Art Moves
Chicago’s Innovative Structures of Address
July 14, July 21, August 10, August 11, August 25, and September 15, 2018
The Museum of Vernacular Arts and Knowledge launches “Art Moves: Chicago’s Innovative Structures of Address” based on grass-roots models from the 1960s and 70s for circulating information about black art to residents on the South Side of Chicago including apartment convening and cars with art displays. Reimagined for today, experienced arts educators with strong ties to various Chicago South and West Side communities will deliver out-of-doors, in the streets, curricula about lesser-known artists with obvious and not so obvious connections to Chicago.
How do we talk about art differently and in different spaces? Art Moves educators take the discussion of art out of the museum and gallery and insert it into the everyday rhythms of the city.
PAST OUTINGS
July 14 12-4 p.m.
Educator Wisdom Baty, founder of Ways We Make, will discuss the work of sculptor and performance artist Senga Nengudi.
- Stopping Points:
- 12 p.m. 77th Street and South Shore Drive
- 1 p.m. 67th Street and South Shore Drive at the La Rabida Hospital
- 2:30 p.m. S. Paxton Street between 73rd-74th Street at Back Alley Jazz
Chicago-based artist and designer Robert Paige, previously with the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, will share about his work in the area of design.
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Stopping Points:
- 12 p.m. 67th Street and South Shore Drive, at 67th Street Beach
- 2 p.m. S. Paxton Street between 73rd-74th Street at Back Alley Jazz
July 21 12-4 p.m.
Educator Wisdom Baty will explore the work of Edmonia Lewis who showed work at the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago; and Billy Abernathy, a Chicago-based photographer who participated in making of the "Wall of Respect" mural in 1967.
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Stopping Points:
- 12 p.m. Rainbow Beach 77th Street Entrance
- 1 p.m. North Garden at the Art Institute of Chicago Block Party
- 2 p.m. South Garden at the Art Institute of Chicago Block Party
- 3 p.m. Art Institute of Chicago Block Party
Chicago-based artist and designer Robert Paige, previously with the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, will share about his work in the area of design.
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Stopping Points:
- 12 p.m. North Garden at the Art Institute of Chicago Block Party
- 1 p.m. South Garden at the Art Institute of Chicago Block Party
- 2 p.m. Modern Wing Entrance at the Art Institute of Chicago Block Party
- 3 p.m. Art Institute of Chicago Block Party
August 10 3:30-7 p.m.
Educator Wisdom Baty, founder of Ways We Make, will discuss the work of sculptor and performance artist Senga Nengudi.
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Stopping Point:
- 3:30 p.m. Marwen, 833 North Orleans Street
August 11 12-4 p.m.
Educator Wisdom Baty will explore the work of Edmonia Lewis who showed work at the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago; and Billy Abernathy, a Chicago-based photographer who participated in making of the "Wall of Respect" mural in 1967.
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Stopping Points:
- 12 p.m. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive and 51st Street
- 2 p.m. Bud Billiken Parade and Festival, in Washington Park, at the intersection of Garfield Boulevard (55th Street) and Elsworth Drive
Chicago-based artist and designer Robert Paige, previously with the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, with works featured in South Side Stories: The Time is Now! Art Worlds of Chicago’s South Side, 1960-1980 at the Smart Museum of Art, will share about his work in the area of design.
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Stopping Points:
- 12 p.m. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive and 51st Street
- 2 p.m. Bud Billiken Parade and Festival, in Washington Park, at the intersection of Garfield Boulevard (55th Street) and Elsworth Drive
Educator Scheherazade Tillet will host a photobooth self-portrait activity. Inspired by photographer Blair Sapp’s iconic 1967 of Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, seated in a wicker chair, this photo shoot actively celebrates Chicago's history of activist photography and the activism of African-American youth by encouraging them to restage this historic image.
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Stopping Point:
- 12-4 p.m. Bud Billiken Parade and Festival, in Washington Park, at the intersection of Garfield Boulevard (55th Street) and Elsworth Drive
August 25 12-4 p.m.
Chicago-based artist and designer Robert Paige, previously with the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, with works featured in South Side Stories: The Time is Now! Art Worlds of Chicago’s South Side, 1960-1980 at the Smart Museum of Art, will share about his work in the area of design.
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Stopping Point:
- 12-4 p.m. 67th Street and South Shore Drive
Jennefer Hoffmann, Chicago-based artist, will discuss cermacist Marva Pitchford-Jolly.
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Stopping Points:
- 12 p.m. 57th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue
- 2 p.m. Bixler Park (57th Street and Kenwood Avenue)
September 15 12-4 p.m.
Educator Wisdom Baty, founder of Ways We Make, will discuss the work of Sylvia Abernathy, visual artist and designer of layout for the Wall of Respect.
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Stopping Points:
- 12 p.m. 67th Street Beach
- 2 p.m. Stony Island Arts Bank
Chicago-based artist and designer Robert Paige, previously with the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, with works featured in South Side Stories: The Time is Now! Art Worlds of Chicago’s South Side, 1960-1980 at the Smart Museum of Art, will share about his work in the area of design.
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Stopping Points:
- 12 p.m. DuSable Museum of African American History
- 2 p.m. Smart Museum of Art
Jennefer Hoffmann, Chicago-based artist, will discuss cermacist Marva Pitchford-Jolly.
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Stopping Points:
- 12 p.m. DuSable Museum of African American History
- 2 p.m. Smart Museum of Art
About the educators
Wisdom Baty is an arts advocate, artist, educator, and mother, interested in reimagining physical space and historical accuracy for black women. Her artwork and classroom curriculum encompass themes centering on ancestral memory, autonomy, authorship and black motherhood.
After many years in fashion design, Jennefer Hoffmann moved into making ceramics in Hyde Park. For Hoffmann, the continual discovery and rediscovery of the community around her is an inspiration and drive to work as is the use of new configurations of ancient materials like fabric and clay and the telling of unexpected stories.
Over the last four decades, Robert Paige has traveled through the world of art as an educator and creator. His journey has taken him from the Art Institute of Chicago to the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill as an interior designer with project specialty in colors and fabrics, which allowed him to work in Milan, Italy. In the United States, he consistently participates in exhibitions, lectures, and workshops for elementary schools, colleges, and universities.
Scheherazade Tillet is a photographer, an organizer, and the co-founder of A Long Walk Home (ALWH), Chicago-based national nonprofit, who uses art to educate, mobilize, and empower young people to end violence against girls and women. ALWH’s main programs are the Story of a Rape Survivor (SOARS), an award-winning multimedia performance through which Scheherazade intimately examines her sister Salamishah Tillet's healing from sexual assault and the Girl/Friends Leadership Institute, an art-based program on Westside on Chicago that empowers girls and young women to find their voices, create social action campaigns, and advocate for gender equality and racial justice in their schools, communities, and their larger city of Chicago.
Art Moves kits and portable gear designed by Sky Cubacub of Rebirth Garments.
Artwork this page: Robert Paige
Managing Director of Art Moves is Stephanie Koch.
“Art Moves” is part of Art Design Chicago, an initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art exploring Chicago’s art and design legacy, with presenting partner The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation. “Art Moves” is funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
