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Squiggle Build

A creative workshop at Taylor Street Farms

  • Taylor Street Farms, at the corner of Ada & Arthington in Chicago

  • Free

Pick up a pool noodle, find a connector, and start creating alongside your friends, families, and complete strangers!

Play, dream, and collaborate to transform familiar materials into imaginative landscapes during this free workshop led by ¡Anímate! Studio.

Throughout the event, help create (and re-create!) a one-of-a-kind experimental creation! Together we can build new spaces and imagine new possibilities.

FREE, open to all.

Can’t make it? Join us for another Squiggle Build at the National Public Housing Museum on September 14.


About the artists

¡Anímate! Studio is a Chicago-based arts collaborative led by Andrés Lemus-Spont and Marya Spont-Lemus.

True to our name, our projects embody our shared values of community, mentorship, possibility, and openness to experimentation, as well as encourage movement toward action. In our workshops, we guide intergenerational groups of participants in re-imagining and re-making existing objects and structures through open-ended, play-based experimentation in public space.


Logo for Illinois Arts Council

The National Public Housing Museum acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council.


Upcoming events

Looking upward at a three-story red brick building with turquoise balconies

Tour: Housing for All

Organized by MAS Context and the Chicago Architecture Biennial, this tour of the National Public Housing Museum is presented in conjunction with the CAB Studio exhibition Boliglaboratorium: A Danish Housing Lab.

Collage of three presenter bio photos

Creative Uses of Oral History

Join us for an inspiring online discussion about the uses of oral history, with Erisa Apantaku, Tamara Santibañez, and Audrey Petty.

HOOPcycle Play Session: Bulls Fest

Lace up your sneakers and join us August 23-24 at Bulls Fest for a fun and creative play session with HOOPcycle, the National Public Housing Museum’s mobile interactive art installation!