Interested in exploring your creative side this summer? Take a free one-day art class through the School of Art and Design! UIC Free Art School is offering free art classes this summer, July 6 through August 10. Admission is free and open to everyone on a first-come, first-serve basis. For more information and to register: uicfreeartschool.wordpress.com
The UIC Free Art School is continuing to add courses, but here’s a current sample of what’s available:
Alberto Aguilar
An Extraordinary Family Art Adventure with a Surprise
August 2 or August 3, 2:00 p.m. to 5:00
400 South Peoria at UIC Art & Exhibition Hall
Christine Sun Kim
A Choir of Glances
July 15 and 16 at 3p.m. to 5, each workshop followed by a public performance at 5:30
Chicago Cultural Center, Garland Room
Dan Peterman
City Mouse Country Mouse
July 19th, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Convene at 8 a.m. in Millennium Park, and take the train from Millennium Station to Manilow Sculpture Park
Theaster Gates
Soul Music and Soul Sculpture
August 4 at 7 p.m. to 10
Theaster Gates Studio (address will be given to attendees)
Krista Franklin
Afro-Surrealism and the Contemporary Cultural Production
August 2 at 2 p.m. to 5
106 Henry Hall, 929 West Harrison Street
Faheem Majeed
“Seat of Power” Sculpture Class
July 19 and 20, 2 p.m. to 5
400 South Peoria, Sculpture Studio, Floor 4
Elise Archias
“What the Hell is Contemporary Art Right Now?”
July 6th at 2 p.m. to 3 or July 8th at 6 p.m. to 7
Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 East Chicago Avenue
Riva Lehrer
Ghost Bodies Portraiture Workshop
July 17 and 18, (this is a two-day workshop) 2 p.m. to 5
400 South Peoria, UIC Art and Exhibition Hall, 4th Floor Sculpture Hall
Hannah Higgins
Croissant, Café au Lait, and Hausmann’s ‘City of Light’
July 12, 9 a.m. to 11
Residents Dining Hall Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 South Halsted
Jennifer Reeder
Feminist Parking Lot
July 12, 2 p.m. to 5
400 South Peoria, 5th Floor, The Great Space.
