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.

EARTH WITHOUT ART IS JUST EH**

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Make something! We Have Supplies!

Studio Day on Wednesdays!
3pm to 8pm
AnyWhere Space, 2328 N. Milwaukee.

Drop in to AnySquared’s Weekly Artmaking Day:
We have painting, drawing and collage supplies here to share: You don’t have to bring anything unless you are working on a specific project. Always free.

** By Lizbeth

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Art@Cole’s 23rd exhibit featuring Peanut Gallery Artists

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Sweater Kittens Variety Hour
Sweater Kittens Variety Hour

Art@Cole’s 23rd exhibit featuring Peanut Gallery Artists
On display through November

Article in LoganSquarist about the event!
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FUN+ART
Sunday, October 27, 7pm-10pm
Cole’s Bar, 2338 N. Milwaukee, Chicago

Join AnySquared as we team up with the Sweater Kittens to celebrate our 23rd exhibit at Cole’s featuring Peanut Gallery Artists.

Reception for Art@Cole’s #23 featuring Peanut Gallery Artists
7pm  |  front room

Sweater Kittens Variety Hour
8pm  |  back room/stage***
Kick of Halloween week with some creeped-out comedy, games and prizes.

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Art@Cole’s exhibit includes Traci Hercher, Brandon Howe, Charlie Megna, and Kelly Reaves. The Peanut Gallery is a space for creative collaboration, experimentation, exhibition and good, old-fashioned mingling. Our goal is to connect creative people with one another and nurture a vibrant, inclusive community, while encouraging questioning of established norms and general, good-spirited mischief. We believe that 10 minds are greater than one, and collaboration/ communication/ cooperation is the basis for progress.

Traci Hercher  |  As a right-handed, left-eye dominant artist, I locate and examine incongruities in America. Working primarily in the medium of photography during a moment in which our lives are over-photographed, I purposely document the anomalies. I seek to accomplish this without exploiting photography’s most unique and valuable trait: its veracity. I am invested in the relationship between myself and my subjects, as well as that of my body and the apparatuses by which I arrest movement in the world. I strive for objectivity despite its elusiveness; each photograph answers the question, What would this look like if I were not here?

Brandon Howe  |  The work was generated spontaneously, with little or no forethought regarding the final image. Over time, consistencies reveal themselves and patterns emerge. I believe in this method of art-making as a means of channeling what cannot be consciously defined.

Charlie Megna  |  Heavily influenced by Eastern philosophy, Tribal rituals and American skate culture, my colorful gouache and gold-leaf paintings combine loaded, symbolic motifs with the banal, the humorous and the commonplace.  In these tribe paintings we recognize glimpses of sacred ceremonies that feel familiar, but that expand with closer inspection into mystery and secrecy.  In addition to the paintings, I create costumes, physical relics, writings of the tribes myths, symbols and so on to further realize this created world.

Kelly Reaves  |  My work embraces hedonism. It is my attempt at clarity while clumsily bobbing in a pool of indulgence, my slaphappy pursuit of an unclear reward, drunkenly driven by manic whims and lofty but fleeting notions. I want my work to appeal to our most basic human emotions through lurid visual cues and a visceral manipulation of materials. I try to elicit lewd thoughts with only paint strokes. Oil painting is an ostentatious pursuit, combined with vulgar party deco to indulge my cravings for salty men, greasy sandwiches and sticky messes.

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***The Sweater Kittens are Totally Ghoul!

Lineup Featuring…

  • Witch standup with Annie Donley and Sarah Ashley
  • Scary bits with Matt Barats and Nick Mestad
  • Larissa Zageris, Katie Johnston-Smith and Joey Gilmore invoke the dead!
  • The bootastic Anothony Oberbeck
  • And a wicked jam with Graham

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Cinema Minima Residency | Call for Filmmakers | Announcing Winning Essays

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Call For Filmmakers
Time to Make Short Films
Make interpretations of essays any length under 5 min (30 sec/1 min/3 min, etc). Any aesthetic, format, or translation experimentation through film/video encouraged.

  • Deadline extended to Friday Nov 1st for submitting finished film(s). All Films can be dropped off or mailed to AnyWhere Space, 2328 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647. All films received by November 1st will be screened. projects@anysquared.com

See Full Rules for Film Submissions

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Announcing the Cinema Minima Winning Essays

1 Beverly Scott I Do But Do He
2 Brenton Harper-Murray Choke
3 Robert Castillo Robert and John Got Married

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Thanks to all the other writers who participated in the Writers Event on October 6: Tucker Dryden, Rajiv Haque, Jim Markus, and Mackenzie Wilson. We had a great event on October 6th and the competition was close! We will be publishing their excellent submissions after October 20th.Gratitude to Tucker Dryden, Kelly Ahlfeld, Jessica Lynne Bright, Zachary Hart Baker and Chris Elam for performing, announcing, and taking us though the evening with style! A special shout out to Cole’s Bar for always supporting Cinema Minima and AnySquared!

See you in November. Time to make films!

Make something! We Have Supplies!

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Studio Day on Wednesdays!
3pm to 8pm
AnyWhere Space, 2328 N. Milwaukee.

