“Logan Square Art Walk and Visual Scavenger Hunt to Cross Borders”
Chicago Detours Offers Special Event for Chicago Artists Month
CHICAGO, IL – On Sunday, October 26th, Chicago Detours will partner with Azimuth Projects for a special event that combines visits to neighborhood artists’ studios and galleries with a walking tour of the everyday landscape in Logan Square. The experience, which is an official event for Chicago Artists Month, includes a visual scavenger hunt with original art prizes and an opportunity to experience African hair braiding.
Chicago Detours collaborated with Azimuth Projects to design the art walk within the Chicago Artists Month’s 2014 theme of “Crossing Borders.†This special, one-time only experience will address the borders of anything from physical barriers, such as those within our neighborhood landscapes, to more conceptual barriers of sound, culture, skin and cuisine.
“Logan Square Art Walk and Visual Scavenger Hunt†begins at Autotelic Studios near Armitage and Sacramento and ends at Azimuth Projects, near the square of Logan Square. The walk, which is limited to 22 guests, will visit the Autotelic Studios apartment gallery, a mobile exhibition space called “Trunk Show,†the Comfort Station, and the Azimuth Projects apartment gallery.
In between gallery stops on the walk, Amanda Scotese of creative tour company Chicago Detours will lead guests in a sort of visual scavenger hunt. Guests will be presented with a series of abstracted and close-up photos of landscape features. Then as the group walks, the first to notice the object will win the prize of a small, original artwork from an artist featured at one of the exhibition spaces.
Scotese will then share ideas, writings, or stories connected to the identified architectural or natural object. These objects, which range from the habitat of rats to gates and fences, are all overlooked features of the everyday built environment that can be read as cultural artifacts.
The first exhibit on the tour will be Melissa Leandro’s Explosiones Locales at Autotelic Studios, which explores the roles of traditional DIY commerce and cultural appropriation. Her ice cream social experience includes homemade ice cream and presentation of hand-woven tapestries made of disposable doilies.
En route through the neighborhood to the next gallery stop, the group will find Trunk Show, a mobile art show displayed from a 1999 green Ford Taurus. It’s filled with limited edition artists bumper stickers, curated by artist Kelly Lloyd. Radio jams and road snacks may be included.
After walking up Milwaukee Avenue, the group will stop at Comfort Station, located right in the square. This small neighborhood art center will be exhibiting the visual and musical collaboration of It Ended With My Putting it On, or The Huntersmoon Come Like a Memory in Hell. For this show, Matt Woodward presents large-scale pieces that interrupt the historic interior of the Comfort Station. Wrekmeister Harmonies presents a sonic piece created in response to Woodward’s work.
The last stop is Azimuth Projects’ Bricoleur, a collaborative, interactive fiber installation and hair braiding experience. Sarah Beth Woods produces sculptural works made of brightly colored hair extensions, fabric, yarn, and chains. Fatimata Traore is a hair stylist with over 20 years of African hair braiding experience. Together they will present an experience that bridges sculpture and hair braiding, alongside tastings of West-African style rice with chicken or vegetables.
The two-hour-long art walk and tour on Sunday, October 26th, 11am-1pm, requires advance reservations through www.chicagodetours.com. Guests meet at Autotelic Studios at 1856 N. Richmond St. The $25 ticket includes original art prizes, visits to galleries, landscape tour commentary, refreshments, and special gifts. The art walk ends at 2704 N. Whipple St. at Azimuth Projects where guests can have their hair braided on a first-come, first-serve basis for a $10 donation.
ABOUT CHICAGO DETOURS
Chicago Detours offers guided tours of architecture, history and culture that bring people to explore stories and places locals don’t even know. The tour company is a passionate team of educators, historians, artists and storytellers, and is proud to be one of very few tour companies in Chicago that is rated five stars on both Yelp and TripAdvisor.
For additional information, contact Amanda Scotese, 312.350.1131
info@chicagodetours.com
www.chicagodetours.com
