Our Next Workshop: Joan Mitchell

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:

• 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