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SUMMARY:Creative Wellness with Marcus Alleyne
DESCRIPTION:FEBRUARY 19\n3PM CST ON ZOOM\n  \nMarcus Alleyne is a Chicago-based artist working in mixed media\, primarily painting and collage. His work explores personal and social subject matter such as religion/spirituality\, music and culture. As diverse as his work is\, he is equally prolific in each of his genres of media. He is passionate about language as an art form and often incorporates poetry and text into his paintings. Transcending time and space\, Marcus’ work speaks to the future while addressing the past and nurturing the present.\n  \nJoin us for an in-depth guided exchange presented by Marcus about his relationship to creative and spiritual wellness practices\, and the ways they influence his work.\n\n  \nREGISTRATION: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYscOusqz4oHNzwnrMerdgwePL_l3TZg0tK
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SUMMARY:An Unapologetic Dream: A MLK Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Hyde Park Art Center in collaboration with South Side Community Art Center and Arts + Public Life\, presents a free virtual screening of Unapologetic by Chicago filmmaker Ashley O”Shay\, a film told through the lens of Janaé Bonsu and Bella Bahhs\, two fierce abolitionist leaders\, that gives a deep look into the Movement for Black Lives\, from the police murder of Rekia Boyd to the election of mayor Lori Lightfoot.\n  \nOpening the program will also be an excerpt from Hyde Park Art Center’s Center Program Artist\, Cathleen Campbell’s documentary\, Martin Luther King’s Unsung Heros in Chicago\, shorts from The Black Archive Project: Chicago Uprisings 2020 by local independent filmmaker and documentarian\, Resita Cox\, and a poetry reading from Leslé Honore\, an AfroLatina poet\, artivist\, and author of Fist & Fire\, a collection of powerful\, unflinching poems that confront issues of social justice through the lens of real human lives and voices. \nThe poetry and films will be followed by a discussion with filmmakers Ashley O’Shay\, Resita Cox\, and Cathleen Campbell\, and activists Bella Bahhs and Janaé Bonsu. \nThank you to our promotional partner the Multicultural Affairs Department at the School of the Art Institute. And special thanks to The Jentes Family Foundation for supporting our Public Programs at the Hyde Park Art Center.  \n  \n*still image courtesy of Ashley O’shay. Unapologetic (2020).
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SUMMARY:The Balm: Art for Black Women's Wellness
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Southside Community Art Center is proud to host a group exhibition that exclusively highlights Black women artists\, and there’s never been a more pertinent time to do so. \nThe Balm: Art for Black Women’s Wellness emerged as a collective artists’ action. Eight women who engage the time-honored tradition of using their artistic practice to give vision and form to our healing have contributed work across a variety of media and points of view. Themes emerged organically\, with works that stand in both testimony and conversation. Together\, they frame inquiry into the experiences of psychological fragmentation\, the sustaining value of breathwork\, cultural healing practices of the African Diaspora and healthcare disparities affecting maternal fetal outcomes. Themes of kinship and the restorative powers of the familiar\, coalesce around memory of home\, especially the south\, which weaves its way through many of the works presented and finds its way to us here in Chicago. The alchemy of this project—bringing together artists and communities around a subject that concerns us all—demonstrates the power of Black women’s creative ingenuity.  \nOrganized by visual artist and culture worker Kyrin Hobson\, the exhibition will showcase artists based in and outside of Chicago\, which include Hobson\, Alexandria Valentine\, Venise Keys\, Jasmine Best\, Brie Ortega\, Janelle Dunlap\, and Ashley January.  \nThe exhibition opens for public viewing October 8th\, in addition to an opening reception October 22nd\, 6-8pm. RSVP here \nLearn more about the participating artists below:  \n  \nJasmine Best \nJasmine Best is a true Southern Artist\, gathering narratives from her Carolinian family and childhood. The North Carolina based artist uses her personal memories and manipulations of her memories to create dialogues about the black female identity in the south and in predominantly white spaces. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Recently was awarded the Artwork Archive Art Business Grant. She works with tangible and traditional mediums combined with digital means of art making. Her work often depicts maternal figures\, each depicting the diversity and qualities that make up the black southern women in her life through several generations. \nJasminebest.com \n  \nJanelle Dunlap \nJanelle is a Charlotte\, NC and Chicago based social practice artist\, curator and creative consultant who works to generate intentional and transformational change through her practice. She has a ten year background as a nonprofit professional where she worked in several roles that continue to inform and fuel her creative roles. \nJanelle’s broad body of work ranges from micro museum exhibitions to performance art installations and continues to generate institutional and community based funding. Some of her previous funders include Art  Science Council\, the Knight Foundation\, The Institute for Museum and Library Services\, Z Smith Reynolds Foundation\, and the Sweet Water Foundation in Chicago\, IL. She is currently a 2020 recipient of the New Artist Society Scholarship through the Low- Residency MFA program at School of the Art Institute of Chicago and also a current student in the inaugural class of Social and Environmental Arts MFA program at Prescott College.  \nBeekeeping is a meditation on collective effort for survival. Through the use of abstraction\, I use the medium of encaustic paint to articulate what is incommunicable between myself and the bees. This co-species relationship seeks wisdom beyond the anthropocene and gains knowledge through observation\, care\, and engagement with the honeybee. The west African goddess Oxum\, is known for her healing powers that transmute pain into honey for her devotees. As one of Oxum’s totems\, the bee is a sacred symbol of the healing power  \n \nhttps://www.janelledunlap.com/ \n  \nAlexandria Valentine \nAlexandria Valentine (b. on the South Side of Chicago\, in 1996) uses archival practices\, writing\, collage\, photography and textiles to explore themes of Black latent thought\, ancestral landscapes\, and the Black Romantic. Informed by the legacy of her loved ones who lived in and traveled from the South during the Great Migration\, Valentine seeks to explore the past\, create pathways to the future and peer at the spaces in between.  \nAlexandria received a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction from Columbia University School of the Arts and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They are the co-founder of North Star Memory Project\, a transmedia archive that prioritizes Black Chicago and Great Migration histories through counter-archive building.  \nMy art investigates the liminal spaces of Black women’s wellness–what happens when we cease to be well and the process of trying to make our way back to wellness. Being Black and woman means that there are many people and structures actively trying to limit our wellness\, my work explores the effects of that and the way we act upon those forces in return.  \nhttps://www.alexandriavalentine.net/ \n  \nAshley January  \nAshley focuses on contemporary portraiture informed by her maternal experience. Due to pregnancy complications that led to her son being born premature\, her new body of work addresses the crisis of the Black maternal mortality rate in America. This year Ashley has exhibited work with Dominique Gallery on Artsy\, and with SoLA Contemporary in LA in 2020. Her work has been exhibited in numerous venues including\, the Museum of Science and Industry\, Chicago\, IL; Viridian Artists Inc\, New York\, NY; Laguna Art Museum\, Laguna Beach\, CA; Pacific Art Foundation\, Newport Beach\, CA; and the Irvine Fine Arts Center\, Irvine\, CA. She was selected as a first-place award winner at the Woman Made Gallery’s Midwest Open in Chicago\, in 2018 and won the Beverly Bank Best of Show Award at the Beverly Arts Center’s juried competition in 2017.  \nAshley earned her MFA in Painting from Laguna College of Art and Design\, Laguna Beach\, CA and her BS in Communication with an Advertising concentration and Minor in Studio Art from Bradley University\, Peoria\, IL. She lives in Chicago with her husband\, son\, dog\, and works from her studio at Mana Contemporary. \nI address the growing crisis of the Black maternal mortality and morbidity rate in America through painting and multimedia. Black women are three to four times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than white women. Motherhood\, for Black women\, is not detached from the state of being “Black” in the United States. For us\, the decision to enter motherhood involves considerable risk\, personal identity\, healthcare disparities\, burden-bearing and survival. My first pregnancy abruptly ended with a traumatic delivery. I was diagnosed with preeclampsia at 32 weeks and 4 days. Two days later\, I delivered by emergency c-section. My baby boy was born prematurely with a low birth weight of 2 pounds and 13 ounces. Mothers who have suffered similar complications that lead to more adverse birth outcomes are considered to be a “near miss” meaning that they suffered severe maternal morbidity (SMM) in which Black women are disproportionately affected.   \nWhile uplifting Black mothers and children\, the images and sound narratives serve as a call to action for more awareness\, research\, and eradication of unnecessary maternal and infant death in the United States of America. \nhttps://ashleyjan.com/ \n  \nKyrin Hobson \nKyrin Hobson is a visual artist and independent arts professional dedicated to creating understanding and opportunity among diverse cultures. Her distinctive approach to art making and her commitment to building connections for institutions\, audiences and artists define a multifaceted career. Studio work and research interests engage Hobson’s role as a cultural signifier and pragmatic change agent. Hobson’s artistic practice includes narrative figurative painting\, portraiture\, drawing and mixed-media installations. Multi-layered works fuse autobiography with myth and care giving traditions of New Orleans\, Haiti and the Black Diaspora. Finding Guinen is a current body of work that interrogates the racial imaginary with regard to the wholeness and histories of women of African ancestry in the Americas. \nHobson is a 2023 MFA candidate at University of Chicago\, in addition she holds a Master of Arts degree in Arts Administration and Museum Studies from New York University and a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art from UCLA. \nThese works are part of a series considering Black women’s health and wholeness through the lens of history. I use the body as a symbol of collective experience and hope for reconciliation. Fecundity Trick Card\, We Spoke of Vessels and No. Money Man. engage imagery of the  body and specifically the uterus to explore how we have maintained our wholeness during times when our reproduction has been hijacked and tied to commerce. Bearing witness to our physical legacies of fecundity\, commodification and survival is important in the here and now as we cope with threats to reproductive rights\, disparities in women’s healthcare and maternal fetal outcomes\, and the scourge of human trafficking. \nhttps://www.kyrinhobson.com/bio.html \n  \nVenise Keys  \nVenise Keys is a visual artist\, writer\, and educator raised on the South Side of Chicago\, Illinois. Venise’s art has been exhibited at Front Room Gallery in Brooklyn\, NY as well as the Museum Science and Industry\, Plus Gallery\, Woman Made Gallery\, and Intersect Chicago (formally known as SOFA: Sculpture\, Objects\, and Functional Art & Design Fair) in Chicago. \nShe has a Bachelors and Master’s degree in Painting with a Certificate in Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies for her research on Black Feminist politics. She served as adjunct faculty of art for Illinois Central College\, Bradley University\, and has lectured at Dillard University on the role of the Black artist. This work is published in the scholarly journal\, Kalfou: Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies. \nThis year\, Venise’s writing on art education has circulated to Norway\, and she is recently published in a New York arts and culture magazine\, Hyperallergic. Venise is currently a visual art teacher at Art In Motion Creative Arts School and is the program director for the Kappa Chapter of Gamma Xi Phi. \nThe visual aesthetics and rituals of my studio practice explore personal intersections of race\, gender\, sexuality\, age\, and class. I use painting\, drawing\, craftwork\, paper cutting\, and found objects to explore art history\, popular culture\, and my childhood memories. Common themes in my artwork are queerness\, generational trauma\, the Black Arts Movement\, intersectionality\, Black feminist theory\, rootwork spirituality\, identity politics\, and empowerment. \ntheartofvenisekeys \n  \nBrie Ortega  \nBrie Ortega is a photographer\, digital artist\, non-profit do-gooder\, and social worker interested in how art can draw attention to health issues and potential solutions\, particularly in Black communities. Her work is informed by navigating complex