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Our Next Arts Workshop: The Dill Pickle Club

7/31/2014

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Friday, August 1st (4:30-5:30, 5:45-7:00 p.m.)

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

all ages, free & open to the public
You're invited to come to our next "Chicago Heroes & Arts Journeys" workshop, when we focus on the Dill Pickle Club. The Dill Pickle Club (which was also known as the Dil Pickle Club other similar iterations) was a legendary establishment founded by Jack Jones one hundred years ago. During this workshop we will:
  • Explore documents about The Dill Pickle Club -- including poster images and writings by people who were associated with the club (including Sherwood Anderson, Djuna Barnes, William Carlos Williams, Emma Goldman, Kenneth Rexroth and Upton Sinclair).  
  • Create artwork and write poetry inspired by the Dill Pickle Club. 

These arts workshops are free and open to the public, and all ages welcomed. Participants are invited to bring writing utensils and paper, although supplies will be provided if needed. Sometimes we play music and explore other art forms, so if you have a musical instrument that you'd like to bring, or if you have art supplies (e.g. colored pencils, pastels, etc.) you can bring those. We often use an upright piano during workshops as well. 

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: 
  • "5 questions for the new 'Pickles'" by Courtney Crowder (Chicago Tribune, 12/17/2010)
  • AREA Chicago
  • "Brains Brilliancy Bohemia: Art & Politics in Jazz-Age Chicago"
  • A Brief History of the Dill Pickle Club (Newberry Library)
  • Clarence Darrow (PBS' American Experience)
  • "The Dil Pickle Club: 1914-1933" poster by Marc Moscato/Dean Rank (Justseeds Artists' Cooperative)
  • Dil Pickle Press
  • Dill Pickle Food Co-Op
  • "Embracing The Quirkiness Of Djuna Barnes" (NPR)
  • Emma Goldman (PBS' American Experience)
  • FBI case file about the Dill Pickle Club (Toby Higbie's Bughouse Square blog)
  • Inventory of the Dill Pickle Club Records (Newberry Library)
  • “Jack Jones—The Pickler.” by Sherwood Anderson (Chicago Daily News, 6/18/1919)
  • Vachel Lindsay (The Poetry Foundation)
  • The Lucy Parsons Center
  • "Lute Music" by Kenneth Rexroth (The Writer's Almanac)
  • Mess Hall
  • "The Migration of the hipster: A Chicago history: 1898-present" by Aimee Levitt (Chicago Reader, 10/2/2013)
  • Carl Sandburg
  • Kenneth Rexroth (The American Academy of Poets)
  • A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht (University of Chicago Press)
  • "Welcome to the Jungle. Does Upton Sinclair's famous novel hold up?" By Karen Olsson (Slate)


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Harriet Monroe-Inspired Workshop on July 25th

7/23/2014

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Friday, July 25th (4:30-5:30, 5:45-7:00 p.m.)

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

all ages, free & open to the public


You're invited to come to our next "Chicago Heroes & Arts Journeys" workshop, when we focus on the life and legacy of Harriet Monroe. During this workshop we will:
  • Talk about aspects of Monroe's biography; 
  • Read selections of writings by Monroe; 
  • Read poems by great poets with whom she worked; 
  • Write poetry inspired by Harriet Monroe and her legacy. 
  • More info TBA. 
These arts workshops are free and open to the public, and all ages welcomed. Participants are invited to bring writing utensils and paper, although supplies will be provided if needed. Sometimes we play music and explore other art forms, so if you have a musical instrument that you'd like to bring, or if you have art supplies (e.g. colored pencils, pastels, etc.) you can bring those. We often use an upright piano during workshops as well. 

