Logan Square Arts Festival
We're thrilled to welcome the Logan Square Arts Festival back to the Square!
Comfort Station is proud to present a collection of installations, interactive art, workshops, and performances that invite festival-goers to make, move, reflect, and connect – from writing postcards to strangers and answering questions in handmade books, to shaping a permanent CTA sculpture and writing poetry with your body. Whether you're picking up a pinwheel, trying soft acrobatics, or workshopping your endings at an open mic – there's something here for everyone!
Installations
View Without a Room
Maven Kennedy
View Without a Room is a soft sculpture installation made from windows from the artist’s life hung amongst trees in the Square. Visitors are invited to move around the works, allowing for the view from the windows to shift with their changing perspectives.
Maven Kennedy's (they/them) interdisciplinary art practice responds to found objects, chosen places and the history embedded in material; the textiles, dyes and spaces their practice engages are linked to the artists' daily life and community. They also serve as the Director at NEIU's Fine Art Center Gallery and teach at Northern Illinois University, their studio is based out of Chicago.
Interactive Art
mobile music makers iii
Madeleine Aguilar
on view
Friday – Sunday | June 26 – 28, 2026
mobile music maker iii is a modular, interactive sound making structure which invites multiple players at once to explore their sonic environment.
featuring performances by Madeleine + friends
Friday | June 26, 2026
6 – 9 p, intermittent activations on the monument stairs
Madeleine Aguilar is a multidisciplinary artist + musician from Chicago. Their work is often mobile / modular / interactive and can be found in backyards, libraries, gardens, storefronts, homes, galleries, artist-run spaces & book fairs.
Everything on Wheels
Regin Igloria
Everything on Wheels is an interactive project that asks participants to contribute responses to question prompts. Using roving pedestals made of refurbished furniture parts, discarded lumber, and repurposed construction materials, the individual stations are placed in public spaces where passersby may encounter them. Viewers are asked to answer various questions within the pages of handmade books, creating a collection of hand-written and drawn entries. These responses encourage new viewers to engage directly with personal replies, creating an ongoing dialogue between strangers.
North Branch Projects swaps filled books with new blank books, typically made by participants during Community Binding sessions. Question prompts are generated in conversation with staff or individuals who work at specific venues (e.g. librarians, teachers, or administrative staff of institution sites). Completed books become part of the Neighborhood Archive.
Bookbinding Demos on the Lawn
Sunday | June 28, 2026
2 – 5 p
Regin Igloria is a Chicago area-based multidisciplinary artist who founded North Branch Projects, a community-based studio that builds connections through the book arts.
Sculpture for CTA Blue Line Station
Instituto Grafico De Chicago
Saturday + Sunday | June 27 + 28, 2026
12 – 5 p
at the Interactive Arts Tent
Join Janet Austin and Instituto Gráfico de Chicago in creating a permanent public sculpture for the Logan Square Blue Line CTA station! The community is invited to help shape this public piece of art at poetry and printmaking workshops this summer with a chance to have your work literally embedded into the final piece — turning a transit stop into a permanent community scrapbook.
The Instituto Gráfico de Chicago (IGC) is dedicated to maintaining the critical activist tradition of Latino printmaking that unites communities of struggle around the world. They are inspired by the socio-political art of Mexico's Taller de Grafica Popular (The People's Print Workshop) and use their art as a platform to inform and generate community discourse about urgent social issues. IGC believes that art is not separate from public life.
Janet Austin Janet Austin creates in sculptural media, including glass, mosaics, concrete, bronze, and steel. Her work can be found in public spaces across the country, including hospitals, parks, zoos, botanic gardens, plazas, and transportation hubs. Her pieces explore the relationships and connections between humans and nature on a monumental scale.
Jose L. Gutierrez is an artist, art teacher and a founding member of Instituto Grafico de Chicago (IGC) He develops art programs and projects for empowering students and communities through arts education experiences that explore cultural storytelling and social justice engagement.
Stamp of Sunshine
Saturday + Sunday | June 27 + 28, 2026
12 – 5 p
at the Interactive Arts Tent
Festival-goers are invited to write and send handwritten postcards to anyone in their life with provided materials. Stop by to pick up a postcard designed by a local Logan Square artist and take a moment to remind someone they're known and loved!
Special thanks to artists – Alexandra Tzougros, Laura Devitt, Cam Gasser, and Lucas Gonzalez.
Stamp of Sunshine is a Logan Square born non-profit with a mission to build community by creating space for genuine connection through handwritten messages. We invite you to pause and write a letter to someone in your life! We provide free materials, stamps, a mail drop, and send the cards out the next day.
Performances
The Mill, a variety show
Millstone
Friday | June 26, 2026
7 – 9 p
interior of Comfort Station
Please join us for The Mill (@millstone.mag), a variety show and open mic that raises money for local Chicago charities. The night will begin with featured performers, including a stilts walker and folk musician. After the featured performances, is an all-genres open mic – all art mediums and styles are welcome – comedians, clowns, writers, puppeteers, musicians, and whatever in-between.
For this show, we are fundraising for Chicago Books for Women in Prison.
