Events

 



Conference Events Dates:
Thursday, March 26
Friday, March 27
Saturday, March 28
Sunday, March 29


A Day In DeKalb
Michael Barnes

The event will feature exhibitions at the Northern Illinois University Art Museum including "Jay Ryan: Flock", "David Driesbach: Moonlight Cocktails are the Thing”, "Kathe Kollowitz: Images of Death and Life", and "David Johnson: The Mayor of Palookaville"; at the NIU School of Art including "NIU Printmakers Collect" and a Portfolio organized by NIU grads; at the DeKalb Area Women’s Center, "DeKalb Women Printmakers"; and at the Nehring Center Gallery, "The Printing Peters – Peter Olson and Peter VanAel. A NIU bus will transport participants from Chicago to DeKalb and back. There will also be an Open House at the NIU printmaking studios with breakfast being served. A Day In DeKalb will take place on Sunday, March 29.


Corner to Corner: Urban Poster Explosion
Stacy Elko and Sang-Mi Yoo

Referencing urban practices of wall pasting of posters, four artist teams will paste different sets of printed posters, covering up the previous day’s set of posters. This event will be both a collaborative installation and performance involving national and international artists interested in collaboration and community-based projects. Each team will develop two interrelated posters, different from the other teams but related to the larger theme of "Global Implications." The topics will include, but not be limited to, community collaborations, dissemination of information, public consumption of information, and the disassociation with the physical.


Fresh Prints: Wear Our Art
Jessica Taylor & Katie Collier

Fresh Prints will offer freshly printed DIY style t-shirts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. We want to show how accessible and exciting printing can be. Using recycled and donated relief blocks and screens Printers Like You will print on available and functional materials in a customized way. This event will point to the democratic aspects of printmaking, and provide viewers with personal demonstrations and functional souvenirs. The one-on-one nature of this project highlights the questions: how are commodities made, who makes them, and what greater purpose can commodities have? Visitors can bring their own t-shirts or totes (or pick one up from us) and then select the block, color and placement of their choice.


Satisfaction Town
John Hitchcock

Satisfaction Town consists of the new breed of printmakers, artists, musicians, performers, poets, activists, and makers. We plan to create an interactive collaborative print environment with a parade of dimensional and flat prints. Traditionally in museum and gallery settings, art is put on a pedestal or framed under glass, removing it from the audience. Our approach for Satisfaction Town will be interactive. We will bring the art directly to the viewer, to distance the work from this hierarchical standard. We will create an active live print space with collaborative teams handing off prints to each other and to audience members.


Roger Brown Study Collection
Lisa Stone & Stephanie Standish

The Roger Brown Study Collection is a house museum and special collection of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Preserved intact in an 1880s storefront building, the RBSC contains an astonishing range of objects, including self-taught and Chicago Imagist art, folk and tribal art, costumes, textiles, furniture, toys, souvenirs, and many other things Brown surrounded himself with for artistic inspiration. The archive includes Brown’s sketchbooks, prints and works on paper, and other materials. The RBSC serves the growing interest in experiencing artists' studios and collections, to gain insight into artists’ sources of inspiration and working processes.


Joan Flasch Artists' Books Collection
Doro Boehme & Stephanie Standish

The Joan Flasch Artists' Books Collection is part of the John M. Flaxman Library and one of the School of the Art Institute's Special Collections. It currently houses well over 4,000 artists' books, multiples, video and audio recordings, periodicals, digital works, reference books, ephemera, exhibition catalogs as works of art, and examples of other experimental art practices, all created over the last four decades by artists of local, national, and international significance. Renowned and unique in its vast scope and easily accessible for students and the general public alike, this collection is housed in its own study room on the fifth floor of the School's Sharp Building at 37, South Wabash. Walk-in visitors are welcome Monday-Thursday 8:30-7:30, Friday 8:30-5:00, and Saturday noon-3:00.


Additional Collection Tours
Art Institute of Chicago, Prints & Drawings Collection
Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art
Newberry Library


Open Houses
Chicago Printmakers Collaborative
Hummingbird Press at the Lill Street Art Center
One Horse Press at the Evanston Art Center


Other Events
Theater performances based on the life and art of David Driesbach
Ongoing artist collaborations at Anchor Graphics
2 for 1 tickets at the Museum of Contemporary Art


Questions about conference events contact: David Jones