personal and familial health landscapes involving mental illness\, traumatic birth\, migration\, metabolic dysfunction\, breathing trouble\, abuse\, and neglect. Much of her life has been an experiment in healing from these contexts and reclaiming the health and happiness she believes is our birthright. While Brie has oscillated between California and Atlanta throughout her life\, her mother is originally from Chicago\, where Brie was last present as a toddler in foster care. Participating in The Balm represents a positive and poetic return to a familial place of origin. \nBrie is currently living as nomadically as possible after spending 11 years in Los Angeles\, where she was inspired to develop an art practice and also rebel against dominant notions of what it means to be an artist and to create in the social media era. It is important for her to use art as a tool for activism and therapy while disrupting the false dichotomy between artist and “non-artist.” \nThese portraits were created in 2019 as part of a small community effort with friends Krissy Leahy and Monique Hall called The Black Breath Project. In collaboration with members of the Los Angeles Black yoga and wellness community\, we developed a zine called Breathing While Black in which participants submitted portraits or had their portraits made by me while engaged in mindful breathing practice. The focus on breath was inspired by its importance as a taken-for-granted yet integral part of life; the way breath can be interrupted by anxiety\, respiratory illnesses\, and pollution; the attention to breath given by yoga and meditation practices; and Eric Garner’s immortal last words. Accompanying the portraits are “breath testimonials.” \nThe time during which I created these portraits is very meaningful. I was on a partial sabbatical and really pouring resources into my own health. For the first time\, I was managing depression and anxiety through nutrition and without medication. After a string of unhealthy relationships\, I was being extra intentional about seeking people out who treated me with kindness and respect. And\, of course\, this was shortly before COVID put the act of breathing front and center on the world stage. In many ways\, these portraits are an ode to that time of discovery. \n@mrbrie \n*top image credit: Alexandria Valentine. A Cosmic Anger\, A Cosmic Rage. Mixed media collage. 2021
URL:https://sscartcenter.org/event/the-balm-art-for-black-womens-wellness/
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SUMMARY:Whitfield Lovell: The Spell Suite | An Initiative of Toward Common Cause
DESCRIPTION:Whitfield Lovell: The Spell Suite\nAn Initiative of Toward Common Cause\n  \nSSCAC is beyond thrilled to be participate in this 19 institution collaborative exhibit and excited to showcase new works by Whitfield Lovell!\n\nToward Common Cause: Art\, Social Change\, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40 explores the extent to which certain resources—air\, land\, water\, and even culture—can be held in common. Raising questions about inclusion\, exclusion\, ownership\, and rights of access\, the exhibition considers art’s vital role in society as a call to vigilance\, a way to bear witness\, and a potential act of resistance. Presented on the 40th anniversary of the MacArthur Fellows Program\, Toward Common Cause deploys the Fellows Program as “intellectual commons” and features new and recontextualized work by 29 visual artists who have been named Fellows since the award program’s founding in 1981. \nMining vintage photographs of unknown people for much of his subject matter\, Whitfield Lovell (MacArthur Fellow\, 2007) aims to\, in his words\, “illuminate the humanity and richness” of ordinary African Americans who lived between the Emancipation Proclamation and the civil rights movement. Shown here are portraits from Lovell’s Spell Suite\, a series name that references a sequence of pieces in music or dance and conjures the mesmerizing quality of enchantment. Lucidly rendered and powerfully expressive\, these Black figures contradict the stereotypes of African Americans that have been perpetuated by mass media\, such as The Beulah Show recording that plays from Lovell’s installation of radios\, After an Afternoon. Together\, these works probe the effacement of cultural memory with sensuous tones that activate the legacy of those whose personal histories have been lost. \nWhitfield Lovell: The Spell Suite is a collaboration between the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago and South Side Community Art Center. It is an initiative of Toward Common Cause: Art\, Social Change\, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40\, which is organized by the Smart Museum of Art in collaboration with exhibition\, programmatic\, and research partners across Chicago. Toward Common Cause is supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and curated by Abigail Winograd\, MacArthur Fellows Program 40th Anniversary Exhibition Curator\, Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago.\nWhitfield Lovell’s artwork is also on view at the Stony Island Arts Bank from July 15 to December 19\, 2021. For more information\, please visit towardcommoncause.org.\n\nImage courtesy:\nWhitfield Lovell (b. 1959). “Spell no. 12 (Richesse Noire)\,” 2021\, Conte on paper with attached found object. © Whitfield Lovell. Courtesy of the artist and DC Moore Gallery\, New York
URL:https://sscartcenter.org/event/whitfield-lovell-the-spell-suite-an-initiative-of-toward-common-cause/
CATEGORIES:Events,Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Artists and Models: A Tribute to the South Side Community Art Center.
DESCRIPTION:Artists and Models: A Tribute to the South Side Community Art Center \nJuly 10-August 29\, 2021\n\nStudents from across Columbia College Chicago brought the South Side Community Art Center’s (SSCAC) administrative archives to life through a recent exhibition titled\, “Artists and Models: A Tribute to the South Side Community Art Center.” The exhibit was previously on display at C33 Gallery (33 Ida B. Wells Dr. first floor).\n\nThis student led exhibition celebrates the South Side Community Art Center’s pioneering role in promoting Black art and creativity in Chicago. This exhibition features documents from the Center’s archival records to trace aspects of the Center’s history from its first four decades. \nArtists and Models was curated by Charlotte Briskin\, Anastasia Murphy\, Justin Ridgel\, James Ross\, Matthew Walcott\, and Teanna White in Dr. Melanie Chambliss’s Fall 2020 course Black Artistry and the Archive. The exhibition was designed by Elsa Mae Brydalski\, Hannah Davila\, Bri Elliott\, Raegan Townsend\, and Joseph Trezek in Sarah Faust’s Spring 2021 Graphic Design course. \n\nSSCAC is proud to showcase this archive\, and we share our thanks to students who brought this to life! We hope you enjoy.
