Bronzeville Echoes: Faces and Places of Chicago's African American Music

"Art is Business" this is a must-see installation.

I was really impressed to see the collection of museum artifacts, a free stroll through this wing from Washington to Randolph is worth the venture.

Bronzeville Echoes: Faces and Places of Chicago's African American Music
Through January 6, 2019
Chicago Cultural Center, Garland Gallery, 78 E. Washington St.

Explore Chicago's music legacy through ragtime, jazz, and blues in an exhibition that highlights the contributions of important places and people that shaped the music scene. Seldom-seen original artifacts are on display including sheet-music, rare 1920s records with quirky period graphics-and even the original 1932 telephone booth from the old Sunset/Grand Terrace Café from which the actual music can be heard.

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ACCESS:ADJUNCTION SCULPTURAL BIAS INSTALLATION See/hear/eye////touch

"Art is Business"

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SCULPTURAL BIAS INSTALLATION
See/hear/eye////touch

Atoms @ Renee Baker

RENEE’ C. BAKER, MULTIMODAL

PHANTOM GALLERY CHICAGO

ALPHA M. BRUTON, CURATOR

OPENING JULY 20, 2018 

Hearing voices, seeing spirits, accessing adjacent worlds through sight, hearing, touch, and all our senses bring to mind all our secrets. These works are telling secrets and singing songs if we listen. Paying attention to everyday gestures and everyday routines, we find our roots and secrets, open to all who listen intently. Speaking, gestures, perceptions, attention all manifest in these organic creations. You will find me in these works if you wish. It's important to see the fantasy and fiction, to register the sanity and poetry in the works. Exceptional vision will bring you the magic and the silence. RB 2018

INSPIRATION:

I have sent you my invitation,the note inscribed on the palm of my hand by the fire of living.

Don’t jump up and shout, “Yes, this is what I want! Let’s do it!”

Just stand up quietly and dance with me.

Show me how you follow your deepest desires, spiraling down into the ache within the ache, and I will show you how I reach inward and open outward to feel the kiss of the Mystery, sweet lips on my own, every day.

Don’t tell me you want to hold the whole world in your heart.

Show me how you turn away from making another wrong without abandoning yourself when

you are hurt and afraid of being unloved.

Tell me a story of who you are,

and see who I am in the stories I live.

And together we will remember that each of us always has a choice.

Don’t tell me how wonderful things will be . . . someday.

Show me you can risk being completely at peace,

truly okay with the way things are right now in this moment,

and again in the next and the next and the next. . .

I have heard enough warrior stories of heroic daring.

Tell me how you crumble when you hit the wall,

the place you cannot go beyond by the strength of your own will.

What carries you to the other side of that wall, to the fragile beauty of your own humanness?

And after we have shown each other how we have set and kept the clear, healthy boundaries that help us live side by side with each other, let us risk remembering that we never stop silently loving those we once loved out loud.

Take me to the places on the earth that teach you how to dance, the places where you can risk letting the world break your heart.

And I will take you to the places where the earth beneath my feet and the stars overhead make my heart whole again and again.

Show me how you take care of business without letting business determine who you are.

When the children are fed but still the voices within and around us shout that soul’s desires have too high a price, let us remind each other that it is never about the money.

Show me how you offer to your people and the world the stories and the songs
you want our children’s children to remember.

And I will show you how I struggle not to change the world but to love it.

Sit beside me in long moments of shared solitude, knowing both our absolute aloneness and our undeniable belonging.

Dance with me in the silence and in the sound of small daily words, holding neither against me at the end of the day.

And when the sound of all the declarations of our sincerest intentions have died away on the wind, dance with me in the infinite pause before the next great inhale of the breath that is breathing us all into being, not filling the emptiness from the outside or from within.

Don’t say, “Yes!” Just take my hand and dance with me.

