Push the Envelope is an art product and public program enabling dialogue between artists in Chicago, Thessaloniki, and Athens. The participating artists were selected after an open call by an international jury. Over the span of three weeks DYNAMO project-space in Thessaloniki, Greece and Spoke in Chicago, U.S.A. will host the commencement of dialogue between selected artists. The conversation will spring from an open, collaborative process and will be used to identify topics relevant to the group. Invited curators, artists and historians will lead discussions during weekends for the duration of the DYNAMO exhibition. Initially, artists will display past work ...

Coordinated by the Open Practice Committee at the University of Chicago, threewalls will host Pedagogy of the Periphery, a special workshop style event to compliment the Radical Caucus for Art's Autonomizing Practices panel at this year's College Art Association meeting. In conjunction with AREA Chicago's ninth issue, Peripheral Vision, Pedagogy of the Periphery will focus on the history, practice and theory of radical pedagogy inside and outside institutions. Together, educators and students will discuss pedagogical practices, broadly defined—their optimism, obstacles, methods, pleasures, and frustrations—with both short informal presentations and time for group discussion. Some discussion questions will be submitted ...

InCUBATE, the Stockyard Institute and Sarah Kavage invite you to join us for a dinner symposium in honor of the life, work and spirit of Michael Piazza. Space is limited. Please RSVP to sarah@gogoweb.com. The winter solstice is a time of rebirth, manifestation of ideas, and new beginnings. This final event in the Orientation Center space, on the eve of the solstice, will gather friends and supporters together to talk about how place and nourishment intertwine with creative practice. The evening will feature presentations by and about two artists whose work relates to both themes. Jim Duignan of ...

A two-day symposium focusing on temporary public artworks that address an "accidental public" – people, viewers, an audience, or passersby who are not expecting to encounter a work of art. The purpose is to theorize and compare the strategies of projects that attempt to bridge the art and everyday life divide in present tense and real space, and to engage discussion that explores our intentions and the effects of choosing to work in this way. Accidental Publics is organized by Northwestern University's Department of Art Theory and Practice and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Sculpture Department, ...

A two-day symposium focusing on temporary public artworks that address an "accidental public" – people, viewers, an audience, or passersby who are not expecting to encounter a work of art. The purpose is to theorize and compare the strategies of projects that attempt to bridge the art and everyday life divide in present tense and real space, and to engage discussion that explores our intentions and the effects of choosing to work in this way. Accidental Publics is organized by Northwestern University's Department of Art Theory and Practice and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Sculpture Department, ...