Hyde Park Art Center - Exhibition Viewing

Thank you for your interest in visiting exhibitions at the Hyde Park Art Center. Exhibition tickets are FREE, masks and social distancing are required. Based on recent recommendations from the CDC, the Hyde Park Art Center strongly suggests that visitors wear two types of masks during their visits.

Current Exhibitions: Toward a Common Cause, Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change and the MacArthur Fellows at 40, and Quantum

About Toward Common Cause:

Environmental racism and its disproportionate impact on communities of color, in rural and urban environments, is the subject of this sub-chapter of Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change and the MacArthur Fellows at 40. The impacts of environmental racism, exacerbated by infrastructural inequalities including limited access to healthcare, healthcare workers, food, and clean drinking water are realities shared by disinvested and disenfranchised communities across the globe. These realities are highlighted in the work of three artists: Mel Chin, LaToya Ruby Frazier, and Fazal Sheikh. This exhibition at Hyde Park Art Center is one of many exhibitions in multiple venues organized by the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago under the umbrella title, Toward Common Cause.

Exhibition Dates: July 17- October 23, 2021

The exhibition is on view in Kanter McCormick Gallery.

About QUANTUM:

Quantum features new and in-progress work across media by teens from the Art Center’s after-school virtual programs made during the 2020-2021 academic year. The exhibition includes work at different points of development as a way to define artistic practice as something that is always evolving. The exhibition’s title, Quantum, selected by the Youth Board of Artists, speaks to an energy that is always moving and ever-changing as it interacts with its environment, much like the way teen artists see their practices grow and evolve through dialog with each other and the Art Center’s community. The exhibition is designed to encourage audience members to share feedback in a format that is similar to how teen artists critique each other in their classes.

Exhibition Dates: July 26 – September 5, 2021

The exhibition is on view in Gallery 5.