© Oriah Mountain Dreamer, from the book The Dance, HarperOne, SanFrancisco, 2001

www.reneebakercomposer.net

Benchmarking 2018

Accelerate

Relief

“Tactical Urbanism Creating the Urban Living Room in the Horizontal Landscape”

"Art is Business"
Featuring Renee Baker, Artistic Director Chicago Modern Orchestra Project

WABI HOUSE MEDIA /PHANTOM GALLERY CHICAGO presents

POP UP OUTDOOR CINEMA

ALL MOVIES FEATURE NEW MUSIC SCORING BY RENEE BAKER

BRONZEVILLE ARTIST LOFTS  

436 E. 47TH ST, CHICAGO IL

Friday, July 20 at dusk

THE FLYING ACE  - Norman Johnson

THE LODGER - Alfred Hitchcock

DINNER: IDENTITY, GREED, AND ABUSE OF PRIVILEGE   

Renee Baker

Friday, August 17 at dusk

SYMBOL OF THE UNCONQUERED   OSCAR MICHEAUX

Natural born gambler    BERT WILLIAMS

Race: A Careful Narrative by Definition Renee Baker

During the Bronzeville Art District Trolley Tour, the Phantom Gallery Chicago will be converting underutilized spaces for cultural uses. It will strengthen the role of artists/residents in ongoing cultural planning. How? by facilitating neighborhood participation in cultural activities in the Bronzeville Art District.

Chicago Pedestrian Plan 2012

Make it easier to install temporary uses in vacant properties. Temporary measures are needed to improve inactive surfaces to promote pedestrian security. Actions: (Short Term) Encourage owners of vacant properties to activate their sites with public art and temporary improvements and hosting outdoor performances and drive-in Pop-up experimental film screenings.

Encourage Community Placemaking “Great places in Chicago can only be developed through partnerships with the people that will use them and those that plan and design them.” such as having  Renee Baker and the Chicago Modern Orchestra Project presenting here at the Bronzeville Artist Lofts.

Integrate Art into Pedestrian Spaces: Encourage temporary/rotating art exhibits, performances, film, youth open mic in public space the Bronzeville Art District.

Caryl Henry Alexander Epic City Radio Interview

"Art is Business" reposted for Caryl Henry Alexander

https://www.mixcloud.com/EpicCity/epic-citys-episode-of-june062018-caryl-henry-alexander-community-artist/

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 

MIDNIGHT GATHERING select works from Makeba Kedem-DuBose

MIDNIGHT GATHERING 

Dates of Installation:  July 20th,  2018
Opening Date:  July 20, 2018
End Date:  July 31st, 2018 (de-installation before this date)

Artist Biography Makeba Kedem-DuBos

Chicago native, Makeba Kedem-DuBose, has been a multi-tasking Career Artist for over 25 years, practicing throughout the greater Chicago land area, as well as regionally (New York, Atlanta, Maryland, Philadelphia, California, Michigan, Florida), and internationally (France, Germany, Ghana, England, and Cuba.) Her work is published, namely in Professor Daniel Parker’s African Art: The Diaspora and Beyond; Tara Bett’s book of poems, Arc and Hue, Drum Magazine (London),  Janelle Dowell’s A Time: A Season in honor of Oprah Winfrey, and Woman’s Day Magazine. She studied Interior Design at Chicago’s esteemed Harrington College of Design.

Current 2018 exhibitions include South Side Community Art Center, featuring works by members of the Sapphire and Crystals  Artists Collective in collaboration with the Art Institute Chicago’s Charles White exhibit, and also featured in  Gallery Guichard’s summer opener, Individualism.  2017 honors and exhibitions include selection as a 3rd-time regional finalist for the Bombay Sapphire National Fine Art Competition, a solo exhibition at the Adler University of Professional Psychology, and Chicago Architecture Biennial supported group exhibition, Altar Call: The Architecture of Black Sacred Space at Rootwork Gallery.

The past three years have also  found  Makeba’s art included in the Block 37 Gallery’s 2016 Annual Art of Blackness Exhibition; the University of Illinois at Chicago/Arts and Architectural Center and Black Lives Matter, Our Duty to Fight Exhibition; and the City of Chicago’s 2015 Chicago Artist Month, as both featured artist, and curator of her exhibition program, Migrations In Black and White held at her Bucktown gallery, Calao 22 Space.  Earlier in 2015, her work was selected by Jurors Ginny Voedisch and James Yood for The Art House Gallery’s Art by America 2015 Juried Exhibition: A National Review of Two-Dimensional Contemporary Art.

