News and Programs

Join us at the Stony Island Arts Bank on Sunday, November 22, for the release of Myth and Logic, the new album from Houston trumpeter, composer, and producer Jawwaad Taylor.

A founding member of the hip-hop group Shape of Broad Minds and cofounder of the band The Young Mothers, Jawwaad moves freely between jazz, improvisation, and hip hop. He studied with Pauline Oliveros, the pioneer of Deep Listening, and his work has taken him from the Menil and the Rothko Chapel in his hometown to festivals including Bonnaroo, Sónar, and Meltdown. He is also a Creative Capital awardee for Start With Self, a sculpture and music performance drawn from his research into sound and healing.

Jawwaad and his band will perform songs from Myth and Logic live, and Chicago saxophonist and MacArthur Fellow Ken Vandermark will join with his jazz trio for a set of their own. Cocktails from Yunomi Bar will be available all evening.

Doors at 6:30 p.m. Program from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Tickets $25. Space is limited.

All ages are welcome. Alcohol is served only to guests 21 and over with valid ID. All ticket sales are final.

Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave
Chicago, IL 60649

Presented by Sonic Transmissions Records and Sound Mind Body Labs.

For more information, contact us at info@stonyislandartsbank.com.

Two weeks remain to enjoy our current Han Cha menu, created in collaboration with chefs Marguerite Singson and Jessica Vazquez. Their menu brings classic Korean flavors to the English tea table, like curry in our Ottogi curry pimento cheese sandwich and gochujang in our hot honey butter, all served on handmade ceramics from Theaster Gates's studio.

The menu is fully vegetarian and will be served through Friday, November 13. If you have been meaning to join us, or would like one more afternoon with Marguerite and Jessica's work, we would love to welcome you.

Seatings Thursday through Saturday at 12:30, 3:00, and 5:00 p.m., and Sunday at 12:30 and 3:00 p.m. $75 per person.

Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave
Han Cha
Chicago, IL 60649

Tea by Spirit Tea.

For more information, contact us at info@stonyislandartsbank.com.

Chuseok, the Korean fall harvest holiday, runs this year from Thursday, September 24, through Saturday, September 26. To mark it, we have invited our friend Hyun Jung Jun of Dream Cake Test Kitchen to Han Cha to create a special menu, available for three seatings on Friday, September 25.

The menu comprises three courses, built around the season. First, a rye choux filled with pea mousse and finished with an edible flower; a house-made cracker with black garlic, lemon mascarpone, and mackerel; and a kimchi-studded ciabatta with Délice de Bourgogne, honey, and parsley oil. Next, a soy-marinated deviled egg piped with squid-ink yolk and topped with smoked trout roe and gold flake, alongside a cold-smoked salmon sandwich with garlic-pistachio pesto cream, gamtae, and cold-pressed perilla oil. To close, one of Dream Cake Test Kitchen’s legendary cakes and a small pour of soojeonggwa, the spiced persimmon punch traditionally served at Chuseok.

Tea service included. Seatings at 1:00, 3:00, and 5:00 p.m., twenty seats each. $80 per person.

Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave
Han Cha
Chicago, IL 60649

With Dream Cake Test Kitchen. Tea by Spirit Tea.

For more information, contact us at info@stonyislandartsbank.com.

Stony Island Arts Bank will be closed on Friday, July 4th in observance of the Independence Day holiday.

We will resume our regular hours the following day. We look forward to welcoming you soon.

For our inaugural gallery show on the 2nd floor of the Bank, we have collaborated with our dear friends at Volume Gallery to showcase some of the greatest established and emerging designers and artists from Chicago and the greater US. Open to the public during regular operating hours.

Design and architecture have been a shared language for Theaster Gates, Heiji Choy Black, and the founders of Volume Gallery, Sam Vinz and Claire Warner, since the beginning of their friendship. The Stony Island Arts Bank and Volume Gallery have long championed many of the greatest contemporary emerging and established designers and artists, bringing their work to the world from their spaces in Chicago.

In this group exhibition, artists and designers share a common desire to honor where they come from with objects of beauty and brilliance and of enduring meaning and substance. The many perspectives, cultures, and geographies represented in Chicago are brought to life here as these makers intend to better our world through art and craft.

Featuring work by:
Tanya Aguiñiga
Robell Awake
Stephen Burks
Sung Jang
Terumi Saito
SHENEQUA
Larry Tchogninou
Norman Teague

Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave
2nd Fl Gallery
Chicago, IL 60649

More about exhibited works here.

For more information, contact us at info@stonyislandartsbank.com.

We are excited to welcome you to the reopening of the Stony Island Arts Bank on June 5th.

Acquired by Theaster Gates in 2013, Stony Island Arts Bank was founded as a hybrid exhibition space and community center as a space for innovation in contemporary art and archival practice.

A two-pronged concept where art and hospitality coalesce, Han Cha and Yunomi mark the evolution of Stony Island Arts Bank.

Han Cha fuses East Asian teahouse craftsmanship and culture with the format and cuisine of English high tea, inviting guests to partake in a two-hour prix fixe menu, while yunomi is the new bar and lounge centered on the yunomi, or handleless daily cup, in Japanese ceramics vernacular.

Visitors are welcome to visit the Stony Island Arts Bank by acquiring tickets online or on a walk-in basis, with a recommended ticket price of $10, half of which goes to Rebuild Foundation, the community-based non-profit founded by Theaster Gates in 2010. Additionally, reservations for the tea room can be made via OpenTable via the link below.