Maria Gaspar's website is up!

CPAG Core Artist Maria Gaspar has her website up and running! Check out her link!

Heart of Rogers Park

Here are more images of the progress Rogers Park Project with DevCorp North. Stop by the mural to see the progress. Rahmaan and Max are out there almost everyday...say hi and pay them a visit.

The Renaissance Society

One of our new board members, Hamza Walker, is curating a show at The Renaissance Society
April 26 – June 7, 2009
Opening Reception: April 26, 4:00-7:00PM
5811 South Ellis Ave.

Several Silences -

Titled after an essay by the late philosopher and literary theoretician Jean-Francois Lyotard, Several Silences is a group exhibition exploring various kinds of silence. Artists listed are: Lewis Baltz | Troy Brauntuch | Manon de Boer | Paul Dickinson | Ryan Gander | Geissler and Sann | Gran Fury | C.M. von Hausswolff | Harold Mendez | Jonty Semper | Harry Shearer

Heart of Rogers Park

This is from the Rogers Park project that Rahmann and Damon are working on with Dev Corp North.

Sneak a peek at PAM

CPAG's Public Art Map...or PAM for short. Our intern, Ashley, is working on a map of CPAG's projects. When it is all done it will cover all of CPAG's projects from back-in-the-day until now. This is a work in progress and feedback is welcome.

View Chicago Public Art Group in a larger map

Siddha Weber at the Velvet Lounge

Siddha Webber will be performing at the Velvet Lounge, 67 E 22nd Street, on Thursday, April 9 at 8PM.

He will be featured along with his band, the Ancestral Resurrection Ensemble, in a concert entitled: Art a Matter of Spiritual Survival.

Band members include:
Maggie Brown, guest singer
Ms Tasallem, poetess
Mwata Bowden: woodwinds
Harrison Bankhead: bass
Dervain Trenoir: trumpet
Ray Mosley: guitar
Samuel Muhammad: piano
Bill Simms: drums

Compositions to be rendered in music are:
Art Just Can't Be Art
Culture of Insanity
Pennies on the Dollar
Sacred Space
Love, Peace, and Gay

For details you may contact Siddha @ CSiddha@aol.com

WHYY interviews CPAG

WHYY in Philadelphia contacted us to comment on a story they were doing on community murals.

Core Artist Events

Core Artist Ginny Sykes has two shows running right now.

Hand Made Prints, Noyes Cultural Center, Evanston, IL

Eight new Drawings featured in group exhibition:
On the Pulse of This New Day
Catholic Theological Union
5416 S Cornell
Exhibits runs through April 15 Learn more at her website.

http://www.ginnysykes.com/

Also catch two of her performance pieces on YouTube...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF-DYfSZcr4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUYeo1nhdNA

You are invited...

Maria Gaspar, one of our Core Artists, is inviting everyone to her exhibition reception for my MFA Exhibition taking place: Wednesday, April 15th from 5-8pm at UIC's Gallery 400, 400 S. Peoria (Van Buren/Peoria). Included in this exhibition, are the work of fellow MFA students Charlie Deets, Chris Tourre, John-Paul Wolforth.