YAP VII – Collaborations

Artist and community activist Diotzinantzin Rios-Sierra came to the art studio this Spring. The Children’s Museum was one of the sites that made mosiac butterflies to be installed along Armitage Avenue as part of a “Here to Stay” Logan Square Neighborhood Association initiative. Before they began to work on the butterflies, guests participated in a discussion with the artist about mosaics and migration and butterflies as a symbol for immigration.

The installed butterflies can be viewed at: www.instagram.com/p/B0ZKElahIni/

I wasn’t volunteering the day schoolchildren came to create drawings on silk for the Ship of Tolerance sails. The Ship of Tolerance is a multi site conceptual art project launched by the Ilya and Emilia Kabakov Foundation that has been installed in 16 cities around the globe since 2005. New sails are created at each site and before the drawing begins questions for discussion are posed like: “What problems do you expect to see in the future and what could you do to solve them?”

The 50 foot tall ship is installed at Navy Pier in Polk Brothers Park. While it’s not in a lake like it was in the promo photo taken in Switzerland, it pretty impressive with the city buildings in the background.