HYDE PARK ART CENTER CONTINUES FREE ALL-AGES INTERACTIVE
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.
