Hyde Park Art Center

Hyde Park Art Center, established in June 1939, was originally called the Fifth Ward Art Center . In 1940, the name was changed to the existing one. Its founders, including the future Senator Paul Douglas , consisted mainly of artists and volunteers who sought to create a space for visual arts in the city. The first location of the art center was the defunct salon next door to the office of the then alderman Douglas at 1466 E. 57th Street . During and after World War II, the art center was located in various places, including a dance studio and a residential building. His location often changed due to high rents and gentrification , but he always stayed in the .

In the early 1950s, he was the curator and head of the educational department of the art center Don Baum , who was a gifted teacher and mentor for many artists who took lessons from him in this center. He also used the art center as an incubator and main exhibition space for Chicago imaginists , organizing three of their exhibitions called Hairy Who? in 1966, 1967 and 1968. Since 1962, the center was led by Ruth Horwich ( Ruth Horwich ) - an avid supporter of Chicago artists. ^[one]

April 22, 2006 Hyde Park Art Center moved to a new building. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and several local aldermen attended the opening ceremony. The following weekend, the art center officially opened in the form of a 36-hour celebration called Creative Move . The new center building, located at 5020 S. Cornell Avenue , is located in Del Prado Apartments and covers an area of ​​3000 m² with a large number of exhibition galleries and classrooms. The art center celebrated its anniversary with a 24-hour event, which again attracted the attention of organizations and artists from all over Chicago.

Currently, the director of the Hyde Park art center is Kate Lorenz, and curated by Allison Peters .

The modern Hyde Park Art Center building was designed by renowned Chicago-based architect Douglas Garofalo ^[2] from Garofalo Architects . The new building was converted from the old army warehouse, which the art center rented from the University of Chicago . The total project budget amounted to 3 million dollars. ^[3]

Launched in 1939, the mission of the art center was to stimulate and support fine art in Chicago. Being one of the oldest cultural places in the city, the center has extensive experience in exhibiting a wide range of works by various artists. The art center does not have a permanent art collection. It mainly represents the work of beginner or under-recognized contemporary artists living in Chicago. At the beginning of his career, the works of such artists as Leon Golub , Ed Paschke , Roger Brown , , Kerry Marshall , and others were exhibited.

Panel discussions, gallery discussions, poetry readings, musical performances, open door events and guest authors' appearances expand the approaches and ideas presented at each exhibition of the center, attracting a wide audience. Thousands of children and adults who learned to work with ceramics, sculpture, painting, graphics, photography, stained glass and other types of fine art in classes conducted by professional artists passed through the educational programs of the art center, which began in 1940. The center hosts events designed to attract various categories of city residents to both exhibitions held from the world of contemporary art and informal events, which include: TalkingPoint - a discussion meeting between artists and the general public; Cocktails & Clay - held on the second Friday of the month to introduce people to ceramics in a relaxed atmosphere, where DJs perform and a bar; Art Thing - an informal conversation with the artist, whose exhibition at this moment takes place in the art center; Second Sundays - every second Sunday of the month, a day of family art events and performances is held.

Since the opening of the new building in 2006 at the Hyde Park Art Center, every April an annual 24-hour celebration of visual and performing art is held - Creative Move . This is a free and open to everyone event for residents of Chicago and the suburbs, during which the art center is open all night: the holiday usually starts on Friday evening and ends on the evening of the next day.

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