AnySquared Projects

AnySquared is a nonprofit collaborative and artists network. Propelled by a deep sense of cooperation with artists, neighbors and the wider community, our mission is to support, produce and promote collaborative projects that facilitate arts activities through inclusive participation. Supporting artists and creating community for over 12 years, our foundation is built upon the idea that we can do anything as long as we do it together.

LIP Performance Night

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LIP 20/20 Perfomance in Progress Postponed LIP = Life in Progress  |  The LIP 20/20 Exhibit & Arts Festival showcases work that expresses definitions and/or critiques of progress that provokes, challenges, or illustrates. Through all media, artists represent, examine, analyze, or dissect what is actual progress, what some consider progress, and what is not. LIP … Read more

Donate Your Art Stickers!

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Donate your art stickers! Hand-drawn or printed. AnySquared is helping Unity Park to put together 1000 Art-in-the-Park at-home Art Kits to hand out children. We want to put stickers in the kits for the kids! Send or drop-off 20-100 (or many more) kid-friendly stickers to AnySquared! Deadline to receive stickers is May 25, 2020: send … Read more

LIP 20/20 Exhibit & Arts Festival

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LIP 20/20 Exhibit & Arts Festival
Exhibition Extended Through June 30, 2020
Hairpin Arts Center | 2810 N Milwaukee | Chicago

Most festival events were postponed or canceled due to the Pandemic. We were able to have our beautiful opening on Match 7th 2020 and he last event we hosted was Grow-Op’s workshop on March 10th. We  added limited gallery hours in June 2020. We hosted online the video/performance series in February 2021. We also were able to conduct the ART-OFF later in October 2021.

Festival Schedule

  • LIP 20/20 Exhibition
    Extended Through June 30, 2020 – Gallery Hours
    • Sundays 4–7pm
    • Wednesdays 3pm–8pm
    • Fridays 3pm–8pm
    The gallery is also available by appointment this month.
  • CrimeDrought
    Workshop presented by Mashaun Ali
    Postponed: Date To Be Announced

LIP = Life in Progress  |  AnySquared’s LIP 20/20 Exhibit & ArtsFestival showcases work that expresses definitions and/or critiques of progress that provokes, challenges, or illustrates. Through all media, artists represent, examine, analyze, or dissect what is actual progress, what some consider progress, and what is not. LIP 20/20 seeks to answer and explore this concept with our work, our art, in our communities, and as human beings, both in the city and the world.

AnySquared is an all-volunteer collaborative and artists network. Propelled by a deep sense of cooperation with artists, neighbors and the wider community, our mission is to support, produce and promote collaborative projects that facilitate arts activities through inclusive participation.

#LIP2020  |  This exhibition is part of the larger year-long LIP 20/20 series organized in celebration of AnySquared’s 10th Anniversary. As we reach this milestone, AnySquared is infusing renewed energy and continuing our role as an “arts incubator” going into our next decade with our friends and collaborators. The series will also include a poster series, skills workshops, artist’s exchanges, discussions, public art projects, and additional exhibitions.

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What About Chicago – Music Night

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What About Chicago? Music Night + Open Night Postponed: Date To Be Announced Hairpin Arts Center  | 2810 N Milwaukee | Chicago What About Chicago? hosts a Music Night + Open Night as the final event of the LIP 20/20 Arts Festival We love you wherever you art, but we hope that on Friday March … Read more

CrimeDrought the Solution: a Workshop

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CrimeDrought: The Solution A Workshop Presented by Mashaun Ali Date To Be Announced TRAP HOUSE Chicago uses street-wear and dialogs as tools to transform individuals, communities, and culture. People always talk about the violence and crime rates in Chicago, but we’re here to start real meaningful conversations and promote a crime-free city. It’s up to … Read more

Dinner+Video: Creative Conversations Screening

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Dinner + Video: Creative Conversations Potluck & Video Screening
Postponed: Dates To Be Announced
Hairpin Arts Center | 2810 N Milwaukee | Chicago

Schedule
5pm | Arrival & Explore Exhibition
5:30pm | Potluck Dinner (Free with a dish)**
6:15pm–8pm | LIP 20/20 Video Screening (Free)

Videos (schedule TBA) • Fainting Spells by Neha Chawla & Elisabeth James • One To Another by Sarawut Chutiwongpeti • Shake before Vandalizing by Andrew Garcia • My Guernica & The Others by Olga Guse • And the land shivers, and everything disappears, and nothing remains, but all the birds, some still flying, with no place to rest by Kassandra Spence • Throwing my Weight Around by Rebecca Kautz • LOMBRICS by Marco Morelli • AnySquared Documentary by Kimberly Rosette

Creative Conversations: Potluck Supper at the Hairpin Arts Center! Expand your circle of friends and neighbors at learn what is going on in the neighborhood, share, eat and connect with other people doing exciting work in the Logan Square/Avondale community.

