To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: CPPH_Info-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ There are 2 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1. Gentrification? NO!!! From: Grant 2. Art Exhib and Panel Discussions on Maxwell St. Artist/Bluesman Frank Scott Jr. From: Grant ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 1 Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 08:27:43 -0800 (PST) From: Grant Subject: Gentrification? NO!!! CARNIVAL FOR UPTOWN Fundraiser Chase Cafe 7301 N Sheridan, Chicago Noon-8pm Sunday, 2/9 Clowns, music, face painting, poetry, dancing, fire eating, speakers and games! and you! Family friendly! Anarchist friendly! Buttondown Corporate friendly! People in dog suits friendly! $5-$50 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds. Oh my, this is so important, I'm so happy you are reading this email. You see, there's something afoot in Uptown! Have you heard? Some big, bad developers are coming in, backed by the city to use public money to turn the famous Goldblatt's building into a Borders, and a bunch of condos. AND, they're going to tear down the historic Plymouth Hotel. Oh, so sad. Maybe this doesn't sound so awful to you, maybe you're thinking, well, a Borders would be nice...but here's why it should matter. Because a bunch of resourceful people from the area have a much, much, much, much, much BETTER plan. One that incorporates AFFORDABLE housing, local businesses-businesses that have committed to employing local people, an open air market, rooftop gardens, AND saves the Plymouth Hotel. So, what's happenning now? Well, we're taking the case to court. We've got a stay on the demolition of the Plymouth, but it could be gone as soon as NEXT WEEK if we don't keep working. Uptown is on the verge of turning into another cookie cutter corporate neighborhood. NO! NO! NO! We can't let that happen, but getting this plan through, fighting the city, and building up a strong community network takes people, and money. Lots of money. Do you want to perform? Have you got a hidden talent you haven't showcased? Do you like to play games? Do you happen to have a dunk tank in your hall closet? Well bring it on down! We welcome anyone and everyone. Pretty please? Brought to you by the Broadway Terrace Coalition. PLEASE CIRCULATE FAR, WIDE AND FAST. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 08:39:50 -0800 (PST) From: Grant Subject: Art Exhib and Panel Discussions on Maxwell St. Artist/Bluesman Frank Scott Jr. From: Steve Balkin Date: Mon Feb 3, 2003 1:15 pm Subject: Art Exhibition and Panel Discussions on Maxwell St. Artist/Bluesman Frank Scott Jr. To: 'MaxList2' For immediate release February 3, 2003 Contacts: Paige Sarlin 773-235-3187, psarli@artic.edu; Steve Balkin 312-341-3696, mar@topicbox.com; Brian Flood - School of the Art Institute 312-899-5159 Art Exhibition and Panel Discussions on Artist/Bluesman Frank Scott Jr. and the Struggle To Preserve Maxwell Street An art exhibition on the work of Folk Artist and Chicago Bluesman, Frank 'Little Sonny' Scott Jr. and its relation to the Struggle to Preserve Maxwell Street will be held from Wednesday, February 19 through to Sunday, February 23 at the 1926 Exhibition Studies Space, an exhibition space of the School of the Art Institute. This is located at 1926 North Halsted Street on the Near North side of Chicago. 75 year old Frank Scott Jr. is a blues musicians and self-taught artist whose career and life was spent in and around the Maxwell Street Market and neighborhood. This exhibition will feature his collage work which depicts the music and market history as well as the un-successful fight to preserve Maxwell Street from destruction and development. Up until now, Scott has shown his work alongside the recently re-located Maxwell Street Hot Dog Stands on Union Street near Roosevelt Rd.. This exhibition will be his first gallery show, especially apropos given that the 1926 Exhibition Space is also home to the Roger Brown Study Collection, which contains many objects that were found at Maxwell Street. Gallery hours will be Wednesday through Friday, from 3:00 to 7:00pm; and Saturday and Sunday from 1:00 - 6:00pm. An opening Blues celebration will occur on Friday, February 21, from 6pm to 9pm. Frank Scott Jr. will perform at the opening with The Motavations Blues Band, and Maxwell Street Polish Sausages will be served. For more information call 773-665-4802. In addition to the art exhibition, there will be two panels, one prior to the exhibition on Thursday, February 13 and the other on closing day, Sunday, February 23. These panels are intended to tell the story of Maxwell Street and the fight to preserve it as well as its influence on the work of Chicago artists (self-taught and otherwise). All events are free and open to the public. Panel One: Thursday, February 13 starting at 6pm, at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Auditorium, 280 South Columbus Drive. The title of this first panel is "The Struggle to Preserve Maxwell Street: Historic Preservation's Role in the Process of Urban History and Development". The moderator will be Jim Peters of Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois. Panelists will include authors of two recent books about Maxwell Street: Lori Grove and Laura Kamedulksi (co-authors of "Maxwell Street Chicago"), and Carolyn Eastwood (author of "Near West Side Stories: Struggles for Community in Chicago’s Maxwell Street Neighborhood"), William Adelman, Emeritius Professor, University of Illinois's Institute for Labor and Industrial Relations, and John Betancur, Professor of Urban Planning and Policy at University of Illinois of Chicago. This panel will attempt to answer the questions: What was Maxwell Street? What forces and conditions made it possible for Maxwell Street to be destroyed? What were the preservation and activist strategies used in the fight to save Maxwell Street? Why did they fail? What role does Historic Preservation play in urban development? Can landmarking and historic preservation of architecture and built environments be used to save neighborhoods and communities? Are there any strategies that have worked to "preserve" places/spaces that are as defined by activity and community as by the architecture and built environment? Panel Two: Sunday, February 23 starting at 2pm, at Intuit Gallery, Gallery 756 North Milwaukee, Chicago. The title of this panel is "Preserving Space, Place, and Culture: Maxwell Street and Chicago Artists." The moderator will be Paige Sarlin, the curator of this exhibition and graduate student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Panelists will include Lisa Stone of the Roger Brown Study Collection, Photographers Ron Gordon and Lee Landry, Artist Karl Wirsum, and filmmaker Tom Palazzolo. This panel will explore the relationship of artistic practice, self-taught and otherwise, to Maxwell Street and fights to preserve urban space. In an attempt to draw the lines of connection between currents of artistic practice in Chicago - namely that of so-called "Outsider Art" and the Chicago Imagists - to the history of Maxwell Street, this panel will feature artists who will discuss their experience of Maxwell Street and its influence on their work and their practices. In addition, the panel will seek to answer the questions: What kind of model of preservation does the history of the Chicago Imagist artists, who collected the work of self-taught artists, provide? What are some other models of artistic and cultural production which treat the subject of the struggles to preserve space and place in Chicago? What role can and do artists play in the process of gentrification and "urban renewal"? What is the relationship of artistic practice to the creation of urban history? Paige Sarlin, 773-235-3187; Email: psarli@artic.edu, and Frank Scott Jr. 773-264-4746 are both available for interviews. -00- __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/