HAPPENINGS | creative-grounds

Through events, activations, installations

we build awareness, enable open dialogues and spark collective imagination about the future of social infrastructure in our city.

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...

On August 28, DJ Cqqchifruit energized our Community Day with amazing tunes. Many volunteers came to paint the Basketball (Art) Court, to...

During our Community Day on July 31, our afternoon was full of music by La Spacer, community exchange, pop-up workshops by all these...

Through Creative Grounds, this year we continue to make space together while imagining collectively a community-led future for our closed...

Since 2017, Borderless Studio has been activating Anthony Overton through Creative Grounds. This year brought unprecedented challenges...

Photo: Brandon Biederman We had a unique year at Anthony Overton. The Climate and Cultural Resilience Project was an opportunity for us...

We are students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. This project proposal was created through the course Process(ing)...

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...

During this weekend, Overton School participates in Open House Chicago – a free, two-day public festival that offers behind-the-scenes...

Photos by Sandra Steinbrecher During the summer of 2019, Overton was opened up for a series of Activation Days during which architects,...