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SUMMARY:ROLL CALL: A Black Women in the Arts Convening
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, April 15th\, South Side Community Art Center will host it’s newly realized annual event\, ROLL CALL: A Black Women in the Arts Convening\, as part of EXPO Chicago this year! \nBringing together Black women artists\, curators\, arts administrators\, and culture workers\, this event seeks to encourage fellowship and connection amongst Black women in the arts based here in Chicago and elsewhere. \nCome join us along with mimosas\, small bites\, and music from the iconic Chicago-based DJ Celeste Alexander! \nSpace is limited and offered on a first-come\, first-served basis. If you are unable to attend after confirming your RSVP\, we kindly ask that you cancel your ticket to allow for other guests interested in attending to RSVP for the program.
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/roll-call-a-black-women-in-the-arts-convening/
LOCATION:South Side Community Art Center\, 3831 S. Michigan Ave.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60653\, United States
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SUMMARY:"where the light corrupts your face..." | Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:Spatial griots Andres L. Hernandez\, Tonika Lewis Johnson and Roland Knowlden invite you to \nconsider how socio-economic and geographic oppressions impact the way we see (or don’t \nsee) our environments. Hernandez uncovers embedded histories and systems of power within \nbuilt and speculative landscapes to imagine these spaces otherwise. Social justice artist Lewis \nJohnson advocates for urban communities by documenting the disparities among Chicago \nresidents who live on opposite ends of the same streets across the city’s racial and economic \ndivides. Knowlden critically deconstructs the elements of our urban fabric and its architectural \nhistories to reassemble them as cartographic abstractions and imagined landscapes. \nGwendolyn Brooks\, a brilliant author\, poet\, and life-long resident of the historic neighborhood \nof Bronzeville\, becomes the Mecca of these stories as this exhibition interrogates dilapidation\, \nburied histories\, and what it could mean to be Black in space. \nArchitecture is an ever-present form of storytelling. The architectural historiographies of Black \nspace have often been written by poets who have elegantly told our stories of spatiality. Brooks \ngave us a voice we didn’t know we needed while underlining the importance of Black \ninteriority.
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/where-the-light-corrupts-your-face-opening-reception/
LOCATION:South Side Community Art Center\, 3831 S. Michigan Ave.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60653\, United States
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SUMMARY:where the light corrupts your face...
DESCRIPTION:Artists Andres L. Hernandez\, Tonika Lewis Johnson and Roland Knowlden consider the many definitions of space\, site\, and home.
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/where-the-light-corrupts-your-face/
LOCATION:South Side Community Art Center\, 3831 S. Michigan Ave.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60653\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Promised Land On The Horizon: Artist Talk
DESCRIPTION:Our current exhibition ‘The Promised Land’\, features eleven contemporary photo and image artists working across a diverse range of visual methods\, that re-imagine stories of city life and the Great Migration through the decolonization of the lens\, Southern rooted influences\, movement\, family archives and portraiture. \nThe Great Migration was one of the largest movements of people in United States history. It has transformed cities like Chicago\, Detroit\, New York and Pittsburgh between 1916 and 1970. Chicago received more than 500\,000 Black Southern Americans during this time. To Southern Blacks\, Chicago was considered the “Promised Land”. Stories of big city life\, jobs with good wages\, homes with running water\, and basic freedoms denied to Blacks in the South made the Northern city a prime destination for Blacks coming from below the Mason-Dixon line. As the most documented migration in US history\, photographers like Gordon Parks\, Florestine Perrault Collins\, Moneta Sleet Jr.\, Roy DeCarava\, and Coreen Simpson created imagery that demonstrated Black life in movement. With familial ties to North and South of the Mason-Dixon Line\, this stellar group of contemporary artists respond to the many migrations of African Diaspora peoples and the influences of these movements in their work. \nThis exhibition was organized and curated by SSCAC Exhibitions Manager Lola Ayisha Ogbara\, and features the following artists: Lawrence Ageyi\, Anwulika Anigbo\, Rose Blouin\, Billie Carter-Rankin\, Jen Everett\, Mandela Hudson\, Shabez Jamal\, Sulyiman Stokes\, Darryl DeAngelo Terrell\, Loren Toney\, and Derrick Woods-Morrow.  \nComplimentary coffee and cake will be provided during the program.
