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Title Culture in action : a public art program of Sculpture Chicago / curated by Mary Jane Jacob ; essays by Mary Jane Jacob, Michael Brenson, Eva M. Olson.

Publication Info. Seattle : Bay Press, [1995]
Š1995

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection M Schick  701.0309773 C899 1995    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 143 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
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unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Contents New art, new audiences: experiments in public art / Eva M. Olson. -- Healing in time / Michael Brenson. -- Outside the Loop / Mary Jane Jacob. -- Eight projects / Mary Jane Jacob. -- Full circle. Suzanne Lacy and a coalition of Chicago women. -- Tele-vecindario. Iņigo Manglano-Ovalle and street-level video. -- Flood. Haha and Flood: a volunteer network for active participation in healthcare. -- Naming others: manufacturing yourself. Robert Peters with mushroom pickers, ghosts, frogs, and others. -- The Chicago Urban Ecology Action Group. Mark Dion and the Chicago Urban Ecology Action Group. -- We got it! The workforce makes the candy of their dreams. Simon Grennan, Christopher Sperandio, and the Bakery, Confectionery and Tobacco Workers' International Union of America Local No. 552. -- Eminent domain. Kate Ericson, Mel Ziegler, and a resident group of Ogden Courts Apartments. -- Consequences of a gesture and 100 victories/10,000 tears. Daniel J. Martinez and the West Side Three-Point Marchers.
Summary The Chicago-based art program "Culture in Action" addressed such pressing urban issues as minority youth leadership and gang violence, HIV/AIDS caregiving, public housing, multicultural demographics and neighborhood, achievements by women, labor and management relations, and ecology. "Culture in Action" took place from 1992 through 1993 and was organized by Sculpture Chicago, a decade-old visual arts organization that specializes in unique public art and education programs. Seeking to bridge art and life, eight innovative artist and community partnerships unfolded with results as diverse as a storefront hydroponic garden, a new line of candy, and an ecological field station. These investigations into urban artmaking were activated by participating artists selected by curator Mary Jane Jacob for their interest in critical social issues and testing the boundaries of public art.
Subject Sculpture Chicago (Organization)
Art and society -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Community arts projects -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Popular culture -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Sculpture Chicago (Organization) (OCoLC)fst00705675
Art and society. (OCoLC)fst00815432
Community arts projects. (OCoLC)fst00870681
Popular culture. (OCoLC)fst01071344
Illinois -- Chicago. (OCoLC)fst01204048
Added Author Jacob, Mary Jane, curator, contributor.
Brenson, Michael, contributor.
Olson, Eva M., contributor.
Sculpture Chicago (Organization)
ISBN 0941920313
9780941920315

 
    
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