Category: Visual Art

dachi-dacago

8/13/2016

Sunday, October 30th (5 p.m.)

Gallery Chicago
760 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago, IL 60642

free and open to the public

You're invited to come to dachi-dacago, a collaborative arts event with mail art, poetry performances, DADA100 cut-up maker, improbable portrait-making, movie tracing machine, and more. Participants include the Bay Area Correspondence School, Read/Write Library, Janina Ciezadlo, Keith M. Kelley, Penelope Rosemont, Vittorio Carli, Charlie Newman, Andrew Oleksiuk, Duane Vorhees, Dan Godston, and special guests.

Dachi-dacago happens during DADA Chicago, a group show that celebrates DADA's Centennial. DADA Chicago features artworks by Schlecter Duvall, Eugenio Granell, Gale Ahrens, Betsy Boemmel, Janina Ciezadlo, Dennis Cunningham, Devin Cain, Laura Corsiglia, Rikki Ducornet, John Duda, Ruti Eckstein, Alexandria Eregbru, Krista Franklin, Paul Garon, Beth Garon, William Cropper, Guy Girard, Ken Hirte, Joseph Jablonski, Michael James, J.J. McLuckie, Sheila Nopper, Tom Palazzolo, Nancy Joyce Peters, Penelope Rosemont, Ody Saban, Ron Sakolsky, Enrico de Santiago, Winston Smith, Helene Smith-Romer, Patrick Turner, Marian Wallace, Joel Williams, Karol Baron, Gabriel Bein-Aime, Artur do Cruzeiro-Sexas, Carlos Cortez, Herr de Vries, Maurice Greenia, Tatsuo Ikeda, Tristan Meinecke, Jacinto Minot, Franklin Rosemont, Sylla, and Venita.

DADA Chicago is organized by the Chicago Surrealist Group, the Friends of DADA, with other outstanding works and contributors.

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Workshop Series Inspired by Murals and Graffiti in Chicago

2/22/2016

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February 29th & March 28th, 2016
(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 session, which is inspired by murals and graffiti in Chicago.

We will look at and talk about examples of murals and graffiti in Chicago.
Workshop participants will create experimental artworks, drawing on elements of murals and grafitti.

Bring your musical instruments, art supplies and notebooks. 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. We meet in the multipurpose 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 Borderbend's arts workshop series at Mozart Park: 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 Borderbend's arts workshop series at Mozart Park.

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Rhizome Bloom

4/29/2014

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Rhizome Bloom: a multi-genre exploration
with music, poetry, projections & movement

Tuesday, April 29 (8 p.m.)

Chicago Temple
77 W. Washington St.
Chicago, IL

$7 suggested donation

"Rhizome Bloom" features premieres of Deep Black Garden II & Weep Dark Blue by Renée Baker. The American musical genius Duke Ellington was born on April 29, 1899; this performance event features a tribute to Ellington in the program as well.

ensemble members:
Renée Baker -- composer
Angel Elmore -- piano
Dan Godston -- trumpet
Jenae Taylor -- movement
Charles Joseph Smith -- piano & movement
Lou Ciccotelli -- drums

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Margaret Burroughs-Inspired Arts Workshop

2/13/2014

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You are invited to come to our next Chicago Heroes & Arts Adventures workshop --

Monday, February 17 (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

Dr. Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs was an amazing visual artist, curator, educator and community organizer who founded the DuSable Museum of African American History. We will dedicate this workshop to Margaret Burroughs' life and legacy, as well as creative responses to her work. Also -- celebrating Margaret Burroughs' work is one way to celebrate Black History Month!

This workshop will include the following--

We will look at and talk about several examples of Burroughs' artwork, and talk about her legacy in Chicago and beyond.
Participants will write poetry and create collages inspired by Margaret Burroughs' artworks.

Location: Mozart Park is on Armitage Avenue in Logan Square -- several blocks east of Pulaski Road, just south of Dickens and Shakespeare Streets.

Please contact us by clicking here -- if you have questions about this workshop and/or if you would like to RSVP. Thanks!

Above: artworks by Margaret Burroughs, courtesy of the South Side Community Art Center

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The Chicago Picasso by Gwendolyn Brooks

1/27/2014

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August 15, 1967

"Mayor Daley tugged a white ribbon, loosing the blue percale wrap. A hearty cheer went up as the covering slipped off the big steel sculpture that looks at once like a bird and a woman."
-- Chicago Sun-Times (Seiji Ozawa leads the Symphony. The Mayor smiles. And 50,000 See.)

Does man love Art? Man visits Art, but squirms.
Art hurts. Art urges voyages--
and it is easier to stay at home,
the nice beer ready.
In commonrooms
we belch, or sniff, or scratch.
Are raw.

But we must cook ourselves and style ourselves for Art, who
is a requiring courtesan.
We squirm.
We do not hug the Mona Lisa.

We
may touch or tolerate
an astounding fountain, or a horse-and-rider.
At most, another Lion.

Observe the tall cold of a Flower
which is as innocent and as guilty,
as meaningful and as meaningless as any
other flower in the western field.

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We are reading and discussing "Chicago Picasso" during the ekphrastic poetry writing workshop at the Mozart Park Fieldhouse on January 27, 2014. Click here to find out more.

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