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/a-promised-land-on-the-horizon-artist-talk/
LOCATION:South Side Community Art Center\, 3831 S. Michigan Ave.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60653\, United States
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SUMMARY:Black Adornment & the Found Object
DESCRIPTION:Join SSCAC Archives and Collections Manager LaMar Gayles Jr. for an afternoon exploring mixed media art\, our collections\, and adornment objects from his personal collection. \n  \n  \n \n  \n\n\n\n\nIn this participatory program\, join SSCAC Collections and Archives Manager LaMar Gayles in exploring examples of adornment and mixed media objects from the archives of the South Side Community Art Center and his personal collection.\n  \nThis will be a unique opportunity for attendees to explore objects with connections to the history of the Center\, how these objects have been made\, how these works have aged over time\, and thinking through the sociocultural materiality of these objects. Participants will have an opportunity to hold and interact with objects\, be introduced  to art material behaviors as well as preventive conservation practices that can better preserve these works for the future.\n  \nThis program will be small and intimate with an attendance cap at 25 participants total\, please RSVP in advance.
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/black-adornment-the-found-object/
LOCATION:South Side Community Art Center\, 3831 S. Michigan Ave.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60653\, United States
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SUMMARY:Black Family Portraits with Seed Lynn
DESCRIPTION:For this Black History Month\, we’re thrilled to partner with photographer Seen Lynn to offer free family portrait to our community! \n\n\nThe Black family portrait\, throughout history to the present\, has always been an accessible\, but vivid practice of self-representation that offers a more genuine and realistic portrayal of Black identity and dignity. Whether being made candidly within the family\, or posing for a staged portrait\, Black family portraits continue to reveal the inherent beauty\, resilience\, diversity\, and style of our people and culture. \nLearn more about our guest photographer below:
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/black-family-portraits-with-seed-lynn/
LOCATION:South Side Community Art Center\, 3831 S. Michigan Ave.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60653\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions and Gallery Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230326
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SUMMARY:The Promised Land
DESCRIPTION:Eleven artists with ties to North and South of the Mason-Dixon Line respond to just how much Black life has always been in transit. \n  \nThe Great Migration was one of the largest movements of people in United States history. It has transformed cities like Chicago\, Detroit\, New York and Pittsburgh between 1916 and 1970. Chicago received more than 500\,000 Black Southern Americans during this time.\n  \nTo Southern Blacks\, Chicago was considered the “Promised Land”. Stories of big city life — jobs with good wages\, homes with running water\, and basic freedoms denied to Blacks in the South — made the Northern city a prime destination for Blacks coming from below the Mason-Dixon line. As the most documented migration in US history\, photographers like Gordon Parks\, Florestine Perrault Collins\, Moneta Sleet Jr.\, Roy DeCarava\, and Coreen Simpson created imagery that demonstrated Black life in movement.\n\nToday\, contemporary artists and image makers respond to the many migrations of African Diaspora peoples and the influences of these movements in their work.
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/the-promised-land/
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SUMMARY:G-To-G Coaching Sessions: Marketing and Branding for Artists
DESCRIPTION:SSCAC is thrilled to partner with ILA Creative Studio for their G-to-G Coaching Sessions in a 3-part series of artist development resource workshops that intend to help close the gap of limited\, sustainable business resources\, specific to the needs of Black artists. \nEach session will is led by coaches and teaching artists who will provide insight on a specific topic\, with the intention of assisting Black artists to work toward achieving sustainability in their field. \nILA Creative Studio’s G-to-G Coaching Sessions are an opportunity for professional practicing artists (18+) to have space to learn and grow in their respective fields – led by a mentor or coach that provides specific insights on a specific topic. These sessions help to translate effective ways for Black artists to achieve sustainability in their fields. \nWe have some insights for you! \nSecond up\, “Marketing and Branding for Artists”\, led by Amanda Harth. Where she’ll cover all things branding\, marketing\, and art directing strategies for artists and creative entrepreneurs! \n\n\n\n\n\nAmanda Christine Harth is a teaching artist\, researcher\, and entrepreneur. She explores the origin stories of fashion’s subcultures and her findings are presented through exhibitions\, discussions\, and interactive workshops. She was born and raised on the Southside of Chicago in the West Pullman neighborhood. She studied fashion at the Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago and owned a clothing company that evolved into a resource for independent designers. \n“Connecting with people over the language of style and how others connect through garments has been a driving force behind my practice. My work is a constant study on the history of textiles and garments in underserved communities impacting change on a global economy. As my craft evolved I became more focused on the individuals in the garments and their stories. I want to create opportunities for people to connect and share their experiences with clothing.” \n\n\n\n\nWe’re excited to have Amanda and her expertise help guide you in the realm of marketing and branding\, for an afternoon of connecting and learning. \nVery limited spots are available. Stay tuned for our final workshop in January!
