Jonathan Kelley

Co-founder, Lawndale Pop-Up Spot ✶✶✶✶

[Jonathan Kelley @JK_Museums]

The Lawndale Pop-Up Spot is complete and we are open Tuesday & Thursday 4-6, and Saturday 11-2. Best of all, you can still support the GoFundMe campaign: https://t.co/hJepfqQfmt

[Lawndale Pop-Up Spot @LawndalePopUp]

This afternoon! Swing through and enjoy a festival for the whole family! (Yes there will be a bouncy house)

[Lawndale Pop-Up Spot @LawndalePopUp]

This summer the Lawndale Pop-Up Spot is excited to present [YOUR EXHIBIT HERE] — a unique project in which we will hire a cohort of community members to create our September exhibit.

Visit https://t.co/juU1Ruw9JW for more information and to apply by June 13!

[Jonathan Kelley @JK_Museums]

Today!

[Lawndale Pop-Up Spot @LawndalePopUp]

Tomorrow! Live jazz and our beautiful Black Plant-It Herbal Exhibit installation. Catering by Firehouse Catering.

Love Blooms Here Plaza, 3601 W Douglas Blvd. Exhibit open 2-6pm, jazz + food 4-6pm

[Lawndale Pop-Up Spot @LawndalePopUp]

We highly recommend you visit our current installation — Black Plant-It Herbal Exhibit, curated by Art West. An apothecary & energy experience like no other.

Open Wednesday-Friday 2-6pm & Saturday 11-2 through May 21.

[Lawndale Pop-Up Spot @LawndalePopUp]

The second annual Chicago Sukkah Design Festival is now accepting FRQs from Chicagoland designers and LOIs from North Lawndale community organizations.

https://t.co/eqjnMfzJnk

[Jonathan Kelley @JK_Museums]

@jacksondreyer @bubbly__creek Yeah it’s weird how not-weird this was for me, from a vantage point in Uptown

[Jonathan Kelley @JK_Museums]

@WCTA_Chicago @bubbly__creek If we could get that plus a mountain range …

[Lawndale Pop-Up Spot @LawndalePopUp]

Last year we were fortunate to receive funding via #SAFEANDPEACEFULCHI in support of Sundays on the Boulevard — here’s a video they created showcasing some of the awesome programming from one day!

New Sundays on the Boulevard coming soon!

https://t.co/DCw3GaTd7E

[Lawndale Pop-Up Spot @LawndalePopUp]

We’re looking for a west side artist/curator to showcase this May at the museum! We’ll gather all the proposals and convene a community panel of judges to decide. The chosen artist/curator will receive $1500 to bring the exhibit to life!

https://t.co/YSFwMMF2HO

Deadline 3/1

[WBEZ @WBEZ]

For the first-ever Chicago Sukkah Design Festival, architects designed sukkot for three North Lawndale organizations to use long term for their programming.
https://t.co/HGcM9oup3H

[Lawndale Pop-Up Spot @LawndalePopUp]

Getting ready for the big day! From 1:00-5:00 this afternoon we will have food trucks, roller skating (BYO Skates), bicycling, bouncy houses, GIANT JENGA, pop-a-shot, Culture Coach, live music & more!

[CDOT @ChicagoDOT]

#OpenBoulevards is a series of street activations that transform Chicago’s historic boulevards into open community spaces for residents to walk, bike, scooter, socialize, and enjoy food, & activities from local community partners.

[CDOT @ChicagoDOT]

Come on out to #OpenBoulevards this Sunday, October 16th in North Lawndale! Douglas Blvd will be closed to cars and open to people between Central Park to Independence & 13th.

[Lawndale Pop-Up Spot @LawndalePopUp]

The sites are connected by this beautiful map, which will be installed at at each location in the coming weeks

It’s been a fun project to work on, and we hope folks take the opportunity to check out the sites and see North Lawndale in action!

[Lawndale Pop-Up Spot @LawndalePopUp]

Also at each of these spaces is a bike rack, funded by SPIN. Both the whirligigs and bike racks include Adinkra symbols, which were chosen during our initial community planning discussions about how to connect Lawndale’s gardens & shipping containers together

[Lawndale Pop-Up Spot @LawndalePopUp]

Love Blooms Here Plaza (our home location), Stone Temple Peace Garden (across the boulevard) and six other gardens in North Lawndale had whirligigs installed this week! Learn more at Farm on Ogden on Saturday and Stone Temple on Sunday during #OpenHouseChicago

[chicagocultural @chicagocultural]

On Sun, Oct 16, Journey Chicago continues in Lawndale for "We Walk: A Celebration of Black Community," the outdoor, traveling festival of art, performance, and empowerment co-hosted by @hamoc1804 and Crossing Borders Music.
📷️: Artist Lowell Thompson, courtesy HAMOC

[Lawndale Pop-Up Spot @LawndalePopUp]

Thanks for joining us today, @cbschicago! The kids were excited to know they were making positive news!

[Lawndale Pop-Up Spot @LawndalePopUp]

Tonight’s screening & discussion of @tonikagj’s “Folded Map” documentary has been MOVED indoors & across the street to Stone Temple Church.

Popcorn & fellowship to start, then screening/discussion at 6:30. It will be awesome!

#chicagosukkahfestival

[Lawndale Pop-Up Spot @LawndalePopUp]

Sunday from 1-5 this will be the place to be!

Douglas Blvd between Central Park Ave & Millard Ave

Chicago Sukkah Design Festival opening party