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

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.

Links:

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

• "AFRICOBRA: Philosophy" (Logan Center for the Arts, 2013)
• "Alexander talks race, poetry" by Ashley McCormick (Yale Daily News, 9/18/2013)

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

• "Barbara Jones-Hogu and the Philosophy of AfriCOBRA" by Kathryn Born (Chicago Art Magazine, 8/6/2010)
• Barbara Jones-Hogu interviewed by Rebecca Zorach and Skyla Hearn (Never The Same)
• A Conversation With Barbara Jones-Hogu (AREA Chicago, 2008)
• "The Black Poet as Canon-Maker" by Elizabeth Alexander (Poetry Foundation, 2/2/2007)
• Elizabeth Alexander
• Furious Flower Poetry Center
  
• Gwendolyn Brooks-inspired workshop at Mozart Park (2014)
• Inaugural Poem: "Praise for the Day" by Elizabeth Alexander (The New York Times, 1/20/2009)
• Margaret Burroughs-inspired workshop at Mozart Park (2014)
• Margaret Danner (Poetry Foundation)
• "Power, Politics, & Pride: AfriCOBRA" (WTTW)
• Two Poems by Elizabeth Alexander (The Paris Review, Winter 1991)
  
• Unite by Barbara Jones-Hogu (OH FREEDOM! Teaching African American Civil Rights Through American Art at the Smithsonian)