Rumble Arts Center's Outcome is Felt in Humboldt Park
March 31, 2010
Rumble Arts Center's name is taken from a specific attribute of elephants the contact rumble. Used like Morse code, the elephant's system of echoing the ground with their feet sends out low frequency signals that reach other elephants miles away. It's become a metaphor for the way Director Brooke Wolfe hopes word about Rumble Arts travels, glowing out from their North Avenue epicenter to other friendly, like-minded listeners across the city.
Rumble's task as an all-ages, donation-based multicultural neighborhood arts center has expressed itself, in its first year and a half, by hosting dozens of classes, ranging from drawing to martial arts, pop 'n' lock to puppetry, yoga to DJing. The lean and nimble paid staff is composed solely of Wolfe Edwin Perry, who serves as co-director,and Bree Johnson, Rumble's administrative assistant.
A Painter and spoken word artist herself, Wolfe was born and raised in the same Humboldt Park neighborhood as the Arts Center. After varying majors four times at a total of five different undergraduate art schools she left Chicago for Oakland, accepting the fact that her revelation to multiple teaching methods and styles was a good enough education in and of itself. After moving back from her transformative stay out west, Wolfe took inspiration from the arts program called Art Esteem she had worked with in California, and used it to guide her development of Rumble itself.
Labels: Brooke Wolfe, Elephants, Humboldt Park, Rumble, Rumble Arts Center
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