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10/09/11--01:05: - Loyola University Museum of Art - November 19th 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM (chan 1483207)

Crèche-makers from around the world interpret the nativity scene through the eyes of their own cultures. The story of Mary, Joseph and Jesus has had a great appeal as a story of a family facing both hardship and hope. See how artists across the globe have depicted the Nativity through a cultural lens that incorporates native clothing, art, and architecture.




10/26/11--13:38: Maria Calderon, Paul Anthony Smith - Harold Washington College President's Gallery - December 1st 4:30 PM - 7:00 PM (chan 1483207)

The fluidity of narrative time is a theme both artists utilize in the works included in this exhibition. Paul Anthony Smith uses figurative realism to tell a story of contemporary society and its conflicts.  It reveals much struggle and the dark side of imagining shifts in our economic system.  He positions his figures either perched at the top of a mountain or sitting at the bottom of a hole – and sometimes ambiguously in both places at once.  There is a question in his work that he doesn’t answer for us – is this the beginning or the end?  Calderon’s works take a decidedly optimistic outlook with her layered, fantastical landscapes.  Her work brings traditionally dressed figures, including elder “mamachas”, the highland native women in the Peruvian Quechuan language, together with young people doing yoga and riding bicycles.  Animals, geodesic domes and hand crafts all blend together within Calderon’s pulsing landscape of shining homes and businesses of contemporary and traditional construction.

www.mariacalderon.com
www.thepaulsmithart.com

Maria Calderon was born in Shawnee, Kansas.  She was raised in a home filled with South American folklore from her Peruvian father, an Andean folk musician.  She studied Painting and Art History in Cortona, Italy in 2004 and in 2006 she graduated from North Park University in Chicago with a Bachelor's in Fine Art with a concentration in Painting.  Since her studies at North Park, she has been awarded a studio residency through the Charlotte Street Foundation in Kansas City.  She currently teaches Drawing at the University of Missouri Kansas City and was awarded a spot in the spring 2011 session of Artist INC through the Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City in association with Creative Capital.  Maria has been utilizing various drawing and painting mediums throughout her work.  She creates time-based narratives relating the past to the present.  She also studies various cultural textiles and focuses on what she calls "contemporary primitivism."

Paul Anthony Smith was born in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica. He spent his childhood growing up in Port Antonio, a city on the north east coast of the Island. As a young child he relocated to Miami, Florida, where he studied in an extensive variety of art programs throughout his adolescence at  New World School of the Arts. After high school smith relocated to Kansas City where he enrolled at the Kansas City Art Institute, and received his BFA in 2010 with a concentration in ceramics. His work, frequently autobiographical, explores racial barriers and histories within contemporary scenarios.  As a recent graduate, Smith remained in Kansas City and is currently a resident of the Charlotte Street Foundation’s Urban Culture Project.

Harold Washington College is one of the seven City Colleges of Chicago. The President’s Gallery is located inside Harold Washington College, 30 East Lake Street, Room 1105. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and by appointment. For more information, contact the Harold Washington College art department at 312-553-5738.

About City Colleges of Chicago
The City Colleges of Chicago (CCC), District 508, is the largest community college system in Illinois and one of the largest in the nation, with 5,800 faculty and staff serving 120,000 students at seven campuses and thirteen satellite sites city-wide.  The City Colleges of Chicago is in the midst of a Reinvention, launched by Chancellor Cheryl Hyman shortly after her appointment by Mayor Richard M. Daley in March 2010.  Reinvention is a collaborative effort to review and revise CCC programs and practices to ensure students leave CCC college-ready, career-ready and prepared to pursue their life’s goals.

CCC includes seven colleges: Richard J. Daley College, Kennedy-King College, Malcolm X College, Olive-Harvey College, Harry S Truman College, Harold Washington College and Wilbur Wright College.  The system also oversees: the Washburne Trade School, the French Pastry School, two restaurants, five Child Development Centers, the Center for Distance Learning, the Workforce Institute, the public broadcast station WYCC-TV Channel 20 and radio station WKKC-FM 89.3FM.  For more information about City Colleges of Chicago, call: (773) COLLEGE or visit www.reinventingccc.org.    





