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…and sometimes you end up looking like this. Our teens have been getting a bit rowdy as they enter the home stretch of camp session 1. Body and face paint were the activities of the day after a trip over to the Field Museum. Check out our budding body paint artists!
Camp Session 1 is in full swing, and our cute, cuddly, and occasionally bearded campers have taken over the building! If you’re venturing down this way, be prepared for creativity of all sorts. In addition to our resident cranky old geezer, Julie, we also experienced an impromptu paper hat parade. oh those crazy kids!
Mini-Camp One finished off with a bang! Each camp section concluded with a performance featuring work they completed over the past week. Check out these images from our amazing performers. Thank you to all the great teachers and campers for getting our summer started right!
The Teen Camp performs an insightful and meditative look back on their camp experience.
Creativity Camp is rolling along! Our first mini-camp performances take place today at 2:30pm. Stop by and be dazzled by our campers!
On Friday night we unanimously voted on art as The Muller Meeting Room was filled with a one night show of community art work hanging on … you guessed it - CLOTHES LINES!
Showing now in 4833’s Flex Space is an exhibition of quilts made by gifted 6th and 7th graders of the Hendricks Community Academy. These students created beautiful quilts documenting the important lived experiences that took place within their lives and the lives of their family members. Be sure to come by to check out these quilts and learn about the stories of the young artists who made them!
A Sampling of our Quilter’s Talents
News Alert! HPAC was taken over today by a powerful force of … . kids! Creativity Camp has started and the fun has begun. Smiling faces everywhere are oozing with creative energy as they draw, paint, build, and even practice their acting skills!
HPAC says No to Marker Sniffing and Eating
Deone’s Trip to Marfa, Texas
HPAC Residency Committee Chair Deone Jackman and Chinati Foundation Associate Director Rob Weiner
In early 2007, HPAC Board Member Deone Jackman stopped off in Marfa, Texas to check out the West Texas art scene. What could this sleepy small town of under 2,200 have that would interest Deone? Well, if you didn’t know the story, here it is. Donald Judd, a NYC artist moved to Marfa in 1971 and began buying buildings in the town, both large (hanger size) and small, and installing many of his works in the spaces. Judd’s ultimate goal was to utilize these spaces to permanently install large collections of various artists’ work, presenting them in a way that was contrary to what museums were doing. More and more artists became involved in the project, and today there are two foundations in Marfa, Texas which carry on Judd’s legacy, the Judd Foundation and the Chinati Foundation.
Despite the many guesses that flooded in, no one completely correctly identified our new piece in the stairwell of the main lobby, Stacza Lipinski’s Hang Up. It’s a gorgeous cut paper piece of work that has already cpatured the imagination of many an art center visitor. Swing by to take a look.
It ALWAYS rains on Art Fair weekend (some things never change!), but the 57th Street Art Fair is also always a great chance for the Hyde Park Art Center to bring free hands-on art-making to the community, to share our resources with new people, and to just have a chance to hang out with the friendly folks strolling around the fair…
The exhibition For Public Consumption, and the conversation surrounding it, addresses a variety of very interesting questions that are inherent to exhibition venues such as the HPAC’s ‘digital façade’. Some of the artworks shown on the façade since April 2006 focus on the very nature of the projection screen as a permeable membrane between the interior and the exterior. Other artworks emphasize aspects of the semiotics of urban screens in the context of advertisement, intimacy and privacy, scale, ambient conditions, and site-specific features.
Within the recent years, an emerging international discourse has developed within the Arts, Urban Studies, and Architecture, addressing questions of cultural curation and contribution within the increasing visual culture of public spaces (i.e. the Urban Screens Conference in Amsterdam, 2005, and Manchester, 2007). Within this discourse, one of the most challenging is the question of site-specificity in relation to the local visual culture.
Leave your guess in the comments section below. If you’ve been to the art center recently though, you should already know what this is! Stay tuned for the answer at the end of the day.
