Our Next Arts Workshop: Elizabeth Catlett, Archibald Motley and Charles Wilbert White

Monday, May 4th
(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 Elizabeth Catlett, Archibald Motley and Charles Wilbert White. We will:

• Talk about their work, including their connections to Chicago; 
  
• Make music and create text-and-image collages inspired by work by Catlett, Motley and White.

• 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:

• "Archibald J. Motley, Jr.’s Paintings: Modern Art Shaped by Precision, Candor, and Soul" by Edward M. Gómez (Hyperallergic, 3/9/2014)
• Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist (Duke University)
• Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist (March 7–August 31, 2015 at the Chicago Cultural Cennter)
• The Art of Elizabeth Catlett: Selections from the Collection of Samella Lewis (Museum of the African Diaspora)
• "Catlett Blazed Trails As An African-American Artist" by Allison Keyes (NPR, 4/4/2012)
• "Chicago's Jazz Age still lives in Archibald Motley's art" by Howard Reich (Chicago Tribune, 3/20/2015)
• "Culture Talk: Duke Professor Richard J. Powell on Archibald Motley" by Victoria L. Valentine (Culture Type, 5/2/2014)
• Elizabeth Catlett (PBS)

• Margaret Burroughs-inspired arts workshop at Mozart Park (2014)
  The National Conference of Artists Tribute to Elizabeth Catlett: Honor, Courage and Creativity (2013)
• "Principled expression: Elizabeth Catlett, 96, reflects on art, activism" by Colleen Walsh (Harvard Gazette, 4/22/2011)
• Quiet Pride: The Elizabeth Catlett Project by Rufus Reid
  The South Side Community Art Center collection (The University of Chicago Visual Resources Center)