10/31/11--06:05: Mel Bochner, Sol LeWitt, Brice Marden, and Fred Sandback, Agnes Denes, Eva Hesse, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly - The Art Institute of Chicago - November 19th 10:30 AM - 5:00 PM (chan 1483207)

In just a little over a decade, Chicagoan and Art Institute of Chicago trustee Irving Stenn Jr. has amassed a compelling collection of 170 drawings by at least 90 artists. Concentrating on works from the 1960s—a period that saw a fundamental change in the way works on paper were made, used, and appreciated—Stenn’s stunning collection features multiple works by Mel Bochner, Sol LeWitt, Brice Marden, and Fred Sandback, along with pieces by Agnes Denes, Eva Hesse, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, and Ellsworth Kelly. This focused assembly of 140 works, 100 of which are promised gifts to the museum, not only showcases Stenn’s personal taste, vision, and passion as a collector but also offers a window into an era when artists reconsidered and reinvented the medium of drawing.

Stenn and his wife, Marcia, began collecting art—bold contemporary prints, paintings, and sculpture—in 1971. Yet it wasn’t until 1999, after his wife passed away, that Stenn gravitated to drawings, which appealed to him because they are the most intimate and raw visualization of an artist’s thought process. Their smaller scale also allows a greater number to remain on display at once—significant as Stenn lives with his entire collection. Most importantly, however, his collecting pursuit has afforded Stenn close personal relationships in the drawing community, such as his friendship with Mel Bochner, which in turn have provided him with a thorough education and awareness of the broader sweep of art history.

Though Stenn did not set out to create a specific narrative with his collection, he was drawn to artworks from the 1960s and enjoyed tracing influences to earlier pieces including those by Suprematist Kazimir Malevich and David Smith. His resulting assemblage highlights a definitive shift in artists’ approach to drawings. While continuing the early modern practice of making drawings as finite expressions in their own right, innovators of the 1960s also frequently employed drawing in ways not previously considered art—for example, as diagrams, instructions for fabrication, caprices suggesting movement in performance, markers of space and time, or notes made during lectures. Such works enabled spatial and tactile perception to be recorded or  conceptual concerns of a larger project to be explored, and these ideas, evidenced in a focus on the grid, inform many of the drawings in Stenn’s collection.




10/31/11--10:30: - Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) - November 22nd 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (chan 1483207)

Tuesday Evening in the Café are artist-led events which directly engage visitors.  These events are designed around familiar themes which introduce the audience to artists and other thought leaders and the ideas which inspire them in an entertaining and informal setting.  Face the Strange: New Music Chicago and Beyond takes place the fourth Tuesday of every month, with Ken Camden performing in November.  Musicians perform one-hour sets of new experimental rock and electronic music.

 

Ken Camden is a Chicago based guitarist whose solo debut Lethargy and Repercussion was released on Kranky in 2010.  As a solo artist Camden combines elements of modern composition, kosmische musik, eastern modal themes and electronics to explore what can be done by one person playing live solo guitar. For his Face the Strange performance, Camden presents new solo material along with accompanying video projections.

 

Beer, wine, other beverages, and light fare are available for purchase at Puck’s Café.




10/31/11--14:22: - Gallery 400 - November 19th 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (chan 1483207)

Public Collectors is founded upon the concern that there are many types of cultural artifacts that public libraries, museums, and other institutions and archives either do not collect or do not make freely accessible.  Public Collectors asks individuals that have had the luxury to amass, organize, and inventory these materials to help reverse this lack by making their collections public.

 

Ricki Hill, an alumnus from UIC’s School of Art and Design, will share her catalogue of the Scrap Metal Collection featured in the exhibition Archival Impulse. Hill produced the catalogue, subtitled Relics of an Industrial Pathway, as a senior thesis project with Marcia Lausen. Created as a document of her travels on Hubbard Street between school and work, it features mappings of metal objects found along the route, image-making explorations using various processes, and a personal account of her acquisitions and experiences.  Hill will also share other collections, including: vintage Life magazines, printed numerals, copper textural tests, handmade doilies, and cassette tapes with handmade packaging.

 




11/01/11--08:44: IAIN BAXTER& and Ron Terada - Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) - November 29th 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (chan 1483207)

Get the inside view. Walk through the MCA exhibitions IAIN BAXTER&: Works 1958-2011 and Ron Terada: Being There with James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator Michael Darling and learn about the criteria and ideas that guided his selection of artists and artworks.

