Erin Rehberg - Founder/Executive Director
M.F.A., was Founder and Artistic Director of Core Project Chicago, a dance-based, interdisciplinary performing arts collective and...
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Tanner Melvin M.S. - Founder/Executive Director
Founder and Director of Side Street Studio Arts in Elgin, IL. Tanner brings an eclectic background that includes a B.A. in Theater with...
Ivette De Santiago - Director of Education & Inclusion
Ivette is an interdisciplinary artist focused on exploring stories through video, photography, and installations. In 2016 she graduated...
Chris Arrecis - Visual Art Coordinator
SSSAās Visual Art Coordinator Chris Arrecis is an Illinois-based artist working primarily in photography and drawing. His studio practice...
Jess Rocha - Director of Operations
A bipedal lump of fungus filled with half-baked ideas and covered in a rash. Jess Rocha, hailing from Bartlett, Illinois, graduated from...
Nick Mataragas - Director of Special Projects
Nick is a director, actor, writer, producer, podcaster, and improviser, and is a graduate of the IO Chicago training center (so many...
Kirstin Dunlap - Artist Staff
Kirstin is a printmaker and bookmaker currently attending Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York where she is working towards her MFA....
Esperanza
September 16 - October 2, 2022
Mary Sweeney - Artist Staff
Mary Sweeney (she/her/hers). Born in California and raised in Chicagoland, Mary graduated from Columbia College in Chicago with a B.A. in...
2022 Elgin Fringe Festival
September 2-11, 2022
Alanis Johnson - Art Intern
A student at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) pursuing a dual degree in Art History and Sociology with a Minor in Global Asian...
Are you mad? a pop-up exhibition
July 29-31, 2022
OFF THE WALL 2K22
August 5 - August 21, 2022
Freddy Lagunes - Artist Staff
Freddy Lagunes is an Origami artists from Elgin, originally from Veracruz, Mexico. He officially joined Side Street this summer as a...
2022 Summer Youth Virtual Exhibition
Summer 2022
Nick Jostes - Arts Intern
Nick Jostes is an artist from Elgin originally from Fort Collins, Colorado. He specializes in customer success / account management with...
Alex Sharp - Arts Intern
Alex Sharp is a born and raised Elgin resident with Bachelor Degrees in Journalism and Art History from Northern Illinois University. She...
2022 Going Dutch Festival
May 27 - June 25, 2022
Erin Rehberg
Erin Rehberg, M.F.A., was Founder and Artistic Director of Core Project Chicago, a dance-based, interdisciplinary performing arts...
Tanner Melvin
Tanner Melvin, M.S., is Founder and Director of Side Street Studio Arts in Elgin, IL. Tanner comes back to Elgin and to Side Street from...
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