"Red Line Service makes
the kind of critical, visionary art
that is engaged in world building,
in rendering palpable
the world we want to live in."

Join us in person. We will Zoom in students from University of Miami School of Law's Human Rights Clinic to present to us on the dimension of Cultural Adequacy in the UN Human Right to Adequate Housing

Our regular full community gathering will meet at SAIC Homan Square

Join us at Jane Addams Hull-House Museum for a workshop led by Firebird Community Arts Center artists.Supported by Terra Foundation for American Art's Art Design Chicago initiative.

Join us at Jane Addams Hull-House Museum for a workshop led by Firebird Community Arts Center artists.Supported by Terra Foundation for American Art's Art Design Chicago initiative.

Join us at Jane Addams Hull-House Museum for a workshop led by Firebird Community Arts Center artists.Supported by Terra Foundation for American Art's Art Design Chicago initiative.

Join us in person. We will Zoom in students from University of Miami School of Law's Human Rights Clinic to present to us on the UN Human Right to Adequate Housing

Join us for a VIP Field Trip of the exhibition entitled Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica with curator, Antawan I Byrd.

Our regular full community gathering will meet at SAIC Homan Square

Join co-curator, Grace Needlman for a tour of the exhibition.

Join Cabinet of Curiosity and Red Line Service at the Uptown Chamber of Commerce's Winter Walk on Wilson. Open to all.

Join us in person. We will Zoom in students from University of Miami School of Law's Human Rights Clinic to present to us on two of the seven dimensions of the UN Human Right to Adequate Housing - Affordability and Accessibility.

Join Jordan Sarti, Arts & Music Librarian, for a behind-the-scenes look at selected items from the Library's Arts & Music Department.

Join us in person. We will Zoom in students from University of Miami School of Law's Human Rights Clinic to present to us on two of the seven dimensions of the UN Human Right to Adequate Housing - affordability and accessibility.

Join us for an exhibition organized by Red Line Service to mark the culmination of their woodworking course with new arrivals, currently supported by the City of Chicago Department of Family & Support Services./Por favor acompáñenos a la apertura de una exhibición organizada por Red Line Service para marcar la culminación del curso de madera con participantes del programa del Departamento de la familia y servicios de apoyo de la ciudad de Chicago.

Veteran art critic Lori Waxman writes short art reviews on demand, in public, for artists who need them. Photo Credit: Li-Ming Hu.

Join Red Line Service, Jane Addams Hull House Museum and Firebird Community Arts for an afternoon of glass-fusion, supported by Terra Foundation for American Art's Art Design Chicago initiative.

Join Red Line Service, Jane Addams Hull House Museum and Firebird Community Arts for an afternoon of glass-fusion, supported by Terra Foundation for American Art's Art Design Chicago initiative.

Join Rhonda Wheatley and Elsa Muñoz for a healing session at Jane Addams Hull House Museum. Photo Credit: Lara Jameson

Join Red Line Service, Jane Addams Hull House Museum and Firebird Community Arts for an afternoon of glass-blowing, supported by Terra Foundation for American Art's Art Design Chicago initiative.

As the fire of summer fades, the harvesting begins.

Friends! Large-Scale Puppet Coming to Buttercup Park 4901 N. Sheridan Road 3:45pm Friday, September 13, 2024

A Red Line Service and Congo Square Theatre partnership, hosted by the fabulous new Reva and David Logan Foundation event space, Movement on Montrose.

Boost your health and wellness, relieve your stress, and open your creativity channels by doing some breathwork and sound healing with Aneela Dean.

Boost your health and wellness, relieve your stress, and open your creativity channels by doing some breathwork and sound healing with Aneela Dean.

Come and see what Red Line Service elders and N. Lawndale teens participating in a course at SAIC@Homan Square have been designing, testing, and making for a future garden space. Program takes place at a vacant lot.

Red Line Service artists - come on in for a summer community event.

Boost your health and wellness, relieve your stress, and open your creativity channels by doing some breathwork and sound healing with Aneela Dean.

Boost your health and wellness, relieve your stress, and open your creativity channels by doing some breathwork and sound healing with Aneela Dean.

Boost your health and wellness, relieve your stress, and open your creativity channels by doing some breathwork and sound healing with Aneela Dean.

Boost your health and wellness, relieve your stress, and open your creativity channels by doing some breathwork and sound healing with Aneela Dean.

Boost your health and wellness, relieve your stress, and open your creativity channels by doing some breathwork and sound healing with Aneela Dean.

Join Uptown United, Red Line Service, and Cabinet of Curiosity for an UPTOWN Art Walk Processional

Enjoy a tour of and some relaxation in the beautiful new Arts Lawn, a project of University of Chicago's Arts + Public Life initiative. RSVP is required. As is our practice, bus fare will be provided and a lunch will be shared after the tour for all Red Line Service artists with lived experience of houselessness.

The Chicago Puppet Lab is a developmental lab for Chicago artists creating new, original puppet theater work.

Join us for a program supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art's Art Design Chicago program and presented by Mary Pattillo.

Join us in the garden for an exhilarating program designed by Red Line Service, Cabinet of Curiosity, and Uptown Chamber of Commerce. Be dazzled by special guests, Rogue fire dancers.

