6018North
We are Chicago's home for experimental art! Visit Saturdays 1-5pm We now include a hotel of 5 rooms to support artists, curators, and community.
6018North is a culturally dynamic platform that promotes experimental art, culture, and sustainability to enhance quality of life. Located in Edgewater, 6018North is a green, non-profit space that develops interconnections through food, performance, installation art, and sound.
07/19/2024
Summer Workshop - Working Studio Events ☀️ -
Summer Workshop - Working Studio Events ☀️ This Monday evening, May 22nd join us as we transform former military uniforms into paper pulp. Together we gather, sort, and cut the fabric. As we cut rags, military uniforms, and other fabric we discuss the material's origin, environmental impact, the history of paper, and U.S militarism. Sto...
07/03/2024
Summer is here ☀️ Enjoy it with us! -
Summer is here ☀️ Enjoy it with us! Each summer, 6018North hires Chicagoland High School students to learn skills and collaborate with artists and mentors. This year, we are grateful to team up with the Ismaili Center Chicago and Edgewater Environmental Coalition to bring our Youth Employment program to Vedgewater Community Garden.....
06/14/2024
Saturday: Opening Passages | Breaking Free | Dig In -
Saturday: Opening Passages | Breaking Free | Dig In This exhibition is part of a multi-site photographic project featuring recent series by ten French and American artists who engage with the historical and social dynamics at work in Chicago and Paris. The photographs, whether documentary or poetic, allow each artist to reflect with accuracy and subt...
06/07/2024
Opening Passages | Breaking Free | Dig In -
Opening Passages | Breaking Free | Dig In This exhibition is part of a multi-site photographic project featuring recent series by ten French and American artists who engage with the historical and social dynamics at work in Chicago and Paris. The photographs, whether documentary or poetic, allow each artist to reflect with accuracy and subt...
05/24/2024
Saturday: Looking for things to do? We can fill your whole day - https://mailchi.mp/9c50a30a3086/6018-5483456 Learn gardening at Vedgewater at 11:30, visit our Opening Passages exhibition, then visit our friends squatting at the Chinese American Museum.
Saturday: Looking for things to do? We can fill your whole day Please RSVP to Attend Join Edgewater Environmental Coalition for the first of our monthly Dig-In Workshops at Vedgewater Community Garden. This workshop will cover how and when to plant, companion planting, soil testing, pest control, and growing techniques, including row versus square foot gardenin...
05/03/2024
Look what appeared on the bus shelter!
- Opening Passages show at 6018North, Chicago Cultural Center, Experimental Station, BUILD Chicago
04/29/2024
Opening Passages: Photographers Respond to Chicago and Paris | Opening Saturday at 6 PM -
Opening Passages: Photographers Respond to Chicago and Paris | Opening Saturday at 6 PM This exhibition is part of a multi-site photographic project featuring recent series by ten French and American artists who engage with the historical and social dynamics at work in Chicago and Paris. The photographs, whether documentary or poetic, allow each artist to reflect with accuracy and subt...
04/05/2024
Variations on Healing: 5 Acts of Kindness | EXPO Chicago 2024 -
Variations on Healing: 5 Acts of Kindness | EXPO Chicago 2024 For EXPO Chicago 2024, Variations on Healing: 5 Acts of Kindness invites the public to choose among 5 different types of relational experiences that provide healing through a concentrated time, space and connection with an artist. Curatorial concierges consult with audience members to help choose am...
02/29/2024
Join us this Saturday at 1 PM for Water Conversation with Andrea Jackson at 6018North.
Here are some images shared by Andrea, from the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi, who will lead an open conversation about the sacredness of water.
A main goal 6018north.org/water is to rethink our relationship to water – Chicago's most important resource and vital to all life. Join us as we ask how we can best honor it and why women are the voice to care for the water.
At 2 PM, 6018North director Tricia Van Eck will lead a tour of the exhibition, and from 3-6 PM we will enjoy a closing celebration with food and drink. We'll have watery libations, soup, and other foods that hold water and nourish us!
02/27/2024
Water: Conversation, Celebration, and Closing | Saturday 1-6 PM -
Water: Conversation, Celebration, and Closing | Saturday 1-6 PM Join us on Saturday with Andrea Jackson, from the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi, for an open conversation about the sacredness of water. A main goal of this exhibition is to rethink our relationship to water – Chicago's most important resource and vital to all life. Join us as we ask how we can b...
