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Myth of the Organic City is closing this Saturday from 1-5PM.
Moon Readings by Rebecca Beachy 1:30 -4:00PM
Come join the ❤️ artists ❤️ with a celebratory drink and see their amazing work! Last chance to see this historical and contemporary exhibition that explores Chicago's design and land use, from its indigenous roots to present-day developments. The exhibition features over 25 artists and includes maps, landscape designs, installations, wall drawings, sculptures, and multimedia works. As we face the threats of climate change, works on all four floors of the house, aims to reimagine our complicated relationship with the City and nature.

Images include:
1. Nathan Lewis
Myth of the Organic City, 2024
Lynoprint used to make handmade paper from pulped military uniforms with Melissa Potter

2. Exterior of 6018North
The weather will be beautiful tomorrow, so stop by!

3. Image of 1rst floor - Land Usage
Work by Viet Phan
The Fountain of Second Delights, 2024
Beeswax chandelier, wicks

Emilio Rojas
Memorial to an Unbuilt Monument and/or A Litany of Reduction, 2017-2018

4. Last chance to get your moon reading by Rebecca surrounded by the beautiful installation. -Rebecca Beachy and Christine Wallers Bone ash wall, 2018 / 2023
- Chicago (360˚): Astrological Cycles, Ecological Change, 2024
- Star map, Chicago at night (September), 2024 (the astrological sky at the opening of the exhibition)

5. New work by Carbon Register!! When the seaweed they grew during the show was too toxic to make tattoos, they turned the ink into a poem that traces the history of Lake Michigan’s pollution.

6. Old work by Luftwerk - Prairie Colorfield (with Jenny Kendler and Giovanni Aloi’s
Prairie Death Mask (Bell Bowl Prairie), 2024 in background.

7. Wall drawing by Eugenia Cheng Chicago Confluence, 2024 summarizes Chicago’s changes from 1800 - 2020. The amount of technological changes from 1840-1880 is similar to the rapid changes happening now. Come see it all before it disappears. Thanks to the @terraamericanart who made this show possible ❤️ to @evasilverman1 and Jenny Siegenthaler and the artists!!! ❤️

Myth of the Organic City is closing this Saturday from 1-5PM.
Moon Readings by Rebecca Beachy 1:30 -4:00PM
Come join the ❤️ artists ❤️ with a celebratory drink and see their amazing work! Last chance to see this historical and contemporary exhibition that explores Chicago's design and land use, from its indigenous roots to present-day developments. The exhibition features over 25 artists and includes maps, landscape designs, installations, wall drawings, sculptures, and multimedia works. As we face the threats of climate change, works on all four floors of the house, aims to reimagine our complicated relationship with the City and nature.

Images include:
1. Nathan Lewis
Myth of the Organic City, 2024
Lynoprint used to make handmade paper from pulped military uniforms with Melissa Potter

2. Exterior of 6018North
The weather will be beautiful tomorrow, so stop by!

3. Image of 1rst floor - Land Usage
Work by Viet Phan
The Fountain of Second Delights, 2024
Beeswax chandelier, wicks

Emilio Rojas
Memorial to an Unbuilt Monument and/or A Litany of Reduction, 2017-2018

4. Last chance to get your moon reading by Rebecca surrounded by the beautiful installation. -Rebecca Beachy and Christine Wallers Bone ash wall, 2018 / 2023
- Chicago (360˚): Astrological Cycles, Ecological Change, 2024
- Star map, Chicago at night (September), 2024 (the astrological sky at the opening of the exhibition)

5. New work by Carbon Register!! When the seaweed they grew during the show was too toxic to make tattoos, they turned the ink into a poem that traces the history of Lake Michigan’s pollution.

6. Old work by Luftwerk - Prairie Colorfield (with Jenny Kendler and Giovanni Aloi’s
Prairie Death Mask (Bell Bowl Prairie), 2024 in background.

7. Wall drawing by Eugenia Cheng Chicago Confluence, 2024 summarizes Chicago’s changes from 1800 - 2020. The amount of technological changes from 1840-1880 is similar to the rapid changes happening now. Come see it all before it disappears. Thanks to the @terraamericanart who made this show possible ❤️ to @evasilverman1 and Jenny Siegenthaler and the artists!!! ❤️

Myth of the Organic City is closing this Saturday from 1-5PM.
Moon Readings by Rebecca Beachy 1:30 -4:00PM
Come join the ❤️ artists ❤️ with a celebratory drink and see their amazing work! Last chance to see this historical and contemporary exhibition that explores Chicago's design and land use, from its indigenous roots to present-day developments. The exhibition features over 25 artists and includes maps, landscape designs, installations, wall drawings, sculptures, and multimedia works. As we face the threats of climate change, works on all four floors of the house, aims to reimagine our complicated relationship with the City and nature.

Images include:
1. Nathan Lewis
Myth of the Organic City, 2024
Lynoprint used to make handmade paper from pulped military uniforms with Melissa Potter

2. Exterior of 6018North
The weather will be beautiful tomorrow, so stop by!

3. Image of 1rst floor - Land Usage
Work by Viet Phan
The Fountain of Second Delights, 2024
Beeswax chandelier, wicks

Emilio Rojas
Memorial to an Unbuilt Monument and/or A Litany of Reduction, 2017-2018

4. Last chance to get your moon reading by Rebecca surrounded by the beautiful installation. -Rebecca Beachy and Christine Wallers Bone ash wall, 2018 / 2023
- Chicago (360˚): Astrological Cycles, Ecological Change, 2024
- Star map, Chicago at night (September), 2024 (the astrological sky at the opening of the exhibition)

5. New work by Carbon Register!! When the seaweed they grew during the show was too toxic to make tattoos, they turned the ink into a poem that traces the history of Lake Michigan’s pollution.

6. Old work by Luftwerk - Prairie Colorfield (with Jenny Kendler and Giovanni Aloi’s
Prairie Death Mask (Bell Bowl Prairie), 2024 in background.

