Chicago 2017 JUSTICE

Open Engagement Table of Contents

A note about this program: 4 Director’s Welcome

This document, just like the conference itself, is a 6 OE 2017 Team labor of love split between a tiny part-time staff and a 7 Curatorial Statement few interns. Please be kind and gentle with us if you see an error, omission, typo, or any other human mistake 8 Featured Presenters while reading this document. 10 Locations 11 Chicago Info

Schedule Social Media 12 Overviews Follow us on Instagram, 18 Featured Presentations Twitter and Facebook @openengagement 19 Conversation Series 20 Pre-Conference Share your posts from this year with #OE2017 23 Open House 26 Saturday Parallel Sessions Find further details at www.openengagement.info 28 Saturday at Co-Prosperity Sphere 31 Sunday Parallel Sessions OEHQ 33 Parties & Projects The Open Engagement Headquarters (information and registration) is located 36 Open Platform at UIC, Art and Exhibition Hall, 1st floor, 37 Trainings 400 S Peoria

Friday 9:00am – 12:00pm 38 Contributor Bios Saturday 9:00am – 5:00pm Sunday 9:00am – 4:00pm

2 3 Co-Prosperity Sphere/Lumpen Radio, Columbia College Director’s Welcome Presenter Demographics Chicago/Glass Curtain Gallery/Wabash Arts Corridor, Gallery We are proud that the conference continues to be a site Open Engagement in Chicago is the second in our three- support for this work. In an effort towards transparency of our 400/Threewalls/Propeller Fund, Hyde Park Art Center, Jane committed to diversity and the representation of a wide part thematic trilogy that is taking the conference from process, and as we move toward the ten year anniversary of Addams Hull-House Museum, Museum of Contemporary perspective of the multitude of human experience. Oakland (2016 — POWER), to Chicago (2017 ­— JUSTICE), and the conference we want to share our progress, process, and Art Chicago, National Museum of Mexican Art, Party Noire, Rebuild Foundation, Reunion, Reva and David Logan Center ending in New York (2018 — SUSTAINABILITY). This year’s continued commitments. In 2016 the conference featured over 264 presenters, with for the Arts, Roots and Culture, School of the Art Institute conference, guided by the curatorial vision of Romi Crawford 124 of those presenters representing Oakland and the larger of Chicago, Smart Museum of Art, The Stockyard Institute, and Lisa Yun Lee, will feature presenters including Theaster Selection Process Bay Area. In 2016, Open Engagement began requesting Gates, Maria Gaspar, Maria Varela, Ai-jen Poo, Marisa Jahn TRQPiTECA, and Weinberg/Newton Gallery. The majority of Open Engagement programming continues to that presenters self-identify and share information with and Laurie Jo Reynolds. be coordinated through an open call for submissions. Within the conference. Of the last year presenters who chose to Two of Chicago’s major institutions Museum of Contemporary self-identify during the registration process, 55% identified Now in its 9th year, OE will bring together hundreds of artists, the selection process, like all of the work of the conference, Art Chicago and the Art Institute of Chicago co-host a full day as either Afro-Caribbean, African American, East Asian, activists, educators, students, institutions, and thinkers collectivity is emphasized. Each year we form volunteer of pre-conference activities on Thursday, April 20th including Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, Latino, Hispanic, Middle Eastern, to explore this year’s theme of JUSTICE, as well as take selection committees to review the proposals. panel discussions, break-out sessions and a performance. Arab, Native American, Alaskan Native, or First Nations; and stock of the field of socially engaged art and practice. This Last December we met with over 25 artists, organizers, and 45% identify as White or Euro-American. Of the OE 2016 year’s program will feature local, national and international Cost Structure for Presenters community members to program the conference through presenters who chose to self-identify, 55% identify as female, presenters with more than 100 workshops, presentations, For 2017 we embody this year’s theme of JUSTICE by our open call for submissions that generated over 300 22% identify as male, and 23% identify as non-binary gender, panels, conversations, tours, parties and projects. OE 2017 incorporating an economic justice framework into our fee submissions. We are thrilled and excited about the quality of or made multiple selections. will feature a selection of focused trainings to provide schedule. OE ensures that all its 250+ presenters attend for programming, the projects from around the world, and the attendees with skills and tools to help better address creative free, and that no one is turned away from attending OE if they critical conversations and performances that we have lined This year, 51% of our presenters are from Chicago and the work at the complex intersection of art and social justice, are not able to afford even the lowest suggested fee on our up for Chicago. surrounding area; 57% identified as Afro-Caribbean, African as well as opportunities for intimate discussion during our American, East Asian, Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, Latino, sliding scale. In order for this model to be successful, we have Conversation Series. In the evenings, queer-inclusive nightlife It is critical to us that these committees first and foremost Hispanic, Middle Eastern, Arab, Native American, Alaskan calculated the cost per person to attend the conference is organizers will host celebrations, guided by the belief that emphasize the local, as well as include national perspectives. Native, First Nations or with multiple selections, and 37% $150 (this is the base cost, and to achieve a more sustainable transformative acts of change are deeply indebted to these A driving vision of the selection process is for the conference identify as White or Euro-American; 60% identify as female, budget would put the actual cost at closer to $275 per marginal spaces of collective joy. to reflect the local context in relationship to national and 25% identify as male, and 12% identify as elsewhere on the person). The sliding scale is from $40– $1000. global issues, and we work to include as broad of a variety of spectrum or made multiple selections; 40% chose to identify OE began as, and remains, a grassroots artist-led and artist- As founder and director, and with OE’s ten year anniversary presenters as is possible within a convening that fills three full as LGBTQIA. organized conference. OE is about creating a site of care coinciding with our last scheduled conference in 2018 days of programming. Programming that is not coordinated for the field and supporting artists, activists, administrators, around the corner, I am thinking about the future, and where collectively through the Selection Committees or the open Consortium educators, and cultural workers who are engaged in our values, punk ethos, centrality of weirdness, collective call, such as the Conversation Series, is achieved by reaching transforming the world through creativity and radical 2016 marked the first year of our partnerships with the OE care, love, dreams, and magic may take us. You all are our out to individuals and groups that we have identified with help imagination. Over the past nine years Open Engagement has National Consortium that includes the Oakland Museum of collaborators, our co-conspirators. We exist because of you. from local partners as key voices to invite into the dialogue at become a critical site of convening around socially engaged California, the California College of the Arts, University of As we forge ahead we welcome your input and suggestions, Open Engagement. art, and has worked hard to expand the networks of Chicago School of Art & Art History, Queens Museum, and A please be sure to use the post-conference survey as a space Blade of Grass. Moving this conference coast to coast allows for this dialogue. We are excited about the next two years us with each iteration to focus on the local issues, context, of Open Engagement with you, as well the potential that the organizations, and conversations happening in each host city. future holds.

This year OE is working with partners spanning the Onward. NEW RELEASE: breadth of Chicago’s neighborhoods to represent the work OEIP_005 | SAY IT WHILE YOU STILL MEAN IT: being done at the intersection of art and activism across Jen Delos Reyes with the Open Engagement team — CONVERSATIONS ON ART & PRACTICE the city. Current partners include 3Arts, 6018 North, ACRE, Crystal Baxley, Alex Winters, Latham Zearfoss by Bad @ Sports | Available 2017 Art Institute of Chicago, Bad at Sports, The Block Museum,

CATALOG: OEIP_004 | I’M GOING TO LIVE THE LIFE I SING ABOUT IN MY SONG: HOW ARTISTS MAKE AND LIVE LIVES OF MEANING Open Engagement In Print is a publishing imprint by Jen Delos Reyes | Released 2016 dedicated to the creation and distribution of printed OEIP_003 | PLACE AND REVOLUTION matter focused on socially engaged art. OE In Print In Conversation: Lisa Lee and Rick Lowe | Released 2015 features edited volumes, artist conversation series, OEIP_002 | OPEN ENGAGEMENT: LOOKING BACK, LOOKING AHEAD and small publications that highlight the work of Open by Jen Delos Reyes | Released 2015 Engagement presenters and beyond. OEIP_001 | THE QUESTIONS WE ASK TOGETHER Learn more and order titles at Edited by Gemma-Rose Turnbull. Featuring contributions from 100 www.openengagement.info/in-print members of the Open Engagement community. | Released 2015

