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The very first Art Center baby has arrived! Our very own 4833 Program Director, Ray Yang, and his wife Emily became parents on Monday, October 29 - and it’s a boy! Looks like another Second Sundays/Fun For All participant has been born…might his first words be “Hyde Park Art Center”?
Congrats, Ray and Emily!
Angela Lee, filmmaker, writer, and longtime Hyde Park Art Center student, has a new exhibition opening at the African American Cultural Center at UIC. The show, Life-Lines, follows on the heels of her 2007 solo debut, Marking the Body, at the Art Center. Life-Lines runs from November 1- 30, with opening events on Friday, November 2. The program begins at 2 pm with a reception, followed by a lecture by the artist at 3. The African American Cultural Center is located in Addams Hall, 830 S. Halsted Street, on the UIC campus, .
Where’s all the art gone? Why, it’s all been sold!
Another great Just Good Art is in the books and the Art Center staff slowly recovers on Monday morning. Thank you too all the artists who donated awesome works, and the many great attendees who came, mingled, and left with fantastic bargains under their arms. A special thanks to Thomas McCormick and Victoria Espy Burns, our amazing dueling auctioneers who added a bit of fun and sass to the evening. Check out some shots from the event below. We’ll see you next year! (if not sooner…)
This past sunday the Art Center launched its new family drop-in program, Second Sundays!
We had a fantastic turnout, with about 120 parents and kids stopping in to enjoy art making with teaching artists Suzanne Sebold-Suso and Shoshanna Utchenik. Families also grooved to the drum beats of the Chicago Djembe Project.
If you were here, let us know what you thought of the program. Here are a few shots from the day. Thank you everyone who attended! We hope you’ll join us for next month’s program, Sunday, November 11th, from 1pm-4pm.
The second sunday of each month the art center will be hosting arts workshops for the entire family in our Oakman-Clinton School and Studios. These programs are FREE and families can drop in at any time during the program. There will also be a performer or group at the Art Center each month, and families can take advantage of the Art Center’s Gallery Activity Guide to explore the Art Center’s space.
Come on down for the launch of Second Sundays!
Second Sundays
Sunday, October 14th
1pm-4pm
This month features mask and costume making activities with Teaching Artists Suzanne Sebold-Suso and Shoshanna Utchenik. Also, the Chicago Djembe Project will be performing and hosting a workshop.
Starting Thursday, grab your copy of this week’s Newcity and check out the Hyde Park Art Center’s Consuming War circular - it’s a pull-out you can keep, and it lists all the upcoming events for our next major show. There are also pictures of the works, info about the artists, clip-and-saves, and more. Don’t miss it!
The South East Chicago Commission has created a new website to help people learn about Hyde Park and the events, programs, and resources available throughout the neighborhood. Check it out!
A great resource and very much worth the time.
Saturday’s Hyde Park Jazz Festival was a whirlwind, day-and-night extravaganza celebrating jazz, art, and culture in Hyde Park. The festival culminated in a concert at the Hyde Park Art Center featuring Jimmy Ellis, Maggie Brown, Willie Pickens, and Corey Wilkes. Howard Reich called it “the fastest 14 hours in jazz — as well as the most inspiring”, and we couldn’t agree more!
Maggie Brown performs to a packed house at HPAC.
