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Summer 2009

2009-06-29T08:20:00.000-07:00

The musical chairs are at the Chicago Cultural Center for the summer and a workshop is scheduled for August on teaching the exhibit. SI is building a community radio station in Maywood, Illinois this fall at the Garfield School. The school has provided ample space for the radio station and adjoining office in addition to a classroom studio for teaching and workshoping various projects. Look very soon for a call for proposals to join in overpowering the school through aesthetics, sound, arts education and teaching. SITE, a new zine form the SI is underway this summer and a space on the website is dedicated to it content.

Developments

2009-04-28T08:44:00.000-07:00

This is the time of the year where there is a big pile up of activity in Chicago. It is partly due to the fair / fest scene and equally some activity in reaction to it. Check out Versionfest09 Immodest Proposals until May 2 and the many Versionfest venues that are hosting a variety of outstanding programs and projects www.versionfest.org. We have the prototype of Musical Chairsin the Audacity of Art group show at the Co-Prosperity Sphere. Musical Chairs is a sonic installation designed for replication and intended for schools and public platforms to self initiate original music while considering education through sound / production. Check out King Ludd's Analog Arcade which has been organized by Material Exchange at the Experimental Station for Versionfest 09. Stockyard Institute is also working on Tuesdays at the Multicultural Arts High School with Lavie Raven / University of Hip Hop and Ayana Contreras / vocalo.org on a project called the Cafeteria Sessions. The many projects from the Multicultural Arts High School will be launched at the high school on Thursday, May 21, 2009 under the We Are Everywhere Youth Summit. All four high schools within the Little Village High School campus will participate. The Denmark Journal SPEAK UP will feature this work (Cafeteria) along with two other 2009 youth based projects in Denmark and one in Palestine.

We are developing a new publication effort called SITE that is organized as a public domain activity book for teaching artists and socially engaged producers. Issue #1 will be distributed prior to the new school year. The publication is set up for a wide distribution throughout the Chicago area and will tap into the 100 public high schools and a network of experimental and alternative schools and teaching sites. Each issue will include free lesson plans, local and international social and arts based projects, and contributions from underrepresented youth, artists, teachers and community members everywhere. We will have suggestions on our website for submitting contributions shortly.

We are working on the Stockyard Institute book this summer as we celebrate 15 years of effort in 2010. The book will be released next year.

LINKS
http://www.versionfest.org/
http://material-exchange.org/home.html
http://www.experimentalstation.org/
http://www.stockyardinstitute.org/

The Cafeteria Sessions

2009-03-13T13:43:00.000-07:00

Stockyard Institute

A series of lunch time recordings and radio workshops with adolescents on socially engaged artistic practice, utopian education and the future of Chicago. The Cafeteria Sesssions will go on throughout the spring at the Multicultural Arts High School with Jim Duignan (S.I.), Ayana Contrares (vocalo) and Lavie Raven (University of Hip Hop).

This series will culminate in a live radiocast from the Multicultural Arts High School from 5:00pm-8:00pm on May 21, 2009.

vocalo link: http://vocalo.org/on-air

iTunesU link: http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/depaul.edu.1621409512.01621409521

Spray painting workshops

2008-11-17T19:26:00.000-08:00

Graffiti impresario Zeb has spent the last year delivering spray painting workshops organized through the Stockyard Institute at the Hyde Park Art Center. The last master class of the year involved DePaul University art teachers who will collaborate with Zeb on a large scale wall piece at the HPAC in late December 2008. The piece references censorship / censored and will be on the second floor gallery in the back by the artist studios. The entire process of teaching graffiti with teachers has opened up the singular referents of violence on the public and the old testimonial of destruction to property. These exchanges which included young people and artists from the Hyde Park neighborhood established new vantage points and shed some much needed light on our painted city. They elevated the idea of painting and its influences of writing and semiotics, circulating conversations around maybe, the last radical form.

2008-11-05T06:18:00.000-08:00

http://www.g-rad.org/benner/memorial/

http://www.incubate-chicago.org/

2008-09-24T09:41:00.000-07:00

School Poster #1
Jim Duignan and rum46 (Denmark)
2008

Please contribute to the project. The posters are 11x17 and will be printed by us and distributed to Chicago schools and cultural spaces. Current participants are Alexander Vaindorf (Stockholm), Manoa Free University (Vienna), Instant Coffee (Canada) and the Denmark Pedagogical University.

