OF JACKMAN GOLDWASSER RESIDENCY PROGRAM, 

ENABLING LOCAL, NATIONAL, & INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS 

TO CONTINUE ART PRACTICES WITH SOCIAL JUSTICE FOCUS

Current cohort of yearlong ‘Radicle Residents’ includes trio of Chicago ALAANA artists: Cecilia Beaven, William Estrada, and Farah Salem

Artists invited to apply for 2022 year-long and seasonal residencies, 

now open through August 23

CHICAGO (July 20, 2021) Hyde Park Art Center, the renowned non-profit hub for contemporary art located on Chicago’s vibrant South Side, proudly marks the tenth anniversary of its Jackman Goldwasser Residency program, offering four comprehensive residencies of varying lengths for local, national and international artists and curators. For over a decade, the residency program—with a particularly focus on ALAANA (African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, Native American) artists—has been providing valuable studio spaces, art classes, and supportive resources, while connecting the resident artists to the city’s artists, institutions, and cultural communities. 

In response to COVID-19 and the crises it brought forth and amplified, the selection of the 2021 roster of residents and supportive public programming have been adapted to increase support for Chicago artists (vs. those requiring travel), fortifying the program’s effort to help artists sustain art practices especially in the face of the pandemic. The 2021 cohort features ten artists of various disciplines, from painting to printmaking and textiles, in four programs of varying length and focus. In general, residencies range from six to eight weeks for national and international residents, while Chicago artists may participate in a yearlong intensive in the signature Radicle Studio Residency. The artist application for the 2022 class is now open for the year-long Radicle Studio Residency and seasonal Flex Residency, through Monday, August 23, 10 p.m. CST, available at www.hydeparkart.org. 

“Over an incredibly challenging year for arts organizations, and most of all artists, Hyde Park Art Center took this opportunity to reset intentions and recommit our programs to supporting art in Chicago, ensuring that artists across the city can continue to make their work and thrive. This year, we were able to refocus attention locally, expanding support for Chicago artists,” says Megha Ralapati, Art Center Residency Manager. 

The ten artists in the 2021 cohort of the Jackman Goldwasser Residency program are:

Radicle Studio Residency, Year-Long Residency for Chicago Artists

Radicle Studio Residents are rooted for a year at the Art Center through high-quality, free studio space where artists make work, research new projects, have access to the Art Center’s broad international network of artists and resources, and connect with a dynamic public.

Cecilia Beaven is a visual artist and art instructor from Mexico City whose multimedia practice serves as a vehicle for retelling stories from Mexican mythology combined with fictional personal narratives.

Farah Salem is an artist and art therapist working across media to investigate the gendered nature of trauma as it is embedded within her experiences as an Arab woman. 

William Estrada is an artist and art educator whose community-centered practice seeks to transform, question, and make connections via discussion, creation, and amplification of stories from across Chicago’s rich neighborhoods.

Flex Residency, Seasonal Residencies for Chicago Artists

Flex Residents participate in focused seasonal residencies where they are given free studio space to make work and develop new projects. They receive access to the Art Center’s broad network of artists and resources and connect with the Art Center’s staff and dynamic community. The 2021 Flex Residents include Aaron Hughes, Alexandra Antoine, and Moises Salazar.

BAC x Art Center Residency, Seasonal Residencies for Chicago Artists

A new partnership with the Black Arts Consortium at Northwestern University offering focused seasonal residencies and access to both the Art Center’s and the Black Arts Consortium’s broad network of artists and resources. The 2021 BAC X Art Center Residents include Devin T. Mays, Dorothy Burge, and Jory Drew.

International ArtsLink Fellowship, Ongoing Residency for International Artists

Ongoing partnership with CEC ArtsLink’s acclaimed international fellowship program, currently supporting  Bermet Borubaeva, artist, curator and educator, who continues her research-focused residency virtually, exploring the intersection of food justice, and innovative trash and recycling practices between her home town Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan and in Chicago.

In addition, in June 2021, Hyde Park Art Center commenced a new partnership with Les Ateliers Medicis, an art space supporting emerging artists in Clichy-Montfermeil, France, through ongoing collaboration with the French Cultural Council, which builds upon the residency’s international collaborative work both with France and beyond. This partnership provides one of the few valuable residency opportunities in the City that enable international traveling for Chicago artists. The collaborative residency, Clichycago, is a new initiative that aims to weave a strong link between urban peripheries from the South Side of Chicago and the Parisian suburb of Clichy-Montfermeil. Chicago artist Faheem Majeed (whose exhibition Planting and Maintaining a Perennial Garden: Shrouds by Faheem Majeed is now on view at the Art Center) participated in an in-person residency in France through this collaboration. 

About Hyde Park Art Center

Hyde Park Art Center, at 5020 South Cornell Avenue on Chicago’s vibrant South Side, is a hub for contemporary arts in Chicago, serving as a gathering and production space for artists and the broader community to cultivate ideas, impact social change, and connect with new networks. Since its inception in 1939, Hyde Park Art Center has grown from a small collective of quirky artists to establishing a strong legacy of innovative development and emerging as a unique Chicago arts institution with social impact. The Art Center functions as an amplifier for today and tomorrow’s creative voices, providing the space to cultivate and create new work and connections. 

For more information about Hyde Park Art Center, please visit  https://www.hydeparkart.org/

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Photo credits (l-r, t-b):

William Estrada, Cecilia Beaven, Farah Salem, Moises Salazar, Alexandra Antoine, Aaron Hughes, Jory Drew, Devin T. Mays, Dorothy Burge, and Bermet Borubaeva.

Courtesy of Hyde Park Art Center.

Artist Bios:

Cecilia Beaven (she/her) is a visual artist and art instructor from Mexico City. Cecilia holds an MFA from SAIC and a BFA from ENPEG La Esmeralda (Mexico City). Cecilia’s multidisciplinary artwork has been shown in solo shows in Mexico City, Houston, and Chicago, as well as in group exhibitions in Mexico, the US, Colombia, Sweden, Italy, and Japan including in the Hyde Park Art Center’s Ground Floor Biennial. Through her multimedia work Cecilia develops a speculative mythology with unique visual narratives. She affirms her creative agency by modifying existing tales and mythology and seamlessly adding fiction and personal anecdotes bringing a unique perspective on Mexican identity that goes beyond folklore and mainstream ideas of Mexico.