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/g-to-g-coaching-sessions-marketing-and-branding-for-artists/
LOCATION:South Side Community Art Center\, 3831 S. Michigan Ave.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60653\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks and Gatherings,Workshops and Classes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221119T080000
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SUMMARY:G to G Coaching Session: How To Balance Creative Work & Multiple Projects
DESCRIPTION:SSCAC is thrilled to partner with ILA Creative Studio for their G-to-G Coaching Sessions in a 3-part series of artist development resource workshops that intend to help close the gap of limited\, sustainable business resources\, specific to the needs of Black artists. \nILA Creative Studio’s G-to-G Coaching Sessions are an opportunity for professional practicing artists (18+) to have space to learn and grow in their respective fields – led by a mentor or coach that provides specific insights on a specific topic. These sessions help to translate effective ways for Black artists to achieve sustainability in their fields. \nSo much of our time as practicing artists goes into actually creating our wonderful art\, but we MUST create time where we learn about the necessary business etiquette. Each session will be led by coaches and teaching artists who will provide insight on a specific topic\, with the intention of assisting Black artists to work toward achieving sustainability in their field. \nSecond up\, “How To Balance Creative Work & Multiple Projects”\, led by Adia Sykes and Tiffany Johnson! Where they’ll cover all things project management\, artist development strategies\, and self-care advocacy within the arts. \nSnacks and sponsored coffee will be provided by Sip & Savor. Very limited spots are available. Stay tuned for remaining sessions!
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/g-to-g-coaching-session-how-to-balance-creative-work-multiple-projects/
LOCATION:South Side Community Art Center\, 3831 S. Michigan Ave.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60653\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks and Gatherings
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221010
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SUMMARY:9 Artists/ 9 Months/ 9 Perspectives features work by the collective\, Dandelion Black Women Artists
DESCRIPTION:Nine Black women artists engaged in collaborative efforts to create artworks that transcend and transform events in the year 2020. In their eyes\, art-making became a transgressive act through activism\, documentation and vision. Utilizing book-making\, craft-making and works on paper\, 9 Artists/9 Months/ 9 Perspectives presents a birth of vision under hardship felt worldwide\, collectively allowing us to reckon with our own perspectives\, reflections and welfare.\n  \nThis exhibition presents the conception\, gestation\, and birth of a collaborative artists’ books created by nine Black women artists of the collective\, Dandelion Black Women Artists. Their responses\, perspectives\, and reflections were inspired by the continuous struggle for health\, social\, and economic welfare of marginalized people during COVID-19\, the lack of response from the federal government\, and the political allyship of socio-political grassroots movements like Black Lives Matter. Craft-making became a transgressive act through artivism\, perspective\, and vision.
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/9-artists-9-months-9-perspectives-features-work-by-the-collective-dandelion-black-women-artists/
LOCATION:South Side Community Art Center\, 3831 S. Michigan Ave.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60653\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions and Gallery Events
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SUMMARY:Dandelion Black Women Artist's Talk
DESCRIPTION:Our upcoming exhibition 9 Artists/ 9 Months/ 9 Perspectives features work from the Dandelion Black Women Artists collective. These nine Black women artists engaged in collaborative efforts to create artworks that transcend and transform events in the year 2020. In their eyes\, art-making became a transgressive act through activism\, documentation and vision. \nAll based in the DMV region\, otherwise known as the Beltway – SSCAC is proud to welcome this dynamic collective for a conversation moderated and facilitated by SSCAC Exhibitions Manager & Curator Lola Ayisha Ogbara\, who worked exclusively with the artists in organizing 9 Artists/ 9 Months/ 9 Perspectives for it’s Chicago premiere at SSCAC. \nWe hope you’ll join us with coffee and cake\, for what will be an unforgettable and memorable intergenerational panel!
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/dandelion-black-women-artists-talk/
LOCATION:South Side Community Art Center\, 3831 S. Michigan Ave.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60653\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks and Gatherings
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception: 9 Artists/ 9 Months/ 9 Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:9 Artists/ 9 Months/ 9 Perspectives features works by the collective\, Dandelion Black Women Artists. \nNine Black women artists engaged in collaborative efforts to create artworks that transcend and transform events in the year 2020. In their eyes\, art-making became a transgressive act through activism\, documentation and vision. Utilizing book-making\, craft-making and works on paper\, 9 Artists/9 Months/ 9 Perspectives presents a birth of vision under hardship felt worldwide\, collectively allowing us to reckon with our own perspectives\, reflections and welfare. This exhibition presents the conception\, gestation\, and birth of a collaborative artists’ books created by nine Black women artists of the collective\, Dandelion Black Women Artists. Their responses\, perspectives\, and reflections were inspired by the continuous struggle for health\, social\, and economic welfare of marginalized people during COVID-19\, the lack of response from the federal government\, and the political allyship of socio-political grassroots movements like Black Lives Matter. Craft-making became a transgressive act through artivism\, perspective\, and vision.
