Bronzeville Art District- Virtual Trolley Tour Open Studio

"Art is Business" 

Phantom Gallery: https://bit.ly/PhantomGalleryChicago

Please join us this evening for October 15, 2021, Bronzeville Art Tour starting at 7 pm.

Virtual Experience: To enjoy the evening virtually, please see the links below. You can visit any of the galleries, art institutions or studios and experience the amazing art and entertainment you would find on our in-person trolley tour. You can pop in and pop out and visit for as long as the presentation is available.

Links are subject to change. Please check before the event.

Gallery Guichard: Virtual and In-person

https://bit.ly/galleryguichardarttour

Webinar ID: 821 1588 2807

International numbers available: International numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbNbZGGLSe

Faie Afrikan Art: Virtual and In-person https:us02web.zoom.us/j/87320093471?

Meeting ID 873 2009 3471

Passcode 698508

Meeting ID: 883 7926 7223 Passcode: 687512

Blanc Gallery: Virtual and In-person https://bit.ly/AugustBlanc21

South Side Community Art Center: Virtual Only

https://bit.ly/sscacarttouraug

Passcode: 385108

Or One tap mobile :

    US: +13126266799,,82475324412#,,,,*385108#  or +13017158592,,82475324412#,,,,*385108#

Or Telephone:

    Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location):

        US: +1 312 626 6799  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 646 558 8656  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 720 707 2699

Webinar ID: 824 7532 4412

Passcode: 385108

 International numbers available: https://us06web.zoom.us/u/kbLn9FYPfL

Meeting ID: 998 0571 5631 Passcode: 098588

Bronzeville Artist Lofts - Virtual 

Phantom Gallery: https://bit.ly/PhantomGalleryChicago

Raymond Thomas Studio: https://bit.ly/ThomasStudios_Tour

Alan Emerson Hicks:

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87803862154?pwd=QUltVUdvYmpKaHBnL3FpditwbmlwUT09

 Meeting ID: 878 0386 2154

Passcode: 065227

You can also copy and place in your browser to search 

Ceremonial Teas in the Context of African American Social Life

"Art is Business" https://www.evanstonartcenter.org/curatorial-fellowship

This lecture will be virtual, and available via Zoom. After registering on Eventbrite, a day before the event, we will email you more information on how to log into the event via Zoom with the Meeting ID and password.

This event is free and open to the public.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ceremonial-teas-in-the-context-of-african-american-social-life-tickets-133245698471

There will be a Q&A after the presentation, we are looking forward to prepared questions you may have for each of our presenters. Please send a responsive question to the Chat once on Zoom so that they can respond.

Attire:

Also, wear your fancy tops, and hats don't forget the gloves. Have your teacup brewing and tea cakes, make it fun by inviting your social circle to attend online.

Moderator

Adero Knott

Knott (she/her) is an emerging curator who debuted at MCA Chicago, curating "Disability and Perspective", one of four exhibitions belonging to the Commons Artist Project of Norman Teague + Fo Wilson's blkHaUS studios. Adero is a Prosthetics Designer and Founder of AK Prosthetics, Corp., an AdaptiveTech startup on a mission to make customized prosthetics and adaptive wearables accessible and inclusive. Adero has been featured in Forbes, Chicago Sun-Times, and American Inno for her innovative work in the community of Chicago. Adero is also an ADA 25 Advancing Leadership Fellow of 2020.

Presenter: Larissa J. Akinremi

Larissa is the Creative and Promotions Director for Universal Dance Music, as well as other collaborative projects with Chicago artists, historians, and creatives. She has received her Visual Arts Certification from the University of Chicago Graham School and Hyde Park Art Center in 2017 and has earned a certificate in 2020 from Digital Storytelling Institute at the Logan Center.

Guest Speaker: Taurean J. Webb

Taurean J. Webb, director of the Center for the Church and the Black Experience (CBE) and instructor of religion and race at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, was named a 2020-2021 non-resident fellow in the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative (RCPI) at Harvard Divinity School. In addition to supporting his scholarship and integrating him into the intellectual life of the RCPI, the program has also commissioned Webb to produce a visual arts exhibition, featuring the works of African- and Arab- descended artists. 

