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• New Year Affirmations

  Posted at 5:39 pm by jan, on February 3, 2017

  Greetings All!

  As the Chinese New Year approaches, Betty and I got in on some of the celebration this week at a favorite community space…

  

  Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E Washington

  Chinese Arts Society hosted a one hour presentation of song, dance, music, and martial arts. Kicking off the year of the rooster was of course these handmade incredible beast…

  

  

  

  Yay!!! From the lion’s mouth a red “envelope” symbolizes the extension of well wishes, good health, prosperity, and happiness in the new year.

  

  Traditional music invited the Long Yun Kung Fu Troupe to showcase martial arts. 

  

  Long Yun Kung Fu Troupe is famous for the artistic way in which they present traditional Chinese martial arts. On a side note, each artist was selected for the troupe by martial artist and actor, Jackie Chan.

  

  

  Local dance emphasizing tradition.

  Last was this Mongolese singer that blew our minds!

  Alright, Betty and I are off on our next journey, encouraging you to join in, and of course inviting you to post your experience here and SHOW ME WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW!!!

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• Informed by Family

  Posted at 5:00 pm by jan, on July 14, 2016

  This week’s adventure begins at the …

  

  Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St.

  Both exhibitions featured below share a common thread where bodies of work are informed by family culture. Regardless of medium, I am always drawn to artist’s visual biography and how they present these ideas.

  Carlos Rolon/Dzine exhibits, I Tell you This Sincerely, where installations, sculpture, and paintings reference memories with family and pay homage to the hopes and dreams of immigrants, in particular his parents, who come to the US for a better life.

  

  

   

  

  

  

  Phyllis Bramson’s, Under the Pleasure Dome, displays assemblages and paintings layering family memories and it’s cultural influences then and now.

  

  Adam and Eve (The Perfumed Garden and The Loss of Happiness) , mixed media, 2016

  

  

  Rapunzel’s Scenario, mixed media, collage and oil on canvas

  

  3 Dilettante Artists (The Love of Outsiders), mixed media, collage and oil on canvas

  

  Serial Longing, mixed media, collage and oil on canvas

  

  The Good Keeper of the Animals and Birds, mixed media, 2016

  Thanks to the Chicago Cultural Center for presenting these personal stories where art connects us all.

  Ok explorers, we’re off on our next adventure and inviting you to do the same. Along the way, look for art and artistic expression EVERYWHERE! Post your experience here and SHOW ME WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW!

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• Roaming Beast

  Posted at 5:00 pm by jan, on March 30, 2016

  Greetings All! Betty and I are super jazzed because spring is HERE! We’re back on the streets and more excited than ever. First stop…

  

  The Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington Street

  Through May 1 make sure you check out the kinetic beast of Theo Jansen. Created to roam the beaches of the Netherlands, eight of his works are featured in an exhibition entitled, Strandbeest (beach animals) and currently inhabit the Cultural Center. Also on exhibit are…

  

  Demonstrations on how these creatures travel. Animaris Suspendisse, 2014

  

  

  Smaller interactive beast.

  

  The evolution of design and process, Animaris Apodiacula 2012-2013

  

  Animaris Adulari, 2012

  

  Animaris Umerus Segundus, 2014

  

  Remnants or “fossils” of beast past

  

  

  

  

  Video, photography, and drawings documenting 25 years of development

   

  

  

  

  

  Overwhelmed by the hours and hours of work Jansen has put into these moving sculptures, I couldn’t help but wonder what he has learned that will contribute to future pieces. And although they are created to travel the sands, these life-like monochromatic creatures are absolutely stunning against the interior of the Cultural Center. A must see.

  Alright! Betty and I are off on our next adventure but before we go we’re extending to you a great big invitation to get out there, explore, look for art EVERYWHERE, and then SHOW ME WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW!!!

   

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