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What is the Asian American Adoptee Diaspora?
TOMORROW
Thursday, February 23
12:00–1:00pm CT
Women's Leadership and Resource Center, 1200 W. Harrison, 1700 SSB •
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Join the WLRC for a talk by adoptee artist and UIC MFA student Sarah Whyte exploring the experiences of adoptees of color raised by white parents and the savior complex within transnational adoption.
In this talk, Whyte will explore her social political and conceptual-based practice, touching on her past series What Color Am I?, which talks about the complications of racial understanding as a person of color raised by white parents and being part of the Asian American adoptee diaspora. Learn more » |
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| | | UIC GALLERY 400
VOICES: Marissa Lee Benedict, Daniel de Paula, and David RueterIn partnership with the UIC School of Art & Art History’s IDEAS program
TOMORROW
Thursday, February 23
5:00–6:30pm CT
Gallery 400 Lecture Room,
400 S Peoria St • RSVP »
In 2018, artists Marissa Lee Benedict, Daniel de Paula, and David Rueter salvaged the last trading pit from the Chicago Board of Trade for their multi-dimensional project, deposition. The large-scale octagonal pit originally housed traders and brokers who used hand signals to buy and sell corn commodities. A now obsolete object due to digital trading, deposition has continuously been re-situated through various configurations and public programs that consider the physical and intangible trappings of ownership, trade, and property in Chicago and Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Join us for a lecture with the artists on their collaborative practices and interventions with staging deposition in Gallery 400’s Lecture Room. Learn more » |
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| | | ART HISTORY
Cassy Smith Dissertation Defense
Friday, February 24
2:30–4:30pm CT
106 Henry Hall + Virtually via Zoom •
Please email Virginia Miller (vem@uic.edu) for Zoom info »
PhD Candidate Cassandra Smith will be defending her dissertation, entitled "Performativity and Metaphor: Kiva Murals at Pottery Mound,” on February 24, 2023, from 2:30–4:30 PM in room 106 Henry Hall. The event will be hybrid, with a Zoom link to accommodate committee members and attendees who are unable to be there in person. For the Zoom link, please email the chair of Cassy's dissertation committee, Virginia Miller through the link above. Learn more about Cassy’s dissertation here »
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| | | UIC ART HISTORY COLLOQUIUM
Dr. Elena FitzPatrick Sifford: “Bodily Dichotomies & Visualities of Blackness in 18th Century Spanish Viceregal Painting”
Friday, February 24
4:00–6:00pm CT
Virtual via Zoom • Please email Emmanuel Ortega (eortega@uic.edu) for Zoom info »
Spanish Viceregal painting included tropes, likely inspired by European traditions, featuring pairings of figures conceived of as polar opposites. Looking particularly at paintings with Black and white figures—one almost impossibly white, the other exaggeratedly Black—signaled that the status of both figures hinged on the presence of the other. Reckoning fully with these images means confronting incipient anti-blackness that rendered Afro-descendants inferior. These images reveal that in many ways, the conceptualization of white people and whiteness relied on the denigration of black people and blackness, thereby dehumanizing both, even in their attempts at aggrandizing the colonial enterprise.
Dr. Elena FitzPatrick Sifford is an Associate Professor of art history and director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA. She is also currently a content fellow at Smarthistory, the most trafficked art history site on the web. Her research centers on race, representation, and cross-cultural exchange in Spanish Viceregal art. |
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| | | UIC GALLERY 400
Sky Cubacub: Rebirth Warriors
Thursday, March 2
5:00–6:30pm CT
Gallery 400, 400 S. Peoria St. • RSVP »
Chicago-based fashion designer Sky Cubacub of Rebirth Garments is changing the landscape of fashion. On Thursday, March 2 5–6:30pm at UIC Gallery 400, join Cubacub and young designers from their design incubator program Rebirth Warriors for a fashion show of garments designed by youth designers and modeled by queer and trans disabled models of all sizes and ages!
The models and designers will dance and strut to show off their creations. At the end of the performance, audiences are invited to join the models, transforming the event from a spectacle to an academic and club event, and a lesson on radical inclusion. Visit the link provided to register.
This program is free and CART captioning is available. Masks required. Learn more » |
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2023 UIC MFA Thesis Shows - Save the Date
March 28–April 8 + April 11–22
Gallery 400, 400 S. Peoria St.
