Temporary Public Art Presented at
Boys and Girls Club Uptown.
Come out and take a look.
Sheridan Road Task Force, Temporary
Public Art Committee is proud to present “Temporary Spice.” “Temporary Spice”
is an outdoor art installation located on the southern façade of the Robert R.
McCormick Boys and Girls Club at 4835 N. Sheridan Road (1 block north of
Lawrence/Sheridan intersection) Chicago, IL. 60640.
This project, the first in a
proposed series, was developed by members of Uptown community and was
implemented in collaboration with The Boys and Girls Club. Club students decided the design and made the
work as a part of their summer arts programming.
The piece responds to a question
posed in last summer’s design workshops “In A New Light: What Makes A
Neighborhood Well? Participants
indicated that ‘diversity’, ‘inclusiveness’ and ‘getting to know each other’
makes a neighborhood well. Participating community members also picked ‘making
connections’ and ‘educational opportunities’ as supporting themes.
Using these themes, the workshop
group formed to implement the “Temporary Spice” project by collecting the
fabric material used from the community, organizing volunteers to prepare 3500
pieces of fabric and inviting volunteer staff that taught 6 weeks of summer
arts program at the Boys and Girls Club. Between the workshops, donors,
volunteers, 46th Ward Aldermanic staff, 48th Ward
Aldermanic staff, and Boys and Girls Club staff, more than 30 people have been
involved in making this project possible. As a community, we are very thankful
to all of the contributors. Through this project as community members, we have
been able to meet and get to know our neighbors better, get involved with many
neighborhood events, make connections as well as offer educational
opportunities.
Temporary Public Art Committee is
currently planning another workshop series late Fall 2011 for another round of
temporary public art projects to be installed Summer 2012. Please contact us at
temporarypublicartuptown@gmail.com
if you would like to participate in future projects.