William Estrada (he/him) grew up in California, Mexico, and Chicago. His teaching and art making practice focus on addressing inequity, migration, historical passivity and cultural recognition in historically marginalized communities. He documents and engages experiences in public spaces to transform, question, and make connections to established and organic systems through discussion, creation, and amplification of stories through creativity already present. He has worked as an educator and artist with Chicago Arts Partnership in Education, Hyde Park Art Center, SkyArt, Marwen Foundation, Urban Gateways, DePaul University’s College Connect Program, Graffiti Institute, Vermont College of Art and Design, Prison + Neighborhood Art Project, and the School of The Art Institute of Chicago.

Farah Salem (she/her)  is an artist and art therapist from Kuwait, whose photo, performance, and installation practice questions the potential erasure of socio-cultural conditioning, focusing on the gendered nature of trauma as it is embedded within her experiences as an Arab woman. Her studio and art therapy practices are bridged by social activism. In both, she focuses on community building through artmaking, investigating the use of materials for social-emotional wellbeing, accessibility of mental health services, and raising awareness about domestic and gender-based violence. She holds a BA in Visual Communications from Gulf University for Science and Technology and an MA in Art Therapy from SAIC. Farah’s work has been exhibited at United Photo Industries (New York), Mana Contemporary (Chicago), Site Galleries (Chicago), La Galerie (Dubai), and Contemporary Art Platform (Kuwait).

Moises Salazar (they/them) is a non-binary queer artist from Chicago. Being first generation Mexican American has cemented a conflict within Moises Salazar’s political identity, which is the conceptual focus of their practice. Whether addressing queer or immigrant bodies, their practice is tailored to showcasing the trauma, history, and barriers these people face. Reflecting on the lack of space and agency they possess, Salazar presents queer and immigrant bodies in environments where they can thrive and be safe. The spaces the figures inhabit are colorful, gentle, soft, and safe. The use of glitter, paper mache, and yarn are important in their work because of their cultural and personal value.

Aaron Hughes (he/him) is an artist, curator, organizer, teacher, anti-war activist, and Iraq War veteran. He works collaboratively in diverse spaces and media to create meaning out of personal and collective trauma, deconstruct and transform systems of oppression, and seek liberation. Working through an interdisciplinary practice rooted in drawing and printmaking, Hughes develops projects that deconstruct militarism and related institutions of dehumanization. Hughes works with a range of art and activist projects including Justseeds Artists Cooperative, Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project, About Face: Veterans Against the War (formerly Iraq Veterans Against the War), and emerging Veteran Art Movement.

Alexandra Antoine (she/her) is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist whose work examines traditional artistic practices throughout the African Diaspora with a focus on healing traditions, identity and culture through the use of collage, portraiture, and most recently, farming. She uses the portrait as a tool to re/present individuals of the African diaspora while exploring her relationship to them within the larger narrative of her Haitian identity. She holds a Bachelor in Fine Arts and Arts Education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited at Rootwork Gallery, Hyde Park Art Center, Roman Susan Gallery, Chicago Art Department and Stony Island Arts Bank in Chicago, IL. Her work is also part of the Arts in Embassies program in the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Jory Drew (they/them) is an artist and educator, whose work reckons with the social constructions of race, gender, and love which influence the economic, legal, and political conditions that manifest and determine the lives of Black people. A graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Drew has exhibited locally and nationally and has participated in the Open Kitchen Residency (Milwaukee, WI), ACRE (Steuben, WI/Chicago), and Hot Box Residency (Austin, TX). As an educator, Drew is the co-lead artist for the North Lawndale Teen Art Council in Homan Square for SAIC and the Teen Creative Agency at the MCA Chicago. They Co-founded F4F, a domestic venue in Little Village (Chicago) and Co-organize Beauty Breaks, an intergenerational beauty and wellness workshop series for Black people along the spectrum of femininity.

Dorothy Burge (she/her) is a multimedia artist and community activist inspired by history and current issues of social justice. Dorothy is a native of Chicago, and a descendent from a long line of quilters from Mississippi who created beautiful quilts from recycled clothing. Her realization that the history and culture of her people were being passed through generations of quilters inspired her to use the medium as a tool to teach history, raise cultural awareness, and inspire action. Dorothy received her Masters of Arts in Urban Planning and Policy and her Bachelors of Arts in Art Design, from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is a member of Blacks Against Police Torture and Chicago Torture Justice Memorials; cultural collectives seeking justice for police torture survivors.

Devin Mays (he/him, they/them) is a multimedia artist whose practice, which includes sculpture, performance and drawing, is described as an auto-ethnographic interdisciplinary exploration of material, prospective and presence. A Graduate of University of Chicago’s MFA program, May’s work has exhibited at Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Lowe Art Museum, University of Florida; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.; Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago; Nahmad Projects, London; NADA Miami, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago; and Regards Chicago.

Bermet Borubaeva (she/her) is an urban environmentalist and labor rights activist and uses trash as a medium in her work. Bermet is interested in the intersection of art, climate science and environmental inequality. Her practice is dedicated to the global problem of food waste and growing ecological disruptions caused by excessive urbanization. She is a 2020-2021 CEC ArtsLink Fellow, and during her residency with Hyde Park Art Center, Bermet has been studying ecological politics, environmental inequality and climate disruption caused by food overproduction and excessive urbanization in home of Bishkek, Kyrgzystan and in conversation with Chicago.

Faheem Majeed (he/him) is a builder—literally and metaphorically. A resident of Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood, Majeed often looks to the material makeup of his neighborhood and surrounding areas as an entry point into larger questions around civic-mindedness, community activism, and institutional critique. As part of his studio practice, the artist transforms materials such as particle board, scrap metal and wood, and discarded signs and billboard remnants, breathing new life into these often overlooked and devalued materials. His broader engagement with the arts also involves arts administration, curation, and community facilitation, all which feed into his larger practice. From 2005-2011, Majeed served as Executive Director and Curator for the SSCAC. In this role he was responsible for managing operations, staff, programs, fundraising, curation, and archives for the SSCAC. During his time with the SSCAC, Majeed curated exhibitions of numerous artists including Elizabeth Catlett, Dr. David Driskell, Charles White, Jonathan Green, and Theaster Gates. Majeed received his BFA from Howard University and his MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).

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Installation features one-bedroom house of the future built to scale with recovered materials within Art Center gallery; concludes artist’s trilogy reimagining existing orders of the built world

CHICAGO (July 8, 2021)—Hyde Park Art Center, the renowned non-profit hub for contemporary art located on Chicago’s vibrant South Side, announces a major new sculpture exhibition by Chicago artist Lan Tuazon, Future Fossils: SUM, on view September 7 – November 13, and curated by Allison Peters Quinn, Art Center Director of Exhibition & Residency Programs. The exhibition offers visitors an encounter with a future house that doesn’t yet exist—one constructed solely with recovered materials. It visualizes the sum of a lifespan’s worth of human material traces in the world, nestled together as a one-bedroom house built to scale and exhibited inside the two-story gallery at the Art Center.