02/16/2024
Water: Last chance for Moon Readings + Bottle Stringing | Saturday 1-5 PM -
Water: Last chance for Moon Readings + Bottle Stringing | Saturday 1-5 PM Looking ahead, please join us for the final day of Water and a closing event with Andrea Jackson (Pokagon Band of Potawatomi). This will be an open conversation about the sacredness of water. We discuss how water is honored and why women have to be the voice to care for the water.
01/18/2024
Healing Water 🌊 with Rhonda Wheatley on Sunday | Water open both Saturday and Sunday 1-5 PM -
Healing Water 🌊 with Rhonda Wheatley on Sunday | Water open both Saturday and Sunday 1-5 PM This Sunday, join artist and energy worker Rhonda Wheatley with Red Line Service for an interactive healing experience with water. We’ll briefly discuss the power and magic of water then set our intentions for the healing we’d like to receive. Next, Rhonda will lead a guided energy healing medi...
01/12/2024
Thank you Kerry Cardoza and Chicago Reader for taking so much time to thoughtfully visit, summarize, write, and print an excellent review of 6018North’s exhibition Water: “Rethinking our Relationship to Water”. As Kerry mentions in the warning, there are many artworks, documents, and videos spanning four floors, so summarizing this show so succinctly was no small feat!!
chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/our-relationship-to-water-6018north-chicago-architecture-biennial/
Thank you for mentioning so many of the works included here:
1. “Plastics S.O.S.” by Julie Carpenter
2. “Great Water” series by Jin Lee (foreground) and “Chicago by its rivers” by Jennifer Buyck (background) – photo by Nathan Kaey
3. “Great Water” series by Jin Lee (foreground) and “The End of the Mississippi River in Port Eads, Louisiana” by Virginia Hanusik (background) “Chicago by its rivers” by Jennifer Buyck (in the far background)
4. “The Hills” by Ines Sommer
5. “You are Here: Where is Your Sewage Going” by Eugenia Cheng
6. “Shore Land” by JeeYeun Lee (foreground) and “The Hills” by Ines Sommer (background)
7. “Water Facts” by Candace Hunter – photo by Nathan Kaey
8. “The River Is Me” by David Fried – photo by Nathan Kaey
9. “Indian Trails and Villages of Chicago and of Cook, DuPage and Will Counties” by Albert F. Scharf, 1900-1901 (left) and a map of the old Chicago Portage superimposed on a map of present day Chicago, by Robert Knight, 1923 (right)
10. One action that you can do!
01/10/2024
Water | Reader Review 💚 3 Weekend Events🌛 Extension to March 2, 2024 -
Water | Reader Review 💚 3 Weekend Events🌛 Extension to March 2, 2024 This Sunday join Aneela Dean with Red Line Service as she helps us move the water of life from within to guide us and connect us to wholeness, using hands, breath, and movement.
11/30/2023
Water | Moon Readings, Bottle Stringing, Community Dye Pot -
Water | Moon Readings, Bottle Stringing, Community Dye Pot Water is a partner program of the 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial. The exhibition discusses the interconnectedness and importance of water upon the City and its people. From pre-settler colonialism to present day, the availability of water has impacted Chicago’s formation, rise, and current env...
11/01/2023
Chicago Architecture Biennial Opening Weekend | Performance and Moon Readings -
Chicago Architecture Biennial Opening Weekend | Performance and Moon Readings Chicago Architecture Biennial Opening Reception Thursday, November 2 7 PM performance by Baudouin Saintyves Chicago Architecture Biennial Opening Weekend Hours and Moon Readings Saturday and Sunday, November 4 and 5 1-5 PM Moon Readings by Rebecca Beachy Saturday, November 4 1-5 PM Bottle String...
10/31/2023
Join us this Thursday at 7 PM for "Water Organoids" performance by Baudouin Saintyves in collaboration with Villa Albertine as a part of our Water: Chicago Architecture Biennial Opening Weekend Reception
10/19/2023
Celebration of Student Work and Water Exhibition | Saturday, October 21 -
Celebration of Student Work and Water Exhibition | Saturday, October 21 This event is a part of our ongoing Southside projects Justice Hotel and Soil and Soul. Justice Hotel is supported in part by The Builders Initiative.