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:
  • "At 100, poem 'Chicago' still fierce, fresh" by Steve Johnson (Chicago Tribune)
  • Gwendolyn Brooks
  • "Chicago" by Carl Sandburg (Poetry, March 1914)
  • Harriet Monroe Biography (poetryfoundation.org)
  • Harriet Monroe Poetry Collection (The University of Chicago Library)
  • "Letter by Letter" by Richard Mertens (University of Chicago Magazine)
  • "A Lover" by Amy Lowell (Poetry, March 1917) 
  • "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot (Poetry, June 1915)
  • Poetry Foundation
  • Poetry Magazine
  • "Review of A Poet's Life by Harriet Monroe" by William Carlos Williams (The New Republic, 4/27/1938)
  • Carl Sandburg
  • Valeria and Other Poems by Harriet Monroe (A.C. McClurg & Company, 1893)
  • "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks (Poetry, September 1959)
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Carl Sandburg-Inspired Arts Workshop at Mozart Park

5/19/2014

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You're invited to come to our next Chicago Heroes & Arts Adventures workshop --
Monday, May 19 (6:00-7:15, 7:30-8:30 p.m.)

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

all ages, free & open to the public


Come discover, discuss & debate some of the origins of Objectivst poetics during this session, when Matthias Regan reads from his edited volume of Sandburg’s poetry and prose in the International Socialist Review. Here’s all the details:

“That’s when Sandburg was a Niceberg,” writes Edward Dorn in Book IV of Gunslinger. He’s thinking of the radical Carl Sandburg – the poetic brawler who changed the shape of poetry and politics simultaneously in the early years of modernism.

During the Chicago Renaissance, Sandburg was one of the most important innovators in English language poetry. His Chicago Poems (1916) drew on contemporary slang and Native American chants to create free verse poems that spoke to working-class people. He wrote poetry against the robber barons, the war profiteers and the false prophets of Christian morality. Given the popularity of his verse, it’s not surprising that academics and the popular press have “red-washed” Sandburg, portraying him as a bland sentimentalist by excising his early years as a Socialist organizer and muck-raking journalist.

Matthias Regan will read from his edited volume of Sandburg’s writings in the International Socialist Review – the radical journal published by Charles H. Kerr Press in which he published is first and best poems. Using a variety of pseudonyms, Sandburg wrote powerful news stories on union strikes, railroad regulation, the Eastland disaster and “Preparadness Parades.”

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. 
  • "At 100, poem 'Chicago' still fierce, fresh" by Steve Johnson (Chicago Tribune)
  • "Careless Love" by Carl Sandburg, performed by Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan
  • Carl Sandburg (poets.org)
  • "Carl Sandburg and the Spanish Guitar" -- concert with John Akers
  • "Carl Sandburg and the Steichens: The Wisconsin Years" by Faith B. Miracle (Wisconsin Academy Review)
  • Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site (Flat Rock, NC)
  • "Chicago" by Carl Sandburg (Poetry Foundation)
  • Chicago Poems by Carl Sandburg
  • The Day Carl Sandburg Died (dir. Paul Bonesteel)
  • Lilian "Paula" Sandburg
  • "Marilyn Monroe and Carl Sandburg" by Roger Ebert
  • The Next Objectivists
  • Next Objectivists Reading at Crisis Image Archives
  • President John F. Kennedy Meets with Carl Sandburg (photograph, JFK Library)
  • "Sandburg's Lincoln Within History" by James Hurt (Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association)
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Our Next Workshop: László Moholy-Nagy & Mies van der Rohe

5/4/2014

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You're invited to come to our next Chicago Heroes & Arts Adventures workshop --
Monday, May 5 (6:00-7:15, 7:30-8:30 p.m.)

Mozart Park Fieldhouse
2036 N. Avers Ave.
Chicago, IL   60624

all ages, free & open to the public


During our next workshop we will focus on the lives and legacies of László Moholy-Nagy and Mies van der Rohe. Participants will create artworks and write poetry inspired by those two geniuses who have indelibly influenced architecture and design in Chicago and around the world. 
Picture
Untitled (Chicago, 1943)
by László Moholy-Nagy