As envisioned by the artist, Future Fossils: SUM is a test site for what a house would look like in a “circular economy,” which builds a sustainable society producing minimal waste vs the current extractive take-make-waste industrial model known as a “linear economy.” Asking the question “how much of the 109 tons of waste produced per person in a lifetime can be reabsorbed into one’s present needs?” Tuazon repurposes and transforms found everyday objects—mass produced containers, common packaged goods, tchotchkes, household items—to give mass to the unseen byproduct of consumption and propose an extended life span of objects. The artist dissects, layers, and presses such objects to present a stratification-like form, mimicking fossils as a visualization of geological time while creating new items from materials with past uses. Visitors are invited to contribute by dropping off plastic goods to be shredded on site, which will then be turned into raw materials for sheet press companies.

Future Fossils: SUM marks the final installation in Tuazon’s decade-long trilogy, Shift in the Order of Things, in which the artist challenges how an individual is subjected towards an ideological version of the world. Tuazon’s trilogy consists of three themes—economy, culture, and power—with works about the urban plan, cultural history, and human-made geology. Revealing and reinserting what is erased from the existing Western order of the built world, Tuazon’s sculptures function as a tool to propose alternate realities. The first installment, titled Architectures of Defense, was exhibited at Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany in 2010, interpreting common barrier structures in urban landscape as instruments of racial and class division. The second chapter, a solo exhibition, On the Wrong Side of History at the Brooklyn Museum in 2011, highlighted the separation of world cultures relegated to the past as preserved through museums and academic institutions. These two projects on architecture and artifacts led the artist to the subject of planetary conditions as human activities now have the greatest impact on geological and ecological systems, as presented in this latest installation. Through Future Fossil: SUM, Tuazon aims to decentralize human and existing categories of human knowledge. She states, “The trilogy itself is an onion with strata-like layers that telescope from the scale of a human body at the core to the planetary conditions that contain it and conversely, from the planet to the body, resembling a circular economy.”

“For this exhibition, the Art Center will become a laboratory for radical processes in new material led by artist Lan Tuazon,” according to Allison Peters Quinn. “When Lan was participating in the Jackman Goldwasser Residency here in 2017, she proposed the idea of building a house filled with bisected and recycled containers ranging from hot sauce bottles to shipping containers. I had no idea how impactful her work would be on piloting new materials from recovered plastics. This immersive installation will truly put into perspective the geologic weight of our consumer habits, while literally building inhabitable structures from waste.”

This exhibition is generously supported by the Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Charitable Foundation and the Henry Moore Foundation.

Tuazon shares the inspiration and goal for creating her trilogy: “It inspires me to think that reality is an unfinished project. When I look at the built world, I know it exists at the erasure of other possibilities. You can make up the difference if you’re a builder, but the goal is not to rebuild everything, but to create the double that reminds you that possibilities are in the making. My sculptures are meant to be evidence of the very things we deny, and artworks that give visibility to the nature of our condition.”

Lan Tuazon (b.1976, Philippines) lives and works in Chicago where she is an Associate Professor of Sculpture at the School of Art Institute in Chicago. Tuazon has exhibited internationally at the Neue Galerie in the Imperial Palace (Austria), Bucharest Biennale 4 (Romania), the WKV Kunstverein (Germany), and the Lowry Museum (U.K.). Solo exhibitions have been held at Brooklyn Museum and Storefront of Art and Architecture (New York), Youngworld, Inc (Detroit), and Julius Caesar (Chicago). She was awarded artist-in-residence fellowships by the Akademie Schloss Solitude (Germany), Headlands Art Center (U.S.), and Civitella Ranieri (Italy). Tuazon’s work has been featured in group exhibitions in New York at 8th Floor Rubin Foundation, Artist Space, Canada Gallery, Sculpture Center, Apex Art, Exit Art; in Los Angeles at Redcat Gallery; in addition to here at Hyde Park Art Center. Lan Tuazon received her B.A. from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1999, her M.F.A. from Yale University in 2002, and graduated from Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program in 2003.

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CENTER SUNDAYS PUBLIC PROGRAM MAY 2, 2021, 1-4 P.M.

WITH IN-PERSON AND VIRTUAL PROGRAMMING

Latest installment in monthly series, now with both in-person and virtual components, features three hours of artmaking, film screening, artist talk, exhibition walkthrough, and portrait painting

CHICAGO (April 22, 2021)— Hyde Park Art Center, the renowned non-profit hub for contemporary art located on Chicago’s vibrant South Side, will host its latest Center Sunday, an all-ages program filled with art-making activities, workshops, and artist talks, held on the first Sunday of each month, May 2, from 1-4 p.m. This month’s program will feature both in-person and virtual components: outdoor artmaking with the Smart Museum, outdoor film screening by the South Side Home Movie Project, virtual exhibition walkthrough and artist talk with Maggie Crowley, and virtual portrait painting with Irina Zadov. The event is free and open to the public, with pre-registration required at hydeparkart.org.

Monthly Center Sundays are curated by Ciera McKissick, Hyde Park Art Center Public Programs Coordinator, as a means of introducing the community to the myriad ongoing offerings at the Hyde Park Art Center for all ages, interests and skill levels; the May Center Sunday programming includes:

Artmaking: “Fundred” Project Drawing Workshop with Smart Museum Educators

1 – 3 p.m.

Outdoor in-person in the Hyde Park Art Center parking lot

Educators from the Smart Museum of Art will teach how to create one’s own “fundred” for the Fundred Project. The Fundreds Project engages youth in civic action around lead contamination and is a creative currency to demonstrate how much the lives of children and a future free of lead poisoning are valued. A “fundred” is an original, hand-drawn interpretations of $100 bills, and is a play on words which combines the words “Fun,” “Fund,” and “Hundred.” Making a Fundred is a chance to express oneself, while together the Fundreds demonstrate the value collectively placed on healthier communities, lead-safe homes, and the imagination of all children. Located nearby in Hyde Park, the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago is a site for rigorous inquiry and exchange that encourages the examination of complex issues through the lens of art objects and artistic practice. Through strong community and scholarly partnerships, the Museum, first opened in 1974, incorporates diverse ideas, identities, and experiences into its exhibitions and collections, academic inquiry, and public programming. 

Spinning Home Movies Screening

1 – 3 p.m.

