CSA Program: Interviews

posted April 12, 2012 in events, news | tags: Bernard Williams, Betsy Odom, Carson Fisk-Vittori, CSA, Dan Devening, Derek Chan, Dianna Frid, Elijah Burgher, interview, Kelly Kaczynski

As the Community Supported Arts program progresses and this season's eight artists produce editions to be disseminated, we have interviewed them about their Chicago-based practices. The interviews will appear in print in the CSA Publication, but you can go ahead and download the material here: CSA 2012 Interviews.pdf, featuring the artists:

ELIJAH BURGHER, DEREK CHAN, DAN DEVENING, CARSON FISK-VITTORI, DIANNA FRID, KELLY KACZYNSKI*, BETSY ODOM, & BERNARD WILLIAMS

We will unveil images of the artists' anticipated editions at the end of April.

SAVE THE DATE FOR THE CSA RELEASE EVENT ON MAY 26!

threewalls will be co-hosting our Spring 2012 Release Event with Nite Market, Chicago's first market for unlicensed artisan food vendors. The event will be at Rebuilding Exchange on May 26, 6-9pm located at 2160 N. Ashland Avenue. An individual CSA work from each artist will be framed and available via silent auction that night, shareholders can come pick up their work, and the general public is welcome to attend, check out the work, and peruse the delicious vendors of the Nite Market community.

Entering the Nite Market costs $2 and the Community Supported Art Silent Auction and pick-up zone is free. Shareholders who cannot attend the event are welcome to pick up their work at threewalls anytime after May 26 during open hours, Tuesday-Saturday 11-5pm.

*An extended interview with KELLY KACZYNSKI is published here, check it out.

Adia Millett: Portraits of an Escape

posted March 3, 2012 in events, residents

Past resident artist Adia Millett has a solo show at Mixed Greens. Stop by if you're in NY!

Camlab: Two in the Bush

posted February 28, 2012 in events, residents

From past residents Camlab:

Please join us this Thursday evening March 1st from 7-10pm for Two in the Bush at MOCA (Grand Ave)

In response to an economy gone to the birds, this third installment in CamLab’s Engagement Party residency will “instrumentalize” money and intention in a large-scale hands-on group gathering. Longtime “economicalists,” the members of CamLab invite you into their efficiently excessive installation for a material meditation on the distribution of resources. While occupying a cipher of fabric and song, participants will address their immediate surroundings by graphically converting cash amid the sounds of steel (oil) drumming. Join us to find your sense of re-purpose and build collectivity with conversation and contemplation, not walls with wealth. Make audible your values. CamLab will don “Feast and Famine” outfits designed by Australian artist Glenda Wyman. At the end of the evening, the duo’s Engagement Party series will conclude with a celebratory live performance by Hotel La Rut.

CamLab has apportioned a part of its series’ budget to W.A.G.E. Working Artists and the Greater Economy, in an effort to support the group’s continued work ‘to draw attention to economic equalities that exist in the arts, and to resolve them.'

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.