Loft 3a is run by the crazy talented folks that live and have lived here.
☞ We use our 3000 square foot loft to host emerging and experimental creative endeavors in the form of concerts, gallery shows, private parties, fundraisers, temporary cafes, film screenings, workshops, and rehearsals.
☞ We like to partner with visiting artists, small collectives, and other not-yet-institutionalized entities to serve as a physical platform in which to manifest their inspirations and create happenings.
☞ We work with projects that are underground, emerging, and/or transformative. Feel free to contact us with an idea.
Leon Grant Bussinger is mostly a digital designer. He started running the loft as an event space with creative director, Michael Hitsman in 2007. (originallgb.com)
Zoë McCloskey is mostly a street and installation artist who is associated with numerous artist collectives including The CyberPunk Apocalypse and Locurativo. (zoemccloskey.net)
Kelsey Fox is mostly a dancer with the Ballet of Chicago who paints in her free time and is stunningly unpredictable. (balletchicago.org)
Jacob Fleming is mostly an illustrator of cute and witty things with an eye for photography. (jcbflmng.com)
Peter Eaton is mostly a student of film at Columbia and someone who always leaves the oven on.
Arren Yoshimura is a retired gymnast (the real kind not the hobbyist) who can still do back flips but now is, mostly, a nice person.
Anatole Puiseux is a charming econ and poli sci major from Paris on a six month internship in Chicago.
NO SHOW OPENING I: Brooks Wingfield Girsch

NO SHOW OPENING I: Brooks Wingfield Girsch
Brooks was on her way from an artist in Residence at Oxbows Winter Session and on her way to one at the Vermont Studio Center. Luckily for us she passed by the Loft.
Zoe: I was trying to remember what you were explaining to me last night about why you don’t like to show your paintings…?
B: It’s not that I don’t like to show them, there is just that question of what the painting becomes after the process. For me it is so much about the decision making within a single painting and those relationships, so once I’ve resolved them,…it’s hard to say. It’s like I like to work on board so I can stack them when I’m done, so that they are filed away. I begin with no conception when I start which is probably more important than what I do when it’s done. But as you work on it, it becomes about the success and the failure, especially about the failures, about the inability to achieve. It’s hard for me to talk about my work without talking about how much I love painting and the discipline of painting.

This is tangential but Outsider Artists, that’s sort of a coveted identity now a days, in many cases, are peculiar because they are not achieving, [the work is about] the reaching that’s falling short, and I guess I love going into a small town museum and seeing,…because there is something new that is created in the world though the striving. Even if in conventional terms it’s a failure or a bad aesthetic, but it just makes something that’s so delicious for me. I think I’m a better draftsman than I am a painter. I don’t always set out to make a shitty painting. It’s not ironic. It literally comes out.

I wouldn’t mind showing [my work] but I just don’t like that it becomes an object, and has a border and is put on a wall and that becomes strange, because its very much a process and very much alive in my studio. And I think that’s a worry for a lot of artists; what happens to the work once it goes into the world. I have the constant feeling that I’m practicing for the next thing, it’s a journey without a goal, so that’s why I’m not concerned with the failure of anything because I’m so tightly involved in a learning process and seeing and a reaction to a decision I make, and one decision necessitates another choice, and yeah it’s like a painting having a conversation with its self and I’m following that. So my big hope is that you would be able to see that struggle in the painting and yeah I think that’s all part of the humor, like you said it was cheesy, but I don’t think cheesy is the right word necessarily, unless you mean a real seriousness that falls flat unintentionally. *







Loft3A was tragically without the internet for a WEEK. As a result some wonderful things happened: Jake performed and took prompts from the “audience” and came up with an amazing song in the key of G about a troublesome text messaging octopus, a tent/fort was built, exquisite corpse was played, and home made mad libs discovered the phrase “sweaty hung sticky”





pics from the show: palmyra, eric hall, orange drink.
SAT SEPT 26th 9PM: PALMYRA, Eric Hall, and ORANGE DRINK
PALMYRA from Brooklyn NY, Eric Hall from NOMO, and Chicago’s ORANGE DRINK perform at Loft3a (3036 n lincoln)
SEPT 26 DOORS OPEN 9PM (bring dollars for pbr tips and for donations to the band)
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As a treat, Palmyra from Brooklyn and Eric Hall are coming to LOFT3A. Erik Hall, from the band NOMO, is showcasing his new solo material.
About Erik Hall.
Listen to NOMO.
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I had the joy of seeing Orange Drink of Hemlock Records just this month at the Hungry Brain. They are an intelligent and enjoyable team of “musicians?” !?!? A little nihilism, cute-ism and whatnot. You will not want to miss it.
Orange Drink on Facebook, Myspace, PureVolume




Pics from White Pines show. It was a wonderful night. Thanks to everyone.
FRIDAY AUGUST 7 WHITE PINES

Jumberlack Media an indie distro from Illinois/Michigan presents:
WHITE PINES : Myspace Link
with Thats Him Thats the Guy: Myspace Link
also Mike Moran: Myspace Link and Calm Vs. Chaos: Myspace Link
Friday August 7th at Loft3a. 8PM (Door Opens 7:30)
Videos at: http://www.youtube.com/jumberlacks
For More Press info contact: Kenneth Sander ken@jumberlackmedia.com
Courtesy of Michael Hitsman! m.hitsman@gmail.com
A Late-Night Cabaret: July 18th: 9pm-2am



One Night Only! You’re invited to a presentation of puppetry, dance, & live music, featuring performances from:
Lolly Extract, a Master Puppeteer whose oeuvre includes the Lyric Opera, the Shedd Aquarium, the Field Museum, Hystopolis Productions, Jabberwocky Marionettes, Hell in a Handbag, the Smithe Brothers, El Circo Cheapo and many more.
Amber Marsh, a New York performance artist from ImaginationExplosion, whose NYC name drops are The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church, Galapagos Art Space, Theater for the New City, Zebulon, The Bronx Arts Ensemble, LACAP, the Bruce High Quality Foundation, and more.
Dance & improvised movement by Lily Emerson of the Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting and Lucid Street Theatre.
Multifaceted sound & music provided by Chicago musicians The Catatonics, Charlie Universe & Violent Lange of the bike band, Schwinntonation, along with afterparty music by DJ blackdaylight.
Loft 3A balances on the cutting edge of underground Chicago art events. Come witness their latest mis-happening of intellectual adult content; a boxer kicking the shit out of the economy, a praying mantis does it again, movement to music, & other stimulating interactions of stunningly creative minds.




The Lineup: The Catatonics 10pm /Lily Emerson 10:30pm/ ‘The Fight of the Century’ - Lolly Extract 10:50pm/ ‘Mantis and the Prey’ - Amber Marsh & Violent Lange 11:30pm/DJ blackdaylight 11:45pm-2am

A Late Night Cabaret: Fight of the Century and Other Acts, Saturday, July 18th, 9 pm-2am, Presented by Loft 3A, 3036 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago
Contact: Amber Marsh ambermarsh72@gmail, 718-415-1023