“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.” – James Baldwin

Auntie Caryl's 2020 Winter Wellness Kit! Limited Edition

"Art is Business" reposted for Caryl Henry Alexander Thanks for your support

Peace and Blessings Friends,

I trust that you are well and enjoying your holiday weekend.

I'm good, especially excited to share this news with you!

As you know, I have been working since this past Spring to create a collection of herbal wellness products with the abundance from my beautiful Gratitude Garden.

The result is Auntie Caryl's 2020 Winter Wellness Kit! And now it is finally complete and ready for sale. Headlining this kit is an original handmade mixed media artwork created to bring healing positive vibrations to your environment.

I am currently working to have Auntie's e-commerce site up and active soon.

The kits are a limited edition and you can pre-order by responding to this email. 

Caryl Henry <carylawp@gmail.com>

Thanks for your support

Caryl

Sojourner Truth African Heritage Museum "Cotton Comes to Harlem" Part 2

"Art is Business"Creative Conversation" PopUp Research Station
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/phantomgallerychicago/2019/09/26/sojourner-truth-african-heritage-museum-cotton-comes-to-harlem-part-2

Isreal Low "Izzy"

Shonna McDaniels, a visual artist, and community activist, envisioned an institution to preserve Black history and celebrate the accomplishments of African American people and their legacy. As a result, the previous name of Sojourner Truth Multicultural Art Museum changed to Sojourner Truth African American Museum. We offer resources to document, preserve and educate the public on the history, life, and culture of African Americans.

Our mission is to open minds and change lives through the exploration and celebration of African American history, experiences and culture through art education and outreach.

The goal of this project is to create public art with images youth can identify with. Also, we hope to educate youth about the important role and legacy artist from the Harlem Renaissance played in shaping history and the vibrant communities they lived in.  Artist working with the museum will provide a series of work-study sessions incorporating film documentaries from the artist of the Harlem Renaissance time period to youth at the Mack Road Valley High Community center.  Youth who attend this center will learn about Jazz artist, visual artist, Poets, and Writers who impacted their community through the arts.  August 31st we will kick off a community celebration called “Cotton Comes to Harlem” and invite the entire community to come and paint with muralist to create murals inspired by the artist of that time period.

Mack Road Valley High Community Center, Bike Shop Mural 2019

Investigation- Tactical Urbanism, Public Participatory art projects allow the public to collaborate. To inspire improvement, to infrastructure but also show how temporary installations skillfully connect public art projects with how public space plans are developed and implemented.

Global Designing Cities Initiative

Urban residents have long practiced a form of tactical urbanism: repurposing underutilized places using temporary materials and transforming them into more dynamic public spaces.

But in the past several years, tactical urbanism has become a movement. Frustrated by slow, expensive, and often exclusionary project delivery approaches, urban practitioners have found interim interventions to be an effective tactic for finding what works and getting projects on the ground. These temporary projects can help to encourage meaningful public engagement and generate support for permanent projects by allowing people to experience what’s possible, rather than just looking at renderings.

Want to join me in making a difference? 
National Academic Youth Corps Inc (National Academic Youth Corp) DBA Sojourner Truth African Heritage Museum, is raising money to benefit the Community Mural Beautification and Educational Workshops. Our mission is to open minds and change lives through the exploration and celebration of African American history, experiences and culture through art education and outreach.

Any donation will help make an impact. 

Strategy Sharing Social with The Funambulist Magazine Special guest Léopold Lambert

"Art is Business" This event is hosted by Ladipo Famodu 651-261-7410

Special guest Léopold Lambert will share a brief history of The Funambulist Magazine and his plans for the future of the publication. Attendees are encouraged to participate in the informal discussion by responding to the question “How are you fighting for spatial justice in Chicago and beyond?”

