Rhythmistic Residency: Summer 2020 at the Hyde Park Art Center of Chicago. Prof. Turtel Onli, M.A.A.T., is delighted to announce his being selected for a unique Visual Artist residency at the Hyde Park Art Center where he will focus of producing his Rhythmistic future-primitif textile works of fine art that re-contextualizes selected traditional world icons.

 His blended channeling of various ism-schisms results in a universal expression that challenges "otherness"  with a visual creative expression of "us"!

 While Onli is often recognized for his indie Rhythmistic treatments using the classic American art form of the  'comic-book", he is a life long Rhythmistic visual artist who has tapped long ago, into aspects of his genetic-memory to afford a flow of images and creative narratives in experimentation and practical application. Be they fine art or applied commercial art.

 Prof. Onli teaches Art Appreciation, Studio Drawing along with 2D Design at the downtown Chicago Harold Washington College. He is a retired Chicago Public Schools Arts Educator plus former Coach of Girls Varsity Basketball & Boys Varsity Volley-Ball along with Varsity Chess.  Those experiences kept Onli in touch with the beautiful emerging energies of so many intelligent young folks while giving him the priviledge of teaching and reaching so many for over two decades.

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Onli has collaborated with master quilter Patrick Whalen to complete his growing Rhythmistic Quilts body of fine art.  During this residency Onli plans to produce a set of four panels that will later be embellished by Partick's amazing excursions of stitches and textiles.

This year, the Art Center also hosts Chicago-based residents Zakkiyyah Najeebah (October 13–September 30, 2020) artist, curator, and co-founder of CBIM (Concerned Black Image Makers); Chris Pappan (October 13–September 30, 2020) whose work reinterprets the Plains Native art tradition, Ledger Art, to explore and reclaim distorted images of Natives peoples; Mujeres Mutantes (February 3–September 30), a Latinx collective who mobilize mural painting, graffiti and zines to drive social change in Chicago communities; Nikki Patin (December 3–February 28, 2020) whose interdisciplinary practice addresses issues of body image, sexual assault, and the needs of the LGBTQ community through writing, performance, and teaching; Joelle Mercedes (March 1–May 1), who uses narrative, space, time, cuisine, and improvisation to reframe cultural and personal mythologies; and Turtel Onli (June 1–August 30) whose Afrocentric comic books and graphic novels fuse primitive and futurist ideas.

For more information on The Jackman Goldwasser Residency, please visit www.hydeparkart.org.