Rock Drawings Tour!

5800 N Lake Shore Dr,Chicago IL 60660

24 September, 2022

Description

One of the world’s most remarkable outdoor art treasures lies hidden in plain sight along Chicago’s Lake Michigan waterfront: thousands of anonymous stone carvings and paintings made over the course of the last century. On this walking tour north of Foster Avenue Beach we will see some of the finest of these carvings while learning about the history of the Chicago lakefront and why this flowering of spontaneous public art in our waterfront parks is unique in the world. Registration is limited to 20 people for this event. Tour Begins and ends at different locations. We begin the tour close to the southeast corner of Osterman Beach(Hollywood Ave), near the start of the breakwater. We finish at the northwest corner of Foster Beach. About Our Guide: William Swislow, a longtime journalist and a founder and former executive at Cars. com, is a writer and art collector who operates the cultural website interestingideas.com. He is the author of Lakefront Anonymous: Chicago’s Unknown Art Gallery and has written for art publications including Raw Vision, Folk Art Messenger, The Outsider Magazine, and the SCA Journal. He sits on the boards of Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, and the Society for Commercial Archeology.