The fiber art of Chicagoan Theo Leffmann (1911–96) evokes the ancient and the exotic, echoing pre-Columbian and non-Western processes and forms with a distinct personal vision. Influenced by her teacher, the modernist sculptor Alexander Archipenko, while studying at Chicago’s New Bauhaus (now the Illinois Institute of Technology), Leffmann experimented with processes, textures and media throughout her career. Working on and off the loom, she employed techniques from traditional weaving and braiding to wrapping and crocheting and incorporated yarn, wool, metal, leather and other tactile materials. This selection of Leffmann's colorful, richly textured, and playful weavings, wall hangings, and sculptural objects are drawn ...

The land is changing, possibly disappearing. But perhaps it was never there to begin with. Perhaps it was a seductive mirage conjured by our cameras. From a deft re-editing of PBS’s The Joy of Painting to futuristic visions of people and places, to stories of exile and immigration, these five recent works re-imagine landscape as a shifting ground, an anxious force and backdrop to live in and move through. Work by Sterling Ruby, Jacqueline Goss, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby, Steven Matheson and Brendan Fernandes. Programmed by Crystal Heiden and Christine Negus.

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, ...