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/opening-reception-9-artists-9-months-9-perspectives/
LOCATION:South Side Community Art Center\, 3831 S. Michigan Ave.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60653\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions and Gallery Events
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SUMMARY:HOMECOMING: ON THE YARD 2022
DESCRIPTION:HOMECOMING will be SSCAC’s first large-scale outdoor program\, intended to be a city-wide call and response to Black artists! \n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\n\nHOMECOMING will be SSCAC’s first large-scale outdoor program\, intended to be a city-wide call and response to Black artists to further celebrate our legacy as the first Black arts center in the nation\, reconnect with past artists\, as well as commemorating the new and expansive ways we are moving forward as an organization! We’re calling our community to come back home! \nWe invite you and your families to celebrate with us alongside live musical performances\, dance\, and a special guest DJ – soon to be announced! \nStay tuned for more updates on how you’ll be able to join in on the fun – you won’t want to miss this!
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/homecoming-on-the-yard-2022/
LOCATION:South Side Community Art Center\, 3831 S. Michigan Ave.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60653\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dance,Music, Film, and Theater
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SUMMARY:The Gesture Itself Is Protection Spell
DESCRIPTION:Performative activations from current exhibiting artists R. Treshawn Williamson & Lola Ayisha Ogbara\, with special guest artist Jada-Amina. \n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\n\nBorrowed from Lola Ayisha Ogbara’s video work ‘Bound For Glory’ from her continuing series The Perfect Servant\, THE GESTURE ITSELF IS PROTECTION SPELL proposes questions of the body\, disruption\, labor\, acts of looking\, and materiality through movement\, sound\, and mythmaking. \nWilliamson\, Ogbara\, and Amina engage in multidisciplinary practices that reference homeplace\, memory\, and the “gaze” that take place across photography\, video\, sculpture\, sound\, and printmaking. \nTHE GESTURE ITSELF IS PROTECTION SPELL will feature a collaborative live sound activation by R. Treshawn Williamson and Jada-Amina followed by Lola Ayisha Ogbara’s video work ‘Bound For Glory’\, in which Ogbara uses Chicago’s labor intensive history\, centralizing Black women domestic workers\, to envision a radical future for Black lives. Ogbara finds an additional dialogue between sculpture and experimental photography that challenges our relationship to viewership. Ogbara questions\, “What lengths are we willing to go to in order to protect what is rightfully ours?” as she begins to imagine a collective disruption in the way we use our bodies to perform artistic labor. \nIn the same ways Ogbara imagines collective disruption and Black women’s labor \, R. Treshawn Williamson and Jada-Amina also explore the Black maternal and cultural re-imagination through sound mixing and oral histories\, through what Amina describes as “a sonic meditation grounded in incantation and afro-sentimentality…” \nThis program is the final program related to our current exhibition “…of the land: acts of refusal and ratification” \, which 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. \n\n\n\n*Banner image courtesy of artist Jada-Amina. Revolutions. 00:01:35 min. B&W Super 8 scanned to digital\, 2017.
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/the-gesture-itself-is-protection-spell/
LOCATION:South Side Community Art Center\, 3831 S. Michigan Ave.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60653\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions and Gallery Events
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SUMMARY:D-Composed Gives Family Edition with South Side Community Art Center!
DESCRIPTION:D-Composed brings their Music in Color experience to life at South Side Community Art Center! \n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\n\nFounded in 2017 by Kori Coleman\, D-Composed is a chamber music experience that celebrates & honors Black creativity and culture through the music of Black composers. \nTo date\, D-Composed has gained national recognition with appearances on The Colbert Show alongside Jamila Woods and has collaborated with notable institutions and highly recognized brands such as Apple\, The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago\, & The Rebuild Foundation. \nThis year D-Composed is featuring commissioned sketches from their Music in Color Vol. 4 coloring book featuring artists Dwight White II\, Amoz Wright\, Kayla Mahaffey\, and Aaliyah Lachele of Peanut Buddarart! \nSSCAC is thrilled to partner with D-Composed and we invite you to become a part of the next renaissance of artists by adding your piece of history to this art-making and music-making event for you and your family!
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/d-composed-gives-family-edition-with-south-side-community-art-center/
LOCATION:South Side Community Art Center\, 3831 S. Michigan Ave.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60653\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music, Film, and Theater,Talks and Gatherings
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SUMMARY:Riddim Rite of Passage: A Sound Activation with Ajmal 'Mas Man' Millar
DESCRIPTION:Artist Ajmal ‘Mas Man’ Millar will facilitate a participatory sound activation referencing his Trinidadian heritage. \n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\n\nWe invite you to join us with artist Ajmal ‘Mas Man’ Millar for a special rite of passage participatory sound activation using found metal\, which the artist uses often within their practice. Traditionally\, rites of passages have functioned as a critical tool of individual rejuvenation and cultural interconnection. \nAjmal’s use of metal within this program is inspired by and symbolic of the ‘riddim section’\, which is specifically linked to African diaspora percussions. \nEach participant is encouraged to bring found metal (without sharp edges) that they have access to. The session will encompass: \n– Introductions and group welcome where each participant will share their found objects with the group \n– Several exercises to build cognition\, individuality\, improvisation\, and harmony. \n– Ajmal will also provide a variety of metal rods and wooden sticks used to strike the metal\, thus collectively producing waves of sound in the likeness of steel drums. \n***The session will be sonically recorded\, and video documented.
