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SUMMARY:Barrio Arts Festival
DESCRIPTION:The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture is organizing the 22nd edition of its signature festival called BARRIO ARTS FEST! This yearly summer event brings together a selection of local artists\, merchants\, craft makers\, food vendors\, dancers\, and music performers and family workshop activities for the community to enjoy.\n\nDuring the weekend of July 9th and 10th\, the museum will turn into a family gathering space that extends through the museum premises\, including the museum facility keeping the galleries open as well.\n\nJoin us in celebrating the journey of our Museum\, our beautiful Puerto Rican Arts and Culture and our vibrant community here in Humboldt Park\, Chicago.\nFestival Hours: Saturday\, July 09\, 2022 10 am-6 pm and Sunday\, July 10\, 2022 11 am-5 pm.\nEvery year Barrio Arts Fest\, in addition to the artists/vendors\, offers workshops for the entire family. This year Barrio Arts Fest is a celebration of the 5th anniversary of Hurricane Maria! In addition to traditional ​dance and ​musical performances​\, there are many other extraordinary experiences that the whole family can enjoy.
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/barrio-arts-festival/2022-07-09/
LOCATION:The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture\, 3015 W Division Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60622\, United States
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SUMMARY:Barrio Arts Festival
DESCRIPTION:The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture is organizing the 22nd edition of its signature festival called BARRIO ARTS FEST! This yearly summer event brings together a selection of local artists\, merchants\, craft makers\, food vendors\, dancers\, and music performers and family workshop activities for the community to enjoy.\n\nDuring the weekend of July 9th and 10th\, the museum will turn into a family gathering space that extends through the museum premises\, including the museum facility keeping the galleries open as well.\n\nJoin us in celebrating the journey of our Museum\, our beautiful Puerto Rican Arts and Culture and our vibrant community here in Humboldt Park\, Chicago.\nFestival Hours: Saturday\, July 09\, 2022 10 am-6 pm and Sunday\, July 10\, 2022 11 am-5 pm.\nEvery year Barrio Arts Fest\, in addition to the artists/vendors\, offers workshops for the entire family. This year Barrio Arts Fest is a celebration of the 5th anniversary of Hurricane Maria! In addition to traditional ​dance and ​musical performances​\, there are many other extraordinary experiences that the whole family can enjoy.
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/barrio-arts-festival/2022-07-10/
LOCATION:The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture\, 3015 W Division Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60622\, United States
CATEGORIES:Cultural Festivals and Fairs,Exhibitions and Gallery Events
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SUMMARY:Exhibition: …of the land: acts of refusal and ratification
DESCRIPTION:A three-person exhibition featuring new and recent works from Chicago-based artists Ajmal ‘Mas Man’ Millar\, Lola Ayisha Ogbara\, and R. Treshawn Williamson exploring homeplace through sculpture\, self-imaging\, & materialism.  \n\n\n…of the land: acts of refusal and ratification features new and recent works from Chicago-based artists Ajmal ‘Mas Man’ Millar\, Lola Ayisha Ogbara\, and R. Treshawn Williamson exploring sculpture\, self-imaging and history through postcolonial lenses\, collective & individual recollection and peculiar materialism. Their use of storytelling holds significance for spatiality and locality to become common ground through the fielding of land\, labor and industry. \nAjmal ‘Mas Man’ Millar expands the sculptural form welding metal\, Trinidadian carnival culture and identity politics alongside the African diaspora. Lola Ayisha Ogbara merges West African and African American interior design aesthetics with bodily sculptural ceramic forms\, with performative photography – that rest and refuse a Western gaze. \nR. Treshawn Williamson creates historical context for his own familial roots in the mining of charcoal material for large scale screen-printed tapestries in a careful consideration of laborious processes as praxis. Millar\, Ogbara and Williamson engage in practices that consider topographic timelines and performance as an essential tool making for an interesting dialogue about homeplace. \n_______________ \n\n\nAjmal ‘MAS MAN’ Millar is a self-taught contemporary visual artist and mas man (carnival costume designer). His work includes mixed–media sculpture that combine collage\, painting\, repurposed materials\, scrap metal\, performance\, and photography