Exhibition Public Opening: A Different Future in the Making

Studio Gang

Come through for the opening of Studio Gang  & Blue Tin's new exhibition, A Different Future in the Making!

<h3>Our collaborative exhibition, the first to be held in <a href="http://www.studiogang.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Studio Gang</a>'s new Wicker Park gallery space, opens to the public on Saturday, November 20th!</h3><h3>Come through any time between 1-5pm to see the show and talk with some of the collaborators.</h3><p>All guests must please present proof of vaccination at entry and wear a face covering at all times. Thank you for keeping our community safe.</p>

Conceptual design for Blue Tin's new manufacturing studio at 63rd House. Image by Studio Gang.

<p><strong>About the Exhibition</strong></p><h3>A Different Future in the Making: Building Garment Worker Power and A Broader Abolitionist Movement with Blue Tin Production and 63rd House</h3><p>What can bottom-up, systemic change look like in the garment industry—and beyond—when exploitation and violence are replaced by community and care? And what role might architecture and design play in this transformation?</p><p><em>A Different Future in the Making</em> shows how these questions are being explored by Chicago’s <a href="https://bluetinproduction.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Blue Tin Production</a>, the first apparel manufacturing worker co-operative in America run by immigrant, refugee, and working-class women of color. Blue Tin is set on ending the fashion industry’s reliance on sweatshops and gender-based violence to make our clothing, and in its place building garment worker power and destabilizing power structures from the bottom up.</p><p>Materializing Blue Tin’s radical model and vision using the tools and techniques of garment work, this exhibition also reveals how the co-operative is seeding greater change through their newest project: <a href="https://bluetinproduction.com/63rdhouse/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">63rd House</a>, a multifunctional community space and manufacturing studio in Chicago Lawn. Designed by <a href="http://www.studiogang.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Studio Gang</a> and envisioned in partnership with local Black and brown youth-led organizations, the project aims to remake a vacant former post office into a neighborhood center where Blue Tin and the community’s larger abolitionist vision can flourish—and in doing so, create vital infrastructures of care and safety outside of police, prisons, and sweatshops.</p>

Conceptual design for the first floor (above left) and second floor (above right) of 63rd House. Images by Studio Gang.

<p><strong>Exhibition Team</strong></p><p>Design and Fabrication: <a href="https://studiogang.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Studio Gang</a> and <a href="https://bluetinproduction.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Blue Tin Production</a></p><p>Collaborating Artist: <a href="https://www.hale-ekinci.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Hale Ekinci</a></p><p>Lighting Design Consultant: Kerri Callahan, <a href="https://www.polymathdesign.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Polymath Design</a></p><p>Screen Printing: Justin Clemons, <a href="https://www.magnoliascreenprint.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Magnolia Screen Printing</a></p><p>Printing: <a href="https://www.bestimagingsolutions.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Best Imaging Solutions</a></p>

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