World's Largest Mobile Art Gallery Hits Chicago's CTA Trains

Art on Track, the world’s largest mobile art exhibit invites passengers aboard an eight-car CTA train set to circle the Chicago loop for a day-long celebration of fine arts and culture on Saturday, August 7th from 5-10 p.m. Art enthusiasts and local pedestrians enter the elevated CTA train at the Adams and Wabash platform. Once aboard the train, passengers in the gallery are encouraged to move about the cars and interact with artists and fellow onlookers alike.

Art on Track is intended to reach an expanded demographic who may otherwise be isolated from the City’s vibrant arts culture. The project was founded in 2008 by Tristan Hummel after he recognized a need to bring personal expression through art to the masses. “Art on Track began when, as artists, we posed ourselves the question: how do you rejuvenate a culture?" said Hummel. “Underneath what could be dismissed as the sheer novelty of art on a train lays a more profound art experience for the public."

Each artist has been selected for the show because of their demonstrated command of the artistic field and their position at the forefront of new artistic methods. The art groups involved are given six hours before the show to install their work. Under this deadline they produce some of the most thought-provoking exhibition art in recent memory. As the train circles the loop each group will be judged by a prestigious panel of Chicago art world icons, awarding a grant of $5,000 to the group whom they feel most creatively exercised the space and time constraints.

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