MUSIC FOR SCHOOLS

2008-08-28T10:31:00.000-07:00

LISTEN UP
SEND CD DESIGNS
DISTRIBUTION HAS BEGUN
DENMARK HAS BEEN HIT WITH CDS
DOWNLOADS AND LOCATION MAP COMING
MUSIC FOR SCHOOLS WILL CHANGE SONIC LANDSCAPE

Stockyard Institute in Denmark

2008-07-22T07:25:00.000-07:00

Stockyard Institute Residency with rum46 / Aarhus, Denmark
Collective works and the School for Non Productive Learning

Stockyard Institute is exploring a series of projects using education as a medium and will work some folks in Europe to examine strategies and working practices for adjustments in a body of educational deficiencies.

The residency project examines strategies for education, analyzing the tools, methods, experiments and approaches to learning, civic knowledge, and collective actions in the city. rum46 is organizing public events to take place from August 18-20, 08 in Aarhus, Denmark. The program will include a series of workshops, discussions, video screenings, sound installations and collaborative projects. It will be a live-in environment for cultural production and exchange between academics, artists, social movements and the participating audience. The event is followed by a two-week exhibition representing works by each participating person or group.

PARTICIPANTS
>Jim Duignan, visual artist, Stockyard Institute, Chicago. www.stockyardinstitute.org
>Eric Haakonson, Cand. pæd psych., writer and retired associate professor at DPU, Danmarks Pædagogiske Universitet
>Kelly Lycsan og Jinhan Ko(Instant Coffie)(CA) kunstnergruppe www.instantcoffee.org
>Eva Egermann and Christian Töpfner, (Manoa Free University and more)(Wien) (www.manoafreeuniversity.org
>Alexander Vaindorf, visual artist. http://www.alexandervaindorf.com
>rum46 www.rum46.dk

Residency Notebook & Call for Inclusion

2008-06-27T12:33:00.000-07:00

We are organizing a 'residency notebook' a research compilation that will contain much of the visual documents, transcripted conversations, images and solicitations from this year long residency at the Hyde Park Art Center. This includes the Pedagogical Factory project with AREA Chicago but also the many lectures, teaching efforts, pedagogical exposes and collaborations with graffiti artists, musicians, teachers, and local youth.

If you have stopped by this past year in some capacity as a collaborator, visitor, participant or observer in our work and would like to contribute (thoughts on a residency, observations ofn on tour or walk, insights to a performance, photographs etc..) to the residency notebook, please contact us or send it our way. We would be happy, space permitting, to include your contribution into the notebook (space permitting) that will be printed by early August 2008. Beth Weidner, Faiz Razi, Jamie Hale, Mike Omens, Zeb, Andrew Patterson and some other folks that participated in the Pedagogical Factory and other projects are bringing pieces and ideas together toward this notebook project. We have been imagining the residency as a contemporary arts practice and equally as a teaching model. By using some of the projects and programs of the last year, we have considered a better understanding for some future options for the Stockyard Institute. This is an ongoing research and practical initiative and are looking to speak with folks on the residency structure used in a host of models.

Clothesline Project & Works from the Centre Pompidou

2008-06-11T11:27:00.000-07:00

We are hooking up the Stockyard radio trailer and moving to the plaza with special localized broadcasts and announcements on June 21. From 6-7 pm, that evening. Curator, Michèle Bargue, Vidéodanse curator at the Centre Pompidou discusses the festival format and how dance films have evolved over the past 20 years.

Dance Party on the Plaza: 7-10 pm
Live performances, music and art will spill out of the gallery into the sidewalk. Lumpen, Reuben Kincaid Artist Management presents the Thunderhorse Party planet redux. ThinkArt presents artist David Gista, who will be demonstrating his technique of drawing with torches.

Clothesline rests somewhere between an apartment show and a street art festival. In conjunction with the Summer Solstice, the Videodance exhibition from the Centre Pompidou in France, and the International Day of Music HPAC is hosting our third un-curated one-day open call for artists and performers.

Clothesline is an extra-temporary occasional exhibition that includes any and all artists that want to participate. So far over 40 local artists and performers are slated to participate with more to come. All artwork is accepted and will be shown as a group exhibition in various locations around HPAC for 7 hours on Saturday June 21st along with dance, theatre and music performances, and a potluck barbecue. For more information visit www.hydeparkart.org or contact show organizer Chris Hammes at chammes@hydeparkart.org

The day’s schedule:

3pm: Clothesline 3 exhibition and Potluck Barbecue (and wine from the French Embassy), mobile radio station courtesy of the Stockyard Institute, Thunderhorse Party Planet Ride (interactive VR video installation courtesy of Lumpen), and a curated program of student dance videos.

