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SUMMARY:MAMA GLORIA: IN HER HONOR
DESCRIPTION:A film screening and community gathering in honor of the late Mama Gloria Allen.\n  \n\n\n\nLuchina Fisher will screen her film Mama Gloria\, in addition to honoring the life and impact of Gloria Allen\, a Black transgender icon and activist who dedicated her life to Chicago’s trans community.\n\n\n  \n \n\n\n  \nMama Gloria (2020) by Luchina Fisher. 1h 16m\n \n\nChicago’s Black transgender icon Gloria Allen (1945 – 2022) blazed a trail for trans people like few others before her. Emerging from Chicago’s South Side drag ball culture in the 1960s\, Gloria overcame traumatic violence to become a proud leader in her community. Most famously\, she pioneered a charm school for young transgender people that served as inspiration for the hit play Charm. Luchina Fisher’s empathic and engaging documentary is not only a portrait of a groundbreaking legend\, but also a celebration of unconditional love\, the love Gloria received from her own mother and that she now gives to her chosen children.\n\n\n  \n  \n\n \n\n  \n\n\nLUCHINA FISHER (she/her) is an award-winning director\, writer and producer who works at the intersection of race\, gender and identity. She is the founder and CEO of Little Light Productions. Her feature directorial debut Mama Gloria\, about Chicago trans icon activist Gloria Allen\, was nominated for a 2022 GLAAD Media Award. The film premiered at the Chicago International Film Festival and BFI Flare London; won numerous jury awards; and made its broadcast debut on World channel and PBS. Previously\, Luchina co-executive produced and co-wrote the critically acclaimed feature documentary Birthright: A War Story\, which appeared in more than 70 theaters nationwide\, qualified for Oscar consideration and streamed on Hulu. She is the director of two scripted short films\, including Danger Word\, and has written and produced several nationally broadcast documentaries. She most recently produced two episodes of the upcoming History channel series with President Bill Clinton and is directing a feature documentary on predatory lending in housing. Luchina began her career as a journalist and has written for People\, the Miami Herald\, The New York Times\, O\, The Oprah Magazine and ABCNews.com. Luchina is a Sisters in Cinema Documentary Fellow and a member of Brown Girl Doc Mafia\, the Black Documentary Collective and Film Fatales. She is an inaugural recipient of the Brown Girl Doc Mafia Black Director’s Grant and a Spark Fund Award Winner from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Firelight Media. Luchina is based in the New York City area.\n\n\n\n\n  \n\nThis program is presented in conjunction with EMERGENCE: Intersections at the Center\, currently on view until July 2\, 2022.\n  \nEMERGENCE: Intersections at the Center spotlights The South Side Community Art Center’s historical role in supporting a full spectrum of Black artists through an intersectional viewpoint. The first exhibition of its kind at the South Side Community Art Center\, EMERGENCE positions the Center as an important anchor for Black LGBTQ artists who belonged to its community from its founding in 1940 to the 1980s and beyond.\n  \nFunding for EMERGENCE programming is generously supported by Northwestern University.
