VISUAL AND INTERACTIVE ART

2024 FEATURED ARTISTS

INSTALLATION ARTISTS

Gillian is a multi-disciplinary artist in the fields of Installation art & Performance. Her work focuses on mental health, disability, community & empowerment, using sound and color in playful ways to juxtapose the site-specific spaces her works inhabit. Her installation pieces have been seen at Pitchfork Music Festival, Logan Square Arts Festival, and around the city’s parks with Opera-Matic. Her directorial debut, an abstract movement short film titled “Relapsing/Remitting” screened in over a dozen film festivals locally & internationally.
Michelle is a mixed media artist known for transforming everyday materials into captivating works of art. With a background as a florist spanning 17 years, she draws profound inspiration from the natural world, infusing each piece with the beauty and complexity found in the natural world.
Specializing in the use of accessible materials including many found objects-particularly plastics, Michelle creates dynamic and thought-provoking installations. By playing with scale, she captures the viewer’s attention through objects of unusual size, inviting a closer inspection that reveals the true nature of the materials used. This tactile engagement challenges perceptions and encourages a deeper appreciation for the ordinary transformed into the extraordinary.

Marvin Tate is an award winning multdiciplinary artist. Some of his accomplishments include appeareances on BBC and NP International Theater Physical Festival, and he is the 2024 recipient of the Elastic Arts Foundation Achievement Award. He is currently an ensemble-member with Theater Y in Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood.
 

Sit/Stay Gallery is an informal non traditional art space outdoors. Located in northern Illinois, Sit/Stay serves as a space to show artwork outdoors. Artists looking to experiment or subvert traditional gallery spaces would be the best fit for this space.

Photo credit: Ricardo Adame


Comfort Station is pleased to announce La Casa de Todos / Everyone’s Home an exhibition by Edra Soto that will reimagine the existing installation SCAFFOLD.  The exhibition will be accompanied by various programs throughout the summer and fall. 
 

PERFORMANCE ARTISTS

Saturday and Sunday: 1-7 PM (rolling performances)

ZAHAHA is a SLICE of LIFE Chronicle Puppet Show that does shows in and around the Chicagoland Area.
 

Saturday: 2-4 PM Puppetry Pop-up in Front of Monument​

CHIO’S PUPPETRY is an artistic duo that makes joyful puppetry art for Chicago families! Chio Cabrera, is a Humboldt Park native that creates pieces based on nature and protest. Her works celebrate cultural diversity. Come celebrate with us! The good guys always win!

Saturday and Sunday

We’ll be performing the thrilling battle scene between the mice and toy soldiers from The Nutcracker to promote our upcoming Nutcracker Camp in August.

Additionally, we will host a mini dance parade through the festival, encouraging attendees to join us in a conga line that leads to one of the music stages.

Lastly, one of our advanced dancers will perform as a living statue, posing and executing small dance steps on a platform, providing a unique photo opportunity for festival-goers.

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Saturday Puppetry pop-up in front of Monument​

My name is The Rev. Van Ferdinand and I believe in Love. The pursuit of Love is the only common thread between all humans. You cannot receive Love until someone else has already decided to give Love. I will spread these sentiments for the remainder of my days.

LIVE ARTISTS

Hink is a comic artist, muralist, paster, and creature person from Chicago. Their work tends to explore gender, sexuality, mental illness, interpersonal relationships, and the absurd. Hink always hopes to inspire others to get familiar with their own respective creature inside.

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CoryaYo is a Chicago, US based Music Producer, Musician, Sound Healer and Visionary Artist. Originally from Spencer, Iowa, born (Cory Altenhofen). Cory is known for producing prolific instrumental albums of hypnotic jazz influenced hip hop beats as well as creating organic meditative soundscapes as a sound healer and ambient musician. Aside from performing music and leading spaces as a sound healer, Cory is also a visual artist painting murals & majority of his album artworks. Cory has two rap groups under the names Strangers Of Necessity & Heavily Indicated and has production credits for many artists including Isaiah Rashad, Audio Push, Price, G-Eazy, Vic Spencer, Rap Ferreira, Loyle Carner, Kota The Friend, Akira Rae & more.

E.Flores is a painter, sculptor, and musician from Chicago who’s work explores sound and art’s capacity to change matter, activate community, and align us with divine history.
 

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Laura (they/she) will be live painting throughout the festival and facilitating making in the Interactive Arts Area! 
 

INTERACTIVE ARTS AREA

Community Mural in IA Area

I will be inviting people of all ages to participate in creating a community mural using different painting techniques.
 

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Sound bowl meditation + yoga in the Interactive Arts Area | Friday: 5-9pm

Located at 2871 N Milwaukee Ave just a few minutes’ walk from the blue line, Forth Studio Chicago offers classes everyday across yoga asana, deep stretch + sound bath, strength training, and breathwork. All levels welcome and encouraged!
 

Craftmaking with Friends of Logan Square Library in the Interactive Arts Area | Friday: 5-9pm

Family-friendly art and craft activities
 

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Saturday: Noon-5 PM Sunday: 4-10 PM

Agitator Artist Collective is a Chicago based nonprofit. We make decisions by consensus building and valuing each member’s input equally. Agitator seeks to promote and engage significant art. We platform underrepresented artists and engage under served audiences, with a local approach and a global vision.
 

Face painting + balloon twisting in Interactive Arts Area | Saturday 4-6pm

Chicago Caritas will have face painting, balloon animals, and temporary tattoos on deck!
 

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Button-Making Station | Sunday: 2-6 PM

We’ll be hosting live button-making at LSAF that’s fun for all ages! Come get creative 🙂 You’re also welcome to stop by our Button Museum (just featured in the Guinness Book of World Records) which is located inside our offices at 3407 W Armitage Ave. A fun, off-beat adventure perfect for summertime. Flexible hours are M-F, 10am to 4pm but feel free to call and confirm anytime! 773-645-3359.
 

Sunday: Noon-6PM

A roving zine festival independently organized by and for Zinesters since 2016. Come check out the work of some talented Zinesters on Sunday in the Interactive Arts Area!
 

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Special thanks to Headlamp Creative Group and JC Licht Ace for helping us make it happen!

SUMMER ON THE SQUARE

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