At 6018North, we challenge what art is, whom it’s for, and where and how it’s created. Founded in May 2011, 6018North is an artist-centered, sustainable, nonprofit platform and venue for innovative art and culture.
Located in a dilapidated mansion, at 6018 North Kenmore in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood, 6018 North encourages artists to collaborate and reconfigure its intimate space. This intimacy allows artists and audiences to connect in transformative ways.
At home and away in other non-traditional spaces, 6018North’s site-specific exhibitions and events include artists performing, creating installations, and directing communal engagement events.
6 is “lucky/fortunate” and
represents flow.
0 is “you.”
1 is “are going to be.”
8 is “prosperous.”
6018 extended to artists and neighbors alike, is a collective you that is fortunate, flowing, and prosperous.
Image: Luftwerk, Prairie Colorfield, 6018North EXPO Chicago Booth, April 2025
Join us Saturday to welcome the Blue Moon and say goodbye to Myth to the Organic City. Closing Party!
Saturday, May 30 from 1-5 PM
Astrological readings by Rebecca Beachy from 1:30-4:00 PM
We say goodbye to our well-loved exhibition, a massive historical and contemporary exploration of Chicago's design, land use, and ecological future.
Spanning all four floors of the house, this momentous exhibition brings together over 25 artists to trace Chicago’s design and land use from its indigenous roots to our contemporary urban landscape. Through maps, sculptures, multimedia works, and installations, the show confronts the reality of climate change and reimages our deeply complicated relationship with nature and the city we call home.
As Chicago faces the growing threats of climate change, Myth of the Organic City serves as a critical, physical space to reimagine our complicated, vital relationship with both the city and nature. Join us to celebrate the artists, wander through all four floors, grab a drink, and celebrate this vital conversation with the artists and neighbors as the doors close on this show’s final iteration.
Thank you to all the artists who have shared their work at 6018North since Fall 2024 with this project – especially: Alexandra Antoine, Rebecca Beachy with Nina Barnett and Christine Wallers, Deborah Boardman, Jennifer Buyck, Carbon Register, Julie Carpenter with Jane Norling, Eugenia Cheng, Carl Fuldner and Shane DuBay, Jane Georges, Iker Gil, Brian Holmes and Jeremy Bolen, Candace Hunter, Matthew Kaplan, Jenny Kendler and Giovanni Aloi, Haerim Lee, JeeYeun Lee, Jin Lee, Nathan Lewis, Norman W. Long, Luftwerk, Bmejwen Kyle Malott, Jenny McBride, Meida Teresa McNeal, Sherwin Ovid, Viet Phan, Melissa Potter, Emilio Rojas, Eleanor Ross, Pierre-Alexandre Savriacouty, Tria Smith and Katrin Schnabl, Deborah Stratman, Stephen Lowell Swanberg, Jan Tichy, Aleksandra Walaszek, Rhonda Wheatley, Amanda Williams, JI Yang, and Sangwoo Yoo.
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Session Two Rough Draft Exchanges
Tuesday, July 21 from 7-9 PM
Friday, July 24 from 6-8 PM
Culminating Performances
Saturday, July 25 from 3-5 PM
Sunday, July 26 from 7-9 PM
Persephone: Extraction & Metamorphosis – A Time-Based Collective Experience presents a contemporary exploration of the myth of Persephone, a cyclical journey between the Underworld and the Upperworld: a descent into darkness and an emergence into the light of transformation. The myth explains the changing of the seasons, however the artists represent it through a modern lens of environmental change, labor, extraction, grief, and love. Visitors experience the myth not as a fixed narrative, but as a living passage shaped by the artists’ interpretations, where themes of loss, extraction, renewal, and collective possibility unfold through encounter, movement, and participation.
Through an open call, nineteen artists were chosen by originating artist Tria Smith with curator Tricia Van Eck to work in two Summer sessions exploring the myth of Persephone, a story both ancient and urgently contemporary. While each artist, performer, or collaborator contributes a distinct voice, no work is made in isolation. Projects evolve in tandem, shaped by dialogue, shared unfinished material, and the presence of others in the process. Through this unique residency model of exchange, experimentation, and collective development, artists work in concert, allowing their work to be transformed by what surrounds it during each session, all to create a cohesive audience experience.Persephone: Extraction & Metamorphosis Session Two features performances, installations, and artwork by by resident artists: Lise Haller Baggesen, Kiera King, Bobbi Meier and Steve Meier (top row); Eileen O'Halloran, Monika Plioptyl, Edyta Stepien, and Adriana Vignoli (middle row); and sound and video installations by Charles Krampah and William Raynovich (bottom row).
Each session culminates in performative events — Session One: June 27–28 and Session Two: July 25–26 — that guides audiences through the house, creating an experiential passage through Persephone's myth as it resonates with our present ecological, social, and spiritual realities. Extraction, here, is not only myth: it is the present condition of a warming, depleted earth, and transformation is not only Persephone's, but ours to make. In the midst of climate change, conflict, and widespread uncertainty, how do we move from extraction and self-interest toward collective transformation?
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