 

Collapsing the boundaries between art, commerce, and everyday life, IAIN BAXTER&’s protean and peripatetic work that has unfolded over five decades has proved difficult to locate within conventional critical or art historical narratives. A relentless emphasis on reaching out to the viewer, a core concern with ecology and the environment, and a belief that art must assume plural means and media, inform BAXTER&’s early credo: understanding that “art is all over.” This exhibition seeks to appraise the remarkable achievement of this artist, and to position his contribution in relation to mainstream histories of conceptual art, photography, and installation art.  On view at the MCA through January 15, 2012.

 

Ron Terada (b. 1969) is a Vancouver-based artist who has exhibited extensively in Canada and Europe over the past fifteen years but has had relatively little exposure in the United States. Working in the high tech and multicultural British Columbian city, where influences back and forth across the Pacific Rim are numerous and complex, as well as exploring his own Japanese-Canadian identity, Terada has built a fascinating body of work that includes paintings, photographs, video, sound, books, and graphic design. Often using his own position within the artworld of Vancouver as the starting point for measuring his own self-worth, self-esteem, and self-identification, he has used signage, advertising, and Hollywood films in unusual and inventive ways. This is his first solo exhibition in the United States. On view at the MCA through January 15, 2012.




11/07/11--09:00: - Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) - December 3rd 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM (chan 1483207)

The MCA Stage is in the second season of the three-year ensemble-in-residence with ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble).  Visitors can join ICE onstage at the MCA to be part of the process of creating new works for ICE's radical commissioning program, ICElab. ICE and composers George Lewis and Steve Lehman present live music, video and a discussion with the composers in advance of their MCA premiere concert on February 5. InFormation is a great opportunity to hear today’s music explorers demonstrate and talk about some of today’s most exciting works.




11/07/11--10:14: Dave McKenzie - Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) - December 3rd 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM (chan 1483207)

Coffee, conversation and great artworks...what better way to start a Saturday morning? Experience it for yourself as you look carefully at works on view in the MCA's galleries. Then make connections to other artworks, histories and ideas as you take part in a relaxed, facilitated discussion that helps you think through the art of our time. This December, ask  what is conceptual art. Is it scary? Intimidating? Sometimes, but it doesn’t need to be. Conceptual art is all about ideas, both big and small. With Brooklyn-based conceptual artist, Dave McKenzie, explore how artists such as IAIN BAXTER& and Ron Terada use art as a vehicle to convey these ideas.

To register, call the MCA Box Office at 312.397.4010




11/07/11--14:59: Group Show - Jackson Junge Gallery - November 18th 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM (chan 1483207)

“Angelicies: A Look At the Modern Day Angel,” is a group exhibit featuring 20 Chicago based artists.  When one hears the term “angel”, chances are that person already has a pre-conceived notion of what an angel looks like, what it embodies, and immediately ascribes a meaning.  Jackson Junge Gallery challenged Chicago artists to bring forth the image of the modern day angel in a group exhibit titled “Angelicies”.  Throughout time, artists have consistently searched for different ways to evaluate what they think an angel might truly look like.  The standard winged being that we have come to know is not necessarily what the artistic interpretation is going to yield.

Angelic figures inhabit the worlds of more than just the religious.  In fact, it was recently found that one in five people, who are not religious, believe that they have a guardian angel!  The meanings of angels and what they are to different people offer many different interpretations and ideas or imaginings.  Art has been a great proponent of attempting to illuminate what the mind has difficulty in expressing. “Angelicies” attempts to embrace all forms of expression of the idea of angelic beings or qualities. 

“The holidays always seem to evoke music and imagery that fill Chicago with the presence of angels,” said Chris Jackson, director and co-owner of the Jackson Junge Gallery.  “Seeing more imagery of angels at this time of year gets people thinking about their existence more readily.  It seems like a great time to bring the idea to the forefront of the Chicago area.”

The artists provided works of many different media and variations on the theme of angels.  From the more traditional aspects of angels to an urban interpretation, “Angelicies” provides the audience with a platform for viewing the analysis of each artist’s perspective on angels.




