Public Art
Resilience
Title: Resilience Artist: Gretchen Hasse Collection: Mile of Murals Address: Pratt Ave. and Glenwood Ave. (North Wall) Description: Resilience: The ability to recover quickly from illness, change, or misfortune; buoyancy. Rogers Park embodies resilience. The word...
Full Hearted
Title: Full Hearted Artist: Nicky Melon Muñoz Collection: Participatory Budgeting Murals Address: 1781 W. Lunt Ave. (South Wall) Description: Date Completed: 2017 Browse more art in this collection: Participatory...
Chinese Armillary
Title: Chinese Armillary Artist: Unknown Collection: Loyola University Address: 6450 N. Kenmore Ave. (Cudahy Science Hall) Description: Jesuits have made countless scientific contributions over the centuries, including their influential role in reforming the Chinese...
United We Flow
Title: United We Flow Artist: Jason Brammer Collection: Participatory Budgeting Murals Address: 1584 W. Fargo Ave. (North Wall) Description: United We Flow is a hyper-realistic work of art integrating pre-existing structural elements from the environment, causing the...
Imagination Street
Title:Imagination StreetArtist:Jen PagniniCollection:Participatory Budgeting MuralsAddress:7426 N. Ashland Blvd. (East Wall)Description:Inspired by the Prince song Pop Life, Imagination Street explores the power of a child’s imagination. Pagini is an Illustrator and...
Let’s Bring the Birch Tree’s Back to Rogers Park
Title: Let's Bring the Birch Tree's Back to Rogers Park Artist: Joanna White Collection: Participatory Budgeting Murals Address: 1403 W. Touhy Ave. (North Wall) Description: Large mural selected by Rogers Park residents that intends to honor the birch trees that once...
Urban Oasis
Title: Urban Oasis Artist: Leah Tumerman Collection: Participatory Budgeting Murals Address: 1405 W. Touhy Ave. (South Wall) Description: 'Urban Oasis' blends the architecture of the Rogers Park area with an imagined intervention of the natural world. Flora and fauna...
Glenwood Sculpture Garden
Title: Glenwood Sculpture Garden Curated: Rogers Park Art Gallery Collection: Address: 6900 N. Glenwood Ave. Description: Created by local artist Andy DeLaRosa, this sculpture garden is composed of sculptures made with found objects. The garden is now managed and...
Artists of the Wall
Title: Artists of the Wall Artist: Community Members Collection: Address: Loyola Beach Description: The Artists of the Wall Mural initially began as a response to gangs who would continually graffiti the 600-foot sea wall to the point where the Park District couldn't...
The Receptor
Title: The Receptor Artist: Tamsie Ringler Collection: Address: Touhy Park Description: Across from the Clark Street firehouse in Touhy Park, The Receptor, a 10-ton cast concrete abstract sculpture, depicts the iris of the human eye and the photoreceptor cones that...
Windform
Title: Windform Artist: Lynn Takata Collection: More Art Address: Loyola Beach Description: Lynn Takata worked closely with Rogers Park community members in the mid-1980s to produce Windform, a 100-foot-long abstract concrete sculpture. Neighborhood residents helped...
Arnold J. Damen, S.J., Statue
Title: Arnold J. Damen, S.J., Statue Artist: Walter Arnold Collection: Loyola University Address: 1125 W. Loyola Ave. Description: Chiseled from a 10,000-pound piece of stone, this statue honors Father Damen, who founded St. Ignatius College, the predecessor of Loyola...