đź‘Ź đź‘Ź đź‘Ź Congratulations to recent @cranbrookfiber alumni, JeeYeun Lee (Fiber '18) and Phoebe Kuo (3D Design '19), who were awarded a $4,000 grant for their public art project, Whose Lakefront. #CAAalumni #cranbrookfiber #cranbrookacademyofart đź“· by @thepropellerfund: "2019 Propeller Fund Awardee highlight: Whose Lakefront (JeeYeun Lee and Phoebe Kuo) Whose Lakefront is a performative public art piece that highlights unceded indigenous land in the heart of downtown Chicago. It marks the original 1830 shoreline at Michigan Ave and the unceded landfill to the east through public workshops that invite the community to examine settler colonialist assumptions about land, place, history, and belonging. JeeYeun Lee is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and activist. She uses both research and intuition to investigate dynamics of power and connection in place, labor, language, colonization, and social issues, looking at systemic violences and their histories as well as what exceeds and escapes them Trained as a furniture maker and ethnographer, Phoebe Kuo appropriates traditional woodworking techniques to comment on place and context. Whose Lakefront has been awarded $4000 by the Propeller Fund @jeeyeun @pfebes @three_walls @gallery400 #propellerfund2019 #propellerfundawardee #chicago #cookcounty #artistsupport" 1w
Congratulations to all the Propeller Fund 2019 Awardees from last night's awards ceremony! We are very excited to back your wonderful projects this year! Propeller Fund exists to stimulate growth of independent cultural production throughout Chicago; to encourage more varied models of art production and presentation; to spread artistic activities into more diverse areas; to promote the public's interaction with and public recognition of such activities in our city; and to spark ambitions beyond current formats. @three_walls @gallery400 #propellerfund #propellerfund2019 #propellerfundawardee #chicago #cookcounty #artistsupport
@sincintaprevia + Chuquimarca (SCP+C) are proud to announce we’re joining forces in 2020 through the gracious support of @thepropellerfund Blurring the lines between ciné club, reading room and art space, Sin Cinta Previa + Chuquimarca (SCP+C) is a collaboration between a video-art series, project space and growing library creating visibility, place and discussion with and for Native, Caribbean and Latinx artists in Chicago. SCP+C offers and seeks exhibitions, performances and screenings through open calls while also pulling from within its community of Chicago-based artists, cultural workers and thinkers. SCP+C manifests opportunities to bridge our local contemporary art dialogue with artists and audiences nationally and across the Americas. Through our collaborative curatorial effort SCP+C fights against the constant invisibility and forced cultural amnesia targeted against our diasporas by showcasing and celebrating the work of our peers and contemporaries. Stay tuned for more... @chuquimarca.projects #chuquimarcaprojects @lu3ge #sincintaprevia #propellerfund2019 #propellerfundawardee #propellerfund
2019 Propeller Fund Awardee highlight: The Court of Public Opinion (Rashayla Marie Brown, Jason Boulware and Jean Matelski (JJ Effect), Brianna McIntyre, Patrice Perkins, Esq.) The Court of Public Opinion is a performance, installation, film, and contract writing project invoking public trails of character with the aesthetics of a courtroom television set that addresses real issues of ethics and financial exploitation. It reimagines the set of courtroom TV shows, with different people switching roles playing judge, witness, expert witness, prosecutor, defendant, and jury. The physical installation will take place within a non-sales oriented community art space to generate dialogue about performativity, public discourse, entertainment, social responsibility, and the problematics of “social practice.” The Court of Public Opinion has been awarded $4000 by the Propeller Fund @rmbstudios @gallery400 @three_walls #propellerfundawardee #propellerfund2019 #propellerfund #chicago #cookcounty #artistsupport
2019 Propeller Fund Awardee highlight: The 2020 Official Unofficial Voting Station: Voting for All Who Legally Can’t Mobile Art Cart Edition (Aram Han Sifuentes and William Estrada) The 2020 Official Unofficial Voting Station: Voting for All Who Legally Can’t Mobile Art Cart Edition will take place on the neighborhood streets of Chicago via multilingual mobile art cart to engage the public in symbolic acts of voting addressing disenfranchisement, voter suppression, and civic engagement. On the mobile art cart, which will take place in various neighborhoods, Sifuentes and Estrada will invite the public to make art and screen print stylized ballots for the 2020 elections onto paper, fabric, shirts, and to mark their vote directly onto these freshly created art pieces. The Un-Official Voting Station/Mobile Art Cart itself becomes the center of activity and alongside the making, conversations taking place around community issues, disenfranchisement, immigration rights, etc. At the core of the project is a reimagining of voting by bringing this action directly to the streets, particularly in neighborhoods and communities where many people cannot legally vote. In a season where the disenfranchised are deemed to be silent and invisible, these mobile art cart stations will be not only a site for casting symbolic votes, but also will serve as a site for loud celebration, imagination, and protest. The power in this project is in the gesture that it creates, and the connections it creates through art making. The 2020 Official Unofficial Voting Station has been awarded $6000 by the Propeller Fund. @gallery400 @three_walls @aramhansifuentes #propellerfundawardee #propellerfund2019 #propellerfund #chicago #cookcounty #artistsupport @werdmvmnt