11/11/11--19:25: Todd Chilton, Terry R. Myers - Rhona Hoffman Gallery - November 18th 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (chan 1483207)

Rhona Hoffman Gallery is pleased to announce Todd Chilton in conversation with Terry R. Myers, in conjunction with Angled, the gallery’s first solo exhibition of work by Todd Chilton.  Todd Chilton’s practice places a distinct emphasis on both the importance of process, and imperfection in the abstract form.  For the past six years, Chilton has been creating brightly colored abstract paintings through the layering of hand-painted geometrical patterns.  Ambiguous yet purposeful, Chilton’s paintings highlight the contradictions inherent in seemingly opposing forces.  Deliberate imperfections often articulate humorous aspects within the work as well.

 

Todd Chilton lives and works in Chicago, IL. Angled marks his first solo exhibition of work at the Gallery. Previous solo exhibitions include Evens, the Central Utah Art Center, For January, Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, Raw & Co., Cleveland, OH, and The Suburban, Oak Park, IL.  Recent group exhibitions include Self-referral Nonobjective at Feature Inc., New York, NY, bodybraingame at Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL, Devening Projects + Editions, Chicago, IL, Bellstreet Projects, Vienna, Austria,  65 Grand, Chicago, IL, and the Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX.   He received an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005.

 

Terry R. Myers is a Chicago and Los Angeles-based critic, independent curator and Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A regular contributor since 1988 to numerous international journals, including Art Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Parkett, and Modern Painters, he is the editor of Painting: Documents of Contemporary Art, recently published by The Whitechapel Gallery and The MIT Press. He has organized three exhibitions for the gallery, including “Never Let Me Go” in 2011, preceded by “Angles in America” in 2008, and “Legend in My Living Room” in 1993.

 





11/11/11--23:09: Brian Dettmer - Packer Schopf Gallery - November 20th 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (chan 1483207)

Closing Reception for Brian Dettmer at Packer Schopf Gallery,  942 W. Lake St., Chicago, Sunday, November 20, 2011, 2 - 5 PM.   At 3 PM the duo Coppice will perform

We’re looking forward to present a custom-design instrument for Coppice by Andrew Furse (of Tiny Music).  Apiary couples twin-bellows into a new musical instrument - a free-reed expression box. Similar to how a music hold perforated discs containing songs, the instrument holds up to two slides containing free reeds in various tunings. The instrument is activated by manually operating the bellows. You can read Andrew’s notes about the instrument here.  We’re looking forward to compose new works for the Apiary in the coming year, and hope you can join us at our first presentation of it.  The event will also include a performance of Seam as a trio with electro-acoustic cellist Sarah J. Ritch.

Coppice (Noé Cuéllar & Joseph Kramer) is a Chicago-based duet of bellows and electronics.  Since its formation in 2009 they have produced original compositions for stage, fixed media, and performed installation settings, with a focus on adhering textural attenuation, processed gradation, the contours of instrumentation, and their multiple aspect highlights.  Their variable instrumentation departs from bellows and reed instruments (accordion, pump organ, shruti box, harmonica), custom electronics (reproduction, transmission, spatialization, interference and gentle feedback), and multi-channel systems adapted in ways responsive to location, audience flow, and aural perspectives.

They have recently appeared at the Museum of Contemporary Art, New Music at the Green Mill, New Capital, and ACRE (Chicago); Music with a View (New York); Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts (Minneapolis); McNeill Street Pumping Station New Music Festival (Shreveport); as well as internationally in Iceland and Sweden.




11/11/11--23:20: Karen Reimer - moniquemeloche gallery - November 19th 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM (chan 1483207)

Karen Reimer works to establish something more complex, more ambiguous, more symbiotic than the traditional oppositional binary relationships that ground so much of our culture. By combining the tactics and aesthetics of conceptual art with the tropes of domestic decoration, Reimer pushes concept and material, art and labor, language and linens, utopia and realism, heaven and hell into the same space. 

In this body of work, Reimer exchanges language for the imagery of stylized nature so typical of domestic decoration. Starting with the literalism of replacing an image of flowers with the word "flowers", Reimer embroiders quotations in which that word appears on pillowcases. Ranging from the poetic to the pedagogical, these quotations address the practices of craft and decoration and the assumptions and debates surrounding those practices, with several quotes taken from scholars and philosophers of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Reimer is interested in revisiting that movement's ideas about craft, manual labor, learning, domesticity, etc., as they translate into the contemporary digital age. The arrangement of the text on the pillowcases borrows equally from the traditions of embroidered pillowcase decoration and the formatting of language on computer screens, for example the blue boxing of selected words or the red strike-through of deletions when tracking changes.  