Catch the beats, food, and last sounds of summer!!
A Soliloquy of Sound: A South Side Visual Art and Performance Activation
Sunday, October 1 from 1-4 PM
Pause For Peace Community Garden
E 75th St and S St. Lawrence Avenue, Chicago
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Join AMFM at the Pause for Peace Community Garden - Justice Hotel partners - for A Soliloquy of Sound: A South Side Visual Art and Performance Activation featuring an eclectic mix of experimental jazz and hip-hop and art set within the beautiful backdrop of art and nature nestled on Chicago’s south side. A Soliloquy of Sound features sonics and art from:
Pugs Atomz is an internationally known MC, Radio host, designer, and painter. Born in Pittsburgh, but raised in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood. He has released numerous albums, and Chicago rap compilations. His music and art has been featured in movies, sport events, & video games. As a teen he founded the legendary Nacrobats crew (200+members like Mike Eagle, Psalm One, Max Sansing, Statik RK, Ruben Aguirre to name a few). His first big break was in the 20th Century Fox Movie`Light up" he was the main character study and did all the murals in the movie For the last 20 years he has co-hosted CTA radio show interviewing established & underground artists from Chicago and worldwide on WHPK. He is one of the co-founders of the Englewood Arts Collective, using art to change the narrative of Englewood. As well as a member of THE Chicago Public Art Group, Pugs has been a mentor to Chicago’s next musicians, street artists, and clothing designers. He has traveled the world several times over with his London band The Electric, always making a lasting impression thanks to his music, energetic stage performances, forward-thinking attitude and relate-able lyrics. Hip Hop culture, worldwide and in the Chi especially, influenced him from graffiti art in his city to street performers on train while attending SAIC. On screen he has been on TV shows and independent movies in minor roles, but directing and editing has been his passion. Currently, he is the Creative Director of the fashion forward Iridium Clothing Co. designing clothing, and creating video content and events. You can also find his art on t-shirts and accessories from his personal brand and production company USUWE 93.
Semira Truth is a multidisciplinary artist from Chicago, IL. Semira’s ability to be a nuanced storyteller, combined with their glitchy hallucinating beats has led to extensive collaborative projects that they have contributed to around the globe. Semiratruth has also been praised by the Chicago Reader, Bandcamp, Pitchfork, and Artforum. Semira allows you to travel through dimensions with their words and the possibility of sound.
Isaiah Collier is a Chicago/Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, curator, activist, motivational speaker, and educator. Collier is most known for his work as a saxophonist and drummer. Collier's sound and approach is drawn from the influences of other master saxophonists including John Coltrane, Roscoe Mitchell, Wayne Shorter, Ari Brown, and Gene Ammons. Collier has shared the stage with many musicians both locally and internationally, with artists such as Chance the Rapper, Lewis Nash, Waddada Leo Smith III, Antonio Hart, Junius Paul, James Carter, Rene Marie, Carl Allen, Paul Rogers, Bennie Maupin, Rudy Van Gelder, Angel Bat Dawid, and many more. Past venues and festivals include the Jazz Showcase, Dizzy's Club Coca Cola, the Lithuania Jazz Festival, the White House, Chicago Jazz Festival, New York Winter Jazz Festival, the Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Jazz in the Court (Hyde Park), the United States Embassy in Paraguay, and others.
Bonita Appleblunt (they/them) is a Chicago Based multifaceted DJ and Audio Visual Professional who specializes in exploring the lineage of modern and underground genres with their African roots. Bonita has been nominated as Best Hip Hop DJ 2021 & 2022 by Chicago Reader's Best of, and played a set at Afropunk Brooklyn this past year. They continue to play all over the city at places like Berlin, Retreat Currency Exchange, Virgin Hotels, and Sleeping Village to name a few.
