Family Day: Won’t You be a Neighbor?
@ Weinberg/Newton Gallery
300 W Superior St, Suite 203, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Saturday, October 20th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, December 8th
Reimagine what it means to be a neighbor! Community members of all ages are invited to participate in an interactive sign-making workshop. We have all seen signs in homes’ windows that state: WE CALL POLICE. Instead of this warning, what else could a sign to neighbors say or show? How can signs communicate what we want our blocks to be? Free and open to all!
This event corresponds with Block Building, an exhibition that juxtaposes the past and present while tracing both a rich history and vibrant future for Chicago’s block clubs – ultralocal civic organizations that have deep roots throughout the city. The exhibition is organized in partnership with My Block, My Hood, My City and features block club signs that have been designed and fabricated by youth in Arts and Public Life’s Design Apprenticeship Program, alongside the old signs they’ve replaced. Additional components of the exhibition include process sketches for the new signs, ephemera from block club members’ personal archives, and home movie footage of 1960s block parties in Chicago, courtesy of the South Side Home Movie Project.
About Block Building
Block Building juxtaposes the past and present while tracing both a rich history and vibrant future for Chicago’s block clubs – ultralocal civic organizations that have deep roots throughout the city. The exhibition is organized in partnership with My Block, My Hood, My City and features block club signs that have been designed and fabricated by youth in Arts + Public Life’s Design Apprenticeship Program, alongside the old signs they’ve replaced. Additional components of the exhibition include process sketches for the new signs, ephemera from block club members’ personal archives, and home movie footage of 1960s block parties in Chicago, courtesy of the South Side Home Movie Project.
Image credit: Bill Healy, WBEZ
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