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Reminiscing about “Reminiscing.”

Thank you to everyone who visited the exhibition over the last few weeks to view work by Vaughn Davis Jr! Follow Vaughn’s work and practice at @vaughndavisjr.

📍The gallery is closed for installation and will re-open for our next exhibition on August 10th.

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Special thanks to 2022 & 2023 Joyce Awards recipients who joined us for a convening in #Chicago culminating in a private tour at the historic Stony Island Arts Bank with @rebuild_foundation founder & 2010 Joyce Awards recipient @theastergates—what a special moment in a special location!

If you are an artist of color in the #GreatLakes region, please consider applying for the 2024 Joyce Awards. The award amount has been increased to $100,000 for each project. To learn more register for our Joyce Awards info session being held at noon CDT this Thursday, August 3rd. Registration link is in our bio. #JoyceAwards #JoyceAwardsWinners #ContemporaryArts #ArtistsOfColor #Midwest #TheasterGates #stonyislandartsbank #rebuildfoundation #Community #Culture #Chicago

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Congratulations to Artadia Awardee Regina Agu (2017 Houston) for receiving a 2023 Joyce Award with the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago!

The Joyce Foundation provides grants of $75,000 each to support the creation of innovative new work by pioneering artists of color in partnership with arts and community organizations to foster more culturally vibrant, diverse, and sustainable communities in the Great Lakes.

Awards support the creation and presentation of new artistic works in partnership with community members, exploring and strengthening connections between diverse communities, urban environments, and nature to imagine new forums for cultural exchange and assembly.

@Sun_Ria @MoCPChi @JoyceFDN #JoyceFoundation #JoyceAwards #2023JoyceAwards #artadiaawardee #artadiahouston

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EXPO Chicago Art week was a WHIRLWIND, but we truly enjoyed looking back on all of the wonderful programs we took part in and sponsored!

We kicked off EXPO Chicago art week with the South Side Openings night with our current exhibiting artists @rolandknow and @signifyingmonk ! Our ED also represented the center in a lovely toast dedicated to South Side arts institutions!✊🏾

We hosted our first Roll Call: A Black Women in the Arts Convening with an array of Black women/femme/non-binary curators, artists, and arts and culture workers - thank you for attending!! We loved having @celestethedj with us that afternoon 👏🏾. We’re excited to continue this new tradition and annual gathering.

SSCAC also sponsored @amfmlife’s EXPO booth and Hilarities & Unrest: A Black Sonic Experience party this year, with @expochicago and @redbull!

We look forward to continuing an amazing partnership with @expochicago and hope you stay tuned for what we have in store next year! 👀👏🏾

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Take a good look at this photographic piece of history!! My heart is full from past week’s Chicago EXPO activities but this one by far is top 3. Saturday, the @southsidecommunityartcenter hosted our first Black Women in Arts Convening. It was a beautiful day for love, music, and community to be shared amongst some of the hardest working women and non-binary artist and administrators I know. The energy was magnetic as I was surrounded by talent and nice perfumes. Inhale this moment and understand that we all are up next. ✨

P.S. give the women of SSCAC a round of applause 👏🏾
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(If you were here, say hi!)

📷 by Lennell Davis @saintthegoodboy

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I wrapped up a few weeks of travel in March with my first visit to the Twin Cities, for my first talk of the year. Thank you to Tia-Simone Gardner @ndgeonegro for the invitation to present my seminar, "Passage," as part of the EnviroThursday - Space Place and Humanities seminar series at @macalestercollege. This seminar was an opportunity for me to discuss my work "Passage," (curated by @kapfohl and commissioned by @neworleansmuseumofart in 2019) in a fuller context. I spoke in depth about my ongoing engagement with waterways (including the Gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi River) and the landscapes of the Gulf South though the lens of Black Geographies; my background in policy studies; issues of watershed management and environmental justice in our era of climate change; and my collaborative research practice. I took the attendees on an art history detour as we examined the lineage of panoramas as a form in painting, landscape photography, and early cinema. My time at Macalester also included visits with photo students, students in spatial humanities, and other fields of study.

My return to Chicago was delayed due to a Midwest winter combination of tornados in Chicago, and a surprise snowstorm in Minneapolis. Thank you Tia for the extended hospitality. ❤️ I had the extra special treat of reconnecting with Mohamud Mumin @hundredmp at @soomaalhouse, years after our introduction in NOLA thanks to @antenna.works in 2018, and finally meeting the fantastic photographer Yasmin Yassin @yazziz in person.

Thank you also to Jeremy Meckler, and the Mississippi River School for the shout-out. Shown here: 1. Minnehaha Falls, 2. the crew ❤️, 3: installation view of Passage at NOMA, 4 and 5: George Floyd Square, 6 and 7: seminar details. #reginaagu #contemporaryart #blackcontemporaryart

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Meet Regina Agu, artist in residency at the Hyde Park Art Center. @sun_ria
"I am interested in the relationships between memory, history, language, and Black landscapes. My interest in regional geographies and landscapes began partly as a biographical exploration and grew into a deep visual study of spatial concerns."

Regina Agu was born in Houston, TX, and raised between the United States, the Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, South Africa, and Switzerland. She relocated to Chicago shortly before the start of the pandemic in 2020.

