Please join us on Friday, June 21 at 6 pm for our monthly cultural event series Nights of Insight featuring youth produced documentaries made in Chicago.  This is a free event presented by Beyondmedia Education, a program of Insight Arts.

Rumble Arts Center
3413 W North Ave
Chicago, IL  60647
Dance Studio, 2nd Floor
6-8 PM
FREE

Join us on Friday, May 17 for our monthly Night of Insight cultural event series featuring Art Therapy in Black…, a public presentation by veronica precious bohanan  and Johannil Napoleón Castro Fornisa Ramirez as a graduation requirement for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Masters of Art Therapy program.

A special opening night presentation and performance will kick off the exhibition on Friday, May 17 at 6 pm.  Art Therapy in Black… will be on view in the Rumble Arts Center storefront gallery space from Friday, May 17 to Sunday, June 30.

Rumble Arts Center
3413 W North Avenue
Chicago, IL  60647
Gallery, 1st Floor

Their work encompasses a mixed-media, visual arts, and performance presentation of “artist as therapist” identities and the artists’ thesis findings, comprised of the completed artwork created during the thesis process. The artists believe that as burgeoning art therapists and women of African descent, they were compelled to conduct thesis projects and put together an exhibit/presentation/performance that was culturally sensitive, acknowledged strengths, negate racial/cultural stereotypes, and promote innovative art therapy practices.

This collaboration reflects the artists’ complimentary topics and methods, as they are both using an arts-based research methodology, and they are both working with adolescents. Arts-based research is a method that systematically uses the artistic process as a way of examining/interpreting the experience by both investigators and research participants. Instead of traditional scientific, verbal, or mathematic analyses of phenomena, the art is the data.

Napoleón’s arts-based research focuses on African-American adolescent women survivors of sexual abuse in a high school based program. “I set out to investigate: How can creating a [wo]mannequin or female body form in art therapy help African-American adolescent women survivors of sexual abuse promote greater self-worth about their body image? My research is rooted in societal stereotypes, African-American history, and the adolescent’s sexual trauma experiences. To support them, I will also engage in the art-making process by creating a body form of my own.”

bohanan’s arts-based research focuses on her experiences as a clinical art therapy intern at a residential treatment center with predominately African American boys. “Within a culturally competent and trauma-informed framework, I explore how to effectively incorporate integrated arts and Positive Youth Development values into my art therapy practice with adolescent boys. Central to my exploration is my personal art-making/creative expressions and processing questions after each session to inform therapeutically sound directives and interventions.”

Gallery Hours
Thursday, 1-8 pm
Friday-Sunday, 1-5 pm

On Sunday, May 5, join Craig Harshaw for Educators Panel Discussion (3-5pm) during Evanston Art Center's

Street Arts as Public Pedagogy:
Learning from the Margins

Take a graffiti workshop, watch the film "Louder than a Bomb" or a demonstration from the University of Hip-Hop at the Evanston Art Center. We're hosting a 3-day educational program from May 3 through May 5 around street art called Street Arts as Public Pedagogy: Learning From the Margins. The goal of these events is to highlight the artistic and cultural efforts of those working in the realms of graffiti, hip-hop, education, and the visual arts so that we may grow visibility and awareness of these practices for audiences who may or may not have direct contact with them. We will bring current issues to light and shift how our communities view graffiti, youth, hip-hop, education, and art.

Film-Screening: Louder Than a Bomb (Friday 7-9pm)
Hosted by Director of Education Keith Brown

Hip-Hop Education Day (Saturday 12-6pm)
University of Hip-hop, Jocorey Jenkin’s VOICE project, North Lawndale CP Peace Warriors, with Robin D’Averso, North Lawndale CP debate team “Freedom Fighters,” and Kuumba Lynx

Graffiti Writers Art Presentation (Sunday 1-3pm)
Chris Silva, Ruben Aguirre, and Jordan Nickel

Educators Panel Discussion (Sunday 3-5pm)
Andres Hernandez, Craig Harshaw, Miguel Aguilar, Jorge Lucero, and Caitlin Bruce

The promotional image for this project was supplied to us by participating Chicago artists Chris Silva and David Cuesta.