Embroidering the quotations onto pillowcases is both an examination via embodiment or acting out of the ideas, and also an attempt to put art into the realm of private domestic experience. What Reimer produces are potentially useful objects that could easily be slipped onto your pillows…   

Karen Reimer (American, b. 1958, lives Chicago) is a recipient of both the Artadia Individual Artist Grant and the Richard A. Driehaus Individual Artist Award. She has had solo exhibitions at Goshen College Art Gallery, Indiana; moniquemeloche gallery, Chicago; and Rochester Art Center, Minnesota. Her work has been included in group shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Contemporary Craft Museum, Portland, Oregon; and Wallspace Gallery, New York, among others. Reimer's works have been featured in the edited volumes Contemporary Textiles: The Fabric of Fine Art (Black Dog Publishing, 2008); The Object of Labor: Art, Cloth, and Cultural Production (MIT Press, 2007); By Hand: The Use of Craft in Contemporary Art (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010); and Limited Language—Rewriting Design: Responding to a Feedback Culture (Birkhauser Architecture, 2009). She won the Women's Caucus for the Arts President's Award in 2010, and is an adjunct instructor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.




11/14/11--08:30: - Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) - December 1st 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM (chan 1483207)

The MCA observes the 22nd Day With(out) Art, taking place on World AIDS Day, December 1, by participating in the national, simultaneous, screening of Untitled, a film by Jim Hodges, Encke King, and Carlos Marques da Cruz. Untitled is a 60-minute non-linear montage of archival and pop footage recalling the passionate activism sparked by the early years of the AIDS crisis.  The film plays continuously in the MCA’s Kanter Meeting Room, 10 am – 5 pm. Over 55 museums and organizations are participating, nationwide. Day With(out) Art was launched by Visual AIDS in 1989 as a national day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis.




11/14/11--19:27: Lauren Carter, Yogi Proctor, Jo Hormuth, Michael Milano, Christina Leung, Gareth Long, Ama Saru & Hsiao Chen, Laura Mackin, Nicholas Cueva - ADDS DONNA - December 4th 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM (chan 1483207)

ADDS DONNA presents
WISHYOUWEREHERE
Lauren Carter , Yogi Proctor, Jo Hormuth, Michael Milano, Christina Leung, Gareth Long, Ama Saru & Hsiao Chen, Laura Mackin, Nicholas Cueva.
September 1, 2011 to January 1, 2012
3rd Reception to be held Dec 4, 2011 4-7pm
... Open Sundays 1 to 5 and by appointment.


Adds Donna is pleased to announce the second installment of WISHYOUWEREHERE, a full-season group exhibition aimed at determining how and when content begins (and potentially never ends). A public reception will take place on December 4, 2011 from 4 – 7 pm.

As the title for countless songs, albums, books, and films, Wish You Were Here cannot avoid the taint of association. For this WISHYOUWEREHERE, work will get a second chance. Viewers who attend throughout the season will be able to experience work that is physically present simultaneously along work that manifests as the unknown, or as work disappears, as memory or remainder. Participants in this extended exhibition not only have the autonomy to enter and exit at will, but also to exist in accord with the variables present as much as absent. Work will come, go, and sometimes initiate a rubric all it's own.

Since the initial opening in September, the works in WISHYOUWEREHERE have shifted and accumulated. They’ll continue to enter and exit throughout the durration of the exhibition, creating voids where pieces are missed as well as where new works are anticipated. This format of perpetual change is meant to encourange prolonged examination and supply an enriched temporal experience. The oscillation of content in relation to cultural climate, human condition, and other external forces can be expected to negotiate the terms of “concept” while experiencing life in the present. How can the promise of a void do more?

Though our public receptions mark large changes to the progression of work in time, viewers are highly encouraged to attend during open gallery hours as well (Sundays 1 -5 pm), as things are constantly in flux. The diligent viewer will be rewarded.


WISHYOUWEREHERE opened on September 1, 2011 and Closes January 1, 2012.

Receptions: September 11 2011 - October 30 2011- December 4 2011 from 4 – 7 pm.




