Event benefiting ACRE Project (The Artists' Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions Project), a non-profit based in Chicago devoted to developing new systems of support for emerging artists and to creating a regenerative community of cultural producers. ACRE investigates and institutes models designed to help artists develop, present, and discuss their practices by providing forums for idea exchange, interdisciplinary collaboration, and experimental projects.
Come show us that you're interested, ask us to dance, and drink as much as you can, as a portion of the drink sales will go to the development of ACRE's 2010 residency program.
A one night only of presentations, readings, and a party for In Preparation. The publication, by the writing program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, was inaugurated in Spring 2008. This is a night of celebrating the 5th issue, where printing work from 25 emerging and mid-career artists and writers, all of equally heterogeneous form, medium, and approach will be represented.
Featured are the works of Garret Durant, Dain Oh, Evan Conley, Arend de Gruyter-Helfer, Emma Furman, Ben Bertin, Andrew Gamble, Eric Kaepplinger, Mink Smithsonian, Benjamin Love, Dan Kugler, Robb Todd, ...
Please join us for the release of the sixth issue of Proximity magazine. There will be an evening of performances by Proximity friends and family as well as an exhibition of works by artists featured in past magazines. The exhibition is part of an exchange project with our friends at Trendbeheer. Works on display will be sent to Rotterdam to be exhibited at Kunst & Complex in early March.
In Public Houses, private homes and Working Men’s Clubs across England a customary tradition for the celebration of Monumental Events and Great Festivals has been to relieve oneself of responsibility and inhibition and organize a Knees Up.
In this tradition Industry of the Ordinary invite you and your loved ones to their 2009 Xmas Knees Up.
Traditional British food, drink, music, dancing. games and visuals will be served, and the first one hundred guests will receive a commemorative drinking vessel to use and cherish.
Put on your fancy dress, pick up your dance card and join us for mint juleps and hurricanes, red velvet cake, dance tutorials and match making! This year’s party, The Debutante Ball, will unveil our newly renovated space as we expand into unit 2C (formerly Tony Wight Gallery) on the 2nd floor of the 119 N Peoria building.
Need the perfect gift? This year’s annual glass will be a set of 4 Hurricane cocktail glasses designed by Philip von Zweck. We’ll also unveil our first ever annual holiday multiples, with two special editions by SOLO artists Christa Donner ...
CHURCH PORCH is a vehicle for the presentation of ideas – an aimless institution that turns on and spreads from a sign, a single neon sign reading CHURCH PORCH. We are a medium for bastard ideas ill suited to commercial spaces. It is the practical minimum of an institution pregnant with failures.
Work by Lauren Elder.
Events occurring simultaneously, yet entirely disconnected; a violent temporal incident brought together with the mundane and sometimes ethereal. When combined, the reader is challenged to consider something new.
Craig Hansen is a visual artist living and working in Chicago. Chris May is the founding member of Program Studio, a graphic design studio also based in Chicago.
Work by Adrian Rozendaal, Lee Jasper Jones, Dan Hojnacki, Andrew Herner, Paul Kriley, Derrick L. Bowser, Alan Hatcher and Nate Hitchcock.
threewalls and The Green Lantern Press are pleased to announce our latest publishing collaboration, The Artist’s Run Chicago Digest, a complimentary publication to the exhibition Artist’s Run Chicago (curated by Britton Bertran and Allison Peters Quinn) at the Hyde Park Art Center, May 10th-July 5th, 2009.
The ARC Digest is meant to archive in print the activities of Chicago’s artist-run spaces between 1999-2009. It acts both as a companion to the exhibition and an extension of that project with interviews by Dan Gunn, essays by Abigail Satinsky, The Pond, Scott Speh and John Neff, Mary ...
A book by Alex Fuller and Gabe Usadel. Limited edition artist prints will be available for sale.
Squares, circles and triangles are at the core of what makes the industrial world around us. A universal visual language apparent in all things—the tools we use, the fashion we wear, the buildings we live in and the communications we see.
Visionary modernist architects, designers and artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, El Lissitzky, and Josef Albers celebrated both the beauty of form as well as the functional potential hidden within these 3 primary shapes and colors.
The Incredible Journey That is Consciousness ...
The Yield is a part of Harvest, a week of events showcasing the work of Harold Arts’ 2009 residents and celebrating the release of our annual compilation album. Each summer, The Harold Arts Residency Program brings together emerging and midcareer artists and musicians to work in the wilderness. This exhibition of over 50 artists presents the product of that work.
Monsters and Dust is a new online quarterly. Issue #1: FIRSTS, hits the internet October 9th at www.monstersanddust.com. Presented by Harold Arts.
DJ sets by Alex Valentine, Bea, and the Lady Speedstick. Performance by Lil' Elote. Featuring images, writing, sounds, and interviews from Cody Critcheloe, Erin Foley, MW Blackburn, Cass McCombs, Josh Tyson, Kelley Schei, Simone Meunch & Philip Jenks, Neil Freeman, Jess Holl, MEN, Ignacio Mardones, Elijah Burgher, Latham Zearfoss, David Robert Elliott, Sam Axelrod, Becca Mann, Salem Collo-Julin & Melinda Fries, Matt Kessler, Pilar Tena, Young Joon Kwak ...
Please join us as we celebrate the release of our fifth issue of Proximity Magazine. Very special performances by Magical Beautiful, the debut of The Gaze and sounds and mischief by Hunter Husar.
Please join us for the release of MOTHERWELL, a new arts journal dedicated to the intimate exchange of ideas and the primacy of publication as object. Motherwell contributors Zachary James Johnston and Karthik Pandian will be reading at 8pm.
Motherwell Vol. 1: Triumphs & Disasters, will be available for purchase at the party and features new work by thirteen young writers, including Chicago-based contributors, Beth Capper, Bryce Dwyer, Zachary James Johnston, Corinna Kirsch, Ariel Pittman, Kelly Shindler, and Ania Szremski.
