Arts in the service of a social vision" by Steve Kloehn (UChicagoNews, 2/25/2014)
  • The Gordon Parks Foundation
  • Gordon Parks and Isaac Hayes discuss the Shaft theme
  • The Gordon Parks Museum
  • Gordon Parks Papers, Collection Summary (Wichita State University)
    "A Lost Story of Segregated America From LIFE’s First Black Photographer" by  Eliza Berman (LIFE Magazine, 1/23/2015)
  • Oral history interview with Gordon Parks, 1964 Dec. 30 (Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution)



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Our Next Workshop: Joan Mitchell

1/28/2015

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Monday, February 2nd
(6:00-7:00, 7:15-8:30 p.m.)

Mozart Park Fieldhouse
2036 N. Avers Ave.
Chicago, IL   60647

all ages, free & open to the public
You are invited to come to our next arts workshop, when we focus on the life and legacy of Abstract Expressionist painter Joan Mitchell. This will be a lecture-workshop on Joan Mitchell, who was born in Chicago and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. We will discuss the principles of abstraction and Expressionism in painting and music and make an abstract drawing in charcoal or paper cutouts. 

Bring your musical instruments, your poetry, your art supplies! These workshops are interactive and multidisciplinary. We have supplies and equipment on hand that workshop participants can use -- including pencils, pens, paint, a piano, other musical instruments.  

Location: Mozart Park is in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood. It's on the north side of Armitage Ave. -- several blocks east of Pulaski Rd., just south of Dickens and Shakespeare Streets. Our workshop series happens in the room to the left of fieldhouse lobby; some workshop sessions may happen outside in the park, weather permitting.  

Transportation & parking: Mozart Park can be reached by public transportation (such as the #73 Armitage Ave. bus, and not far from the Logan Square and Western Ave. stations on the CTA's blue line. Mozart Park has a parking lot on Armitage, east of Avers. 

Registering for Chicago Heroes & Arts Journeys: You can register for this workshop series at the Chicago Park District website. 

Additional info: You can contact us by clicking here (if you have questions about this workshop or to RSVP). Click here to find out more about the Chicago Heroes & Arts Journeys workshop series. 
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Links:
  • City Landscape by Joan Mitchell (Art Institute of Chicago)
  • Joan Mitchell: At Home in Poetry (Poetry Foundation)
  • Joan Mitchell by Cora Cohen and Betsy Sussler (BOMB -- "Artists in Conversation," Fall 1986)
  • Joan Mitchell Foundation
  • “Joan Mitchell: Terra Foundation Artbeat Special” by Lindsey Prossnitz (WTTW)
  • "Joan Mitchell’s Life and Art—Brutal and Beautiful" by Janina Ciezadlo (New City, 2011)
  • "The Most Dangerous Man in Publishing" by Louisa Thomas (Newsweek, 2/23/2012)
  • Oral history interview with Joan Mitchell (Smithsonian Institution)
  • "Original Maverick: Crusading publisher Barney Rosset is Obscene in a good way" by Boris Kachka (New York Magazine, 9/21/2008)
  • Painters Painting: The Definitive Documentary Portrait of the New York Art World (1940-1970)
  • "Poetry Foundation Gallery Presents Joan Mitchell Exhibition: Show examines painter’s relationship to poetry and Chicago" (poetryfoundation.org) 
  • "Remembering Barney" -- Tribute by Richard Milazzo (Evergreen Review #130, 2012)
  • "Remembering Joan" by Richard Milazzo (Evergreen Review #104, 2001)




above: Grandes Carrières, 1961–62. Oil on canvas, 78 3/4 x 118 1/4 inches (200 x 300.5 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of The Estate of Joan Mitchell. © Estate of Joan Mitchell

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Envisioning Green Cityscapes

1/25/2015

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February 13, 2015 (6:30-8:30 p.m.)

