 Jan Calendar posted
Jan at Elastic
Logan Square/Avondale Arts Center now open for booking/renting!
Located in the Sachs building at 2800 N Milwaukee. 6000 sq ft, 275 person capacity, multi-use art/performance/gathering space. Contact us by email for booking, renting and general info.
Elastic on Sixty Inches from Center
Check out an interview of Elastic co-directors Sam Lewis and Paul Giallorenzo by local arts archivists Sixty Inches From Center.
New Website!
Big thanks to Karim McCall for re-designing our new site! Take a look around!
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Improvised Music Series
The Thursday-night Improvised Music Series, curated by saxophonist Dave Rempis, began in April of 2002 at EAF’s original home, 3030, and moved to Elastic in April of 2006. The series has featured hundreds of concerts by internationally known improvisers...more
International Arts Outreach
Elastic Cambodia facilitates arts preservation projects in Cambodia, and increases awareness and support in Chicago and other Khmer-American communities in the United States. Through performance, teaching, documentation, and exhibition, Elastic Cambodia unites art, education and public service for the preservation and advancement of Cambodian traditional arts and culture. Created and directed by Elastic co-founder Dan Schwarzlose.
Elastic Hip-Hop Series
The Elastic Hip-Hop Series, curated by EAF cofounder Sam Lewis, was created to provide “underground” local, regional, national & international hip-hop artists a quality venue in which to perform in the Chicago area. . . more
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elasticarts.org
home of the Elastic Arts Foundation
Our mission is to foster the local community of art and culture through developing, hosting and producing creative, non-commercial performances and arts events.
 THURSDAY 1/26/12 - 10:00PM - $7
IMPROVISED MUSIC SERIES 
VOX ARCANA
James Falzone - clarinet, Fred Lonberg-Holm - cello, Tim Daisy - percussion
SATURDAY 1/28/12 - 9:00PM - $12/$10
ELASTIC INTERSECTIONS
MWATA BOWDEN'S WALKING ON COALS
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Mwata Bowden - woodwinds, Harrison Bankhead - cello, Dushun Mosley - percussion, Junius Paul - bass, Khari B - spoken word
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Mwata Bowden is Director of Jazz Ensembles at the University of Chicago. A native of
Memphis, he attended Chicago's DuSable High School where he studied music with the
legendary Captain Walter Dyett, whose tutelage inspired such young talents as Nat King Cole,
Johnny Griffin, Gene Ammons, Von Freeman, Fred Hopkins, and Richard Davis. Bowden
studied classical music at Chicago's American Conservatory of Music, and later toured with
the rhythm and blues group, the Chi-Lites. In 1974, he became active in Chicago's Association
for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), playing with the AACM Big Band
with Muhal Richard Abrams and others. He plays the family of clarinets, tenor and baritone
saxophones, as well as the flute and the didjeridu.
THURSDAY 2/2/12 - 10:00PM - $8
IMPROVISED MUSIC SERIES
WILLIAMS/GRAY/CORSANO
Mars Williams - saxophones, Darin Gray - bass, Chris Corsano - drums
THURSDAY 2/9/12 - 10:00PM - $7
IMPROVISED MUSIC SERIES
BREAKWAY
Paul Giallorenzo - piano/synthesizer,
Brian Labycz - modular synthesizer,
Marc Riordan - drums
THURSDAY 2/16/12 - 10:00PM - $7
IMPROVISED MUSIC SERIES
REMPIS/ABRAMS
Dave Rempis - saxophones, Joshua Abrams - bass
GILLET/ZERANG
Heln Gillet - cello, Michael Zerang - percussion
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December 2011 - January 2012
Jordan Martins, "Strange Attractions"
Strange Attractions is a project based the Chicago-specific tradition of hand-painted, block-letter grocery signs which have come to be associated with Hispanic markets. By exaggerating the expressive colors and gestural rhythms of the original signs, Jordan aims to build patterns that simultaneously attract (fluorescent colors, bold shapes) and conceal (by undermining legibility). In this sense he sees them relating both to natural camouflage and bright plumage used by animals to attract mates, or broader notions of visual stimuli to affect or sculpt behaviour.
This project is partially supported by a Community Arts Assistance Program Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.
Elastic Vision Gallery exhibits work by Chicago-based 2-D artists at all levels in their careers.
To submit an exhibition proposal, click here.
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