URL:https://sscartcenter.org/event/mama-gloria-in-her-honor/
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SUMMARY:THE FRONT
DESCRIPTION:THE FRONT: FEATURING PERFORMANCES BY DARLING SHEAR\, SHANTA NURULLAH\, AND ZAHRA BAKER!\n  \nWe’re excited to host these dynamic performers who will be activating our Burroughs Gallery with performances that respond to themes of the body\, queer introspective experiences\, Black femme histories\, and folklore!!\n  \nCalling you to bring friends\, family\, and chosen family.\n  \nShaZah \n2 – 2:45PM \n  \n  \n \nShaZah is the performing duo of Shanta Nurullah and Zahra Baker. They combine storytelling\, singing\, poetry and instrumental music to explore a broad range of themes and genres rooted in the African-American experience. “Om Mission\,” their recent commission for About Face Theatre’s partnership with the Stony Island Arts Bank\, focused on Black lesbians in Chicago. They conducted interviews and developed a video and live performance that recognizes the contributions\, struggles\, and dreams of their peers. In addition to presenting this show for About Face Theatre’s Kickback Festival\, ShaZah presented it at Navy Pier’s Chicago LIVE Again weekend last fall and at Rhode Island Black Storytellers’ Funda Fest.\n  \nShanta Nurullah has been performing\, as a storyteller and musician\, around Chicago and nationally for over fifty years. A 2021 3Arts Awardee\, she plays sitar\, bass and mbira\, is a member of the AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians); co-founded the all-women’s groups Sojourner and Samana; and currently leads the band Sitarsys. She received the Zora Neale Hurston Award from the National Association of Black Storytellers as well as the Artist Fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council.\n  \nZahra Baker is folk and jazz vocalist. Her performance history includes vocalist for “Performance duo: In the Spirit” (with Emily Lansana)\, which has been featured at festivals including several (NABS) National Association of Black Storytellers festivals\, National Storytelling Festival Jonesborough\, Tenn\, and Texas Storytelling Festival. Zahra has been vocalist for jazz ensembles\, theater companies\, social justice activism and healing workshops.  She has also worked as a teaching artist for over 30 years\, primarily in the Chicago area. Currently\, she is co-founder of Freedom Song Leaders\, Classic Black\, and is a member of Shanta Nurullah’s Sitarsys.\n  \nDarling Shear \n3pm – 3:45PM\n  \n \nDarling Shear is a Chicago Native but has roots in Atlanta where Darling started dance training. Darling has trained in Ballet\, Modern\, Jazz and African. Her career highlights have been working with Bubba Carr choreographer/artistic director to Cher for 12 yrs and counting\, Rhonda Henriksen soloist with Hubbard Street and Twyla Tharp\, Tracy Vogt former Philadanco dancer\, Hinton Battle the Original Scarecrow from the broadway production of “The Wiz” and Lauri Stallings Hubbard street soloist and founder/artistic director of gloATL.\n  \nDarling\, a freelance dancer/choreographer in the city has worked with The Fly Honeys of the The Inconvenience\, Body Cartography of Minneapolis\, Links Hall\, Victoria Bradford\, Chicago AIDS Foundation\, chances dances\, no small plan productions\, Slo’Mo\, the Public hotel\, Soho House Chicago\, Growing Power inc.\, EXPO Chicago\, Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre\, the school of the art Institute\,  Depaul Art Museum\, University of Chicago\,  University of Illinois in Chicago\, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago\, Chicago Film Archive\, Chicago Athletic Association Hotel\, Salonathon\, and Open TV beta.\n  \nIn 2018 Darling was chosen as the cover model and also quoted in Micah Salkind’s Oxford published book ‘Do you remember house? Chicago’s queer of  color underground’. Followed by receiving  The Between Gestures  scholarship to Austria to attend Impulstanz in Vienna also the Chicago Dancemakers Forum fellowship and Links Hall CoMission Fellowship\, along with a 3Arts nomination in 2019. Darling’s career has been one with a strong spiritual center and allowance of universal well-being.\n\n“I sit back\, observe and consume my surroundings and tell stories from an unbiased perspective. There are 3 sides to every coin and I aim to be the ridged. My work reflects the Contrast and Alignment of the cooperative components of life.”
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SUMMARY:A Queer History Tour of Bronzeville
DESCRIPTION:Join us with Rachael Pierce on Saturday\, June 4th for a Queer history tour of the Bronzeville area\, as well as learning more about SSCAC’s role in highlighting queer histories as they relate to Black artists!\n  \nRachael will also facilitate a storytelling component on our front stoop with longtime Southsider and elder Sandi Byrd after the tour.\n  \nRUN OF PROGRAM:\n  \nWalking tour will begin at South Side Community Art Center\, and take place from 12:30PM – 1:45PM.\n  \nStorytelling back at South Side Community Art Center will take place from 2PM – 3PM.\n  \nRSVP HERE\n  \n \n  \n  \nRachael Pierce is a community builder from the South Side of Chicago. She’s a lover of history\, black queer herstory to be exact; and as CEO of her production company\, Pi360co\, Rachael works to create spaces and platforms for queer BIPOC women to bravely share their stories and explore their spirituality. Her passions meet at the intersection of everything and are influenced by her Queer\, Black\, Indigenous identity. Rachael believes she is called to empower folks to bravely gather\, build community\, and share their stories of life and faith.\n\n\nThis program is presented in conjunction with EMERGENCE: Intersections at the Center\, currently on view until July 2\, 2022.\n  \nEMERGENCE: Intersections at the Center spotlights The South Side Community Art Center’s historical role in supporting a full spectrum of Black artists through an intersectional viewpoint. The first exhibition of its kind at the South Side Community Art Center\, EMERGENCE positions the Center as an important anchor for Black LGBTQ artists who belonged to its community from its founding in 1940 to the 1980s and beyond.\n\nFunding for EMERGENCE programming is generously supported by Northwestern University.