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/riddim-rite-of-passage-a-sound-activation-with-ajmal-mas-man-millar/
LOCATION:South Side Community Art Center\, 3831 S. Michigan Ave.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60653\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions and Gallery Events,Talks and Gatherings
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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: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:Mama Gloria: In Her Honor
DESCRIPTION:A film screening and community gathering in honor of the late Mama Gloria Allen. \n\n\n\n\n\nLuchina Fisher will screen her film Mama Gloria\, in addition to honoring the life and impact of Gloria Allen\, a Black transgender icon and activist who dedicated her life to Chicago’s trans community. \nMama Gloria (2020) by Luchina Fisher. 1h 16m \nChicago’s Black transgender icon Gloria Allen (1945 – 2022) blazed a trail for trans people like few others before her. Emerging from Chicago’s South Side drag ball culture in the 1960s\, Gloria overcame traumatic violence to become a proud leader in her community. Most famously\, she pioneered a charm school for young transgender people that served as inspiration for the hit play Charm. Luchina Fisher’s empathic and engaging documentary is not only a portrait of a groundbreaking legend\, but also a celebration of unconditional love\, the love Gloria received from her own mother and that she gave to her chosen children.
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/mama-gloria-in-her-honor/
LOCATION:South Side Community Art Center\, 3831 S. Michigan Ave.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60653\, United States
CATEGORIES:Member Events,Music, Film, and Theater
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SUMMARY:JUNETEENTH AT THE HOUSE
DESCRIPTION:SSCAC CELEBRATES JUNETEENTH WITH MUSIC\, POETRY\, COMEDY\, AND FAMILY ART MAKING ACTIVATIONS – FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! \nFAMILY ART MAKING ACTIVITIES: 12 – 2PM  \n*POLAROID PHOTO ACTIVATION \n*CYANOTYPE ACTIVATION \n*LIMITED EDITION TOTE BAG LAUNCH FEATURING THE WORK OF ARTIST BRANDON BREAUX \n*PRINT WORKS BY ARTIST ERIC VON HAYNES \n*PHOTO ACTIVATION WITH ARTIST CATALYST CECIL MCDONALD JR.: 1:30 – 4PM  \nWE’RE THRILLED TO HOST DJ DUANE POWELL\, POET RESITA COX\, ARTIST CATALYST CECIL MCDONALD JR. AND COMEDIANS MAX THOMAS & ARLIETA HALL! \n 
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/juneteenth-at-the-house/
LOCATION:South Side Community Art Center\, 3831 S. Michigan Ave.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60653\, United States
CATEGORIES:Cultural Festivals and Fairs,Member Events,Music, Film, and Theater,Talks and Gatherings,Workshops and Classes
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SUMMARY:A Queer History Tour of Bronzeville
DESCRIPTION:Community member Rachael Pierce will lead a queer-centered history tour\, beginning with SSCAC. \n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\n\nJoin us with Rachael Pierce on Saturday\, June 4th for a Queer history tour of the Bronzeville area\, as well as learning more about SSCAC’s role in highlighting queer histories as they relate to Black artists! \nRachael will also facilitate a storytelling component with Queer elders from the South Side after the tour\, to take place on our front stoop. \n  \nRUN OF PROGRAM: \nWalking tour will begin at South Side Community Art Center\, and take place from 12:30PM – 1:45PM. \nStorytelling back at South Side Community Art Center will take place from 2PM – 3PM. \n\n\n\n\nRachael Pierce is a community builder from the South Side of Chicago. She’s a lover of history\, black queer herstory to be exact; and as CEO of her production company\, Pi360co\, Rachael works to create spaces and platforms for queer BIPOC women to bravely share their stories and explore their spirituality. \nHer passions meet at the intersection of everything and are influenced by her Queer\, Black\, Indigenous identity. Rachael believes she is called to empower folks to bravely gather\, build community\, and share their stories of life and faith. \nThis program is presented in conjunction with EMERGENCE: Intersections at the Center\, currently on view until July 2\, 2022. \nEMERGENCE: Intersections at the Center spotlights The South Side Community Art Center’s historical role in supporting a full spectrum of Black artists through an intersectional viewpoint. The first exhibition of its kind at the South Side Community Art Center\, EMERGENCE positions the Center as an important anchor for Black LGBTQ artists who belonged to its community from its founding in 1940 to the 1980s and beyond.
