Re-Fridge: recycle – remix – redistribute
REFRIGE REMIX
mixed media collage on iceboxes
Work Days:
February 20th, 21st – Noon to Midnight
February 27th 28th – Noon to Midnight
Workshop: 3510 N. Halsted St.
This former auto body shop comes to us courtesy of a 70-year old Greek immigrant who now uses it only to park cars during Cubs games. His family is paying for heat and insurance, and we have until the start of the baseball season to use it. We expect paint and materials donations from Sherwin Williams. Alderman Tom Tunney (44th) and his staff are helping make all these arrangements because they want Lake View to gain a reputation for public art and as an artist-friendly ward.
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We are looking to have 4-6 refrigerators remixed by the end of the first week in March.
We then hope create 6-8 more by the end of April.
These will be displayed in a group show at the Lincoln Park Zoo for the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day. 80,000 visitors are expected at that. Two weeks later, they will move to Brookfield Zoo for an equally big show. Before and after these event s they will be on display in downtown office buildings, “Pop-Up” spaces in the Loop, high traffic locations in Lake View and Renaissance Row (75th Street).
These Art Refrigerators will then be handed to families in need of working refrigerators (if they are declared “energy efficient and do not contain dangerous refrigerant), or they will remain as traveling art works, helping to raise money for the Business and Economic Revitalization Association (BERA) in the south side Chatham neighborhood.
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EXAMPLES OF OTHER VERSIONS OF THIS PROJECT
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http://www.havana-cultura.com/EN/visual-art/fridges-art-project/cuban-painter.html
http://www.nbm.org/exhibitions-collections/exhibitions/the-art-of-recycling-the.html
http://www.insidetoronto.com/news/local/article/119773–fridge-doors-become-canvasses-for-art-display
RE-FRIDGE is part of the Green Office Challenge (www.chicagogreenofficechallenge.org)
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MORE TO FOLLOW
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MARCH PROGRAM
REFRIGE REMIX
mixed media sculpture with iceboxes
Work Days: February 20th, 21st – Noon to Midnight
February 27th 28th – Noon to Midnight
Workshop: 40 E. Garfield Blvd
This is the old Schulze Baking Company (Butternut Bread) bakery– at the time, the largest bakery in the United States. It occupies a full city block, and has seven floors of light and build space. It has a Terra Cotta exterior, and it is where more than a billion sandwiches got their starts. The new owner and the local alderman have cleared the way for its use by artists– believing that art is always good for a neighborhood. We will have heat and materials, and this represents a long term build space for artists and their projects.
Already in on this project in big ways:
Brompton Auto Parts
Abt Appliances & Electronics
Smith Moving Company
UPS
Sherwin Williams Paint
Chicago Art Department
Black Rock Arts Foundation
Chicago Department of Environment
Chicago Department of Water Management
Chicago Department of Family and Support Services
Alderman Tom Tunney (44th)
Alderman Pat Dowell (3rd)
Alderman Fredrenna Lyle (6th)
and, artists like you.
Contact: nathan@chicagoartdepartment.org