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SUMMARY:CEREMONIES: A SELECTION OF SHORT FILMS BY MARLON RIGGS
DESCRIPTION:RSVP HERE\n\nIn conjunction with EMERGENCE: Intersections at the Center\, the current exhibition at the South Side Community Art Center\, CEREMONIES will be screened IN PERSON\, in partnership with South Side Projections.\n\nCo-curator of EMERGENCE and SSCAC Public Programs and Engagement manager zakkiyyah najeebah dumas-o’neal will lead a post-discussion with Aymar Jean Christian\, associate professor of communication studies at Northwestern University and  co-founder of OTV | Open Television. Aymar also served as an advisory panelist during the organizing phases of EMERGENCE. \n  \nA filmmaker unlike any other\, Marlon Riggs was an unapologetic gay Black man who defied a culture of silence and shame. Riggs used a bold mix of documentary\, performance\, poetry\, and music to confront the legacy of racist stereotypes and the impact of AIDS on the Black community. He died in 1994 of AIDS-related illness\, leaving behind a vital\, living body of work that wrestled with the very definition of what it means to be Black.  \nMarlon Troy Riggs (1957-1994) was an American filmmaker\, educator\, poet\, and gay rights activist. He produced\, wrote\, and directed several documentary films including Ethnic Notions\, Tongues Untied\,  Color Adjustment and Black Is\, Black Ain’t. His films examine past and present representations of race and sexuality in the United States. \n  \n \n  \n  \nCEREMONIES directly references poet Essex Hemphill’s groundbreaking anthology of short stories and poetry Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry\, which won the National Library Association’s Gay\, Lesbian\, and Bisexual New Author Award when it was published in 1992. The book’s poems and essays expand on many important social issues at the time\, such as the white objectification of Black men\, as epitomized by Robert Mapplethorpe’s The Black Book; AIDS in the Black community; and the complex dynamics gay Black men experience in both the white LGBTQ+ community and in Black culture – very much in alignment with Rigg’s exploration of these topics as it appeared in his film works. In addition Essex Hemphill’s poetry was also featured in Marlon Riggs’ documentaries Tongues Untied (1989) and Black Is … Black Ain’t (1994). \n  \nThis program features three short films by Marlon Riggs: Affirmations (1990)\, Anthem (1991)\, and Regrette Rien (No Regret)(1993)\, of which depict the visual\, artistic\, and political convictions of a transformative and pioneering filmmaker whose work is a historical document of Black gay sexuality from a Black perspective and still deeply relevant today.  \n  \nThis program is generously supported by\, and in partnership with South Side Projections.  \nFounded in 2011\, South Side Projections presents films at locations across Chicago’s south side to foster conversation about complex social and political issues. At many screenings\, we enlist scholars\, activists\, and filmmakers to lead discussions\, while other screenings offer opportunities to present seldom-seen films of historical and artistic value to the communities of Chicago’s south side. 
