Artists, Únete La Villita member, and Associate Teen Librarin, Sara Heymann, imagines the lungs of La Villita.

Little Village is a remarkable neighborhood of hardworking people that live or work there, from our ambitious mothers and fathers to students who never give up on a neighborhood that suffers from all types of injustices, unfairness, and inequality. Moments like these, while seeing the world change in front of our eyes, can take a heavy toll on us.

Little Village students Giovanni Macias Valadez and Melissa Regalado reflect on the times.

The device used to arrange cut flowers in water is called a flower frog. I’m not exactly sure why. The flower frog is essentially a frame. It mutes the clamor so we finally notice something that has always been there.

The majority of the people I have come to know in Chicago are remarkably like these flower frogs. Quarantine times is a flower frog. This is that. I didn’t do anything here. I stood very still. I saw what was already there and I moved the frame a little to the left. You’ll love this. Throw a heavy wool blanket over everything and peek through this small tear in the fabric. - Alex Chitty

Social practice fiber artist, Aram Han Sifuentes, shares the struggle of convincing her parents to close their dry-cleaning shop during the pandemic.

Raul Benitez shares some movies we will have to wait to see and a mutual aid fund to help Chicago cinema workers.

The Portal Series (March - April 2020) projects people and places onto the altar of virtual time-space and spiritual travel.In the tradition of altars as spaces of sacred offerings honoring our connection and communication with dimensions beyond our physical plane, the Portal Series places the screen in the center of the altar. Through it, we invite apparitions into our quarantine-time spaces, connecting us to people and places beyond the confines of our material realities.