Hairpin Arts Center

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The Hairpin Arts Center is a community art center in the historic Morris B. Sachs building within the Chicago Community Area of Avondale at the gateway to Chicago's Polish Village. The space is managed by the Logan Square Chamber of Arts, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit established in 2009.

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The Hairpin is located at the intersection of Milwaukee Avenue, Kimball Avenue, and Diversey Parkway in the former Morris B. Sachs building—an iconic flatiron structure that is part of the Milwaukee-Diversey-Kimball District. This 8,000-square-foot second floor serves as a community art center, providing performance and exhibit space with multiple stage configurations, and the opportunity for live music, improv, theater, dance, film, and poetry performances. [1]

The space is managed by the Logan Square Chamber of Arts, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit established in 2009. [2] The organization was the first Chamber of Arts to be created in the city of Chicago. It was formed as an organizing body to implement the Quality-of-Life-Plan arts strategies drafted through a community wide task force as part of the LISC/Chicago New Communities Program. [3] The master plans calls for the chamber to establish sustainable partnerships with artists and arts organizations of various disciplines, and to assist with the production and presentation of their work by providing space, resources and time. [3] [4]

Morris B. Sachs Building

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The Morris B. Sachs Building

This office and retail building was designed by the firm of Leichenko and Esser, the design team that executed the Narragansett Apartments in the lakefront neighborhood of Hyde Park. The camel insignia that abundantly decorates the building's exterior is a version of the logo that decorated Hump Hair Pin packages, which is why local Poles colloquially referred to the structure as "pod wielbłądem," which translates into English as "the building beneath the camel". [1] Colloquially known as "the Hump building", it was built in 1930 for Sol Goldberg, an entrepreneur who made his fortune by redesigning the hairpin. Goldberg's "hair pin with the hump" was a U-shaped wire with a "non-rust satin enamel finish," a few crinkles on each side, and the company's signature innovation: a strand-grabbing short third arm in the center. [1]

Goldberg survived the bobbed hair trend by creating a bobby pin, but by 1947 the Hump was home to the Morris B. Sachs department store, part of the chain started by another colorful Chicagoan, a onetime door-to-door salesman. The store closed in the 1960s, and the building passed through several subsequent owners. [1]

After being mostly empty for at least the last two decades, the recurring camel motif on the facade and the lobby floor has been restored as the building is now part of an official Landmark District of the City of Chicago. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Isaacs, Deanna. "Strategic Subsidies". Chicago Reader. Archived from the original on 2020-06-13. Retrieved 2020-06-30.
  2. ↑ "Our History". www.hairpinartscenter.org. Archived from the original on 2015-03-28. Retrieved 2015-03-29.
  3. 1 2 "Logan Square Chamber of Arts Parent Organisation of Hairpin Arts". www.hairpinartscenter.org. Archived from the original on 2017-02-01. Retrieved 2020-06-30.
  4. ↑ Isaacs, Deanna. "Strategic Subsidies The city ponies up $11 million to bring artists to Logan Square/Avondale". Chicago Reader. Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on 13 June 2020. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
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