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Our Teen Campers are wrapping up their HPAC camp experience today, with a performance at 2pm on the second floor of our building. They’ve spent a great two weeks learning about improv, the environment, the arts, and even an impromptu kickboxing demo by our own Blake Bradford. Here’s hoping that they had a great time with Jessi and Mary, and that we see them back here again and again in the future!
Pile-o-Teens!
Our campers wrap Session 1 of our Summer Creativity Camps today! They perform at 2:30 pm in 4833, our Resource Center, so if you’re in the area, stop by and check it out! Thanks to all our camp teachers and assistants for making our first full camp session in the new building a great one. We hope they all had as much fun as we had having them here! Here are some images of the good times they had over the last two weeks.
Working with Hardy in the Glaze Room.
Today is Allison’s birthday! Happy Birthday Director of Exhibitions!
William Pope.L.’s Black Factory, “a mobile social service experiment” made a stop at the Hyde Park Art Center for this past Sunday’s opening of the newest exhibit, Home of the Free. Their station, comprised of a blow-up Black Factory igloo, podium and truck, served as an excellent forum for the community to gather and converse.
Visitors behold The Black Factory’s mobile forum— a blow-up igloo, podium and truck.
When is a teacher not a teacher? When (s)he is a teaching artist! Material Science, curated by Director of Education Blake Bradford, is a new exhibition highlighting the work of our talented teaching artists. The show examines how these artists employ techniques, materials and media in their art making processes to heighten the tactile, narrative and emotional experience of the finished artworks.
In a first for the Art Center, we now have Teen Camps! Our inaugural group of eight awesome teens have taken the Art Center by storm. Under the dutiful guidance of teaching artists Mary Tepper and Jessi Walsh, they’ve been working on tons of cool and fun projects. Check out a few photos of the group working on their relief panels, based on graphic images they found from art books in the 4833 library!
A great group of teens for our first ever Teen Arts Camp.
To celebrate the opening of Home of the Free, HPAC’s newest exhibition curated by Jens Hoffmann, the Art Center hosted a free Barbecue on our plaza this past Sunday, June 25th. Burgers, Hot Dog, Chips, and more were part of the festivities as revelers were given a chance to express what their notion of Freedom is, either through donations of objects, pinning pieces up on our wall, or taking advantage of Hyde Park Corner, the Art Center’s own personal soapbox. Come take part in the exhibition and leave a piece of what you believe Freedom is.
Last night we had a great conversation with ICA Curator Jens Hoffmann about his upcoming HPAC exhibition Home of the Free. A crowd of artists, curators and generally interesting folk came to partake in good beer, pizza, and talk.
There’s a new resource for teachers, collectors, curators, students… just about anyone looking for information on contemporary Chicago artists. Presenting A:List, the Hyde Park Art Center’s curated, online, artist database.
A:List is intended to highlight the many artists who have taught or exhibited at HPAC in our 60 year history. The site is therefore a work in progress (with over 1500 artists who qualify, we’ve got a long way to go!), but take a look at the site and visit again soon to see who has been added.
Artists can easily create their own profile entries for A:List through web forms and may update the content of their profiles at any time. The site now features a range of teaching and exhibiting artists, and we’ll soon be adding the artists from Takeover. We’ll also start to track down some of the people who exhibited with us in decades past, so look forward to learning more about the artists from some of HPAC’s most infamous shows like Hairy Who II (1967) and Marriage Chicago Style (1970).
Enjoy looking through A:List, and let us know your thoughts about it here.
Want to know what a Canjo is? Come by 4833 and check out a few of these fascinating and melodic instruments, created by students at Bowen High School under the tutelage of Art Teacher Bert Stabler. Here’s a taste:
The Hyde Park Art Center’s Grand Opening Gala dazzled and wowed the crowd. Highlights included the honoring of longtime HPAC Board Member and patron, Ruth Horwich, cocktails with the artists from our first exhibition, TAKEOVER, and an impromptu performance by Industry of the Ordinary.
Our Grand Opening Gala honored the one and only Ruth Horwich.
The Mayor, Aldermen, State Senator, and officials galore turned out for the official ribbon cutting of the new Art Center building, but most importantly an enthusiastic and energetic crowd made up of friends, community members, and patrons of the arts were there. Here are a couple looks at the momentous occasion.
Visitors packed Gallery 1 for the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
It’s taken us a while, but who doesn’t have trouble after settling in from a move. Enjoy some of the sights from our Creative Move weekend. We hope you come and visit!
A look into Gallery 1 from the Catwalk Gallery
A varied group of artists, art administrators, and other interested individuals gathered last Thursday night for a round table discussion featuring Anthony Elms, Adelheid Mers, Dale Washington, Allison Peters, and Ray Yang. The evening centered on the question: what happens when artists take over an institution?