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SUMMARY:THE UNDERWORLD: George Crump
DESCRIPTION:THE UNDERWORLD: George Crump articulates a collective\, yet intimate expression of his mind’s eye through a body of work that makes social statements regarding life experiences\, both subjective and observational.   \nIn his most recent body of work\, Crump situates his conceptions of “the underworld” by way of the psychological and social afterlives of oppression\, with a tone of the spiritual\, often positioning his figures between reality and surrealism. Crump applies the principles of discipline\, understanding\, and compassion to his work through his specific use of color\, rich narrative approach\, and form.   \n  \n“The source material of my work is the truth of my past and present life experiences”\, Crump says.   \n  \n \nGeorge Crump. I Don’t Know. Oil on canvas. 24″x 20″. \n  \nThemes of remembrance and the spirit of determination traverse the scope of Crump’s work as he’s concerned with aspects of universal notions of existentialism\, affliction\, redemption\, and triumph.  \nThe exhibition opens for public viewing on January 14th and runs through March 26th. Please RSVP for our opening day here.   \n  \nGeorge Crump is a Chicago-based native and visual artist.  He attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago\, and most recently held a solo exhibition at Faie African Art Gallery.   \nGeorge developed his focus on the sensual nature of art\, aiming to evoke universality and honesty within his practice. So much so\, his strong emotional connection to his paintings are open to a variety of rich interpretations that span a wide range of emotions and forms.    \n  \nRSVP for our timed viewing  HERE.  \n  \n  \nCOVID PROTOCOL\n\nHow to visit The Center safely:\n– Vaccine verification required for entry \n– Beginning January 3\, in accordance with City of Chicago policy\, all visitors 5 and older will be required to show proof of full vaccination. \n– Please bring either your vaccine card\, a printed copy\, or a digital photo of your card. \n– Visitors 16 and older will need to provide identification that matches their vaccination record \n– Masks will continue to be required by all visitors 2 and older while in the museum. \nWe continue to require all visitors\, vaccinated or unvaccinated to wear masks that cover both your nose and mouth. \n 
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SUMMARY:WE ARE HERE: Honoring Women in the Center's Collection
DESCRIPTION:WE ARE HERE: Honoring Women in the Center’s Collection\, features artworks made by several women artists in the Center’s collection.\n  \nThis exhibition provides us an opportunity to think about the materiality of Black women’s art\, while also expanding biographical and visual information on Black women artists. The curatorial project permits the center an opportunity to reflect on impactful key women artists who have shaped and inspired persons in our institution and beyond. The exhibit will not feature the works of every woman artist in the collection\, instead it will focus on developing the biographical representations of several artists who are often obscured in favor of others\, while also highlighting artists very well documented in the canon of Black Art like Dr. Margaret Burroughs and Barbara Jones Hogu. \nCurated by SSCAC Archives and Collections Manager LaMar R. Gayles Jr \n\n  \nEXHIBITING ARTISTS\nMargaret Taylor Burroughs \nEspi Eph (Frazier) \nMadeline Haydon \nYasmin Sabu \n  \n  \nBIOGRAPHIES \n\nEspi Eph Espi (Eph) Frazier\, is an artist who is initially from the Chicago Area but relocated to the Baltimore area in 1993\, included here are a selection of her works from the Center’s collection ranging from wood graphics to a mixed media composition. In the 1980s Frazier created the wooden pieces featured here by partaking in a process of staining wood with ink drawn graphics and detailing those graphics by relief carving into the surfaces. A great deal of her work explores abstraction but some of it also explores representation of women figures especially Black women. \n  \nDr. Margaret Taylor Burroughs is an internationally known artist and educator who is heavily connected to the historical foundations of both the South Side Community Art Center and DuSable Museum of African American History. Burroughs is well known for her work in printmaking and poetry\, but was known to work in a plethora of media. Included here are several examples of her painting work coupled with a reproduction of possible prototype sketches she completed while in Mexico which might have served as inspiration for the two paintings. \n Yasmin Sabur is initially from Chicago and now works and lives out of California\, her work consists of a range of themes from the environment\, to visualizing how Black persons interact with their surroundings. In her exhibited piece titled Private Beach- Keep Out we see Sabur reference discrimination that occurred on Chicago beaches in the 20th century when Blacks weren’t allowed on many of the beaches in the city. Sabur renders the clearly Black figures in a popular expressionless monochromatic motif that is seen echoed throughout Black art in the 20th century which often is referencing issues or stigmas in private and or social life. \nMadeline Haydon Born in Chicago and later relocating to Hawaii\, exhibited in many spaces throughout her career\, including