URL:https://sscartcenter.org/event/ceremonies-a-selection-of-short-films-by-marlon-riggs/
CATEGORIES:Emergence,Events
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SUMMARY:AN EVENING WITH SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY & CAMILLE BACON
DESCRIPTION:ZOOM REGISTRATION HERE\n  \nSSCAC is thrilled to invite you into one of many conversations between SHAWNE MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY and Camille Bacon that have activated feelings of remembrance\, love\, grief\, and longing. For this program they will respond to the liminal\, but expansive spaces within EMERGENCE that relate to aspects of desire\, yearning\, and intimacy specific to the Black queer femme/lesbian gaze and ways of being.\n  \nSHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY is a new media artist and poet. Known for using sound\, video\, and performance\, HOLLOWAY shapes the rhetorics of technology and sexuality into tools for exposing structures of power. She has spoken and exhibited work internationally in spaces like Performance Space New York\, The New Museum\, The Kitchen\, The Time-Based Art Festival at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art\, Institute of Contemporary Arts (London)\, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. SHAWNÉ is currently teaching in the Film\, Video\, New Media\, and Animation departments at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.\n  \nCamille Bacon is a Chicago-based writer who is cultivating a “sweet Black writing life” as informed by the words of poet Nikky Finney and the infinite wisdom of the Black feminist tradition.\n  \nThis program is presented in conjunction with EMERGENCE: Intersections at the Center\, currently on view until July 2\, 2022.\nEMERGENCE: Intersections at the Center spotlights The South Side Community Art Center’s historical role in supporting a full spectrum of Black artists through an intersectional viewpoint. The first exhibition of its kind at the South Side Community Art Center\, EMERGENCE positions the Center as an important anchor for Black LGBTQ artists who belonged to its community from its founding in 1940 to the 1980s and beyond.\n  \nFunding for EMERGENCE programming is generously supported by Northwestern University.\n  \n 
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SUMMARY:EMERGENCE CURATORS CONVERSATION
DESCRIPTION:CLICK HERE TO REGISTER VIA ZOOM \n\nIn conjunction with EMERGENCE: Intersections at the Center\, the current exhibition at the South Side Community Art Center\, the exhibition’s curators\, zakkiyyah najeebah dumas-o’neal and LaMar R. Gayles\, Jr.\, discuss the exhibition and the research that made it happen. The conversation will be moderated by Greg Foster-Rice ON ZOOM.\n  \nEMERGENCE spotlights LGBTQ artists who were part of the South Side Community Art Center’s early decades\, from the 1940s to the 1990s\, and presents the Center’s historical role in supporting a full spectrum of Black artists through an intersectional viewpoint.\n\n \nMikki Ferrill (born 1937). Untitled (The Garage). Gelatin silver print\, 1973. Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art\, Northwestern University\, The Richard Florsheim Art Fund Purchase. \n  \n  \nzakkiyyah najeebah dumas o’neal is a visual artist\, arts organizer\, and educator based in Chicago. \nzakkiyyah has been included in numerous group exhibitions and has had several solo exhibitions at Mana Contemporary\, Blanc Gallery\, Indiana University\, and South Bend Museum of Art. Her work and arts programming has been presented in various forms at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago\, NADA\, The Art Institute of Chicago\, The August Wilson African American Cultural Center\, Chicago Humanities Festival\, DePaul University\, and Harvard Graduate School of Design to name a few. She has also curated exhibitions at spaces such as Chicago Art Department\, Blanc gallery and Washington Park Arts Incubator at the University of Chicago. She was recently an Artist in Residence at Arts and Public Life at University of Chicago and an Artist in Residence at Indiana University in Bloomington\, IN. \nzakkiyyah is a Co-founder and organizer of CBIM (Concerned Black Image Makers): a collective of Black artists\, thinkers\, and curators that prioritize shared experiences and concerns by lens based artists of the Black diaspora\, through programming\, exhibitions\, and dialogues. \nLaMar Gayles (a native son of the South Side of Chicago) is an archaeologist\, independent curator\, material culture scholar\, and technical art historian. He is currently completing a PhD in Art Conservation and Preservation Studies at the University of Delaware after completing a MA in Museum and Exhibition Studies from University of Illinois at Chicago’s MUSE program while holding two separate positions: Archive and Collections Manager at the South Side Community Art Center and Executive Director at the Union Street Gallery. Gayles earned a Cum Laude BA with a triple major (art history\, archaeology\, and ethnic studies) from St. Olaf College. He has researched and curated exhibitions on Black American jewelry and its historical progressions from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first century\, including the 2021 exhibition “Divine Legacies in Black Jewelry and Metals” at the National Museum of Ornamental Metals. Gayles’s research methodology combines archaeometry\, arts-based research\, conservation science\, scientific instrumentation\, art historical analysis\, ethnography\, historical reproduction\, technical studies\, and qualitative research to explore material and visual