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  What steps can the community take  
  to protect {/}() {/}∆‡!(){/} and TRITRIANGLE  
  from being displaced by Equity Arts ? 
















Please take a look at this list of Equity Arts body members and affiliates. These people either engage in the direct decision making of Equity Arts and are featured on their website, run spaces affiliated with Equity Arts members, or participate in Equity Arts events or directly benefit from gigging with them. Please engage with those you know personally or professionally who can be reached directly via email or phone. As you do this, please be aware that those at the top of Equity Arts have maintained a campaign of misinformation around the project and that some members of their own governing body are not fully aware of the situation. Use the statements we have already made to educate them. We suggest having a frank conversation with them about Equity Arts’ stated promises and their role or agency in taking action to make that happen. Critically and respectfully engage them in their own complicity in Equity Arts’ actions and what they intend to do to follow through with Equity Arts’ promise to protect {/}() {/}∆‡!(){/} and their autonomy, in a way that actually embodies racial equity and place-keeping. We do not accept the answer that if it isn’t Equity Arts, someone else will buy the building. Equity Arts is using public city funds in the form of a grant from the Chicago Department of Planning and Development to execute their plans, they are displacing {/}() {/}∆‡!(){/} and Tritriangle with taxpayer money. Demand they follow through on their explicit promise to {/}() {/}∆‡!(){/} and Tritriangle. Talk to them about the actual meaning of equity and how that would look on a city scale in this situation.


Please be aware that some of the accounts below have either blocked us or are not able to be tagged, and therefore do not have an @ before the username.


Alma Weiser is the president of Equity Arts and runs Heaven Gallery with manager Francine Almeda (founder/director of Jude Gallery and part of Equity Arts BIPOC committee). Vincent Uribe is an Equity Arts board member and direct partner with Alma, in addition to founding LVL3 gallery and is the Director of Exhibitions & External Relations at Arts of Life.

@equityarts

@heavengallerychicago

@vcentu

@lvl3official

@the_arts_of_life

@frannieflo

@jude_chicago



Below are the members of Equity Arts’ board and their affiliated businesses, where applicable. Some of these businesses have been promised space in the {}() {}∆‡!(){} and TriTriangle units of the Lubinski building.


Joe Shanahan is the founder and owner of Metro Chicago and Smart Bar, and part owner of Double Door.

@joemetro40

@metrochicago

@doubledoor

@smartbarchicago


In addition to these nightlife institutions, there are DJs who are regularly gigging and benefitting from the Equity Arts project:

Antonio Robles Levine @blesstonio founder of @fortunedanceparty


Eric Williams is the founder of The Silver Room and Bronzeville Winery

@i_know_eric

@thesilverroom

@bronzevillewinery


Equity Arts VP

Sadie Woods @woodsadie


Equity Arts Cultural Events Coordinator

David Chavez @elchavecin


Equity Arts DJ/Excursions

Cordell Johnson @johnson.cordell



Members of Equity Arts’ stated “BIPOC/arts leaders” not previously mentioned:

Keli Stewart @kelistewartpoet of @frontporchartscenter

Mel Cook @mel_coooook

Avanté Love @avntelve of Heaven Gallery

Meida Mcneal @meidamcneal of @honeypotchicago

Bretty Swiney


Members of Equity Arts’ marketing and community engagement team:

Kaitlyn Albrecht @kait.alb of LVL3 gallery

Victoria Fuller @victoriafullerstudio

Maddy Olson @mm_dd_yyyy of LVL3 gallery

Tish Noel



Members of Equity Arts’ finance and real estate team not previously mentioned:

Ken Dooley with Compass Real Estate @thedooleygroup_compass_chicago (ken.dooley@compass.com)

Laura Weathered @lauraweathered of near northwest arts council who can be reached here https://www.nnwac.org/contact.html


Grant writer and fundraiser alongside Alma Weiser:

Annie Morse @morse_annie


@mcachicago has been directly collaborating with Equity Arts and they have received several @fieldfoundation grants


Please take a look at this list of Equity Arts body members and affiliates. These people either engage in the direct decision making of Equity Arts and are featured on their website, run spaces affiliated with Equity Arts members, or participate in Equity Arts events or directly benefit from gigging with them. Please engage with those you know personally or professionally who can be reached directly via email or phone. As you do this, please be aware that those at the top of Equity Arts have maintained a campaign of misinformation around the project and that some members of their own governing body are not fully aware of the situation. Use the statements we have already made to educate them. We suggest having a frank conversation with them about Equity Arts’ stated promises and their role or agency in taking action to make that happen. Critically and respectfully engage them in their own complicity in Equity Arts’ actions and what they intend to do to follow through with Equity Arts’ promise to protect {}() {}∆‡!(){} and their autonomy, in a way that actually embodies racial equity and place-keeping. We do not accept the answer that if it isn’t Equity Arts, someone else will buy the building. Equity Arts is using public city funds in the form of a grant from the Chicago Department of Planning and Development to execute their plans, they are displacing {}() {}∆‡!(){} and Tritriangle with taxpayer money. Demand they follow through on their explicit promise to {}() {}∆‡!(){} and Tritriangle. Talk to them about the actual meaning of equity and how that would look on a city scale in this situation.


**see first pinned comment for complete list of Equity Arts members and affiliates**

Make these tags just to the slides:

@wickerpark_bucktown

@newcitymag

@chicago_reader

@fnewsmag

@vocalo

@blockclubchi

@southsideweekly

@sixtyinchesfromcenter

@brandon4mayor

@chicagotribune

@chicagosuntimes