Hyde Park Art Center Calendar

Second Sunday

2010-12-12T14:31:59Z

Join us for this FREE drop in day of art activities and performances and treat the entire family to a chance to explore their creativity at the Art Center!

Cocktails & Clay

2010-12-10T22:06:10Z

Think night on the town meets playing in the mud. Every 2nd Friday of the month join us for a late night clay-making, dance-partying, gallery-hopping good time. We’ve got 45 minute clay sessions back in our studios, a live DJ and drink specials all night.

Not Just Another Pretty Face: Unveiled

2010-11-20T16:43:45Z

Join us for the revealing of the finished works commissioned through the 2010 Not Just Another Pretty Face project.

Come and meet the artists and patrons involved and enjoy a party that’s all about the art!

Suggested Donation to Attend: $50 (click here to contribute)

Kindly RSVP to Christina Jensen by November 5, 2010 at 773.324.5520 × 1021 or cjensen[a]hydeparkart.org if you would like to attend.

Second Sunday

2010-11-14T14:30:40Z

Join us for this FREE drop in day of art activities and performances and treat the entire family to a chance to explore their creativity at the Art Center!

Cocktails & Clay

2010-11-12T22:04:21Z

Roundtable: What's an MFA worth?

2010-10-24T18:34:52Z

The big question -what’s a Masters of Fine Art degree worth? - often raises more questions. Moderator, Annie Morse, will join Guest speakers from the Chicago schools that offer graduate level fine art degrees, including University of Chicago, University of Illinois (-Chicago and Springfield), Northwestern University, Columbia College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago to discuss the relevancy of the MFA degree. This event is held in conjunction with Ground Floor.

Artist's Talk: Pat Swanson

2010-10-10T21:08:42Z

Come to this informal artists talk where you can meet the artist and ask her questions!

This month features Pat Swanson, artist of the exhibition Autofall. Swanson uses repurposed auto parts to muse on the fate of the American auto industry, paying homage to the beauty of these worn and misshapen objects. This exhibition is on view from April 18 - October 17, 2010.

Second Sunday

2010-10-10T13:29:21Z

Join us for this FREE drop in day of art activities and performances and treat the entire family to a chance to explore their creativity at the Art Center!

Cocktails & Clay

2010-10-08T21:02:49Z

310 conTEMPORARY Gallery Walk

2010-10-07T18:25:31Z

Come check out the Art Center’s newest venture: 310 conTEMPORARY, a Pop-Up Loop Gallery located at 310 S. Michigan in downtown Chicago.

Every first Thursday of the month you can take advantage of Pop-Up Loop’s Gallery Walk, a self guided tour of all the loop galleries.

Stop by today to see 310 conTemporary’s first exhibition, Fantastic Landscapes, featuring a selection of photography, sculpture and painting that distorts, challenges, expands, alters and makes abstract the traditional notion of landscape in art. The exhibition will run August 5 - October 1.

Regular gallery hours are Monday through Saturday from 11:30am-5:30pm.

Ground Floor Artists Talk: The Technology Continuum

2010-10-06T18:32:04Z

Chris Cuellar, Joe Grimm, and Jesse McLean discuss their work in the exhibition and answer questions from the public. the exhibition Ground Floor features work that runs the gamut of technology from repurposed 16 millimeter film projectors throwing light on mechanical fans to twitter feeds digital video. Combining low-tech and high-tech has its rewards and challenges. The artists included in this talk will explain how they use the devices they’ve chosen to make artworks and why time-based media is important to their practice.

Talk with the Curator

2010-10-03T16:56:35Z

Join Nicholas Lowe, the curator of Roger Brown: Calif USA, as he explains the process of working with a unique Chicago collection. What were some of the challenges in attempting to translate the selections made by the artist, Brown, in his own home? Find out what gems - both objects and stories - Lowe found while researching the hundreds of boxes of Brown’s collection kept secret in storage.

Artist Run Spaces Tour #3

2010-10-02T15:17:00Z

The Hyde Park Art Center presents another in a series of bike tours of artist run art spaces in the Chicago area. Designed as a way to discover the often hard to find offerings of Chicago’s young and emerging artists, the bike tours are geared towards art patrons and enthusiasts that seek to engage our exciting and world famous DIY art scene. Cyclists will cover city streets between venues where artist/curator/gallerists will discuss the vitality and importance of artist-run spaces.

We’ll begin our tour here at the Hyde Park Art Center.

To join the tour RSVP to exhibitions@hydeparkart.org

Hyde Park Jazz Festival

2010-09-25T16:21:26Z

Join the entire Hyde Park Community for the fourth annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival. Every, the Hyde Park Alliance for Arts and Culture (HyPa) brings together the best of Chicago jazz for a one-day concert at venues around Hyde Park. And the best part is, it’s all FREE.

Click here to visit the Hyde Park Jazz Festival website for more details and a full schedule of events.

Ground Floor Artists Talk: Site as medium

2010-09-22T18:29:55Z

Daniel Bruttig, Maria Gaspar, Daniel Lavitt, and Jennifer Ray discuss their work in the exhibition and answer questions from the public. How do these artists think of site as a medium at play in their artwork? This talk focuses on the concept of “site” in its various definitions presented in these Ground Floor artists’ works: 1) as the venue for object or project display; 2) as a foreign location that is incorporated into the cultural content of a work; and 3) as a framework to control the experience.