HYDE PARK ART CENTER
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Mission Statement
Our mission is to stimulate and sustain the visual arts in Chicago. Hyde Park Art Center is a hub for contemporary arts in Chicago, serving as a gathering and production space for artists and the broader community to cultivate ideas, impact social change, and connect with new networks. The Art Center functions as an amplifier for today and tomorrow’s creative voices, providing the space to cultivate and create new work and connections.
About This Cause
Founded in 1939, Hyde Park Art Center’s mission is to stimulate and sustain the visual arts in Chicago. We believe artists play a unique role as agents for social change and inspire us to imagine the world we all deserve. As an open forum for exploring the artistic process, the Art Center fosters creativity through making, learning about, seeing, and discussing art all under one roof. Our community of 45,000 people annually includes a notably diverse group of professional artists, art supporters, youth and their families, South Side neighbors, and a culturally curious public from Chicagoland and beyond. The commitment to equity guides the Art Center’s work. We assert our responsibility and power to address racial, economic, and gender equity in our programs and the broader community. This means investing in artists of color and women artists through exhibitions, residencies, teaching opportunities, and professional development. It means providing radical access to art and education. And it means deepening our understanding of social issues through art and mobilizing that consciousness into action. PROGRAMS + IMPACT CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITIONS: Presenting 12 exhibitions annually, the Art Center provides emerging and groundbreaking artists with exhibition opportunities that allow them to take on ambitious and transformational new projects and garner greater recognition both locally and nationally. The Art Center has played an integral role in launching both the careers of individual artists and artist movements, including the Chicago Imagists, Theaster Gates, Juan Angel Chavez, Susan Giles, and Amanda Williams. OAKMAN CLINTON SCHOOL + STUDIOS: The Art Center’s open-access community-based school—the only art school of such breadth on Chicago’s South Side—provides high-quality training in the visual arts by professional working artists with 2,500 enrollments annually. In spring 2022, the Art Center launched Open Arts, contribute-what-you-can model for 100% of its courses. Open Arts includes professional development courses and offerings for all ages, skill levels, and media—the first art school in the country to run on this model. PATHWAYS K-8: Partnering with a core group of schools on Chicago’s South Side, the Art Center delivers visual-arts education to nearly 1,000 elementary students. This commitment to South Side neighborhoods aims to transform arts education for students from historically underserved communities and change the future of Chicago’s arts landscape. TEEN PROGRAMS: The Art Center provides a creative space and community for 150 teens with six programs. Through a combination of teen-driven independent and artist-led group projects, teens develop their own art practices alongside leadership skills in a supportive environment. JACKMAN GOLDWASSER RESIDENCY: The artist residency program brings artists from around the world to live and work in Chicago alongside local resident artists. The program encourages creative exchange and catalyzes global networks for Chicago’s artists and cultural institutions, while positioning Chicago at the forefront of artistic innovation and cultural leadership. NOT JUST ANOTHER PRETTY FACE®: A flagship Art Center program, Not Just Another Pretty Face is a collaborative art-commissioning project that matches artists with patrons, and has become a nationally-replicated model for how an institution can activate its community to support local artists in a way that is fun, distinctive, and sustainable. FREE COMMUNITY EVENTS: The Art Center provides opportunities to explore artmaking in a fun and friendly environment through a variety of events that demystify contemporary art. The public gets to know and support the artists in their community. Through events like artist discussions and open-studio days, visitors have a chance to meet artists and be inquisitive about their creative process.