interrogating notions of cultural heritage\, sexual and gender identity\, and ritual practices as a first-generation African American black queer man born to Trinidadian immigrants. Ajmal earned an undergraduate degree from Morehouse College in 2008 and earned an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2021. \n“I am working on a collection of works engaging the Yoruba cosmological concept of Chi and its existence in everything\, alive or inorganic. I create amalgamations of found objects and scraps of steel combined with encaustic. Inspired from my carnival technique of ‘wire bending’\, Afrofuturism\, and Afro Surrealism\, I have an opportunity to express my emotions and thoughts as experienced in the various environments I collect from and exist in. My welding is drawing in space to depict the transcendent properties in masquerade. My goal is to contextualize a queer blackness rarely experienced through imagination\, invention\, and the investigation of dreams\, magic\, and ritual.” \nHe currently lives and works in Chicago\, IL. \n\n\n\n\nLola Ayisha Ogbara (cultural worker & artist) born and raised in Chicago\, Illinois holds many talents under her belt\, i.e. sculpture\, sound\, design\, photography and installation art. \n“My practice explores the multifaceted implications and ramifications of being in regards to the Black experience. I work with clay as a material in order to emphasize a necessary fragility which symbolizes an essential contradiction implicit in empowerments.” \nOgbara holds a Bachelor of Arts in Arts Entertainment & Media Management from Columbia College Chicago in 2013 and a MFA in Visual Arts from Washington University Sam Fox School of Art & Design. \nIn 2017\, Ogbara co-founded Artists in the Room\, a collective of artists and scholars who host artists\, emerging and established\, in hopes of serving as a catalyst for artist development and networking. Ogbara has also received numerous fellowships and awards\, including the Multicultural Fellowship sponsored by the NCECA 52nd Annual Conference\, the Arts + Public Life and Center for the Study of Race\, Politics & Culture Residency at the University of Chicago\, and the Coney Family Fund Award hosted by the Chicago Artists Coalition. Ogbara has exhibited in art spaces across the country and is currently based in Chicago\, IL. \n\n\n\n\nR. Treshawn Williamson is a Chicago based essayist and multidisciplinary artist of Black American descent\, from Prince George’s County\, MD\, by way of Livingston\, Alabama\, and Augusta\, Georgia. \nWilliamson’s work is a meditation on the obstruction and surveillance of the lived histories of African-Americans. He investigates the application of cultural re-imagination in the African Diaspora through the engagement of oral histories\, post-colonial theory\, folklore\, and ethnomusicology. In 2020 Williamson earned his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. \nHe currently lives and works in Chicago\, IL.
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/exhibition-of-the-land-acts-of-refusal-and-ratification/
LOCATION:South Side Community Art Center\, 3831 S. Michigan Ave.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60653\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions and Gallery Events,Member Events
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception: …of the land: acts of refusal and ratification
DESCRIPTION:A three-person exhibition featuring new and recent works from Chicago-based artists Ajmal ‘Mas Man’ Millar\, Lola Ayisha Ogbara\, and R. Treshawn Williamson exploring homeplace through sculpture\, self-imaging\, & materialism.  \n\n\n…of the land: acts of refusal and ratification features new and recent works from Chicago-based artists Ajmal ‘Mas Man’ Millar\, Lola Ayisha Ogbara\, and R. Treshawn Williamson exploring sculpture\, self-imaging and history through postcolonial lenses\, collective & individual recollection and peculiar materialism. Their use of storytelling holds significance for spatiality and locality to become common ground through the fielding of land\, labor and industry. \nAjmal ‘Mas Man’ Millar expands the sculptural form welding metal\, Trinidadian carnival culture and identity politics alongside the African diaspora. Lola Ayisha Ogbara merges West African and African American interior design aesthetics with bodily sculptural ceramic forms\, with performative photography – that rest and refuse a Western gaze. \nR. Treshawn Williamson creates historical context for his own familial roots in the mining of charcoal material for large scale screen-printed tapestries in a careful consideration of laborious processes as praxis. Millar\, Ogbara and Williamson engage in practices that consider topographic timelines and performance as an essential tool making for an interesting dialogue about homeplace.
