The Stockyard Institute has positioned itself within a growing and constantly expanding effort in Chicago of alternative collaborative projects and multiuse sites. We are building temporary programs, collaborative workshops, exhibits and shared publications, in an exchange of energy, support and practice in contemporary art and pedagogy with a vast group of producers. They include an interdisciplinary membership of architects, educators, youth, designers, teachers, performers, growers, artists, students, writers, composers and others. The Stockyard Institute is aligned with many groups and organizations in Chicago and has a direct association in working with underserved youth, issues of experimental learning and pedagogy, public art and life in the city.