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photo: Erica Gannett

Next Event being scheduled for June!

You may reach Fred Burkhart via e-mail:

fred@BurkhartStudios.com

or

BurkhartStudios@gmail.com

...and expect to receive a reply within 24 hours

 

THE NEW BURKHART UNDERGROUND

Open occasionally - and by appointment
1228 N. Noble Street, Rear Coach House, Chicago 60622  (773 348-8536)

Three Floors of Living Art Ecstasy
 
New Views from
The Burkhart Underground
The All New & Improved Burkhart Underground: Next Generation
Opened a Portal to the Future on December 28th 2007


                              
Click to see more photos!

and...
Keep your eye out for the
Burkhart Bus...
On a Streetcorner near you!



The All New & Improved Burkhart Studios Mobile Van


photo: Rachel Bergman



Parked in front of the former Burkhart Studios on Halsted!



View Original Artworks in Continually Changing Natural Light 

CHICAGO PHONE: 773 348-8536




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Read the Latest Press:

1:
Northwestern Medill Reports
"Rebirth of the Underground"
November 15th, 2007



and

2:
National Public Radio
Interview
November 8th, 2007



and

3:
Time-Out Chicago
"Get On The Art Bus"
November 1st, 2007



and

4:
A Night at the Underground
"Freak Chic"
January 23rd, 2008




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NEW BEGINNINGS:
                              

Thanks and Blessings to all of you that do keep in touch with me. I love you more than I am capable of expressing. I hope you can feel that. Please pray for me -- and especially for my daughter, Trinity Valentine, who just this past Father's Day (June 17th, 2007) gave birth to her very own daughter Kiley Ann, with the proud father Steve Ederer.

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And Old
Endings:

Photo by ANGELA ZEEDYK 6/2005

 

 


Photo by Stacee Droege  May 2005
 
The Original Burkhart Underground
Halsted Street, Lakeview, Chicago
closed on May 6th, 2005.
Fred Burkhart left most everything intact
and walked out the door on June 16th...

First they boarded it up with the leftover artworks...



Then they demolished the vacant shell in August...





The tree was chopped down and left in the alley to die



The dirt was finally mixed in with the blood & bones of
unnamed Indians who used to live on the lot before me



In order to make way for Golf-Tec.....



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The End of An Error

Photos by CLAUDE CALESINI 3/13/2005

 



and before you go any further,
please allow me to introduce you to
Mister Beau Glazar

The Cosmic Dragon
www.CosmicDragonArt.com

Remember...
Beau painted the colorful floor you walked on
everytime you entered Burkhart Studios Main Gallery
and he produced both Underground CDs
and his Spirit helped maintain the place
for at least 10 or 12 years


  

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THE NEW BURKHART UNDERGROUND CHICAGO

Open during Events - and by appointment
1228 N. Noble Street, Rear Coach House, Chicago 60622  (773 348-8536)