Our Next Workshop: Buckminster Fuller

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:

• Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe (Museum of Contemporary Art, 2009)
• Everything I Know: 42 Hours of Buckminster Fuller’s Visionary Lectures Free Online (1975) Open Culture, 8/8/2012)
  "Josef and Anni Albers, John Cage, Robert Creeley, Merce Cunningham, R. Buckminster Fuller, Clement Greenberg, Willem de Kooning and others (Black Mountain College, 1933–1957)" by Eva Díaz 
• The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller (dir. Sam Green)

• 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)