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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.


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


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