4833 rph — Programs

Image: Wayne Youle, 12 Shades of bullshit, 2003, laser cut acrylic and spray paint, 23 × 55 inches

If you encounter any people wandering around Hyde Park looking lost and talking with strange accents, introduce yourself - they might be the New Zealanders from the Hyde Park Art Center!

The Hyde Park Art Center is playing host to 6 New Zealanders: 4 artists and 2 Maori representatives, who will be arriving in the next week for Close Encounters, a project that will result in a 2009-10 exhibition at the Center. The New Zealanders will be joined by 4 US artists who are also involved in the project.

The group are converging for a hui (traditional Maori meeting) that will be held at the Maori meeting house at the Field Museum. They will be discussing some big issues - race relations, development of communities, and the relationships in social groups.

Bruce E. Phillips, who is co-curating the project with HPAC director Chuck Thurow, arrived in April with his partner Fiona Moorhead. Bruce may be familiar to HPAC regulars - he had a curatorial residency here last year. Bruce and Fiona have been busy organizing the upcoming events.

Wayne Youle, one of the New Zealand artists, arrived on Tuesday night. He’s busy soaking up Chicago atmosphere and is looking forward to going to a baseball game on Friday night!

Have a look here at the HPAC exhibition page for a description of the project and more information about the artists. We’ve also started a blog (http://closeencountershui.wordpress.com) that will be added to from 15 May onwards with updates on the project.

Yesterday’s Second Sunday event was jammed pack with exciting projects and an extra special performance by guest artist, Omen Sade. Kids and parents alike got to explore their creative sides by making sculptures from everyday household items such as cotton balls, toilet paper rolls, and egg crates. The reverse collage project taught participants about Dada techniques, exploring free association between images, color, and shape. Then, Omen Sade gave a special performance which featured two masks of the Commedia dell’arte style of street theater. Omen made the audience laugh with his outrageous comedic stunts and even served watermelon to everyone at the end of his performance.

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The Art Center’s Executive Director, Chuck Thurow, will be part of a panel at the Department of Cultural Affairs, entitled, Engaging Older Adults Through Arts and Culture: Developing a Livable Chicago for All Ages. Chuck will be talking about the Art Center, as well as his experiences as a new student in our Drawing Class!

The workshop is free and lunch will be served. It requires registration from 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. at the event. Seating and lunch are not guaranteed due to limited space. This is An Aging in Place Initiative sponsored by the City of Chicago in partnership with MetLife Foundation, et al. For more info, visit www.aginginplaceinitiative.org.

You can find the agenda for the program here.

Last Sunday, March 9th was another fun-filled Second Sunday event. Kids and parents alike got their creative juices flowing by creating still-life paintings and block prints. The workshops were led by Holly Cahill and William Estrada, two of HPAC’s teaching artists. As As a special bonus, everyone got to enjoy the harmonies of the U of C’s a capella group, The Ransom Notes. Everyone seemed to have a great time!

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Be a part of the current art center facade exhibition. Newsworthy is a chance to submit comments in an interactive exhibition and see your headlines splashed across the Art Center facade and the website! Very cool stuff. follow this link or go to www.newsworthychicago.com

Last Monday Jennifer Karmin and Kathleen Duffy of Anti-Gravity Surprise expanded our minds and peaked our creativity as our March Talkingpoint guests. Jennifer and Kathleen shared their thoughts on collaboration and the potential for cultural and social investigation through creative practice. Their current project, “Tell Us What You Think” will create dialogue through traveling workbooks, a website, and community events.The workbooks will be released throughout the world to gather writing from people about social issues, the process of collaboration, and the subject of public art. AGS invites artists and non-artists to contribute. To make a submission, please visit:

http://www.antigravitysurprise.org/projects/2005/tell_us
_what_you_think/call_for_submissions/index.html

Keep an eye out for AGS. With the motto, “When people make art, they are making the world they want around them,” they can be found inspiring creativity and change all over city of Chicago and beyond.

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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!

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

Classes start this week, but it’s not too late to sign up!

Head over to the School and Studio page and see what we’re offering. Then give us a call at 773-324-5520. Hope to see you here at the Art Center!

Our first ever Not Just Another Pretty Face salon is happening next week and you’re invited. We couldn’t be more excited to showcase Chicago’s talented artists!

This year long endeavor provides the Art Center with a way to introduce and reacquaint people throughout the city with work by over 60 emerging and established local artists. Come enjoy food, drinks, and great company while discovering a new way to support local art and artists. All are welcome, and in the grand Hyde Park Art Center tradition it’s free.