Boost your health and wellness, relieve your stress, and open your creativity channels by doing some breathwork and sound healing with Aneela Dean.

Boost your health and wellness, relieve your stress, and open your creativity channels by doing some breathwork and sound healing with Aneela Dean.

Join us for a VIP tour of current exhibitions at Wrightwood 659 as well as a tour of the magnificent building designed by Tadao Ando.

Boost your health and wellness, relieve your stress, and open your creativity channels by doing some breathwork and sound healing with Aneela Dean.

Boost your health and wellness, relieve your stress, and open your creativity channels by doing some breathwork and sound healing with Aneela Dean.

Boost your health and wellness, relieve your stress, and open your creativity channels by doing some breathwork and sound healing with Aneela Dean.

Boost your health and wellness, relieve your stress, and open your creativity channels by doing some breathwork and sound healing with Aneela Dean.

Boost your health and wellness, relieve your stress, and open your creativity channels by doing some breathwork and sound healing with Aneela Dean.

Boost your health and wellness, relieve your stress, and open your creativity channels by doing some breathwork and sound healing with Aneela Dean.

Boost your health and wellness, relieve your stress, and open your creativity channels by doing some breathwork and sound healing with Aneela Dean.

Join us for a program supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art's Art Design Chicago program and presented by Mejay Gula, Senior Project Manager, Site Design Group, Landscape Architects.

Boost your health and wellness, relieve your stress, and open your creativity channels by doing some breathwork and sound healing with Aneela Dean.

Join us for a program supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art's Art Design Chicago program and presented by David Brown. Photo credit: Nathan Keay

Boost your health and wellness, relieve your stress, and open your creativity channels by doing some breathwork and sound healing with Aneela Dean.

Join us for a program supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art's Art Design Chicago program and presented by Nootan Bharani, architect and Associate Director of Cultural Stewardship and University Partnerships at Arts + Public Life, and a lecturer in the Humanities Division, at the University of Chicago.

Boost your health and wellness, relieve your stress, and open your creativity channels by doing some breathwork and sound healing with Aneela Dean.

Join us for a program supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art's Art Design Chicago program and presented by Chandra Christmas-Rouse

Red Line Service and 6018|N are partnering to offer a healing workshop with artist and energy worker Rhonda Wheatley.

Join Aneela Dean as she helps us move the water of life from within to guide us and connect us to wholeness, using hands, breath, and movement.

Join us for a program supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art's Art Design Chicago program and presented by Jesse Rosenbluth, President of Omni Rewild™

Boost your health and wellness, relieve your stress, and open your creativity channels by doing some breathwork and sound healing with Aneela Dean.

A festive evening of poetry + song organized and led by Red Line Service performers.

Boost your health and wellness, relieve your stress, and open your creativity channels by doing some breathwork and sound healing with Aneela Dean.

Join us for a program supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art's Art Design Chicago program and presented by Bess Williamson, Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and historian of design and material culture.

Join us for a program supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art's Art Design Chicago program and presented by Uthman Olowa, the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD)Teaching Fellow, Architecture, Interior Architecture, & Designed Objects, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Behind-the-scenes tour of the Field Museum's Africa collection in storage. Tour led by assistant curator of anthropology, Foreman Bandama.

Make and decorate seed shakers; plant seeds and share a meal, as we lay the groundwork – together – for a beautiful, thriving community garden which will bloom in spring/summer 2024.

Join us as Red Line Service – in partnership with Studio WIP – creates a community mural on a vacant lot in N. Lawndale as part of Red Line Service’s contribution to the Terrain Biennial. Light lunch will be available.

We are so pleased to partner with Congo Square Theatre to bring this opportunity to Red Line Service artists and thinkers.

Join us for a tour of The Plant, a research and production facility, comprising a collaborative community of small food businesses.

Join Michelle Gilbert, Legal and Policy Director and Terra Wilhelm, staff attorney, both at the Law Center for Better Housing for a lunchtime discussion.

Join us for a lively, fun, summer day of mingling with Red Line Service artists, viewing, buying and supporting their art!

Join Red Line Service, and artist Sonja Moser (Chicago-based writer; and theatre & visual artist), for a playful, yet meaningful art making workshop.

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Join us for a full day field trip experience to Sheboygan WI!

A legal and advocacy framework for exploring the intersection of houselessness and food insecurity, followed by a radical art experience.

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The Chicago Puppet Lab is a developmental lab for Chicago artists creating new, original puppet theater work. This cohort of artists from a variety of creative backgrounds and with a range of puppetry experience has been meeting weekly with Co-directors Tom Lee and Grace Needlman since October.

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Join us for a tour of "Not All Realisms" with curator, Leslie Wilson.

Join us for a Book Launch Party

Join Annie Howard and Seven Benjamin from the Chicago Housing Justice League for a presentation on the many ways housing insecurity manifests in Chicago.

Join us for a private tour of The Arts Club of Chicago with director, Janine Mileaf. Lunch will follow. This event is free and open to the public, with a special invitation to people with a lived experience of homelessness. RSVP is required. Space is limited.

