Pilsen Public Art Tours

10/28/2024

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/explore-pilsens-vibrant-street-art-with-local-guide-luis-tubens-tickets-1061621290859?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2OFswm2keHYOXXxtyIIcyjzH3uVFZNlN-NUS9OVerCxImFJ2GlpgzGiGc_aem_tgADHLINZ3jPbfRh_1V33w

Join us for a fun tour of Pilsen's colorful street art led by local guide Luis Tubens! This is an exclusive and unique mural walk!

10/08/2024

We are giving FREE mural tours on October 20th at 11am and 1pm for

Check link in bio for more info or please message us.

09/13/2024

Please join us on September 22nd! 11am in English, 1pm in Spanish

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07/09/2024

Public tour this Saturday starting at 10:30am. Please register here

Experience the grandness of Pilsen’s murals with poet and multidisciplinary artist Luis Tubens. The public art on railroad viaducts, buildings, and doors shows an evolution of the community’s Mexican identity, heritage, and activism.

06/20/2024

Thank you Hispanics in Philanthropy for choosing us to give your conference a tour of the murals in Pilsen tomorrow. There might still be room for more people to join the tour!

05/07/2024

This Sunday we are giving a Mother's Day mural tour! Please join us!

Este domingo toma un recorrido de los murals en Pilsen para el Día de las Madres!

11am in English
1pm en Español

CELEBRATE THIS WEEKEND with the Special Mama figure in your life by taking them on a tour of the murals in Pilsen!
/ PPAT and / PACH Present a very special Mother’s Day Mural Tour.

$15 per person (25% off regular fee!)
REGISTER ONLINE / LINK IN BIO
(Limited Space)

The tour will START at PACH
1637 W. 18th Street, Chicago 60608

The tour will END at National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W. 19th Street, Chicago 60608

For more detailed information please email LUIS at [email protected] or give a call at 773.787.6847
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Te invitamos a tomar un recorrido de los murales en Pilsen!

$15 por persona

El recorrido COMENZARÁ en PACH
1637 W. 18th Street, Chicago 60608

y TERMINARÁ en el Museo Nacional de Arte Mexicano
1852 W. 19th Street, Chicago 60608

Para obtener más información, envíe un correo electrónico a LUIS a [email protected] o lláme a 773.787.6847

04/27/2024

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The artist was known for his iconic mural on the former Casa Aztlán community center in Pilsen. For decades, his paintings have inspired admirers in the neighborhood and beyond.

03/16/2024

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03/01/2024

Please help save this mural. It is the last mural left by my mentor the late Jose Guerrero who is one of the artists. Jose was the first person to give tours in Pilsen starting in 1980.

Thank you Chicago Public Art Group for leading the fight.

"All art is political." Jose Guerrero

Fifty years ago, a team of artists led by John Pitman Weber and Jose Guerrero created the “Solidarity” mural in the lobby of the UE Hall in Chicago, at that time the center of a vibrant working-class neighborhood. With the neighborhood gentrifying, UE is in the process of selling the aging build...

01/21/2024

Applications are now open for the 35th Ward Public Art Project RFQ! 🎨

The 35th Ward and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events are seeking artists for an outdoor mural on the viaduct wall at 2910 N California Ave.

Click here for eligibility criteria and timeline details: https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=12747

The deadline to apply is February 11, 2024.