Outdoor in-person in the Hyde Park Art Center parking lot

Hyde Park Art Center hosts an outdoor screening of Episode 14, the latest episode, of the South Side Home Movie Project’s Spinning Home Movies. The South Side Home Movie Project collects, preserves, digitizes, researchs and screens home movies made by residents of Chicago’s South Side neighborhoods. Spinning Home Movies invites local artists and DJs to curate a collection from the archive, set to music for a special episode. Curator Ciera McKissick and DJ Skoli are featured in this episode to take viewers on a road trip across the country as a way to highlight the complexities of black transit and travel. 

“What Time Is It?” Portrait Session with Irina Zadov

2 – 3 p.m.

Virtual via Zoom link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89878680561

Chicago-based artist and organizer Irina Zadov leads a virtual portrait painting session where she paints and interviews a teen member from the Art Center’s ArtShop education program. Zadov’s current exhibition What Time Is It? debuts a rotating series of large-scale digital portraits of some of Chicago’s most influential cultural community members, projected on the facade of the Art Center. These 50 hand-painted portraits highlight contemporary artists, authors, activists and thinkers who are working to radically transform our city. 

Exhibition Walkthrough and Artist Talk with Maggie Crowley

3 – 4 p.m.

Virtual via Zoom link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89878680561

Artist Maggie Crowley leads a walkthrough of her first solo exhibition in Chicago, Playmate, currently on view at the Art Center, featuring a new series of large figurative paintings in acrylic on silk in which she examines her admiration and personal connection to the service industry. Crowley examines the invisible labor and value placed on essential work – a discrepancy recently heightened in the US by the pandemic. The walkthrough will be followed by a facilitated Q&A with Exhibitions and Residency Coordinator, Mariela Acuna.

About Center Sundays

Every first Sunday of the month and pre-COVID 19, Hyde Park Art Center was activated throughout the center for the public, neighbors, and families, with intergenerational art making activities, artist workshops, artist talks, open studios, curatorial tours of its exhibitions, community collaborations, music and small bites. Since the pandemic lockdown, Center Sundays have switched online—and now in a hybrid mode—continuing with interaction, engagement, and exchange with the public on the same day of each month. Center Sundays are free and open for all.

About the Hyde Park Art Center

Hyde Park Art Center, at 5020 South Cornell Avenue on Chicago’s vibrant South Side, is a hub for contemporary arts in Chicago, serving as a gathering and production space for artists and the broader community to cultivate ideas, impact social change, and connect with new networks. Since its inception in 1939, Hyde Park Art Center has grown from a small collective of quirky artists to establishing a strong legacy of innovative development and emerging as a unique Chicago arts institution with social impact. The Art Center functions as an amplifier for today and tomorrow’s creative voices, providing the space to cultivate and create new work and connections.

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The Metamorphosis of Gabriel Villa

April 26 – July 17, 2021

New works of installation and clay sculpture rooted in Mexican traditions and Southside Chicago experience showcased alongside earlier paintings

CHICAGO (April 13, 2021)—Hyde Park Art Center, the renowned non-profit hub for contemporary art located on Chicago’s vibrant South Side, presents The Metamorphosis of Gabriel Villa and a related virtual artist talk. This major new solo exhibition introduces the Chicago artist’s new direction in installation and clay sculpture created during his 2018-19 Jackman Goldwasser Residency at the Art Center, along with a selection of his earlier paintings. Curated by Allison Peters Quinn, Hyde Park Art Center Director of Exhibition & Residency Programs, the exhibition—which is available for in-person viewing—runs from April 26 – July 17, 2021. 

Through an extensive studio and public art practice, Villa seeks to seamlessly translate the language of Mexican traditions and the personal, urban American experience into charged intimate narratives. A free virtual public program Gabriel Villa Virtual Artist Talk will take place Thursday, June 6, 3-4 p.m.

via Zoom (https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81095516013), where Villa leads a virtual exhibition walkthrough and conversation with cultural promoter, transgender activist, writer and graphic designer, Franky Piña. Advance registration is required on Eventbrite at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-metamorphosis-of-gabriel-villa-artist-talk-tickets-150122730127.

Sharing the roots for his newer works, Villa said, “My recent series of intimate ceramic works and large-scale paintings are an extension of my studio and public practice from a decades-long career. I have been a maker for many years in Chicago, gradually building a personal visual language. That language, steeped in real and imagined spaces, are far from improvisational. Each work allows for mental meandering, presenting abstracted elements arranged with depictions of my own Mexican American experience and direct observations from in and around Chicago’s Southside. This will be the first time I exhibit so many works at one time in the City of Chicago. I am glad it is taking place at Hyde Park Art Center. I identify with the Southside of Chicago. It’s been my home now for over 20 years.”

This exhibition is partially supported by a grant from The Illinois Arts Council.

Gabriel Villa, a studio and public artist, was born and raised in the El Paso, Texas/Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, border region, and currently resides in Chicago. He was a 2018-19 Jack Goldwasser Artist in Residence at Hyde Park Art Center, and a recipient of the Elena Diaz-Verson Amos Eminent Scholar in Latin American Studies at Columbus State University, GA, 2017. He received his MFA from the University of Delaware, a BFA from Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME, and The New York Academy of Art, NY. Villa served at the National Museum of Mexican Art, from 2006-2011 as a Co-Curator for the Chicago Kraft Foods Gallery, and from 2005-2011 as the Director of Yollocalli Arts Reach, a youth initiative.

Franky Piña is a cultural promoter, transgender activist, writer and graphic designer. She was the editor of eight catalogues of Latino artist from Chicago, and has co-founded several past and present cultural and literary magazines in Chicago including Fe de erratas, zorros y erizos, Tropel and Contratiempo.

COVID-19-related safety protocols 

Hyde Park Art Center views its community’s safety as the number one priority and is utilizing the guidance from the City and State to inform its reopening procedures including the requiring of masks to be worn in the building at all times; instituting extra cleaning and disinfecting procedures; wide availability of hand sanitizer throughout the building; and the careful configuring of exhibition hours so as to help regulate the number of people and maintain proper social distance in the Art Center at one time.

Admission and hours

Exhibition admission is free, and advance registration is required. For latest exhibition hours and advance registration, visit www.hydeparkart.org.

About the Hyde Park Art Center

Hyde Park Art Center, at 5020 South Cornell Avenue on Chicago’s vibrant South Side, is a hub for contemporary arts in Chicago, serving as a gathering and production space for artists and the broader community to cultivate ideas, impact social change, and connect with new networks. Since its inception in 1939, Hyde Park Art Center has grown from a small collective of quirky artists to establishing a strong legacy of innovative development and emerging as a unique Chicago arts institution with social impact. The Art Center functions as an amplifier for today and tomorrow’s creative voices, providing the space to cultivate and create new work and connections. 