Insight Arts is currently seeking proposals from individuals or groups who would like to host a NIGHT OF INSIGHT for the rest of our 2013 season (June-December).

Does your art practice explore power relations between people and groups (POLITICAL); the realm of ideas that influence the consciousness of people, their ideas and values, and tastes and feelings (IDEOLOGY); that which relates to the production, distribution and consumption of commodities and wealth (ECONOMIC); socially imposed dichotomy of masculine and feminine roles and sexual identity (GENDER); and a sociopolitical construct that connects persons by common descent and origin considering culture and identity (RACE) in relation to the structures of oppression (CAPITALISM, COLONIALISM, RACISM, and PATRIARCHY)? 

If so, please consider hosting a NIGHT OF INSIGHT!



Past Nights of Insight include:
Critical, Meaningful, Terminated an original performance by Craig Harshaw
Utopic Monster Theory by J’Sun Howard and Jennifer Karmin
Panther in the Sky a one-act play by Lani T. Montreal reading directed by CIRCA Pintig
Crapitalism: Listening Party & Panel Discussion featuring KrisDeLaRash
Extrodinary: A 5th and 8th Grade Showcase, a Von Humboldt  Elementary & The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Collaboration
I am Troy Davis, a night of poetry performance, a critical panel discussion and a visual exhibition

Nights of Insight take place every third Friday of the month at Rumble Arts Center in the Humboldt Park neighborhood.  Insight Arts is currently trying to fill the rest of the 2013 season. 

For more information or for consideration, please send and email/short proposal to info@insightartsliberation.org.

Join us on Friday, May 3 from 7 to 9 pm as we open Faces, Flora and Fauna: Art with Insight, artwork curated by Jenny Urbanek and Craig Harshaw at Rumble Arts Center. 



Come and see participant work from Insight Arts adult classes at Trilogy Behavioral Health Center, a private not-for-profit behavioral healthcare organization with more than 40 years of experience serving people with serious mental illness in the Chicago community of Rogers Park and its surrounding areas. Through the facilitation of art classes, participants are able to help rediscover and reclaim their own capabilities and life direction, as well as creative expression and social interaction.



Additionally, there will be work featured from a Pilot Intergenerational Arts Program with Caring Connections for Seniors created and implemented by Jenny Urbanek and Linda Deviller. This class was conducted with participants from Loyola University's Service Learning department as well and seniors in the Rogers Park community. The organization CCS helps develop relationships to enhance the lives of our volunteers & seniors, and the entire community.

Please come and see moving participant work!

Rumble Arts Center
3413 W North Ave
Chicago, IL  60647
Gallery, 1st Floor
This is a wheelchair accessible space

Faces, Flora and Fauna: Art with Insight will be on view in the gallery from May 3 to May 12.  Gallery hours are Thursdays 1-8 pm, Friday-Sunday 1-5 pm.

Insight Arts is offering a 5 week Summer Arts Camp for youth ages 7 to 13.  This is a Multi-Arts camp for young artists interested in visual and theater arts.  The camp will take place at Rumble Arts Center (3413 W North Avenue) located in the Humboldt Park neighborhood and begins Monday, July 8. 

Registration has begun!

Summer Camp Details
Registration begins: April 4, 2013
Last day t o register: July 1, 2013
Program Cost:  $400, regular OR $325 for Insight Arts members
Deposit: $50, due at registration

Register at Rumble Arts Center (3413 W North Ave, 773-278-4441).

Camp Runs: July 8 to August 9, 2013
Monday to Friday, 9:15 am to 2:45 pm
Ages 7 to 13

To purchase your Family Membership visit www.insightartsliberation.org.

DIALOGIC COMMUNITIES:
REPAIRING THE SOCIAL BOND
Thursday, April 25
6 PM

Evanston Public Library
1703 Orrington Ave



Dialogic Communities is an experimental multi-month participatory art and culture discussion series that is free and open to the public.  In conjunction with Insight Arts’ Craig Harshaw, Dialogic Communities seeks to inspire thoughtful dialogue and reinvigorate the spirit of community while serving as a productive social model.