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/a-queer-history-tour-of-bronzeville/
LOCATION:South Side Community Art Center\, 3831 S. Michigan Ave.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60653\, United States
CATEGORIES:Tour
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SUMMARY:Black Magic: A Tintype Photo Project with Adam Davis
DESCRIPTION:Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist Adam Davis brings his 1850’s tintype photo practice to the South Side Community Art Center! \n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\n\nOn June 3rd and June 4th\, South Side Community Art Center will host artist Adam Davis and his ‘Black Magic’ tintype photography project. Through this participatory photo activation\, Adam will offer free portrait sessions to members of the Chicago community. \nDavis will create 2 portraits per session – one for participants to take home and one for his own archive. Traveling to historically Black cities and communities nationwide\, Davis is in pursuit of creating 20\,000 tintype portraits of Black Americans with the goal of creating the largest contemporary archive of Black American portraits. \nThemes of Afrofuturism\, celebrating the Art of Magic\, and Queerness have become foundational to Davis’ process throughout the project. \nBlack historical art spaces\, such as SSCAC are critical to Davis’ intent to be in conversation with the legacy of Black artistic innovation\, community engagement\, and Black archival contributions to the culture. \nPlease read below on how to participate: \nPortrait sessions will take place at SSCAC from 1pm – 4pm. \nEach portrait session will take 20 – 30 minutes\, which includes a chemical development process. Due to the nature of this process\, RSVP time selections are required to participate. \nWe kindly ask that you select 1 time slot for yourself only\, so that we’re able honor each participant per session. \n\n\n\n\n  \nAdam Davis (b. 1994) is an American Visual Artist\, Educator\, and Arts Education Advocate born and raised in Brooklyn\, New York. Davis obsessively seeks to apply his passion for creativity\, communication\, and storytelling to assist in finding solutions to problems that hinder diverse and equitable cultural progression at the intersection of the Arts and Education within the Black community. With a degree in Education and 6 years in the classroom\, Davis’ work intends to document the lives of Black bodies in a way that educates\, empowers\, and returns the permission to dictate how they are photographed to the subject. Delving into personal narratives on religion\, queerness\, mental health\, and the greater understanding of the global African diaspora\, Davis creates images\, both moving and still\, from a place of curiosity. \nDavis is a resident at the 54 year old Black Owned and operated community arts organization St. Elmo Village in Los Angeles\, California. Here Davis developed his darkroom practice on campus in the facilities opened by founder Roderick Sykes. Davis’ second solo exhibition\, titled Black Magic\, was created at the Village and opened at the Byrd Museum in Los Angeles\, where his darkroom practice lies at the center of his practice of making tintype portraits. The exhibition monograph was successfully published soon after by Paper Chase Press and debuted at the New Art Dealers Alliance fair in Miami during Art Basel Week 2021. Davis’ work has been featured in the LA Times\, SKEW Magazine\, Umber Publications\, and AFAR among others.
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/black-magic-a-tintype-photo-project-with-adam-davis/
LOCATION:South Side Community Art Center\, 3831 S. Michigan Ave.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60653\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions and Gallery Events
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SUMMARY:CEREMONIES: A Selection of Short Films by Marlon Riggs
DESCRIPTION:Post-discussion to follow led by Aymar Jean Christian & zakkiyyah najeebah dumas o’neal\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nA filmmaker unlike any other\, Marlon Riggs was an unapologetic gay Black man who defied a culture of silence and shame. Riggs used a bold mix of documentary\, performance\, poetry\, and music to confront the legacy of racist stereotypes and the impact of AIDS on the Black community. He died in 1995 of AIDS-related illness\, leaving behind a vital\, living body of work that wrestled with the very definition of what it means to be Black. \nCEREMONIES directly references poet Essex Hemphill’s groundbreaking anthology of short stories and poetry Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry\, which won the National Library Association’s Gay\, Lesbian\, and Bisexual New Author Award when it was published in 1992. The book’s poems and essays expand on many important social issues at the time\, such as the white objectification of Black men\, as epitomized by Robert Mapplethorpe’s The Black Book; AIDS in the Black community; and the complex dynamics gay Black men experience in both the white LGBTQ+ community and in Black culture – very much in alignment with Rigg’s exploration of these topics as it appears in his film works. In addition\, Essex Hemphill’s poetry was also featured in Marlon Riggs’ documentaries Tongues Untied (1989) and Black Is … Black Ain’t (1994). \nThis program features three of Riggs’ short films: Affirmations\, Anthem\, and Regrette Rien (No Regret). \nA post-discussion will be led by SSCAC Public Programs and Engagement Manager\, and co-curatort of EMERGENCE zakkiyyah najeebah dumas-o’neal and Aymar Jean Christian\, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University\, and co-founder of OTV | Open Television. \n  \n\n\nThis screening is presented in conjunction with EMERGENCE: Intersections at the Center\, currently on view until July 2\, 2022. \nEMERGENCE: Intersections at the Center spotlights The South Side Community Art Center’s historical role in supporting a full spectrum of Black artists through an intersectional viewpoint. The first exhibition of its kind at the South Side Community Art Center\, EMERGENCE positions the Center as an important anchor for Black LGBTQ artists who belonged to its community from its founding in 1940 to the 1980s and beyond. The exhibition features works addressing identity and community\, queer spaces and performance\, in collage\, painting\, sculpture\, photography\, and more. \n  \nThis program is generously supported by\, and in partnership with South Side Projections. \nFounded in 2011\, South Side Projections presents films at locations across Chicago’s south side to foster conversation about complex social and political issues. At many screenings\, we enlist scholars\, activists\, and filmmakers to lead discussions\, while other screenings offer opportunities to present seldom-seen films of historical and artistic value to the communities of Chicago’s south side.