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The Metamorphosis of Gabriel Villa

April 26 – July 17

Planting and Maintaining a Perennial Garden: Shrouds by Faheem Majeed

May 3 – July 17

CHICAGO (March 4, 2021)—Hyde Park Art Center, the renowned non-profit hub for contemporary art located on Chicago’s vibrant South Side, announces two major new solo exhibitions opening this Spring: The Metamorphosis of Gabriel Villa, April 26 – July 17, and Planting and Maintaining a Perennial Garden: Shrouds by Faheem Majeed, May 3 – July 17, both curated by Allison Peters Quinn, Art Center Director of Exhibition & Residency Program. For more information on the exhibitions and related public programs, visit hydeparkart.org.

The Metamorphosis of Gabriel Villa introduces Villa’s new direction from painting into installation and clay sculpture created during his Jackman Goldwasser Residency at Hyde Park Art Center, along with previous paintings. Through an extensive studio and public art practice, Villa seeks to seamlessly translate the language of Mexican traditions and the personal, urban American experience into charged intimate narratives. Villa’s subjects are ever evolving but always concentrate on psychological and social inequity in the multifaceted contemporary world. His stream of consciousness approach to painting and drawing expose the heightened reality found in everyday objects and places. ” This exhibition is partially supported by a grant from The Illinois Arts Council.

Gabriel Villa, a studio and public artist, was born and raised in the El Paso, Texas/Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, border region, and currently resides in Chicago. He was a 2018-19 Jack Goldwasser Artist in Residence at Hyde Park Art Center, and a recipient of the Elena Diaz-Verson Amos Eminent Scholar in Latin American Studies at Columbus State University, GA, 2017. He received his MFA from the University of Delaware, a BFA from Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME, and The New York Academy of Art, NY. Villa served at the National Museum of Mexican Art, from 2006-2011 as a Co-Curator for the Chicago Kraft Foods Gallery, and from 2005-2011 as the Director of Yollocalli Arts Reach, a youth initiative.

Planting and Maintaining a Perennial Garden: Shrouds by Faheem Majeed is an ambitious new installation and exhibition that furthers his investigation of culturally specific institutions by focusing on the history and memory of the historic South Side Community Art Center (SSCAC). The centerpiece of the exhibition will be a monumental charcoal rubbing of the SSCAC’s building facade at 3831 S. Michigan Ave. that Majeed has been working on since August 2020. Also incorporated, in addition to this new fabric work, is his ongoing series Planting and Maintaining a Perennial Garden, which reuses one set of cedar wood panels over many spaces. For this installation, the wooden planks, repurposed from the SSCAC’s Burroughs Gallery, will take the form of a platform that will both raise the massive building sized fabric rubbing on a pedestal, and be host to a performance by the Seldoms. In this exhibition, Majeed will debut his first video work on the Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Facade featuring dancer Damon Green in movement with the shroud choreographed by Carrie Hanson in the SSCAC’s wood-paneled art gallery.

Faheem Majeed is a builder—literally and metaphorically. A resident of Chicago’s South Shore  neighborhood, Majeed often looks to the material makeup of his neighborhood and surrounding areas as an entry point into larger questions around civic-mindedness, community activism, and institutional critique. As part of his studio practice, the artist transforms materials such as particle board, scrap metal and wood, and discarded signs and billboard remnants, breathing new life into these often overlooked and devalued materials. His broader engagement with the arts also involves arts administration, curation, and community facilitation, all which feed into his larger practice. From 2005-2011, Majeed served as Executive Director and Curator for the SSCAC. In this role he was responsible for managing operations, staff, programs, fundraising, curation, and archives for the SSCAC. During his time with the SSCAC, Majeed curated exhibitions of numerous artists including Elizabeth Catlett, Dr. David Driskell, Charles White, Jonathan Green, and Theaster Gates. Majeed received his BFA from Howard University and his MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).

Planting and Maintaining a Perennial Garden IV: Shrouds by Faheem Majeed is generously supported by The Joyce Foundation, The Terra Foundation for American Art, and The Illinois Arts Council.

Other exhibitions opening at Hyde Park Art Center in April include Irina Zadov: What time is it?, April 5 – May 1, 5-10 p.m., playing on the exterior of the Art Center building, and Maggie Crowley: Playmate, April 12 – June 5. For more information on all upcoming exhibitions and related public programs, please visit www.hydeparkart.org.

COVID-19-related safety protocols 

Hyde Park Art Center views its community’s safety as the number one priority and is utilizing the guidance from the City and State to inform its reopening procedures including the requiring of masks to be worn in the building at all times; instituting extra cleaning and disinfecting procedures; wide availability of hand sanitizer throughout the building; and the careful configuring of exhibition hours so as to help regulate the number of people and maintain proper social distance in the Art Center at one time.

Admission and hours

Exhibition admission is free, and advance registration is required. For latest exhibition hours and advance registration, visit www.hydeparkart.org.

About the Hyde Park Art Center

Hyde Park Art Center, at 5020 South Cornell Avenue on Chicago’s vibrant South Side, is a hub for contemporary arts in Chicago, serving as a gathering and production space for artists and the broader community to cultivate ideas, impact social change, and connect with new networks. Since its inception in 1939, Hyde Park Art Center has grown from a small collective of quirky artists to establishing a strong legacy of innovative development and emerging as a unique Chicago arts institution with social impact. The Art Center functions as an amplifier for today and tomorrow’s creative voices, providing the space to cultivate and create new work and connections. 

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What Time Is It?: A Portrait Project by Irina Zadov 

Digital façade featuring portraits of Chicago community leaders and thinkers 

April 5 – May 1, 2021

CHICAGO (March 17, 2021)—Hyde Park Art Center, the renowned non-profit hub for contemporary art located on Chicago’s vibrant South Side, announces What Time Is It?: A Portrait Project by Irina Zadov, a digital portrait series to be projected on the exterior of the Art Center building in the Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery, April 5 – May 1, 5-10 p.m. 

What Time Is It? debuts a rotating series of large-scale digital portraits of some of Chicago’s most influential cultural community members on the facade of the Hyde Park Art Center. These 50 hand-painted portraits, created by Chicago-based artist and organizer, Irina Zadov, highlight contemporary artists, authors, activists and thinkers working now to radically transform our city. 

