Hyde Park Art Center announced the programming lineup for their fall 2024 season and its set to kick off with a dynamic collaboration with the Hyde Park Jazz Festival. The renowned non-profit hub for contemporary art located on Chicago’s South Side, will celebrate the 100th Anniversary of James Baldwin’s birthday (born August 2, 1924) with a performance in collaboration with the upcoming 18th Annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival on Saturday, September 28. The celebration will include “performance by Chicago Poet Laureate avery r. young and his band, the de deacon board in the galleries of the critically-acclaimed The United Colors of Rober Earl Paige exhibition” as part of the Hyde Park Jazz Festival on Saturday, September 28 at 2:00pm.
Programming offered at the Hyde Park Art Center are free, showcasing artists at every stage in their career, via solo and group exhibitions, artist talks, residencies, a new program for seniors, and more. In addition to the Hyde Park Jazz festival collaboration celebrating James Baldwin’s birthday, anchoring the season is the Hyde Park Art Center’s annual gala and after-party, taking place this year on November 15, 2024 at 5:30pm.
The ongoing The United Colors of Robert Earl Paige exhibition which opened April 6 and will run through October 27 is part of the fall lineup that also includes an Artist Talk at the Hyde Park Art Center September 26.
Hyde Park Art Center is a hub for contemporary arts in Chicago, serving as a gathering and production space for artists and the broader community to cultivate ideas, impact social change, and connect with new networks. The Art Center functions as an amplifier for today and tomorrow’s creative voices, providing the space to cultivate and create new work and connections.
EXHIBITS:
Cecilia Beaven: Flickering Cocoon
October 12, 2024 – April 6, 2025
Interdisciplinary artist Cecilia Beaven creates mystical environments and narratives through her large graphic wall paintings. Her paintings and sculptures first appeared at the Art Center in Ground Floor (2020) and continued to develop on site during her Radicle Residency (2021). This exhibition will feature a new temporary mural, drawings, and small clay and paper-mâché sculptures by Beaven featuring the women-centered worlds she has been illustrating over the past five years. This exhibition is presented in collaboration with the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, which will simultaneously feature a companion mural and installation by Beaven.
Positions: New landscapes
October 26, 2024 – February 23, 2025
This group exhibition features works by six Chicago-based artists–Lydia Cheshewalla, Kelly Kristin Jones, Norman Long, zakkiyyah najeebah dumas o’neal, Elsa Muñoz, and Leticia Pardo–who explore the potential of landscape in contemporary art to contribute to timely conversations about relationships between sites and history, place and belonging, and environmental justice and land stewardship. Working in a diverse range of media including photography, sculpture, sound, installation, and painting, the artists in the exhibition curated by Mariela Acuña reinvent the traditional genre of landscape to explore its capacity to intervene in civic dialogs rooted in place. Positions highlights both the artist’s unique approach to engaging the landscape and how their individual identities have shaped their perspective on the histories and practices their works address. This exhibition is generously supported by the Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Charitable Foundation Research and Production Fund.
For program information and details on upcoming events at the Hyde ParkArt Center, please visit hydeparkart.org
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