7. Wall drawing by Eugenia Cheng Chicago Confluence, 2024 summarizes Chicago’s changes from 1800 - 2020. The amount of technological changes from 1840-1880 is similar to the rapid changes happening now. Come see it all before it disappears. Thanks to the @terraamericanart who made this show possible ❤️ to @evasilverman1 and Jenny Siegenthaler and the artists!!! ❤️

Myth of the Organic City is closing this Saturday from 1-5PM.
Moon Readings by Rebecca Beachy 1:30 -4:00PM
Come join the ❤️ artists ❤️ with a celebratory drink and see their amazing work! Last chance to see this historical and contemporary exhibition that explores Chicago's design and land use, from its indigenous roots to present-day developments. The exhibition features over 25 artists and includes maps, landscape designs, installations, wall drawings, sculptures, and multimedia works. As we face the threats of climate change, works on all four floors of the house, aims to reimagine our complicated relationship with the City and nature.

Images include:
1. Nathan Lewis
Myth of the Organic City, 2024
Lynoprint used to make handmade paper from pulped military uniforms with Melissa Potter

2. Exterior of 6018North
The weather will be beautiful tomorrow, so stop by!

3. Image of 1rst floor - Land Usage
Work by Viet Phan
The Fountain of Second Delights, 2024
Beeswax chandelier, wicks

Emilio Rojas
Memorial to an Unbuilt Monument and/or A Litany of Reduction, 2017-2018

4. Last chance to get your moon reading by Rebecca surrounded by the beautiful installation. -Rebecca Beachy and Christine Wallers Bone ash wall, 2018 / 2023
- Chicago (360˚): Astrological Cycles, Ecological Change, 2024
- Star map, Chicago at night (September), 2024 (the astrological sky at the opening of the exhibition)

5. New work by Carbon Register!! When the seaweed they grew during the show was too toxic to make tattoos, they turned the ink into a poem that traces the history of Lake Michigan’s pollution.

6. Old work by Luftwerk - Prairie Colorfield (with Jenny Kendler and Giovanni Aloi’s
Prairie Death Mask (Bell Bowl Prairie), 2024 in background.

7. Wall drawing by Eugenia Cheng Chicago Confluence, 2024 summarizes Chicago’s changes from 1800 - 2020. The amount of technological changes from 1840-1880 is similar to the rapid changes happening now. Come see it all before it disappears. Thanks to the @terraamericanart who made this show possible ❤️ to @evasilverman1 and Jenny Siegenthaler and the artists!!! ❤️

Myth of the Organic City is closing this Saturday from 1-5PM.
Moon Readings by Rebecca Beachy 1:30 -4:00PM
Come join the ❤️ artists ❤️ with a celebratory drink and see their amazing work! Last chance to see this historical and contemporary exhibition that explores Chicago's design and land use, from its indigenous roots to present-day developments. The exhibition features over 25 artists and includes maps, landscape designs, installations, wall drawings, sculptures, and multimedia works. As we face the threats of climate change, works on all four floors of the house, aims to reimagine our complicated relationship with the City and nature.

Images include:
1. Nathan Lewis
Myth of the Organic City, 2024
Lynoprint used to make handmade paper from pulped military uniforms with Melissa Potter

2. Exterior of 6018North
The weather will be beautiful tomorrow, so stop by!

3. Image of 1rst floor - Land Usage
Work by Viet Phan
The Fountain of Second Delights, 2024
Beeswax chandelier, wicks

Emilio Rojas
Memorial to an Unbuilt Monument and/or A Litany of Reduction, 2017-2018

4. Last chance to get your moon reading by Rebecca surrounded by the beautiful installation. -Rebecca Beachy and Christine Wallers Bone ash wall, 2018 / 2023
- Chicago (360˚): Astrological Cycles, Ecological Change, 2024
- Star map, Chicago at night (September), 2024 (the astrological sky at the opening of the exhibition)

5. New work by Carbon Register!! When the seaweed they grew during the show was too toxic to make tattoos, they turned the ink into a poem that traces the history of Lake Michigan’s pollution.

6. Old work by Luftwerk - Prairie Colorfield (with Jenny Kendler and Giovanni Aloi’s
Prairie Death Mask (Bell Bowl Prairie), 2024 in background.

7. Wall drawing by Eugenia Cheng Chicago Confluence, 2024 summarizes Chicago’s changes from 1800 - 2020. The amount of technological changes from 1840-1880 is similar to the rapid changes happening now. Come see it all before it disappears. Thanks to the @terraamericanart who made this show possible ❤️ to @evasilverman1 and Jenny Siegenthaler and the artists!!! ❤️

Myth of the Organic City is closing this Saturday from 1-5PM.
Moon Readings by Rebecca Beachy 1:30 -4:00PM
Come join the ❤️ artists ❤️ with a celebratory drink and see their amazing work! Last chance to see this historical and contemporary exhibition that explores Chicago's design and land use, from its indigenous roots to present-day developments. The exhibition features over 25 artists and includes maps, landscape designs, installations, wall drawings, sculptures, and multimedia works. As we face the threats of climate change, works on all four floors of the house, aims to reimagine our complicated relationship with the City and nature.

Images include:
1. Nathan Lewis
Myth of the Organic City, 2024
Lynoprint used to make handmade paper from pulped military uniforms with Melissa Potter

2. Exterior of 6018North
The weather will be beautiful tomorrow, so stop by!

3. Image of 1rst floor - Land Usage
Work by Viet Phan
The Fountain of Second Delights, 2024
Beeswax chandelier, wicks

Emilio Rojas
Memorial to an Unbuilt Monument and/or A Litany of Reduction, 2017-2018

4. Last chance to get your moon reading by Rebecca surrounded by the beautiful installation. -Rebecca Beachy and Christine Wallers Bone ash wall, 2018 / 2023
- Chicago (360˚): Astrological Cycles, Ecological Change, 2024
- Star map, Chicago at night (September), 2024 (the astrological sky at the opening of the exhibition)

5. New work by Carbon Register!! When the seaweed they grew during the show was too toxic to make tattoos, they turned the ink into a poem that traces the history of Lake Michigan’s pollution.

