PAST EVENTS
Artist-Run Spaces Bike Tour #3
Saturday, October 2
Hyde Park Art Center
The Hyde Park Art Center presents another in a series of bike tours of artist run art spaces in the Chicago area. Designed as a way to discover the often hard to find offerings of Chicago’s young and emerging artists...More
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Process in Product: Work from "Summer Studio"
July – September 2010
SAIC Sullivan Galleries
In summer 2010 the Sullivan Galleries of the School of the Art Institute will be transformed into living studios. More
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threewalls summer thematic residencyJuly – September 2010
threewalls
threewalls summer thematic residency program will be integrated into the Sullivan Galleries Summer Studio. More
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Sixty Inches From Center Exhibition: Contemporary Graffiti
Thursday, September 9
C33 Gallery, Columbia College Chicago
Sixty Inches From Center: Contemporary Graffiti presents the work of artists who create work specifically for the urban landscape. This exhibition provides a space where the normally ephemeral work of contemporary graffiti artists can be viewed at length without disruption...More
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Open Crit with Kerry James Marshall and Dawoud Bey
Friday, September 10
Hyde Park Art Center
Join Hyde Park Art Center for another round of Open Crit, the event that asks what’s your critical discourse? Each artist will have up to 30 minutes to discuss artworks they brought in for the evening with our co-facilitators and the audience. The session will provide critical response to actual works brought in for the evening...More
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THINKTANK
July 19 - August 31, 2010
threewalls and Chicago Public Schools
threewalls will host their annual Chicago Public Schools THINKTANK program at Sullivan Galleries in July. Over the course of two weeks a group of Chicago Public Schools’ K-8 arts teachers will participate in workshops with threewalls residents and local artists participating in the Summer Studio...More
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Studio As Lab on CAN TV
August 15, August 17, August 20
Back in May 2010 three Chicago-based artists discuss how they combine processes and investigations more common to scientific inquiry into their studio art practice. Hunter Cole and Vesna Jovanocic were trained as a geneticist and chemist, respectively, and Peter N. Gray's multidisciplinary practice is informed by biomedical experiences. This discussion will be rebroadcasted on CAN TV during August....More
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Commune-ique
June - July 2010, Wednesdays, 1:00 - 4:00pm
Maggie Leininger
Join artist Maggie Leininger and team of students from Roosevelt University and the School of the Art Institute in creating an open portable studio that invites viewers to embellish the interior of a constructed portable pop-up tent, More
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Artists in Residence Open Studio with Philippe Durand
Thursday, July 8
Hyde Park Art Center
Paris-based photographer Philippe Durand presents his work and upcoming projects in the 2nd floor studio. This event is in conjunction with the exhibition Spatial City: An Architecture of Idealism...More
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Ekphrastic Nexus
June 25, 2010, 6:00pm
Chicago Urban Art Society
This panel involves writers and visual artists about text-image collaborations, as well as writers who have gotten inspiration from visual art, and it explores ways writers make connections with art and the visual artistic process, furthering the continuum of the artist’s studio as school, gallery, political stance, sanctuary, and muse...More
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June 24–July 21, 2010
Columbia College Chicago, Leviton A+D GalleryFrom Theaster Gates’ video document of a three hundred-voice ensemble that invokes early Black America to Alison Rhoades’ site-specific performance that invites 20 local artists...More
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Commune-ique
June - July 2010, 1:00 - 4:00pm
Maggie Leininger
Join artist Maggie Leininger and team of students from Roosevelt University and the School of the Art Institute in creating an open portable studio that invites viewers to embellish the interior of a constructed portable pop-up tent, more
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Artist at Work Forum: Studio as Lab
June 17, 2010, 6:00pm
Chicago Cultural Center
Three Chicago-based artists discuss how they combine processes and investigations more common to scientific inquiry into their studio art practice.
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The Local Residency
June 10, 2010, 6:00pm
Spudnik Press
Previous Resident Artists of Spudnik Press will come together to speak about their experiences working in a communal studio. Panelists will address how local residencies can counteract difficulties maintaining access to particular types of spaces. More
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Production Site: The Artist's Studio Inside - Out
Feb. 6 - May 30, 2010, Opening Feb. 6
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Production Site reexamines the artist's studio as subject, presenting work that documents, depicts, reconstructs, or otherwise invokes that space, more
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Talks and Discussions in Conjunction with Production Site
January - May 2010
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
The lectures are: From Studio to Building, Studio Myths Artists Panel, Trajectories of the Studio after the Factory, Studio as Testing Ground, Studio and Research, and The Artist in the Studio. more
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Artist at Work Forum: Here and Away Residencies
May 20, 2010, 6:00 - 7:30pm
Threewalls, inCUBATE, Harold Arts and Judy Natal's pioneering residency at the Biosphere 2. Details soon to come. More
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Uncommon Studios
May 8, 2010
Little Black Pearl, Chicago
For centuries, artists have relied on community resources and shared workshop spaces to create. This program showcases how the place and context of where artists make art interconnects with the work itself. More
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Converge Chicago: Contemporary Curators Forum at Art Chicago and NEXT: The Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art
April 30 - May 3, 2010
Art Chicago and NEXT Art Fair , Chicago
CONVERGE Chicago: Contemporary Curators Forum is a platform for curators and museum professionals to engage in dialogue surrounding the most pressing topics in curatorial practice today. Hear, see and participate in forming the ideas of a new wave of cutting-edge curators, critics and artists. More
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2010 Creative Chicago Expo
April 10, 2010
Chicago Cultural Center
The annual Creative Chicago Expo is free and open to the public. Now in its 7th year, the Creative Chicago Expo connects artists and art organizations in all disciplines -- music, dance, theater, film, design, new media, fashion, publishing, visual art -- with the support, services and networks they need. More
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Artists at Work Forum: Collaborative Studios w/ Chuck Thurow
April 22, 2010
Chicago Cultural Center
A lot of art-making involves collaboration, teamwork and extensive facilities. Explore Chicago’s leading collaborative studios -- Lill Street Studios, Chicago Hot Glass, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative and others -- with Chuck Thurow, former director of the Hyde Park Art Center. More
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Artists at Work Forum: Domestic Studios
Co-presented with Gallery 400 at UIC
March 18, 2010
Chicago Cultural Center
Artists discuss strategies for making work in their home or live/work space. With Lorelei Stewart, Director of Gallery 400, and artists Brian Kapernekas, Jason Lazarus and Georgina Valverde. More
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