4 5 2017 Open Engagement Team 2017 Curatorial Statement— JUSTICE

Jen Delos Reyes Latham Zearfoss 2017 Curators Founder and Director Administrative Assistant and Lisa Yun Lee Open Engagement 2017 — JUSTICE takes place as the We are equally committed to OE’s mission of creating a site trauma of the Presidential election continues to reverberate Jen Delos Reyes is a creative laborer, Local Support Romi Crawford of critical care and critical inquiry for the vast, complex and around the globe. The initial shock, disbelief, and onset educator, writer, radical community Latham Zearfoss is an artist and diverse field of individuals and organizations working at the cultural producer living and working of depression for millions of people have transformed into intersections of art and activism. arts organizer, and author of countless 2017 Open Engagement confusion, genuine fear, and uncertainty. The election emails. She is the director and in Chicago. His commitment to Selection Committees has also unleashed unprecedented mass mobilization There is a fierce urgency of now for artists and cultural founder of Open Engagement, an art and activism has also manifested Lorelei Stewart and organizing. We have witnessed countless examples of workers who audaciously believe in the immense capacity of international annual conference on in the creation of sporadic, temporary Felicia Holman ‘beautiful trouble’- the strange, weird, creative, and art to help shift our sense of what is possible, to unleash our socially engaged art that has been utopias like Pilot TV and Chances Aay Preston-Myint subversive contributions that artists have made to marches, radical imaginations, to model and experiment with new ways active since 2007. Delos Reyes Dances. He has exhibited his work Meg Santisi teach-ins, workshops, and protest gatherings in the past of being in the world, to enact social change. currently lives and works in Chicago, internationally and all over the U.S. Anna Martine Whitehead few months. For most socially engaged artists, the need IL where she is the Associate Director We believe socially engaged art and artists challenge us and Meg Duguid to respond is critical. The belief in cultural production as a of the School of Art & Art History Lauren Meranda one another to ask trenchant questions, to reflect, to seek La Keisha Leek strategy for transformation and resistance continues. The at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Designer/Creative Director creative solutions, to hold nations and institutions and each Amina Ross injustices that so many communities face, also existed Lauren Meranda is a Chicago-based other accountable. Some of the questions we encourage Anthony Stepter prior to the election, yet there is now a heightened sense of Crystal Baxley educator and multidisciplinary participants to grapple with, formally and informally, during Ann Meisinger national urgency that is hard to ignore. In a world becoming Assistant Director designer specializing in projects for the conference include the following: Masum Momaya glaringly autocratic and even fascistic, how do we act and Crystal Baxley is an artist, studio cultural institutions, social activism, Lee Parker imagine ourselves to be resisters — rather than collaborators? • What does it mean to work in solidarity with communities civic engagement, and public memory. Oli Rodriguez manager, grant writer, waitress, Looking again at the questions that we framed for the call for that are marginalized and the most challenged by racial, economic, She runs a small design studio Alexandria Eregbu babysitter and anarcha-feminist living proposals, the issues that we want to address still resonate and gender injustice around issues that impact them? (laurenmeranda.com), teaches, and in Los Angeles. Her projects have Devin Malone loudly, but the urgency, tactics, and strategies might need serves on the board of AIGA Chicago. been featured at the Museum of Aymar Jean Christian to be different to adapt to our new reality. We are reminded • As artists, curators, and cultural producers, how are we implicated in the particular conditions we are working in, all the while engaged Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Rene de Guzman in these times of the incomparable social activist and writer Martina Lentino in challenging and changing these conditions? Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, Kadist Elizabeth Grady Toni Cade Bambara, who insisted that the role of the cultural Foundation in San Francisco, Portland OE 2017 Intern Joelle Te Peske worker is to make revolution irresistible. • The radical power of social practice has come in many respects Lisa Lee Art Museum, Portland Institute for Originally from Miami, FL, Martina from its inclusivity. But this promise has not yet been experienced Romi Crawford Contemporary Art’s Time-Based Art is an second year undergraduate at — Lisa Yun Lee and Romi Crawford, Feb, 2017 in the lived realities of most people who make up the field. How Festival, Portland State University, and the University of Chicago, where she Jen Delos Reyes do we push for more fair and equitable distribution of resources?

Pacific Northwest College of Art. majors in Art History and minors in Crystal Baxley Human Rights. She is very interested in Latham Zearfoss • Is it possible to advance solutions and encourage actions in “The only standard for judging socially engaged art should Alex Winters learning about the ways in which arts, a social movement for justice while preserving one’s individual be how much justice it creates in the world.” artistic practice? Social Media and society, and politics can collide, and is Engagement Coordinator thrilled and very grateful to be working —Rick Lowe • What is the unique contribution that art and artists can make Alexandra Winters is an Australian artist on Open Engagement this year. to the efforts to create a more just society? In what ways do we and arts worker now based in Brooklyn. Justice is the theme of the 2017 Open Engagement want to continue to insist on the differences between artistic She has a BFA and Masters in Creative Christopher Bednash Conference. The weight of historical injustice interrupts daily practices committed to social justice and the organizing that is Production and Arts Management. Alex OE 2017 Intern life nationally and internationally. There is no better time taking place in grassroots communities? than now, and no better city than Chicago, for examining was the former Curator at Brisbane Christopher Bednash is an artist from pathways to create justice and exploring the manifold artistic In solidarity with the organizers of Open Engagement, Powerhouse, Co-founder of Make Nice Chicago who looks for intersections strategies that demand and enact fairness, and equality. we will relentlessly push to ensure that the diversity and is currently a Programming Intern between art, activism, and spirituality Chicago is a city that is under the spotlight and in the news of people who make up the ecology of social practice can for Creative Time. that may somehow be in service for horrific gun violence, devastating public school closures, be present at this year’s OE. Arundhati Roy has provocatively to a more compassionate, democratic, and police brutality that is carried out with impunity. These suggested the following: “There’s really no such thing and ecologically wise world. He has are conditions, of course, that have been a part of black and as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, a Master of Fine Arts in interdisciplinary working class peoples’ lives in our city and across this nation or the preferably unheard.” We want to hear from the widest arts from Columbia College Chicago, for a long time, but only most recently with the rapt attention possible range of stakeholders. tutors students of art, art history, of the media. English, and math at Daley College No justice, no peace, (one of the City Colleges of Chicago), As the co-curators for OE 2017, we are committed to an Romi Crawford & Lisa Lee and also is an Artist in Residence at exhilarating and expansive exploration of this year’s theme. Life Force Arts Center.

6 7 2017 Featured Presenters

urbanist, and facilitator. His expanded practice includes exclusion of people in the criminal legal system, often long- sculpture, installation, performance, and urban interventions. term efforts that begin at the margins of political viability. As a Gates is the founder and executive director of the nonprofit 2010 Soros Justice Fellow, she advocated for best practices to Rebuild Foundation, professor in the Department of Visual stop sexual abuse and reduce recidivism, educating legislators Arts at the University of Chicago, and Director of UChicago’s about the harmful impact of public crime registries, residency Arts + Public Life initiative. restrictions, and exclusion zones. Previously, Reynolds focused on Tamms, the notorious Illinois state supermax prison designed for sensory deprivation. She was the organizer of Tamms Year Ten (TY10), a legislative, media and public education campaign to explain the cruelty and lasting harm of solitary confinement. She is currently working on cultural and policy fronts to assess the unintended consequences of public crime registries in Illinois and to support efforts to bring back discretionary parole for long-term prisoners. Maria Gaspar Ai-jen Poo Maria Gaspar is an interdisciplinary artist negotiating the politics of location and geography through installation, Ai-jen Poo, Executive Director of the National Domestic sculpture, sound, and performance. Gaspar’s work has been Workers Alliance and Co-Founder of Caring Across featured at venues including the MCA, Chicago, IL; Jack Generations, is an award-winning social innovator, thought Shainman Gallery, New York, NY; Artspace, New Haven, CT; leader and author. Her early organizing led the way to and the African American Museum, Philadelphia, PA. Gaspar the passage of the nation’s first Domestic Workers Bill of is the recipient of a Creative Capital Award, a Joan Mitchell Rights, the 2010 historic legislation that extends basic labor

Emerging Artist Grant, a Robert Rauschenberg Artist As protections to over 200,000 domestic workers in New York Marisa Jahn Activist Fellowship, and a Sor Juana Women of Achievement state. In 2011, she co-created the national Caring Across Generations campaign to ensure access to affordable care for Award in Art and Activism from the National Museum of Marisa Morán Jahn is an artist, activist, and founder of Studio the nation’s aging population and access to quality jobs for the Mexican Art. Gaspar holds an MFA in Studio Arts from UIC REV-, a non-profit organization that produces public art + caregiving workforce. Ms. Poo’s numerous accolades include and a BFA from Pratt Institute. creative media with low-wage workers, immigrants, women, a 2014 MacArthur Foundation “genius” fellow and one of TIME and youth. Jahn’s work has been reviewed in The New York magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2012. Times, Art Forum, Univision; presented at The White House, She is author of The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Museum of Modern Art, worker centers, public spaces; and Boom in a Changing America. awarded grants from Creative Capital, Tribeca Film Institute, Maria Varela Sundance, NEA, Rockefeller Foundation, and Map Fund. A graduate of MIT, she teaches at MIT and The New School. Maria Varela lives in New Mexico and is a community Current projects: CareForce (mobile studios: the CareForce organizer, writer, photographer and occasional visiting One and NannyVan), Video Slink Uganda, and Bibliobandido. professor. She worked for the Student Non-Violent Organizing Committee (1963 – 1967) primarily in Alabama and Mississippi as a photographer and developer of training materials in voter education, co-operatives and farm worker unions.

Invited to northern New Mexico in 1968, Varela helped land grant activists start agricultural and artisanal cooperatives and community health clinics. In 1990 she was awarded a MacArthur fellowship for her work of organizing Mexican American and Native American weavers and sheep growers to Theaster Gates preserve their pastoral cultures and economies.

