Future Voyagers
Future Voyagers
The outdoors should be for everyone, but history hasn't always shown it that way. Chicago Voyagers, an art exhibit funded with support from Flourish Art Accelerator, is helping to expand access to the outdoors for Chicago youth. Through this exhibit we hope to challenge and reimagine what exploration and adventure look like and who gets to be part of it.
The outdoors should be for everyone, but history hasn't always shown it that way. Chicago Voyagers expands access to the outdoors for the youth and communities we serve. Through this exhibit, we hope to challenge and reimagine what exploration and adventure look like, and who gets to be part of it.
The Future Voyagers Exhibit, partially funded by the Flourish Art Accelerator, helped to support commissioned Chicago-based minority artists in creating stunning portraits of youth from Chicago Voyagers programs, depicted as modern-day explorers. Unlike familiar paintings throughout history, the explorers in our paintings will be as diverse as the communities we serve.
Through the Future Voyagers Exhibit, we hope to raise awareness of that mission, as well as the broader societal issues around equitable access to safe outdoor spaces.
Living without the Gods
Living without the Gods
Flourish fellow and Chicago-based artist Shaurya Kumar investigates how human societies construct meaning and identity in the absence of monuments and objects that once anchored their cultures. Kumar explores the transformation of artifacts when displaced from their original contexts, reflecting on the modern ruin.
Flourish fellow and Chicago-based artist Shaurya Kumar investigates how human societies construct meaning and identity in the absence of monuments and objects that once anchored their cultures. Kumar explores the transformation of artifacts when displaced from their original contexts, reflecting on the modern ruin. Through printmaking, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, photography, and installation, he examines crumbled temples, relocated columns, empty tombs, and lost traditions, questioning the fate of cultural relics lost to time, museums, or private collectors. The exhibition fosters dialogue on identity, history, and diaspora.
The Remnants Series
THE REMNANTS SERIES
This three-part series explores climate change and inhabited non-places in Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, and its diaspora. The project will feature an artistic residency with José Rosa. His work delves into concepts of queer magical realism, spotlighting a niche aspect of Puerto Rican culture, the training and riding of Paso Fino horses. The exhibit will also feature Contaminados, an installation by Herminio Rodríguez, whose work features dozens of portraits of Puerto Ricans covered in ash, representing the environmental and health impacts caused by coal-burning..
This three-part series explores climate change and inhabited non-places in Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, and its diaspora. The project features an artistic residency with José Rosa. His work delves into concepts of queer magical realism, spotlighting a niche aspect of Puerto Rican culture, the training and riding of Paso Fino horses. The exhibit will also feature Contaminados, an installation by Herminio Rodríguez, whose work features dozens of portraits of Puerto Ricans covered in ash, representing the environmental and health impacts caused by coal-burning.
Voices of Silenced Minds
VOICES OF SILENCED MINDS
Rediscovering & Reinventing our Collective Memory, a phased interactive public art project that will allow the public to contribute to a series of artworks through writing on the images.
Rediscovering & Reinventing our Collective Memory, a phased interactive public art project that will allow the public to contribute to a series of artworks through writing on the images.