The Funambulist is “a print and online magazine dedicated the politics of space and bodies initiated in 2015. Every two months, it proposes to its readers' spatial perspectives on political anticolonial, antiracist, queer, feminist and/or anti-ableist struggles in various scales and geographies of the world”.

https://thefunambulist.net/about

Come join fellow artists, architects, designers, planners, journalists, activists...etc. for a series of brief interviews concluding with a social hour. 

This private event is of limited capacity, so please RSVP to save your spot. Information on additional interviewees to be shared throughout the week. 

LOCATION:

Bronzeville Artist Lofts

436 E. 47th Street

Second Floor, Room 205

Chicago IL, 60653

RSVP HOST: Ladipo Famodu

651-261-7410

8 x 3 Art + Architecture former Anthony Overton Elementary

"Art is Business" reposted for Ladipo Famodu 

This summer I am helping facilitate a series of events called 8x3 Art + Architecture, and it is taking place at the former Anthony Overton Elementary building in Bronzeville.

By asking 'how might art, design and architecture support, accelerate or amplify re-purposing of closed public schools?', this project aims to produce art and design installations by collaborative teams of architects and artists that can respond both to the main prompt of Creative Grounds about the future of social infrastructure and/or are inspired by the architecture of this building or the legacy of Anthony Overton.

Friday from 1-2 PM at the former Overton Elementary Building (4939 S Indiana, 1st floor). As Bronzeville residents and gallery owners, your insight and support are valued.

We are also seeking to connect with more Bronzeville-based artists like who are interested in participating.

Thanks, I look forward to hearing back from you!
Contact for more information.

Ladipo Famodu

ladipo.famodu@gmail.com

651-261-7410 

CULTURE BRIDGE/KULTURBRUECKE 2017

DANK Haus, Scharpenberg Art Gallery, 4th floor

4740 N. Western, Chicago, IL.

"Culture Bridge is an annual exhibition and International Festival open to the interpretation and views of artists, who enjoy the variety of expression in the form of paintings, music, photography, sculpture, jewelry, graphic design, fashion design, outsider art, performance art, film, storytelling and theater. 

Photo Credit Warren Perlstein

Cultures approach each other by way of travel and communication. I use to call it accultulation.  What is meant by acculturation? Cultural modification of an individual, group, or people by adapting to or borrowing traits from another culture; also : a merging of cultures as a result of prolonged contact. The process by which a human being acquires the culture of a particular society from infancy.

Photo Credit Warren Perlstein

It can also refer to "the process by which Western culture is being exported and diffused into other nations.

The International Art Group and artists invited to participate in 2017 Culture Bridge exhibition aim to create a dialog between cultures, using our many different art forms. Mariana Buchwald Founder of Iinternational Art Group.

Piotr Wolodkowciz, Keo Ra Zen, Past Curators of Culture Bridge/Kulturbruecke joined me in the installation of 2017 artworks, an amazing collections of art from artists who have traveled all over the world, now living and creating art in Chicago.

Featured artists Martha Juarez Photo Credit Warren Perlstein  

 Opening reception was documented by artist Warren Perlstein, visit him on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/warrenp/sets/72157680473493096/,to see the amazing photographs of the opening event.

Featured Artist Judith Roth- Photo Credit Warren Perlstein

Photo Credit Warren Perlstein

Artist Renee Baker- Film Series  maker and Composer

  

 Experimental Film and Sound

Tuesday, February, 28 and Wednesday March 1, 6pm - 9pm

 RENEE BAKER

Filmmaker/Composer

“SONIC CONSCIOUSNESS”

 Film 1 OUTEREXTREMIA 13

 Film 2: THE BLUE BIRD

Art Activities, Painting of Portraits

Saturday, March 4. 12:30pm - 3pm

Bookmaking with Linda M. Platt for families and artists

 

Linda M. Platt will be conducting a workshop for family and friends, photographed here with her daugher and son in law .

