J-Walking
Sunday July 8, 2007
June 16th –August 31st 2007
Opening reception 5-8
Artists: Scott Ashley, Burtonwood and Holmes, Jeff Forsythe, Regin Igloria, Tom Lauerman, Alain Park, Renee Una
The Polish Museum of America
984 North Milwaukee Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60622
Telephone: 773.384.3352
The exhibition at the Polish Museum of America features local artists that are working in the Chicago urban environment and are addressing issues of cultural identity and history, both personal and public. The show focuses on artists that are crossing boundaries in their chosen media by re-determining preconceived notions of culturally established ideas and norms. The idea of the show is to bring young artists working with new ideas and mediums into a traditional institution whose goal is to preserve a particular culture in an effort to broaden the audience of the participating artists as well as the museum.
J-Walking focuses on the relationship between personal identity and community. Boundaries make a neighborhood while people make a community. By drawing similarities between old and new, ptraditional and modern, the exhibit will demonstrate that we are as different as we are alike, and that both our similarities and differences should be equally celebrated. This is the first time in the history of the museum that an exhibit subject has strayed from the PMA’s mission of “preserving the artistic, cultural, historic and literary heritage of Poles in America and throughout the world”. Long considered the “Treasure of Polonia”, in hosting the exhibition and opening its doors to young emerging artists, The Polish Museum of America hopes to be considered a treasure of its local community as well.
The exhibit, curated by Scott Ashley and Jenny Crissey, will be on display at the Polish Museum of America from June 16 – August 27, 2007. The exhibit opening will take place on Saturday, June 16th from 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
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