Mini Golf on Milwaukee

As promised, we have a second grant to announce this month: The Milwaukee Avenue Mini Golf Course. On Friday, September 21st, Katherine Darnstadt and her collaborators will sneak out bright and early to block parking spots along Milwaukee Avenue (between Kimball and Central Park), which will then be turned into a temporary mini golf course.

Katherine has been working with Alderman Colon for the past year to rezone this particular section of Milwaukee Avenue in Logan Square/Avondale to allow artists to establish live/work spaces in storefronts. The goal is to create a vibrant arts corridor in an area that is currently experiencing serial vacancy. Katherine is using the mini golf course as a means of activating the new space, drawing attention to the zoning change, and showcasing neighborhood’s creative potential.

The mini golf holes will be located in front of vacant storefronts that have been rezoned, each one individually designed  by a local artist or nearby creative business. The Awesome Foundation grant will be used to feed the parking meters all day long and to pay for the construction materials for the golf holes.

Incidentally, the date corresponds with PARK(ing) Day, an annual open-source global event for which citizens, artists, and activists collaborate to temporarily transform metered parking spaces into “PARK(ing)” spaces: temporary public places.