Lillstreet Art Center is an
arts center in
Chicago, Illinois
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, United States. It is one of the oldest and most successful co-ops in Chicago
and its facilities include classrooms for arts education, a gallery, an artist residency program, studio spaces, and a community outreach program.
History
The center began as a ceramics studio in a renovated horse barn on Lillstreet in 1975, by clay salesman, Bruce Robbins.
It quickly outgrew its space and, in 2003, Lillstreet relocated to a former gear factory on
Ravenswood Avenue, increasing its space from to .
The new facility has added metalsmithing & jewelry, painting & drawing, printmaking, textiles, glass, and digital arts & photography.
Lillstreet also houses First Slice Pie Café whose proceeds help fund First Slice which provides more than 300 lunches to people in need.
First Slice also benefits from the annual
Empty Bowls
Empty Bowls is an international project to fight hunger, personalised by artists and art organisations on a community level. The money raised is donated to soup kitchens, food banks and other organisations fighting hunger locally.
The promotion an ...
event which is hosted at Lillstreet and supported by Lillstreet potters who contribute bowls to the event.
In 2012, a
green roof
A green roof or living roof is a roof of a building that is partially or completely covered with vegetation and a growing medium, planted over a waterproofing membrane. It may also include additional layers such as a root barrier and drainage ...
was installed at the center. It was designed as a gravel path with plants on either side. In 2015, Lillstreet celebrated its 40th year in business.
Gallery exhibitions
Exhibitions at the Lillstreet Art Center include,
* ''Reformat: Digital Fabrication in Clay'' combined traditional ceramic techniques with digital fabrication such as
3D printing
3D printing or additive manufacturing is the Manufacturing, construction of a three-dimensional object from a computer-aided design, CAD model or a digital 3D modeling, 3D model. It can be done in a variety of processes in which material is ...
and computer-controlled routers.
* ''Neat: The Art of the Whiskey Vessel''was an exhibit of ceramic bottles, cups, flasks, jugs, and whiskey buckets.
* ''100 Acts of Sewing'', an exhibit of the fiber artist, Sonya Phillip.
* ''Graphic Noise: Gig Posters from the Chicago Printers Guild'', an exhibit of Chicago-based printmakers.
* ''Cairn & Cloud: A Collective Expression of Trauma and Hope'' was created by Corinne Peterson, and composed of clay and porcelain objects made by workshops members dealing with trauma and grief.
* ''Before I Die…'', was an outdoor,
chalkboard-based, art exhibit that encouraged passers-by to fill in the open-ended sentence. Originally conceived by artist Candy Chang.
* ''
In the Penal Colony
"In the Penal Colony" ("") (also translated as "In the Penal Settlement") is a short story by Franz Kafka written in German in October 1914, revised in November 1918, and first published in October 1919. As in some of Kafka's other writings, the ...
'' was
Philip Glass
Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century. Glass's work has been associated with minimal music, minimalism, being built up fr ...
' adaptation of
Kafka's short story, staged by the Chicago Fringe Opera. The chamber opera was performed in the painting and drawing studio.
References
External links
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1975 establishments in Illinois
Art museums and galleries in Chicago
Arts centers in Illinois