Thursday, July 12, 2007

* Here's Your Chance

Sent to me from a reader. Call for Artist Assistant

The Chicago Public Art Group is looking for an artist assistant to work on a new mural for the Glenwood Avenue Arts District.

The Chicago Public Art Group (CPAG) has been hired to coordinate the project and Rob Moriarty, an artist and art educator, is the lead artist on the project. Rob has over 10 years' experience working on community built public art projects in the Chicago area and is a former staff member of CPAG. The mural will be installed on the west side Glenwood Avenue between Morse and Lunt, using acrylic paint applied directly on the wall and on a non-woven media in the studio which will then be installed on the wall.

The paid assistantship is approximately 3 weeks of work/ training (120 hours). Part of the project goal is to train a local artist(s) in mural production for future Rogers Park projects. So, this is a good opportunity for an artist interested in public art, or CPAG.

If you or someone you know is interested in this type of opportunity, please contact Rob Moriarty at robmoriarty@nerdtronica.com.

The artist assistant must be a resident of Rogers Park. The project needs to be completed by mid-August and production is slated to begin very soon, so don't delay!

26 comments:

Hemps said...

Heya one and all,

I am real close to moving to RP but I want to read what you guys REALLY think about your neighborhood. Already I think it sucks. And I’m not even there yet! I’m a straight up single guy whose tired of the ‘burbs and wanting to get back into the mix. But maybe RP isn’t the place to spend my hard earned $. According to what I’m reading, RP is nothing more than a drug market run by gangbangers and crooked politicians. Say it ain’t so! Otherwise I’ll take my gentrifying, law abiding, ass elsewhere.

been there said...

please, please do not judge the hood by what you read on these blogs. i have been here for 25 years, and i love this place.
i have had very, very few bad things happen to me in all these years.
i will admit that it is a little on the gritty side, but it is really one block here, one block there, and otherwise peaceful. but that is why rents are not what they are in lincoln park.
come up and hang around, see for yourself.

Dr O said...

Hemps...my wife and I have been in RP for 6 years and we NEED to buy a house, but we both refuse to move out of RP (even with the cheaper houses in the west side of the city). We both love the lake and park, the proximity to public transportation downtown (and elsewhere), and the diversity of culture (unlike yuppie places like Lincoln Park, Bucktown, Wicker Park, etc.). Given the option we would buy in RP again (even with the problems) because with enough people interested in change (like many contributors to this blog) we change correct the problems facing RP (with or without our corrupt pols).

anonymous said...

This is not a good neighborhood for a single guy. Wicker Park has more that kind of mix. We have very few yuppies, most married, old curmudgeons like you read here, thriving black and hispanic and international communities with lots of kids. If you want partying singles, you'll be much happier in Wicker Park or Downtown or Lincoln Park. Unless you're a communist...

Abe said...

"Unless you're a communist . . ."

HA! I love it.

Anonymous said...

Hemps.
I moved from the suburbs 9 years ago. I love this neighborhood. I was, like you, scared when I moved in, but have enjoyed my time here unscathed.

Sure, I am fed up with our incumbant, who does not serve this ward to the best of his ability. I am tired of violence, crime and the lack of businesses. But I still choose to live here, because we have a gem of a neighborhood that has yet to be discovered.

With work, which is the primary complaint amongst those who care regarding the powers that be, we can get there!!!!

We need active, caring citizens who expect a bit more of their community.

Hope we have not scared you away!

Margot Hackett

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Anonymous said...

Hemps, everyone has said it all. We encourage ya to drop anchor here. Welcome, good neighbor!

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Craig Gernhardt said...

As for Nayboor's deleted comments. I'm not here to pat your pals at DevCorp on the back. They got their own tax payer funded website to do that.

In fact , the only reason this whole deal went down with this Mural project is the bloggers like Mannis and I are exposing DevCorp as a fraud in how they screw the tax payers.

DevCorp North no longer controls how people view the neighborhood. Bloggers do.

RPnayboor said...

what a crock of shit. the mural project has absolutely nothing to do with bloggers.

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SouthEvanstonian said...

Hemps, come to RP or south Evanston! Both have grassroots community groups working for improvement. Yes, parts of both areas can be dicey ... But look at things this way: you can get in while the gettin' is good! In a few years when we're the new hip part of town, people will be slapping their foreheads wishing they had had the prescience to buy in such an up-and-coming place.

anonymous said...

Just can't wait to push the neighborhood out and bring in the "hip?'

What the hell is "hip" Real estate speculators like you? They already have neighborhoods for people like you. You won't get this one anytime soon so why don't you go where you belong!

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Craig Gernhardt said...

If it weren't for the bloggers, no one would even know about this mural.

RPnayboor said...

what? people don't have eyes? again, what a crock of shit.

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Craig Gernhardt said...

Thanks for spending your evening on my blog. The time you spent here on my blog this evening shows how valuable the blogs are for information about Rogers Park.

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Anonymous said...

Hey?! Doesn't anyone want to waste their art school education doing three weeks of fetch and carry learning how to make peeling amateurish murals so we can have even more peeling amateurish murals in Rogers Park?

Don't you guys care about improving the economic climate around here at all?

BTW Craig...Hemps? Please tell me you didn't fall for that too, did you buddy?

Craig Gernhardt said...

Hemps said....> "RP is nothing more than a drug market run by gangbangers and crooked politicians. Say it ain’t so!"

It's so Hemps - it's so.

Craig Gernhardt said...

If you put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig.

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