{"article":{"id":1152,"title":"Hyde Park Art Center Re-opening To Showcase 50 Independent Artist-Run Spaces","excerpt":"","body":"<html><head></head><body><figure class=\"image image-style-side\"><img src=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417846/lniiqlhjihk3zebshrat.jpg\"><figcaption><i>Artists Run Chicago 2.0</i> installation view including miniature exhibition curated by Julius Caesar. &nbsp;Photography courtesy of Tran Tran.</figcaption></figure><p><i>Via PR</i></p><p><a href=\"https://www.hydeparkart.org/\">Hyde Park Art Center</a>, the renowned non-profit hub for contemporary art located on Chicago’s South Side, will re-open its doors for limited exhibition hours starting September 1, 2020, with the launch of the <a href=\"https://www.hydeparkart.org/exhibition-archive/artists-run-chicago-2-0/\"><i>Artists Run Chicago 2.0</i></a> exhibition, celebrating the work of 50 artist-run spaces and organizations that fuel Chicago’s independent art scene.&nbsp; <i>Artists Run Chicago 2.0</i> highlights the incredible work artists around the city are doing in their apartments, storefronts, on the streets of Chicago, and even a barn, challenging the conventional expectations of exhibition, discourse, and community.&nbsp;<i> </i>Works from each of the spaces will be represented in this exhibition encompassing six galleries, the entire Hyde Park Art Center footprint.</p><p>“Following the COVID-19-related closure of the Art Center in mid-March, we are delighted to welcome the community back with this massive exhibition, showcasing the incredible diversity and sheer force of independent art galleries operating in Chicago now,” said Kate Lorenz, Hyde Park Art Center Executive Director. “We will be proceeding with care and the utmost caution to ensure the safety of our staff, community, and visitors. While the experience of visiting the Art Center may be slightly altered for the near future, we are excited to celebrate the work of so many creative artist-run spaces and share it with the public. We are confident that visitors and students will encounter the same sense of creativity, curiosity, and community for which Hyde Park Art Center is known.”</p><p>To mark the ten-year anniversary of the original Art Center exhibition, <i>Artists Run Chicago </i>(2009),<i> Artists Run Chicago 2.0 </i>examines the core motivations, trajectories, and philosophies that have made the past decade generative for new models of artist-run initiatives to exist throughout the city and suburbs. As they did in 2009, artists-run spaces have continued to transform storefronts, apartments, warehouses, garages, and nomadic existences into environments in which art can be experienced at its most experimental and intuitive stage.</p><figure class=\"image\"><img src=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721417847/xryhnp05ttjdptcvlec8.png\"><figcaption>Installation of Summer Skin w/ Zoe Avery Nelson and Judy Ledgerwood @ PRACTISE (2017), Courtesy of Practise</figcaption></figure><p>However, the artist-run model has also found a heightened criticality during this time as well. Despite taking on a multitude of forms and models, these spaces have come to represent a merge between artistic practice and social engagement, in which their small, independent, and hyperlocal status can be constantly modified and tailored to serve the communities they call home, whether through online forums to discuss art or engaging with community activists in support of social justice. In a time in which institutions are reevaluating their missions and relevance in a rapidly changing social landscape, artist-run initiatives have found themselves at the forefront of new conversations around art, challenging conventional expectations of exhibition, discourse, and community, while injecting new models, ideas, and faces into our understanding of what experiencing art can be.</p><p>Art spaces represented in <i>Artists Run Chicago 2.0 </i>hail from a wide range of Chicago neighborhoods, from Beverly to Rogers Park, Englewood to Oak Park; here is the complete list: 062,&nbsp;4th Ward Project Space,&nbsp;65Grand,&nbsp;ACRE Projects,&nbsp;Adds Donna,&nbsp;AMFM,&nbsp;Annas,&nbsp;Apparatus Projects,&nbsp;Bad At Sports,&nbsp;Blanc Gallery, boundary,&nbsp;Chicago Art Department,&nbsp;Chuquimarca,&nbsp;Clutch,&nbsp;Co-Prosperity Sphere,&nbsp;Comfort Station,&nbsp;Compound Yellow,&nbsp;D Gallery,&nbsp;Devening Projects, Document,&nbsp;Experimental Sound Studio,&nbsp;F4F,&nbsp;The Franklin,&nbsp;Heaven Gallery,&nbsp;Iceberg Projects,&nbsp;Ignition Project Space,&nbsp;Julius Caesar,&nbsp;Lawrence and Clark, LVL3,&nbsp;Mujeres Mutantes,&nbsp;Night Light Studios &amp; Gallery, Ohklahomo, Nightingale,&nbsp;Practise,&nbsp;Prairie,&nbsp;Roman Susan,&nbsp;Roots &amp; Culture,&nbsp;Rootwork Gallery,&nbsp;The Silver Room,&nbsp;Slow,&nbsp;The Suburban,&nbsp;Sweet Water Foundation,&nbsp;table,&nbsp;Terrain Exhibitions,&nbsp;Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Trunk Show, TRQPITECA,&nbsp;VGA Gallery,&nbsp;Wedge Projects, and&nbsp;Western Pole. <i>Artists Run Chicago 2.0&nbsp;</i>is organized by Noah Hanna and Allison Peters Quinn with contributions from Max Guy and Andi Crist.