In 2020, 6018North, a nonprofit exhibition space in Chicago, received funding from the Terra Foundation for American Art for an exhibition in the 2024 Art and Design Chicago. Art Design Chicago seeks to celebrate Chicago’s unique visual art and design history and Chicago’s artistic culture.
6018North applied specifically for the Convenings Grant, which provides grants for convenings such as workshops, symposia, and conferences designed to advance scholarship about Chicago’s diverse makers, and art and design histories, particularly those involving the city’s “green infrastructure.” Funded projects are expected to bring in a diversity of voices and perspectives, and address communities and creative practices that have been historically overlooked. 6018North proposed to bring in speakers for convenings between 2021-23 to further investigate what archives and collections will best illustrate Chicago’s historical green design; to identify how former, yet forward-thinking, land usage and design can catalyze ideas of equality and sustainability in contemporary green initiatives, and to develop plans for the exhibition and catalog to make the historical and contemporary content accessible to a diverse, broad audience.
The Management Studio team developed research and created administrative structures for developing the Terra Foundation funded exhibition for 2024. This includes further work on website development, ongoing curatorial research and checklist development of art works to be considered, in particular adding contemporary artists. The team also contributed to the development of a series of public programs on the topic of sustainability.
6018North applied specifically for the Convenings Grant, which provides grants for convenings such as workshops, symposia, and conferences designed to advance scholarship about Chicago’s diverse makers, and art and design histories, particularly those involving the city’s “green infrastructure.” Funded projects are expected to bring in a diversity of voices and perspectives, and address communities and creative practices that have been historically overlooked. 6018North proposed to bring in speakers for convenings between 2021-23 to further investigate what archives and collections will best illustrate Chicago’s historical green design; to identify how former, yet forward-thinking, land usage and design can catalyze ideas of equality and sustainability in contemporary green initiatives, and to develop plans for the exhibition and catalog to make the historical and contemporary content accessible to a diverse, broad audience.
The Management Studio team developed research and created administrative structures for developing the Terra Foundation funded exhibition for 2024. This includes further work on website development, ongoing curatorial research and checklist development of art works to be considered, in particular adding contemporary artists. The team also contributed to the development of a series of public programs on the topic of sustainability.