6. Old work by Luftwerk - Prairie Colorfield (with Jenny Kendler and Giovanni Aloi’s
Prairie Death Mask (Bell Bowl Prairie), 2024 in background.

7. Wall drawing by Eugenia Cheng Chicago Confluence, 2024 summarizes Chicago’s changes from 1800 - 2020. The amount of technological changes from 1840-1880 is similar to the rapid changes happening now. Come see it all before it disappears. Thanks to the @terraamericanart who made this show possible ❤️ to @evasilverman1 and Jenny Siegenthaler and the artists!!! ❤️

Myth of the Organic City is closing this Saturday from 1-5PM.
Moon Readings by Rebecca Beachy 1:30 -4:00PM
Come join the ❤️ artists ❤️ with a celebratory drink and see their amazing work! Last chance to see this historical and contemporary exhibition that explores Chicago's design and land use, from its indigenous roots to present-day developments. The exhibition features over 25 artists and includes maps, landscape designs, installations, wall drawings, sculptures, and multimedia works. As we face the threats of climate change, works on all four floors of the house, aims to reimagine our complicated relationship with the City and nature.

Images include:
1. Nathan Lewis
Myth of the Organic City, 2024
Lynoprint used to make handmade paper from pulped military uniforms with Melissa Potter

2. Exterior of 6018North
The weather will be beautiful tomorrow, so stop by!

3. Image of 1rst floor - Land Usage
Work by Viet Phan
The Fountain of Second Delights, 2024
Beeswax chandelier, wicks

Emilio Rojas
Memorial to an Unbuilt Monument and/or A Litany of Reduction, 2017-2018

4. Last chance to get your moon reading by Rebecca surrounded by the beautiful installation. -Rebecca Beachy and Christine Wallers Bone ash wall, 2018 / 2023
- Chicago (360˚): Astrological Cycles, Ecological Change, 2024
- Star map, Chicago at night (September), 2024 (the astrological sky at the opening of the exhibition)

5. New work by Carbon Register!! When the seaweed they grew during the show was too toxic to make tattoos, they turned the ink into a poem that traces the history of Lake Michigan’s pollution.

6. Old work by Luftwerk - Prairie Colorfield (with Jenny Kendler and Giovanni Aloi’s
Prairie Death Mask (Bell Bowl Prairie), 2024 in background.

7. Wall drawing by Eugenia Cheng Chicago Confluence, 2024 summarizes Chicago’s changes from 1800 - 2020. The amount of technological changes from 1840-1880 is similar to the rapid changes happening now. Come see it all before it disappears. Thanks to the @terraamericanart who made this show possible ❤️ to @evasilverman1 and Jenny Siegenthaler and the artists!!! ❤️

Community Conversations: Chasing the Declaration of Independence

Thursday, May 28, 2026
6:00 PM 8:00 PM
Free RSVP to attend!

This series reflects on the 250th anniversary of the United States by examining the Declaration of Independence alongside the treaties made with Native Americans in Illinois. Using 6018North’s current exhibition Myth of the Organic City, we explore how these histories have shaped our past, present, and how to best move forward. The series will be facilitated by JeeYeun Lee, an artists who has work on view. Community Conversations: Chasing the Declaration of Independence are funded by the Illinois Humanities.

Session 2 - tonight
Thursday, May 28 at 6 PM
Native American Treaties

Dr. Dorene Wiese (Minnesota Chippewa Tribe–White Earth) leads a discussion of Illinois treaties, exploring the Declaration's promise, the impacts of land use changes, and what "the people" means.

Community Conversations: Chasing the Declaration of Independence

Thursday, May 28, 2026
6:00 PM 8:00 PM
Free RSVP to attend!

This series reflects on the 250th anniversary of the United States by examining the Declaration of Independence alongside the treaties made with Native Americans in Illinois. Using 6018North’s current exhibition Myth of the Organic City, we explore how these histories have shaped our past, present, and how to best move forward. The series will be facilitated by JeeYeun Lee, an artists who has work on view. Community Conversations: Chasing the Declaration of Independence are funded by the Illinois Humanities.

Session 2 - tonight
Thursday, May 28 at 6 PM
Native American Treaties

Dr. Dorene Wiese (Minnesota Chippewa Tribe–White Earth) leads a discussion of Illinois treaties, exploring the Declaration's promise, the impacts of land use changes, and what "the people" means.

Carbon Register No. 3: Drawing Conversation
Saturday, May 23 at 10 AM

Wake up!! Robots are taking over the world!! Or at least Lake Michigan.

Join us at 10am tomorrow - yes you need to wake up to see robots using ink from seaweed grown in Lake Michigan, drawing its depths.

Throughout 18 months of the exhibition Myth of the Organic City, seaweed has been growing in 6018North’s 3rd floor locking carbon dioxide into organic form. Carbon Register then hauled it home, air dried it, and charred it through an anaerobic kiln firing.

If none of this makes sense, or if all of it does, come tomorrow to hear Carbon Register (Sara Black, Marc Downie, Amber Ginsburg, and scientists Andy Scarpelli and Sarah Rosengard) discuss how carbon is both primordial and life-giving and a driver of climate change and pollution. The charred seaweed, now “Carbon Black” is an amalgamation of pollutants - metals like barium, copper, lead, and zinc - the Industrial era elements that have found their way into the Lake.