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/opening-reception-of-the-land-acts-of-refusal-and-ratification/
LOCATION:South Side Community Art Center\, 3831 S. Michigan Ave.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60653\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions and Gallery Events,Member Events
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception: Vibrancy on the Brink
DESCRIPTION:Growing up in Germany\, Anke Fachmann was influenced by remarkable artist movements such as The Bridge (Die Brücke) and The Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter). A passion for art\, culture\, and design led her to initially study graphic design. She received a Bachelors in Graphic Design at the Freie Hochschule für Grafik-Design & Bildende Kunst in Freiburg\, Southern Germany. She then came to the US to pursue a graphic design career. Soon\, Fachmann’s focus changed and she rediscovered her passion for fine art. \nColor and structure are her tools to tell stories\, ​to leave room for the imagination. She paints with her fingers as well as with recycled materials such as paper and coffee sleeves to give her artwork an unique expression. \nAnke Fachmann on her technique and subject matter: \n“One day I worked on a big canvas using brushes. This felt tiring\, so I started to dip my hands and fingers into the paint. Over time\, I explored painting with recycled materials such as straws\, sponges\, and the paper sleeves from to-go coffee cups. Friends started saving the coffee sleeves for me and I think that is not a bad idea when it comes to recycling and our beloved planet!” \n“After experimenting with mixed media and abstract work\, I started to paint animals\, learning more and more about endangered species through this media. I decided to focus on them\, with the hope to prompt curiosity and to showcase their beauty and uniqueness.” \nFachmann uses her art to create awareness and to work together with environmental organizations and activists whenever she can. She lives in San Francisco. \nThis exhibition opens with a reception on Friday\, July 15\, from 6:00 to 9:00pm. The exhibition runs through Friday\, August 19. Check back in at dankhaus.com/art or our Facebook page for more information about hours and events. \nQuestions? Email rosa@dankhaus.com
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/opening-reception-vibrancy-on-the-brink/
LOCATION:DANK Haus German American Cultural Center\, 4740 N. Western Ave.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60625\, United States
CATEGORIES:Cultural Festivals and Fairs,Exhibitions and Gallery Events,Talks and Gatherings
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception of “Priscilla Kar Yee Lo: Aiming to Please”
DESCRIPTION:The Chinese American Museum of Chicago (CAMOC) is excited to announce the third exhibition of the Spotlight Series\, featuring glass artist Priscilla Kar Yee Lo. Please join us on Saturday\, July 16\, from 3:00-6:00pm CT for the opening reception. This exhibition will run from July 16 through August 28. \nRSVP here. \nThe Spotlight Series is a new initiative to showcase recent and past work by emerging and mid-career artists of Chinese descent locally. Curated by Larry Lee (Molar Productions)\, the project aims to introduce\, promote and celebrate the divergent artistic visions and experiences of being Chinese in America looking at and reflecting upon our relationship to contemporary visual culture to a wider audience within our community and Chicago. \nAbout the artist:\nAs a child of a Chinese immigrant family in North America\, Priscilla was perpetually reminded to be practical about her future. But after over a decade as a health care professional\, she began to feel dissatisfied with the direction of her life. Priscilla turned to creative outlets to find a voice and to explore her identity as a woman of color. She was drawn to glass because it is inherently paradoxical\, constantly in a state of fragility and permanency. She returned to school in 2015 to pursue a Bachelor’s in Craft and Design from Sheridan College and completed her Master of Fine Arts at Illinois State University in 2022. \nPriscilla uses glass and other media to create work as an act of remembrance of the collective intersectional adversity minority women continue to face. Her work highlights the astute way in which our inherent patriarchal society has affected the Asian female position within its structure and how it maintains control through cultural and social expectations and normalized gender roles. Priscilla employs visual language containing artifacts of patriarchy from her childhood that have since become pop culture icons. The symbolism of these images is far removed from their original medium and their patriarchal foundation\, making them easy to manipulate and go undetected while subtly reinforcing social norms and binary systems. Ultimately\, Priscilla views her work as a nostalgic and whimsical\, yet mischievous way of documenting where women\, particularly immigrant women\, are placed within a societally prescribed racial framework. She hopes to initiate discourse about this reality to validate our collective experiences and raise awareness to the continual existence of these issues.
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/opening-reception-of-priscilla-kar-yee-lo-aiming-to-please/
LOCATION:Chinese American Museum of Chicago\, 238 W. 23rd St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60616\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions and Gallery Events
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SUMMARY:Opening: DESI Roots and Wings
DESCRIPTION:The exhibition is an exploration of the heritage and experiences of Indian Immigrants to the United States\, addressing such topics as:\nThe meaning of the word “desi” representing a collective identity for South Asians\nThe diversity of the diaspora community\nImmigration and historic challenges to obtaining citizenship\nMusic\, dance\, and food\nIndian-American professions\, from doctors to athletes\, to cab drivers \n_______________ \nOpens July 29\nMuseum/exhibition hours: Thursday–Sunday\, 1-5pm\nGroup tours at other times are available by appointment\nAdmission is $5\, free for children 12 and younger.\nFree parking
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/opening-desi-roots-and-wings/
LOCATION:National Indo-American Museum\, 815 S Main St\, Lombard\, IL\, 60148\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions and Gallery Events,Member Events
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