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Help make it happen! Community Mural Project 2016: Logan Square Dog Park

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Community Mural Project 2016: Dog ParkHelp make it happen! After seeing our 2015 community mural last year, the Logan Square Dog Park Committee invited AnySquared and ABC (Artistic Bombing Crew) to create a new mural this summer at the park. AnySquared is glad to team up with ABC again for this 2016 project! On April … Read more

Eight O’Clock Shops: SHOP 1: GRAIN/GLUE/GESSO

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Introducing AnySquared’s New Eight O’Clock Shops Free ½ hour art-workshops on the last Wednesday of each month following our regular Studio Day. Each ‘shop is a useful demonstration of materials and techniques or a short talk. facebook event > ____ SHOP 1: GRAIN/GLUE/GESSO (on paper & board) – There are simple rules and techniques to … Read more

Hearts & Minds Collaborative Art Show

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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

Article: Wall brings community together in Logan Square

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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

Community Mural Weekend Paint Day

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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 Square for their neighborly help throughout this project as well as lending us the tent and coolers for the Sunday Paint Day!

Check out our Community Mural Project for 2016

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ABC’s Project Logan | projectlogan.tumblr.com

Community Mural Weekend: Projecting and Outining

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Projecting and Outling the Wall Saturday Night
Tracy 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!

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ABC’s Project Logan | projectlogan.tumblr.com

Community Mural weekend: Priming & Prepping

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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!

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ABC’s Project Logan | projectlogan.tumblr.com

May 12 Community Mural Meeting! — PHOTOS

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May 12 Community Mural Meeting! ABC & AnySquared hosted a community meeting about the mural we plan on creating this summer at Project Logan with the help of our neighbors! Lots of brainstorming and ideas floating about themes, fundraising, andvolunteering! Full album from meeting on facebook. If you didn’t make it to the meeting you … Read more

Salvage Opening Event | PHOTOS

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Salvage Exhibit Page with Artists Statements and links

AnySquared Projects & G Studio had a great time celebrating the opening of the SALVAGE Exhibit at the Plant on June 21st. Thanks to Renato Anesi for playing music throughout the event and the International Art Group Ensemble for enriching our exhibit with their “Firebread” masked performance. Also, much gratitude to The Plant and their tenant vendors! Thanks to all the exhibiting artists for sharing your work in this wonderful exhibition: Michael Bolsinga, Mary Ellen Croteau, Miguel Guzman, Chyanne Husar, Tracy Kostenbader, Alexandra Lee (ATYL), Gary Lehman, Stephen Manka, and Luis Sahagun

Press:

Salvage Exhibit Page
On Display through October 19
The Plant, 1400 West 46th Street, Chicago

  • On view during Tours of The Plant on Saturdays 2-3pm ($10).
  • Additional free exhibit hours: To Be Announced.
  • Free viewings also by appointment: projects@anysquared.com.
  • Group Tours of The Plant are also available.

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Salvage Opening & Performances

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AnySquared Projects & G Studio presents

SALVAGE
Exhibition Opening Event
Saturday, June 21
From 3:30pm to 8pm
Salvage Exhibit Page

The Plant, 1400 West 46th Street, Chicago
Opening Event is Free*  |  facebook invitation

Exhibiting Artists:

Opening Features Performances:

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3:30pm  |  Music by Renato Anesi
Renato Anesi is a composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist from Brazil who plays guitar, mandolin, cavaco, and more.

5pm  |  Firebread performance by International Art Group Ensemble
Directed by Marianna Buchwald and performed by Nichole Harrod, Cherie Lockett, and Daniel Weinberg with musical accompaniment by Dominick Gray and composer Carl Weinberg on clarinet and sax.

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* Tours: Arrive early at 2pm for 60-minute in-depth tour. The $10 donation for the tour supports The Plant’s projects. The exhibit opening event is free. The Plant will also be conducting farm tours at 3:30 and 4:30pm during the opening event for a $5 donation (sign up at their table)