4pm:Performance from Links Hall artists

7pm: Opening reception for Videodanse: Works from the Centre Pompidou in France, opening reception for David Lozono and David Gista, Curators talk with the Centre Pompidou

8-10: Closing the night with musical performances by Michael Perkins and Pure Magical Love is The Capricorn and a dance party on the plaza.

Social Justice Student Expo

2008-05-26T20:31:00.000-07:00

This past Friday was the 2nd annual Social Justice Student Expo at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The vibe was amazing as students from a host of city high schools came together to display strategies for justice, safe spaces, community building, and curricular intervention to name only a few. This was the first year that young students (3rd, 4th & 5th) from Lincoln School in Oak Park were able to participate among a predominantly high school population. Lincoln is the only elementary school involved under the leadership of 3rd grade teacher Lindsay Ann Smith. We were able to help in a small way and aid the children in getting there presentations and workshops ready which included five projects in all on the Iraq war, poverty, walking to school, testing and plastic bottles. There are campaigns and projects underway that folks can get involved with, that continue daily for the many students and teachers who use the conference and a point of exchange and exposure. Contact us if you would like to connect to any of the groups involved form the city's public high schools.

50 flags for a new May Day

2008-05-04T12:59:00.000-07:00

This past Wednesday (April 30) marked the second anniversary of Michael Piazza's death and a group of us commerated that date with a public placement of 50 flags at the Hyde Park Art Center garden 5020 S. Cornell. The piece '50 flags for a new May Day (43008 Michael Piazza)' stands through May Day, a day that Michael Piazza held with much regard politically and artistically. The utility flags were a common object and symbol Michael used to portion off lines of demarkation, map sites and generally identify markers of significance throughout the city. He also used them to draw with, leaving ideas and speculation around Chicago. These flags were part of many pieces including a collaboration with Harold Jefferies from Little City entitled '1000 flags for a new Jeruselum' that was last seen publicly on October 12, 2003 in Columbus Park.

Schools as Prisons

2008-04-29T06:10:00.000-07:00

Located at the HPAC currently is a collboration between Bert Stabler and Paul Mack and their students. Bert Stabler writes: "Ideology" describes the invisible, sometimes unspoken beliefs and values that help a social group to live and work together. Ideologies in our society are communicated through mass technology like TV and the Internet, and through very personal groups, like families and neighborhoods. But some of the most interesting places are in between, in the medium-sized public spaces where large groups meet and interact face to face. Places like churches, schools, shopping malls, and prisons all bring together people who have opposing roles (pastor/parishioner, teacher/student, merchant/consumer, guard/prisoner), working under a lot of pressure to make society function as smoothly as possible. We call these places "institutions."

Church, school, prison, and the mall are all places where Americans flock to meet one another, for reasons they can't fully understand or describe. The two
institutions focused on in the title, schools and prisons, have a lot in common, Both are places where people are compelled by law to learn how to acclimate
to the larger society. The other two we mentioned, malls and churches, are places in which people come together voluntarily in order to take part in the
shared life of the society. But, as with schools and prison, the goal is to meet the needs (or fix the mistakes) of the individual person.

Working in Gilbert, Arizona, Paul Mack's photography class took inspiration from an urban legend which held that the school had originally been intended as either a
shopping mall or a women's prison. They used Adobe Photoshop to speculate on their familiar spaces transformed into a different kind of institution.
Bert Stabler's classes, in Chicago, made a robot that, in the manner of Voltron or the Transformers, creates a person out of these institutions, in the same way
these institutions help to define us as members of a larger group.

WSYR 88.7 fm resurfaces at HPAC

2008-04-27T13:29:00.000-07:00

Faiz Razi, resident visiting composer with Stockyard Institute this year showcases powerful sonic project of 50 micro works on April 26 at the Hyde Park Art Center 24 hour open space. The pieces were broadcast through WSYR 88.7 fm radio with a live feed from our workspace. Killer graf artist Zeb gives impromptu workshop on graffiti with local youth. Sonic pieces to be posted soon.

