Since June of 2013, Cream Co., as an artist-in-residence, has stationed at the Archive House of Theaster Gates' Dorchester Projects in the Grand Crossing neighborhood of Chicago.
Dorchester
Projects houses a small library including 14,000 volumes from the
now-closed Prairie Avenue Art and Architecture Bookstore. The archive
at Dorchester also comprises a canonical collection of glass lantern
slides from the University of Chicago's Art History Department,
representing approximately 60,000 images. By relocating
these resources into a restored local space, a diverse audience is
encouraged to access and use them for research, contemplation and
performance material – enhancing both the edifying and creative
function of a library while enabling an empowered sense of ownership
for the community.
GEEE operates as a trading post at the Archive House of Dorchester Projects.
Out in the gorgeous back yard, our surplus plants are available for trade or for poems or for free. A handful of tomato plants are growing in GEEE reservoir planters. The heirloom tomatoes will be available for trade as soon as they ripen!
Indoors, a small corner has been reserved for trading our house plants and herbs for items that will benefit Dorchester Projects: indoor
and outdoor gardening items, art materials, books and support to teach writing and resume development, musical instruments, record albums and always valued immaterial support: dialogue, advice, recipes and poems.
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