Picture
Mies van der Rohe with a model
of the Farnsworth House


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. 
Picture
above: László Moholy-Nagy's
Diagram of Finnegans Wake
Links: 
  • "Author Tom Dyja discusses his book The Third Coast" (WBEZ)
  • Bauhaus 9090
  • Bauhaus Dessau
  • Bauhaus Museum
  • Chicago Bauhaus & Beyond
  • Chicago's Bauhaus Legacy -- 2013 exhibition at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
  • Farnsworth House
  • "From Bauhaus to Her House" by Ted Shen (Chicago Reader)
  • László Moholy-Nagy with Metalworking Students at the Weimar Bauhaus (1924-25)
  • Lichtspiel Schwarz Weiss Grau (dir. Moholy-Nagy, 1930)
  • "László Moholy-Nagy's visual representation of Finnegan's Wake" by Matt Linderman (Signal v. Noise)
  • A Memory of Moholy-Nagy -- film produced by John Halas (1990)
  • "The Mecca: Where Modernism Began (and Memories of Mies)" by Nancy Bishop
  • Mies van der Rohe Society
  • Moholy-Nagy Foundation
  • "Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts at the Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art" by Robyn Jeffers
  • Neue Nationalgalerie, designed by Mies van der Rohe
  • "Rally today at noon to save Bauhaus-inspired buildings on Michael Reese Campus" by Lynn Becker (2009 article)
  • Review of “Chicago’s Bauhaus Legacy” at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, by Lara Allison
  • Taken by Design: Photographs from the Institute of Design, Chicago, 1937–1971 (Edited by David Travis and Elizabeth Siegel)
  • The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream by Thomas Dyja
  • "A Time When Things Started in Chicago: ‘The Third Coast,’ a History of Chicago by Thomas Dyja" -- book review by Scott Turow (The New York Times)
  • "When Margaret Met Moholy-Nagy: Margaret De Patta, The Chicago Bauhaus, and Modernist Jewelry" -- 2012 program at the Museum of Arts and Design 
  • "Won't You Please Come to Chicago?: A Conversation With Thomas Dyja on The Third Coast" by Davis Schneiderman (The Huffington Post)
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Carl Sandburg-Inspired Arts Workshop at Mozart Park

4/28/2014

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You're invited to come to our next Chicago Heroes & Arts Adventures workshop --
Monday, April 28 (6:00-7:15, 7:30-8:30 p.m.)

Mozart Park Fieldhouse
2036 N. Avers Ave.
Chicago, IL   60624

all ages, free & open to the public


During this workshop we will leverage the work of Carl Sandburg to highlight Chicago as a heroic historical presence, celebrated as a sufficiently significant subject for poetry and other arts created by Sandburg and others.

We’ll spend the first part of the workshop reading and discussing Sandburg's poem "Chicago," as well as poems by workshop participants. Then we’ll talk about common and unique characteristics of Chicago and the works interpreting it, and end with a creative exercise to process our own views that feelings about the city. Participants will be invited to use poetic forms such as haiku, limericks, short ballads, sonnets . . . whatever may catch people’s fancies. Artists may use of media of their choosing (which they must needs also provide) to express their views and impressions of Chicago.
 This workshop is facilitated by Wayne Allen Jones.  

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: 
  • "At 100, poem 'Chicago' still fierce, fresh" by Steve Johnson (Chicago Tribune)
  • "Careless Love" by Carl Sandburg, performed by Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan
  • Carl Sandburg (poets.org)
  • "Carl Sandburg and the Spanish Guitar" -- concert with John Akers
  • Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site (Flat Rock, NC)
  • "Chicago" by Carl Sandburg (Poetry Foundation)
  • Chicago Poems by Carl Sandburg
  • The Day Carl Sandburg Died (dir. Paul Bonesteel)
  • "Marilyn Monroe and Carl Sandburg" by Roger Ebert 
  • "Sandburg's Lincoln Within History" by James Hurt (Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association)





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Our Next Arts Workshop: Katherine Dunham & Jean Baptiste Point du Sable

4/20/2014

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You're invited to come to our next Chicago Heroes & Arts Adventures workshop --
Monday, April 21 (6:00-7:15, 7:30-8:30 p.m.)