**Dinner is FREE if you bring a potluck contribution (for 6-8 people) or a $10 donation toward your meal. Cash bar for beer, wine, and sparkling water.

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Part of AnySquared’s LIP 20/20 Exhibit & Festival of Arts Events
March 7–28

LIP = Life in Progress  |  AnySquared Projects’ LIP 20/20 Exhibition & Arts Festival at the Hairpin Arts Center in March showcases work that expresses definitions and/or critiques of “progress.” LIP 20/20 seeks to answer and explore this concept with our work, our art, in our communities, and as human beings, both in the city and the world. #LIP2020

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AnySquared is an all-volunteer collaborative and artists network. Propelled by a deep sense of cooperation with artists, neighbors and the wider community, our mission is to support, produce and promote collaborative projects that facilitate arts activities through inclusive participation.

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ART OFF! a live art + slaps event

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ART OFF! a live art + slaps event
This event was postponed: We Hosted the ART-OFF on October 2021
Hairpin Arts Center | 2810 N Milwaukee | Chicago

ART-OFF! is an art extravaganza featuring live painting, slaps making tables, and artmaking for the public!! Live painters will have 2.5 hours to complete their art, the audience votes on 3 winners, and the top 3 artists win cool prizes. Our slaps making table is open to all, and the slap that gets the most votes also wins a prize. We’ll projecting prompts of progress created from audience participation to inspire artists to think about Life In Progress.

Live Artists featured at the event include: Mario Mena @hyperdimentionalbeing • Squeak Starzula @squeakstarzula • Akeem @aiselife • Joos @1.s00j • Delisha@delisha___ • Natalia Sustaita @susta.art • Natalia Virafuentes @virafuentes_art • Tekisha Silver https://www.instagram.com/astratesh • Jeff Pak @jpak4ever • Mosher @moshershow • Zach Bartz @imzachbartz • Hailey Marie @hai_ey • Don @Don.mega.art  • Alice Robeson @teamalice42

NOTE: We have a limited number of open sign-up spots for the the live-art contest! ARRIVE EARLY to get those extra spots!

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Part of AnySquared’s LIP 20/20 Exhibit & Arts Festival
March 7–28, 2020

LIP = Life in Progress  |  The LIP 20/20 Exhibit & Arts Festival showcases work that expresses definitions and/or critiques of progress that provokes, challenges, or illustrates. Through all media, artists represent, examine, analyze, or dissect what is actual progress, what some consider progress, and what is not. LIP 20/20 seeks to answer and explore this concept with our work, our art, in our communities, and as human beings, both in the city and the world.  #LIP2020

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AnySquared is an all-volunteer collaborative and artists network. Propelled by a deep sense of cooperation with artists, neighbors and the wider community, our mission is to support, produce and promote collaborative projects that facilitate arts activities through inclusive participation.

AnySquared.com
projects@anysquared.com
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facebook | AnySquared
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Complexing Chicago Graffiti

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Complexing Chicago Graffiti Postponed: Date To Be Announced Hairpin Arts Center | 2810 N Milwaukee | Chicago Panel Moderated by FLASH: • FESS  • TSEL • PENGO • TEEL • MONSTROCHIKA • BBOYB • DOLLARS • ZENA A History of Chicago Graffiti Art I. GRAFFITI ROOTS. II. CHICAGO LETTER STRUCTURE III. THE CHICAGO FUTURE For … Read more

Seeking Progress Within Our Food System

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Seeking Progress w/in Our Food System Workshop presented by Grow-Op Chicago’s Glad Matt and Mah Nu Tuesday March 10 from 7pm–9pm Hairpin Arts Center, 2810 N Milwaukee | Chicago We navigate different ways to better advocate for and engage with our local food systems. Through group discussions and a short presentation we’ll learn about resources, … Read more

Art. Swap. Meet. & AnySquared’s 10th Birthday Party!

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Art Swap was on FIRE! Thanks to everyone who joined in the Swap and helped AnySquared celebrate our birthday at the Studio! Love to all the AnySquared crew behind the scenes who made it happen! ❤️ keep making art in 2020 everyone. Thanks @garciaeffects and @akira.portraits for the photos: see full album on AnySquared’s Facebook … Read more