2019 Propeller Fund Awardee highlight: The Chicago Tiller (PansyGuild) The Chicago Tiller is an experimental publication that is part calendar, part almanac, and part arts publication. To realize The Chicago Tiller, PansyGuild will facilitate a series of workshops with QTIPOC artists. Workshop participants will reflect on interdependence and their innate and ancestral truths that they use as an armor for moving through the world. Pansyguild will design and print (using letterpress, relief, screenprint, risography, and digital printing methods) The Chicago Tiller in an edition of 200, working with each participating artist on their individual work and month in the publication. PansyGuild is a collaboration between artists River Ian Kerstetter and Charles Ryan Long. PansyGuild is an experimental research project that uses artmaking– specifically, printmaking and papermaking– as its primary tool for inquiry, but also draws on the artists' experiences as teachers, organizers, urban farmers, and gender non-conforming queers. The Chicago Tiller has been awarded $6000 by the Propeller Fund @pansyguild @three_walls @gallery400 #propellerfund #propellerfund2019 #propellerfundawardee #artistsupport #chicago #cookcounty
2019 Propeller Fund Awardee Highlight: Sin Cinta Previa + Chuquimarca (Jose Luis Benavides and John H. Guevara) Blurring the lines between ciné club, reading room and art space, Sin Cinta Previa + Chuquimarca (SCP+C) is a collaboration between a video-art series, project space and growing library creating visibility, place and discussion with and for Native, Caribbean and Latinx artists in Chicago. SCP + C manifests opportunities to bridge our local contemporary art dialogue with artists and audiences nationally and across the Americas. Jose Luis Benavides is a queer Latinx artist, filmmaker and educator. John H. Guevara runs Chuquimarca - a project space and apartment library focused on the Native, Mexican, Caribbean, and Central and South American contemporary art and culture discourse in Chicago The Sin Cinta Previa project has been awarded $6000 from the Propeller Fund @lu3ge @gallery400 @three_walls #chicago #cookcounty #artistsupport #propellerfund2019 #propellerfundawardee #propellerfund @chuquimarca.projects
2019 Propeller Fund Awardee highlight: Mothers Of Color (M.O.C.) Creative Residency (Wisdom Baty, Aisha Truss-Miller, Kristina Wilkerson, Alyssa Martinez and Sabuwra Baty) This Research & Development Grant will pilot one residency for The Mothers of Color Creative Residency Program, a 3 month residency experience open to mothers of color on Chicago's South Side. The piloted residency for research and development will provide skill-building strategies to support a mother's creative practice once the residency is over. Wisdom Baty is an artist, parent, arts administrator and educator interested in reimagining physical space and historical accuracy for the black female body. Her artworks encompass themes centering ancestral memory, autonomy, authorship and black motherhood. Wisdom creates drawings, paintings, text-based artworks and classroom curriculum that explore the complex relationships these paradigms share. The Mother of Color Creative Residency Program has been awarded a Research and Development Grant of $2000 @wayswemake @three_walls @gallery400 #chicago #cookcounty #artistsupport #propellerfundawardee #propellerfund2019 #propellerfund
2019 Propeller Fund Awardee Highlight: Hold the Lane: An Archival Collection of Black, Brown, and Queer Cyclists in Chicago (D'Frantz Smart and Aimee Ortega, 2WheelGods Collective, La Tasha Pollard, Sean Hopkins, Dennis Elliott) In preparation of creating a visual archive that provides both awarenesss and representation of Black, Brown, and Queer cyclist communties in Chicago, 2WheelGods Collective and collaborators will research Chicago archives to inform best practices for their volume-based collection, each one reflecting a distinct intersection of the Black, Brown, and Queer cycling community. Research and development will focus on how to best develop the initial archive, a collection of the 26 rides of a 2WheelGods season through maps, ride routes, neighborhood images, mileage, names of riders, photographs from the individual rides, and videos. 2WheelGods is a collective of urban cyclists cultivating environments that nurture physical, emotional and mental health through community rides and events for Black, Brown and Queer cyclists. The collective was founded in 2016 with the intention of creating and maintaining a consistent in-motion space that introduces people of color to the world of cycling in a fun, supported, and communal way. The Hold the Lane project has been awarded a Propeller Research and Development Grant of $2000 @2wheelgods @three_walls @gallery400 #chicago #cookcounty #artistsupport #propellerfund #propellerfund2019 #propellerfundawardee @aim_elise @dfrantzsmart