URL:https://sscartcenter.org/event/artists-and-models-a-tribute-to-the-south-side-community-art-center/
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SUMMARY:80th Anniversary Masquerade Kick-Off!
DESCRIPTION:The South Side Community Art Center (SSCAC) kicks off our 80th Anniversary Celebration Thursday\, June 17th at 6:30 pm with a virtual masquerade event!  \n The 80th Anniversary theme is “Preserving the House That Art Built” and this kick-off event features special remarks from our  co-chairs discussing the historical significance of the Center along with a special awards celebration honoring local community partners\, leaders\, and artists.  \n$80 tickets include an annual SSCAC Membership\, a mask\, and specialty cocktail/mocktail recipe for the virtual reception.  \n$40 tickets include an annual SSCAC membership.  \nCome join us to celebrate and preserve the house that art built! 
URL:https://sscartcenter.org/event/80th-anniversary-masquerade-kick-off/
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SUMMARY:Beyond The Wall
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with Patricia Andrews-Keenan\, Janelle Ayana Miller\, and Alicia Goodwin moderated by Ciera Alyse McKissick ! \nThis program is the first of a few conversations we’ll be hosting as part of our current show Just Above My Wall (To The Right)\, guest curated by Ciera Alyse McKissick. Just Above My Wall (To The Right)\, challenges misconceptions about collecting while also centering a diverse range of Black emerging and established art collectors here in Chicago\, including works from our own collection. \nAlicia\, Janelle\, and Patricia are not only collectors\, but creative leaders in their own right. They each have very specific interests\, concerns\, and practices relating to why\, what\, and how they collect beyond their contributions to our current exhibit. \nThe art and practice of collecting goes well beyond the wall\, but can be explored through unconventional spaces\, family legacies\, and traveling for example. We’re eager to learn what life experiences and influences have been impactful towards their journey as collectors\, as well as how their path in the arts have expanded their understanding and re-definitions of collecting art\, objects\, and more. \n \nimage courtesy of Janelle Ayana Miller’s collection. \n  \nBios: \nPatricia Andrews-Keenan is the founder of Pigment International\, a multi-media arts collective redefining global arts\, culture\, and innovation. The organization is committed to creating new platforms for the advancement of the modern multi-cultural aesthetic in the visual arts\, specifically the aesthetic represented by African descended artists. Pigment serves as a connector for emerging creators\, collectors\, curators\, investors\, and other stakeholders. It is a destination for art enthusiasts to experience customized and curated salons\, events and exhibitions that spark dialogue and inspire those constituents. Pigment International is the publisher of Pigment Magazine\, a publication highlighting Black artists\, collectors\, curators and all those that champion the Black Art aesthetic. \nAndrews-Keenan also led the charge for the creation of Black Fine Art Month\, first celebrated in October 2019. Black Fine Art Month is a global celebration of the Black Art aesthetic\, an annual recognition of artists\, innovators\, collectors\, curators and those vested in the Black Art tradition\, and an opportunity to commemorate these contributions through art programming. \nAndrews-Keenan’s background encompasses stints as a journalist\, PR manager\, government affairs director\, communications and corporate affairs executive with media companies including Comcast\, the Nielsen Company and AT&T. \nhttps://www.pigmentintl.com/ \n  \nJanelle Ayana Miller is a grandchild of the Great Migration\, a Midwesterner with Southern inflection. \nHer artistic practice is rooted within familial and communal aesthetics\, looking deeply into bridging self and time as an act of place-making while using modes of collage\, found objects\, film\, food\, and photography. \nhttps://janelleamiller.com/ \n  \nAlicia Goodwin is a jeweler and artist based out of Chicago\, Illinois. \nA graduate of the metals program at SUNY’s Fashion Institute of Technology as well as a graduate of CUNY’s Hunter College\, Alicia creates sculptural work inspired by nature\, mourning jewelry of the Victorian era and ceremonial jewelry of the Mesoamericas. \nShe creates a majority of her work under her eponymous brand\, Lingua Nigra\, using the ancient techniques wax carving\, as well as textural techniques such as reticulation and acid etching. \nHer work can be found at select retailers and museum shops around the world. \nhttps://linguanigra.com/ \n  \nCiera Alyse McKissick is an independent writer\, curator\, cultural producer\, and the founder of AMFM\, an organization whose mission is to promote emerging artists. \nShe is also the coordinator of Public Programs at the Hyde Park Art Center\, and Communications Associate at Ox-Bow School of Art. She created AMFM\, originally a web magazine\, as an independent study project in 2009 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she studied Journalism and Mass Communications. \nHer work since then often involves collaboration through supporting Black and brown artists\, local arts organizations\, and seeks to stimulate community engagement that’s driven by inclusivity\, accessibility\, intention\, and care. \nhttp://www.amfm.life/ \n 
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CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:Just Above My Wall\, (To The Right)
