Center Day

We’ll celebrate three new solo exhibitions by Chicago women artists; offer art making for all ages, including two weaving workshops in connection with the exhibitions; meet artists in during open studios; and enjoy several performances throughout the afternoon and building. FAMILY ART MAKING Springtime E-tegami Workshop with teaching artist Danielle Stolz Learn the seasonal art of e-tegami! E-tegami means picture letter in Japanese and is a kind of mail art. Come draw a seasonal object (flower, produce, plant) onto a watercolor postcard and make a one-of-a-kind letter! Intro to Weaving with teaching artist Malika Jackson Create a mini, woven tapestry. Learn tabby weaving techniques to make your own sampler. Weaving Wall Highlighting weaving as a connecting thread between the two exhibitions on the first floor of the building, Yasmin Spiro: Cornerstone and Emily Frances Winter: Apparent Paths, the hallway gallery is transformed into a communal weaving wall, awaiting the creative hands of all weaving enthusiasts. EXHIBITIONS Meet the artists and celebrate three solo exhibitions: Yasmin Spiro: Cornerstone Farah Salem: Uninhibited People of the Earth Emily Frances Winter: Apparent Paths Artist Yasmin Spiro presents Cornerstone, the latest exploration of her ongoing research in vernacular architecture and building techniques and the ways they inform our innate connection to both built and natural landscapes. This immersive installation draws deeply from the geographic and architectural forms of her homeland, Jamaica, weaving together elements of cultural hybridity that resonate throughout Spiro’s practice. The exhibition Farah Salem: Uninhibited People of the Earth presents new and existing works across media that continue the artist’s study and artistic reinterpretation of healing and ceremonial migratory practices of people of the Arabian Peninsula that seek to repair one’s relationship with oneself, the earth, and other beings. Apparent Paths brings together new weavings by Emily Frances Winter. A collection of woven portraits of place, this new body of work uses the material language of weaving to address questions of space, light, and vernacular architecture. OPEN STUDIOS Guida Family Creative Wing Open Studios, 2-4pm Visit the artist studios in our Guida Family Creative Wing! Meet our new 2025 Jackman Goldwasser Radicle Resident artists Sabba S. Elahi, Leticia Pardo, Norman Long, and Irene Hsiao, and Creative Wing artists Anwulika Anigbo, Jess Atieno, Sofia Fernández Díaz, Nazafarin Lotfi, Natasha Moustache, and Tongji Philip Qian. PERFORMANCES Neo-Futurists 2:00 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. In this abridged version of The Neo-Futurists’ weekly show THE INFINITE WRENCH you’ll see fifteen original plays in 30 minutes, written and performed by The Neo-Futurist Ensemble. Each play offers something different, be it funny, profound, elegant, disgusting, topical, irreverent, terrifying, or a song; all are truthful and tackle the here-and-now, inspired by the lived experiences of the performers. This is The Neo-Futurists’ ongoing and ever-changing attempt to shift the conventions of live performance and speak to those unreached or unmoved by traditional theater. Performance in Studio 10: Mond(e): 月亮代表我的心 – tidings 1:30-2pm and 3-3:30pm On the unseen pull of the moon, shifting space, restlessness, light behind a cloud, faith beyond the dark stone we stand upon, the alignment of our molecules with the sea. Movement by Irene Hsiao. Sound by Regina Martinez/selective listening. Image: here collage of images by Alejandro Ayala and Ricardo E. Adame Eventbrite Link Irene Hsiao is a dancer, writer, and multidisciplinary artist. She creates performances in conversation with visual art in museums, galleries, and public spaces, a practice that includes site-specific interaction with visual artworks and experimental engagement with artists, institutions, and the public. She is a 2025 Radicle Studio Resident at Hyde Park Art Center. Her performances have been presented at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Smart Museum, EXPO Chicago, Chicago Textile Week, Ragdale Foundation, Krannert Art Museum, Alma Art Gallery, Kavi Gupta Gallery, and more. Regina Martinez, also known as selective listening, experiences sound as records of our connections and departures. Her current experiments draw from an archive of infinitely personal recordings she relates to as soundmarks: her father’s hands cleaning dried beans, drumline rehearsal after school, the flap of our clothes outside on the line, the creak of the front gate to home. Each moment becomes its own instrument, its own layer of composition, and a washing and wringing out of memory meant to be overheard like a poem again and again. The message evolves through her collaborative alchemy of dj sets, live performance and sound design for experimental film. Regina currently produces the program alluvia’s fluid for Chicago Public Media Institute’s Lumpen Radio station. More Info below.