Ajmal ‘Mas Man’ Millar was born in 1986 in Brooklyn, NY and is a self taught contemporary visual artist and MAS MAN (carnival costume designer). His work includes MAS, mixed –media collage paintings, repurposed material, sculptural metal, performance, photography which interrogates notions of cultural heritage, sexual and gender identity as a first generation African –American black q***r man born to Trinidadian immigrants. In 1996, he participated in the opening/closing Ceremonies of the Olympic Games, where he performed in a costume designed and made specially by his role model and iconic costume designer Trinidadian Peter Minshall. Ajmal graduated with a B.A. in English from Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA and studied at The Art Students League of New York in 2012. He has exhibited costumes and other art works in a range of spaces including alternative spaces, club venues, carnival, ‘pop up’-events locally and regionally. In Autumn of 2019, Ajmal relocated to Chicago and is a recent graduate from the Masters of Fine Art program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
This event is a part of our ongoing Southside projects Justice Hotel and Soil and Soul.
Justice Hotel is supported in part by The Builders Initiative.
Soil and Soul is supported in part by federal assistance listing number 21.027 awarded to 6018North by the US Treasury through the American Rescue Plan Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds in the amount of $45,000 representing 50% of total project funding.
Soil and Soul is partially supported by a Together We Heal Creative Place grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events and the Mayor's Office of Equity and Justice.
09/29/2023
A Soliloquy of Sound: A South Side Visual Art and Performance Activation | October 1 and Water | Saturdays at 6018North -
A Soliloquy of Sound: A South Side Visual Art and Performance Activation | October 1 and Water | Saturdays at 6018North Join AMFM at the Pause for Peace Community Garden - Justice Hotel partners - for A Soliloquy of Sound: A South Side Visual Art and Performance Activation featuring an eclectic mix of experimental jazz and hip-hop and art set within the beautiful backdrop of art and nature nestled on Chicago’s sou...
09/21/2023
Water: Chicago River at the Scale of the Anthropocene September 22 at 7 PM a panel discussion with Jennifer Buyck, Adam Flickinger, Ron Henderson, and Phil Nicodemus Friday
Water: Opening Reception Sunday, September 24 at 5 PM and Surface Tension performance by Anna Johnson 7 PM at 6018North
Join us this weekend for the launch of "Water" featuring work by Rebecca Beachy with Nina Barnett and Christine Wallers, Jennifer Buyck, Julie Carpenter, Eugenia Cheng, David Freid, Virginia Hanusik, Candace Hunter, Anna Johnson, Matthew Kaplan, Roland Knowlden, JeeYeun Lee, Jin Lee, Meredith Leich, Pierre-Alexandre Savriacouty, Tria Smith, and Ines Sommer.
Presented as a partner project of the Chicago Architecture Biennial , Water uses the Chicago River as an entryway to discuss the interconnectedness and relational importance of water upon the City and its people. From pre-settler colonialism to present day, the availability of water has impacted the City of Chicago’s formation, rise, and current environmental concerns. The exhibition begins with a contemporary view of the Chicago River through the video of artist/architect Jennifer Buyck walking along the entire river. The exhibition also looks to Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River to correlate universal costs of exploitation, commodification, control, and renewal of waterways. Water’s impact and importance is much more than just economical and environmental. Water—essential to life—is a shared resource that connects all.
An ongoing piece of the exhibition is a water parole donnée, parole rendu – an exchange of water stories in Chicago, by Chicagoans. Through a series of community storytelling engagements, people across Chicago collect water samples and tell the story of their water. Scientists, activists, and historians respond to the water and stories. The collection is presented in 6018North’s stairway connecting the themes of the exhibition. You are invited to contribute to this piece when you visit Water.
Photo here is by Jin Lee, Great Water #25
09/19/2023
Water | September 22 to February 3 at 6018|North -
Water | September 22 to February 3 at 6018|North Chicago River at the Scale of the Anthropocene Friday, September 22 at 7 PM preview panel with Jennifer Buyck, Adam Flickinger, Ron Henderson, and Phil Nicodemus
09/17/2023
Join us today for Water Music on the Beach: Persephone 🏖 Sunday, September 17, 2023
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Performers include Braeden Barnes + Michelle Meltzer: Symbiosis, Whitney Bradshaw-Outcry, Coco Elysses, Elaine Lemieux, Trevor Nicholas & the Senn Choir, Sakai Parker, Ella Schultz, Angie Tillges-Wayfinding.