Version 08 Dark Matter

2008-04-17T19:05:00.000-07:00

Versionfest opens this weekend and runs around the city in a host of venues until April 27. Version and Edmar's many efforts (Lumpen, Select Media Festival, more) which has always represented 'Dark Matter' in a rather direct way, pays homage this April to artist, writer, scholar, activist, Greg Sholette who coined the term some years ago. Dark Matter, the theme of this years versionfest identified the enormous population of unrecorgnized or unrecognizable producers who sat below the radar and conversation of the (local) art market in Chicago. Chicago, the D. M. city of the United States will be activated over the next couple of weeks. Stop by the Viaduct Theater on Saturday and Sunday, visit the Co-Prosperity Sphere and pick up a copy of the new publication Proximity Magazine. www.versionfest.org

Jason Foumberg on Piazza

2008-04-09T11:21:00.000-07:00

Eye Exam
Log-rolling

Jason Foumberg

Community-based actions and collaborations are distinct traits of Chicago art’s scene. As the new form of public art, bearing no resemblance to the hulking steel monsters that preside in our municipal plazas, they include practices fermented in the grassroots political era of the 1960s and continue today under the banner of pedagogy, which is a strangely academic term for something that involves many beyond the ivory tower. Social sculpture became the key phrase in the 1960s, initiated by German artist Joseph Beuys, to provide the theoretical groundwork for an art form centered on people and actions, not materials and aesthetics. The art of inclusion swiftly took hold in Chicago with the help of several key figures, and many today teach at our universities, for socially engaged art often features an educational effort. One trailblazer in this arena was Michael Piazza, who, for close to thirty years until his death in mid-2006, spurred community initiatives in prisons, with the mentally disabled, in parks and on the streets.

The record of Piazza’s varied projects, spanning decades, is currently collected and on view at the College of DuPage, and the legacy of his actions and collaborations ripple through the lives of his friends, collaborators and students. In one of his workshops, at the juvenile detention center, Piazza helped the participants explore their newfound bound way of life in conceptual terms, beyond painting or drawing. For instance, the sculpture "Lot" from 1995 is a round poker table with handcuffs drilled around the perimeter standing in for the prison poker players. Such objects were exhibited in the first-ever art reception held in the detention center and attended by the public. "Lot" helped the prisoners think through what exactly constitutes the notion of fun while incarcerated, and it also presented outsiders, or the public, with an idea of what "community" meant on the inside.

Piazza’s collaborators did not always take the form of his family, friends or fellow artists. Jim Duignan, co-curator of the retrospective exhibition, called Piazza’s life and art "a seamless, uninterrupted action." For Piazza, living in Logan Square also meant making art there, which meant connecting with the neighborhood’s residents, some of whom were in the juvenile prison where he vitalized the art programming. He inspired the idea that living can be artful by simple creativity, such as creating a connection where none had previously existed. This could include initiating conversation and making introductions, or a festival in the park. Most of the art objects on view also push this notion of readymade objects that simply need to be brought together. Collage and assemblage are the results of this process, a literal fusion of art and life.

Piazza’s longtime colleagues, including Duignan, Bertha Husband, Brian Dortmund (all co-curators of the exhibit) and wife Laura Piazza came to loathe the term "collaboration," sensing that it was a misused idea among artists. From then on they would refer to their projects as "log-rolling," an activity that required the same amount of balance from all workers in order to keep afloat. It was around this time that Piazza took part in founding Axe Street Arena, a gallery and social space at the Milwaukee, Diversey and Kimball intersection. This served as home base for Piazza’s projects—which he would probably never term "his" projects, but rather the community’s—including an exhibition for graffiti artists that brought together many of the city’s taggers, most of whom were familiar to each other only by their tags, not faces. Axe Street Arena is remembered as a hotbed for the new type of social sculpture. In 1998, nine years after Axe Street closed, the newly formed collaborative art group Temporary Services, now based in Rogers Park at Mess Hall, kicked off their exhibition program with a memorial to Piazza and company’s old Logan Square space.
It seemed Piazza was always a sort of revolutionary of the disenfranchised, giving voice to those who many would rather never hear from, such as prisoners and graffiti artists, and those who have no platform. One project was simply making a copy machine available to people producing zines and other DIY literary ventures. The cost of copying was their only overhead, and so Piazza erased that burden. Duignan explained that through these communal interactions, Piazza was breeding the type of city he wanted to live in; like an underground alderman, he picked up the community’s interests and facilitated their progression into shapely, lovely things.