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/ceremonies-a-selection-of-short-films-by-marlon-riggs/
LOCATION:South Side Community Art Center\, 3831 S. Michigan Ave.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60653\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music, Film, and Theater
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SUMMARY:What to Send Up When It Goes Down
DESCRIPTION:Congo Square Theatre presents WHAT TO SEND UP WHEN IT GOES DOWN!\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nSSCAC is thrilled to share a limited amount of complimentary tickets for What to Send Up When It Goes Down\, showing April 21 – May 1 at Stony Island Arts Bank. \nWhat to Send Up When It Goes Down responds to the gratuitous loss of Black lives and interrupts discourses that enable the ubiquity of racialized violence in our society and is a participatory\, shapeshifting experience intent on creating space for collective catharsis\, cleansing and healing. \nThis intimate\, interactive 90-minute work will be co-directed by Congo Square Artistic Director Ericka Ratcliff and Ensemble member Daniel Bryant and feature Ensemble members Ronald L. Conner and Anthony Irons along with Jos N Banks\, McKenzie Chinn\, Victor Missoni\, Alexandria Moorman\, and Penelope Walker. Other creative team members include Sarah Grace Goldman (Dramaturg)\, Estrellita Edwell (Production/Tour Manager & Technical Director)\, Charlique C. Rolle (Movement Coordinator)\, Sydney Lynne Thomas (Set & Props Designer)\, Alexis Chaney (Costume/Wig/Makeup Designer)\, and Levi Wilkins (Lighting Designer) \nWe hope you’ll join us !!
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/what-to-send-up-when-it-goes-down/
LOCATION:Stony Island Arts Bank\, 6760 South Stony Island Avenue\, Chicago\, IL\, 60649\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music, Film, and Theater
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception: Emergence
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition positions SSCAC as an important anchor for Black LGBTQ artists who belonged to its community.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nWe invite you to come out and celebrate the opening of EMERGENCE: Intersections at the Center! \n  \nEMERGENCE highlights The South Side Community Art Center’s historical role in supporting a full spectrum of Black artists through an intersectional viewpoint. \nEMERGENCE features work by Ralph Arnold\, Richmond Barthé\,Sylvester Britton\, William S. Carter\, Mikki Ferrill\, Jonathan Green\, Juarez Hawkins\, Berry Horton\, Patric McCoy\, Charles Sebree\, Allen Stringfellow\, and Ellis Wilson. The first exhibition of its kind at the South Side Community Art Center\, artworks in the exhibition address themes of identity\, community\, queer spaces\, and performance\, in collage\, painting\, sculpture\, photography\, and more. \nThe exhibition is organized by Rebecca Zorach and curated by LaMar Gayles Jr. and zakkiyyah najeebah dumas o’neal.
