Ten years ago, Arts + Public Life at the University of Chicago began its stewardship of the Arts Block on Garfield Boulevard in Washington Park. Now, the launch of its Arts Lawn marks a new step in community-centered artistic space. Occupying a set of formerly undeveloped lots next to the Green Line Performing Arts Center, the Arts Lawn is an opportunity for the expansion of ambitious outdoor arts programming and community reclamation of public green space.
Read MoreThe Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts is a living building. On any given day, the halls are full of every permutation of artistic practice—a double bass preparing for a concert on the Lower Level; community members flocking through the doors for a panel in the Performance Hall; a jazz concert in Café Logan; student circus performers perfecting acrobatics in Performance Lab 701; an open mic in the Performance Penthouse; countless classes and meetings and practices and rehearsals happening on all levels, in all spaces.
Read MoreThe psychoanalytic technique of dreamwork, says Gray Center Director and executive editor of Portable Gray Seth Brodsky, “is a kind of work that’s much weirder and more randomized and less censored than what goes into a lot of art-making. But nonetheless, there’s a will to create, and a will to assemble, and to cipher and to displace, or to condense, to create new metaphors.”
Read MoreThe legacy of artist Ruth Duckworth receives a well deserved revision, thanks to work by UChicago students.
Read MoreThis past Spring, when COVID-19 radically shifted the way we move—and yes, dance—through the world, TAPS Lecturer Julia Rhoads was not about to sit still. Through a collaboration with her own dance company, Lucky Plush Productions, and UChicago's Dance Program in TAPS, Virtual Dance Lab was born. During the initial onset of the crisis, Virtual Dance Lab brought free or low cost dance and movement workshops not just to the UChicago students in the TAPS Dance Program, but to the staff, faculty, and greater community, all of whom were adjusting to a life moved abruptly indoors.
Read MorePoet Rita Dove dances through genres. A former US Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner, and classically trained dancer, she has never let genre dictate her creativity, allowing herself the freedom to create where she pleases.
Read MoreInteractive media has proven itself to be one of the most powerful forces in today’s world. A group of artists, designers, and technicians at the University of Chicago is pushing the boundaries of how this new media can be used to build community and shape our interactions.
Read MoreFrom soaring orchestra compositions to intimate home movie livestreams, University of Chicago scholars and artists are already exploring the arts in new ways and connecting to the public at a time when many are feeling increasingly isolated.
Read MoreWe sat down with Ron O.J. Parson and Aaron Mays to hear more about the Spotlight Reading Series at Court Theatre, a citywide program that connects the Court’s theatrical resources with community partners to present classic plays by writers of color.
Read MoreIn early March, Hubbard Street Pro (HS Pro) collaborated with the Logan Center to present moving installations a stairway and a corridor, a site-specific performance that stretched from the ninth floor to the courtyard.
Read MoreStaying in Hyde Park for Christmas? Celebrate the holidays with a candlelit service in Rockefeller Chapel.
Read MoreThe Ties that Bind: Waves of Pan-Africanism in Contemporary Art and Society is a multi-year research project led by Yesomi Umolu, Logan Center Exhibitions Curator.
Read MoreThe weekend of October 13-19, 2017 saw over 100 visitors at the Logan Center, as well as the Stony Island Arts Bank, the first public convening of a multiyear research project, public program, and online platform entitled The Ties That Bind: Waves of Pan-Africanism in Contemporary Art and Society.
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