San Miguel Arts Project

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June 5 - July 2, 1999
Gallery 400 School of Art and Design
College of Architecture and the Arts
400 S. Peoria, Chicago, IL 60607

During the summer of 1997, when the realization of a permanent school building for San Miguel was secured, artists were invited to deliberate and propose ideas for influencing the architecture of the school. That year some 100-125 artists, musicians, and cultural workers met at the site to talk, propose, collaborate with students, donate work to the project and to assist in establishing a climate for creative, intelligent enterprise. The neighborhood was used as a laboratory where work could be produced that was intelligent and grounded in a philosophy that far exceeded the conditions for the arts within a school. In 1999, UIC hosted a solo exhibition at Gallery 400, at the University of Illinois at Chicago. They invited us to highlight the entire body of work produced by youth and artists since 1995. The exhibition presented a range of work from pieces installed in the school to proposals for future collaborations and initiatives within the immediate community. The San Miguel Arts Project was an open invitation to artists and community members to come and propose a project for the site that would both temporarily and permanently house their efforts within the school facility.  this was a big project and there are some pictures of pieces from the school and the gallery 400 exhibit. The SMAP lasted for about 2 years.

Contributing Artists: Michael Accera & the San Miguel students Leticia Aldama  John Arndt Brett Bloom Cindy Bojorquez Carlos Cortez Patrick Collier    Claire Blanche Dougal Renee Dryg Celeste Duignan Experimental Sound Studio Anthony Elms   Susan Peterson Michael Piazza Ulrich Schlotmann Bob Tavani Jacqueline Terrassa Watie White Curated by Karen Indeck and Jim Duignan

Mathew Girson Goss Steve Harp Arron Higgins Jo Hormuth Christine Kriegerowski Brad Leslie Steven Luecking Tom McDonald Jon Mindes Louise Nelson Marc Fischer Janine Patten Hector Sanchez Michael Shea Jane Stevens Sarah Whipple Barb Wiesen