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SOUTH SIDE ART TOUR & DINNER
Saturday, November 16, 2024
1:30p-7:00p

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Join the Art, Community and Environment Workshop on a tour of ecology-focused exhibitions at two of Chicago's most forward-thinking art and community spaces: South Side Community Art Center and Watershed: Art & Ecology.

ReSOURCE at SOUTH SIDE COMMUNITY ART CENTER

At South Side Community Art Center in Bronzeville, the exhibition ReSOURCE: Art and Resourcefulness in Black Chicago brings together 40 artists and 70 artworks (including 4 projects commissioned for the exhibition) in partnership with local community gardens and urban farms to show how Chicago’s Black culture had been thinking ecologically before there was an environmental movement. ReSOURCE explores how generations of Black artists worked their alchemy to transform simple materials and castoff objects into beautiful art, breathe life into the city’s forgotten corners, and reinvent and reclaim ancestral traditions. ReSOURCE is curated by LaMar R. Gayles, Jr. and Northwestern Art HIstory's own Bethany Hill.

Our visit is timed so that we may have a chance to see the exhibition before a conversation moderated by artist Juarez Hawkins with community partners who are reclaiming vacant lots in their respective communities to create oases amidst food deserts and spaces where creativity and community can flourish. Confirmed guests include representatives from Grow Greater Englewood, Earls Garden Mae’s Kitchen, Bronzeville Neighborhood Farm, First Nations Garden, and Young Cultural Stewards/TRACE.

LEGACIES and ROOTS at WATERSHED: ART & ECOLOGY

At Watershed Art & Community in Pilsen, the exhibition Legacies and Roots: Preservation and Reclamation in Black Art and Ecology explores the intersections between art conservation, ecological conservation and practices of reclamation in Chicago’s Black South Side. Expanding upon ReSOURCE at the South Side Community Art Center, Legacies and Roots considers the overlap between material culture conservation, cultural heritage preservation and ecological conservation. At the opening, artist Faheem Majeed will unveil Stargazing, an observatory inspired by the interior of the South Side Community Art Center and its legacy of Black artists. After remarks by artists and curators Faheem Majeed and curator LaMar R. Gayles Jr., we have the chance to continue the conversation over dinner catered by 5 Rabinitos at Watershed.

SCHEDULE 

1:30-2:30: Carpool from Northwestern University to Southside Community Art Center

2:30-4:30: Visit ReSOURCE: Art & Resourcefulness in Black Chicago before a conversation moderated by artist Juarez Hawkins

4:30-5:00: Drive to Watershed Art & Ecology

5-7: Dinner celebrating the opening of Legacies and Roots: Preservation and Reclamation in Black Art and Ecology with remarks by artist Faheem Majeed and curator LaMar R. Gayles, Jr.

7:00: Carpool back to Northwestern University

CARPOOL 

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