So come join as robots draw the depth of tLake Michigan. Each drawing is a visualization of the 150 years of pollution in the Lake. Poetically, despite the pollution, the drawing is 281 meters - the depth of the lake - and creates a line of poetry 281 words long.
Want to know more science and data: External data utilized for this exhibit/printed on the scrolls are published in Granmo MN, Reavie ED, Post SP, Zanko LM. 2020. Anthropocene geochemistry of metals in sediment cores from the Laurentian Great Lakes. PeerJ 8:e9034 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9034

What does it mean to declare independence, with an unalienable right to life and liberty, on stolen land? I will be facilitating a series of discussions at @6018north exploring the Declaration of Independence, alongside US treaties with Native nations and Native activist archives. With special presenters Dr. Dorene Wiese and Les Begay. First one this Thursday May 21 at 6pm followed by May 28 and June 4, same time. Join us!

Thank you to all who gathered over delicious food to support Persephone: Extraction & Metamorphosis at 6018North.

Special thanks to Jasper (@creativechefnl ) of Creative Chef Studio (and Joeren) for the dinners moving from the carpeted garden Commons Reimagined: Collectivity Through Space by @forma.ny down to Hades with Kyle Price (@kylegregoryprice ) and his vibraphone and Pablo Lazala Ruiz (@pablolazalaruiz ) Stanchion Curtain HADES and Tria Smith (@triasmith )’s Persephone dress. We then moved upward to Spring with a feast of flowers and Katrin Schnabl (@schnabl.space )sewing inside Lise Haller Baggesen (@lisehallerbaggesen )’s work.

These dinners supported a community of artists creating throughout the summer, and we’re excited to share more soon. See you in June!

Thank you to all who gathered over delicious food to support Persephone: Extraction & Metamorphosis at 6018North.

Special thanks to Jasper (@creativechefnl ) of Creative Chef Studio (and Joeren) for the dinners moving from the carpeted garden Commons Reimagined: Collectivity Through Space by @forma.ny down to Hades with Kyle Price (@kylegregoryprice ) and his vibraphone and Pablo Lazala Ruiz (@pablolazalaruiz ) Stanchion Curtain HADES and Tria Smith (@triasmith )’s Persephone dress. We then moved upward to Spring with a feast of flowers and Katrin Schnabl (@schnabl.space )sewing inside Lise Haller Baggesen (@lisehallerbaggesen )’s work.

These dinners supported a community of artists creating throughout the summer, and we’re excited to share more soon. See you in June!

Thank you to all who gathered over delicious food to support Persephone: Extraction & Metamorphosis at 6018North.

Special thanks to Jasper (@creativechefnl ) of Creative Chef Studio (and Joeren) for the dinners moving from the carpeted garden Commons Reimagined: Collectivity Through Space by @forma.ny down to Hades with Kyle Price (@kylegregoryprice ) and his vibraphone and Pablo Lazala Ruiz (@pablolazalaruiz ) Stanchion Curtain HADES and Tria Smith (@triasmith )’s Persephone dress. We then moved upward to Spring with a feast of flowers and Katrin Schnabl (@schnabl.space )sewing inside Lise Haller Baggesen (@lisehallerbaggesen )’s work.

These dinners supported a community of artists creating throughout the summer, and we’re excited to share more soon. See you in June!

Thank you to all who gathered over delicious food to support Persephone: Extraction & Metamorphosis at 6018North.

Special thanks to Jasper (@creativechefnl ) of Creative Chef Studio (and Joeren) for the dinners moving from the carpeted garden Commons Reimagined: Collectivity Through Space by @forma.ny down to Hades with Kyle Price (@kylegregoryprice ) and his vibraphone and Pablo Lazala Ruiz (@pablolazalaruiz ) Stanchion Curtain HADES and Tria Smith (@triasmith )’s Persephone dress. We then moved upward to Spring with a feast of flowers and Katrin Schnabl (@schnabl.space )sewing inside Lise Haller Baggesen (@lisehallerbaggesen )’s work.

These dinners supported a community of artists creating throughout the summer, and we’re excited to share more soon. See you in June!

Thank you to all who gathered over delicious food to support Persephone: Extraction & Metamorphosis at 6018North.

Special thanks to Jasper (@creativechefnl ) of Creative Chef Studio (and Joeren) for the dinners moving from the carpeted garden Commons Reimagined: Collectivity Through Space by @forma.ny down to Hades with Kyle Price (@kylegregoryprice ) and his vibraphone and Pablo Lazala Ruiz (@pablolazalaruiz ) Stanchion Curtain HADES and Tria Smith (@triasmith )’s Persephone dress. We then moved upward to Spring with a feast of flowers and Katrin Schnabl (@schnabl.space )sewing inside Lise Haller Baggesen (@lisehallerbaggesen )’s work.

These dinners supported a community of artists creating throughout the summer, and we’re excited to share more soon. See you in June!

Thank you to all who gathered over delicious food to support Persephone: Extraction & Metamorphosis at 6018North.

Special thanks to Jasper (@creativechefnl ) of Creative Chef Studio (and Joeren) for the dinners moving from the carpeted garden Commons Reimagined: Collectivity Through Space by @forma.ny down to Hades with Kyle Price (@kylegregoryprice ) and his vibraphone and Pablo Lazala Ruiz (@pablolazalaruiz ) Stanchion Curtain HADES and Tria Smith (@triasmith )’s Persephone dress. We then moved upward to Spring with a feast of flowers and Katrin Schnabl (@schnabl.space )sewing inside Lise Haller Baggesen (@lisehallerbaggesen )’s work.

These dinners supported a community of artists creating throughout the summer, and we’re excited to share more soon. See you in June!

Thank you to all who gathered over delicious food to support Persephone: Extraction & Metamorphosis at 6018North.

Special thanks to Jasper (@creativechefnl ) of Creative Chef Studio (and Joeren) for the dinners moving from the carpeted garden Commons Reimagined: Collectivity Through Space by @forma.ny down to Hades with Kyle Price (@kylegregoryprice ) and his vibraphone and Pablo Lazala Ruiz (@pablolazalaruiz ) Stanchion Curtain HADES and Tria Smith (@triasmith )’s Persephone dress. We then moved upward to Spring with a feast of flowers and Katrin Schnabl (@schnabl.space )sewing inside Lise Haller Baggesen (@lisehallerbaggesen )’s work.