Learn more about Regina during her conversation with Bethany Collins This Thursday, 10/27, at 6 PM at the Art Center.

#HydeParkArtCenter #Residency #HPAC

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“Story of one who forgets she has forgotten“
by Erica Hunt
1. Color makes us forget the majesty of black,
2. Yet that story and others that have been forgotten is carried in
3. skin, and the skin is its mirror
4. just as a number attracts its equal
5. black hats vs white hats almost as simple
6. as that, I learned to love wearing her black hat,
7. To explain the technology of light and shadow
8. Basically, something about seeing—caught in the throat,
9. No narrative sublime required
10. What grief can fit into a book?
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Image: Regina Agu, ‘A picture containing a blur 03’. Photo courtesy of FotoFest. Image description: A flesh blur that is also a wave, on a black ground.
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Curious about at Louis Place? Information session today at 1pm EST / 12pm CST / 10am PST / 7pm CET — Request Zoom link at the link in bio.
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Ready to write with us? Accepting registrations through Friday, May 13. Register at the link in bio. A flesh blur that is also a wave, on a black ground.

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We are very pleased to announce the 10th iteration of the Jackman Goldwasser Residency. Each year, the Residency provides a platform for international, national, and local artists and curators to take creative risks within their practice and expand professional networks in the context of a historic, community-rooted art space in the heart of Chicago. ⠀
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“While we were able to deepen direct support for Chicago artists last year, we’re particularly excited to welcome visiting artists and curators back to the Art Center, to learn and connect inside our space. Visiting residents are an essential part of the program, and in 2022 we’re eager to plant seeds for long-term engagement between practices located both here and there." says Megha Ralapati, Residency Program Director.⠀
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Year-long Radicle Studio artists are:⠀
Regina Agu⠀
Joseph Lefthand⠀
Robert E. Paige⠀
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Flex Residents are:⠀
Ariella Granados (January 15 - April 24)⠀
Jennefer Hoffmann (January 12 - April 22)⠀
Noelle Garcia (May 3 - August 15)⠀
Bun Stout (August 30 - December 12)⠀
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Edra Soto will be in residency in 2022 to produce work for her 2023 solo exhibition.⠀
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Visiting Residency Program⠀
With support from the McKnight Artist Residencies consortium and the Artist Communities Alliance (ACA), we will welcome Minneapolis-based artist Melissa Clark (March 31 - April 14).⠀
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In partnership with the Black Arts Consortium at Northwestern University and Abakanowicz Arts + Culture Charitable Foundation Research + Production Fund, we will welcome curator Oyindamola Fakeye (September 26 -October 5), Creative Director of the Center for Contemporary Art in Lagos, Nigeria, and artist Kelvin Haizel (May 1-September 30) working across Ghana. Haizel is the inaugural recipient of The David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation Award.⠀
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Finally, we continue our ongoing partnership with CEC ArtsLink’s acclaimed international fellowship program to invite Latvia-based curator Tina Petersone (October 3-November 17). With support from the Abakanowicz Arts + Culture Charitable Foundation Research + Production Fund.

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Don't forget to register for tomorrow's artist talk at noon featuring "In Place of an Index" artist Regina Agu in conversation with writer, curator, and Digital + Media professor at RISD, Nora N. Khan. The two will use Agu's scanned image/alt-text generator artworks as a point of departure to engage in a conversation centered on technology, critical theory, and contemporary art. Agu and Khan will discuss the ways popular forms of artificial intelligence and photographic technology are paradoxically utilized, developed, defined, and produced by and for both activists and hegemonic actors.

This talk is free and open to the public and will be broadcast on Zoom and YouTube Live. To register for the event, visit the link in our bio.

Image: Installation view of Regina Agu's photographs in the exhibition “In Place of an Index” at FotoFest. September 2–November 13, 2021. Presented in conjunction with the Texas Biennial 2021, “A New Landscape, A Possible Horizon.” Photo courtesy of FotoFest.

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Join us next Wednesday at 12PM for a conversation featuring "In Place of an Index" artist Regina Agu with writer, curator, and Digital + Media professor at RISD, Nora Khan. The discussion will focus on their shared interests in the intersections of critical theory, art, and technology by using Agu's scanned images/alt-text generated artworks as their point of departure.

The gestures performed are a blend of spontaneous corporeal expressions and shapes that mimic art historical depictions of Black figures in moments of protest and found photos of Black movement and community. After capturing these depictions with the scanner, Agu feeds the images into an alt-text generator, which the artist describes as “an artificial-intelligence tool meant to produce texts that increase accessibility in digital space, which relies on computer vision that replicates the same biases against bodies of color inherited from the photographic and cinematic technologies of the past.”

This FREE program will be presented live online via Zoom and YouTube Live. Learn more about Regina Agu's work in the exhibition and register to attend by following the link in our bio.

Images: Installation view of Regina Agu's photographs in the exhibition “In Place of an Index” at FotoFest. September 2–November 13, 2021. Presented in conjunction with the Texas Biennial 2021, “A New Landscape, A Possible Horizon.” Photo courtesy of FotoFest.

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