Jane Addams Hull-House

800 S. Halsted St.

Chicago, IL  60607

free and open to the public

You are invited to come to "Envisioning Green Cityscapes" at the Jane Addams Hull-House, which includes performance, poetry, music, film, and visual art. 
Program: 
  • Carey Lundin talks about Jens Jensen The Living Green -- being inspired to turn Jensen's life into a plan of social action. A clip from the film is screened. 
  • Corey Hagelberg shows examples of his artworks -- including prints that respond to the oil industry's presence in northwestern Indiana, which is also one of the most biologically diverse regions of the country. He also talks about how his art making practice relates to his connections with nature in an urban setting (Gary, IN).  
  • "An Evening at the Ecopolis: Rethinking Chicago as a Regenerative City" with Jeff Biggers and musical ensemble -- Angel Elmore (clarinet, keyboard), Adam Zanolini (flute, saxophone, electric bass), Tim Bonbonfera Keenan (percussion) and Dan Godston (cornet). 
  • A presentation about AREA Chicago’s Issue #15 is given. That issue’s theme is “Healing,” including topics such as interspecies perspectives; the health of soil and water; microbial communities; ecology and climate catastrophe; energy descent; … and many others.
  • A collaboratively written mesostic poem with the through-line "Urbs in Horto" is created while the program progresses. ("Urbs in horto," a Latin phrase that means "City in a garden," is Chicago's motto.)
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Links: 
  • AREA Chicago
  • Jeff Biggers
  • "Bringing Mother Jones Back to Chicago" (CAN TV)
  • "Climate Hope: Three Essential Green Books of the Year -- and a Poem" by Jeff Biggers (The Huffington Post,  12/16/2014)
  • "Closer Than Matewan" by Kari Lydersen (Chicago Reader, 1/28/2010)
  • “The Devil Baby at Hull-House” by Jane Addams (1916) -- essay by Ned Stuckey-French
  • “Documentary explores origins of Indiana Dunes” – Carey Lundin interviewed by Michael Puente (WBEZ, 8/14/2014)
  • Portraits of Hull-House from the Jane Addams Collection (Swarthmore College)
  • "Get Calumetized" at the Gardner Center for the Arts (5/10/2014)
  • Corey Hagelberg
  • Eco-poetry.org: Ecological Poetry, Climate Crisis Commentary &  Graphics
  • "Is clean coal worth the costs?" (All In with Chris Hayes, MSNBC)
  • "It Takes One: Carey Lundin" (The Cultural Landscape Foundation)
  • Jane Addams-Inspired Workshop at Mozart Park (3/3/2014)
  • Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
  • Jens Jensen-Inspired Arts Workshop at Mozart Park (2/10/2014)
  • Jens Jensen The Living Green (dir. Carey Lundin, 2013)
  • Justseeds Artists' Collective
  • Notes for a People's Atlas (Gary, IN)
  • Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland by Jeff Biggers -- reviewed by Scott Russell Sanders (Orion Magazine)
  • Silent Spring at 50
  • Temperatures & Shapes :: Arctic Live/Chicago (Fifth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival event)
  • WTF2013


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Interdunal Pipeline by Corey Hagelberg
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Our Next Arts Workshop -- Phil Cohran

1/24/2015

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Monday, January 26th
(6:00-7:00, 7:15-8:30 p.m.)

Mozart Park Fieldhouse
2036 N. Avers Ave.
Chicago, IL   60647

all ages, free & open to the public

You are invited to come to our next arts workshop, when we focus on the life and legacy of Kelan Phil Cohran:  
  • We will talk about Cohran's biography and listen to selections of his music; 
  • We will improvise in a musical ensemble; and
  • Participants will create art works -- writing, visual art & music inspired by Cohran. 
Location: Mozart Park is in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood. It's on the north side of Armitage Ave. -- several blocks east of Pulaski Rd., just south of Dickens and Shakespeare Streets. Our workshop series happens in the room to the left of fieldhouse lobby; some workshop sessions may happen outside in the park, weather permitting.  

Transportation & parking: Mozart Park can be reached by public transportation (such as the #73 Armitage Ave. bus, and not far from the Logan Square and Western Ave. stations on the CTA's blue line. Mozart Park has a parking lot on Armitage, east of Avers. 

Registering for Chicago Heroes & Arts Journeys: You can register for this workshop series at the Chicago Park District website. 

Additional info: You can contact us by clicking here (if you have questions about this workshop or to RSVP). Click here to find out more about the Chicago Heroes & Arts Journeys workshop series. 
Links: 
  • Arts Workshop at Mozart Park: The Art Ensemble of Chicago (2014)
  • Arts Workshop at Mozart  Park: The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (2014)
  • Arts Workshop at Mozart Park: Sun Ra & Ed Roberson (2014)
  • "For These Street Players, Brass Runs in the Family" by Lily Koppel (The New York Times, 9/4/2006)
  • Hypnotic Brass Band
  • Kelan Phil Cohran
  • "New Frankiphone Blues: A Guide to Philip Cohran’s Avant-Garde Jazz" by Zaid Mudhaffer 
  • "The progeny of Phil Cohran mesmerize in Brothers Hypnotic" by Peter Margasak (Chicago Reader, 4/4/2014)
  • wax poetics, issue 25: Jazz's Madmen
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2015 People's State of the Union Event in Chicago

1/8/2015

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Wednesday, January 28 (7-9 p.m.)
325 N. Hoyne Ave., C-324
Chicago, IL   60612


You are invited to attend a People's State of the Union event hosted by the Borderbend Arts Collective. This event will include: 
  • A discussion about new arts and arts education initiatives in Chicago; 
  • Talk about activism and community building in Chicago; 
  • Ideas regarding how the Chicago Cultural Plan could be developed, with civic engagement; 
  • Skype conversations with several other PSOTU event participants nationwide.

Please RSVP by sending an email to [email protected], or call 312.380.9223 if you would like to join us.
Links:
  • Alternate ROOTS
  • Arlene Goldbard 
  • Art in Praxis
  • Beth Grossman
  • Chicago Cultural Plan
  • Eric Booth
  • Imagining America
  • People's State of the Union
  • Red Chair on Cherokee
  • Split This Rock
  • U.S. Department of Arts & Culture
  • "Why should you join the US.. Department of Arts & Culture?" -- video with Adam Horowitz and Daniel Pinchbeck 
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