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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…)

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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.

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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.

Stockyard Institute and the Experimental Sound Studio are collaborating on Favorite Chicago Sounds that will feature the Hyde Park neighborhood. They are asking people to select areas in Hyde Park where their favorite sounds happen. They will then collect those sound sites, and working with the Chicago Park District and the city, develop permanent signs that mark the site. The project will be introduced (in the Hyde Park neighborhood) during the Outer Ear Festival of Sound in late November of this year. The more contributors the better. The sound sites and their exact location can be emailed to the Stockyard Institute. Please participate!

You may have heard a lot of talk lately about Illinois’ State budget and the battle between the Governor and the State Senate over various projects, items, etc. Well the new budget calls for a major reduction in the Illinois Arts Council’s budget, as well as eliminating an arts program from the Board of Education. Don’t let this happen! You can make your voice heard and help save these programs.

Below is a letter from the Illinois Arts Alliance. Please continue on and read through. Then write a letter or make a call and get your voice heard! We need to get involved and make a difference!

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We’ve just wrapped Session 5 of Summer Camp, and started up our last Mini-Camp session today which means, sadly, that summer is almost over! :( But what a summer it’s been!

Here are a couple shots from our camp performances last week. Enjoy!

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One of our Teaching Artists Sarah Kaiser is organizing an exhibition on the work and experiences of art teachers at ARC Gallery and is looking for teachers who are interested in participating, whether on her blog or with work. Check out the description below as well as the link for Sarah’s blog!

arteachereflections.blogspot.com

In August 2008, I will host an exhibition of work compiled by art teachers of all ages. Art teachers are encouraged to look back on the years that they have devoted to such a challenging and rewarding occupation and exhibit their reflections at ARC Gallery on Chicago’s West Side. Depending upon the response, I may have to limit some of the items included in the exhibit, but would definitely like to organize a few public forums where teachers can come to share ideas.

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The Pedagogical Factory and the plethora of programs that are part of the series have started to shape and change Gallery 1. No longer just an exhibition space or a workspace, it’s now a school, gathering spot, and much more! Check out these artists decorating our “new art school” as well as a midday dance lesson from “How We Move”

Not like any school i’ve been to.

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The Stockyard Institute’s Pedagogical Factory is fully operational and churning out programming and new ideas faster than you can say…Pedagogical Factory!

How DO you remember?

Every wednesday evening and saturday afternoon stop in and take part in one of the Factory’s programs. Check out the whole schedule here. We’ve already had fantastic turnouts for “How We Remember with the Chicago Underground Library” and “How We Learn: Building an Educated City”. Recaps are on Jim Duignan’s blog at http://jimduignan.blogspot.com .

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Miss Comfort, aka Jessi T Walsh, has gone all technological and stuff with her performance of “As Deep As She is Tall: A Peepshow in 3 Acts” now available on the web. Check out part one of the performance below, and head on over to the Hyde Park Art Center Youtube page for the remainder, as well as some cool videos from our Sun Ra Symposium last year.

Jessi rocks!

The Reykjavik Academy in Iceland hosted a one-day international seminar on the topic of provincialism in contemporary art and culture in June 2007. Thanks to a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, I was able to participate in the discussion and meet the artists who call themselves The Provincialists: Astri Luihn (Faro Islands), Ane Lahn (Norway), Madeleine Park (Norway), Thordís Alda Sigurdardóttir (Iceland). An exhibition of the Provincialists’ work was held in conjunction with the seminar at The Art Museum of Kópavogur, Iceland.

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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!

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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.

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Creativity Camp is rolling along! Our first mini-camp performances take place today at 2:30pm. Stop by and be dazzled by our campers!

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

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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

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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.

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HPAC Teaching Artist Jessi Walsh has been working on a project over at Murray Language Academy, and in conjunciton with the project, we’ve displayed some of their work in the Muller Meeting Room (part of 4833 rph) at the Art Center. Swing by to check it out and participate in the project. 100% inteactive! For more info go online and check out the project blog and stories here.

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Hatha Yoga happens at 8am! Get here early to stake out a spot.

And the Gospel Brunch hits at 9am. We’re not making any promises that waffles and sausage will still be here for the latecomers.

Get yourselves down here! Creative Move Too doesn’t end for another four and a half hours and there’s still plenty of fun stuff happening today!

Ball Droppers. 1000 pots. Silk trapeze. And we’re only five hours in.
Another update later tonight. Come on down. We’re plugging on through until 12 noon tomorrow!

