This house museum is available for events.
Tours by appointment only.
At 6018North, artists are encouraged to create artworks that are experimental and challenging, yet accessible and often participatory. During the exhibition "Home: Public or Private?" visitors roamed the halls of the mansion, peeking into rooms which artists had transformed into living tableaus and unique presentations of the house’s original interiors.
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6018North
6018 North Kenmore Avenue, Chicago, IL 60660, USA773-271-4918
In a dilapidated mansion on the North Side of Chicago in Edgewater, 6018North is an artist-centered platform and venue for experimental culture, performance, and art. 6018North challenges what art is, who it’s for, and where and how it’s created. It connects artists from multiple disciplines with each other and audiences by creating unforgettable experiences of art and engagement.
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FINE ART
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ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES
The state of 6018North is not precious, but in continual artistic flux. Flood damage to the home exposed its original structure and bones, and artists are invited to create work in relation to this existing structure and its history. They can make changes, such as adding walls and disco balls, or removing layers of paint and debris.
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MUSIC
6018North's programming involves experimental musical performances and sound installations. Because the first-floor walls are down to the studs, performances can be experienced from the former living room, sitting room, dining room, and kitchen.
BOOKS
6018North has an extensive artists' book and multiples collection, including a Fluxus piece which records the house’s history. These can be viewed by appointment.
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SOCIAL ISSUES
Quality of life is enhanced through art, and an active citizenry is built through encouraging public voice and participation through art. Therefore, many of 6018North's artists' projects engage with the public in the democratization of, and radical acts of social justice through, art.
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DINING ROOM
Almost all of 6018North's events involve food as a way of connecting artists and audiences. Food and drink provide lubrication for connecting, building, and sustaining community.
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PRESERVATION
6018North is currently being sustainably rehabbed as a model for how to retrofit an older home using energy saving and livability principles.
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NATURE
Three feral tabbies live outside in 6018North's large backyard and native forest side lot. The cats also travel and are favorites of the neighborhood children.
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GHOSTS
Five ghosts currently call 6018North home. 6018North has been dowsed to reveal its energetic patterns—which may have contributed to its recent flood. The dowsers found that the house has a "scene of the crime" room on the third floor, where many visitors say they can feel an intense energy.
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PHILANTHROPY
Many of 6018North's shows promote generosity as a way to make art, create community, and engage in paradigmatic shifts around money and self-interest through art.
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FAIRS & EXHIBITIONS
While much of 6018North's programming is within its home, we are also itinerant. 6018North hosts exhibitions and events in storefronts, streets, gardens, classrooms, on the beach, and out of the country. Wherever we are, we invite our local, national, and international artists to transform spaces through art while drawing people together.
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SERVANTS
Servants spoke to one another between 6018North’s two kitchens—one on the main floor, the other in the basement—via a long copper pipe. A buzzer, built into the floorboards of what was once the parlor, also allowed the house’s residents to discreetly communicate with their wait staff. What remains of these devices today? Just a rust-covered pipe, still extending through the floor between the two kitchens, and a square hole in the floorboards without the buzzer.
HISTORIC FIGURES
Born in Bavaria, Germany, Max Eberhardt (1843–1912) was a justice of the peace and an associate judge for the Municipal Court of Chicago for over 40 years. Highly regarded as a public-spirited citizen, Eberhardt was a philanthropist, lecturer, member of many clubs and literary societies, and even a talented poet—a book of his German poems, “Gedichte,” was published in 1902. Eberhardt died inside his new residence at 6018 North Kenmore Avenue. Perhaps he is among the house’s ghosts?
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HISTORIC FIGURES
Arthur F. Woltersdorf was born in Chicago in 1870 and began his architectural training in the offices of Bauer & Hill and Burnham & Root. At the age of 24 he formed, with Henry W. Hill, the architectural firm of Hill & Woltersdorf. The firm would go on to design a number of important residences and commercial office buildings—including the Kodak Company Building, Tree Studios, and Saint Paul’s German Evangelical Lutheran Church.
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