DESCRIPTION:Just Above My Wall\, (To The Right)\, curated by Ciera Alyse McKissick\, brings together Black collectors and SSCAC’s permanent collection.\n  \nJust Above My Wall\, (To The Right)\, showcases Black contemporary artworks from 13 emerging and established Black art collectors from Chicago. During a time when Black artists and their work is in high demand\, McKissick chose to highlight Black collectors who are invested in the preservation of Black art\, much like the South Side Community Art Center’s mission and legacy. \nThis show encompasses parallelled histories between Black artists within the South Side Community Art Center’s collection\, Black artists of today\, and what Black art collectors are acquiring. \nDuring a time when Black artists and their work is in high demand\, McKissick chose to highlight Black collectors who are invested in the preservation of Black art\, much like the South Side Community Art Center’s mission and legacy. Collector\, Tracie Hall\, describes her collection as “living with the ancestors.”  \n“I think that it’s important for us to demystify art because for me\, the art that I live with charges my space. I think that our homes are almost like our safe harbor\, and for me art is very spiritually charged\,” Hall says. “I think that for Black people it’s important for us to really charge the space that we’re in\, because a lot of times our spaces are so contested\, our spaces are sometimes grabbed from us\, or we’re displaced — the simple act of collecting art\, or placing art in a place that you can see it\, and letting it envelop you\, is almost like resistance. I think that seeing art puts you in dialogue with something beyond yourself\,” she said.  \n  \n \nWork by Sylvester Britton from the South Side Community Art Center Permanent Collection. \nSelected works from the SSCAC collection include Bill Walker\, Ralph Arnold\, Sylvester Britton\, Yaounde Olu\, Hale Woodruff\, and Dorothy Higgenson-Carter among other works from the 20th century. Selected work from collectors include both emerging and established artists from the 21st century like\, Krista Franklin\, Hebru Brantley\, Brandon Breaux\, Alexandra Antoine\, Erin Mitchell\, and Lawrence Agyei to name a few.  \nFor the curator\, McKissick\, who is also one of the emerging collectors featured\, it was important to center the exhibition around collecting\, and use the Center’s collection as a catalyst.  \n“Oftentimes when you think of an art collector or you see an art collector\, the first thing you’re seeing is a rich white man or couple with money\, and if you’re seeing a black collector\, it’s someone famous like Jay-Z and Beyonce\, Diddy\, or Swizz Beats. While I am glad that celebrities are bringing the notion of owning art to the forefront\, I think it also creates a misconception that you need to be of a certain caliber to collect artwork\, or that it’s an unobtainable thing\,” McKissick says. “I ideated the show around the Center’s collection because the space itself was created in that same vein. A group of college art students created this space because they didn’t see spaces that looked like them or represented them. Their collection is a representation of the hard work of those artists\, and a sign that they were creating and existing\, and so is the work of the artists these collectors are representing today.  \n  \nCollectors Include: Patricia Andrews-Keenan\, Janelle Miller\, Stephanie Graham\, John Ellis\, Martha Wade\, Tracie Hall\, Drew Enstrumental\, Raub Welch\, Amanda Williams\, Ayanah Moor\, Alicia Goodwin\, Rob McKay\, and Ciera McKissick \nArtists Featured From Their Collection: Solomon Adufah\, Robert Pruitt/Thomas Lucas\, Alexandria Valentine\, SHENEQUA\, John  H. Blanton\, Lawrence Agyei\, Krista Franklin\, Adler Guerrier\, Max Sansing\, David Anthony Geary\, Alexandra Antoine\, Hebru Brantley\, Zephyr\, Brandon Breaux\, Paul S. Benjamin\, Leasho Johnson\, Erin Mitchell \n  \n*Image courtesy: Lawrence Agyei from the collection of John Ellis.
URL:https://sscartcenter.org/event/just-above-my-wall-to-the-right/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210408T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210408T200000
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SUMMARY:Artists At The Center: A Roundtable
DESCRIPTION:Join the Hyde Park Art Center and South Side Community Art Center for a joint program in conjunction with both of our respective Faheem Majeed exhibitions: A roundtable discussion current living artists from different generations who have shown both at the Hyde Park Art Center and South Side Community Art Center during the 20th and 21st centuries.\nArtists\, Faheem Majeed\, Juarez Hawkins\, Rhonda Wheatley\, Candace Hunter\, Tony Smith and more will speak about working through multiple spaces\, audiences\, and legacies between the our two institutions\, moderated by Patric McCoy. Join us for storytelling\, conversation\, memories\, anecdotes\, and insight about their work with both spaces and the historical context of working with two 80 year old institutions. \nJoin Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83311142139 \nSouth Side Community Art Center “From the Center” closed March 27th\nHyde Park Art Center “Planting and Maintaining a Perennial Garden” Opens April 26 \nArtist Faheem Majeed creates an ambitious new installation that furthers his investigation of culturally specific institutions by focusing on the history and memory of the historic South Side Community Art Center (SSCAC). Majeed will produce a monumental charcoal rubbing of building facade of the SSCAC as the central focus of his first large-scale solo exhibition. In addition to this new fabric work Majeed will also be incorporating his ongoing series of reused wooden planks entitled Planting and Maintaining a Perennial Garden repurposed from the SSCAC’s Burroughs Gallery. For this installation the wooden planks will take the form of a platform that will both raise the massive building sized fabric rubbing on a pedestal and be host to performance and discussion. \n \nArtists At The Center is presented as part of Art Design Chicago Now\, an initiative funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art that amplifies the voices of Chicago’s diverse creatives\, past and present\, and explores the essential role they play in shaping the now. \nGenerous support for the exhibition\, related public program\, and catalog is provided in part by The Joyce Foundation\, Terra Foundation for American Art\, and the Host Committee led by Jack & Sandra Guthman\, Cynthia Heusing & David Kistenbroker\, and Eric & Cheryl McKissack. Contributions also provided by John Ellis\, Julie Marie Lemon & Heinrich Jaeger\, Cheryl & Thomas Rudbeck\, and Freddye Smith.