Water Music on the Beach is an annual series of live performances in Edgewater. Water Music on the Beach: Persephone is a collaboration between 6018North and Tria Smith, as part of ongoing research in sustainable strategies for Art Design Chicago 2024, an initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art investigating and elevating Chicago’s rich visual art and design histories and creative communities.
On Sunday, September 17 the performance begins at 5:30 PM at Lane Beach with a sound wash by Sakai Parker. Neighbors who have transformed trash into lanterns, gathered from monthly cleanups with Edgewater Environmental Coalition, will meet at 5:00 PM at the Broadway Armory and begin a procession to Lane Beach at 5:15 PM.
6018North thanks The Puffin Foundation for their support of this project. Huge thanks to Jane Georges for tubing and Emanuel Congregation for electricity.Thank you to Eileen Ryan for photography, and Rebecca Hunter for production support!
Come join us on the beach!
09/06/2023
Water Music on the Beach: Persephone | September 17 at Lane Beach -
Water Music on the Beach: Persephone | September 17 at Lane Beach On Sunday, September 17 the performance begins at 5:30 PM at Lane Beach with a sound wash by Sakai Parker. Neighbors who have been transforming trash into lanterns, gathered from monthly cleanups with Edgewater Environmental Coalition, will meet at 5:00 PM at the Broadway Armory and begin a process...
06/15/2023
6018|North and South -
6018|North and South Soil and Soul energizes community gardens as healing hubs and economic generators in Greater Grand Crossing through land stewardship, conversational meals, performances, and workshops. Artists, curators, chefs, youth, and neighbors collaborate to remediate the soil, create intergenerational exchange...
04/10/2023
EXPO Chicago: Can Circularity Save Us? | April 13 to April 16, 2023 -
EXPO Chicago: Can Circularity Save Us? | April 13 to April 16, 2023 Navy Pier Festival Hall Booth #480 600 E Grand Ave, Chicago IL April 13 – April 16, 2023 VIP PREVIEW Thursday, April 13 | 12pm–6pm with Vernissage 6pm–9pm GENERAL ADMISSION Friday, April 14 | 11am–7pm Saturday, April 15 | 11am–7pm Sunday, April 16 | 11am–6pm
01/17/2023
Celebrate Another New Year | Saturday, January 21 at 6018North -
Celebrate Another New Year | Saturday, January 21 at 6018North Happy New Year! Join us for a lunar celebration with a family of artists: JI Yang, Zhuyan Ye, Zachary Sun, I-Chien Chen, Jinlu Luo, Xu Yue, and Ajumma Rising. We'll gather together from 3-6 PM to prepare traditional food and delicacies, and 6-10 PM we'll celebrate! Please RSVP for this event, so ...
12/08/2022
Join 6018North founder Tricia Van Eck this Sunday, December 11 at 3pm at Evanston Art Center for a conversation with Connie Noyes to discuss the exhibition "we are built in water"
evanstonartcenter.org/exhibitions/connie-noyes
The talk will be held in-person at the Evanston Art Center and virtually via Zoom. After registering for a on Eventbrite, EAC will email you more information on how to log into the event via Zoom with the Meeting ID and password. Learn more: eventbrite.com/e/in-focus-lecture-in-conversation-with-connie-noyes-and-tricia-van-eck-tickets-452138186487
10/25/2022
Painting a Mural for Lauren Stumblingbear | Friday, Oct 28 at 6018North -
Painting a Mural for Lauren Stumblingbear | Friday, Oct 28 at 6018North Join us 2-8 PM in painting a mural followed by a dinner celebration honoring the life, art, and activism of Lauren Stumblingbear. 6018North hosts a shared meal and discussion alongside artists Pablo Mendoza, Sarah Ross, Heather Canuel, and friends of Bear. The mural is a paint-by-number approach...
08/02/2022
Sustainable Sustenance | August 9 + September 13 - https://mailchi.mp/2716762b739a/6018-5223120
Sustainable Sustenance | August 9 + September 13 Sustainable Sustenance gathers artists, environmental scholars, historians, and activists to explore Chicago’s land, water, and air from its past to its present. Join us for the first convening on Tuesday, August 9 with featured guests Les Begay, Julia S. Bachrach, and Dick Lanyon. During the...
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