PHYLLIS BRAMSON + MATT MORRIS
September 28–November 2, 2019
Gallery Talk: Saturday, September 28, 2019 at 4:00pm with Phyllis Bramson, Michelle Grabner, and Matt Morris
Reception to follow
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Chaz Evans (MA - Art History, 2011 and MFA, 2012) has curated Studio Oleomingus: Notes in the Margins of History at Video Game Art (VGA) Gallery now on view through December 15, 2019.
40 años a la esperanza is now on view at the National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA). Curated by Sarita Hernández (Museum & Exhibition Studies—MA, 2017), this exhibit takes a look at how the mothers, students and community organizers fought to establish Benito Juárez High School in 1977 through the Harrison and Froebel school walk outs and incited activism between 1968 and 1974. 40 años a la esperanza honors the 1979 mural A la esperanza designed and painted at Benito Juárez High School 40 years ago.
Martha Pollak, has been named the inaugural Circle Professor of Art History – a position created in February 2019 for the Department of Art History within CADA, with an endowment by a Nebraska-based charitable foundation that wishes to remain anonymous. Historically, UIC was widely referred to as “Circle,” and this new professorship pays homage to that historical name for the university’s Chicago campus and location.
Throughout history, art has been a way for humans to grapple with war – to create meaning out of the experience of violence, to seek justice, and to imagine reconciliation. For the 2018–19 academic year, with the support of the Dialogues on the Experience of War grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the School of Art & Art History’s Museum and Exhibition Studies program (MUSE) partnered with the National Veterans Art Museum (NVAM) to welcome artist and Iraq veteran Aaron Hughes as visiting faculty.
Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present Portals, a group exhibition featuring new work by HATCH artists-in-residence Hale Ekinci, Shir Ende, Mayumi Lake, and Liang Luscombe. Portals is curated by Elliot Reichert.
In this exhibition, each artist draws from an array of practices—among them, photography, video, fiber, sculpture, printmaking, and performance—to produce images and forms that open vistas into other worlds.
This event is free and open to the public. On view now through November 7, 2019.
SEPTEMBER 20 — NOVEMBER 22, 2019
The history of architecture has much to teach us about ourselves and each other. Fortunately, the Society of Architectural Historians has hired Sarah M. Dreller (PhD, AH) as its Humanities Research Analyst, a newly created position supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Dreller will be charged with collecting data to help the School of Art & Art History and the Mellon Foundation understand the current status of architectural history in higher education in the United States, part of a 21-month study of the state of the field of architectural history.
Education
Matt Mancini (b. 1987) is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and educator born in Philadelphia, PA. He recently completed his MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014 and holds a BFA from Rutgers University. He has recently shown at Peana Projects in Mexico, Little Berlin in Philadelphia, Casa Blanca in Puerto Rico, and Julius Caesar, Fernway, LVL3, Baby Blue Gallery, Ballroom Projects, Chicago Artist Coalition, Heaven Gallery, and Roots and Culture in Chicago.
Courses Taught
Deborah Stratman, Associate Professor at UIC School of Art & Art History, will have her film VEVER (FOR BARBARA) added to the 44th TIFF 2019 slate! Stratman's film is an intergenerational tribute to feminist icons of experimental film, among others.
For more information about the programming and festival, check out the link below.