Category: Chicago Heroes & Arts Journeys

Our Next Arts Workshop: Ana Castillo, David Hernández, Elizabeth Marino and Carlos Cumpián

3/30/2015

Monday, April 6th
(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're invited to come to our next workshop, which is inspired by Ana Castillo, David Hernández, Elizabeth Marino and Carlos Cumpián. We will:

Talk about their work, including their connections to Chicago;
Make music and create text-and-image collages inspired by work by Castillo, Hernández, Marino and Cumpián.

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: Click here or here to register for the spring term 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.

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Our Next Workshop: Margaret Esse Danner, Barbara Jones-Hogu & Elizabeth Alexander

3/3/2015

Monday, March 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're invited to come to our next workshop, which is inspired by Margaret Esse Danner, Barbara Jones-Hogu and Elizabeth Alexander. We will:

Talk about their work, including their connections to Chicago;
Make music, create collages and write calligrammes inspired by work by Danner, Jones-Hogu and Alexander.

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: Click here or here to register for the spring term 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.

"100 Years of Poetry: ‘In the Middle of Major Men’" by Liesl Olson (Poetry Foundation, 10/16/2012)

"Artists Who Defied Convention" by Susie Allen (University of Chicago)

Our Next Workshop: Buckminster Fuller

2/23/2015

Monday, March 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 Buckminster Fuller, as we --

Talk about Fuller's work, including his connection to Chicago;
Look at images of Fuller's work;
Make music and write poetry inspired by Buckminster Fuller.

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: Click here or here to register for the spring term 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.

Links:

The Ruse of Medusa (Black Mountain Research: Educational Turn and the Avant-Garde)

The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area -- exhibit at SFMoMA (2012)

Our Next Workshop: Big Bill Broonzy, Memphis Minnie & Howlin' Wolf

2/10/2015

Monday, February 23rd
(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 lives and legacies of the great Blues artists Big Bill Broonzy, Memphis Minnie and Howlin' Wolf.

Talk about those artists' work, including their connections to Chicago;
Listen to and discuss some of those Blues artists' music;
Make music and write poetry inspired by those Blues artists' work.

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: Click here or here to register for the spring term at the Chicago Park District website.
Registering for Chicago Portraits & Arts Journeys: Click here or here to register for the spring term 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.

Links:

Arts Workshop About Jimmy Yancey and Albert Ammons (Mozart Park, 2014)
Arts Workshop About Muddy Waters, Koko Taylor, Buddy Guy and Etta James (7/2014)

"Big Bill Broonzy" by Ellen Harold and Peter Stone (Cultural Equity)

"Blues Museum In Chicago? Muddy’s House?" Blues Breakers Playlist For 2/9/2015 (WXRT)

Chicago Blues Experience

"For Chicago blues, sweet home is hard to find" by Yolanda Perdomo (WBEZ, 2/9/2015)

His Story - Big Bill Broonzy Interviewed by Studs Terkel (Smithsonian Folkways)

Howlin' Wolf

"Maria Muldaur pays tribute to Memphis Minnie" by Jim White (Post Gazette, 10/9/2012)

Memphis Minnie

"Memphis Minnie, Genocide, and Identity Politics: A Conversation with Alex Stein" by Lorna Dee Cervantes (Michigan Quarterly Review, Fall 2003)

Rosa's Lounge

"The vibrant joy of Robert Crumb's album covers" by Laura Barton (The Guardian, 11/20/2011)

"When The Levee Breaks: Ripples Of The Great Flood" (NPR)

Woman with Guitar: Memphis Minnie's Blues by Paul & Beth Garon (City Lights Books)

Gordon Parks-Inspired Arts Workshop

1/28/2015

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.

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Our Next Workshop: Joan Mitchell

1/28/2015

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.

Links:

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

Our Next Arts Workshop -- Phil Cohran

1/24/2015

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:

Register for the Winter Term

12/31/2014

http://ow.ly/HSHID

http://www.meetup.com/Arts-Workshops-at-Mozart-Park/manage/settings/

Our Next Workshop: Lorraine Hansberry, Bruce Norris & Pam MacKinnon

11/18/2014

Monday, November 24th
(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, during which we focus on Lorraine Hansberry, Bruce Norris and Pam MacKinnon --

We learn about those three artists, their work, and their connections with Chicago;
We read and talk about passages from A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris; and
Participants create mixed media artworks (with text and image) that are inspired by Hansberry, Norris and MacKinnon.

Above: Hansberry at Home by Lauren Kaelin, inspired by a photography by David Mose Attie. Vitaminw.co commissioned this painting.

Patricia Marx interviews Lorraine Hansberry
(WNYC, 1960). Click on the link below
to listen to the interview.

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:

Herbie Hancock- and Jack DeJohnette-Inspired Arts Workshop on November 17th

11/12/2014

Monday, November 17th
(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 work and legacies of Jack DeJohnette and Herbie Hancock, two great jazz composers and musicians who grew up in Chicago. We will --

Talk about the careers of Herbie Hancock and Jack DeJohnette, including their innovations in musical genres such as jazz, funk, and fusion;
Listen to songs that include Hancock and DeJohnette as bandleaders and sidemen;
Create graphic scores inspired by songs by those two artists.

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: