Everybody's Art - Printmaking Workshop

You’re invited to join us this Saturday from 1 - 3pm at our South Chicago Farm (9001 S Mackinaw Ave) for an all-ages community art workshop introducing found-object printmaking and hosted by Hyde Park Art Center and rooted in the renowned work of Robert Earl Paige, an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and educator actively making work that challenges the distinction between fine art and craft by combining elements from African aesthetic traditions, modernist painting, Bauhaus architecture, and vernacular invention in his objects, collages, and fabrics. All ages welcome! ***PREP & ARRIVAL*** All materials will be provided. Participants are welcome to bring a shirt or personal fabric for additional experimentation. All participants must sign our Liability, Theft, and Photo release waiver at least once per season: LINK Please plan to arrive ten minutes early to check-in at the Welcome Table visible from the entrance before heading onto the farm to join the tour. A UGC representative will greet you at the Welcome Table. ***ABOUT*** Multigenerational learning and pedagogy are at the core of Paige’s art practice. A self-proclaimed “Doodler, tinkerer and dabbler,” Paige has taught art and design to youth for over four decades by facilitating material experimentation and purpose-driven creation. Paige strongly believes in community participation to generate art and culture that speaks to the Black experience. Early in his career, Paige and Dr. Carol Adams, founded EVERYDAY ART, an organization that hosted art exhibitions in unlikely places (like laundromats and funeral homes) and the first arts festival at South Shore Cultural Center in Chicago. Through EVERYDAY ART, Paige and Adams thought to generate a community aesthetic that considered how Black community members both design and work toward a unified neighborhood appearance that embraces culture and heritage. In Paige’s words, “Everyday Art is designed to demonstrate the role of the arts in the revitalization of a rapidly changing community and to involve all residents –artist and non-artist alike– in the creation of a community aesthetic.” As a nod to Robert Earl Paige’s community art practice, EVERYDAY ART, and his exhibition at Hyde Park Art Center, The United Colors of Robert Earl Paige, the Hyde Park Art Center is hosting free all ages art making workshops on the South Side and across Chicago at partner organizations, institutions, and will bring art making to unconventional spaces like churches, libraries, gardens, festivals, and farmers markets that will be facilitated by our Community Engagement Fellow, Keny De La Peña. These workshops are a part of Art Design Chicago, a citywide collaboration initiated by the Terra Foundation for American Art that highlights the city’s artistic heritage and creative communities. Workshop Facilitator: Keny De La Peña Biography Keny De La Peña is a Los Angeles raised interdisciplinary artist. They hold an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in World Arts and Cultures from UCLA. He uses visual and choreographic practices to create spaces where the fragility of history comes into contact with the subjunctive, or the world of the imagined. Through this, exploring the tensions between popular culture, folklore, and myth.

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