The digital portrait series represents individuals across the spectrum of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, ability, and age – with a focus on Chicago’s Black, Indigenous, POC, and LGBTQIA+ communities and includes Makazin Alexander, D’onmonique Lovie Boyd, Rachel Caidor, Stefan Caizaguano,  Aymar Jean Christian, Teishetta Daniel, Marcus Davis, Jordan Easen, William Estrada, Krista Franklin, Emmanuel Garcia, Silvia Inez Gonzalez, Tracie D. Hall, Benji Hart, Juarez Hawkins, Tempestt Hazel, Brenda Hernandez, Zeb Hurst, Tonika Johnson, Juniper, Faheem Majeed, Nicole Marroquin, Vivi More, Patricia Nguyen, Zakkiyyah Najeeba Dumas O’Neal, Todd Palmer, Hilesh Patel, Fawn Pochel, Aislinn Pulley, Compton Quashie, Kamilah Rashied, Brant Rosen, Rochele Royster, Natalia Smirnov, David Stovall, Alexis Villagomez, Savannah Wood, Chun-Shan “Sandie” Yi, and avery r. young. For a complete list of these portraits, go to https://www.irinazadov.com/whattimeisit.

The title of the exhibition derives from a quote from American revolutionary and philosopher Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) who, along with her husband and civil rights activist, Jimmy Boggs, visualized 3,000 years of human history on a 12-hour clock where each minute represents 50 years. Boggs asked her collaborators and critics alike, “what time is it on the clock of the world?” Extending this metaphor, the couple argued that revolution as the primary driver of social change is only 5 minutes old. Since May 2020, Zadov has used the medium of portrait painting and dialogue to engage artists and organizers around this question, while re-imagining community safety, radical care, housing, displacement, belonging, climate justice, access, and accountability.

The portraits are one part of a larger cultural and civic archive developed by Zadov including podcasts produced by Najee-Zaid Searcy, a publication, and a public art series in collaboration with J Sath and Rivka Yeker of Hooligan Creatives that is installed within neighborhoods where the individuals reside, with an emphasis on the South and West Sides of Chicago.  For more information on this archive titled What Time Is It? visit https://www.irinazadov.com/whattimeisit.  

Irina Zadov (she/they) is/are an artist, educator, and cultural organizer. A queer post-Soviet Jewish refugee, their practice explores the liminal space between the individual and the collective, diasporic community and chosen family, the home and the state. Zadov aims to co-create joyful, healing, and liberatory spaces for youth, people of color, immigrants, and LGBTQIA+ communities. Zadov is a student of adrienne maree brown and Mariame Kaba; their highest intention is to practice emergent strategy and abolition within all aspects of their life. Learn more about their practice at irinazadov.com.

What Time Is It? is supported by the Illinois Arts Council.

Running concurrently inside the Hyde Park Art Center galleries will be two additional solo exhibitions: Cuts and Beats, by Chicago-based artist and educator Cecil McDonald, Jr., incorporating photomontages to subvert the racist representation of Black artists from history, on view through June 12, and Playmate: Maggie Crowley, a new series of textile work and large figurative paintings in acrylic on silk examining her admiration and personal connection to service, through June 5.

Admission and hours

The admission for this outdoor exhibition is free, and no advance registration is required. For latest exhibition hours and advance registration for indoor exhibitions, visit www.hydeparkart.org.

About the Hyde Park Art Center

Hyde Park Art Center, at 5020 South Cornell Avenue on Chicago’s vibrant South Side, is a hub for contemporary arts in Chicago, serving as a gathering and production space for artists and the broader community to cultivate ideas, impact social change, and connect with new networks. Since its inception in 1939, Hyde Park Art Center has grown from a small collective of quirky artists to establishing a strong legacy of innovative development and emerging as a unique Chicago arts institution with social impact. The Art Center functions as an amplifier for today and tomorrow’s creative voices, providing the space to cultivate and create new work and connections. 

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considering paradox of essential work force during pandemic

Maggie Crowley: Playmate

April 12 – June 5, 2021

CHICAGO (March 17, 2021)—Hyde Park Art Center, the renowned non-profit hub for contemporary art located on Chicago’s vibrant South Side, announces Maggie Crowley: Playmate, a solo exhibition of new textile work and large figurative paintings in acrylic on silk, on view April 12 – June 5. 

In her first solo exhibition in Chicago, Crowley presents this new series examining her admiration and personal connection to service. Uniforms and accessories, like safety vests, gloves, and coolers, identify public workers and render them visible, while conducting labor that is considered invisible. Crowley considers this contradiction as it relates to the value placed on essential work – a discrepancy recently heightened in the U.S. by the pandemic. The exhibition title, Playmate, references the portable Igloo cooler beloved by laborers; Crowley chose the object as a symbol of the care, foresight, and independence of the skilled work force. 

Maggie Crowley received her M.F.A. from the University of Chicago, her M.A. from Eastern Illinois University and her B.S. from Illinois State University. Crowley has exhibited in group shows at numerous venues including the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Evanston Art Center, Hyde Park Art Center, Area: Lugar de Proyectos in Caguas, Puerto Rico and 65Grand in Chicago. Since 2014, Crowley has co-directed the Produce Model Gallery in the Pilsen neighborhood, dedicated to programming and exhibitions featuring Caribbean and Latinx artists. She serves on the board of Chicago’s International Children’s Media Center, helping to facilitate education programs for prisons, jails and at-risk students here. She is a 2014 alumna of the Art Center’s Ground Floor exhibition of Chicago MFA graduates; the 2020-21 edition of Ground Floor is currently mounted. 

Running concurrently with Maggie Crowley: Playmate will be two additional solo exhibitions: Cuts and Beats, by Chicago-based artist and educator Cecil McDonald, Jr., incorporating photomontages to subvert the racist representation of Black artists from history, on view through June 12, and What Time Is It?: A Portrait Project by Irina Zadov, a series of large-scale digital portraits of some of Chicago’s most influential community members projected on the facade of the Hyde Park Art Center through May 1.  

COVID-19-related safety protocols 

Hyde Park Art Center views its community’s safety as the number one priority and is utilizing the guidance from the City and State to inform its reopening procedures including the requiring of masks to be worn in the building at all times; instituting extra cleaning and disinfecting procedures; wide availability of hand sanitizer throughout the building; and the careful configuring of exhibition hours so as to help regulate the number of people and maintain proper social distance in the Art Center at one time.

Admission and hours

Exhibition admission is free, and advance registration is required. For latest exhibition hours and advance registration, visit www.hydeparkart.org.

