Hearts & Minds Collaborative Art Show | An Attitude 7 / AnySquared Production | Featuring Works by 25 Artists ____ Opening Party Friday, November 13 / 6pm to 10:30pm Hairpin Arts Center / 2810 N Milwaukee / Chicago Help us celebrate the exhibit! Meet the artists. Enjoy sounds by David Itzi Nallah from CumbiaSazo. Participate … Read more
Artmaking Studio Day Wednesdays Paint. Draw. Collage. Engage. Drop in hours are 3pm to 8pm Anywhere Space, 2328 N. Milwaukee Avenue | Chicago.
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We have plenty of basic supplies and share them, but you are welcome to bring your own and make, share ideas, brainstorm, or discuss collaborations. While many of us are visual artists, all art forms are encouraged. Note: Although we “officially” end at 8pm, we tend to go to 9pm or 10pm. Check to see if the sandwich board is out front, if it is we are still open.
Make & Meet Artmaking Studio Day Wednesdays Paint. Draw. Collage. Engage. Drop in hours are 3pm to 8pm Anywhere Space, 2328 N. Milwaukee Avenue | Chicago.
We have plenty of basic supplies and share them, but you are welcome to bring your own and make, share ideas, brainstorm, or discusscollaborations. While many of us are visual artists, all art forms are encouraged.
Note: Although we “officially” end at 8pm, we tend to go to 9pm or 10pm. Check to see if the sandwich board is out front, if it is we are still open.
Check out photos from 5+ years of artmaking sessions
AnySquared’s Community Mural Weekend: Friday Night’s Prepping & Priming > Saturday Night’s Projecting & Outlining > Sunday’s Community Paint Day > Full facebook album of photos from weekend > DNAInfo Article about the mural > Check out our Community Mural Project for 2016 _____ AnySquared.com | twitter: @AnySquared | facebook: AnySquared
See DNAinfo Article:Prominent Logan Square Wall Gets New Look AnySquared’s Community Mural Weekend: Friday Night’s Prepping & Priming Saturday Night’s Projecting & Outlining Sunday’s Community Paint Day Full facebook album of photos from weekend DNAInfo Article about the mural Our Urban Times Article About the mural
Community Mural Weekend 2015: Paint Day Art+Community | Grassroots Community Made | Independent Art Making Art happen!
July 24-26, 2015 AnySquared and ABC/Project Logan primed the wall, projected and outlined the design. We hosted the Community Paint Day where 100+ people from the neighborhood came out to help and to paint throughout the day! We got a lot of work done in 7 hours! AnySquared & ABC/Project Logan completed the wall in the following weeks. Check out these links about the mural:
Gratitude to neighbors who donated to make it happen: Cole’s Bar, Cafe Mustache, Temple of the Dog, Hairitics, Hyman Interiors, Radler, Bucket O’ Blood, Threads Etc, East Room, Boiler Room, Art+Science and artists Nino Rodriguez, Lucky Gnome, and Rita Garcia Sindelar.
Thanks to our wonderful Community Mural Volunteers.
Big thanks to Unity Park in Logan Squarefor their neighborly help throughout this project as well as lending us the tent and coolers for the Sunday Paint Day!
Projecting and Outling the Wall Saturday NightTracy hand! Moving around the transparency on the old school projector.Tracy paints Pluto…Projecting the planet transparecy while a neighbor watched.Outling from an unnamed arrival…Flash about to spray!The far way view of projecting the train section.Brian and George outling.A crew outlining a section. Plus HerPrettyGhost documenting!George outlining
Community Mural Weekend: Projecting & Outlining Wall Saturday July 25! Art+Community | Grassroots Community Made | Independent Art Making Art happen!
Saturday night we had 2 different projectors, and 2 generators going at either ends of the wall at the same time.. As we lined up the image on each end of the the wall, a 10-20 person crew split up and sprayed outlines from the projections. After each of the 4 sections was projected we met in the middle at the 5th. The thing that took the longest for each of the 5 sections was the wiggling around of the projectors to get them proportional and lined up. Once the spraying began, it went quickly. We had the whole skeleton design of the mural guidelined out in 2 hours!
Priming of the wall: neighbors from Medill who lent us electricity came by to see what we were doing and hung out with us.Uneekd sprays and David follows priming the sky. With old mural peeaking through.Priming begins with the grey on the right sid of the wall.Uneek going over the wall with a greenish blue.Friday Afternoon, before priming — our much-loved mural from 5 years ago.After priming on Saturday morning.
Community Mural Weekend: Priming & Prepping Wall Friday, July 24! Art+Community | Grassroots Community Made | Independent Art Making Art happen!
For 5 years AnySquared & ABC’s Project Logan have maintained the Community Wall at Medill. Needed touch-ups have required repainting over much of the original mural.
When AnySquared organized the old mural on the community wall 5 year ago, we remember how difficult the bumpy wall was to roll and how long it took to prime. Because of that AnySquared & ABC decided to budget some of our benefit funds to hire Uneek to prime our wall quickly in one night.
On Friday, July 24th Flash ABC came armed with print outs from a file that Tracy from AnySquared prepared earlier in the day with the grid of colors. With three 5-gallon buckets of donated paint in green, blue, and grey, Flash and Tracy embarked on guiding Uneek on where the colors go.
We ran into a power glitch with the generator and sprayer and tried a few different things. After a while, Attitude7 walked the block on Medill and asked Sarah, a nearby neighbor, if she could donate some electricity to run the sprayer from an extension cord. After a and hour two delay, and with the help of this wonderful neighbor’s power, the spraying began. We were out on Friday until 1:30 or 2am, but the job got done and ready for Saturday!