This informal discussion invites regional community members, scholars, and the public to discuss a range of topics in art and culture (e.g. contemporary art history, theory, criticism, unique artist projects, the everyday, and visual and material culture). 

How it Works
Evanston Art Center (EAC) Director of Education Keith Brown and Insight Arts Executive Director Craig Harshaw select an article from the contemporary art world and post it online for a few weeks.  People are encouraged to access the document on the EAC website or EAC's Facebook page, download/see the link/read it, and if compelled, show up to the Evanston Public Library on the last Thursday of this month at 6pm to discuss the article with others.

Where
Evanston Public Library, 6 PM
1703 Orrington Avenue
Evanston, Illinois
1st Floor, Meeting Room

Readings for April 25
Outside the Citadel, Social Practice Are is Intended to Nurture by Randy Kennedy

Saltz on Tilda Swinton in a Box and How Living Art Has Become MoMA's Crystal Meth by Jerry Saltz

Click on the links to access the articles

CRITICAL, MEANINGFUL, TERMINATED
An original performance by Craig Harshaw
Friday, April 19
7pm

Rumble Arts Center
3413 W North Avenue
Chicago, IL  60647


ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE

Critical, Meaningful, Terminated is an examination of power, passivity, and resistance under neoliberalism. The performance explores the termination of Craig Harshaw’s Fall 2011 contract for reasons not related to classroom performance. Harshaw taught in the art education department that prides itself on a relationship to critical pedagogy.  The department's slogan is “Critical, Meaningful, Transformative.”



This performance is a site-specific multi-media attempt to explore this commonplace occurrence in academic life. During the course of the evening, the audience will have the opportunity to grapple with a wide range of literary, journalistic, and filmic texts that might provide clues and context for the termination. Literary texts will include works by Charlotte Bronte, D. H. Lawrence, and Muriel Spark.  A wide range of narrative films released during the 1970’s and 1980’s will also be explored.  This will all be framed by a wide variety of citations from the boundary crossing popular culture days of the 1970’s.



The performance challenges the audience to analyze their own relationship to the environment they work and study in.  Are the labor practices in accordance with the stated philosophical goals of the institution?  How does a person’s identity (cultural, national, sexual, gendered) negotiate the individuals use of power?  Do we see our identities in all their complexity or do we romanticize certain aspects of our identity and downplay others?  Are the rules of corporate “professionalism” appropriate rules for cultural workers?  Are they appropriate rules for critical educators? Can we imagine a university where the best interests of the students were the first and primary priority?  What would that kind of democratic institution look like?

This site specific performance is, unfortunately, not accessible for people with physical disabilities.  Audience members may wish to bring writing materials and notebooks for use during the performance.

Rumble Arts Center
3413 W North Avenue
Chicago, IL  60647


ABOUT CRAIG HARSHAW
Craig's diverse performance work includes innovative productions of classic theater, original collaborative performances and solo work. Craig currently creates work with the Insight Arts resident ensemble THE END OF THE LADDER. With EOL he created BLACK AND WHITE NIGHT: MY SISTER’S NEW BABY CRIED LAST NIGHT, THE FEAR OF FREEDOM PROJECT, and LIES WILL FLOW FROM MY LIPS.

Craig is also a cultural critic whose writing has appeared in a number of arts and social justice publications. He is a former contributor editor of P-Form, a quarterly Journal of Performance and Interdisciplinary art.

Craig has taught theater, performance art, social theory, theory of community organizing, and film studies at a number of universities.

Craig was part of the core of activists, artists, Rogers Park community residents and youth that founded Insight Arts in 1991. He was the first salaried employee of Insight Arts and has been consistently engaged with the organizations work for the last 21 years.

For more information email info @ insightartsliberation. org

Breaking the Silence is a moving spoken-word event featuring local and national artists performing in protest of sexual violence in Chicago.  Join us in solidarity by participating in the open mic portion of the night or simply by being present. This event is free, wheelchair accessible, and refreshments will be available.

Featuring KOKUMO

Guest performers include:

La Pixie
Earth Pearl Collective
Cathy Lynn Saunders

This event is co-sponsored by Insight Arts.

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