Mozart Park Fieldhouse
2036 N. Avers Ave.
Chicago, IL   60624

all ages, free & open to the public


During our next workshop we will focus on the lives and legacies of Katherine Dunham and Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable. Participants will create graphic scores and write poetry inspired by those important individuals. 
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: 
  • America's Irreplaceable Dance Treasures: The First 113 (Dance Heritage Coalition)
  • Black Arts Group (Oliver Lake's website)
  • "The Black Arts Movement: Let Me Count the Ways" chapter from Visionary Women Writers of Chicago's Black Arts Movement by Carmen L. Phelps
  • DuSable Museum of African American History
  • "How Katherine Dunham Revealed Black Dance to the World" by Jennifer Dunning (The New York Times)
  • Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (PBS)
  • Katherine Dunham (PBS)
  • Katherine Dunham at home in Martissant, Haiti (1962)
  • Katherine Dunham: Beyond the Dance (Missouri History Museum)
  • Katherine Dunham Centers for Arts and Humanties
  • Katherine Dunham Collection (Library of Congress)
  • Katherine Dunham: My Love of Dance (Visionary Project interview
  • Living St. Louis: Katherine Dunham (KETC)
  • Margaret Burroughs
  • The Ruth Page Center for the Arts
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Nelson Algren-Inspired Arts Workshop at Mozart Park

3/28/2014

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You are invited to come to our next Chicago Heroes & Arts Adventures workshop --
Monday, March 31 (6:00-7:15, 7:30-8:30 p.m.)

Mozart Park Fieldhouse
2036 N. Avers Ave.
Chicago, IL   60624

all ages, free & open to the public


During this workshop, inspired by the great Chicago writer Nelson Algren, participants will: 
  • Learn more about Algren's work and legacy;
  • Read passages from Algren's poetry and prose, and several letters from Simone de Beauvoir to Algren; 
  • Watch and discuss several video clips: part of Studs Terkel's 1975 interview with Algren; a clip from The Road Is Nothing, the End Is All; and Willem DeFoe reading "The Lightless Room," a short story by Algren; and    
  • Creatively explore Algren's work through creative writing and visual art. 
Location: Mozart Park is on Armitage Avenue in Logan Square -- several blocks east of Pulaski Road, just south of Dickens and Shakespeare Streets. There  is street parking by Mozart Park, and a parking lot is on the east side of Avers. 

Please contact us by clicking here -- if you have questions about this workshop and/or if you would like to RSVP. Thanks!
Links:
  • "A Breakup Letter from Simone de Beauvoir" by Maria Popova
  • "But Never a Lovely So Real" by Colin Asher (The Believer)
  • Interview: Filmmaker Michael Caplan (chicagist.com)
  • "Life, Love, and Nothing in Between" by Kelly Kleinman (Chicago Reader)
  • "Love and Letters in Paris and Chicago" by Joel Henning (The Wall Street Journal)
  • The Man with the Golden Arm (dir. Otto Preminger, 1955)
  • Nelson Algren Committee
  • Nelson Algren Live! event clip featuring William Dafoe
  • Nelson Algren: The End Is Nothing, the Road Is All
  • "The Ninth Man Out: As baseball begins again, Nelson Algren turns 100" by Jeff McMahon (New City)
  • "The Secret Faces of Poets in Nelson Algren's Chicago: City on the Make" by  Jeff McMahon
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Our Next Arts Workshop: Jimmy Yancey & Albert Ammons

3/10/2014

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You are invited to join us at our next Chicago Heroes & Arts Adventures workshop --
Monday, March 10 (6:00-7:15, 7:30-8:30 p.m.)

Mozart Park Fieldhouse
2036 N. Avers Ave.
Chicago, IL   60624

all ages, free & open to the public


Join us as we explore the music and lives of Jimmy Yancey and Albert Ammons -- two great Chicago boogie woogie pianists. We will learn about Yancey and Ammons' work and listen to several recordings of their music. Then we will create music and poetry inspired by those great boogie woogie pianists' work. 
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:
  • Albert Ammons & Pete Johnson perform "Boogie Woogie Dream"
  • Boogie Woogie Trio -- Ammons, Lewis, Johnson (Riverwalk Jazz)
  • Jerry Lee Lewis to Duke Ellington: The ten greatest pianists, chosen by Jools Holland (Daily Mail)
  • Jimmy Yancey (BBC)
  • Jimmy Yancey biography (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame)
  • Jimmy & Estelle "Mama" Yancey -- "Pallet on the Floor"
  • Jimmy Yancey -- "Rolling the Stone"
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Jane Addams-Inspired Arts Workshop

3/3/2014

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You are invited to come to our next Chicago Heroes & Arts Adventures workshop --
Monday, March 3 (6:00-7:15, 7:30-8:30 p.m.)