culture. \nGreg Foster-Rice (he/him) is an associate professor of the history of photography at Columbia College Chicago. Most recently\, he curated The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold: Art\, Identity & Politics\, which opened at the Museum of Contemporary Photography (2018) and travels to DePauw University in Fall 2022. For that exhibition\, Foster-Rice edited and co-authored a scholarly catalogue of essays surveying Arnold’s extensive career (2018). Previously he co-curated The City Lost and Found: Capturing New York\, Chicago and Los Angeles\, 1960-1980 at the Art Institute of Chicago (2014) and Princeton University Art Museum (2015) and co-authored that exhibition’s catalogue which received the Philip Johnson Award from the Society of Architectural Historians. He also co-edited Reframing the New Topographics (2011) and contributed to the volumes Romare Bearden in the Modernist Tradition (2011) and Black is Black Ain’t (2013). He has a BA from Rice University and a PhD in Art History from Northwestern University. \n  \n 
URL:https://sscartcenter.org/event/emergence-curators-conversation/
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SUMMARY:TOWARD THE CENTER: In Conversation with Patric McCoy\, Juarez Hawkins\, and Jonathan Green
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER VIA ZOOM\n  \nJoin SSCAC Archives and Collections Manager LaMar Gayles Jr. for a conversation with EMERGENCE exhibiting artists Patric McCoy\, Juarez Hawkins\, and Jonathan Green for a conversation centering their individual practices\, personal knowledge of artists in the SSCAC archive\, and their relationships to Black art communities specific to Chicago’s South Side. \nThis program is organized in conjunction with SSCAC’S current exhibition\, EMERGENCE: Intersections at the Center\, with programming support by Northwestern University.\n\nEMERGENCE spotlights The South Side Community Art Center’s historical role in supporting a full spectrum of Black artists through an intersectional viewpoint. EMERGENCE positions the Center as an important anchor for Black LGBTQ artists who belonged to its community from its founding in 1940 to the 1980s and features work addressing identity and community\, queer spaces and performance\, in collage\, painting\, sculpture\, photography\, and more.\n\n  \n\n\n\nBIOGRAPHIES: \n\nJuarez Hawkins\n\nJuarez Hawkins (born 1962) is a painter\, ceramicist\, curator and educator from Chicago\, IL\, whose work explores questions of identity\, spirituality and the body. Juarez received her B.A. from Northwestern University and her M.A. from Columbia College Chicago. She has exhibited widely\, with solo shows at the 33 Collective Gallery\, Concordia University and the South Side Community Art Center. She is co-curator of Gallery Programs at Chicago State University and has organized exhibitions featuring artists in the permanent collection\, including artists such as Richard Hunt and Marva Jolly. Other recent curatorial projects include The Love Affair Continues at the DuSable Museum of African American History and Intersectional Touch at the Hyde Park Art Center. Juarez is a member of Sapphire and Crystals\, a collective of African American female artists and is a two-time recipient of the Community Arts Assistance Program Grant.  \nPatric McCoy  \n\n\nPatric McCoy (born 1946) is an art collector\, curator\, environmental chemist and photographer from Chicago whose art collection contains more than one thousand paintings\, drawings\, sculptures and collages of work made by African American artists. McCoy went to Englewood High School\, the University of Chicago and Governors State University and worked as an environmental scientist for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 1976 to 2006. In the 1980s\, McCoy developed his practice as a photographer\, focusing on everyday lives of people and the landscape of Chicago. In 2003\, McCoy co-founded Diasporal Rhythms\, a non-profit that promotes the collection of art by living African-American artists. McCoy’s collection was shown at the DuSable Museum of African-American History in Chicago in 2018.  \n\nJonathan Green \nJonathan Green (born 1955) is a painter and printmaker\, from Gardens Corner\, South Carolina. Green’s work explores narrative realism through depictions of everyday life\, often in rural settings. Green was raised by his grandmother\, who taught him about the culture and dialect of the Gullah communities of the U.S. South. Green’s relationship to the Gullah culture remains one of the major influences on his work. After serving in the United States Air Force\, he attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago\, receiving his BFA in 1982. Green began working with the South Side Community Art Center in the 1980’s and had a solo exhibition there in 1987. His work is in the permanent collections of several museums\, including Morris Museum in August\, GA\, The African-American Museum in Philadelphia\, PA and The Naples Museum of Art in Naples\, FL. He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of South Carolina and published the book Gullah Images: The Art of Jonathan Green in 1996. Green has taken part in countless exhibitions\, including In the Hands of African American Collectors at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles and Highlights: African American Art from the Norton Collection at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach\, FL.  \n\n\nimage courtesy:\nJuarez Hawkins (1962–). Self-Portrait. Oil pastel and acrylic onmuseum board\, 1992. Collection of the artist.
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