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/opening-reception-emergence/
LOCATION:South Side Community Art Center\, 3831 S. Michigan Ave.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60653\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions and Gallery Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220324T130000
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SUMMARY:PROMPT/ DREAM/ BUILD: Andrea Yarbrough & ebere agwuncha
DESCRIPTION:A virtual conversation from South Side Community Art Center’s 3831/Voices Series. \n3831/VOICES is a new program series of conversations and lectures featuring Black artists\, scholars\, curators\, historians\, and arts workers that invite our community into their creative practices\, research\, and conceptual processes\, and more! 3831 takes after SSCAC’s exact numerical address in the historic Bronzeville neighborhood. Although we recognize ourselves as an iconic historical site for Black artistic and cultural advancement\, we continue to evolve as a contemporary hub for new thought practices\, creative practices\, and innovative frameworks being developed by a diverse array of amazing folks here in our city\, and beyond. \nAndrea and ebere’s multidisciplinary practices are informed by acts of care and storytelling\, that ultimately become actualized within the objects and projects they build out- individually and collectively. Engaging in practices of co-thinking\, designing\, and building\, they both expand on alternative modes for solidarity amongst Black women\, restorative design approaches\, and a socially informed process of creating.Andrea and ebere will lead us in to a live call and response\, directed by their relationships to dreaming\, thought processes\, and “the work”. \n\nZOOM REGISTRATION: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqcuirqTooE9VNHGJRbDjKaWG2dG5FpvoP \nImage courtesy: Andrea Yarbrough
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/prompt-dream-build-andrea-yarbrough-ebere-agwuncha/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions and Gallery Events,Member Events,Online Events,Talks and Gatherings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220317T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220317T140000
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SUMMARY:COMING TO THE TABLE: In Conversation with Skyla Hearn
DESCRIPTION:Archivist Skyla Hearn and SSCAC Public Engagement lead Zakkiyyah Najeebah Dumas-O’neal kick off 3831/VOICES to engage in an informal conversation that traverses Skyla Hearn’s archiving practice\, their intersecting connections to Black women arts workers and SSCAC\, and the influences that help sustain them in their work.\nGrab a cup of tea – or wine\, and join us! All attendees are welcome to join in on this conversation\, so come ready to talk\, reflect\, and ask questions!\n\n3831/VOICES is a new program series of conversations and lectures featuring Black artists\, scholars\, curators\, historians\, and arts workers that invite our community into their creative practices\, research\, and conceptual processes\, and more! 3831 takes after SSCAC’s exact numerical address in the historic Bronzeville neighborhood. Although we recognize ourselves as an iconic historical site for Black artistic and cultural advancement\, we continue to evolve as a contemporary hub for new thought practices\, creative practices\, and innovative frameworks being developed by a diverse array of amazing folks here in our city\, and beyond.\n\nSkyla Hearn (Skylah Sensahrae) is a proud Chicagoan (South Side) by way of Mississippi. As an archivist\, liberatory memory and cultural worker Skyla is most concerned with supporting a community’s attempt to understand\, document and share its own history\, particularly those aspects that have not been well recorded. Skyla’s passion and dedication towards the creation\, management\, preservation and accessibility of archives\, with particular focus on BIPOC LGBTQIA+ collections\, ephemeral materials\, knowledge development\, and social justice has provided her with unique opportunities to work with diverse individuals\, communities and repositories at various capacities nationally and internationally.\n\nSkyla is also co-founder of The Blackivists\, a collective of trained Black memory workers who provide expertise on archiving and preservation practices to communities in the Chicago land area; and the inaugural Manager of Archives for Cook County Government under the Offices of the President of the Board of Commissioners.\nAs a legacy keeper\, she recently (March 2021) co-edited the zine publication Our Girl Tuesday: An Unfurling for Dr. Margaret T.G. Burroughs alongside Sarah Ross and Tempestt Hazel with an introduction by Mariame Kaba\, published by Sojourners for Justice Press.
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/coming-to-the-table-in-conversation-with-skyla-hearn/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Member Events,Online Events,Talks and Gatherings
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SUMMARY:An Unapologetic Dream: A Virtual MLK Day Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Hyde Park Art Center with South Side Community Art Center and Arts + Public Life. Join a free virtual screening on January 17 from 4-7pm of Unapologetic by Chicago filmmaker Ashley O”Shay. Register here: https://buff.ly/3zJpGY2 \nUnapologetic is a film told through the lens of Janaé Bonsu and Bella Bahhs\, two fierce abolitionist leaders\, that gives a deep look into the movement for Black Lives\, from the police murder of Rekia Boyd to the election of mayor Lori Lightfoot. \nOpening the program will also be an excerpt from Hyde Park Art Center’s Center Program Artist\, Cathleen Campbell’s documentary\, Martin Luther King’s Unsung Heros in Chicago\, shorts from The Black Archive Project: Chicago Uprisings 2020 by local independent filmmaker and documentarian\, Resita Cox\, and a poetry reading from Leslé Honore\, an AfroLatina poet\, artivist\, and author of Fist & Fire\, a collection of powerful\, unflinching poems that confront issues of social justice through the lens of real human lives and voices.\nThe poetry and films will be followed by a discussion with filmmakers Ashley O’Shay\, Resita Cox\, and Cathleen Campbell.
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/an-unapologetic-dream-a-virtual-mlk-day-celebration/
LOCATION:Online Event
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