Arts of Life

Triangulation: Mapping Community

October 17th, 2007

Opening Thursday, October 25th, 7-10pm
Reversible Eye Arts
1103 N. California Avenue, Chicago
phone (773) 862-1232
www.reversibleeye.com

Reversible Eye Arts presents Triangulation, a multicultural gallery exhibition, part of Chicago Artists Month. With this year’s theme being Creative Alliances, Reversible Eye Arts has invited three neighborhood arts organizations to display and celebrate art, diversity, and collaboration. The organizations featured are Arts of Life, Co-op Image and The Puerto Rican Institute of Art and Culture. Each agency has selected community youth and area artists to create multimedia installations, including live performances. Doors open at 7pm, with the event closing at 10pm. Libations and hors d’oeuvres will be served. Following the opening, Triangulation will be viewable at Reversible Eye on Saturdays from 1 to 5pm through November 16th.

The works displayed will explore three different perspectives on community, generating several dialogues related to the community of Humboldt Park, as well as to community in general.

Co-op Image will create an audio-visual installation featuring excerpts of oral histories collected through their Mobile Media Lab project. In both personal and artistic quests, the young artists have traveled throughout Humboldt Park and interviewed residents on their experiences and relationship to the community. Located in Humboldt Park, Co-op Image is a non-profit public arts education program for youth of communities in need. For more information visit www.coopimage.org.
Arts of Life, an arts studio for adults with developmental disabilities, will be taking a “photographic tour” of Humboldt Park. Accompanying the photographs will be an audio piece documenting the artists’ experience of their tour through the community. Arts of Life is an artistic community that provides adults with developmental disabilities an environment to experience personal growth. For more information visit www.artsoflife.org.

The Institute of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture is a cultural and educational institution devoted to the promotion, integration and advancement of Puerto Rican arts and culture. The institute will be bringing together many examples of artwork from the local Puerto Rican community related to the theme of the exhibit. For more information visit www.iprac.org.

All three organizations will be working with community artists to create a narrative map of Humboldt Park, to be assembled out of square tiles on the floor of the gallery.

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