Look up, Lake

Look up, Lake is a flag making project by artist Peter Haakon Thompson taking place on Lake Street and funded by Lake St Lift

Look up, Lake hosted a series of public flag making workshops for community to share what they find important about Lake St. After conversations with Lake St stakeholders, I created 6 symbols to represent ideas about Lake Stret. At workshops participants selected up to 3 symbols that represented what they felt was most important about this place, arranged them on a pre-made blank flag and we sewed them on. Flags displayed here are some of the 180 flags that were made and visually communicate what your neighbors think about this amazing street! Use the key below to decode the flags.

Thanks to Al Valdovinos, Pacha Galaviz, A.P. Looze, Charise Canales, Matt Tell, Luis Fitch, Elina Kotlyar, Stephanie DeArmond, Mo Hanson, Macy-Chau Tran, Gulsan Osman, Krista Pearson, Anna Bloomstrand, Twin Cities Laser and Angela and Jamie Schwesnedl.

Look up, Lake es un proyecto de banderas realizado por el artista Peter Haakon Thompson en Lake Street y financiado por Lake St Lift.

“Look up, Lake” alojó una serie de talleres públicos para diseñar banderas para que la comunidad compartiera lo que consideraba importante de Lake Street. Tras conversaciones con la comunidad de Lake Street, creé 6 símbolos para representar ideas sobre Lake Street. En los talleres, los participantes seleccionaron 3 símbolos que representaban lo que consideraban más importante de este lugar, con los símbolos crearon un diseño en una bandera en blanco prefabricada y los cosimos. Las banderas que se muestran aquí son algunas de las 180 banderas que se hicieron y comunican visualmente lo que tus vecinos piensan de esta calle tan increíble. Utiliza la siguiente clave para descifrar las banderas.

Gracias a Al Valdovinos, Pacha Galaviz, A.P. Looze, Charise Canales, Matt Tell, Luis Fitch, Elina Kotlyar, Stephanie DeArmond, Mo Hanson, Macy-Chau Tran, Gulsan Osman, Krista Pearson, Anna Bloomstrand, Twin Cities Laser, Angela y Jamie Schwesnedl.

Workshops/Talleres:
Sunday, May 11, 12pm-3pm, Cinco de Mayo Lake St
Saturday, May 17, 9-2pm, Midtown Farmer’s Market
Sunday, May 18, 12-3pm, Midtown Arts and Music Festival, Midtown Global Market
Saturday, June 14- 2-4pm, Urban Art Village, Chicago and Lake

Flag install locations:
US Bank lot- Lake St and 29th Ave
Midtown Farmers Market– Lake and Hiawatha- Saturdays!
Ingebretsen’s Nordic Marketplace- Lake and 16th Ave (best place for pickled herring!)
Urban Art Village (by artist and designer Luis Fitch)- Lake and Chicago (I use to live here above Robert’s Shoes before it burned)