Trapeze Dancers in Gallery 1!

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It’s on! The Art Center is bursting at the seams as families, friends, and the casual visitor alike pack the space and check out exhibitions, performers, and more. What are you waiting for? Get yourself down here! Check out these pics if you need any more motivation. :)

Jessi White Tumblers!

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We had a crazy day at HPAC last Friday, as there was a Days off School program, we hosted Freedom Fridays, and in the evening we had our monthly installment of Cocktails and Clay. All this on top of regular classes happening at the Art Center. We recapped the blur of activity in photos below. Seems like there’s always something happening here!

Our Days off Campers!

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A recap of a crazy spring break camp week here at the Hyde Park Art Center. Two camp groups took over the studios last week, participating in a range of activities from drawing and painting to performance and sculpture. Teachinig Artists Suzanne, Sarah, Kelly, and William led the rowdy bunch through explorations of the art center, exhibits, and much more while making some pretty cool work at the same time. But we’ll let the pictures tell the story. Hope everyone enjoyed their camp time! And thank you to our Teaching Artists! They were great!

Fingerpainting!

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Knock. Knock.

Can you find me?

Some cool events happening at the Hyde Park Art Center and a great review of the space!

First up, a group examination and discussion of Daniel Burnham’s 1909 plan of Chicago. This group meets each Wednesday from 6:30pm-8pm here in 4833 rph and if you’re interested, check out this entry on Architecture Chicago PLUS for people to contact.

Second, if you’ve been by recently, you’ve no doubt wondered about the rainbow mushroom cloud in our lobby. It’s all part of the Adventurous Type, an exhibition that opened recently and is curated by our very own Allison Peters. Stop in to be mesmerized by the works of Christian Kuras and Duncan MacKenzie, Sarah Anne Johnson, Paul Lloyd Sargent, and Deb Sokolow.

Finally, check out this review by a Blogger on NBC’s Street Team. We like to think we’re fun and welcoming here and have some cool stuff (classes and exhibitions) for everyone. In fact, if you’re looking for cool stuff to do, spring classes have just begun! It’s not too late to register! And keep your eye out for Creative Move TOO, the Art Center’s One Year Anniversary and 24 hour extravaganza!

Jim Duignan is an artist and founder of the Stockyard Institute, a project that draws attention to the visionary status of youth and people through the arts in a variety of Chicago neighborhoods. Stockyard Institute publishes AREA Chicago Arts, Education, Activism, a biannual publication in Chicago.

Jim begins his “residency” at the Art Center in preparation for Pedagogical Factory, an exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center in Gallery 1, opening this summer. He’ll be at the Art Center on Thursdays in the Second Floor Studios on the west side of the building. Stop in for a chat with Jim to find out more about his project!

With more galleries than you can shake a stick at (what does that mean anyway?) and exhibitions around every corner, the Hyde Park Art Center boasts five openings this Sunday, February 4th, starting at 3pm. Enjoy shows by Angela Lee (Marking the Body), Lorraine Peltz (Cosmic Hostess), Darrell Roberts (Luscious), and Dale Washington (Sunrise) from 3pm-5pm in Galleries 2-5, and at 5pm, stay for the opening of Max King Cap’s new media opera, God’s Punk, in Gallery 1.

The setting for God’s Punk - a gallery entirely in black?

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Check out the Art In America article we mentioned earlier where the Hyde Park Art Center is prominently featured, in PDF format (1.53 MB) below!

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In conjunction with several Sun-Ra Exhibitions at HPAC, we are proud to display new Afrofuturist artworks by students from B.E.S.T. High School, led by art teacher Bert Stabler.

A HUGE smiling robot!

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Just in time for the first real snow of the year, our winter newsletter arrives! Registration is now OPEN for our Winter Session of classes, which will start on January 8th, 2007! Stop by the Art Center to pick up a newsletter, or if you’re on our mailing list, keep an eye out for it in your mailbox. Your newsletters should be arriving soon! Also, if you just can’t wait, and feel an overwhelming need to check out upcoming exhibitions and classes, go ahead and visit the school and studio section of the website. You’ll find links for adult and youth classes there. Alright folks, now it’s time to register away. Early registration discounts end on December 16th, 2006! What are you waiting for?!

What does that large white sheet with the orange dot in the center of it at the Art Center actually mean? Is it art? Is it an exhibition? And most importantly, can I walk through it?

