NEWS:
Fall 2007:
The West Town Gallery Network is thrilled to announce the addition of
two new galleries, Green Lantern and Roots and Culture
Green Lantern identifies
new voices, relating different mediums and artistic practices in order
to foster a greater sense of community. With a focus on the visual arts,
Green Lantern establishes paths of accessibility between the work and
its audience by contextualizing its events through writing, performance
and music. Green Lantern not only serves as a physical domain where exhibitions,
performances, potlucks and lectures take place, but also as the home of
a slow-media publishing company. The ultimate success of Green Lantern
is determined by the willingness of its community.
Roots and Culture Contemporary
Art Center is a multi-disciplinary
arts organization which aims to provide a welcoming and supportive social
space for human interaction within the Chicago art community. Roots &
Culture offers opportunity to emerging artists by means of dynamic and
concurrent programming including exhibitions, artist’s residencies,
performances, and social gatherings. By linking artists of different media
and backgrounds, the goal is to harmoniously connect the local arts community
to the international dialogue of contemporary art. Roots & Culture
not only offers exhibition opportunities, but also allows artists to direct
and curate programming, which simultaneously interacts with and shapes
the community where it resides. Roots & Culture is going to change
and develop the ways in which art is experienced and exhibited through
progressive and innovative practices.
WGN is sad to announce that 65GRAND and Duchess will no longer be a part of the network, but may rejoin in the future
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