</p><p>Free online public programming accompanies this exhibition, including monthly performances, workshops, and artist and curator-led Art Center tours.&nbsp; Hyde Park Art Center has partnered with Public Media Institute&nbsp;and&nbsp;Sixty Inches from Center to produce a special <i>Artists Run Chicago 2.0 </i>edition of Lumpen magazine for its 136th volume, distributed for free at Hyde Park Art Center and Buddy, located in the first floor galleries of the Chicago Cultural Center.</p><p>About <i>Artists Run Chicago</i> (2009):</p><p>Chicago has long been known for cultivating a strong entrepreneurial/Do-It-Yourself spirit in business and the arts. Art organizations like Randolph Street Gallery, N.A.M.E., and the Uncomfortable Spaces in the 1980s and 1990s provided respected role models for independent art initiatives that followed. The 38 artist-run venues that participated in Hyde Park Art Center’s 2009 exhibition were responsible for transforming storefronts, sheds, apartments, lofts, industrial warehouses, garages and roving spaces into contemporary art galleries testing the notion of “exhibition” while complicating the definition of art. Coinciding with the Hyde Park Art Center’s 70th anniversary, <i>Artists Run Chicago </i>reconnected the Art Center to its beginnings as an artist-run space through collaborations with spaces that demonstrated a similar dedication to fostering new projects by new artists.</p><p>Now a decade later, only six of the spaces in the original exhibition survive: 65 Grand, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Devening Projects, Julius Caesar, Roots &amp; Culture, and The Suburban (relocated to Milwaukee, WI). Several of the spaces included in <i>Artist Run Chicago 2.0 </i>are celebrating a 10-year anniversary and cite the attention around the early 2000s as impetus for their existence.</p><p><i>Artists Run Chicago 2.0</i> runs from September 1-November 1, 2020.&nbsp; The exhibition will be available for viewing Tuesdays and Wednesdays, from 12-6pm; Thursdays from 1-7pm; and Fridays from 10am-4pm. There is no admission charge but, to comply with social distance standards, advance reservations are encouraged for 90-minute visits and can be made by visiting <a href=\"https://www.hydeparkart.org/\">https://www.hydeparkart.org/</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Fall Class Session</p><p>In addition, the Art Center is currently piloting a limited number of artmaking classes for adults in a hybrid model of online instruction coupled with on-site studio access. These include Ceramics and Printmaking Independent Study courses incorporating virtual group class time and on-site independent studio time.&nbsp; Additionally, the Art Center is offering a limited Ceramics “Work from Home” option that will include guidance on how to safely use ceramics in a home studio followed by limited studio access to fire and glaze.&nbsp; For more information on current offerings, including the incredible range of ongoing virtual courses for all ages, and expanded in-person options for fall. For updated offerings and information about fall registration please visit <a href=\"https://www.hydeparkart.org/education/\">https://www.hydeparkart.org/education/</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>For more information, please visit&nbsp; <a href=\"https://www.hydeparkart.org/\">https://www.hydeparkart.org/</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p></body></html>","published_at":"2020-08-18 11:00:00","state":"published","slug":"hyde-park-art-center-contemporary-art-hub-to-re-open-september-1-showcasing-50-independent-artist-run-spaces","type":"NewsPost","meta_description":"","text":null,"created_at":"2020-08-18 21:02:25.727921","updated_at":"2020-08-18 22:18:48.68633","category_id":1,"highlighted":false,"searchable":"'-19':158B '-6':963B '-7':968B '/education/':1129B '062':553B '1':67B,947B,949B,967B '10':924B '10am':974B '10am-4pm':973B '12':962B '136th':721B '1980s':778B '1990s':780B '2.0':19B,77B,100B,307B,530B,654B,714B,920B,943B '2000s':934B '2009':303B,341B,748B,805B '2017':384B '2020':68B,950B '38':792B 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November 11, 2026, following a renovation that expands visitor spaces, updates its core Holocaust exhibition and adds a new reflection gallery. The reopening is timed to coincide with Veterans Day. Active military personnel, veterans and their families will receive free admission that day.