Piazza’s subjects—gangs, prisoners, graffiti—may seem beyond repair, and his projects may seem counterproductive to the practice of "art." But it was exactly this quality of stroking against the grain that turned on other like-minded artists, and in the end produced more and more self-motivated individuals. Much of his writing and his legacy deal with overthrowing the deathly trappings of consumer capitalism, and in this way he was a theorist of punk attitudes, and a composer of mute voices. In Piazza’s own words: "It is best to listen to the many voices that until now have been silenced."

The Work of Michael Piazza shows at the Gahlberg Gallery at the College of DuPage, 425 Fawell, Glen Ellyn, (630)942-2321, through April 19. (2008-04-01)

Library donated to Zawadi Project

2008-04-03T10:30:00.000-07:00

Kathyrn Carr from Francis Parker School in Chicago organized a mass donation of hundreds of books for the children of the Zawadi Project which meets on alternate Saturdays in the Austin community. The often 50-60 children from the Austin community will be able with Francis Parker's staff, parents and children generosity be able to bring books home for the summer. The significant donation triples the amount of books our small library has accumulated over the last two years. For more infromation on the Zawadi Project click on Projects. Stockyard Institute has been working with Zawadi Project for the last 8 years. Contact us if you can aid in any capacity.

Denmark residency 2008

2008-03-30T19:55:00.000-07:00

from rum46 calendar

august - september
School for Non-Productive Learning.
RESIDENCY; Jim Duignan (Chicago) - artist and initiater of the STOCKYARD INSTITUTE and the exhibition project Pedagogical Factory Project in public space; Jim Duignan in co. with rum46
Talk;- on language, learning, context, Exhibition; Presentation of the project All the Things We know...you know. School for Non-Productive Learning, made for Pedagogical Factory, Hyde Park Art Center Chicago 2007 - sound, video, photo, poster and text. By Tanja Nellemann, Ditte Lyngkjær, Barbara Katzin, Lise Skou, Grete Aagaard. Residency organized by rum46.

Michael Piazza exhibit

2008-03-09T09:46:00.000-07:00

Michael Piazza's works and documents are on view at the Gahlberg Gallery at the College of DuPage from March 6-April 19, 2008. More will follow on the future destinations of Michael Piazza's work and the archives on display. A new (rewritten) catalogue essay will be distributed from this site as the one attributed to me in the exhibit catalogue was changed inadvertently by a text editor prior to print. I dismiss the essay.

Michael Piazza was my friend and the quiet, intelligent counsel of the Stockyard Institute's early formation from the initial efforts of the Car Wash Show in the early 1990s and our street work with youth in the Back of the Yards. Michael's many projects will be digitally archived (temporarily on this site) as a permanent site is in development to catalogue his many writings, performances, installations, public efforts, audio and video and an array of documented sculptures and collaborations.

SYI meets at Eyebeam

2008-02-19T07:33:00.000-08:00

With artist and Pedagogical Factory resident from Finland, Andrew Patterson at Eyebeam in Chelsea, NYC. The vibe was wonderful as MediaShed from the UK and Not an Alternative from Brooklyn showcased workshops and presentations and sonic engineer, Jamie Allen from NYU http://heavyside.net/ delivered a workshop on repurposing radio/sound/mp3 devices in an all day effort with youth and NYC folks and student residents at Eyebeam. February16/08

Jamie Allen's project link from last weekend in no particular order -
http://heavyside.net/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.EyebeamRFWorkshop

New Works

2008-02-12T07:40:00.000-08:00

We have been away digesting the vast amount of material we complied from the Pedagogical Factory. We have also been following through on a couple of initiatives that began last summer, namely the Hyde Park Youth Arts Board and a new publication project with the Hyde Park Art Center. The high school youth primarily from the Hyde Park Career Academy High School have been meeting at the art center on Mondays this winter from 4:30-6 to gather and organize adolescent specific programming for and through the art center.