Millstone is a micropress and art collective cofounded by Christie Valentin-Bati and Noah Zanella that curates a monthly variety show and open mic called The Mill on the third Thursday of every month to help raise money for local charities. Millstone seeks to provide a platform for local artists whose work is engaged in genuine speech, as a means to facilitate community outside the alienating spectacle of corporate controlled digital media platforms.
Rabbit Foot Puppetry’s
Whimsical Wandering Wonders
Saturday | June 27, 2026
2 – 5 p
Passersby are invited to join a beautiful, imaginary tea party in this interactive performance as the troupe meanders through the festival. Performers don masks and costumes that make them appear like anthropomorphic woodland creatures come to life. Joined by their pet dog, Toto, as a massive snail and pet cat, Spoons, as a giant ladybug. They have a unique ability to give out fortunes to their guests and they love that the festival brings humans to their home! They discovered that if humans join their tea party, it makes them feel more human – bringing them much joy!
Any human that wants to learn their tea ceremony is welcome to join AND be given a positive fortune through Toto‘s mouth!
Rabbit Foot Puppetry is a Chicago-based puppetry collective rooted in spectacle theater and driven by imagination. Rabbit Foot weaves over-the-body-puppets and masked performers into pop up interactive games performed at festivals, parties, museums, and everything in between.
Wind Piece
Lauren C. Sudbrink
Sunday | June 28, 2026
2 – 5 p
intermittent activations on the hill – west of the monument
Wind Piece takes form at the festival through the installation of 840 pinwheels, creating a pathway for three performers to perform their interpretation of wind, while two-three musicians live-score the performances on their wind instruments. After the performance, the audience is invited to walk the pinwheel path and take as many pinwheels as they like.
on view
Friday – Sunday | June 26 – 28, 2026
Born in Sheboygan, WI, Lauren C. Sudbrink received her BFA (2009) from the University of Minnesota and her MFA (2015) from the University of Illinois Chicago. Lauren's work has been exhibited, shared and performed at spaces big and small, including, but not limited to, Roman Susan, Co-Prosperity, Ignition Projects, Patient Info, Roots & Culture, The Arts Club Chicago, Black Mountain College and Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum. Sudbrink has held artist residencies at Lazuli and Make Room MPLS and is currently living and working in Chicago.
Workshops
Experimental Parkour and Poetry
Gabe Life 100
Participants will write movement-focused poetry and plan exploratory parkour moves using a worksheet developed by Gabe Life 100. Then, the group will move outside and try their moves together. Finally, the group will come together for a short reflection and debrief.
All approaches to movement will be celebrated. No experience necessary!
Gabe Life 100 is an artist based in Chicago working with movement, writing, participatory performance, and sculpture. He does an ongoing project climbing and traversing signs, stores, and architectural features. His poetry practice is exploratory, tactile, and humorous. He uses structured writing prompts to envision body movement and actions in real space.
Somatic Circus Play
Maya Anuligo
A gentle, inclusive session where circus-inspired movement, soft acrobatics, and grounding bodywork help participants release tension, find joy, and feel at home in their bodies.
Led by Maya, a circus artist and graduating Aloft Circus Arts student, we’ll blend technical skill with somatic practice and create space for play, self-expression, and connection rooted in the belief that play is the opposite of trauma.
Maya Anuligo's work attempts to bring poetry into form. She's currently interested in authenticity, research & experimentation, mood, musicality, centering neurodivergence, and de-centering western ideologies. Maya's goal is to create experiences with intention, pose questions for analysis and develop a line of communication between artist and audience.
The Last Word is Not a Word
Millstone
Sunday | June 28, 2026
1 – 2:30 p
The Last Word is Not a Word explores the possibilities of how to write towards endings that open up a poem rather than close it. The real purpose of that common writing advice to "show, don't tell" is that the meaning writers cast their nets for is often found most fully in what is not said, or even at times in what is unable to be said. As Ludwig Wittengenstein wrote, "There is indeed the inexpressible. This shows itself." The workshop will feature a discussion of readings by Eve Ewing and Tracie Morris followed by a writing prompt.
The Mill is a variety show and open mic that features local artists from a range of mediums and genres, such as poets, puppeteers, dancers, comedians, musicians, comic book artists, and clowns.
Millstone is a micropress and art collective cofounded by Christie Valentin-Bati and Noah Zanella that curates a monthly variety show and open mic called The Mill on the third Thursday of every month to help raise money for local charities. Millstone seeks to provide a platform for local artists whose work is engaged in genuine speech, as a means to facilitate community outside the alienating spectacle of corporate controlled digital media platforms.
Golden Shovels in the Stillhouse
Lemmy Ya’akova
Join poet Lemmy Ya'akova and learn how to write a "Golden Shovel" – featuring performance pieces and an essay on limitations and poems from their unpublished chapbook.
Lemmy Ya'akova is the author of the poetry collections Overflowing the Tub, Night Gallery Press, 2024 and Tiger’s Tail, General Things Press, 2024. Their other work can be found in HAD (Hobart After Dark), Anti-Heroin Chic Magazine, SAND Journal and more. You can keep up with their life on instagram @anoma__ly.