Save the date for our upcoming MFA Thesis Shows featuring the work of our 2023 MFA cohort! Panel discussions from 5–6pm and closing receptions from 5–8pm will be held on April 7 for the first show, and April 21 for the second show.
2023 MFA Candidates:
Show 1:
Teri Carson
Derek A. Holland
Aishath Huda
Erin Palovick Ramin Takloo-Bighash
Show 2:
Inseok Choi Ashley Dequilla
Emmanuel Ramos-Barajas Eleanor Schichtel
Rabia Tayyabi
Curated by Dr. Lucy Mensah of Museum and Exhibition Studies and the students in her Exhibition Practices class.
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| | |  | | Deborah Stratman Interview in ToneGlow
Professor Deborah Stratman is interviewed in ToneGlow, a newsletter about experimental music both new and old, that also interviews musicians of all kinds as well as directors.
Joshua Minsoo Kim talked with Deborah Stratman on February 7th, 2023 via Zoom to discuss numerous works from throughout her career, the way she approaches sound and structure in her films, music as a form of mainline communication, Barbara Hammer, and more. Read the full interview » |
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| | |  | | The Chicago Cli-Fi Libraryfeaturing work by Beate Geissler and Dan Peterman February 22–June 11, 2023
Neubauer Collegium,
University of Chicago 5701 S. Woodlawn Avenue Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Reception:
Wednesday, Feb. 22, 5–7pm
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This exhibition is a modest attempt to make sense of the paralysis that sets in when artists try to fashion a response to the complexity and enormity of climate change. Featuring recent works by Chicago-based artists Beate Geissler & Oliver Sann, Jenny Kendler, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, and Dan Peterman.
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| | | Reckless RolodexJanuary 13 – March 18, 2023
Curated by Matthew Goulish, Lin Hixson, and Caroline Picard
UIC Gallery 400 400 S. Peoria St. Chicago, IL 60607
For more information about the exhibition, click here »
Exhibiting Artists: Susan Anderson, Lilli Carré, Edie Fake, Max Guy, Barbara Kasten, Young Joon Kwak, Devin T. Mays, John Neff, Betsy Odom, Derrick Woods-Morrow, and Cherrie Yu. With performances by ATOM-r, Sky Cubacub, Matthew Goulish, and Natasha Mijares. |
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| | | Samuel Schwindt Lobby Competition ExhibitionJanuary 13 – mid-May, 2023
Art & Exhibition Hall, Lobby
400 S. Peoria St. Chicago, IL 60607 |
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| | |  | | Call for Submissions and Judges - Lawndale Pop-up Spot
The Lawndale Pop-Up Spot (created by UIC MUSE alumni Chelsea Ridley and Jonathan Kelley) is accepting submissions for a spring exhibition this May. Share your basic info, the exhibition big idea, and upload images of a sampling of what you’d like to show. They will gather all the proposals and convene a community panel of judges to decide who to showcase. The chosen artist will receive $1500 to bring the exhibit to life!
Don’t have an idea to exhibit but want to be a part of the paid panel to help decide who will exhibit this spring? Email lawndalepopupspot@gmail.com
Judges must be available for artist selection sessions on Zoom at 7:30pm on March 8th and 15th.
Proposals and call for judges due March 1st, 2023. Learn more and apply here » |
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| | | UIC Heritage Garden Internship - Now Available!
Join the 2023 cohort of the UIC Heritage Garden! The UIC Heritage Garden is seeking undergraduate UIC students to participate in the Summer 2023 program and potentially in subsequent semesters.
The UIC Heritage Garden is a student-led, hands-on paid internship program with the goal to engage student interns in a range of learning activities to explore environmental, climate and social justice through an intercultural lens.
Available positions:
Garden Interns to maintain the satellite gardens and engage in a variety of activities such as conducting research on plants, collecting stories and recipes, monarch conservation, reading discussions, creative projects, field trips, and much more!
One Photography and Media Intern to photograph program activities and edit images, help with the HG social media, and more!
Paid Internship ~ $3,500 over 12 weeks. Federal Work Study is not required.
DACA and RISE Act* eligible students are encouraged to apply. *RISE act students may qualify for a tuition award. Please contact us for details.
Applications due March 1st by midnight.
Application and more information at http://heritagegarden.uic.edu/apply-now
Contact us at heritagegarden.uic@gmail.com or at 312-996-3143. |
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