Making Space Together while Celebrating Design + Architecture (September)
On our last Summer Community Day on Saturday September 18, we had a wealth of folks and activities at Overton! This event also aligned...
Through events, activations, installations
we build awareness, enable open dialogues and spark collective imagination about the future of social infrastructure in our city.
Community Day with Mobilize Creative Collaborative (August)
On August 28, DJ Cqqchifruit energized our Community Day with amazing tunes. Many volunteers came to paint the Basketball (Art) Court, to...
Community Day & Fireside Chat (July)
During our Community Day on July 31, our afternoon was full of music by La Spacer, community exchange, pop-up workshops by all these...
Making Space Together on Juneteenth
Through Creative Grounds, this year we continue to make space together while imagining collectively a community-led future for our closed...
Designing Access To Food
Since 2017, Borderless Studio has been activating Anthony Overton through Creative Grounds. This year brought unprecedented challenges...
Cultural and Climate Resilience @Anthony Overton
Photo: Brandon Biederman We had a unique year at Anthony Overton. The Climate and Cultural Resilience Project was an opportunity for us...
Mark on Your Mark: Project Ideas for Future Activations
We are students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. This project proposal was created through the course Process(ing)...
Open House + End of Season
This was our last community meet up day at Overton – Chicago's winter weather started to arrive, and was time to take a brake to incubate...
Fall Activation Day + Open House Chicago (October)
During this weekend, Overton School participates in Open House Chicago – a free, two-day public festival that offers behind-the-scenes...
Community Day: Making Space Together (September)
Photos by Sandra Steinbrecher During the summer of 2019, Overton was opened up for a series of Activation Days during which architects,...