"Living together is an art." - William Pickens, Oak Park, 1932
Echoes of Chicago is a Chicago-based artists collective and network focused on building and strengthening community through arts and other forms of creative expression and supporting both art and the artists who create it. Echoes believes that supporting and connecting artists in order to develop and showcase their visions is vital to the creation and maintenance of a vibrant and community-oriented art scene in Chicago.
Whether we are conscious of it or not, art is at the center of all our lives; we live, breathe and bring it into being every day. Echoes strives to provide a forum for art and creative expression – one that is open to any medium, any age, any class, and any race. The heart and soul of Echoes is community. In this world so often overrun with selfishness and deceit, Echoes recognizes the need to create a better mode of communication in order to reunite the segregated neighborhoods of Chicago. The goal is to spark conversation, using art as a language that all people have the power both to listen to and to be heard. Too often do the people of Chicago (and the world) divide themselves on the basis of diversity. Echoes strives to create a sense of camaraderie and community by embracing our diversity through the common ground of art.
Please Contact:
[email protected]
or
Tom Packard (773) 368-2868
with any questionsWe have weekly meetings that are open to you, if you would like to see who we are and what we're about. Feel free to message us! We are always looking to meet new people to work and build ideas with. We are always in need of meeting new artists to hang, musicians to have perform, groups to collaborate with... etc.
