Avante-Garde in the Alley: Modern Art, Theatrical Innovation, and the Chicago Artistic Renaissance in Towertown

Creative art and theater scene of the bohemian enclave of Towertown on the Near North Side as a laboratory for performance art, modernist sensibilities, and counterculture during the 1920s. Presented by Zac Bleicher, Executive Director of Edgar Miller Legacy. Radical thought on soapboxes in park squares, in homes and salons, and in back-alley theatres, small-scale avant-garde aesthetics, non-traditional staging and set designs, and avant-garde literature. Perspective of artist Edgar Miller and avant-garde performances at spaces like the Dil Pickle Club. Several original pieces of Miller's art on display. Presented in conjunction with staged reading of Dear Rhoda on November 16.