URL:https://sscartcenter.org/event/artists-at-the-center-a-roundtable/
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210326T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210326T183000
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SUMMARY:An Art Collector's Conversation with Madeline Murphy Rabb
DESCRIPTION:If you missed our talk with Madeline\, please watch the video below.\n\n \n\n  \nIn honor of Women’s History Month\, Executive Director of SSCAC\, Monique Brinkman-Hill will be in conversation with Madeline Murphy Rabb to discuss her career in art collecting\, arts consulting\, and cultural advocacy work here in Chicago and beyond. With over 50 years of experience\, Madeline will share her accomplishments\, as well as challenges navigating the art world. \n \n\nMadeline Murphy Rabb has been actively participating in the art world for more than 50 years as a painter and printmaker\, arts administrator\, jewelry designer\, art appraiser\, art consultant\, collector\, curatorial activist and writer. \nMadeline earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1966 and a Master of Science Degree in printmaking from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1975. In 1983\, Madeline was appointed by Mayor Harold Washington the Executive Director of the Chicago Office of Fine Arts\, Department of Cultural Affairs where she served under Mayors Eugene Sawyer and Richard M. Daley until 1991. She oversaw the Public Art Program and awarded CityArts grants to artists and arts organizations throughout the city. \n\n \n\nIn 1992 she created Murphy Rabb Inc. a business focused on advising collectors about building African American art collections for their offices and homes. Over the years she has opened her home for private tours of her collection to the Art Institute of Chicago\, the Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Southside Community Art Center and Art Expo. She has lent works from her collection to exhibitions at the Minneapolis Institute of Art\, the Wadsworth Atheneum\, The Studio Museum in Harlem\, The Baltimore Museum of Art\, Camden Art Center\, London\, Exhibitions USA\, The Newark Museum of Art\, The Museum of Contemporary Art\, The Los Angeles Museum of Art\, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art. \nSome of her corporate clients include: Ariel Capital Management\, Brown Capital Management\, Channing Capital Management\, Northern Trust Chicago South Financial Center\, Cityfront Place\, Northwestern Memorial Hospital\, Harris Bank\, personal and Trust\, Evanston Hospital\, Mercy Hospital\, UBM Construction Management\, the MacArthur Foundation\, Draper and Kramer\, the Chicago Park District\, the University of Chicago\, Department of History\, Shorebank\, the Parking Spot and Capri Capital Advisors. \nShe has served on the board of Arts Midwest\, the Joseph Jefferson Committee\, the Hyde Park Art Center\, the Southside Community Art Center\, the DuSable Museum\, the Alumni Board of the Maryland Institute College of Art\, the Museum of Contemporary Art Woman’s Board and Sculpture Chicago. For 21 years she served on the Board of Columbia College Chicago\, and for more than 30 years has served on the Woman’s Board of the Art Institute of Chicago.
URL:https://sscartcenter.org/event/an-art-collectors-conversation-with-madeline-murphy-rabb/
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210306T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210306T133000
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CREATED:20210306T183010Z
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Artist Kyrin Hobson
DESCRIPTION:If you missed our talk\, please watch the video below.\n  \n \n  \n  \nExecutive Director of SSCAC\, Monique Brinkman-Hill in conversation with artist Kyrin Hobson to discuss her special edition print created in collaboration with our Chicago Printer’s Guild Fundraiser\, her multifaceted art practice\, and how women and symbolism play a role in her work. \nA Los Angeles native\, artist Kyrin Hobson enacts her various roles as protector of children\, steward of community and keeper of histories through painting\, drawing and conceptually engaged social practice focusing on arts education. Hobson’s Chicago studio is a base of operations for art explorations which build upon experiences as a museum professional and scholar of the African Diaspora. Primarily self-taught in painting\, the artist has a BA in Fine Art from UCLA and a MA in Museum Studies from NYU. Additional fine art study has included the Women’s Art Institute at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design\, and studio intensives with Steven Assael\, Stanka Kordic\, and Karen Offutt. \nKyrin is a grantee of the Sustainable Arts Foundation\, The Minnesota State Arts Board and AS220. She has been in residence at the Millay Art Colony and published in The Edna Journal and Delicious Line. Recent exhibitions include Between Line and Space (South Side Community Art Center)\, Secondary Meanings: Figural Diptychs (Zhou B Art Center)\, Reclamation (Helen Day Art Center\, Vermont)\, Visions of Venus/Venus’ Visions (Zhou B Art Center\, Chicago)\, Black Creativity Juried Exhibition (Chicago Museum of Science and Industry). Hobson’s paintings and commissioned portraits feature in collections in the United States\, France and Germany\, notably including the University of California\, Los Angeles\, Tina Knowles Lawson and Dr. Elaine Schmidt and Steven Bennett. \n \n  \nAccording to Hobson: \nMy drawings and paintings are acts of intercession—the sharp point of a trajectory of memory. I carry forward a family history of clairvoyance used in ritual; in creating\, caring for and sustaining life; and in the resourceful exercise of influence. I am the first in my line to deploy this gift as an artist. A strong commitment to interdisciplinary research in history and cultural studies supports my gift of vision. \nHobson adds: \nMy art gives shape and form to what it has meant to be a Black or mixed-race person in America. The work is body based\, emphasizing gaze and gesture of the figure. The physicality of memory also finds form in symbolic depictions of the limbic system\, and other bio-imaging. My imagery combines threads of inherited trauma\, rage\, caregiving and the instinct to survive and even find pleasure in a brutal world. I frequently center a young Black heroine (or hero) in an imagined landscape\, often with the tools of her own agency (medicinal plants\, folk charms\, weapons) and attended by fantastical animals or natural motifs. Beauty is claimed emphatically as both a necessary element of survival and a lever of femme power. At the same time\, these works confront the perilous exploitation of the enslaved female body. The drawings and paintings that depict my visions stand as documents of a pragmatic purpose—to reclaim the humanity of marginalized people. \n 
URL:https://sscartcenter.org/event/a-conversation-with-artist-kyrin-hobson/
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210226T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210226T183000
DTSTAMP:20260404T074703
CREATED:20210310T194933Z
