4750 N Sheridan Road is a media room and workspace within the landmarked Mutual Insurance Building in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.
To schedule a visit, please write to us or leave a voicemail at (773) 270-1224 to make an appointment. 4750 N Sheridan Road has a 24/7 lobby with front desk services, and the building facilities are ADA accessible. 4750 is located at the intersection of the 81 Lawrence and 151 Sheridan bus lines. There is a Divvy bike-share hub on the Northeast corner of Sheridan and Lawrence, and metered parking is available on the surrounding streets. This location is 325 meters east of the Lawrence Red Line Station.
4750 N Sheridan Road is partially supported by grants from the Illinois Arts Council Agency; Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation; Reva and David Logan Foundation; Teiger Foundation; with past support through Artspace Immersion through funding from Good Chaos. In 2025, the space hosted FRUTAS gatherings through support of a Neighborhood Access Program grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events. 4750 hosts ongoing projects Evergreen and giveaway 💸
To schedule a visit, please write to us or leave a voicemail at (773) 270-1224 to make an appointment. 4750 N Sheridan Road has a 24/7 lobby with front desk services, and the building facilities are ADA accessible. 4750 is located at the intersection of the 81 Lawrence and 151 Sheridan bus lines. There is a Divvy bike-share hub on the Northeast corner of Sheridan and Lawrence, and metered parking is available on the surrounding streets. This location is 325 meters east of the Lawrence Red Line Station.
4750 N Sheridan Road is partially supported by grants from the Illinois Arts Council Agency; Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation; Reva and David Logan Foundation; Teiger Foundation; with past support through Artspace Immersion through funding from Good Chaos. In 2025, the space hosted FRUTAS gatherings through support of a Neighborhood Access Program grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events. 4750 hosts ongoing projects Evergreen and giveaway 💸
Evergreen
Mutual Insurance Building
4750 N Sheridan Road, Chicago IL
Thousands of hours of video are uploaded every moment. Evergreen sits with moving image works that retain their vitality amidst the deluge. Featuring Elena Ailes, Mark Alcazar Diaz, Kayla Anderson, Kioto Aoki, Qais Assali and Jose Luis Benavides, Leslie Crum, Norman W. Long, John Marks and Crystal Myslajek, Regina Martinez, Meida McNeal, Kristin McWharter, Curtis Miller, Zachary Nicol, Josh Rios, Oona Taper, and Xiaolu Wang, with new works added periodically.
Please set an appointment to visit our media room, or view the works online through the links above.
Xiaolu Wang
Fallen Day 受难日
16mm to digital
9 minutes 7 seconds
2025
A dragon dance troupe, an aikido class, an ice skating rink. Three scenarios or scenes through which the sensation of falling, or learning to fall, become metaphysical ruminations on modes of existence that draw strength from letting go.
– Morgan Quaintance
Unfolding in three vignettes, each offering its own way of seeing movements, all done with in-camera edits on 16mm. The sound for each segment is asynchronous from the image, all in the form of conversations. The first and third segment are phone conversations between friends, and the second is recorded on location of non-verbal conversations between bodies in a martial art space. My artistic assertion in this film is to set up counterpoints between image and sound, between questions and replies, between movement and directions. The film is a note about falling throughout life. Balance is an illusion. Every step a falling.
Xiaolu Wang was born in Ningxia Muslim Autonomous Region of northwestern China in 1991, and brought up by grandparents who instilled in her the hunger for poetry and practicality. She likes to work at the intersection of film and translation probably due to the fact she worked at a video rental store in order to learn English to survive the life of a transplant stranded on Occupied Dakota land. She proposes works charged with affect of absence, misunderstandings, and migration, as a way to overlap distant realities. She develops video collage and friendships as methods to shift relational possibilities with text, image, sound, and performance. You can also find her in the company of cats and flying kites. For more info and moving image works, visit x140lu.cargo.site. Also recommended: at the bamboo green.
Evergreen is partially supported by grants from the Illinois Arts Council Agency; Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation; Reva and David Logan Foundation; and Teiger Foundation.
giveaway 💸
Printing and sharing something you created? giveaway provides up to $500 to artists who are distributing social-change print materials for free. We want to support zines, posters, flyers, stickers, KYR pamplets, et cetera. Apply!
Check out some of the supported projects below for examples. We will consider submissions in the order they are received, and will close submissions when all funds are requested. Please note: Roman Susan focuses on artists and artwork in the Great Lakes region. If you are outside of this area, please share the opportunity with peers who are here.
So far, this project has supported giveaways by Art Forearm with Nicole Rene Woodard, Jude R. Bettridge, Kate Broitman, Camille Gros, Ashley Holman and Laura Prieto-Velasco, Martin Matsuyuki Krause, Adrian Mesino Illustration CoZines, La Pulga Negra, Clau Rocha, noé sánchez, Emily Spurlin, Write That Down! and Talie Zrihen.
p.s. If you are an artist or organizer printing cause-oriented signs to share, we also recommend that you check out Spudnik Press’ riso for resistance materials.