Stockyard Institute Information

The Stockyard Institute is an artistic and pedagogical organization in Chicago and through DePaul University that engages in the arts, public work, pedagogy and our cooperative networks locally and internationally to develop publications, exhibitions, public art, teaching forums, curriculum and events around the city as sites for creative civic engagement. Since our beginning in 1995 in the Back of the Yards in Chicago, we have worked alongside so many different groups and spaces to initiate projects and develop arts and education programs that continue to provide opportunities and give voice to young artists, teachers, high school students, community residents, senior citizens, elementary school students, graffiti writers, day laborers, musicians, researchers, futurists, activists, poets, foragers, collectives, friends and university students. It is important to our work to connect individuals who wish to enter into a new experiences or work alongside someone or with some space who does what you dream about.