THE GESTURE ITSELF IS PROTECTION SPELL

Performative activations from current exhibiting artists R. Treshawn Williamson & Lola Ayisha Ogbara, with special guest artist Jada-Amina.   Borrowed from Lola Ayisha Ogbara’s video work 'Bound For Glory' from her continuing series The Perfect Servant, THE GESTURE ITSELF IS PROTECTION SPELL proposes questions of the body, disruption, labor, acts of looking, and materiality through movement, sound, […]

HOMECOMING: ON THE YARD

HOMECOMING: ON THE YARD 2022   HOMECOMING will be SSCAC's first large-scale outdoor program, intended to be a city-wide call and response to Black artists!   RSVP HERE   HOMECOMING will be SSCAC's first large-scale outdoor program, intended to be a city-wide call and response to Black artists to further celebrate our legacy as the first Black […]

ReSource Symposium: Art and Resourcefulness in Black Chicago

This convening will help shape the research questions, thematic structures, and community connections for the South Side Community Art Center’s “ReSOURCE” exhibition, scheduled for 2024 as part of the Terra Foundation’s Art Design Chicago program.    This symposium brings together artists and academics, agricultural practitioners and community organizers, to learn from one another’s ideas and […]

9 Artists/ 9 Months/ 9 Perspectives

9 Artists/ 9 Months/ 9 Perspectives features work by the collective, Dandelion Black Women Artists.   OPENING RECEPTION RSVP HERE   Nine Black women artists engaged in collaborative efforts to create artworks that transcend and transform events in the year 2020. In their eyes, art-making became a transgressive act through activism, documentation and vision. Utilizing […]

Dandelion Black Women Artists Talk

Members of the Dandelion Black Women Artists collective will join SSCAC Exhibitions Manager & Curator Lola Ayisha Ogbara in conversation.   RSVP HERE   Our upcoming exhibition 9 Artists/ 9 Months/ 9 Perspectives features work from the Dandelion Black Women Artists collective. These nine Black women artists engaged in collaborative efforts to create artworks that […]

Black Fine Art Month Salon Talk ‘Who’s Got Next’

We're proud to partner with Pigment International, Pigment International for a Salon Talk that explores Black Chicago Art History and legacies, featuring our favorite TikTok historian '6figga_dilla' !     Known on social media as '6figga_dilla', Shermann “Dilla” Thomas is a lifelong resident of Chicago’s Auburn-Gresham neighborhood and his Tik Tok videos on Chicago history […]

G to G Coaching Session: Tax Preparation for Artists and Freelancers

SSCAC is thrilled to partner with ILA Creative Studio for their G-to-G Coaching Sessions, in a 3-part series of artist development resource workshops that intend to help close the gap of limited, sustainable business resources, specific to the needs of Black artists.   You were just paid 7K to create an illustration for a major brand...they […]

REWIND & PLAY | SSCAC x Black Harvest Film Festival

Gene Siskel Film Center 164 N State St, Chicago, IL, United States

SSCAC and Black Harvest Film Festival, in partnership with the Gene Siskel Film Center invite you to a complimentary afternoon screening of REWIND & PLAY!      Image courtesy of REWIND & PLAY. 2022, Alain Gomis, USA, 65 mins   In 1969, famed jazz pianist Thelonious Monk performed at the 3,000-seat Salle Pleyel concert hall […]

3831 Holiday Pop-Up!

Join us to get a head start on holiday shopping at our first 3831 Holiday Pop-Up, with some of the city's most talented Black creatives!   Image courtesy: Limba Gal Jewelry.   Come through to support some of Chicago’s most gifted and talented Black creatives as we move into the Holiday season!   3831 Holiday […]

G to G Coaching Session: How To Balance Creative Work & Multiple Projects

The second development resource workshop in our series artist development partnership with ILA Creative Studio!     SSCAC is thrilled to partner with ILA Creative Studio for their G-to-G Coaching Sessions in a 3-part series of artist development resource workshops that intend to help close the gap of limited, sustainable business resources, specific to the […]

MLK DAY: VISION BOARDS FOR NEW FUTURES

Honoring the future MLK dreamed of, while also bringing in our own visions for the futures we want to create!     Join us for an afternoon of vision boarding, as we honor the radical dreaming of Martin Luther King Jr.   MLk believed in the dreams of revolution, and creating a society based on […]

The Promised Land: Opening Reception

Eleven artists with ties to North and South of the Mason-Dixon Line respond to just how much Black life has always been in transit.      The Great Migration was one of the largest movements of people in United States history. It has transformed cities like Chicago, Detroit, New York and Pittsburgh between 1916 and […]