11/15/11--08:54: - Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) - December 6th 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (chan 1483207)

Tuesday Evenings in the Cafe are artist-led events which directly engage visitors.  Appropriate for a broad range of ages, these events are designed around familiar themes which introduce the audience to artists and other thought leaders and the ideas which inspire them in an entertaining and informal setting.  Artists from around the city are invited to lead the audience in whimsical, drawing related games.  Doodleganza takes place the first Tuesday of every month, with Scott Reeder leading the event in December.  Reeder is a Chicago artist and part of the new Chicago Works exhibition series at the MCA.

 

Beer, wine, other beverages, and light fare are available for purchase at Puck’s Café.




11/15/11--09:14: - Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) - December 2nd 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM (chan 1483207)

At First Fridays, visitors can unwind after work and enjoy an intriguing mix of culture, ranging from live music and performance art to experimental films and hands-on art stations. The theme for First Fridays in December is Indulgence.  Music includes a performance by Ham Burglars from 7-7:45 pm as well as spins by DJ Shala throughout the evening.  Visitors can sample a mini cocktail from Brugal Rum, participate in a scavenger hunt, and take pictures in the Magnolia Photo Booth CO.  First Fridays tickets, which include museum admission, live entertainment, and complimentary Wolfgang Puck hors d’oeurves, are $18 ($13 in advance). Guests must be 21 or older.




11/16/11--12:34: David A. Parker, Daniel Bruttig, Rim Lee, Erika Harrsch, Kevin Berlin - Kasia Kay Art Projects gallery - November 29th 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM (chan 1483207)

For its fifth run with scope art fair, kasia kay art projects
gallery will present new works by several program artists at scope Miami
2011 in Booth A37, Scope Pavilion, NE 1^st Ave (Midtown Blvd)
at NE 30^th Street, Miami, FL  33127.

The gallery will present ambitious new works from Kevin
Berlin, Rim Lee, Erika Harrsch, as well as  from David A. Parker
and Daniel Bruttig.

Additionally, the gallery (booth A37) will host a
special performance by Kevin Berlin - MISS
FOREIGN EXCHANGE INTERNATIONAL. Tuesday, November
29, 7pm sharp!  Media Contact: Christina Daigneault - Orchard
Strategies, Ph. 917-207-4686.

Miss Foreign International is
an art performance created by artist Kevin Berlin, in the format of an
International Beauty Pageant. It focuses on "good old
fashion values, fiscal responsibility and financial education" and aims
to improve worldwide knowledge and understanding of the global financial
markets. Previous Berlin’s performances can be seen here: www.missforeignexchange.com,
www.missforeignexchange.co.uk

Inquiries regarding fair works, day passes or special events may
be directed to the gallery at 312-944-0408 & info@kasiakaygallery.com

General fair information may be accessed at Scope-art.com




11/18/11--09:14: - Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) - December 10th 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM (chan 1483207)

Family Days take place every second Saturday of the month from 11 am to 3 pm at the MCA from October to May.  Activities are appropriate for all ages unless otherwise noted. Learn about the art of our time through hands-on art activities, scavenger hunts, Look & Learn stations, and more.  This December, inspired by celebrations and energy at this time of the year, families can use their bodies and other kinetic objects to create with movement, along with a performance by Taiko Legacy Drummers.

 

Tsukasa Taiko returns to the MCA Stage for the eighth year and continues the tradition of celebrating Japanese culture through taiko drumming, stylized kimono dance, and improvisations bridging jazz and Japanese court music.  The Taiko Legacy 8 performance takes place December 17-18, 2011.




11/20/11--00:47: - Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art - December 3rd 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM (chan 1483207)

Join Intuit as we teach you how to turn old sweaters, socks, and fabrics into upcycled monkeys in a non-traditional way. A great opportunity to make a plush monkey for yourself or as a gift this holiday season! This workshop is open to students, teachers, and families.

$40 / $30 Intuit Members
Includes lunch and supplies.




11/20/11--00:51: Stanley Tigerman - Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA) - December 4th 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (chan 1483207)

During this year of its 40th Anniversary celebrations, the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art is honoured to present a lecture by renowned Chicago architect Stanley Tigerman.

Stanley Tigerman’s name will be forever associated with this institution, as it was he who had envisioned and created the unique design for the facade of the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art.

Mr. Tigerman will speak about his work, experience and many influences in his creative life. Do not miss this rare opportunity to meet with this world-recognized architect.


Admission: $10, UIMA Members $5, Students FREE