She was appointed the position of Creative Director for Chicago Global Health Alliance in 2015, following her help in securing over $30,000 in donations as curator of CGHA’s 1st Annual Art For Global Health Gala in 2014.  Her works were exhibited and sold alongside the likes of noted  artists Richard Hunt, Allen Stringfellow, and Kehinde Wiley,

Kedem-DuBose’s 2013 professional highlights include, selection for the African American Collectors Group Diasporal Rhythms’ catalog, and highly attended exhibition at the University of Chicago’s Logan Center for Race Studies, highlighting the groups 10th Anniversary; a spot as one of 15 artists (10 of which are the original members of the artists collective Collaborative Mavericks (DuBose co-founded) who were selected to participate in the beach umbrella project sponsored by Lacuna Artists Lofts, Project Remix, and  Peroni Beer of Italy.  The artists painted umbrellas were exhibited at Chicago’s Oak Street Beach and since have toured both national and international venues, including the Annual Art Basel Art Festival, FL.

2012 highlights include a second year selection as a semi-finalist for the Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, and selection by curator organizations South Side Community Art Center (Faheem Majeed), Hyde Park Art Center, and Chicago Public Art Group for the 51st Street Viaduct Project, a public art installation featuring the works of members of the African American Women’s Artists Collective, Sapphire and Crystals, who she’s been a member of since the early 2000’s.

Makeba is presently Creative Director and Curator at Chicago Global Health Alliance, a position she has held since 2014.  She recently completed the Visual Arts Certification Program in Curatorial Practices at the Hyde Park Art Center through the University of Chicago.  Her work is included in both private and public collections worldwide.

Recent publications include:  

Makeba Kedem-DuBose - Chicago Artists Month | 2015, How is the City your studio?
www.chicagoartistsmonth.org/featured-artists/makeba-kedem-dubose
Featured Artists | Chicago Artists Month | 2015
www.chicagoartistsmonth.org/featured-artists
City of Chicago: Chicago Artists Month (CAM)
www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/.../chicago_artists_month.html
Chicago becomes a studio during Artists Month | Examiner...
www.examiner.com/article/chicago-becomes-a-studio-for-artists-month
Seven Chicago Art Openings Not to Be Missed
http://artnxtleveljournal.com/2015/10/01/seven-chicago-art-openings-not-to-be-missed-for-oct-2-to-4/
No-Tell Cabaret Every Wednesday | CityLip Magazine...
http://citylipmagazine.com/443-2/
Exhibit Explores Contrast Between Black and White
http://stlouis.suntimes.com/entertainment/7/71/1074924/exhibit-explores-contrast-between-black-and-white-the-colors-and-people
CD 10.21.15 by ChiDefender - issue
https://issuu.com/chidefender/docs/cd_10-21-15
Makeba Kedem Dubose | DNAinfo.com
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/people/make ba-kedem-dubose
ChooseChicago.com | Top Picks for the 20th Annual Chicago Artists Month
http://www.choosechicago.com/blog/post/2015/10/Top-Picks-for-the-20th-Annual-Chicago-Artists-Month/2123/
Migrations In Black & White - A Chicago Artists Month Feature Exhibition
https://vimeo.com/145091433
Diasporal Rhythms: A Ten Year Love Affair with Collecting Art of the African Diaspora | Catalog
https://arts.uchicago.edu/logan-center/logan-center-exhibitions/archive/diasporal-rhythms-ten-year-love-affair-collecting-art
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-klein/diasporal-rhythms_b_4119269.html
Peroni Beer of Italy, Spiaggia, Project Remix and Lacuna Artists Lofts Beach Umbrella Project
chicago.theremixproject.com/umbrellaproject/

SAVE THAT DATE Bronzeville Art District 2018

"Art is Business"

Individualism Group Exhibition at Gallery Guichard

"Art is Business"

Call for Curators

CALL for Curators 2019   Exhibition -Installation Artists

Deadline or Post Expiration:
June through September Bronzeville Art District Trolley Tours.

