Free Workshop for Young Artists

August 20-24, 2007

10am-4pm daily

led by Charlie Fornia,
Krista Franklin,
Andres Hernandez
and Yamani Hernandez
(click name above to view artist's home page)

What makes a home? Shelter? Location? Space? Memory? People?

How does a person’s sense of home influence their identity?

Who decides who belongs where, and how are boundaries drawn between homes?

Explore these questions, create original multimedia artwork, and visit areas of Chicago during this free end-of-summer workshop. If you are between the ages of 15 and 19 and enjoy photography and creating art, we would love for you to participate in this project. You don’t need to be an experienced artist, just be interested in exploring important ideas with others and experimenting with artistic media.

Using digital photography, drawing, collage, and found objects (including images) into multimedia projects, we will create work to be used as part of a temporary public installation at the future site of the Public Housing Museum at 1322 W. Taylor Street. The workshop will focus on the artist in community and city, reflecting Jane Addams’s commitment to place, people, and public welfare. We will examine how culture, politics and history shape our ideas and dreams of home: home vs. visitor, comfort, property, residency, community, shelter, and others.

The project will also be recreated in interactive web format. Lunch and CTA passes will be provided.

FREE for participants

Space still available! To register over the weekend, please contact Charlie Fornia: charliefornia@gmail.com or 773.308.6159

This five-day program will take place at the historic site of the Hull-House Settlement located at 800 S. Halsted, including field work at nearby sites including the future Public Housing Museum (above).