Hyde Park Art Center Archives

The artist stands in the street embroidering. A crowd of people can be seen behind her, as well as a tall church-like building. The artist wears glasses and a brown dress.

Artist Rufina Bazlova uses embroidery as a form of ‘gentle protest’

by Lisa Korneichuk October 10, 2023October 16, 2023

Rufina Bazlova is not afraid to surrender her art to activism. Born in Belarus, a former Soviet republic ruled by the authoritarian leader Aleksandr Lukashenko for 29 years now, Bazlova knows all too well that being apolitical is a privilege many Eastern Europeans cannot afford. 2020 was a pivotal year for Belarus, not only because […]

A sculpture sits on a wooden table with a wall outlet behind it. The base is a round black circle, and a golden rod extends up from the base, above which are two layers of acrylic with a gold animal head at the top.

Arts & Culture

The alchemy of everyday happiness

by Annette LePique June 12, 2023June 27, 2023

Do you possess a talisman, a lucky charm? Like the amulets of history and myth, these objects can be the beads you wore, the fragrance you sprayed, the ceramic shard you grasped during moments of triumph and survival: the alchemy of everyday happiness. It’s this shared history that imbues these items with their energy, their […]

A portrait of the artist sitting in a wicker chair. She is wearing a pink shirt and smiling at the camera. In the background is a pink umbrella that matches the color of her shirt.

Arts & Culture

Edra Soto’s Graft project comes to the Hyde Park Art Center

by Ally Fouts March 23, 2023October 16, 2023

“Prolific” understates the artworks artist Edra Soto has contributed to the cultural scene, radiating from Chicago and stretching to New York, California, Brazil, and beyond. Born in Puerto Rico, Soto treats her roots as a blueprint, building expansive bodies of work upon the boundless inspiration she finds within them. Over the course of the previous […]

Video still shows a pier extending into Lake Michigan in Chicago. A person and their dog walks along the pier. Drone footage of Gaza is projecting along the bottom of the pier, in a thin panoramic strip.

Arts & Culture

Present absence

by Kerry Cardoza February 3, 2023February 2, 2023

“Regarding the Missing Objects,” a group exhibition on view at the Hyde Park Art Center, takes absence as its theme. There is the absence of one of the artists whose work is included in the show, Dana Carter, who died before the exhibition opened. Then there are the missing objects of the show’s title, a […]

a piece of art from Sofia Fernandez Diaz

Agenda

‘Ground Floor,’ movie trivia, and more

by Micco Caporale, Taryn Allen and Salem Collo-Julin December 14, 2022December 14, 2022

Since 2010, the Hyde Park Art Center (5020 S. Cornell) has hosted “Ground Floor,” a biennial exhibition featuring work by “Chicago’s most promising emerging talent.” The show is assembled by an esteemed panel of judges including curators, educators, and artists, and it features work from artists who’ve graduated from one of Chicago’s five MFA programs […]

Lincoln Park Zoo's ZooLights display near a water feature at the zoo, at night

Agenda

Wine tasting, Nicole Mitchell book release, ZooLights

by Micco Caporale and Salem Collo-Julin November 22, 2022November 22, 2022

Still planning your tasting menu for Thanksgiving? Then you’ll want to check out Easy Does It (2354 N Milwaukee). From 6-9 PM, they’ll be providing samples of over 35 drinks and other treats to inspire your holiday tables. As explained on Instagram, you can expect “lots of wine, beer, cider, no & low, aperitivos, vermouths, […]

A line of four dancers leaning on each other to the left. They are in pink and purple tops and wearing light-colored trousers or presenting bare legs. The background is a lacy wall with rectangular cutouts.

Arts & Culture

Tools for new movement

by Irene Hsiao September 15, 2022September 16, 2022

On September 24, Toolbox @ Twenty opens at the Hyde Park Art Center (HPAC) to celebrate the Seldoms’ 20th anniversary with an exhibition and performances in a large-scale experiment in collaboration among dancers, visual artists, and the alternative visual arts exhibition space. Curated by the Seldoms’ founding artistic/executive director Carrie Hanson in collaboration with HPAC […]

City Life

Taste, watch, and find your homeland

by Kerry Reid, Micco Caporale and Salem Collo-Julin July 8, 2022August 6, 2022

Looking for something to do this weekend and beyond? Here are some ideas for you. FRI 7/8 Ray Borchers’s “Coasting on None” opens tonight at T.F. Projects (1513 N. Western, Unit 104), the private showroom of local artist and odd man Tony Fitzpatrick. Borchers is known in the music community for Sharpie-rendered T-shirts of cult […]

Arts & Culture

Loving, repeating, collaborating, and intimacy

by Coco Picard May 16, 2022May 16, 2022

In a new exhibition, longtime collaborators Dutes Miller and Stan Shellabarger created an immersive multimedia installation that explores intimacy, distance, and the fluctuations between. The above comic captures their reflections on making together and materials in play. Text from the comic is transcribed here to ease readability. Our collaboration developed organically. We were both ceramic […]

line drawings of artist Edra Soto, her dog Ita, and Chicago arts administrator Teresa Silva

Arts & Culture

Temp check

by Coco Picard March 2, 2022March 2, 2022

Interviewees: Alma Weiser, director of Heaven Gallery; Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum curator of modern and contemporary art at the Block Museum of Art; Asha Iman Veal, associate curator at the Museum of Contemporary Photography; Teresa Silva, executive and artistic director of the Chicago Artists Coalition; Edra Soto, artist and codirector of the […]