About the Hyde Park Art Center

Hyde Park Art Center, at 5020 South Cornell Avenue on Chicago’s vibrant South Side, is a hub for contemporary arts in Chicago, serving as a gathering and production space for artists and the broader community to cultivate ideas, impact social change, and connect with new networks. Since its inception in 1939, Hyde Park Art Center has grown from a small collective of quirky artists to establishing a strong legacy of innovative development and emerging as a unique Chicago arts institution with social impact. The Art Center functions as an amplifier for today and tomorrow’s creative voices, providing the space to cultivate and create new work and connections. 

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   HYDE PARK ART CENTER ANNOUNCES ‘ARTISTS RUN CHICAGO FUND’ 

TO AWARD MORE THAN HALF MILLION DOLLARS ($560K)

TO 70 CHICAGO ARTIST-RUN SPACES

Hyde Park Art Center, the renowned non-profit hub for contemporary art located on Chicago’s vibrant South Side, announces the Artists Run Chicago Fund, a new regranting initiative providing more than half a million dollars ($560,000) to support Chicago’s artist community. Taking place in two phases, the first will immediately grant awards of $8,000 to each of the 50 independent      artist-run spaces that participated in the Art Center’s popular 2020 exhibition, Artists Run Chicago 2.0 (ARC 2.0).  Later this month, Chicago artist-run spaces that did not participate in ARC 2.0 are invited to apply for 20 additional grants of $8,000. The Artists Run Chicago Fund initiative is being funded by an anonymous donor and is being fully administered by Hyde Park Art Center.  

Recipients of the first phase of the Artists Run Chicago Fund include 062, 4th Ward Project Space, 65Grand, ACRE Projects, Adds Donna, AMFM, Annas, Apparatus Projects, Bad At Sports, Blanc Gallery, boundary, Chicago Art Department, Chuquimarca, Cleaner Gallery + Projects, Clutch, Co-Prosperity Sphere/Public Media Institute, Comfort Station, Compound Yellow, D Gallery, Devening Projects, Document, Experimental Sound Studio, F4F, The Franklin, Heaven Gallery, Iceberg Projects, Ignition Project Space, Julius Caesar, Lawrence and Clark, LVL3, Mujeres Mutantes, Ohklahomo, The Nightingale Cinema, Practise, Prairie, Roman Susan, Roots & Culture, Rootwork Gallery, The Silver Room, Slow, The Suburban, Sweet Water Foundation, table, Terrain Exhibitions, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Trunk Show, TRQPITECA, VGA Gallery, Wedge Projects, and Western Pole.  

“The Artists Run Chicago Fund presents a proud moment for Chicago,” said Allison Peters Quinn, Hyde Park Art Center Director of Exhibitions & Residency.  “In the city, artists freely share their resources, time, space, and ideas to create unforgettable experiences that unite people through art in their neighborhoods. This fund proves to artists that this city and its people value artists and the relentless work they do to make Chicago a place where art, experimentation, and community converge.” 

Added Mark Jeffrey, founder of Ohklahomo and Artist Run Chicago 2.0 participant, “This extraordinary donation for artist-run spaces here in Chicago is unbelievable. Artists and community need resources right now to continue and to begin again. And as we enter this new year, this fund gives light and hope and allows for artist run spaces to reimagine and to create new communities and a new sense of belonging, inclusion and being together.  For this I am so grateful and so humbled.” 

The second phase of the Artists Run Chicago Fund program will award 20 unrestricted $8,000 grants to artist-run spaces, collectives, and platforms from the Chicagoland area that were not included in the ARC 2.0 exhibition and founded before 2020. The second phase of the grant will support experimental artist-led spaces and platforms with a particular focus on those that are run by artists who identify as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color), women, queer and/or with disabilities. Phase two will also expand the network of support that makes artist-driven projects thrive in Chicago. Applications for Artists Run Chicago Fund grants will be available starting March 1, with a submission deadline of March 31, 2021; for more information, please visit https://www.hydeparkart.org/get-involved/artist-opportunities/artists-run-chicago-fund

About the Hyde Park Art Center

Hyde Park Art Center, at 5020 South Cornell Avenue on Chicago’s vibrant South Side, is a hub for contemporary arts in Chicago, serving as a gathering and production space for artists and the broader community to cultivate ideas, impact social change, and connect with new networks. Since its inception in 1939, Hyde Park Art Center has grown from a small collective of quirky artists to establishing a strong legacy of innovative development and emerging as a unique Chicago arts institution with social impact. The Art Center functions as an amplifier for today and tomorrow’s creative voices, providing the space to cultivate and create new work and connections. 

For more information about Hyde Park Art Center and the Artists Run Chicago Fund,  click here. 

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HYDE PARK ART CENTER CONTINUES FREE ALL-AGES INTERACTIVE 

CENTER SUNDAYS PUBLIC PROGRAM February 7, 2021, 1-4 P.M.

Latest installment in monthly series, now virtual, features three hours of Teen Takeover public programs in support of Art Center Teen Program’s upcoming exhibition “Next Window, Please!”

Hyde Park Art Center will host its latest Center Sunday, an all-ages program filled with art-making activities, workshops, and artist talks, held on the first Sunday of each month, February 7, from 1-4 p.m. virtually, via Zoom. This month’s program will feature a Teen Takeover in support of the Art Center Teen Program’s upcoming exhibition Next Window, Please!, and include four segments of exhibition walkthroughs, artist talks, film screenings, and teen-led interviews, curated by the Art Center’s Youth Board of Artists, a core leadership group of the Teen Program. The event is free and open to the public virtually via Zoom link, and pre-registration is required at www.hydeparkart.org.

Monthly Center Sundays are curated by Ciera McKissick, Hyde Park Art Center Public Programs Coordinator, as a means of introducing the community to the myriad ongoing offerings at the Hyde Park Art Center for all ages, interests and skill levels; the February Center Sunday programming includes:

Virtual Walkthrough of Next Window, Please!

1-2 p.m.

A virtual walkthrough of the upcoming exhibition, which includes documentation of the community engaged work organized by the Art Center’s Youth Board of Artists this Summer. Every year at the Hyde Park Art Center, as part of its Teen Program, six professional artists mentor over 150 student artists to develop their artistic voices over the course of 30 weeks. During the 2019-2020 year, the young artists experienced the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the powerful wave of organized protests for racial justice that resulted from the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor, among many others. Works in Next Window, Please! document the days between March and May of 2020 from the perspective of young Chicago artists. The upcoming exhibition Next Window, Please! is curated with the assistance of Mariela Acuna, Exhibitions and Residency Coordinator. 

Artist Talk with Teen Artist Tzoe Rivera

2-2:30 p.m.