Mozart Park Fieldhouse
2036 N. Avers Ave.
Chicago, IL   60624

all ages, free & open to the public


You are invited to join us during our next arts workshop inspired by Jane Addams -- facilitated by Chicago poet and educator Elizabeth Marino. During this workshop participants will: 
  • Learn more about Jane Addams' work and legacy
  • Creatively explore Jane Addams' life through creative writing and drama
Picture
Links: 
  • Hull-House Investors
  • Jane Addams (Nobel Peace Price 1931)
  • Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
  • Jane Addams (Working Women, 1900-1930, Harvard University Library Open Collections Program)
  • Jane Addams legacy lives on in Chicago (WBEZ)
  • Jane Addams: Spirit in Action by Louise W. Knight
  • Should we use the "L" word for Jane Addams (WBEZ) 
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Our Inaugural Arts Workshop Session: Gwendolyn Brooks & Ekphrastic Poetry

1/24/2014

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Monday, January 27, 2014
(6:00-7:15, 7:30-8:30 p.m.)

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

free and open to the public, all ages

You're invited to come to an ekphrastic poetry writing workshop inspired by Gwendolyn Brooks -- the inaugural session in the Chicago Heroes & Arts Journeys series at Mozart Park. 

This workshop will include the following:  

  • We will read and discuss "The Chicago Picasso," an ekphrastic poem by Gwendolyn Brooks. We will also read and discuss a few other poems by Gwendolyn Brooks. 
  • Each participant will select a reproduction of an artwork in collections at the Art Institute of Chicago and Museum of Contemporary Art. Then each participant will write an ekphrastic poem that is inspired by that artwork. (Reproductions of artworks will be provided.)
  • Participants will share their poems with others in the workshop. 
These arts workshops are free and open to the public, and all ages welcomed. Participants are invited to bring writing utensils and paper, although supplies will be provided if needed. Sometimes we play music and explore other art forms, so if you have a musical instrument that you'd like to bring, or if you have art supplies (e.g. colored pencils, pastels, etc.) you can bring those. We often use an upright piano during workshops as well. 

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. Click here to find out more about the Chicago Heroes & Arts Journeys workshop series. 
Links: 
  • "AIC: Maquette for Richard Daley Center Monument" by Jyoti Srivastava
  • "The Chicago Picasso" by Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Chicago Black Renaissance
  • "Chicago's Picasso sculpture" by Alan Artner (Chicago Tribune, 8/15/1967)
  • "Dedication of the Chicago Picasso" (Connecting the Windy City)
  • Gwendolyn Brooks (at poetryfoundation.org)
  • Gwendolyn Brooks Center at Chicago State University
  • Interview with Gwendolyn Brooks (Contemporary Literature (v. 11, no. 1))
  • "The Making of Picasso's Monumental Sculpture for Chicago's Daley Center Plaza" by Jyoti Srivastava (Public Art in Chicago)
  • "Meditations on 'Mecca': Gwendolyn Brooks and the Responsibilities of the Black Poet" by Elizabeth Alexander
  • "Money-Making and Public Art-Loving: The Image of Chicago" by Kristina Maldre (National Archives)
  • "Pablo and the Boss: The Amazing Story of Chicago's Picasso" (WTTW)
  • "The Picasso" (Untitled) -- at the Daley Plaza
  • Picasso and Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago)
  • "Review: Picasso and Chicago/Art Institute of Chicago" by Chris Miller (New City, 2/21/2013)
  • Soft Version of Maquette for a Monument donated to Chicago by Pablo Picasso by Claes Oldenburg (Le Centre Pompidou)
  • South Side Community Art Center
  • "Steel Shots: The Picasso" by Tasha Weiss (Modern Steel Construction)

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