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threewallsX encompasses a range of exchanges, exhibitions, events, and special projects hosted at threewalls. The variable in threewalls programming, X opens up opportunities for interchange with outside organizations, curators, and members of the arts community.

exchanges

Exchange shows are dynamic collaborations with other non-profit art organizations from around the globe. Our partner organizations curate a show for threewalls, and threewalls Director and Chief Curator curates a show for its partners. Exchange shows offer threewalls the opportunity to expose Chicago artists to the world, while bringing innovative international practices into the city.

In the past we've exhibited projects from Vox Populi, Philadelphia; Alternator Gallery, Kelowna and DetroitMONA, Detroit.

exhibitions 

threewalls is host to a number of group shows and special projects in its programming cycle, including special guest-curated shows by curators from around the area and country, exhibitions curated by threewalls’ Director and Chief Curator. 

events

threewalls hosts a range of one night events including, book and magazine releases, readings, and video screenings. 
 

Current event series include:

The Public Culture Lecture Series, co-organized by Randall Szott and InCUBATE, seeks to highlight examinations and enactments of public culture. Rather than following a preformed idea of what public culture actually is, the lecture series treats it as an open question and invites attendees to explore the question with us. A variety of people and practices will be drawn on to present the ways that the notion of "the public" emerges in their work and/or informs it.

Check the calendar for upcoming Public Culture lectures.

Subtitles, a series of projects inspired by the writings of Edgar Allen Poe, Doris Lessing and Roald Dahl, will be starting in January, 2010 – one Friday a month hosted at ThreeWalls. Challenging and powerful literature has set the stage for compelling representation in other forms. Picasso's rendering of "Don Quixote" raises as many thought provoking discussions as Cervantes' work. Each event will be unique and combine elements of video, sound and noise art, performance and literary readings.

Edgar Allen Poe, Doris Lessing and Roald Dahl followed their own paths, significantly influencing the genres they are noted for. Poe developed a theory of composition, which he used on his works of poetry and fiction: create a single and total psychological and spiritual effect on the reader. Theme or plot was subordinate to the construction of a single intense mood. Doris Lessing is known for both her radical writing on social issues and as a science fiction writer. Her novel The Golden Notebook is considered a feminist classic, but she would argue her most important work is Canopus in Argos a science fiction series. Roald Dahl is most known for his unsentimental and often wickedly humorous children’ s books, but he also wrote 60 adult short stories most noted for their dark sense of humor and surprising endings.

Submissions will be received on an ongoing basis, if you have something we liked to see it. Otherwise, start writing, filming and creating – surprise us. Send a one page description of you proposal and a URL link to your website, plus for sound and video include a link to VIMEO or You Tube sample. cf@liveboxgallery.com

Check the calendar for upcoming Subtitles events.

projects

THINKTANK -  In conjunction with Chicago Public Schools and CAPE (Chicago Arts Partnerships in Educations)  threewalls organizes an annual 'thinktank' for CPS Teaching Artists. Coordinating a group of artists working in cutting edge, studio practices to present their work and ideas for studio practice to CPS participants, thinktank aims to generate new ideas, working methodologies and invigorate studio and teaching practices. These artists are chosen for their experimental approach to their media, and include 4 local artists and threewalls current residents.

CPS Teaching Artists spend one week in a series of lectures, followed by studio time and group discussion, culminating in self-directed exhibition/presentation at threewalls at the end of the program.

If you have a special project you'd like to inquire about us hosting, please email the Director and Chief Curator, Shannon Stratton at shannon(at)three-walls.org for more information about making a proposal.