Call For Participation VERSION>08 DARK MATTER
Version>08 DARK MATTER
April 17 - APRIL 27, 2008 Chicago, USA

Call for ParticipationDeadline for submissions: FEBRUARY 25, 2008 version site:: http://www.versionfest.com/ Dark Matter is all around us. Us artists, us activists, us outlaws. All of us, we are engaged in a culture war and economic struggle against establishments in all their guises. We form communities to counter the alienation of everyday life, and the commercial and institutional structures that stifle reality. We desire another world. And we're not alone. As artist-activist Greg Sholette says, "a hidden social production has always found its own time and space apart from hegemonies of power and the objectifying routines of work. This dark matter resistance extends well beyond conventional conflicts between labor and capital to form a murky excrescence of affects, ideas, histories, sentiments, and technologies that shift in and out of visibility like some half-submerged reef." In 2008, we think it's time for things to shift. It's time to re-ignite dormant forces within the murky worlds of radical culture. It's time to dive.And how? From April 17-27 (11 days), we are gathering to celebrate, identify, discuss and act on the workings of Dark Matter. Version>08: DARK MATTER will showcase emerging, progressive trends in art, politics, technology and music. We'll gather and see how our peers in the counterculture create work, spaces, tactics and strategies. We'll witness multiple possibilities for the future, and leave ready to act.Please visit http://www.lumpen.com/V8/theme.html to see what we are looking for and submit your project.

Call for Participation: Proximity Magazine
The producers of Version Festival would like to announce a call for proposals for our new project, Proximity magazine. W e are seeking columnists, writers and critics to join us in producing the beta issue. Please check out our writer guidelines if you are interested. http://proximitymagazine.blogspot.com/ or email:: proximitymagazine@gmail.com

Pedagogical Factory Closes

2007-09-25T14:18:00.000-07:00

The 1967 Shasta has moved from the Hyde Park Art Center space this morning as the last act of de-installation and the close to one aspect of an enormously successful project in my eyes. I am in the Hyde Park studio on Thursdays through the rest of the year and am asking folks from the Pedagogical Factory project to stop and share some thoughts about what we only begun to uncover. There is a large amount of documentation that is posted on the Stockyard Institute site http://www.stockyardinstitute.org/ in various locations. Pedagogical Factory will have it's own box on the site shortly and I expect to spend some time digesting various ideas and themes that surfaced, adding some writing to this blog very soon in response to it all. I found much satisfaction in being able to be present in the space often and by listening in on the many groups, individuals presenters, artists, audience members, that I was assured of Chicago's station as an incubator of dynamic, articulate and tireless folk. I was also blown away by the number of entrenched community based projects and programs and very pleased by the constant and radical educational efforts that extend outward across the city and point to the learning sites that are in much need of attention. But mostly, it is the people who came and gave of their time and support in large numbers, speaking of projects at their end and programs in the works and always making very clear that something is and has been occurring in this city for some time. There is an energy here as there is some difficulty for often the same reason. We are poised and very able to organize freely. We don't give up. We attempt big things and find some ease in exchanging resources and soliciting mass support towards and for one another to explore our own attempt at a sustainable infrastructure. Take care Nance Klehm, Jim

Final 2 weeks Pedagogical Factory

2007-09-07T14:56:00.001-07:00

Danish collective rum46 flew out yesterday and completed their 'School for Non-Productive Learning' which included a new dictionary and a 4 track audio assemblage based on questions and observations from the Hyde Park community. Pictured is Andrew Paterson from Finland who has been establishing a additional day and sometimes more of programming throughout the entire Pedagogical Factory project. Andrew is planning a culminating event around the final day. Look for information.

Neighborhood Writing Alliance & AREA

2007-07-30T13:10:00.001-07:00

Saturday 7/28 saw a large gathering of folks from around the city. Present were Platypus, Women's Health Center, Chicago/Calumet Underground Railroad, Mess Hall, FreeGeek, Bronzeville Historical Society, Neighborhood Writing Alliance which produces the Journal of Ordinary Thought, and the Odessey Project from the Illinois Humanities Council. The panel answered questions from moderator Annie Knepler of the NWA on who uses their spaces and what is the scope of each organization's work. Chicago Amplified recorded the session for WBEZ which are available in the recording box on http://www.stockyardinstitute.org/

Chicago Underground Library Opens Programs

2007-07-30T09:13:00.000-07:00

The Chicago Underground Library initiated the two month long series of programming organized by AREA. This important project was organized and presented by Nell Taylor. The Chicago Underground Library is a project that aims to create a location-specific archive of self- and small press-published works from the Chicago area. Through a searchable online archive and a physical space, it will open new opportunities for research, inspiration, and collaboration among those in and outside of the publishing community. By putting fiction, critical journals, zines, poetry, comics, political pamphlets, and art books side by side, CUL hopes to bridge the gaps resultant from stratification along the lines of content, production value, and commercial viability. They are located at MoJoe's Hothouse 2849 W. Belmont