These dinners supported a community of artists creating throughout the summer, and we’re excited to share more soon. See you in June!

Thank you to all who gathered over delicious food to support Persephone: Extraction & Metamorphosis at 6018North.

Special thanks to Jasper (@creativechefnl ) of Creative Chef Studio (and Joeren) for the dinners moving from the carpeted garden Commons Reimagined: Collectivity Through Space by @forma.ny down to Hades with Kyle Price (@kylegregoryprice ) and his vibraphone and Pablo Lazala Ruiz (@pablolazalaruiz ) Stanchion Curtain HADES and Tria Smith (@triasmith )’s Persephone dress. We then moved upward to Spring with a feast of flowers and Katrin Schnabl (@schnabl.space )sewing inside Lise Haller Baggesen (@lisehallerbaggesen )’s work.

These dinners supported a community of artists creating throughout the summer, and we’re excited to share more soon. See you in June!

Thank you to all who gathered over delicious food to support Persephone: Extraction & Metamorphosis at 6018North.

Special thanks to Jasper (@creativechefnl ) of Creative Chef Studio (and Joeren) for the dinners moving from the carpeted garden Commons Reimagined: Collectivity Through Space by @forma.ny down to Hades with Kyle Price (@kylegregoryprice ) and his vibraphone and Pablo Lazala Ruiz (@pablolazalaruiz ) Stanchion Curtain HADES and Tria Smith (@triasmith )’s Persephone dress. We then moved upward to Spring with a feast of flowers and Katrin Schnabl (@schnabl.space )sewing inside Lise Haller Baggesen (@lisehallerbaggesen )’s work.

These dinners supported a community of artists creating throughout the summer, and we’re excited to share more soon. See you in June!

Thank you to all who gathered over delicious food to support Persephone: Extraction & Metamorphosis at 6018North.

Special thanks to Jasper (@creativechefnl ) of Creative Chef Studio (and Joeren) for the dinners moving from the carpeted garden Commons Reimagined: Collectivity Through Space by @forma.ny down to Hades with Kyle Price (@kylegregoryprice ) and his vibraphone and Pablo Lazala Ruiz (@pablolazalaruiz ) Stanchion Curtain HADES and Tria Smith (@triasmith )’s Persephone dress. We then moved upward to Spring with a feast of flowers and Katrin Schnabl (@schnabl.space )sewing inside Lise Haller Baggesen (@lisehallerbaggesen )’s work.

These dinners supported a community of artists creating throughout the summer, and we’re excited to share more soon. See you in June!

Thank you so much to Creative Chef Studio @creativechefnl for creating an amazing dinner representing the transformational myth of Persephone in Hades and Spring.

Thank you to all the supporters of our Persephone: Extraction & Metamorphosis at 6018|North.

Join us for a culinary journey from the Underworld to Spring to support our Call for Work for Persephone, an immersive play in development.

Persephone: Dinner & Fundraiser
Monday, May 4 from 7-9 PM
+ Tuesday, May 5 from 7-9 PM
#LinkInBio – 6018north.org/insta

Our experiential dinner begins in Hades, with underworld food and travels to the light of Spring fare curated by Dutch Creative Chef.

This is a taste and a peak into an immersive performance in development by Tria Smith for the Fall of 2026. This fundraiser supports the 12 artists who are developing this collaborative project throughout the Summer at 6018|North.

The Persephone myth is a lens on ecological destruction, social fragmentation, and the possibility of transformation. Persephone’s descent and return as a cycle, mirrors our current moment—marked by extraction, consumption, and growing political and environmental instability—and asks how we might collectively cultivate solutions.

This work is urgent now: as systems of extraction intensify, Persephone offers a space to confront loss, reckon with complicity, and embody renewal.

Kindly RSVP by May 1 to secure your seat for this exclusive dinner & fundraiser.

#ArtFundraiser #ImmersiveArt #CreativeChef #ChicagoArt

Join us for a culinary journey from the Underworld to Spring to support our Call for Work for Persephone, an immersive play in development.

Persephone: Dinner & Fundraiser
Monday, May 4 from 7-9 PM
+ Tuesday, May 5 from 7-9 PM
#LinkInBio – 6018north.org/insta

Our experiential dinner begins in Hades, with underworld food and travels to the light of Spring fare curated by Dutch Creative Chef.

This is a taste and a peak into an immersive performance in development by Tria Smith for the Fall of 2026. This fundraiser supports the 12 artists who are developing this collaborative project throughout the Summer at 6018|North.

The Persephone myth is a lens on ecological destruction, social fragmentation, and the possibility of transformation. Persephone’s descent and return as a cycle, mirrors our current moment—marked by extraction, consumption, and growing political and environmental instability—and asks how we might collectively cultivate solutions.

This work is urgent now: as systems of extraction intensify, Persephone offers a space to confront loss, reckon with complicity, and embody renewal.

Kindly RSVP by May 1 to secure your seat for this exclusive dinner & fundraiser.

#ArtFundraiser #ImmersiveArt #CreativeChef #ChicagoArt

This is our first ever call for work!

Persephone: Extraction & Metamorphosis
A Time-Based Collective Experience at 6018North

#Linkinbio – 6018north.org/insta

Submission Deadline: Friday, May 1 at 11:59PM CST

Applicants are encouraged to submit earlier if we need to contact you for clarifications.

Notification to Artists: Sunday, May 10

Project Periods: 4 weeks of artists in space

Two options:
June 2 to June 28 – OR – June 30 to July 26

Rough Draft Exchanges with Artists in Residence: 2-3 times
Exact dates to be determined.

