AREA Chicago, Chicago Art Dept, and Stockyard

AREA Chicago is awesome! All free, all published online. I do wish there were PDF's. I'm not sure how to cite these things in APA format and I wanna use some of it! If you have any ideas, let me know. I can do periodicals, and websites, and web articles, but what exactly is this?

Chicago Art Dept. The videos bother me a bit. Mostly because my computer isn't really capable of playing videos anymore. If there were a nursing home for computers, she might hafta go, but it still functions for the basics, so I can't see buying a new one...Kinda like I can't figure out WHY a functional refrigerator would be headed to the dump in the first place, but way to go project Re-Fridge for being logical about the situation.

Stockyard reminded me of a super upscale and professional version of a project I worked on in PGH. Ours was through a class, but it was called Tent Show at the time. I think it morphed into Waffle Shop. They aren't one and the same, but the same artist/prof was involved with both. I don't know if he's still involved or if it's pretty much student run now, but it was an initiative to make our "art in context" classes actually happen in context. The semester I was involved, we opened an at-cost coffee shop and had an open call talent show (its harder to get performers than you would expect!) Now it seems like waffle shop is hosting talk shows and has a blog and wow. But anyway, Stockyard is great. Walks the border between art and life. It's art because it proposes a different way of life?? Not that it matters what we label it or anything...


okay, I tried to put them in as links, but it just disappeared altogether. Any suggestions?
http://www.tentshow.org/
http://www.waffleshop.org/