Join us for “Finding Home,” a special activation of our work featuring photography, objects, and short video screenings of our past and ongoing work from our 17-year history highlighting the importance of home, belonging, and safety within human rights. The projects on view will explore the personal impact of displacement due to conflict and war, the fight for safety and security, and the long term realities of those for whom a place to call their own, whether physically or geopolitically, remains an ongoing struggle.

AWP is also partnering with The International Children’s Media Center and we all live here to further activate our shared space located at 625 N Kingsbury with relevant work on the theme of belonging.

Since 2011, Open House Chicago (OHC) has been a free public festival which offers self-guided history and architecture trails throughout Chicago, talks and programming, and behind-the-scenes access to architecturally, historically and culturally significant sites across the city.

Open hours are from 10am – 4pm on both days at:
625 N Kingsbury Street
Chicago IL 60654

Scheduled programming includes:

October 14 & 15, 10am – noon: Coffee, Donuts, and Conversation: connect with AWP Board members, staff, friends, and supporters to learn more about AWP’s work and what we can do to continue to support storytelling for impact.

Saturday, October 14th, noon – 2pm: “Como Me Vieron, Como Me Veo” Photography Workshop.
Participate in a collaborative workshop exploring the experience of belonging through a dialogue using photography, images and other artistic expressions, facilitated by AWP’s artist in residence, Wil Sands.
Bring a couple friends and join us for a day being in community with one another.

Also on view at 625 N Kingsbury is a commissioned work by artist Juan Eduardo Flores, entitled Bridges as part of the 2023 Terrain Biennial, a grassroots public art festival that brings artists and neighbors together to display public art in nontraditional settings across the world. Making use of live feed cameras located at The US/Mexican border, Flores’ work highlights the conflict between hyper-surveillance and social apathy in our border zones. Flores’ work will be visible from Ontario Street until November 15th.

This year’s theme for the Biennial is the Mycelium Connection to honor and expand our mission of making unexpected, yet vital human and environmental connections. We ask ourselves who and what have we overlooked and why?

Flores is a multidisciplinary artist from Del Rio, Texas and recent graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s MFA program in Art and Technology Studies. Their work incorporates livestream surveillance techniques along the U.S. Border to explore how migrants are simultaneously subjected to hypervisibility and neglect within our society. You can learn more about The Terrain Biennial and Flores’ work here and here.
Flores will be on site during our Open House Chicago day, October 14 & 15 starting at 11am. Come meet Juan and learn more about his project, Bridges.

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Tags: Art Works Projects, Finding Home: An Open House Community Partner Exhibition, Juan Eduardo Flores, Near North Side, Open House Chicago, Wil Sands