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…and we’re not even talking Barack vs. Hillary (not this time, anyway)! Rather, Tribune critic Alan Artner reviewed Chuck Walker’s Through a Glass Darkly on February 15, and a number of readers had very strong reactions to Artner’s opinion.
The girls in the Saturday youth class knitted up a storm this past weekend and created beautiful handmade scarves. After designing and knitting their own scarves, the girls hand painted Cool-Aid onto their work to create amazing colors and designs.
The Spring Newsletter is on its way to your mailboxes. Get the latest on exhibitions, 4833, and the school and studio! Course listings are also on line on the School and Studio page. Look for it in the mail or pick one up from the Art Center!
Teaching Artist Sarah Kaiser has an interview over on the ArtStyle blog. Check it out here.
One more Second Sunday in the books. A great crowd braved the single digit cold to heat up the Art Center, making soft sculpture puppets, mini books, and celebrating the opening of Language Art. And on top of all that, we had a lion dance! If you couldn’t make it down this month, stop in on March 9th for our next Second Sunday!
Hui-min Tsen was our February TalkingPoint artist and she brought an interactive activity for the crowd to participate in! Working on a mapping project where participants marked on a map areas of the city of Chicago that Hui-min should visit and places to avoid, the artist creates dialogue not only about people’s impressions of her, but also their own views of the city. It was another great conversation in the series!
She looks amazing for 35, doesn’t she?
Ok, so she’s actually only 27, but that doesn’t make her any less great looking! We celebrated the birthday of our favorite Art Center vegan yesterday with all sorts of non-animal enhanced/influenced/based products. And it was still pretty delicious! Happy Birthday, Colleen!
Come check out quilts by Claremont Academy 6th graders in collaboration with textile artist, Paula White, currently on display in 4833. The students’ teacher, Ms. Coffee, worked with the Hyde Park Art Center’s education department to bring Paula to their classroom. Paula is a fifth generation quilter and her work was part of last month’s Consuming War exhibit. Through journaling, drawing, and discussing the outcomes of war and violence, students chose to focus on depictions of peace between Iraq, Afghanistan and the United States
