Save the Date: Spring Gala June 8th 2012 at Stan Mansion
People say we throw the best parties in town, mark your calendars for the best one yet!
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The Art Lending Library is opening soon at the Hull House museum!
posted January 26, 2012 in events, news
A call from the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum:
Volunteers needed to help bring artwork to people's homes for a curiously fun and radically democratic Art Lending Library.
The Hull-House Museum's Art Lending Library provides artwork for Chicagoans to check out and enjoy in their own spaces for 3 months at a time.
For many, it may be the first time they have had a chance to have an original piece of art in their homes.
Here is how it works:
Interested participants come to the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum to choose a piece of art from our lending library collection.
We contact a volunteer to arrange a mutually convenient time to deliver the art.
The volunteer delivers the art, installs it, and takes a photo to document the art in place.
Happiness and satisfaction ensues to everyone involved!
After three months, a volunteer will return to de-install the art and return it to Hull-House for others to enjoy.
Our initial collection of artworks, curated by Abigail Satinsky and Shannon Stratton, comes from Community Supported Art (CSA) Chicago, a project of threewalls started by Satinsky and Shannon Stratton. Much like Community Supported Agriculture, in which shareholders invest in a local farm and receive a monthly payout of fruits and vegetables, CSA Chicago asks shareholders to invest directly in the arts community and receive limited edition contemporary artist projects in return. Satinsky will continue to work with us to grow our collection with other CSA projects throughout the country.
Contact Heather Radke for more information at heather.radke@gmail.com
Bia Gayotto: Resident Update
posted December 10, 2011 in news, residents | tags: bia gayotto, residents
Bia Gayotto spent her May 2011 residency conducting interviews with bicultural Chicago residents. Full versions of her interviews are now available on our website here. The project has developed into a two channel video installation titled Somewhere in Between: Chicago 2011, and will also be included in Home – Place - Community: International Sociological Perspectives, by editors Margarethe Kusenbach, Krista Paulsen, and Melinda Milligan, and Peter Lang International Academic Publishers (Frankfurt, New York, Oxford). Bia has also been invited to be a fellow resident at Montalvo Arts Center where she plans to continue working on this project.
Root Cellar CSA Press
posted November 19, 2011 in news, reviews
Check out the recent CSA press in the Huffington Post and Chicago Magazine, and reserve your share before they sell out!
Art Margins Podcast with Voices from the Center Artists
posted November 19, 2011 in news, reviews
In late October, Susan Snodgrass conducted an interview with the artists included in our current show, Voices from the Center. Check out the podcast at Art Margins Online:
http://www.artmargins.com/index.php/podcast/119-interviews/650-voices-from-the-center
Stop by threewalls before December 10th to see the exhibition! You can also check out an interactive component of the show at http://www.voicesfromthecenter.net/
Casey Droege: Tracks of my Tears
posted July 23, 2011 in residents | tags: casey droege, residents
Help fund this project by threewalls artist in resdience, Casey Droege!
"For my current project "Tracks of my Tears" I have compiled a list of every song that has made me cry, dating back to 1991. (It gets a little fuzzier before that.) For each song, I've written and recorded a story about the moment I remember tears being induced. The recordings will be pressed into a limited edition run of 100 colorful 12 in. records."
More information is available at kickstarter.com
Gitte Bog: Art of Work
posted July 16, 2011 in events, residents | tags: gitte bog, residents
Gitte Bog's recent work is included in "Art of Work," an exhibition focusing on art and labor. Her piece, "La Chalana" stemmed from an interest and exploration into shoe shining. More information about that piece and other work in the show can be found here: Chicago Art Magazine. Gitte Bog completed a thematic residency at threewalls in the summer of 2009.
"Art of Work” is currently on view at Waubonsee Community College:
Arrowhead Room Gallery
Waubonsee Community College
Rt. 47 at Waubonsee Drive
Sugar Grove, IL 60554-9454
John Preus: The World as Text
posted June 25, 2011 in events, news
THE WORLD AS TEXT
DESIGNED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF JOHN PREUS
At the Reading Room // Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts
"writerly text is ourselves writing, before the infinite play of the world is traversed, intersected, stopped, plasticized by some singular system
(Ideology, Genus, Criticism) which reduces the plurality of entrances, the opening of networks, the infinity of languages" -Roland Barthes
Visit the blog or continue reading for a schedule of events.
Rena Leinberger and Erin Thurlow at Smack Mellon
posted June 4, 2011 in residents
Erin Thurlow and Rena Leinberger, two past artists in residence, will be participating in an upcoming show at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, New York. If you're in the area this summer, check it out:
Heat Island:: Smack Mellon
Brooklyn, New York.
June 18 - July 31
Opening: Saturday, June 18, 5-8pm
Rena Leinberger. Plan, 2011
Bia Gayotto: In a Strange Land
posted June 4, 2011 in events, residents
Place/No Place by Chiara Galimberti
Resident Bia Gayotto's video "Trading Places: Los Angeles" is included in In a Strange Land, a group exhibition organized by AREA Chicago at Calles Y Sueños. The shows opens tonight, June 4th, and there will be a weekly series of events in conjunction with the show.
June 4 - July 4
Calles Y Sueños
1900 S Carpenter
Opening event: Saturday, June 4, 7-11 PM
Closing event: A counter-nationalist cook-out, party and speak-out – Sunday, July 3, 5-11 PM
BEN RUSSELL: The Artist's Talk as a Disappearing Act
posted April 16, 2011 in events | tags: artist talk, ben russell