Drop in to AnySquared’s Weekly Artmaking Day:
We have painting, drawing and collage supplies here to share: You don’t have to bring anything unless you are working on a specific project. If you find the door locked, text/call number at entrance. (We don’t have a doorbell.) Always free.

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Peanut Gallery Artists | Art@Cole’s #23

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Art@Cole’s 23rd exhibit
featuring Peanut Gallery Artists
Traci Hercher, Brandon Howe, Charlie Megna, and Kelly Reaves
On display through Mid-November
Cole’s Bar, 2338 N. Milwaukee, Chicago

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FUN+ART
Sunday, October 27, 7pm-10pm
Join AnySquared as we team up with the Sweater Kittens to celebrate our 23rd exhibit at Cole’s featuring Peanut Gallery Artists.

  • Reception 
for Art@Cole’s #23
    featuring Peanut Gallery Artists
    7pm  |  front room
  • Sweater Kittens Variety Hour
    8pm  |  back room/stage

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The Peanut Gallery  |  A space for creative collaboration, experimentation, exhibition and good, old-fashioned mingling. Our goal is to connect creative people with one another and nurture a vibrant, inclusive community, while encouraging questioning of established norms and general, good-spirited mischief. We believe that 10 minds are greater than one, and collaboration/ communication/ cooperation is the basis for progress.

  • Traci Hercher  |  As a right-handed, left-eye dominant artist, I locate and examine incongruities in America. Working primarily in the medium of photography during a moment in which our lives are over-photographed, I purposely document the anomalies. I seek to accomplish this without exploiting photography’s most unique and valuable trait: its veracity. I am invested in the relationship between myself and my subjects, as well as that of my body and the apparatuses by which I arrest movement in the world. I strive for objectivity despite its elusiveness; each photograph answers the question, What would this look like if I were not here?
  • Brandon Howe  |  The work was generated spontaneously, with little or no forethought regarding the final image. Over time, consistencies reveal themselves and patterns emerge. I believe in this method of art-making as a means of channeling what cannot be consciously defined.
  • Charlie Megna  |  Heavily influenced by Eastern philosophy, Tribal rituals and American skate culture, my colorful gouache and gold-leaf paintings combine loaded, symbolic motifs with the banal, the humorous and the commonplace.  In these tribe paintings we recognize glimpses of sacred ceremonies that feel familiar, but that expand with closer inspection into mystery and secrecy.  In addition to the paintings, I create costumes, physical relics, writings of the tribes myths, symbols and so on to further realize this created world.
  • Kelly Reaves  |  My work embraces hedonism. It is my attempt at clarity while clumsily bobbing in a pool of indulgence, my slaphappy pursuit of an unclear reward, drunkenly driven by manic whims and lofty but fleeting notions.I want my work to appeal to our most basic human emotions through lurid visual cues and a visceral manipulation of materials. I try to elicit lewd thoughts with only paint strokes. Oil painting is an ostentatious pursuit, combined with vulgar party deco to indulge my cravings for salty men, greasy sandwiches and sticky messes.

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Photography by Ben Marth | Art@Handlebar

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Art@Handlebar
Featuring Photography by Ben Marth
On display through the end of October
Handlebar, 2311 West North Avenue, Chicago

Ben Marth was born of the north, a child of the long summer. Though he knew not the luxuries of the high borns, he was skilled at crafting fine art and dinosaur calls. He likes the loud screechy ones. Setting forth from the land some call Michigan, he traveled forth to a new, slightly less northern city, Chicago. Ben trained among the masters of Columbia College in the ancient arts, honing his craft for the coming winter. With his studies now completed, he sets forth on his long journey to do battle with the monsters of the first men. Remember, winter is coming, but it’s alright. We got a heater and some coco – stop by.
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Art-Starter | A benefit for AnySquared’s Cinema Minima Residency

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Art-Starter
A benefit for AnySquared’s Cinema Minima Residency
Monday, September 30, 10pm-?
Cole’s Bar, 2338 N. Milwaukee

Get your drink on and be merry! Listen to some jams laid down by the AnySquared All-star DJ Crew! Featuring:

  • BSYES!
  • Strand Theory’s “Movie Mosh”
  • T.K.O.
  • Mike Bolsinga(tronic!)
  • Dj Ink jet and the Drum Scanner!

Join us at Cole’s: every drink sold helps support the Cinema Minima Residency: our project encourages writers and filmmakers to create new works of art and then shares the pieces with the wider community.

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Make something! Studio Day on Wednesdays!

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TOMORROW: Make something!
Studio Day on Wednesdays!
3pm to 8pm
AnyWhere Space, 2328 N. Milwaukee.

Drop in to AnySquared’s Weekly Artmaking Day:
We have painting, drawing and collage supplies here to share: You don’t have to bring anything unless you are working on a specific project. If you find the door locked, text/call number at entrance. (We don’t have a doorbell.) Always free.

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Make something! Studio Day Wednesdays!

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Make something!
Studio Day on Wednesdays!
3pm to 8pm
AnyWhere Space, 2328 N. Milwaukee.

Drop in to AnySquared’s Weekly Artmaking Day:
We have painting, drawing and collage supplies here to share: You don’t have to bring anything unless you are working on a specific project. If you find the door locked, text/call number at entrance. (We don’t have a doorbell.) Always free.

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