</p><p><br></p><p>The project includes a redesigned Lillian &amp; Larry Goodman Auditorium and Gallery, an enlarged lobby in the Shapiro Family Foundation Welcome Center, and a refreshed Resilience Hall with an expanded stage for presentations and public programs.</p><p><br></p><p>Updates to the Zev &amp; Shifra Karkomi Holocaust Exhibition include additional material on the roots of antisemitism, the story of Chicago resident Leo Edelman, and the experiences of other groups targeted by the Nazis. A new reflection gallery, accessible from the exhibition, offers visitors a quiet space during and after their visit.</p><p><br></p><p>“Every visitor’s experience now begins differently and runs deeper,” said Kelley Szany, the Museum’s senior vice president of education and exhibitions. “The new welcome center sets the tone from the moment people arrive, the enhanced core Holocaust exhibition brings the history and the voices of survivors into sharper focus, and our new auditorium gives us a place to gather, listen, and talk about what it means for our communities today.”</p><p><br></p><p>Existing attractions, including the virtual reality theater, the interactive Survivor Stories Experience holographic theater, the Take A Stand Center and the Voices of Genocide Exhibition, will remain part of the Museum’s offerings.</p><p><br></p><p>Following the reopening,&nbsp;<em>Blacklist: The Hollywood Red Scare</em>&nbsp;will open November 15 in the special exhibition gallery. Created by and on loan from Jewish Museum Milwaukee, the exhibition examines the intersections of politics, antisemitism, freedom of speech and national security during the Red Scare of the 1940s and 1950s. It will remain on view through March 2027.</p><p><br></p><p>The Museum’s satellite location in Chicago’s River North neighborhood, <span style=\"color: rgb(13, 13, 13);\">Experience360, </span>will remain open through December 31, 2026. The downtown space opened during the Skokie renovation to provide continued access to the Museum’s immersive exhibitions.</p><p><br></p><p>For information and ticket reservations, visit&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.ilholocaustmuseum.org/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">ilholocaustmuseum.org</a>.</p><p><br></p><p><span style=\"color: rgb(136, 136, 136);\">Image: Museum exterior. 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Partners include the Richard Hunt Legacy Foundation, Adler University, CAI Designs, Chicago Public Art Group, Chicago Sculpture Exhibit and Diasporal Rhythms.</p><p><br></p><p>Born and raised on Chicago’s South Side, Hunt developed an internationally recognized practice while continuing to live and work in his hometown. His welded metal sculptures brought together abstract forms, references to the natural world and an enduring interest in freedom and social justice.</p><p><br></p><p>Hunt identified attending Emmett Till’s funeral in 1955 as a turning point in his artistic life. Till had lived just two blocks from Hunt’s home. Decades later, Hunt’s public commissions would honor figures including Martin Luther King Jr., Mary McLeod Bethune, Jesse Owens and Ida B. Wells, while also addressing the Middle Passage and the Great Migration.</p><p>In 1968, President Lyndon Johnson appointed Hunt to the National Council on the Arts, where he became its first African American member. In 1971, at age 35, he became the first African American sculptor to receive a retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. His career encompassed more than 150 solo exhibitions and more than 160 public art installations.</p><p><br></p><p><img src=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1791479104/lltcodkx39gd8sbhtus1.png\"></p><p><em style=\"color: rgb(136, 136, 136);\">Richard Hunt with artist Chris Devins, who recently completed a mural honoring the sculptor in Hyde Park. Photo courtesy of Chris Devins.</em></p><p><br></p><p>Recent projects in Chicago offer new ways to encounter Hunt’s work and history. This fall, the Logan Center opened the Hunt, a café honoring the artist. Created and designed by Little Black Pearl founder and executive director Monica Haslip, the space incorporates two Hunt sculptures, African art, archival materials and photographs by Sandro Miller.</p><p>In Hyde Park, artist Chris Devins and historian Michelle Duster have brought a mural of Hunt to 1515–19 E. 54th Street. The portrait is based on photographs Devins took in Hunt’s studio before the sculptor’s death.</p><p><br></p><p>“Richard Hunt was a giant in the arts world and people need to see what he looked like and be inspired by his legacy,” Devins said.</p><p><br></p><p>Pigment International’s dedication also reflects its own relationship with Hunt. 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