Theaster Gates received a bachelor’s degree in urban planning and ceramics from Iowa State University (1996), a master’s degree in fine arts and religious studies at the Laurie Jo Reynolds University of Cape Town (1998), and a master’s degree in urban planning, ceramics, and religious studies from Iowa Laurie Jo Reynolds is an artist and policy advocate whose State University (2006). Gates works as an artist, curator, work challenges the demonization, warehousing, and social

8 9 Locations Chicago Info All locations ADA accessible unless otherwise noted.

UIC Chicago Cultural Accessibility Consortium Hyde Park Art Center (HPAC) Transit Accessibility (CCAC) 5020 S. Cornell Ave. Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Skyline Chicago, IL 60615 Art and Exhibition Hall (AEH) Getting to OE Using Public Transit Open Engagement is committed to being an accessible space. Room, 6th Floor, Navy Pier 400 S Peoria St You can find an interactive Google Map on our website to help We partner with venues who share with our goal, and we work to 800 E Grand Ave Jeffery Pub Chicago, IL 60607 plan all of your routes! ensure conference spaces are accessible to all. However, there are Chicago, IL 60611 7041 S Jeffery Blvd AEH Locations: challenges with being an itinerant conference and we are some- Chicago, IL 60649 OEHQ, AEH Lobby Our primary venue, University of Illinois at Chicago, is most times not able to provide access to every venue. We make every Chicago Cultural Center No stairs to enter, no stairs in main pub, Gallery 400, 1st Floor conveniently accessible via Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) effort to note where venues are challenging or inaccessible to 78 E Washington St bathroom stalls may not be fully wheel- AEH 3204, 3rd Floor UIC-Halsted station, serviced by the Blue Line ‘L’ train. persons with limited mobility. Screening Room, 3rd Floor Chicago, IL 60602 chair accessible. Call 773-363-8555 as needed. GBU Gallery, 5th Floor UIC-Halsted Station Please email [email protected] or call 503-319-6015 or Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (MCA) Great Space, 5th Floor 430 S. Halsted St., Chicago, IL 60607 773-627-3437 to request accommodations or ask questions about 220 E Chicago Ave. Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts Connections: CTA Bus #7, #8, #60 accessibility, or visit us at OEHQ during the conference. Chicago, IL 60611 University of Chicago School of Theater and Music Entry is available from Halsted, Morgan and Peoria streets. 1040 W Harrison St 915 E. 60th St. School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) Chicago, IL 60637 Chicago, IL 60607 ‘L’ train regular fare is $2.25, and student fare is $0.75. Regular bus The LeRoy Neiman Center Welcome Families School of Theater and Music Locations: fare is $2.00, with transfer rates of $.25. One, three and seven day Sharp Building, 37 S. Wabash Ave. Smart Museum of Art at Black Box Theater CTA passes are available for $10, $20 and $28. Theater Lecture Hall Chicago, IL 60603 University of Chicago Open Engagement and its partners are committed to intergenera- 5550 S. Greenwood Ave. tional spaces and will support children, parents, and caregivers Find out more about using Chicago’s public transit system at Weinberg/Newton Gallery Chicago, IL 60637 to the best of our ability. We ask all conference participants to Henry Hall www.transitchicago.com. 935 W Harrison St 300 W. Superior St., Suite 203 be supportive of kids, parents, and caregivers wherever they are. As prison abolitionist Jason Lydon of the Community Church of Chicago, IL 60607 Chicago, IL 60654 Stony Island Arts Bank Wheelchair ramp and elevator are acces- 6760 S. Stony Island Ave. Food Boston said, “kid noises are the sign of a growing movement,” so please join us in the community responsibility needed for a sup- Jane Addams Hull House Museum sible via side entrance located at 730 N Chicago, IL 60649 Resident’s Dining Hall Franklin Street. Staff escort needed, call portive and truly intergenerational environment. Food trucks will be outside of 400 S Peoria St on Saturday 800 S. Halsted St. 312-529-5090 upon arrival Westside and Sunday from 12pm-2pm for lunch. Chicago, IL 60607 Language adapted from the NYC Anarchist Book Fair Collective’s statement on child care. ADA Accessible, via ramp to rear entrance Pilsen Reunion Call 312-413-5353 ahead of arrival by rear 2557 W. North Ave. Artists’ Cooperative Residency Chicago, IL 60647 Peoria Street Overpass and Exhibition Projects (ACRE) No stairs at entrance, or within main space, Wide pedestrian bridge crossing over high- 1345 W 19th St. bathroom will fit wheelchair. Call 312-771-

way. Peoria Street is 900 West, bridge can Chicago, IL 60608 8546, if any assistance needed. be accessed from the south (via Harrison) and the north (via Van Buren). Access National Museum of Mexican Art Roots & Culture Gallery Visitors Map 1852 W 19th St. point for CTA Blue Line UIC-Halsted stop. 1034 N. Milwaukee Ave. Vistor Map Chicago, IL 60608 Chicago, IL 60642 S Morgan St S Peoria St UIC Forum Entrance wheelchair accessible, one stair W Van Buren St 725 W Roosevelt Rd., MC 126 Rootwork Gallery in front with ramp. 1. School of Theater and Music Chicago, IL 60608 645 W 18th St. 2 Chicago, IL 60616 2. Art and Exhibition Hall CTA — Blue Line School of the Art Institute of Chicago UIC Halsted Not ADA Accessible. Downtown, River North & (SAIC) at Homan Square 1 Peoria St Overpass Two steps up to enter gallery, no ramp. No 3. Henry Hall South Loop Nichols Tower, 12th Floor W Harrison St W Harrison St stairs in main exhibition space, basement

906 . Homan Ave S Halsted St 4. Jane Addams Hull-House Museum Art Institute of Chicago sometimes used. Chicago IL 60624 3 111 S. Michigan Ave. Side entrance with ramp Chicago, IL 60603 Southside

Northside & Evanston W Polk St Columbia College Co-Prosperity Sphere 4 Glass Curtain Gallery 3219-21 S. Morgan St. Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art 1104 S Wabash Ave., 1st Floor Chicago, IL 60607 40 Arts Circle Dr. School of Art and Henry Hall Jane Addams Chicago, IL 60605 Moveable ramp available for 1 – 2 stairs up Evanston, IL 60208 1 2 3 4 to front entrance. No stairs in main gallery. Theatre and Music Exhibition Hall Hull House Museum and Residence 6018North Dining Hall 6018 N. Kenmore Ave. Chicago, IL 60660 Not ADA Accessible 10 11 Thursday & Friday KEY Pre-Conference Open House Overview Featured Presentations After-Hours Event