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SUMMARY:Past\, Present\, & Future Moves: Alexandra Antoine\, Paul Branton\, and Heather Polk in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Alexandra Antoine\, Paul Branton\, and Heather Polk work through collage and mixed media practices in reference to social and political commentaries\, the intimacies of Black life\, and cultural identity. \nAs concepts of the past\, present\, and future overlap within their practice\, they will discuss their individual concerns as artists\, what pushes their work forward\, and how art encourages us to look back to our past\, while looking ahead. \n \nHeather Polk is a sales and marketing professional with an active art practice that fills her nights and weekends. She resides in Chicago where she relocated from Atlanta almost 10 years ago. \nShe is working toward establishing a small art studio that will deliver programming for sufferers of chronic disease so that they\, and their caretakers\, may utilize the empowerment of artistic creativity as a vital part of their disease management. Her art practice is centered around collage and abstract painting. \n  \n \nAlexandra Antoine is an interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago\, IL. Her work examines traditional artistic practices throughout the African Diaspora with a focus on healing traditions\, identity and culture through the use of collage\, portraiture\, and most recently\, farming. She uses the portrait as a tool to re/present individuals of the African diaspora while exploring her relationship to them within the larger narrative of her Haitian identity. \nShe holds a Bachelor in Fine Arts and Arts Education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited at Rootwork Gallery\, Hyde Park Art Center\, Roman Susan Gallery\, Chicago Art Department and Stony Island Arts Bank in Chicago\, IL and is part of the Arts in Embassies program in the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince\, Haiti. \n  \n \nPaul Branton was born in 1973 in Chicago. He was influenced at an early age by the sights & sounds of the South Side’s urban environment. Writing short stories & putting on plays with his sister quickly became a passion and a means of expressing himself. It was this passion that guided his education\, which ultimately guided his career. \nChoosing visual art as his main focus\, he entered Millikin University in Decatur\, Illinois\, majoring in Commercial Art with a strong emphasis in painting. It was at Millikin where he also discovered a love for poetry\, a strong desire for painting\, eventually putting on a one-man art exhibit displaying his works. During these same years\, he also helped his college buddy Skee Skinner with several student film projects\, opening up another doorway from which to express himself. Not only taking on writing & production credits\, Paul spent much of his time on both sides of the camera playing supporting and lead roles. \nHe combined the two art forms by creating a series of paintings for the feature film Pieces of a Dream\, in which he also portrayed a main character. Also merging visual art and poetry\, Paul put together the upcoming coffee table book To Dream In Colour. \nThe art of Paul Branton is/has been exhibited throughout Illinois\, including Millikin University\, South Side Community Art Center\, Gallery Guichard\, University of Illinois at Chicago\, Gallery D’Estee\, Phoenix Gallery\, NYCH Gallery\, Chicago Truborn\, Legendary Gallery\, Gallery na 19\, Art Basel Miami and Hyde Park Art Center. Paul served as a Juror for the 50th anniversary of Black Creativity (Museum of Science and Industry / Chicago) in 2020. His art hangs in the homes of private owners from New York to Los Angeles \n 
URL:https://sscartcenter.org/event/past-present-future-moves-alexandra-antoine-paul-branton-and-heather-polk-in-conversation/
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210220T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210220T143000
DTSTAMP:20260404T074703
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SUMMARY:Darryl Chappell Foundation\, Artist Talk Series #4: John Simmons\, Earlie Hudnall\, Jr.\, and April Frazier
DESCRIPTION:Image by Earlie Hudnall Jr.\, The Guardian\, 1991\, silver gelatin print\, Collection of The Grace Museum\, Museum Purchase with Funds from Alice and Bill Wright \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE!\nEmmy-award winning cinematographer and photographer\, John Simmons\, ASC\, and prolific photographer Earlie Hudnall\, Jr.\, sit down with moderator and photographer April Frazier to share with a global audience their successes\, challenges\, how they overcame obstacles and to share parts of their life work. \nThe Artists Talk Series is a program of the Darryl Chappell Foundation focused on providing a platform for artists to share their work with a global audience of artists\, patrons and an interested public – at no charge. The Artists Talk provides a virtual platform for emerging and established artists to not only share their work experiences\, but obstacles along their path and how they were able to confront and overcome challenges. Artists also depict their most recent work\, highlighting the trajectory of their path and art practices. \nLast\, there is a moderated question & answer segment where the audience asks questions either through live zoom audio questions or via chat feature on Zoom or on YouTube. Artists Talk Series are live streamed via YouTube and Zoom and a recording is posted to the Foundation’s YouTube channel within one week of airing live. \n \n 
URL:https://sscartcenter.org/event/darryl-chappell-foundation-artist-talk-series-4-john-simmons-earlie-hudnall-jr-and-april-frazier/
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210217T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210217T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T074703
CREATED:20210104T054331Z
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SUMMARY:Chicago Printers’ Guild Fundraiser for SSCAC
DESCRIPTION:The Chicago Printers Guild is rallying its members to support the efforts and contributions that the South Side Community Art Center continues to make in the Bronzeville Neighborhood and community at large. The South Side Community Art Center (SSCAC) is the oldest independently-owned African American art center in the United States. Founded by Margaret Burroughs and other African-American artists in 1940\, the SSCAC boasts connections to printmakers Charles White and Elizabeth Catlett\, photographer Gordon Parks\, and the first woman to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize\, Gwendolyn Brooks. Today\, SSCAC serves as an exhibition space\, a venue for film and literary events\, and a host for educational talks and panels including: “Black and Informed” a series of discussions and political consultation for Black Millenials in Chicago; “Existing Between Line & Space” an exhibition which featured CPG member Thomas Lucas among others; and\, currently artist Jesse Howard’s solo exhibition “The Spirit of Community”. The historic wood-paneled walls of the Margaret Burroughs Gallery at SSCAC contain 80 years worth of holes made by artwork hung there. The space is full of energy and gravitas. The ceiling and lighting\, however\, are in need of improvement. The CPG and SSCAC leadership have identified this project as the focus for our fundraising campaign. This project is supported in part by a CityArts Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events.
