History of Graffiti Art

Join us this Thursday at the Hairpin Arts Center for an Slideshow presentation by ABC (Artistic Bombing Crew) showing the history of the ever-changing Project Logan Mural at Fullerton and Milwaukee.

Thursday October 23, 6:30pm

ABC’s (Artistic Bombing Crew) presents
History of Chicago Graffiti
and Project Logan Mural Slideshow
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Project Logan, located at Fullerton and Milwaukee, has featured a huge roster of artists that continue to transform the wall on an ongoing basis.

*Also Thursday Gallery Viewing Hours

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photo by FLASH ABC

Great Artmaking Session: Because Art Exhibit

AnySquared had a great Artmaking Session at the Hairpin Arts Center (2810 N. Milwaukee) last Wednesday! We will be at the center for the next two Wednesdays instead of our usual location. Make Something – Join Us:

  • October 22 Artmaking Session
  • October 29 Artmaking Session:
    We will have a special Halloween Mask-Making Workshop
    with Face-Painting by Natalie ZMB!)

See our excellent exhibit while you are there!

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Anysquared Projects is an artist collaborative and network headquartered in Logan Square’s AnyWhere Space on Milwaukee Avenue near Belden. Propelled by a deep sense of cooperation with our neighbors, AnySquared all-volunteer crew produces art events, exhibits, projects and ongoing activities in our community with the mutual support and participation of area artists and local businesses.

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Because Art Opening Event | PHOTOS

AnySquared Residency “Because Art” Opening Event at the Hairpin Arts Center on October 10. Lot’s of visitors and friends: thanks for all who made it an amazing evening!

Exhibit open on Saturdays and Sundays from 1pm to 4pm through November 2 and during all scheduled events.

See full set of photos from our opening event!

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AnySquared Projects is an all-volunteer collaborative artistic 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. Our foundation is built upon the idea that we can do anything as long as we do ourselves and do it together.
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AnySquared’s Residency: Paint! Draw! Collage!


Paint! Draw! Collage!
Our Open Artmaking Session
is at Hairpin Arts Center
for AnySquared’s Residency!*
2810 North Milwaukee

AnySquared Special Studio Days at Hairpin
Wednesdays from 4pm to 8pm

  • October 15
  • October 22
  • October 29

See our excellent exhibit
while you are there!

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Anysquared Projects is an artist collaborative and network headquartered in Logan Square’s AnyWhere Space on Milwaukee Avenue near Belden. Propelled by a deep sense of cooperation with our neighbors, AnySquared all-volunteer crew produces art events, exhibits, projects and ongoing activities in our community with the mutual support and participation of area artists and local businesses.

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Renato Anesi in Concert | Because Art Gallery Hours | Artmaking Day!

AnySquared’s Residency Events:

at Hairpin Arts Center
2810 N. Milwaukee

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AnySquared Projects is an all-volunteer collaborative artistic 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. Our foundation is built upon the idea that we can do anything as long as we do ourselves and do it together.
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Because Art Exhibition & Programming for AnySquared’s Residency

Exhibit | Oct 10 – Nov 2AnySquared’s Because Art Opening and Residency PhotosArt Swap Event PhotosOnline Publication | BecauseArt ___________ Public Events | 2810 N. Milwaukee Avenue, ChicagoAnySquared’s Residency at the Hairpin Arts Center is activating their space as we encourageartists and community participation with exhibitions, workshops, talks, artmaking days, “ART + Community” events, performance, … Read more

Julie Sulzen


What does it mean to be an artist?
An artist is one who lives a creative life. A creative life is when one creates something where there was nothing before.

What is the function of art?
The function of art is to give oneself, or others, deeper insight and meaning into the world around them.

What is more important to you, the process or the result?
The result is based on the process. The end result is what is witnessed and should communicate an idea effectively, hopefully the idea for which the artist was aiming.

Do you label yourself as an artist?
After many years of labeling myself a “painter”, I finally feel I can label myself an artist. I now recognize that I do create something where there was nothing before. I realize now I have the ability to effectively communicate, through a visual means, an idea that can give deeper insight and meaning into the world around us.

Julie Sulzen
JulieSulzen.com

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Julie Sulzen was an Exhibiting Artist in AnySquared’s Fall 2014 Because Art Exhibition.

Nathan Becka | Because Art

What does it mean to be an artist?
I think being an artist means having a perspective and being able to manipulate things in the world to present it as best you can.

What is the function of art?
If you’ll accept a Sunday-school answer: beauty. As far as I can tell, the choices are to waste and consume or to create, add something to the world, and move culture forward. The function of art is to counter waste, destruction, and awfulness with beauty.

What is more important to you the process or the result?
The process, doing art, for me, is being part of the solution. It’s something I have to do, but it doesn’t mean much unless someone else sees what I do and is, I hope, moved by it. That being the case, I’d say the result is more important.

Do you label yourself as an artist?
I’m learning to.

Nathan Becka
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Nathan Becka was an Exhibiting Artist in AnySquared’s Fall 2014 Because Art Exhibition.

Nicole Cherry | Because Art

What does it mean to be an artist?
I can only answer for myself—being an artist composes of constantly absorbing, observing, and reacting to my internal and external worlds and then morphing that source material into something that is entirely outside of myself. Although artmaking is deeply personal, it is important that the work is distanced from me in order to function as an autonomous entity. There is a point in the making process at which I, as an artist, am mastered by the piece and I only exist to serve its needs. An artist could be defined as one who has such a relationship with their work.

What is the function of art?
Art as a category is functionless. Having a function implies some sort of inherent motive or reason for existence. However, art can do many things—change our perceptions, call for political action, improve a community, represent a culture, make us feel a range of emotions from outraged to enamoured. Art can be used as a tool to fulfill a means or simply exist in a space. These roles exist solely as possibilities and not expectations, which is why I would argue that art is functionless.

What is more important to you — the result or the process?
The result and the process are two inseparable terms for me, or rather the result is a part of my process. I rarely find myself completely finished from work; even if I can no longer physically change the result of my labor, I continue to understand the work in repeatedly shifting ways. Certain finished pieces will spontaneously pop up in my mind as I am creating. Finished works act as additions to a library which I can reference and reinterpret as needed. Even works that feel detached from my overall practice often find themselves in conversation with the rest of my oeuvre and serve as potential solutions to questions I often ask in my practice—how can I abstract the social or how can I transform a commonplace material into a complex bodily surface for the organism that is my sculpture? I would thus say that the process is more important to me.

Do you label yourself as an artist?
Yes, I do. Accepting this label has been a result of increasing confidence in my work and in my own identity. As a student, I could avoid the label—I was not an artist but a Visual Arts major. My work answers to homework prompts. The stakes for making good work were very low. However, as I invested more of myself into my work, the stakes felt raised despite nothing else having changed. At the end of my undergraduate courses, my expectations for my work rose from making good student work to making good artwork. It was at this moment in which I routinely and comfortably could refer to myself as an artist. Now, as an artist without attachment to an institution and with no real artistic obligations, I continue to be driven by my reflexive expectations. That my drive has not evaporated with the disappearance of these obligations has solidified my identity as an artist.

Nicole Cherry
nicolecherryart.com

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Nicole Cherry  was an Exhibiting Artist in AnySquared’s Fall 2014 Because Art Exhibition.