Lumpen 137: Artist Run Chicago

Lumpen 137: Artists Run Chicago joins the Hyde Park Art Center in celebrating Chicago’s artist-run projects!

In interviews and essays with artists who run galleries and cultural spaces in Chicago, Lumpen gives us profiles, characteristic histories, and pieces of advice from the community. A series of graphs and precious quotations from a survey run earlier this year draw a picture of the impact of the pandemic on artist-run Chicago. Two maps compare the spaces that were part of the first Artists Run Chicago� show, in 2009, and those that make up the exhibition this year. And a directory lists over a hundred artist-run projects that live in Chicago today.

Together with Lumpen 137, we are launching the map of artist-run Chicago. The map already shows over two-hundred artist-run spaces and projects that are currently active or have recently ended in Chicago. But this is just the start: we hope to get many more through an online form where anyone can submit a new space to the map.

Check out the Artists Run Chicago 2.0 exhibition at Hyde Park Art Center and grab your free copy! Also available at Co-Prosperity, Maria's Packaged Goods & Community Bar, Marz Community Brewing, Quimby's Bookstore and a few other random places.

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Contributions by: Agitator Gallery, Allison Peters Quinn, Annette LePique, Bad at Sports, Brandon Alvendia, Cecília Resende Santos, Christina Nafziger, Dan Gunn, Gareth Kaye, Hyde Park Art Center, James Schenck, Lori Waxman, Maddy Stocking, Margaret Welsh, S. Nicole Lane, Noah Hanna, Public Access, Terrain, Yollocalli

Research by: Cecília Resende Santos, Maddy Stocking, Mána Taylor Hjörleifsdóttir

Lead Editor: Marina Resende Santos

Edited by: Mairead Case. Nora Catlin, Ed Marszewski, Maddy Stocking, Nick Wylie

Creative Direction & Design: Some All None / Jeremiah Chiu & Itsyana Campa

Cover: Itsyana Campa