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Squiggle Build

A creative workshop for all ages

  • National Public Housing Museum, 919 S. Ada Street, Chicago, IL 60607

  • 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 Taylor Street Farms on August 10.


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

A collage of photos of family activities and performances

Groundwaves Generations with MURS

An all-ages afternoon of hip-hop, community building, and collaboration, hosted by rap icon and innovator MURS

Vintage photo of seven kids posed with books and notebooks in front of an large animal sculpture

Our Streets & Our Stories

Celebrate the addition of new stories and outdoor interactive audio stations that share neighborhood voices from the National Public Housing Museum’s oral history archive.

Portrait of Amos Paul Kennedy Jr in his studio

Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. Poster Release and Exhibition Opening

Grab a free poster and join “citizen printer” Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. for an exuberant exhibition opening that celebrates public art as infrastructure.