Color Jam.Use in a sentence: "Summer in Chicago has now begun, which means it's time to figure out the list of things to do and places to be in the three months ahead before ice and snow return (ok -- maybe four months the way the global warming trend has been kicking in so far) ... and this year needs to include Color Jam."
Mixed in with the festivals and the parades and the trips to the suburbs to see Toad the Wet Sprocket perform in the Chicago area for two years in a row and the boat tours out on the lake and the MythBusters exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry and the plan to step foot inside the Adler Planetarium for the first time in the dozen or so years I've been here and the food of all kinds (a smaller Taste! RIBS!! funnel cakes!!! this weekend's aptly named Wrigleyville 2nd annual traditional SausuageFest!!!!) ... is the annual public art exhibit -- this year known as Color Jam. For 2012, the intersection of State and Adams downtown will be wrapped in all different colors of vinyl (enough to cover over 100 buses).
Coming after the giant eyeball and the giant Marilyn Monroe statues (and years after the public parade of randomly placed plexiglass cows), this sounds like a different kind of art wonderment. Bring on the Color Jam!
PUBLIC ART IN THE LOOP NOW A DOWNTOWN CHICAGO TRADITION:
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-02-16/entertainment/chi-chicago-loop-alliance-sculpture-color-jam-20120216_1_art-loop-chicago-loop-alliance-massive-fiberglass
ENOUGH VINYL FOR OVER 100 BUSES:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/12845831-418/state-and-adams-getting-colorful-art-makeover.html
PLUS ALL THE USUAL SUMMER CHITOWN FUN:
http://www.chicagonow.com/show-me-chicago/2012/03/chicagos-summer-2012-festivals-and-events-calendar
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