"Stockyard Institute is a Chicago-based artistic and pedagogical collective whose practices center on a variety of issues concerning youth, Chicago, visual art, community, and social knowledge."
Overall I really enjoyed reading about the many many amazing and wonderful art and ed projects going on in the Chicago area- I am floored. While clicking through the website I became (actually) a little overwhelmed by the amount of other organizations who do similarly great things- I would be interested in a site that might act as a forum for the many fantastic organizations around town to communicate with each other and find ways to work/help each other's causes.
Seeing websites such as this one make me excited about the many places and activities I would like to get involved in but don't have time to because I am busy with school. I can't help but feel like since being in school I've been really disconnected from being involved in the neighborhood I live in and from organizations that interest me. These are things I appreciated about projects on the Stockyard Institute site.
if you liked the stockyard institute, give jim duignan a shout. he's the main guy behind the whole thing and well-connected throughout the city. let me knwo if you want to talk with him.
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