Center Days

Summer Center Day will present exhibition receptions for the summer exhibitions Pit Stop and Where a knot begins and ends, intergenerational art making activities, Creative Wing open studios, performances, and community collaborations. Exhibition Receptions for Where a knot begins and ends, and Pit Stop Kanter Family Foundation Gallery & Gallery 5 1-4PM About the Exhibitions Where a knot begins and ends Where a knot begins and ends considers the ways artists engage our complicated relationship to time, history, and archives. The phrase also conveys the challenges faced by the exhibiting artists who represent the 2024 cohort of New Edition, a two-part class developed by the Art Center for artists to learn and make work in a medium that is new to their practice. The exhibition is curated by the Program Facilitator, Jeff Robinson, and features work by Alexandra Antoine, Dawn Brennan, Kittisak (Wa) Chontong, Mary Farmilant, Tanya Gill, Malika Jackson, Kara Cobb Johnson, Caitlin Ryan, Molly Roth Scranton, and Teresita Carson Valdez. Pit Stop The annual teen exhibition highlights paintings, drawings, photography, ceramics, prints, animation, and multimedia work by emerging artists participating in Hyde Park Art Center’s Teen programs. Throughout the 30-week program, teens cultivate their creative voices under the guidance of professional artists. The exhibition is a testament to these young artists’ evolution and dedication, who have taken on the challenge of expressing perplexed thoughts, feelings, and emotions into individual works of art. Pit Stop is a rest area for reflection on the journey passed, the present path, and the road ahead. Art Making Activity: Create Your Own Dance Wand Mueller Meeting Room 1-4PM Learn to upcycle fabric into ribbons and create a dance wand using everyday art materials inspired by our exhibition, The United Colors of Robert Earl Paige. Afterwards, use your new wand to twirl, dance, and join in the fun listening to the Windy City Ramblers performance! Art Making Activity: Create Your Own Paper Straw Puppet Create your own paper straw puppet and design structure with Teaching Artist, Terah Weddington, inspired by her work on view in our Parapluie exhibition. HPAC Teens Pit Stop Activation Gallery 5 1-4PM Make a pit stop with our HPAC teens and engage with their work on view in Pit Stop and make art inspired by the road. Performance from The Windy City Ramblers Gallery 1 3-3:30PM Join us for a special performance from The Windy City Ramblers in conjunction with our exhibition, The United Colors of Robert Earl Paige. The Windy City Ramblers is a Non-Profit Brass Band Organization that is dedicated to the cultural development of the Youth of Chicago through the Brass Band and Second Line Culture. The Windy City Ramblers Brass Band builds from the musical legacy and festive spirit of the New Orleans brass band and second line culture while embracing the rich creative history of Chicago music culture. Through their programs and performances, they aim “to inspire, cultivate, maintain and employ excellent musicianship, professionalism, bandsmanship, and cultural enlightenment.” Guida Family Creative Wing Open Studios 2-4PM Visit the artist studios in our Guida Family Creative Wing! Meet our new 2024 Jackman Goldwasser Radicle Resident Artists Yasmin Spiro, Keith S. Wilson, and Leila Tamari, Visiting Artist Douglas Kearney, and Creative Wing artists Malika Jackson, Juarez Hawkins, and zakkiyyah najeebah dumas o'neal. More Info below.