6018 NORTH 
Mission Statement:

6018NORTH is a green, non-profit space for experimental culture, installation, performance, and sound. Located at 6018 NORTH Kenmore, on the north side of Chicago in Edgewater, 6018NORTH is a newly formed, culturally dynamic platform for communal audience engagement activities. Projects include artists performing, creating installations, and directing communal events, including engaging neighborhood youth to create a community sound studio & garden. 

6018NORTH is a neutral space and a model for experimentation, dialogue, creativity, and cultural engagement (in the neighborhood and city-wide). Partnering with artists, community leaders, organizers, thought leaders, and entrepreneurs, 6018NORTH brings together individuals from diverse fields to discuss and employ art, ideas, and public policies to reinvigorate the potential of a community (Edgewater) while serving as a lab for incubating a flourishing, vibrant, and sustainable arts community in Chicago.   

Located in the most diverse neighborhood in Chicago and home to many arts organizations, 6018NORTH's innovative programming reflects and builds upon the breadth of this diversity by encouraging interconnections between the many groups and individuals that call Edgewater home. 

AWARDS and GRANTS
6018NORTH's city-wide The Happiness Project, is a recipient of The Propeller Fund, a catalyst for the creative activity and vitality of the Chicago visual art world. The Propeller Fund believes that self-organized organizations are responsible for much of the complexity and richness in Chicago's art community. The Propeller Fund encourages varied models to spread activities into more diverse areas; to promote the public's interaction with, and public recognition of such activities; and to spark ambitions beyond current formats.  http://www.propellerfund.org/

6018 NORTH is honored to be named a finalist for support from ArtPlace, an unprecedented private-public collaboration of nine of the nation’s top foundations, eight federal agencies including the National Endowment for the Arts, and six of the nation’s largest banks. ArtPlace (based in Chicago) supports creative placemaking with grants and loans, research and advocacy. 6018NORTH joins 128 other organizations in 68 cities working to transform their communities by driving vibrancy through investments in the arts.   http://www.artplaceamerica.org/articles/2012finalists/

6018 NORTH Artistic Director

After 13 years of working at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, where she was Associate Curator, Tricia Van Eck recently left to focus on 6018 NORTH. Her last project at the MCA was the Chicago presentation of Mark Bradford's Retrospective and his community residency exhibition.  At the MCA she presented over 70 exhibitions much of which were audience engaged, interactive, or extended the MCA's reach into the community such as the recent Interactions: A Four month series of artist and audience activations as a companion to Without You I Am Nothing: Art and Its Audience, Jan Tichy's Project Cabrini Green, Theaster Gates: Temple Exercises, Tino Sehgal’s Kiss, Here/Not There, and Hide and Seek: An Out of Gallery Experience. She curated the MCA Chicago presentations of various traveling exhibitions such as Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe; Italics: Tradition and Revolution, Italian Art from 1968-2008;  and Andy Warhol: Supernova. She coordinated numerous exhibitions including the Jeff Koons retrospective and curated numerous exhibitions of Chicago artists including Mapping the Self and Kerry James Marshall: One True Thing Meditations on Black Aesthetics as well as many artists’ book shows and UBS 12 x 12: New Artists/New Work exhibitions, which showcased the work of emerging Chicago artists. About her new direction Tricia Van Eck says, "I am indebted to the remarkable artists with whom I have collaborated at the Museum of Contemporary Art these past thirteen years and I am very excited to bring this experience to a new and experimental cultural space that aims to increase opportunities, visibility, and audiences for Chicago artists."

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