ARTIST APPLICATION
SEND A PDF OF YOUR APPLICATION to PHANTOMGALLERYCHICAGO@GMAIL.COM

SUBJECT LINE: ARTIST / CURATOR APPLICATION

GENERAL INFORMATION

Name of Project:
Name of Artist/Organization:
Contact Name:
Address:
City/State/Zip:
Telephone:
E-mail:
Web site:
Facebook Fan Page:
Blog:

How did you hear about Phantom Gallery Chicago?

Artist(s) Bio/Statement (write a statement about your work in general and your process in 250 Max)

PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Please provide a detailed description of your proposed use of a Pop-Up exhibit site.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

How much space (Wide x’ deep x’ high) does your installation/work require? What are your electrical needs? Do you have any additional needs or requirements?

SUPPORT MATERIALS

• Curriculum Vitae please include your name, address, phone number and email address along with exhibition and educational background.
• Please include a Web site links to your work along with 5- 10  JPG. and a headshot for publication.
• For installations: description to clearly convey your concept
• For video work: For curatorial previewing, please supply your YouTube Station, video segment should be no longer than 3 minutes and cued to the appropriate segment for a panel to view. Time-based media, video art or documentation of performance art, should be submitted. Please do not submit videos of documentation of the artistic process.
• For live art: website links that document previous work; title, and a description of content and concept of proposed work.
• For artists proposing projects outside of Chicago: Please include a brief statement showing your means to get to Chicago and availability to assist with staffing of the gallery.

Oscar Micheaux GOD'S STEPCHILDREN

"Art is Business"    Sunday Salon Series

PHANTOM GALLERY CHICAGO
436 E. 47th Chicago Suite 205
May 6, 3-6 p.m.

Oscar Micheaux GOD'S STEPCHILDREN

A drama of importance featuring Alice B. Russell (spouse of Oscar Micheaux ) in a heartbreaking story of racial and social incongruence. Race identities are examined through the jaundiced eyes of Naomi, abandoned as a child, who finds the truth of her ethnicity a bitter pill to swallow.

With a new score by Chicago Modern Orchestra Project, Renee' Baker composer.

Film courtesy of Black Film Center /Archive, Indiana University

Wine reception/dinner provided.
Hosted by Alpha M. Bruton, Renee Baker

Whatever It Takes Scholars, LLC Presents

"Art is Business"

A Day at the Derby is a public launch party for WIT Scholars, LLC dba Chicago Surge, a new Chicago-based non-profit organization. The organization was founded by three adult friends who consist of a City of Chicago Bus Driver and father of three; a civil rights attorney; and a Chicago Police Officer, each of whom was born and raised in the City of Chicago. WIT Scholars' purpose is to aid the youth of Chicago and their parents through classes and programs geared toward education, information, and inspiration. Our classes and programs include legal clinics, financial literacy coaching, life skill classes, community sports teams, and academic mentoring to assist in developing the confidence and leadership skills necessary for the youth to become pioneers in our society.

The launch party is Saturday, May 5, 2018, from 4:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m., at Gallery Guichard.  Guest will enjoy delicious hors-d'oeuvres and drinks from local businesses, view various art exhibits throughout the gallery, view the derby via various televisions throughout the gallery, learn more about WIT Scholars and our sporting team Chicago Surge, and an opportunity to network with other leaders in Chicago.

To make A Day at the Derby a success, we are seeking partners in the community who have a deep commitment to developing the leadership and communication abilities of young people through sports, education, academic mentoring, and life coaching.  Those who ultimately want to see our youth thrive here in Chicago. Your commitment to serving vulnerable communities and the youth of Chicago makes it an ideal partner of our organization.

 All proceeds from this event directly support WIT Scholars, LLC. Please see the attached brochure to see what the sponsorship packages include.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns.

Best regards,

Chiquita Hall-Jackson
WIT Scholars Secretary/Treasurer
166 W. Washington St., Suite 275
Chicago, IL 60602

Can't Stop, Won't Stop: 365 Black

"Art is Business"