STREET STUDIES CONCERT – SXU 2005

We took the best of my two creative worlds, Chicago Art Department and Saint Xavier University Department of Art & Design, and smashed them together.

The topic was Chicago Streets – Every Artist chose a different street.

Documentary made by a student in the class.

Classroom Footage

Concert Footage

WESTERN AVENUE
Matthew Alvarado’s answer to the assignment was to create an ode to Western Avenue, the longest straightest street in America.
Western Avenue became one of the ringing anthems of this show

ASHLAND AVENUE
Colin Luce’s interpretation of Ash-Land a post-apocolyptic drumland

CLARK STREET
Ryan Boews laments the Old Style drenched bleachers in Wrigleyville
“She moves just like the street, oblivious of the curves”