Carron Little: Neighborhood Magic
@ Ridge Historical Society
10621 South Seeley Avenue Chicago, IL 60643
Opening Friday, April 8th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, May 8th
Neighborhood Magic is coming to Ridge Historical Society on April 8 to May 8, 2016. This event continues the public engagement project created for the Beverly Art Walk in 2015 supported by Beverly Arts Alliance. From April 8 to May 8, the public will be invited to post their important moments into the sculptural mail boxes located in the garden of Ridge Historical Society. The Artist, Carron Little, will compose poetry inspired by the important moments and mail the poetry directly to people’s homes. At the opening on April 8, Carron will perform select poems she created for Neighborhood Magic in October 2015. On Thursday, April 14 at 7pm at Ridge Historical Society a screening of a 30 minute film documenting the original Neighborhood Magic performance will be shown.
Neighborhood Magic was created for the Beverly Art Walk in 2015 in collaboration with Beverly Arts Alliance and the artist, Carron Little. Little interviewed eight residents in Beverly over the age of 70 about their life stories. She transcribed the stories into poetry and worked with a choir to compose the poems into song in an intensive rehearsal process. To read more about the project and the artist please visit neighborhoodmagic.tumblr.com
Carron Little is a public performance artist and Founder and Director of Out of Site Chicago, a public performance series just completing its fifth year. She is part-time faculty in the Performance Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and CAPE. Little engages in long term public performance projects that directly engage the public. She worked with two collectives in London, UK prior to moving back to Chicago in 2009 where she has focused on creating paid opportunities for artists to produce public performance. Neighborhood Magic, created for the city of Beverly in 2015, is the most recent in a series of works beginning with Dream Minds in 2010 and City Alive with Dreams in 2014. City Alive with Dreams evolved into a year-long public performance project sponsored by Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events. Little has been working with the neighborhood of Uptown since 2013. She is a recipient of a Propeller Grant in 2015, IAP DCASE Grant in 2015 and a Shapiro Research Graduate Fellowship for Fall 2016. For more information about her work and her practice please visit http://www.carronlittle.com
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