Thursday Friday Projects 10:00am – 12:00pm 1:00 – 3:00pm 4:00 – 6:00pm 5:30pm – 7:00pm Practicing Utopia Open House at PUBLIC SCHOOL Open House Party Noire Presents: Saturday – Sunday 10:00am – 7:30pm 10:00am – 12:00pm Over Breakfast Roots & Culture with Project Fielding Black Joy Kickback Present Futures: Museum Education: The Mushroom at the 6018North artists and Roots & Culture Jim Duignan, Rachel Harper, Jeffery Pub Strategies Toward A Radical Practice End of the World: Edgewater Environmental 1034 N Milwaukee Ave Neil Taylor, Sara Black, Amber 7041 S Jeffery Ave Emancipation The Art Institute of Chicago & A Student-led Conversation on Sustainability Project Chicago, IL 60642 Ginsburg, Miriam Stevens, and Chicago, IL 60649 Lynnette Miranda, Suhaly The Museum of Contemporary Eco-Justice Now 6018North Bianca Bernardo Bautista-Carolina, Teal Art Chicago School of the Art Institute Baskerville, Kathy Cho, Henry 6018 N. Kenmore Hyde Park Art Center Knowledge Lab students Murphy, Anthony D. Stepter Chicago, IL 60660 1:00 – 3:00pm 5020 S. Cornell Ave 7:30 – 9:00pm Art Institute of Chicago GBU Gallery A National Museum The Tamir Rice The LeRoy Neiman Center 3:00pm – 5:00pm in the Heart of the Memorial Project Sharp Building Accessible Outdoor Events 10:30am –12:00pm Mexican Community 4:00 – 6:00pm Theaster Gates Saturday – Sunday 37 S. Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL CCAC — Chicago Cultural Race and Place: Cesáreo Moreno On Stewardship Stony Island Arts Bank 10:00am – 6:00pm Accessibility Consortium Some Chicago Girls on National Museum Michael Christiano, Open Engagement: Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Art and Architecture of Mexican Art Jessica Moss and others. Homegrown Justice Stand Skyline Room, 6th Floor, Navy 10:00am – 7:00pm Leslie Simon, Amanda 1852 W 19th St. Smart Museum of Art 9:00pm – 12:00am Saturday: GrowAsis + Pier, 800 East Grand Avenue, Propeller Fund Open Houses Williams, Aram Han Sifuentes, Chicago, IL 60608 at the University of Chicago JOY Chicago Honey Co-Op Chicago, IL 60611 Propeller Fund, 2nd Floor Ishita Dharap 5550 South Greenwood Avenue Party Noire Sunday: Westside Bee Boys + Rear, Axis Lab, Out of Site, Mindful Indulgences Chicago Cultural Center Chicago, IL 60637 Stony Island Arts Bank Lavender Menace Occupation, Gallery 400 Chicago Rooms, 2nd Floor N. 1:00 – 6:00pm 6760 S Stony Island Ave. Radius 78 E Washington St Revolution at Point Zero: Chicago, IL 60649 Traveling OH: Meeting point @ Chicago, IL 60602 Feminist Social Practice 4:00 – 6:00pm Saturday – Sunday 2nd Floor Rear, Hume Chicago, Symposium and Reception School of the Art Institute 10:00-12:00; 1:30-5:00 3242 W. Armitage Ave. Neysa Page-Lieberman and of Chicago at Homan Square The Coalition of Docile and Chicago, IL 60647 1:00 – 3:00pm Melissa Hilliard Potter Jaclyn Jacunski Agreeable Femmes of Color Weinberg/Newton Gallery: Columbia College Chicago Nichols Tower for the Continuation and In Acts Glass Curtain Gallery 906 S Homan Ave 12th floor Propagation of White Fragility 10:00am – 12:00pm Weinberg/Newton Gallery 1104 S Wabash Ave Chicago, IL 60624 Satpreet Kahlon and The If You Remember, 300 W Superior Street, Suite 203 Chicago, IL 60605 Department for New Member I’ll Remember Recruitment and Retainment at Chicago, IL 60654 Susy Bielak, Janet Dees, The CODAAFOCFTCAPOWF 4:00 – 6:00pm Samantha Hill and 3:00 – 4:00pm We Shouldn’t Have Policies Rebecca Zorach 1:00 – 3:00pm Move Me Soul with Damon We Are Afraid to Talk About: Saturday – Sunday Block Museum Artists’ Cooperative Residency Locks at the Museum of A symposium on Public Crime From the INside 40 Arts Circle Drive and Exhibition Projects (ACRE) Contemporary Art Chicago Registries Tonika Johnson Evanston, IL 60208 ACRE 1345 W 19th St Krista Franklin, Ayesha Organized by Laurie Jo GBU Gallery Chicago, IL 60608 Jaco, Damon Locks Reynolds and Lynne Johnson and Ann Meisinger University of Chicago Sunday 10:00am – 12:00pm MCA Chicago 969 E 60th St 12:00 – 2:00pm Arts Spaces and 220 E Chicago Ave Chicago, IL 60637 We are WITCH: Placekeeping as Resistance Chicago, IL 60611 A Ritual Performance Pilsen Arts District Artists for the Fundamental and Curators Right of Education Rootwork Gallery 4:00 – 5:30pm W.I.T.C.H. 645 W 18th St Art in Our Times Peoria Overpass Chicago, IL 60616 Café Logan, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, 915 E 60th Street Chicago, IL 60637

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Saturday Overview KEY Conversation Series Parallel Sessions After-Hours Event Open Platform Featured Presentations Trainings

9:30 – 9:45am OE 101 10:00 – 11:30 am 12:00 – 12:15pm 2:00 – 2:15pm 2:30 – 4:00pm 3:20 – 3:35pm 5:00 – 6:30pm 7:30 – 9:00pm Jen Delos Reyes and Restorative Visual Justice: Welcome to Camp A Dictionary of the Revolution: Curating Justice: Institutional I Move Hearts and Can I Get a Witness?: Legal Solutions for the CareForce Crystal Baxley Artists & Culture Workers America: Toward a New Documenting Public & Independent Perspectives Large Objects Observing and Know Your Ai-jen Poo and Marisa Jahn Great Space Reimaging Englewood Documentary Form Political Speech in Egypt on Social Change Dulcee Boehm and Rights for Community Safety UIC Forum Englewood Arts Collective Debi Cornwall Amira Hanafi Amanda Cachia, Sara Allison Rowe Shanna Merola Gallery 400 Lecture Room Reisman, Allison Agsten, Screening Room Gallery 400 Lecture Room Gallery 400 Lecture Room Gallery 400 Lecture Room Alex Fialho 9:30 – 11:30am 9:00 – 9:20pm Theater Lecture Hall Understanding Adultism Utopic Monster Theory: & Building Partnerships 10:00 – 11:30am 12:20 – 12:35pm 2:00 – 4:00pm 3:40 – 3:55pm 5:00 – 6:30pm On Democracy with Youth California State University Weinberg/Newton Gallery: TRAP House Chicago: PIE-Q: A poetic reframing for Urban Futures Lab: A Model J’Sun Howard & Xavier MaatRa Dominguez Hills & At the corner of art and Streetwear × Art × Radical 2:30 – 4:00pm arts & culture campaigning for Creative Civic Leadership Jennifer Karmin Henry Hall 107 Big City Forum: Praxis Studio activism in Chicago Restorative Justice A Living Chance: Storytelling Danny Spitzberg Andy Alvarez, Christopher Co-Prosperity Sphere California State University David Weinberg Mashaun Ali Hendricks to End Life Without Parole Gallery 400 Lecture Room Barahona, Shirley Ramirez, Dominguez Hills & California Coalition for Omar Vargas and Nabiha Khan Henry Hall 107 Big City Forum: Devon Women Prisoners Theater Lecture Hall 9:30 – 11:30am Gallery 400 Lecture Room 9:20pm – 9:50pm Tsuno, Leonardo Bravo, Black Box Creating Access Arts of Life Band Juliana Lujan, Ana Llorente 4:00 – 4:15pm Candace Coleman and Arts of Life Band & Omar Solorio 2:00 – 4:00pm Algorithms, Big Data & Carrie Kaufman 5:00 – 6:30pm Co-Prosperity Sphere Screening Room 12:40 – 12:55pm Identity, Power and Social Justice Henry Hall 106 Street Talk - How Oppression 2:30 – 4:00pm Stephanie Dinkins The Official Unofficial Should I Do This Project? Voting Station: Voting for All the arts interface between Xavier MaatRa Gallery 400 Lecture Room Developing Ethics Who Legally Can’t communities and police in Henry Hall 106 9:50pm – 10:20pm 10:00 – 11:30am Guidelines Together. Aram Han Sifuentes and 10:00 – 11:30am post-conflict Northern Ireland. Rebirth Garments Presents Observing Power: A History of Valeria Mogilevich Roberto Sifuentes I Can’t Breathe Elaine Forde Radical Visibility: A QueerCrip Imagery and Agency AEH 3204 4:20 – 4:35pm Black Box Shaun Leonardo Gallery 400 Lecture Room Dress Reform Movement Danny Giles, Chris Meerdo, 2:00 – 3:00pm Stories of Solidarity Black Box Rebirth Garments Jayla Neely, Leyla Kiran, Education in Crisis: Student Glenda Drew, Jesse Drew Co-Prosperity Sphere Sarah Wild, Anna Martine Debt and School Privatization Gallery 400 Lecture Room 2:30 – 4:00pm 5:00 – 6:30pm Whitehead 1:00 – 1:15pm Rashayla Brown Party Noire: Black Joy 34,000 Pillows 10:00 – 11:30am Artist Working: A Year-Long and Helen Maurene Cooper Co-Prosperity Sphere through creativity, resistance, Diaz Lewis Funding Social Justice Durational Performance on GBU Gallery, 5th Floor 10:30pm – 1:00am and community 4:40 – 4:55pm Black Box Denise Brown, Gina Acebo, Art, Caregiving, and Value ¡JUST DANCE! Nick Alder, Lauren Ash, Rae Hands off Our Revolution Maurine D. Knighton, Rebecca Kautz TRQPITECA 12:00 – 1:30pm Chardonnay, RJ Eldridge of Rhoda Rosen Sara Zia Ebrahimi Gallery 400 Lecture Room Co-Prosperity Sphere Walk In Our Shoes 2:20 – 2:35pm Party Noire Gallery 400 Lecture Room Great Space 5:00 – 6:30pm Territory Urban Design Team Organize: A Commemoration Co-Prosperity Sphere and Celebration of the Biloxi Whose Museum? CTA Brown Line Kimball Station Our Museum. How 1:20 – 1:35pm Wade-Ins of 1959 –1960 4:00 – 5:00pm contemporary art museums 10:00 – 11:30am Terms of Art: How Visual Elizabeth Englebretson, Gulf 2:40 – 2:55pm Sappho and can create justice Maintenance, Justice, Communication is Coast Community Design 12:00 – 1:30pm Abundance: Ancestral crops Sweat:queerfeminist Lisa Dent, Barbara Hunt and Self-Determination: Transforming Legal Advocacy Studio and East Biloxi Photography & Social Practice as resilience and research experimental movement McLanahan, Amy Sadao Connections and tensions Graphic Advocacy Project Community Collaborative Workshop: Critical Questions PansyGuild seminar/dance party Great Space between sustained social Gallery 400 Lecture Room Gallery 400 Lecture Room and Resources Gallery 400 Lecture Room Chani Bockwinkel practice and its archives Eliza Gregory, Anthony Co-Prosperity Sphere Duke FHI Social Practice Lab Luvera, Gemma-Rose Turnbull Theater Lecture Hall 5:00 – 6:30pm Great Space 1:40 – 1:55pm 2:30 – 4:00pm Ecstatic Nudes : Reclaiming, Working Through A Wall 3:00 – 3:15pm Refugee Activism as informant Towards a philosophy of 4:00 – 5:00pm for new urban collectives Black Joy, Radical Love & Monica Cosby, Aaron socially-engaged photography Prison-Museum-Zoo and just environments 10:00 – 11:30am Representation Hughes, Alike Kim, 12:00 – 1:30pm Fereshteh Toosi Risa Puleo and Che Gossett Katharina Rohde Together A BEAUTIFUL Ella Cooper Sarah Ross, Earl Walker ManyHands/LightWork Gallery 400 Lecture Room GBU Gallery, 5th Floor AEH 3204 RESISTANCE: North Lawndale Gallery 400 Lecture Room and Martine Whitehead Joshua Kent / St. Francis voices, art and activism Great Space House of Hospitality Kate Dumbleton (moderator), Co-Prosperity Sphere 5:00 – 6:30pm Cheryl Pope, Jaclyn 3:00 – 4:00 pm 5:00 – 6:30pm Time, Memory, and Justice Jacunski, Taykhoom Biviji, What is a Feminist Developing Artistic TV 2:30 – 4:00pm in Marginalized Communities Scheherazade Tillet and Social Practice? Open TV (beta) Word! Rasheedah Phillips Norman Kerr Neysa Page-Lieberman Co-Prosperity Sphere 1Hood Media Gallery 400 Lecture Room Gallery 400 Lecture Room Screening Room and Melissa Hilliard Potter 14 GBU Gallery, 5th Floor 15 Sunday Overview KEY Conversation Series Parallel Sessions After-Hours Event Open Platform Featured Presentations Trainings