Join Deanna Ledezma for a presentation entitled Family Photography Expanded: Kinship, Communities, Belonging

In partnership with EXPO Chicago, the studios at Mana will be open from 6-9pm.

Join us for a special art-making trip to The Chicago Weaving School. Weave a Carolina Snowflake of your own.

Join Art Historian Magdalena Moskalewicz, for a presentation on the work of the internationally recognized artist, Magdalena Abakanowicz as well as her connection to Chicago.

Join us for printmaking in the garden

Join us for a VIP tour of Derrick Adams' new exhibition at Rhona Hoffman Gallery. Lunch will follow. This event is free and open to the public, with a special invitation to people with a lived experience of homelessness. RSVP is required. Space is limited.

Join us for The Fixer Upper: Buying into the American Tragicomedy with Amndtrn5thsnd, PhD (independent artist and scholar)

Special tour of the exhibition with artist, Max Guy. Lunch will follow. This event is free and open to the public, with a special invitation to people with a lived experience of homelessness. RSVP is required.

We are proud to present Adrienne Brown, Associate Professor, University of Chicago. She will discuss her work, The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race, which recovers the skyscraper’s drastic effects not only on the shape of the city but the racial sensorium of its residents. She will also discuss her work that charts the impact of the U.S.’s move to mass homeownership in 20th century on how Americans experienced residential space as a social, spatial, and, most significantly, a racial unit.

Join Rhoda Rosen, executive director, Red Line Service and associate professor, adj., School of the Art Institute of Chicago for a presentation, followed by a festive, holiday meal. This event is free and open to the public, with a special invitation to people with a lived experience of homelessness.

A writing workshop for Red Line Service attendees who want to explore writing their own art histories. This event is free and open to the public, with a special invitation to people with a lived experience of homelessness.

Join J. Dakota Brown for a presentation on typographers, design and labor politics in the Midwest.

Join art historian, Margaret MacNamidhe, associate professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for a noontime talk. This event is free and open to the public, with a special invitation to people with a lived experience of homelessness.

A writing workshop for Red Line Service attendees who want to explore writing their own art histories. This event is free and open to the public, with a special invitation to people with a lived experience of homelessness.

Rebecca Zorach, Mary Jane Crowe Professor in Art and Art History, Northwestern University. This event is free and open to the public, with a special invitation to people with a lived experience of homelessness.

We are thrilled to be represented at our first art fair. We will be showing Red Line Service artists, Deborah Awwad and Ravi Arupa's work. Our book, Voices from the Margins, will also be available. Join us for Vernissage on Friday, September 9th from 5-8pm; Fair opening hours are: Saturday, September 10th from 12-9pm; and Sunday, September 11th from 1-5pm. No RSVP needed. For more information, visit: https://www.mdwfair.com/assembly

A writing workshop for Red Line Service attendees who want to explore writing their own art histories. This event is free and open to the public, with a special invitation to people with a lived experience of homelessness.

Community Agreement Workshop

Leslie Wilson, Associate Director, Academic Engagement and Research, Art Institute of Chicago. This event is free and open to the public, with a special invitation to people with a lived experience of homelessness.

A writing workshop for Red Line Service attendees who want to explore writing their own art histories. This event is free and open to the public, with a special invitation to people with a lived experience of homelessness.

Aisha Motlani, ACLS Leading Edge Research Fellow at Arts Alliance Illinois and lecturer, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. This event is free and open to the public, with a special invitation to people with a lived experience of homelessness.

Kathleen Bickford Berzock, Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs, Block Museum, Northwestern University. This event is free and open to the public, with a special invitation to people with a lived experience of homelessness.

A private tour of Diane Severin Nguyen's "If Revolution is a Sickness" followed by a discussion with the curators and a shared meal.

A writing workshop for Red Line Service attendees who want to explore writing their own art histories. This event is free and open to the public, with a special invitation to people with a lived experience of homelessness.

Lori Waxman is the art critic for the Chicago Tribune and a senior lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. This event is free and open to the public, with a special invitation to people with a lived experience of homelessness.

A private visit to The Chicago Mosaic School for a personalized mosaic tile-making workshop with expert instructors.

A writing workshop for Red Line Service attendees who want to explore writing their own art histories. This event is free and open to the public, with a special invitation to people with a lived experience of homelessness.

Presenter Ross Stanton Jordan, Interim Director and Curatorial Manager, Jane Adams Hull House Museum This event is free and open to the public, with a special invitation to people with a lived experience of homelessness.

VIP Field Trip

Private experience of the School of the Art Institute (SAIC) annual biblioderive. In addition, we are pleased that the Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection and John M. Flaxman Library (both located at SAIC) each accessioned into their collections a copy of the Red Line Service artist book, Voices from the Margins.

Private tour with director, Laura-Caroline de Lara, of the exhibition Stockyard Institute: 25 Years of Art and Radical Pedagogy. Jim Duignan, founder of Stockyard Institute made a surprise appearance and co-led the wonderful tour.

Private tour with Chief Curator and Deputy Director, Karen Irvine, of the exhibition, American Epidemic: Guns in the United States.