Open House: Culminating Performances at end of each residency period: 2 evenings, June 27-28 or July 25-26

Location: 6018North, Chicago
Lead Artist & Curator: Tria Smith & Tricia Van Eck

#OpenCallForArtists #CallForWork #ArtRFP #Persephone

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5. Deborah Stratman
Double-Crossed
Archived audio recordings, 3 hours, 52 minutes

Over his Chicago radio show tenure, Studs Turkel recorded interviews with numerous Native Americans: Roger Buffalohead (Ponca), LaDonna Harris (Comanche), Mike Chosa (Chippewa), Charlie Hill (Oneida / Mohawk / Cree), Vine DeLoria Jr. (Sioux) , Louise Erdrich (mixed / Chippewa), Michael Dorris (mixed / Modoc), William Least Heat Moon (mixed / Osage), N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa), Benny Bearskin (Ho-Chunk), Theodore Bendoney (Navajo), Tom Bendoney (Navajo) & Mary Rosa Bendoney (Navajo).

6. Jenny Kendler
Documentation from Sculpture--->Garden, 2016-17
Fully biodegradable materials including soil and native prairie grass & flower seeds

Sculpture—>Garden was commissioned by the Chicago Park District in natural areas along the Chicago lakeshore on winter solstice, 2016. On each following equinox and solstice in 2017, newly cast sculptures were placed, to deteriorate and transform into seasonal, self-sustaining gardens of native plants.

7. Carbon Register - Sara Black, Marc Downie, Amber Ginsburg, and scientists Andy Scarpelli and Sarah Rosengard - (as seen through the window of Sangwoo's work)
Carbon Register No. 1, 2024
Biolab

Carbon Register No.1 cultivates native freshwater algae Cladophora abundant in Lake Michigan which is a primary carbon sink. Carbon is both the foundation of life on Earth and the driver of climate crisis. The artists are harvesting the algae, drying it, and hosting a gathering in May to kiln-carbonize it into 'carbon black.'

8. Tria Smith
Plastic Bottles Collection, 2023-2024
Plastic bottles

Working with Edgewater Environmental Coalition on recurring beach cleanups, Smith and 6018North are making visible the passive litter and waste that threatens our waterways in the Great Lakes and throughout the world's Oceans. Originally created for 6018North’s Water exhibition, it was reconfigured by Lise Haller Baggesson and Eleanor Ross.

Continued from previous post:

5. Deborah Stratman
Double-Crossed
Archived audio recordings, 3 hours, 52 minutes

Over his Chicago radio show tenure, Studs Turkel recorded interviews with numerous Native Americans: Roger Buffalohead (Ponca), LaDonna Harris (Comanche), Mike Chosa (Chippewa), Charlie Hill (Oneida / Mohawk / Cree), Vine DeLoria Jr. (Sioux) , Louise Erdrich (mixed / Chippewa), Michael Dorris (mixed / Modoc), William Least Heat Moon (mixed / Osage), N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa), Benny Bearskin (Ho-Chunk), Theodore Bendoney (Navajo), Tom Bendoney (Navajo) & Mary Rosa Bendoney (Navajo).

6. Jenny Kendler
Documentation from Sculpture--->Garden, 2016-17
Fully biodegradable materials including soil and native prairie grass & flower seeds

Sculpture—>Garden was commissioned by the Chicago Park District in natural areas along the Chicago lakeshore on winter solstice, 2016. On each following equinox and solstice in 2017, newly cast sculptures were placed, to deteriorate and transform into seasonal, self-sustaining gardens of native plants.

7. Carbon Register - Sara Black, Marc Downie, Amber Ginsburg, and scientists Andy Scarpelli and Sarah Rosengard - (as seen through the window of Sangwoo's work)
Carbon Register No. 1, 2024
Biolab

Carbon Register No.1 cultivates native freshwater algae Cladophora abundant in Lake Michigan which is a primary carbon sink. Carbon is both the foundation of life on Earth and the driver of climate crisis. The artists are harvesting the algae, drying it, and hosting a gathering in May to kiln-carbonize it into 'carbon black.'

8. Tria Smith
Plastic Bottles Collection, 2023-2024
Plastic bottles

Working with Edgewater Environmental Coalition on recurring beach cleanups, Smith and 6018North are making visible the passive litter and waste that threatens our waterways in the Great Lakes and throughout the world's Oceans. Originally created for 6018North’s Water exhibition, it was reconfigured by Lise Haller Baggesson and Eleanor Ross.

Continued from previous post:

5. Deborah Stratman
Double-Crossed
Archived audio recordings, 3 hours, 52 minutes

Over his Chicago radio show tenure, Studs Turkel recorded interviews with numerous Native Americans: Roger Buffalohead (Ponca), LaDonna Harris (Comanche), Mike Chosa (Chippewa), Charlie Hill (Oneida / Mohawk / Cree), Vine DeLoria Jr. (Sioux) , Louise Erdrich (mixed / Chippewa), Michael Dorris (mixed / Modoc), William Least Heat Moon (mixed / Osage), N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa), Benny Bearskin (Ho-Chunk), Theodore Bendoney (Navajo), Tom Bendoney (Navajo) & Mary Rosa Bendoney (Navajo).

6. Jenny Kendler
Documentation from Sculpture--->Garden, 2016-17
Fully biodegradable materials including soil and native prairie grass & flower seeds

Sculpture—>Garden was commissioned by the Chicago Park District in natural areas along the Chicago lakeshore on winter solstice, 2016. On each following equinox and solstice in 2017, newly cast sculptures were placed, to deteriorate and transform into seasonal, self-sustaining gardens of native plants.

7. Carbon Register - Sara Black, Marc Downie, Amber Ginsburg, and scientists Andy Scarpelli and Sarah Rosengard - (as seen through the window of Sangwoo's work)
Carbon Register No. 1, 2024
Biolab

Carbon Register No.1 cultivates native freshwater algae Cladophora abundant in Lake Michigan which is a primary carbon sink. Carbon is both the foundation of life on Earth and the driver of climate crisis. The artists are harvesting the algae, drying it, and hosting a gathering in May to kiln-carbonize it into 'carbon black.'