Attendees will learn more about the multi-disciplinary work of teen artist Tzoe Rivera, one of the teens showcased in Next Window, Please!, and gain insight into her interdisciplinary practice at the Art Center and at home.  

Short Screening from Amir Johnson 

2:30-3 p.m.

A screening of teen artist Amir Johnson’s short film followed by a talkback about his work.

The Teens Interview Walter Massey on “Navigating the Art World” 

3-4 p.m.

A conversation between teen artists and Hyde Park Art Center Board Member Dr. Walter Massey, the former President and current Chancellor of the School of the Art Institute, 

on how to navigate the ins and outs of the art world.

About Teen Programs

Hyde Park Art Center teens represent over 20 high schools across Chicago, including: Amundsen HS, Carl Schurz HS, Chicago Virtual Charter, Dyett HS, Excel Academy Roseland, Hyde Park Academy HS, Johnson College Prep, Kenwood Academy, Lindblom HS, Lincoln Park HS, Little Black Pearl, Morgan Park Academy, Ogden HS, Simeon HS, St. Rita HS, St. Ignatius HS, Tilden HS, UIC Academy, Walter Payton HS, and Whitney Young HS. Guest speakers, visits from teen-program alumni, and field trips are common during teen programs at Hyde Park Art Center to expose students to the arts across Chicago.  

About Center Sundays

Every first Sunday of the month and pre-COVID 19, Hyde Park Art Center was activated throughout the center for the public, neighbors, and families, with intergenerational art making activities, artist workshops, artist talks, open studios, curatorial tours of its exhibitions, community collaborations, music and small bites. Since the pandemic lockdown, Center Sundays have switched online, continuing with virtual interaction, engagement, and exchange with the public audience on the same day of each month. Center Sundays are free and open for all.

About the Hyde Park Art Center

Hyde Park Art Center, at 5020 South Cornell Avenue on Chicago’s vibrant South Side, is a hub for contemporary arts in Chicago, serving as a gathering and production space for artists and the broader community to cultivate ideas, impact social change, and connect with new networks. Since its inception in 1939, Hyde Park Art Center has grown from a small collective of quirky artists to establishing a strong legacy of innovative development and emerging as a unique Chicago arts institution with social impact. The Art Center functions as an amplifier for today and tomorrow’s creative voices, providing the space to cultivate and create new work and connections. 

For more information on Hyde Park Art Center’s public programs such as Center Sundays, please visit www.hydeparkart.org.

Zoom link to join the day of eventL https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUsduiqrjsrGd0mkFjvYOwk8JcfG5p4xfZy

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HYDE PARK ART CENTER HOSTS FREE VIRTUAL MLK DAY CELEBRATION: 

Gamechangers & Name Changers

Monday, January 18, 12-4 P.M.

CHICAGO (January 7, 2021)— Hyde Park Art Center, the renowned non-profit hub for contemporary art located on Chicago’s vibrant South Side, proudly presents Gamechangers & Name Changers: A Virtual MLK Day Celebration, a virtual public program, Monday, January 18, 12-4 p.m. Through film screenings, conversations, and presentations about movements close to home in Chicago, the program celebrates local artists, activists and makers who embody the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., and the spirit of justice and visibility. The event is free and open to the public via Zoom Meeting ID 843 3930 5758 or Zoom Link: us02web.zoom.us/j/84339305758; no pre-registration required. For more information, visit www.hydeparkart.org.

Curated by Ciera McKissick, Art Center Public Programs Coordinator, Gamechangers & Name Changers: A Virtual MLK Day Celebration programming includes:

Paige Taul Shorts Screening & Artist Q&A

12-1 p.m.

A screening of short films by artist Paige Taul, followed by a Q&A. Taul’s work engages with and challenges assumptions of Black cultural expression and notions of belonging through experimental cinematography. Her work tests the boundaries of identity through autoethnography to approach notions of racial authenticity in veins such as religion, style, language, and other Black community-based experiences. Taul is an MFA graduate from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and will be participating in the Art Center’s upcoming Ground Floor exhibition, an ongoing biennial featuring select work by outstanding recent graduates from each of Chicago’s MFA programs.

“Change the Name” Presentation with Village Leadership Academy Youth 

1:30-2 p.m.

Last summer, young Black freedom fighters of the “Change the Name” campaign achieved victory after a 3+-year fight to push city officials to rename Douglas Park after abolitionists Anna and Frederick Douglass. Hear from three 8th grade youth organizers from Village Leadership Academy as they share the campaign’s origin, some of their grassroots organizing strategies, and the importance of ensuring that Anna Douglass was included in the renaming campaign.

The Mural Renaissance in Chicago 

2-3 p.m.

From the 1967 mural The Wall of Respect to the recent BLM murals and boards, artists have always been at the helm of provoking change through painting. This program brings together Black muralists past and present who discuss the parallels between murals and movements in Chicago, featuring artists Dorian Sylvain, Eugene Wade, and Langston Allston in conversation with Juarez Hawkins, the daughter of Florence Hawkins, one of the painters of Wall of Respect.

Black Lives Past & Present: Where Do We Intersect? 

3-4 p.m.

A dialogue with intergenerational activists about Civil Rights, organizing, and the parallels between movements of the past and the current day. Journalist Brenda Butler, formerly at Chicago Tribune, will moderate the talk between Rev. Janette Wilson (National Director of PUSH Excel at Operation PUSH), Bamani Obadele (Director of Community Engagement at Acclivus Inc.), Trina Reynolds-Taylor (Director of Data at the Invisible Institute), and Jae Rice (Director of Communications at Brave Space Alliance).

About the Hyde Park Art Center

Hyde Park Art Center, at 5020 South Cornell Avenue on Chicago’s vibrant South Side, is a hub for contemporary arts in Chicago, serving as a gathering and production space for artists and the broader community to cultivate ideas, impact social change, and connect with new networks. Since its inception in 1939, Hyde Park Art Center has grown from a small collective of quirky artists to establishing a strong legacy of innovative development and emerging as a unique Chicago arts institution with social impact. The Art Center functions as an amplifier for today and tomorrow’s creative voices, providing the space to cultivate and create new work and connections. 

For more information, please visit www.hydeparkart.org.

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Photo credits:

Paige Taul. Photo courtesy of the artist.

“Change the Name” Campaign Village Leadership Academy Youth. Photo courtesy of Bianca Jones.

Wall of Respect, mural by various artists of the Organization of Black American Culture led by William Walker. Photograph by Robert A. Sengstacke.

Jae Rice, Trans Lives Matter BLM March from summer 2020. Photo courtesy of Jae Rice.

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