                          Portrait Painting:4pm  - 9pm:The Artist as Subject and Object:

 Michael Abcede, Martha Juarez, Elizabeth Parker, Piotr Wolodkowciz

Art talks with Laura Engel, The Native American Drum: Warren Perlstein

          

           Art Talk, Play, Film Festival 

Saturday March 11.Art Activities and Play,12:30 - 3pm with Penelope Thrashe        

Film Festival, 6 - 9pm: 

KULTURE KLASH featuring Kao Ra Zen,                                           

Tom Palazzolo, Daniel Brehm, Ron Richardson, Spencer Hutchinson     

Kao Ra Zen Curator of Film Festival KULTURE KLASH featuring Kao Ra Zen

     

 Live Music and Movement

SONIC NEWNESS: 

Renee Baker & Althea Teamer

Tues March 14. 6pm - 9pm

 Wed March 15. 6pm - 9pm

 Renee Baker & Chicago Mask Ensemble: Marianna Buchwald, Althea Teamer, Gina Carpenter, Daniel Weinberg, Kathryn Gauthier

Closing Reception

Saturday. March 18. 6pm - 9pm

Music: Ancestral Resurrections, George Larson,

Fashion show with Elizabeth Parker, 

Art bazaar: Daniel Weinberg

 EXHIBITING ARTISTS 

images can be seen on ArtSlant-
 

Michael Abcede 

Rah Marie Anderson

Renee Baker

Alpha Bruton 

Hans-Ulrich Buchwald

Marianna Buchwald 

Gina Carpenter

Paulo Carvalho

 Janina Ciezadlo

Kambua Chema   

Sara Peak Convery

Tomasz Fudala    

Henning Greve  

Kathryn Gauthier

Teresa Gierwielaniec – Rozanacki

Ladan Ghajar

Judith Heinemann

William Hill    

Spencer Hutchinson 

Martha Juarez      

Delia Jean

Stanislaw Kielar

Wes Lee K (Wesley Kochan)

Agnieszka Kulon
Renata Kowalczyk        

George Larson

Boruch Lev

Ginny Ching Yin Lo

Bishal Manandhar

Aimee Michel

Brittany Nacole  

Didier Nolet   

Elaine O’Sullivan

Tom Palazzolo 

Elizabeth Parker 

Warren Perlstein

Lauren Pilot

Linda M. Platt

Robert Pockmire

Judith C. Riemer

Erin Rossi

Judith Roth

Daniel Shumis

Paola Cofresi Silverstien    

Joanna Szymanska    

Joyan Tang

Althea Teamer

Bala Thiagarajan

Penelope Thrasher 

Elsa Toebelmann

Eileen Tull

Kim Denise Uhe

Daniel Weinberg

Zackary Williams

Piotr Wołodkowicz

Teresa Zawitkowska

Fotios Zemenides

Kao Ra Zen

  

        

CURATOR’S NOTES:

TIME ARTS - Marianna Buchwald             

"Culture Bridge is an annual exhibition and International Festival open to the interpretation and views of artists, who enjoy the variety of expression in the form of paintings, music, photography, sculpture, jewelry, graphic design, fashion design, outsider art, performance art, film, storytelling and theater. The objective of this exhibition is to build the cultural exchange and dialog between artists from the United States, South America, Africa, Europe and Asia. 

Guest Curator - Alpha Bruton     

 Cultures approach each other by way of travel and communication. It can also refer to "the process by which Western culture is being exported and diffused into other nations. The International Art Group and artists invited to participate in 2017 Culture Bridge exhibition aim to create a dialog between cultures, using our many different art forms.

   SPECIAL THANK YOU TO OUR COMMITTEE MEMBERS 2017 

    

Culture Bridge Committee: Martha Juarez, Joanna Szymanska, Sara Peak Convery, Sarah Marie Anderson, Linda M. Platt, Penelope Thrasher, Daniel Weinberg, Kambua Chema, Warren Perlstein, Piort Wolodkowicz, and Bishal Manandhar.

Photo Credit Warren Perlstein