South Side Community Art Center
Chicago, United States
WebsiteFounded in 1940, SSCAC is the oldest African American art center in the United States and is a Chicago Historic Landmark. While taking pride in our rich past, we today build on our legacy and innovatively serve as an artist- and community-centered resource with programs, exhibitions and events that inspire.
SSCAC showcases established artists and nurtures emerging creators. Through educational and artistic programs, exhibitions, talks, tours, and more, the center strives to engage, educate and connect community members to African American art and artists.
SSCAC is proud to have partnerships with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College and the University of Chicago. The center is supported by Alphawood Foundation Chicago, Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Chicago Community Trust, the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, the Driehaus Foundation, the Field Foundation of Illinois, the Joyce Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Monarch Awards Foundation, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund.
CAB 5 Contribution
Project Overview
3831 Activation I-IV
Conjuring the framework of “Rehearsal”, within and outside of the context of our iconic Bauhaus designed Burroughs Gallery, we intend for these activations to both complicate and highlight South Side Community Art Center as an evolving incubator of new knowledge production, perpetually in a constant state of movement and unfolding. What does it mean for this Black institution to continue to evolve and move forward while in a constant state of redevelopment and flux? Where do we find the poetics and advantages within this state? How does one or the collective respond to these states inciting curiosity, memory, and improvisation? This approach will allude to the many gestures, and ways that SSCAC is sustained by the Black imagination in relation to space, place, and time.
3831 Activation I: Friendship Meditation: A Rehearsal
3831 Activation II: The Last Greenbook Walking Tour with Nia Easley
3831 Activation III: The Haus: An Introspective of House Music, Bauhaus Architecture + Queer Aesthetics at 3831, moderated by SSCAC Exhibitions Manager and Curator Lola Ayisha Ogbara
3831 Activation IV: Iteration(s), with Jared Brown and Briana Lynn
Venue
View moreSouth Side Community Art Center
Address
3831 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60653
Neighborhood
Bronzeville
Description
Founded in 1940, SSCAC is the oldest Black American art center in the United States and is a Chicago Historic Landmark. While taking pride in our rich past, we today build on our legacy and innovatively serve as an artist- and community-centered resource with programs and contemporary arts exhibitions. The mission of the South Side Community Art Center is to conserve, preserve and promote the legacy and future of Black American art and artists while educating the community on the value of art and culturally specific programming.