8. Tria Smith
Plastic Bottles Collection, 2023-2024
Plastic bottles

Working with Edgewater Environmental Coalition on recurring beach cleanups, Smith and 6018North are making visible the passive litter and waste that threatens our waterways in the Great Lakes and throughout the world's Oceans. Originally created for 6018North’s Water exhibition, it was reconfigured by Lise Haller Baggesson and Eleanor Ross.

Continued from previous post:

5. Deborah Stratman
Double-Crossed
Archived audio recordings, 3 hours, 52 minutes

Over his Chicago radio show tenure, Studs Turkel recorded interviews with numerous Native Americans: Roger Buffalohead (Ponca), LaDonna Harris (Comanche), Mike Chosa (Chippewa), Charlie Hill (Oneida / Mohawk / Cree), Vine DeLoria Jr. (Sioux) , Louise Erdrich (mixed / Chippewa), Michael Dorris (mixed / Modoc), William Least Heat Moon (mixed / Osage), N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa), Benny Bearskin (Ho-Chunk), Theodore Bendoney (Navajo), Tom Bendoney (Navajo) & Mary Rosa Bendoney (Navajo).

6. Jenny Kendler
Documentation from Sculpture--->Garden, 2016-17
Fully biodegradable materials including soil and native prairie grass & flower seeds

Sculpture—>Garden was commissioned by the Chicago Park District in natural areas along the Chicago lakeshore on winter solstice, 2016. On each following equinox and solstice in 2017, newly cast sculptures were placed, to deteriorate and transform into seasonal, self-sustaining gardens of native plants.

7. Carbon Register - Sara Black, Marc Downie, Amber Ginsburg, and scientists Andy Scarpelli and Sarah Rosengard - (as seen through the window of Sangwoo's work)
Carbon Register No. 1, 2024
Biolab

Carbon Register No.1 cultivates native freshwater algae Cladophora abundant in Lake Michigan which is a primary carbon sink. Carbon is both the foundation of life on Earth and the driver of climate crisis. The artists are harvesting the algae, drying it, and hosting a gathering in May to kiln-carbonize it into 'carbon black.'

8. Tria Smith
Plastic Bottles Collection, 2023-2024
Plastic bottles

Working with Edgewater Environmental Coalition on recurring beach cleanups, Smith and 6018North are making visible the passive litter and waste that threatens our waterways in the Great Lakes and throughout the world's Oceans. Originally created for 6018North’s Water exhibition, it was reconfigured by Lise Haller Baggesson and Eleanor Ross.

Thank you, Newcity ( @newcitymag ) and Brian Hieggelke for the lovely mention:
"Without Tricia Van Eck's conceptual, political and whimsical installation at 6018|North,...I don't think it will be as fun."

We're sad not to be part of the fair this year, but 6018|North is at home. We are open Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 5 PM, Please come visit!

Do you remember the first artwork? It's Extraction, by Luftwerk ( @luftwerk ), featured at our EXPO booth last year!

1-2 Luftwerk
Extraction, 2024
Sand and botanicals sourced from the Chicago Botanic Garden

In memory of the native landscape, Extraction includes layers of soils and botanicals as if rising out of the ground or the wall. Construction is an everyday sight that alludes to progress and development, but often outweighs the stewardship of land and sustainability. 

These images are Annika Wu's beautiful photographs of our windows, a glimpse of Myth of the Organic City!

3-4. Jane Georges
Soft Shoulder road sign, 2023/2024
Swarovski crystal strands, mirrored acrylic lettering, jewelry findings, dried orange peel, reflective road beads, dyed eyeglass lens, found holey rock


a road poem written on august 15, 2023:  
"through physical body, my subconscious spirit murmurs. bouncing off places inside of me, then found in the physical world, like sonar.
the retrograde of the ricochet, seeks familiar, yet reinterpreted, destinations.
the "soft shoulder" kept getting softer
until it became the road,
and then,
so did i."

#ExpoChicago #MythoftheOrganicCity

Thank you, Newcity ( @newcitymag ) and Brian Hieggelke for the lovely mention:
"Without Tricia Van Eck's conceptual, political and whimsical installation at 6018|North,...I don't think it will be as fun."

We're sad not to be part of the fair this year, but 6018|North is at home. We are open Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 5 PM, Please come visit!

Do you remember the first artwork? It's Extraction, by Luftwerk ( @luftwerk ), featured at our EXPO booth last year!

1-2 Luftwerk
Extraction, 2024
Sand and botanicals sourced from the Chicago Botanic Garden

In memory of the native landscape, Extraction includes layers of soils and botanicals as if rising out of the ground or the wall. Construction is an everyday sight that alludes to progress and development, but often outweighs the stewardship of land and sustainability. 

These images are Annika Wu's beautiful photographs of our windows, a glimpse of Myth of the Organic City!

3-4. Jane Georges
Soft Shoulder road sign, 2023/2024
Swarovski crystal strands, mirrored acrylic lettering, jewelry findings, dried orange peel, reflective road beads, dyed eyeglass lens, found holey rock


a road poem written on august 15, 2023:  
"through physical body, my subconscious spirit murmurs. bouncing off places inside of me, then found in the physical world, like sonar.
the retrograde of the ricochet, seeks familiar, yet reinterpreted, destinations.
the "soft shoulder" kept getting softer
until it became the road,
and then,
so did i."

#ExpoChicago #MythoftheOrganicCity

Thank you, Newcity ( @newcitymag ) and Brian Hieggelke for the lovely mention:
"Without Tricia Van Eck's conceptual, political and whimsical installation at 6018|North,...I don't think it will be as fun."

We're sad not to be part of the fair this year, but 6018|North is at home. We are open Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 5 PM, Please come visit!

Do you remember the first artwork? It's Extraction, by Luftwerk ( @luftwerk ), featured at our EXPO booth last year!

