Interdisciplinary artist David Luke has collaborated with Upstream Arts to create a quartet of unique animated movies. Continue Reading Upstream Animated
Interdisciplinary artist David Luke has collaborated with Upstream Arts to create a quartet of unique animated movies. Continue Reading Upstream Animated
The Pursuit of Happiness aims to infuse the neighborhood with the best medicine, laughter, through a series of Laughter Gatherings in living rooms, businesses, community spaces, schools, and outdoors, thereby promoting physical and emotional well-being and our right to the pursuit of happiness. Continue Reading In the Pursuit of Happiness
The Poetry Mobile is a 4-wheeled, pedal powered whimsical writing studio where Project Coordinator Molly Van Avery and a multitude of collaborators will write and deliver an original poem to every household in Powderhorn Park. Continue Reading Poetry Mobile
A site-specific piece meant to be universal, combining the art of sign painting and installation art. Continue Reading Time Travel
The PHAT mobile is an interactive vehicle that will facilitate art projects where youth are to transform, breakout, get up, get down and get the party started. Continue Reading PHAT mobile
Urban/Environment is a nature walk along Chicago Avenue comprised of 30 state-park-inspired signs that combine photographs of the neighborhood with interpretive text. Join us for guided hikes! Continue Reading Urban/Environment
Breaking Ice is a program of Pillsbury House + Theatre that uses improvisation and ensemble-based theatre to confront the difficult communication issues that arise from cultural friction. In February of 2013, Breaking Ice customized an entertaining and thought-provoking performance with input from the neighborhood on… Continue Reading Breaking Ice
Creating a memorable space over street pavement! Continue Reading Paint the Pavement
The Mobile Sign Shop functions as a mobile, municipal sign shop designed to create vernacular name signs for the neighborhood with the goal of increasing residents’ connection to each other while giving people who travel on Chicago a sense of who lives here, adding names to the place. Continue Reading The Mobile Sign Shop
The public art consortium, The Collage Collaborative™, is creating artwork that promotes Chicago Avenue South using the neighborhood senior citizens’ stories as inspiration and the youths’ painted paper as material. Continue Reading Collage Collaborative