JEFFERSON PARK — The 2016 Figment Festival will take place July 16-17 at Frank J. Wilson Park after a one-year hiatus, organizers announced Monday.
The festival, which took place at Garfield Park in 2013 and moved to Jefferson Park in 2014, features just about every kind of art imaginable except the kind that hangs on walls or sits in a gallery.
The festival is designed to showcase "art that encourages participants to play, dance, sing, create, engage, experiment and explore their environment," according to the festival's website.
Wilson Park, 4630 N. Milwaukee Ave., features a playground, a sand volleyball court and baseball diamonds.
Founded in New York in 2007, the first Figment Festival in Chicago featured more than 50 art projects and nearly 200 artists and volunteers near the Garfield Park Conservatory, organizers said.
Figment Festivals have taken place in Boston; Washington, D.C.; Toronto; Geelong, Australia; Jackson, Miss.; Philadelphia; and San Diego.
For more information or to volunteer for the fest, email chicago@figmentproject.org.
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