1-2 Luftwerk
Extraction, 2024
Sand and botanicals sourced from the Chicago Botanic Garden

In memory of the native landscape, Extraction includes layers of soils and botanicals as if rising out of the ground or the wall. Construction is an everyday sight that alludes to progress and development, but often outweighs the stewardship of land and sustainability. 

These images are Annika Wu's beautiful photographs of our windows, a glimpse of Myth of the Organic City!

3-4. Jane Georges
Soft Shoulder road sign, 2023/2024
Swarovski crystal strands, mirrored acrylic lettering, jewelry findings, dried orange peel, reflective road beads, dyed eyeglass lens, found holey rock


a road poem written on august 15, 2023:  
"through physical body, my subconscious spirit murmurs. bouncing off places inside of me, then found in the physical world, like sonar.
the retrograde of the ricochet, seeks familiar, yet reinterpreted, destinations.
the "soft shoulder" kept getting softer
until it became the road,
and then,
so did i."

#ExpoChicago #MythoftheOrganicCity

Thank you, Newcity ( @newcitymag ) and Brian Hieggelke for the lovely mention:
"Without Tricia Van Eck's conceptual, political and whimsical installation at 6018|North,...I don't think it will be as fun."

We're sad not to be part of the fair this year, but 6018|North is at home. We are open Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 5 PM, Please come visit!

Do you remember the first artwork? It's Extraction, by Luftwerk ( @luftwerk ), featured at our EXPO booth last year!

1-2 Luftwerk
Extraction, 2024
Sand and botanicals sourced from the Chicago Botanic Garden

In memory of the native landscape, Extraction includes layers of soils and botanicals as if rising out of the ground or the wall. Construction is an everyday sight that alludes to progress and development, but often outweighs the stewardship of land and sustainability. 

These images are Annika Wu's beautiful photographs of our windows, a glimpse of Myth of the Organic City!

3-4. Jane Georges
Soft Shoulder road sign, 2023/2024
Swarovski crystal strands, mirrored acrylic lettering, jewelry findings, dried orange peel, reflective road beads, dyed eyeglass lens, found holey rock


a road poem written on august 15, 2023:  
"through physical body, my subconscious spirit murmurs. bouncing off places inside of me, then found in the physical world, like sonar.
the retrograde of the ricochet, seeks familiar, yet reinterpreted, destinations.
the "soft shoulder" kept getting softer
until it became the road,
and then,
so did i."

#ExpoChicago #MythoftheOrganicCity

Thank you, Newcity ( @newcitymag ) and Brian Hieggelke for the lovely mention:
"Without Tricia Van Eck's conceptual, political and whimsical installation at 6018|North,...I don't think it will be as fun."

We're sad not to be part of the fair this year, but 6018|North is at home. We are open Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 5 PM, Please come visit!

Do you remember the first artwork? It's Extraction, by Luftwerk ( @luftwerk ), featured at our EXPO booth last year!

1-2 Luftwerk
Extraction, 2024
Sand and botanicals sourced from the Chicago Botanic Garden

In memory of the native landscape, Extraction includes layers of soils and botanicals as if rising out of the ground or the wall. Construction is an everyday sight that alludes to progress and development, but often outweighs the stewardship of land and sustainability. 

These images are Annika Wu's beautiful photographs of our windows, a glimpse of Myth of the Organic City!

3-4. Jane Georges
Soft Shoulder road sign, 2023/2024
Swarovski crystal strands, mirrored acrylic lettering, jewelry findings, dried orange peel, reflective road beads, dyed eyeglass lens, found holey rock


a road poem written on august 15, 2023:  
"through physical body, my subconscious spirit murmurs. bouncing off places inside of me, then found in the physical world, like sonar.
the retrograde of the ricochet, seeks familiar, yet reinterpreted, destinations.
the "soft shoulder" kept getting softer
until it became the road,
and then,
so did i."

#ExpoChicago #MythoftheOrganicCity

Thank you, Newcity ( @newcitymag ) and Brian Hieggelke for the lovely mention:
"Without Tricia Van Eck's conceptual, political and whimsical installation at 6018|North,...I don't think it will be as fun."

We're sad not to be part of the fair this year, but 6018|North is at home. We are open Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 5 PM, Please come visit!

Do you remember the first artwork? It's Extraction, by Luftwerk ( @luftwerk ), featured at our EXPO booth last year!

1-2 Luftwerk
Extraction, 2024
Sand and botanicals sourced from the Chicago Botanic Garden

In memory of the native landscape, Extraction includes layers of soils and botanicals as if rising out of the ground or the wall. Construction is an everyday sight that alludes to progress and development, but often outweighs the stewardship of land and sustainability. 

These images are Annika Wu's beautiful photographs of our windows, a glimpse of Myth of the Organic City!

3-4. Jane Georges
Soft Shoulder road sign, 2023/2024
Swarovski crystal strands, mirrored acrylic lettering, jewelry findings, dried orange peel, reflective road beads, dyed eyeglass lens, found holey rock


a road poem written on august 15, 2023:  
"through physical body, my subconscious spirit murmurs. bouncing off places inside of me, then found in the physical world, like sonar.
the retrograde of the ricochet, seeks familiar, yet reinterpreted, destinations.
the "soft shoulder" kept getting softer
until it became the road,
and then,
so did i."

#ExpoChicago #MythoftheOrganicCity

Today from 2-5pm join @cnlprojects and @6018north in #falloffreedom2025 action: Grieve (shout, cry, scream) and Heal (sing, hear, experience) through lullabies with @triasmith and Act (do, plan, scheme) with Cortney Lederer at 6018 N Kenmore Chicago anytime from 2-5pm TODAY!! Power is collective voice against tyranny. What will you do? What will we do together??
#6018north
#chicago #mythoftheorganiccity #falloffreedom #freedom #voiceofthepeople #voice #takeaction