URL:https://sscartcenter.org/event/this-is-an-exhibition/
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210118T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210118T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T074703
CREATED:20210119T122923Z
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SUMMARY:MLK Talk featuring Artist Stephanie Graham
DESCRIPTION:Join a discussion with Stephanie Graham about her most recent special edition print for SSCAC in collaboration with Chicago Printers Guild\, her own artistic visions of Black futures and freedom\, and the ideas that ground her work.
URL:https://sscartcenter.org/event/mlk-talk-featuring-artist-stephanie-graham-2/
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210116T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210327T150000
DTSTAMP:20260404T074703
CREATED:20210115T124704Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220129T213754Z
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SUMMARY:Faheem Majeed - From the Center
DESCRIPTION:“From the Center”is a retrospective of works created by Faheem Majeed over the past twenty years. As a former executive director and curator(2005-2011) of the South Side Community Art Center(SSCAC)\, Majeed’s works are especially attuned to the history and legacy of the 80 year old arts institution. The SSCAC has been themuse fora number ofhis series of worksand has been the impetus for hiscontinual exploration and critique of culturally specific institutions. Please join the South Side Community Art Center as it welcomes home one of its native sons. \n 
URL:https://sscartcenter.org/event/faheem-majeed-from-the-center/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201218T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201218T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T074703
CREATED:20210119T055658Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210119T065058Z
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SUMMARY:Bronzeville Art District Virtual Trolley Tours
DESCRIPTION:Take the Virtual Trolley Tour on Zoom to the largest Black Art District in the country.
URL:https://sscartcenter.org/event/bronzeville-art-district-virtual-trolley-tours/
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201120T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201120T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T074703
CREATED:20210119T055750Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210119T065109Z
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SUMMARY:Bronzeville Art District Virtual Trolley Tours
DESCRIPTION:Take the Virtual Trolley Tour on Zoom to the largest Black Art District in the country.
URL:https://sscartcenter.org/event/bronzeville-art-district-virtual-trolley-tours-2/
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201024T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201024T120000
DTSTAMP:20260404T074703
CREATED:20210119T055843Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210119T065333Z
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SUMMARY:The Forum Clean Up & Neighborhood Walking Tours
DESCRIPTION:Join The Forum – Bronzeville for a cleanup along 43rd Street followed by neighborhood walking tours\, featuring South Side Community Art Center.
URL:https://sscartcenter.org/event/the-forum-clean-up-neighborhood-walking-tours/
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201020T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201231T235900
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CREATED:20210104T062130Z
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SUMMARY:Jesse Howard – The Spirit of Community
DESCRIPTION:October 2020-December 2020\nJesse Howard’s first solo exhibition at South Side Community Art Center explores the Black American community as more than a singular philosophical concept of a culture\, but rather a more diversified community of multifaceted voices through a body of charcoal based works. Howard’s socially concerned work is informed by his own lived experiences growing up on Chicago’s west side and the collective societal challenges faced by Black Americans today.\nUtilizing charcoal\, watercolor\, and collage\, Howard’s figures are typically warped\, transcending time and space in their presentation\, yet very attuned to the social realities and hardships experienced by Black Americans in urban environments. With close attention\, Howard’s striking portrait drawings also reveal moments of glory\, honor\, and elevation.
URL:https://sscartcenter.org/event/jesse-howard-the-spirit-of-community/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200807
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200926
DTSTAMP:20260404T074703
CREATED:20210119T054850Z
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SUMMARY:Existing Between Line & Space
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://sscartcenter.org/event/existing-between-line-space/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200301
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200401
DTSTAMP:20260404T074703
CREATED:20210119T054922Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210119T064122Z
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SUMMARY:Cosmic Yoga: Smai-Tawi
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://sscartcenter.org/event/cosmic-yoga-smai-tawi/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200229T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200229T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T074703
CREATED:20210119T065521Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210119T065521Z
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SUMMARY:Resonance Artist Talk
DESCRIPTION:SSCAC welcomes you to meet the artists of Resonance. Do not miss out on the conversation.
URL:https://sscartcenter.org/event/resonance-artist-talk/
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200228T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200228T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T074703
CREATED:20210119T065611Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210119T065640Z
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SUMMARY:Conjuring Black Histories in Jewelry Closing and Artist Talk
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the exhibition closing and a discussion.
URL:https://sscartcenter.org/event/conjuring-black-histories-in-jewelry-closing-and-artist-talk/
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:The Business of Art
DESCRIPTION:Join a panel of experts for a discussion of best business practices and strategies for artists and members of the creative community.
URL:https://sscartcenter.org/event/the-business-of-art/
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Timuel D. Black Jr.
DESCRIPTION:Landmarks Illinois invites you to a special Black History Month event at the South Side Community Art Center featuring noted civil rights leader\, educator\, historian\, author and WWI veteran Timuel D. Black Jr.
URL:https://sscartcenter.org/event/a-conversation-with-timuel-d-black-jr/
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:Resonance
DESCRIPTION:This group show featured art that evokes emotions of reflections and creativity. The show featured the work of Marcus Alleyne\, Keith Conner\, Ladipo Famodu\, Reynaldo Ferdinand\, Felicia Preston Grant\, Alvin Hawkins\, Zhana Johnson\, Raymond Mays\, Miguel\, Yaounde Olu\, Mary Qian\, Patricia Stewart\, Patrick Thompson\, and Krystal Grover Webb.
URL:https://sscartcenter.org/event/resonance/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200201
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SUMMARY:Divine Presence!
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://sscartcenter.org/event/divine-presence/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Conjuring Black Histories in Jewelry
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://sscartcenter.org/event/conjuring-black-histories-in-jewelry/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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