2019 Propeller Fund Awardee highlight: Raising Invisible Monuments (Nicole Marroquin, Jackie Serrato, Amanda Cortes, Elvia Rodriguez Ochoa, Gloria Talamantes, Sarita Hernandez) Raising Invisible Monuments aims to revive public memories of human rights struggles and radical cultures in Chicago's Latinx neighborhoods. Marroquin and collaborators invoke their foremothers' unfinished work and continue to fight against present day abuse and erasure by exploring how art, music, fashion, movies and the built environment shape their community's shared cultural memory. They will cultivate public participation through a series of pop-up workshops focused on the women, lgbti people and system-targeted youth who are excluded from the very civil rights struggles they led. Nicole Marroquin is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and teacher educator whose current research looks at Chicago school uprisings between 1967-74. The project Raising Invisible Monuments has been awarded $6000 by the Propeller Fund. @three_walls @gallery400 #propellerfund2019 #propellerfund #propellerfundawardee #chicago #artistsupport #cookcounty @nmarroq @gloeone @cortesa22 @saritamaritza @hechaenchitown
After 20 years of grantwriting for nonprofits, I got my first grant for myself! Excited to work with @ndn_emo_trash @lesterfallsapart @anthonypochel Heather Miller and Dr. John Low, who literally wrote the book on this piece of history, to see if and how public art can practice decolonization. . Repost from @thepropellerfund • 2019 Propeller Fund Awardee highlight: Whose Lakefront (JeeYeun Lee and Phoebe Kuo) Whose Lakefront is a performative public art piece that highlights unceded indigenous land in the heart of downtown Chicago. It marks the original 1830 shoreline at Michigan Ave and the unceded landfill to the east through public workshops that invite the community to examine settler colonialist assumptions about land, place, history, and belonging. JeeYeun Lee is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and activist. She uses both research and intuition to investigate dynamics of power and connection in place, labor, language, colonization, and social issues, looking at systemic violences and their histories as well as what exceeds and escapes them Trained as a furniture maker and ethnographer, Phoebe Kuo appropriates traditional woodworking techniques to comment on place and context. Whose Lakefront has been awarded $4000 by the Propeller Fund @pfebes @three_walls @gallery400 #propellerfund2019 #propellerfundawardee #chicago #cookcounty #artistsupport
2019 Propeller Fund Awardee highlight: Whose Lakefront (JeeYeun Lee and Phoebe Kuo) Whose Lakefront is a performative public art piece that highlights unceded indigenous land in the heart of downtown Chicago. It marks the original 1830 shoreline at Michigan Ave and the unceded landfill to the east through public workshops that invite the community to examine settler colonialist assumptions about land, place, history, and belonging. JeeYeun Lee is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and activist. She uses both research and intuition to investigate dynamics of power and connection in place, labor, language, colonization, and social issues, looking at systemic violences and their histories as well as what exceeds and escapes them Trained as a furniture maker and ethnographer, Phoebe Kuo appropriates traditional woodworking techniques to comment on place and context. Whose Lakefront has been awarded $4000 by the Propeller Fund @jeeyeun @pfebes @three_walls @gallery400 #propellerfund2019 #propellerfundawardee #chicago #cookcounty #artistsupport
2019 Propeller Fund Awardee highlight: Black Photo Futures: We Here (Zakkiyyah Najeebah, Concerned Black Image Makers, G'Jordan Williams, Tonika L. Johnson) @zakkiyyah.najeebah @_g_jordan @tonikaj Black Photo Futures: We Here seeks to offer a space for Black photographers to share their work and independently published works such as prints and zine. A continuation of Concerned Black Image Makers programs that seek to address the contemporary concerns of Black identified photographers, We Here exclusively centers the work of Black photographers. *** This Research and Development grant supports the exploration of this unique 2-day program on the South Side of Chicago. Initiated in 2016, Propeller Fund Research & Development (R&D) grants of $1,000 – $2,000 are awarded based on applicant need, funds available, and jury determination. R&D grants are intended for projects that require initial funding to determine need and feasibility, allowing for early experimentation and additional research to fully inform the ultimate project proposal. "Black Photo Futures: We Here" was granted $2000 by the Propeller Fund Research and Development grant. @gallery400 @three_walls #propellerfund2019 #propellerfundawardee #chicago #cookcounty #artistsupport