RAISIN at 6018North

6018 North Kenmore Avenue,Chicago IL 60660

29 October, 2021

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RSVP to visit the exhibition! RAISIN September 17 - December 18, 2021 at 6018NORTH 6018NORTH is pleased to share RAISIN, an exhibition exploring themes from the classic play A Raisin In The Sun (1959) by Chicago-born writer Lorraine Hansberry. Featuring artworks created by Chicago and International artists, the exhibition offers local and global perspectives on “home.” RAISIN opens September 17 as a proud partner of the Chicago Architecture Biennial as part of The Available City. Featured Artists: Kioto Aoki (Chicago) / Coletivo Anastácia Berlin (Berlin) / Jared Brown (Chicago) / Marina Viola Cavadini (Milan) / Amy Sanchez Arteaga + Misael Diaz of Cog•nate Collective (So. California) / Işıl Eğrikavuk (Berlin) / Max Guy (Chicago) / Kyle Bellucci Johanson(Chicago) / Kierah Kiki King (Chicago) / Diya Khurana (Mumbai) / Kat Liu (Chicago) / AJ McClenon(Chicago) / Ilja Clemens Melzer (Berlin) / Joelle Mercedes(Chicago) / Chip Moody (Chicago) / Joseph Mora (Chicago) / Nahum, Ale de la Puente, Juan José Díaz Infante, and Tania Candiani (Mexico City and Berlin) / zakkiyyah najeebah dumas-o’neal (Chicago) / Alessia Petrolito (Turin) / Delilah Salgado (Chicago) / Aaron Samuels(Los Angeles) / Rohan Ayinde Smith (London) / Brett Swinney (Chicago) / Maryam Taghavi(Chicago) / Gloria Talamantes (Chicago) /  Tran Tran (Chicago) / Unyimeabasi Udoh(Chicago) / Nayeli Vega (Berlin) / Amanda Williams (Chicago) / Jakob Wirth (Berlin) / Tintin Wulia (Australia) / Zhiyuan Yang (New York) / Nushin Yazdani (Berlin) Curator: Asha Iman Veal, Curatorial Assistants: Shannon Lin and Esraa, Graduate Curatorial Assistant: Ruby Dudasik, Exhibition Associate: Alexis Brocchi, 6018North Team: Tricia Van Eck and Nathan Abhalter Smith In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun debuted on Broadway. In this seminal work, Hansberry wrote about the Youngers, a fictional Black American family in Chicago whose late patriarch has left behind a life insurance policy that the family can use to purchase a home and enter the American middle class. Many challenges block this family’s path, and the four adult Youngers debate their options for self-determination within a race-biased country, and whether to move to an affordable yet segregated neighborhood, where they will not be welcome. In the 1960s, A Raisin in the Sun was translated into 30 languages, and won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle award in its debut year. Produced in cities around the world, the play has been bringing solidarity to various struggles against injustice; from residential segregation within the United States, migration politics across Europe, class inequality in China, and apartheid in South Africa. Now, this exhibition presents multidisciplinary artworks inspired by the local importance and global reach of the narrative.  Asha Iman Veal is a guest curator at 6018North this year, and is a Humanity in Action Landecker Democracy Fellow. Asha Iman’s visual critical research for this exhibition began in 2016 with the play’s global productions. She has been interested in Hansberry’s play’s long endurance and wide reach. “A radical Black woman playwright,’ she says, “found her excellent work embraced as an arts-based format to encourage dialogues in cities across the world. Even after Hansberry’s death, the span of her narrative has grown over the past sixty years.” 6018North, a house museum within a multicultural neighborhood in a historically segregated city, often explores ideas of home. 6018North director Tricia Van Eck says, “The play and the exhibition ask, ‘Who gets to live where and why?’ Hansberry’s question, over 60 years old, sadly remains relevant as we are still seeing and experiencing the lasting effects of segregation.” David Brown, this year’s artistic director of Chicago Architecture Biennial, has stated one of his goals of The Available City is “broadening the conversation—as amplified by current issues—about the role that collective space can have in cities around the world today.”  During the run of the show, there is a unique opportunity for visitors to stay overnight within the RAISIN exhibition: book a room at 6018North. Project support for RAISIN has been provided by the Alfred Landecker Democracy Fellowship, Humanity in Action, City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Events, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Faculty Enrichment Grant. 6018North is an artist-centered, sustainable, non-profit platform and dynamic venue for innovative art and culture in Chicago. We challenge what art is, whom it’s for, and where and how it’s created. 6018North champions the creation of adventurous work that connects multiple disciplines and audiences while promoting artistic excellence. We support emerging and established local and international artists to create innovative, multidisciplinary work that connects artists and audiences in transformative ways. As a nimble lab for incubating, modeling, and experimenting, we leverage new ways of connecting artists and audiences to advance and sustain artists and Illinois’ creative ecosystem.   6018North projects are partially supported by 3Arts, the AD3 Innovation Bootcamp Grant, an anonymous donor advised fund at The Chicago Community Foundation, a CityArts Innovation Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, the Gen Ops Plus Grant from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, the Field Foundation of Illinois, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, IL Humanities, the Illinois Arts Council, the Illinois Arts Council Youth Employment Grant, the Joyce Foundation, The MacArthur Funds for Culture, Equity, and the Arts at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, the Terra Foundation for American Art, and individual donations.
 RAISIN is a project supported by 6018North’s Mission and Initiative to advance the next generation of Chicago curators, artists, and writers. ******* For other events, please visit raisin6018.org/events // 6018north.org/events or eventbrite.com/o/6018north-11825306735 ******* Image: Stephen Perry, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, and Sidney Poitier in A Raisin in the Sun (1961), directed by Daniel Petrie. Courtesy of Columbia Pictures Corporation. 6018North is an Illinois not-for-profit corporation dedicated to the promotion of culture and the arts in Chicago. 6018North projects are partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency, the Illinois Arts Council Youth Employment Grant, event sponsorship from The Chicago Community Trust, CityArts Grants from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, an Artistic Vitality Grant from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, the Field Foundation of Illinois, MacArthur Funds for Arts and Culture at the Driehaus Foundation, and individual donations. For more information please visit us at 6018north.org.