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  • The Balm: Art for Black Women’s Wellness

      The 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. […]

  • THE UNDERWORLD: George Crump

    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.   In his most recent body of work, Crump situates […]

  • An Unapologetic Dream: A MLK Celebration

    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 […]

  • WE ARE HERE: Honoring Women in the Center’s Collection

    WE ARE HERE: Honoring Women in the Center's Collection, features artworks made by several women artists in the Center’s collection.   This exhibition provides us an opportunity to think about […]

  • Creative Wellness with Marcus Alleyne

    FEBRUARY 19 3PM CST ON ZOOM   Marcus 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 […]

  • PROMPT/ DREAM/ BUILD: Andrea Yarbrough & ebere agwuncha

    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 […]

  • COLLAGE WORKSHOP WITH CECIL MCDONALD JR.

    With a curated selection of images from the SSCAC archives, Artist Catalyst Cecil McDonal Jr., and Public Art Manager, Dorian Sylvain invite you to participate in an art making activity intended to encourage conversation about community. Prompts exploring community heroes, language, and culture will guide each participant's project. The workshop will be held Wednesday, March […]

  • BLACK FASHION ARCHIVE: Rikki Byrd

    Black Fashion Archive was founded in 2018 by Rikki Byrd to offer a digital repository of Black style and Black contributions to the fashion industry. Rikki will share the trajectory of her visual research, Black cultural impacts on the fashion industry, and how an archival approach informs her work.   ZOOM REGISTRATION: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_69LkL96rTTGK9pqRe6bPLw      […]

  • EMERGENCE: Intersections at The Center

    OPENING RECEPTION:   APRIL 15, 6-8PM     EMERGENCE: 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 […]

  • TOWARD THE CENTER: In Conversation with Patric McCoy, Juarez Hawkins, and Jonathan Green

    REGISTER VIA ZOOM   Join 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. This […]

  • EMERGENCE CURATORS CONVERSATION

    CLICK HERE TO REGISTER VIA ZOOM  In 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.   […]