9:00 – 9:45am Golden Class 10:00 – 11:30am 12:00 – 12:15pm 2:00 – 3:00pm 2:30 – 4:00pm 2:40 – 2:55pm 4:20 – 4:35pm 5:00 – 6:30pm Language Breakfast Bridging the Rural / Making A Way Out Of No Way Response: Funding Black Spatial Relics: Justice Incarceration: A New Deeply Rooted: How Art Making Gave Birth Shaghayegh Cyrous, Urban Divide Felicia Holman Social Justice as a Regional Identity Narrative Through the Arts Excavating individual & to a Reparations Campaign Magdalena Jadwiga Härtelova Appalshop, Kate Fowler, Gallery 400 Lecture Room Tracie D. Hall, Mashaun Arielle Julia Brown The Justice-in- institutional racism. (#RahmRepNow) for Chicago Jane Addams Hull-House Herby Smith, Ben Fink, Ali Hendricks, Erica Mott, Screening Room Education Initiative catherine SCOTI scott Police Torture Survivors Museum Resident’s Hall Sean Starowitz Coya Paz, Sara Slawnik, Chicago Torture Justice Gallery 400 Lecture Room Gallery 400 Lecture Room Great Space Amanda Williams Memorials,Darrell Cannon, 12:20 – 12:35pm GBU Gallery, 5th Floor Christine Haley, Alice Working at Navajo 2:30 – 4:00pm Kim,Joey Mogul, Mary Patten, 9:30 – 11:30am Mountain. The Implications No Admin, No Art: The Power 3:00 – 3:15pm 5:00 – 6:30pm Mario Venegas TRAP House Chicago: 10:00 – 11:30am of Social Practice. of Management Commons on Network Anxieties Mirror Casket — Ferguson Theater Lecture Hall Streetwear × Art × Radical Performing Racial and Magdalena Jadwiga Härtelova, 2:00 – 4:00pm Artist Flourishing Design Packets Protest Art and Beyond Restorative Justice Reproductive Justice: Ryan Frank Hueston, Creating access Jamaine Smith and James Pierce, Carl DiSalvo De Nichols and Mashaun Ali Hendricks a play and workshop. Ella Schoefer-Wulf Candace Coleman and Melissa Hamilton Gallery 400 Lecture Room Mallory Nezam Henry Hall 107 Aisha Chaudhri, Nik Gallery 400 Lecture Room Carrie Kaufman Black Box Screening Room 5:00 – 6:30pm Zaleski, Quenna Barrett, Henry Hall 106 Party Out of Bounds:

Nic Bell, Danielle Davis, Crafting Queer Art Economies 3:00 – 4:00pm Bella Bahhs, Jeffry Freelon and Ways of (Night) Life 9:30 – 11:30am 12:40 – 12:55pm 2:30–4:00pm Assembling and 5:00 – 6:30pm Owens, Maggie Mascal Chances Dances Fighting adultism within Draw From Life 2:00 – 4:00pm Luz del Día: Copyrighting Reassembling: Decolonizing Beauty Breaks: Jane Addams Gallery 400 Lecture Room and outside organizations Mj Merkley Working at the Intersections: the Light of Day the (Media) Archive On Tender Resistance Hull-House Museun Mayadet Patitucci Cruz Gallery 400 Lecture Room Reproductive Justice Includes Estefaní Mercedes Alejandro T. Acierto Amina Ross, Sojourner Wright, Henry Hall 106 Racial Justice Black Box and Oli Rodriguez and Jade Perry Aisha Chaudhri, Illinois 7:30 – 9:00pm GBU Gallery Jane Addams 10:00 – 11:30am Caucus for Adolescent Health Maria Varela and Maria 12:45 – 1:45pm Hull-House Museum #FirstWorldProblems: Henry Hall 107 Gaspar Featured Presentation 10:00 – 11:30am ALTour UIC 2:30 – 4:00pm Building international and Maria Varela and What’s the Plan? Artists, Lena Guerrero Reynolds, The Rural Model: Community 3:20 – 3:35pm inter-cultural solidarity Maria Gaspar Planners and New Models for Alice Kovacik, Alyssa Frystak, Engagement with an Under- Art Revolution: 5:00 – 6:30pm Trans.lation Vickery Meadow National Museum of Civic Decision-Making Courtney Sass 2:00 – 2:15pm Represented Population Social Engagement in STREETWORK: Henry Hall 107 Mexican Art Eric Leshinsky, Lynn Osgood, Jane Addams Performing Inequality: Self- Matthew Fluharty, Dr. Megan the K-12 Environment Engaging Education Outside Henry G. Sanchez, Carrie Hull-House Museum Organised Protest and the Johnston, Su Legatt, Stacey Goodman the Classroom Schneider, Ben Stone Politics of the maternal Donna Neuwirth, Jill Odegaard Gallery 400 Lecture Room M. Michelle Illuminato and Theater Lecture Hall 10:00 – 11:30pm Elena Marchevska Theater Lecture Hall 9:00 – 11:00 pm Brett Hunter (moderators) Building MASS Action: Gallery 400 Lecture Room Open Engagement Closing 1:00 – 1:15pm Black Box Museum As Site Event with Slo ‘Mo Party Art and Human Rights: 3:40 – 3:55pm for Social Action Reunion, Slo ‘Mo Party 10:00 – 11:30am Creativity for Social Change 2:30 – 4:00pm ways of knowing Alyssa Greenberg, Reunion From Calais Jungle to a Center for Legal and 2:20 – 2:35pm #FreeTheYouth: Art as an Honey Pot Performance 5:00 – 6:30pm Elisabeth Callihan, Nikhil Dagenham housing Social Studies (CELS) Research in the midst of Incarceration Alternative Gallery 400 Lecture Room Traveling Minds: The Power of Trivedi, Therese Quinn estate: sparking community Gallery 400 Lecture Room Decolonization: Cape Town, Creative Justice Youth and Contemporary Art Black Box cohesion through the arts South Africa Great Space Victoria Martinez, R.M. Sánchez-Camus Felicia Mings 4:00 – 5:00pm Elise Sanchez Screening Room Gallery 400 Lecture Room 1:20 – 1:35pm Beyond Narrative: Great Space 12:00pm & 1:00pm #NEWGLOBALMATRIARCHY 2:30 – 4:00pm Journalism as an Jane Addams Hull-House Maya Mackrandilal, Inverting Expertise: Creative Organizing Tool Museum Open House with 10:00 – 11:30am Stephanie Graham 2:30 – 4:00pm strategies to challenge the Andrea Hart, Darryl Holliday 5:00 – 6:30pm CareForce One The “art” of resource Gallery 400 Lecture Room Public Art and Justice, Criminal Justice System and Harry Backlund The Space in Be-Tween: Marisa Morán Jahn, development: supporting We Fast and Slow Mark Strandquist GBU Gallery, 5th Floor Teens, Institutions, CareForce One Are Here in post-crisis NL Valentine Cadieux, DeAnna and Courtney Bowles and Social Practice Jane Addams E. C. Feiss Cummings, Roger Cummings, Great Space Teen Advisory Group (TAG), Hull-House Museum 1:40 – 1:55pm Screening Room Shanai Matteson, Va-Megn Bonerkill’s guide to alternative 4:00 – 4:15pm Museum of Contemporary Art Thoj, Colleen Sheehy resource extraction The Jumpsuit Project San Diego Jane Addams (formally known as “How to Sherrill Roland Great Space 12:00 – 1:30pm Hull-House Museum Steal”). A work in progress. Gallery 400 Lecture Room FIELDWORKS: Bonerkill Open Engagement Gallery 400 Lecture Room A Blade of Grass 16 Black Box 17 Featured Presentations Pre-Conference