It is part of an exhibition, it is art, and yes, you can walk through it! A film of the performance of drum sets playing during the Sun Ra exhibition series opening projects onto the sheet. To find out more visit the exhibition page, but here’s an image from the exhibition when the film is played. Catch it every sunday at the Art Center at 4pm through December 17th.

Looking for something to do with the whole family this sunday? On your own and wouldn’t mind checking out some cool art? Whatever the case, come down to the Hyde Park Art Center for our first ever Fun For All this Sunday, from 12pm-4pm. It is what it’s name states, Fun for everyone. Make your own album cover, take a digital portrait, participate in a scavenger hunt, enjoy some gelato from Istria, or play in the ceramics studio. We’ve got something for all ages!

Artists, writers, performers and more come together to discuss Sun Ra, the Afro-futurist bandleader and cultural icon. View performances, readings, participate in discussions, and make yourself a part of the dialogue about this fascinating figure. Scholars from all across the country will bring their perspectives on Sun Ra and the movement he inspired, sharing their insights along with artists like Nick Cave, Glann Ligon, and Kerry James Marshall. The symposium is free and open to the public.

Check out the symposium page for more details!

This blog thing is a bit of a new thing for the Art Center, but we’re trying to spread the word about all the cool and awesome stuff happening down in Hyde Park (and specifically at the spiffy new building at 5020 S Cornell) As such, we’ve decided to start hopping onto other cool blog sites around the city (and the world!). You’ll find us listed at both of the following:

Happy Halloween from the Hyde Park Art Center! For a spooky, scary time, visit a haunted house! But for some cool art and creative experiences, swing on by the Art Center. Just a couple shots of the fun we’re having here today!

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Come see some images from the Art Center’s Summer Camps, when the students learned about Sun Ra and created artwork and performances based on Afro-Futurism and the man himself. The show, Angels and Demons at Play, showcases images form the Camp Plays and Parade, as well as the actual backdrops created by our campers are on display on the second floor of the Art Center, just outside the administrative offices and the Jackman-Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery.

Camp Backdrops based on Sun Ra studies

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“The Inland Romance series reflects my interest in industrial landscape and urban infrastructure. They try to capture the fast pace of activity in the city, and sometimes suggest maps. These works have evolved from pen and ink drawings based on similar material drawn in the late 1960s and early 1970s. While these paintings are much more complex, the relationship to earlier work remains visible. The Inland Romance series began in 1993.”
— John Himmelfarb

Gallery view of Inland Romance

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Want a slightly better view of Doppelganger? Here’s a look at night, when the screen is brightest, and there’s a real sense that each figure is glowing as they move across the facade. Were you part of the filming? If so, share your experience! Have a thought about the piece? Let us know!

A Closer Look…

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Were you at Just Good Art last year in 2005? If so, you may remember the scene being something like this:

No more! In our new building, Just Good Art will be an entirely new experience. In addition to artwork, bid on art experiences! Explore the rest of the new Art Center! And stay for the After-Party! This Saturday, September 30th, starting at 7pm. Preview the work online now and pick out the must-haves you’ll be bidding on that night or stop by the Art Center to check out the exhibition! We hope you’ll join us for the party! It’s sure to be a great time.

The Hyde Park Art Center’s latest exhibition on the Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery opens!

Doppelganger depicts reversed shadows of individuals, or “light bodies,” transforming the facade into a brightly populated “walk of life.” Created by the artist collaborative Luftwerk, the piece can be viewed from the inside of the gallery starting at 3pm, and on the street after 5pm. Come check out another exciting usage of the Art Center’s groundbreaking digital projection facade.

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Noticed our front lobby lately? Artist Vera Scekic provides a little color and liveliness to the space with an installation piece titled Bilateral Symmetry.

Misshapen circles and enigmatic forms expand across the gallery walls in a grid, creating tension between their exuberant colors and rigid organization. Scekic invites both close inspection of the unique shapes and a view of the work as a whole. From either perspective the installation is filled with questions both comic and unnerving: Are they a group of micro-organisms magnified onto the walls? Or do they suggest hundreds of brightly colored orifices?

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The Fall Newsletter is here!

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One of the strong points of 4833 rph will be the variety of programs that we offer, and although some of these will be single workshops or individual interactions, we will also feature several continuing program series. TalkingPoint will be our non-format casual artist talk series, happening one monday each month. TalkShops are programs for teaching artists, parents, and educators focused on art education. We’ll also have professional development opportunities for teachers, events for teens and youth, and a spotlight each month of exemplars of youth arts education work throughout the city in our Flex Space. Keep checking back in for more.