the South Side Community Art Center. Haydon defined herself as a realist working with a heightened awareness for color. This proclivity for color is exemplified in the oil painting still life included here in the exhibition which consists mainly of warm toned objects overlaid on top of a green background moving from warm to cold hues. \n  \nCOVID PROTOCOL \nHow to visit The Center safely: \n– Vaccine verification required for entry \n– Beginning January 3\, in accordance with City of Chicago policy\, all visitors 5 and older will be required to show proof of full vaccination. \n– Please bring either your vaccine card\, a printed copy\, or a digital photo of your card. \n– Visitors 16 and older will need to provide identification that matches their vaccination record \n– Masks will continue to be required by all visitors 2 and older while in the museum. \nWe continue to require all visitors\, vaccinated or unvaccinated to wear masks that cover both your nose and mouth. \n  \n*image courtesy: Madeline Haydon (American artist\, b. 1909) Still Life\, 1967 Oil on canvas 20 1/8 x 16″. Collection of South Side Community Art Center
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SUMMARY:PROMPT/ DREAM/ BUILD: Andrea Yarbrough & ebere agwuncha
DESCRIPTION:Andrea and ebere’s multidisciplinary practices are informed by acts of care and storytelling\, that ultimately become actualized within the objects and projects they build out- individually and collectively. Engaging in practices of co-thinking\, designing\, and building\, they both expand on alternative modes for solidarity amongst Black women\, restorative design approaches\, and a socially informed process of creating.Andrea and ebere will lead us in to a live call and response\, directed by their relationships to dreaming\, thought processes\, and “the work”. \n\n\n  \nZOOM REGISTRATION: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqcuirqTooE9VNHGJRbDjKaWG2dG5FpvoP \n  \n \nebere agwuncha (b.1997\, Chicago) is a designer\, maker\, and artist based in Chicago via Anambra State\, Nigeria. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design from Iowa State University in 2019. Her dexterous practice aims to hybridize various craft and materials including wood\, ceramic\, and natural fiber. Through creating functional ‘care filled object(s)’ and speculative installations\, they aim to preserve Igbo stories through more expansive iterations using a diverse set of techniques. She pushes the cusp of perfection – or imperfection – while intimately using her hands to physicalize ideas. ebere will be an inaugural artist-in-exchange with the Sculpture Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago\, this spring of 2022. Part of this residency period will be used to produce work for their upcoming first solo show at the Comfort Station (Chicago\, IL) this May of 2022.\n  \nhttps://ebereagwuncha.com/\n  \n \nAndrea Yarbrough is a multi-disciplinary artist\, curator and educator based on the South Side of Chicago nurturing sites of care through a blend of urban agriculture\, civic engagement\, and art praxis. Her praxis is embodied through the collaborative placekeeping initiative in c/o: Black women (in care of Black women)\, bringing together writers\, curators\, farmers\, mamas\, dancers\, organizers\, teachers\, cultural producers\, youth\, and visual artists\, to collectively exhume the (in)visibility of care for Black women. Andrea’s process transforms quotidian materials\, slated for waste streams\, into designed and utilitarian objects that serve as community resources\, and incorporates the impact of solidarity and circular economies at the material\, individual\, and\ncommunal scales. By constructing functionally designed objects\, cultivating land\, archiving and documenting histories of Black women\, and curating exhibitions and public programs\, her socially-engaged practice exemplifies how communities can reclaim and reconstruct their surroundings while navigating agency and ownership over underutilized space. She seeks to engage in an arts-integrated ecological approach\, as a way to not only treat blight in particular neighborhoods\, but to support the restoration of the entire city\, all while negotiating new spatial imaginaries\, expanding our economies of care. Ultimately\, she engages in a community-centered visual arts production that works to reshape land-use policy by activating vacant space as sites\nthat heal individuals and regenerate collective imaginations. Andrea believes that participatory social praxis art is one of many ways to rewrite a history of redlining\, divestment\, and violence.\n  \nhttps://incareofblackwomen.us/\n  \n3831/VOICES is a new program series of conversations and lectures featuring Black artists\, scholars\, curators\, historians\, and arts workers that invite our community into their creative practices\, research\, and conceptual processes\, and more! 3831 takes after SSCAC’s exact numerical address in the historic Bronzeville neighborhood. Although we recognize ourselves as an iconic historical site for Black artistic and cultural advancement\, we continue to evolve as a contemporary hub for new thought practices\, creative practices\, and innovative frameworks being developed by a diverse array of amazing folks here in our city\, and beyond. \n  \nImage courtesy(above): Andrea Yarbrough
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