Date In anticipation of OE 2017, Chicago based Friday Saturday Sunday Thursday, April 20 organizations offer Pre-Conference programming 4:00 – 6:00pm 7:30 – 9:00pm 7:30 – 9:00pm to get the conversation started. We Shouldn’t Have Policies We Are Solutions for the CareForce Maria Varela and Maria Gaspar The pre-conference is free and open to all kinds of practitioners attending Ai-jen Poo and Marisa Jahn Locations Afraid to Talk About: A Symposium in Conversation Open Engagement. Please note organizers may require pre-registration. on Public Crime Registries Solutions for the CareForce is a Maria Varela and Maria Gaspar Organized by Laurie Jo Reynolds Museum of Contemporary presentation and conversation by Maria Varela and Maria Gaspar will engage and Lynne Johnson MacArthur Genius Ai-jen Poo (Founder, in an intergenerational conversation about Art Chicago This symposium considers state responses National Domestic Workers Alliance; the role of cultural engagement in their The Art Institute of Chicago to sexual abuse and violence by examining Co-Founder, Caring Across Generations) respective roles as artists, organizers, and unintended consequences of public and artist Marisa Morán Jahn (Founder, activists. Varela’s work in the southern civil Chicago Shakespeare registration and notification laws and Studio REV-) that explores the intersection rights movement included supporting rural Theater related restrictions. Speakers will provide between creativity, caregiving, feminism, indigenous artisans and poets. Her work updates on current litigation and legislative immigration, and socio-economic and in the rural areas of northern New Mexico efforts, and explore new next steps for racial justice. Ai-jen will give context to the included reviving cultural practices in achieving community safety, accountability, movement for domestic workers’ rights support of indigenous weaving and other and justice. Hear perspectives from and the urgency for solutions to America’s arts. Gaspar’s art practice includes issues Thursday, April 20 Pre-Conference state officials, victim advocates, justice care crisis. Marisa, an artist who has of visibility, spatial justice, and geography. advocates, and people directly affected by created art with nannies, housekeepers, Working in her childhood neighborhood of violence, incarceration, and these laws and and caregivers and collaborators like Ai- Chicago’s West Side, she has developed 10:00am – 7:30pm 3:00pm – 5:00pm policies. Organized by Laurie Jo Reynolds jen since 2011, will present the CareForce, many projects including, 96 ACRES, a Museum Education: Accessible Outdoor Events and Lynne Johnson. a public art project, Sundance-supported series of public art interventions that A Radical Practice CCAC, a volunteer-run group of cultural web series (CareForce One Travelogues), Lobby, School of examine the impact of mass incarceration Institutions are made, not given. We shape administrators and people from the Social Service Administration and mobile studio (the CareForce One). at the Cook County Jail. the worlds we live in. This day-long pre- disability community, presents a panel University of Chicago UIC Forum National Museum of Mexican Art conference examines whether and when Q & A covering ideas and solutions that 969 E. 60th St. 725 W Roosevelt Rd. 1852 W 19th St. art museum education is a radical practice have worked when the elements, general Chicago, IL 60637 Chicago‚ IL 60608 Chicago, IL 60608 capable of not only contributing to the admission crowds, unusual locations, transformation of individuals, but to the and even port-a-potties are part of the making of a just society. landscape. Topics include physical and 7:30 – 9:00pm communication access using examples We begin with the idea of just institutions The Tamir Rice Memorial Project of venues, from urban parks to theaters. A Conversation about the Tamir Rice and also examine the roles that educators Geared for representatives who plan Memorial with Theaster Gates, Lisa Lee can play as they define the nature of the outdoor events from street fairs, rallies, and Romi Crawford programs museums offers; its modes of performances, outdoor tours. The Rebuild Foundation has on loan the address, interpretation, and engagement; Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Skyline Room, gazebo where 12-year-old Tamir Rice was and who they involve in those processes. 6th Floor, Navy Pier, 800 East Grand Avenue, fatally shot by Cleveland police for playing We also look at museum educators and Chicago, IL 60611 with a toy pellet gun in November 2014. artists as agents of change within long- Join us for conversation about the role of established systems. Throughout the day, Pre-registration is required. Full list of sessions artists and the power of objects in memory, we treat museum education as site- presenters available online. trauma, history, place, and healing. bound, culturally-specific, and historically inflected, inviting practitioners to help us Stony Island Arts Bank reflect on the values that guide our work 6760 S Stony Island Ave Chicago, IL 60649 and on how different kinds of museums, from university-based to the encyclopedic to the contemporary, define and pursue the quest for justice. The Art Institute of Chicago Modern Wing Entrance, Nichols Bridgeway Chicago, IL 60603

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611

Pre-registration is required. Full list of sessions presenters available online.

18 19 Open House Friday, April 21 Open House 10:30am – 12:00pm on view include Memoria Presente, a 1:00 – 3:00pm Race and Place: Some Chicago group exhibit of Chicago artists; Time to Artists’ Cooperative Residency Girls on Art and Architecture + Get Ready, photos by Maria Varela from and Exhibition Projects (ACRE) the 1960s Civil Rights Movement to the Date Inspired by Anthony Fyson and Colin Ward’s The Protest Banner Lending Library ACRE Leslie Simon, Amanda Williams, Aram Han Land Grant Movement; Hecho en CaSa, Exploding School, OE has adopted an “Exploded ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency Friday, April 21 Sifuentes, and Ishita Dharap featuring Francisco Toledo, a politically Conference” model, where conference-goers engaged artist in Mexico. and Exhibitions) is an artist-run non- Simon will review Race and Place: profit devoted to providing resources National Museum of Mexican Art Architectures of Segregation and Liberation, to emerging artists and nurturing a Various Locations experience the sites and context of the city as part 1852 W 19th St an exhibition examining spatial injustice Chicago, IL 60608 diverse community of cultural producers. of the conference and educational experience. This in the U.S. Williams will join her in ACRE’s programs support this generative programming is organized by the presenters and varies conversation about “Color(ed) Theory.” 1:00 – 3:00pm community with materials, equipment, Williams painted abandoned houses on in their offerings and approaches. Further information Weinberg/Newton Gallery: expertise, conscientiously produced Chicago’s South Side using a culturally In Acts food, and opportunities to exhibit and about each Open House, including an interactive map of coded, monochromatic palette. They Weinberg/Newton Gallery share work. OE attendees are invited to both grew up there, decades apart; one view the current exhibition curated by Join Weinberg/Newton Gallery—an locations, can be found on OE’s website. black, and one white. As they explore Anastasia Tinari Karpova, featuring ACRE exhibition space that aims to educate and their “accidental” collaboration, they will 2016 residents, Ato Ribeiro, Work/Play Please note organizers may require pre-registration. inform the public on social justice issues— discuss how art and artifact about loss and Grace Kubilius, as well as attend tours for a walk-through of our current exhibition, can instigate liberation. Afterwards visit of the space led by ACRE Director Emily In Acts. The exhibition forwards the the Protest Banner Lending Library; a Green. perspectives of locally- and internationally- Friday, April 21 Open House space for people to gain skills to learn to engaged artists whose work questions ACRE make their own banners. It’s a communal how creative labor can widen the vistas 1345 W 19th St sewing space where different voices are Chicago, IL 60608 of advancing human rights. The exhibition 10:00am – 12:00pm 10:00am – 7:00pm 10:00am – 12:00pm supported, and a place where people is in association with the forthcoming Arts Spaces and Propeller Fund Open Houses The Mushroom at the End of the can loan handmade banners to use in 3:00 – 4:00pm Propeller Fund, 2nd Floor Rear, summit What is an Artistic Practice of Placekeeping as Resistance World: A Student-led Conversation protests. Aram Han Sifuentes and Ishita Move Me Soul with Damon Locks Axis Lab, Out of Site, Lavender Menace Human Rights? that will take place at the Pilsen Arts District Artists and Curators on Eco-Justice Now Dharap will have their studios open in the at the Museum of Contemporary Occupation, Radius School of the Art Institute Knowledge Lab University of Chicago. Much has been made of placemaking as a Garland Gallery, Second Floor South. Art Chicago students Weinberg/Newton Gallery form of arts agency. However, many such Propeller Fund presents a series of Chicago Cultural Center Organized by Krista Franklin, Ayesha Jaco 300 W Superior Street, Suite 203 discussions, performances, presentations Chicago Rooms, Second Floor North and Ann Meisinger efforts have stirred attending narratives SAIC student-artists will host a Chicago, IL 60654 and more across multiple neighborhoods 78 E Washington St around gentrification and cultural erasure. conversation about food and Merce Cunningham: Common Time, in Chicago. Now in it’s eighth year, Chicago, IL 60602 This “walking tour conversation” with environmental justice under the current currently on view at the Museum of Propeller Fund is a Chicago-area granting 1:00 – 6:00pm artists and curators beginning at Rootwork administration. We will talk over and share Contemporary Art Chicago explores, as organization that supports artist-led, 1:00 – 3:00pm Revolution at Point Zero: Gallery in Pilsen seeks to bring this an array of fungi to imagine what growth Cunningham described, the “underlying collaborative, public-oriented projects Open House at Roots & Culture Feminist Social Practice complex conversation into focus. and remediation might look like now. principle that music and dance and art that are independent and self-organized. Roots & Culture Symposium and Reception could be separate entities independent Rootwork Gallery From Humboldt Park to Austin, from Art Institute of Chicago Neysa Page-Lieberman and 645 W 18th St Visit Roots & Culture to view current and interdependent, sharing a common the Northside to Bronzeville, and from The LeRoy Neiman Center, Sharp Building Melissa Hilliard Potter Chicago, IL 60616 37 S. Wabash Ave exhibition featuring Amina Ross and time.” Move Me Soul, a teen dance public spaces to online, these artist-led This half day symposium explores the Chicago, IL Kevin Stuart. Joelle Mercedes and Amina themes of Revolution at Point Zero, the company that provides dance training 10:00am – 12:00pm interventions, workshop series, collectively Ross will perform their work twinskin. first exhibition to position the feminist and life skill development, with the Practicing Utopia Over Breakfast organized exhibition spaces, websites, and 10:00 – 12:00pm Refreshments will be served, including art movement as the progenitor of artist Damon Locks, use this spirit of 6018North artists and Edgewater media projects constitute a large catalyst If You Remember, I’ll Remember Director/Chef Eric May’s famous Italian contemporary social practice. The collaboration to present a performance Environmental Sustainability Project for the creative activity and vitality of the Susy Bielak, Janet Dees, Samantha Hill, beef - a vegan mushroom version will also that explores affinities in their artistic Chicago art world. Map and locations program features local and national artists, This breakfast conversation asks: and Rebecca Zorach be available - a regional Chicago delicacy. speakers, workshops, performances practices. The performance will be How can we work together to effect available at Gallery 400 and online. The Block opens its doors to exhibitions Roots & Culture and finishes with the exhibition’s closing followed by a short discussion between change? Over food we discuss proven Traveling OH: Meeting point @ addressing race, war, xenophobia, and 1034 N Milwaukee Ave reception at Columbia’s Glass Curtain the performers and their collaborators. strategies of community organization by Chicago, IL 60642 artists and environmentalists to challenge 2nd Floor Rear, Hume Chicago community movements. Curator Janet Gallery. This event requires preregistration. MCA Chicago 3242 W. Armitage Ave. Dees introduces If You Remember, I’ll 220 E Chicago Ave injustice. Using indivisible principles 1:00 – 3:00pm Columbia College Chicago Remember; artist Samantha Hill shares Chicago, IL 60611 and others, we develop successful and A National Museum in the Heart Glass Curtain Gallery replicable strategies. Offering specific her work on the American South; curator 1104 S Wabash Ave and doable suggestions, tips, and ways Susy Bielak describes the partnerships of the Mexican Community Chicago, IL 60605 Cesáreo Moreno of working, we illustrate the power of a involved in community-based practice; and shared vision to bolster existing programs, professor Rebecca Zorach goes behind- Commemorating 30 years of community organizations and to create an action plan the-scenes with The Wall of Respect and organizing and activism, the National for achievable change. Chicago’s Mural Movement. Free lunch Museum of Mexican Art continues in Traveling OH: Meeting point @ with registration. This event requires pre- the tradition of civic engagement and 6018 North registration. public arts education. We will cover the 6018 N. Kenmore Block Museum history since its founding in a working Chicago, IL 60660 40 Arts Circle Drive class Mexican neighborhood. Exhibitions Evanston, IL 60208 20 21 Friday, April 21 Open House Saturday Parallel Sessions 4:00 – 6:00pm 4:00 – 6:00pm PUBLIC SCHOOL: Open House On Stewardship with Project Fielding Michael Christiano and Jessica Moss Jim Duignan, Rachel Harper, Nell Taylor, and others Date During four blocks of time on Saturday and Sunday — Sara Black, Amber Ginsburg, Miriam How can we build an ethical practice of Stevens, and Bianca Bernardo morning, lunchtime, afternoon, and evening — collecting socially engaged art? How can Saturday, April 22 Visit the exhibition PUBLIC SCHOOL to those artworks shift institutional practice, presentations, workshops and panel discussions take discuss the role of self-education practices and how can museums, with an eye Locations place concurrently. After parallel sessions have wrapped, in pursuit of social justice, and contribute towards stewardship, offer a productive to the Chicago Read/Write Library context to consider their evolving Art & Exhibition Hall please join us for Ai-jen Poo and Marisa Jahn’s Featured archive. Visiting resident Bianca Bernardo meaning? Thinking across works from Henry Hall joins the discussion as an artist, and the Smart Museum of Art’s collection, a Presentation at The Forum at UIC and wrap up the Pedagogic Coordinator at Museu Bispo do discussion-based tour will explore how the School of Theater & Music evening with special performances and a dance party at Rosário Arte Contemporânea. Also, build works can fuel research, creative inquiry, Resistance Architecture with PROJECT & when placed into dialogue with art from hosted by TRQPiTECA at Co-Prosperity Sphere. FIELDING, an all women design/build across time, place, and cultures, reveal the collective making structures to be erected nuanced ways we reckon with our world. in direct response to the needs of long- Smart Museum of Art term protesters. Artists from these projects at the University of Chicago will be present to guide OE attendees 5550 South Greenwood Avenue through hands-on projects. Chicago, IL 60637 Saturday, April 22 Parallel Sessions Hyde Park Art Center 4:00 – 6:00pm 5020 S. Cornell Ave School of the Art Institute of 10:00 – 11:30 am Restorative Visual Justice: Maintenance, Justice, and Self- 4:00 – 5:00pm Chicago at Homan Square Artists & Culture Workers Determination: Connections and Art in Our Times Jaclyn Jacunski I Can’t Breathe Reimaging Englewood tensions between sustained social The Reva and David Logan Center for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Shaun Leonardo Englewood Arts Collective practice and its archives at Homan Square opens its classroom Arts advances arts practice, inquiry, and I Can’t Breathe is a public-participatory The Englewood Arts Collective is Duke FHI Social Practice Lab and Artist Residency Studio in North presentation at the University of Chicago, workshop and performance that will take severely passionate about community This session will focus on aesthetic and Lawndale’s Nichols Tower with music, food work and the power of contemporary and fosters meaningful collaboration and the form of a self-defense class. Over the political theories related to maintenance, cultural engagement at the university, on and tours. The Tower is a platform that art serving as a conduit for social course of a half hour, participants will learn awareness. Each are eager to use their support labor, and social justice work as the south side, and in the city of Chicago. strengthens community through the arts a range of self-defense technique – from art and skills to challenge public they apply to current art practice. We will Please join us for a round-table discussion with socially engaged projects by providing purely pacifist, self-protective maneuvers perception of Englewood and Chicago’s anchor the exchange in specific processes free art and design classes for local with Chicago-based artists to discuss the (including how one may relieve the South Side to demonstrate a truer of self-determination from the Caribbean, residents along with community-based intersection of artistic practice and the pressure of a chokehold) to more overt, reflection of the community they all have the Middle East, US South, and other courses for SAIC students. Each program current political climate. defensive strategies. (Participants will not deep connections with. They aim to inform viewpoints too often obscured or silenced encourages deep collaborations and the general public about the significance Café Logan learn offensive strikes or moves.) in collective memory. Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts recognizes the roles that artists play within and importance of people within a Black Box Theater Lecture Hall 915 E 60th St their own communities. community to narrate their own story. Chicago, IL 60637 Gallery 400 Lecture Room Nichols Tower, 12th Floor Together A BEAUTIFUL 906 S Homan Ave California State University Chicago, IL 60624 RESISTANCE: North Lawndale Dominguez Hills & Big City voices, art and activism Funding Social Justice Denise Brown, Leeway Foundation. Gina Forum: Praxis Studio Kate Dumbleton (moderator), Cheryl California State University Dominguez Hills Acebo, Akonadi Foundation. Maurine D. Pope, Jaclyn Jacunski, Taykhoom Biviji, & Big City Forum: Devon Tsuno, Leonardo Knighton, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Scheherazade Tillet, and Norman Kerr Bravo, Juliana Lujan and Omar Solorio Sara Zia Ebrahimi, Leeway Foundation North Lawndale is a westside Chicago California State University Dominguez community working to rebuild from What is the role of arts and culture Hills hosts Big City Forum: Praxis disinvestment and violence. Our panelists funders in shifting the balance of historical Studio, a community engagement project. work together at Nichols Tower, a unique injustice? What are some of the practical Devon Tsuno and Leonardo Bravo, community center with both art spaces manifestations of this in the day-to-day lead a discussion about the goals of and service providers. functioning of foundations and their Praxis Studio: to activate public They will discuss how social practice grantmaking processes? In this panel three space, enhance local culture and create an expanded dialogue about art, art and community partnerships funders — Akonadi Foundation, Doris Duke public space and design in the South work to address systems of violence Charitable Foundation, and the Leeway and trauma by using creative Los Angeles community. We will discuss Foundation — talk social justice philanthropy. how artists, designers, students collaborations, art making, activism, and community members collaborate and youth leadership with community Great Space to explore history, social conditions, to amplify North Lawndale voices. neighborhoods, and storylines. Gallery 400 Lecture Room Screening Room 22 23 Saturday, April 22 Parallel Sessions Saturday, April 22 Parallel Sessions

12:00 – 1:30pm 2:30 – 4:00pm A Living Chance: Storytelling to 5:00 – 6:30pm Urban Futures Lab: A Model Whose Museum? Our Museum. End Life Without Parole for Creative Civic Leadership How contemporary art museums Photography & Social Practice Working Through A Wall California Coalition for Women Prisoners Time, Memory, and Justice Andy Alvarez, Christopher Barahona, can create justice Monica Cosby, Aaron Hughes, Shirley Ramirez, Omar Vargas Lisa Dent, Barbara Hunt McLanahan, Workshop: Critical Questions A Living Chance is an ongoing, in Marginalized Communities Alice Kim, Sarah Ross, Earl Walker Amy Sadao and Resources collaborative storytelling project created Rasheedah Phillips This panel features four Fellows from and Anna Martine Whitehead Eliza Gregory, Anthony Luvera, with women and transgender people A workshop exploring the relationship Public Matters’ Urban Futures Lab — Whose Museum? Our Museum. Gemma-Rose Turnbull Working Through a Wall is a panel serving Life Without Parole (LWOP) in between justice, linear time constructs, a two-year training and employment How contemporary art museums can discussion about the politics and notions of the future in marginalized The Photography & Social Practice California’s women’s prisons. Participants fellowship program for young adults create justice. and possibilities of collaborating with hear directly from incarcerated storytellers communities. Through exercises and (18 – 26) from low-income Los Angeles Workshop will provide a forum for the OE discussion, participants will consider A panel of museum and contemporary incarcerated artists, writers, and about the intersections of gender and communities of color. Fellows will discuss community to shape a larger conversation alternative temporalities embodied art professionals dedicated to changing thinkers for long term solidarity and racial violence and LWOP, as well as their cross-disciplinary work that leverages that will unfold through a book, a blog, an by Afrofuturism and its use as practical our institutions and our field to more commitment. This panel will take strategies for survival and resilience. artistic strategies in community projects exhibition and future events. This workshop tools for shaping past and future justly reflect our current and future nation. up questions of aesthetics, ethics and Participants will consider storytelling as outside of the arts. They will share their will create a suite of products including narratives in communities. Presenters As longtime contemporary art workers abolitionist practices through a discussion a strategy to organize towards freedom will provide examples from their socially goals to become creative change-makers: lists of resources, questions, case studies and activists we are part of a continuum with artists, formerly incarcerated and justice from one of the country’s most engaged art, and community archive the skills, resources, and networks needed, and values. We will identify priorities, figure dedicated to wholesale change students, and people in prison. carceral states. project exploring housing, histories, and and how they are forging a different path out who wants to participate in the larger regarding who museums represent, who futurities in North Philadelphia. as civic leaders. events, and how different people and Great Space Black Box feels like they own museums, and who Gallery 400 Lecture Room institutions would like to contribute. Theater Lecture Hall leads museums and other contemporary Great Space Word! Should I Do This Project? art institutions. 1Hood Media Developing Ethics Can I Get a Witness?: Legal The Official Unofficial Voting Observing and Know Your Rights Great Space Walk In Our Shoes 1Hood Media artists take participants Guidelines Together. Station: Voting for All Who for Community Safety Territory Urban Design Team through an interactive workshop that Valeria Mogilevich Legally Can’t encourages skills in utilizing Hip Hop to Shanna Merola Aram Han Sifuentes and Roberto Sifuentes Refugee Activism as See the city through the eyes of As artists, we want to use our creativity for speak to matters of social justice. With In this workshop participants will learn informant for new urban young people, and discover community- social change, but what if we’re making 106 million people living in the United a beat, a subject matter, and empathy best practices on how to safely document collectives and just environments based youth empowerment strategies things worse and not better? How can we States and its territories cannot legally artists will be taken through steps used to police activity for protests and for the Katharina Rohde through an interactive walking tour led decide what’s an ethical project that brings vote. Youth under 18 years old, non- create around issues of importance. The streets. We will also discuss the different by Territory Urban Design Team. The benefit to the communities we’re working citizens, incarcerated, ex-felons, residents Delineating spatial appropriations and workshop culminates with participants levels of interaction with police and tour includes site visits and placemaking with? This is a complex question without of U.S. territories and people without socio-economic strategies of refugee self- having poetic prose highlighting social how to exercise the “magic words” which activities exploring social justice right answers, but together we can begin proper IDs are amongst the groups of organization in Europe, this contribution justice issues of the day. let the cops know that you are invoking issues through urban design, activism, to articulate a shared ethics based on people who are disenfranchised. During suggests to learn from activist approaches. Screening Room your rights. performance, and social enterprise. The our experience. This workshop will use a the 2016 elections The Official Unofficial In a performative lecture the aim will be to tour is designed by young people who series of case studies and group work to During the presentation participants Voting Station: Voting for All Who Legally reflect upon the possibility of transferring live and learn in in Chicago’s Albany Park Curating Justice: Institutional collaboratively develop some guidelines for will watch video clips of protests from Can’t created spaces where all, especially immanent methodologies in order to neighborhood. Full tour route and site list & Independent Perspectives on socially-engaged art projects. Ferguson, to Standing Rock to discuss how the discontented and the disenfranchised design for new collectives and just urban to be determined by design team. Social Change This session can accommodate to document while Legal Observing and were invited to cast unsanctioned ballots environments to emerge. Amanda Cachia, Sara Reisman, 25 participants. how to protect this information for court. Black Box CTA Brown Line Kimball Station This session can accommodate Allison Agsten, Alex Fialho AEH 3204 Screening Room 15 participants. This panel considers how curators critically 34,000 Pillows AEH 3204 engage with the work of social justice Diaz Lewis by bringing together practitioners who Diaz Lewis will present their ongoing work within the framework of full-time and participatory project, “34,000 employment within an institution, and those Pillows,” through which the collaborative who work independently. The goal is to is making pillows out of clothing donated consider how the resources, knowledges by undocumented immigrants, former and experiences from curators can be detainees, and their allies. Each pillow pooled together in order to learn from one represents an immigrant detained by another, but also to forge new pathways, Immigrations and Custom Enforcement to partnerships and radical curatorial fulfill a statutory quota established by the methodologies towards justice and equity. 2010 Congressional “bed mandate” that Theater Lecture Hall incentivizes ICE to keep 34,000 beds filled in detention centers on a daily basis. Black Box

24 25 Saturday at Co-Prosperity Saturday, April 22 Co-Prosperity Sphere 9:15 – 9:45pm 9:45 – 10:15pm 10:15 – 1:00am Arts of Life Band Rebirth Garments Presents ¡JUST DANCE! Date Co-Prosperity Sphere is hosting a full day of OE Arts of Life Band Radical Visibility: A QueerCrip TRQPITECA Dress Reform Movement programming that is free and open to the public. Arts of Life Band started nearly a decade TRQPiTECA is a unique cultural Saturday, April 22 ago as a space for musical collaboration Rebirth Garments platform that creates space for local between people living with and without Rebirth Garments is a gender and international artists working Location developmental disabilities. The band is non-conforming line of clothing, with queer and tropical aesthetics to steered by collective, consensus-based wearables, and accessories for the experiment, thrive, and celebrate Co-Prosperity Sphere decision making and we write our music full spectrum of gender, size, ability life. Since 2015, resident DJs and co- CTA’s #8/79th bus runs from collaboratively around lyrical content handmade by Sky Cubacub in Chicago, IL. founders CQQCHIFRUIT and La UIC-Halsted Blue Line Station to written by each Artist. Heavy at times, Rebirth Garments is presenting a fashion Spacer curate this environment through Halsted & 32nd Street, located catchy at others, it is a beautiful explosion performance with local trans*, queer, fat, the incorporation of installation art, video .03 miles from Co-Prosperity Sphere. of rock ‘n’ roll rooted in the true mission disability activists dancing in all custom art, soundscaping, and performances, of inclusion for all individuals. made spandex garments and chainmaille with the intention of fostering creative as an act of resistance against mainstream engagement with the diverse communities fashion and society. Rebirth is leading of which we are a part. the QueerCrip dress reform movement entitled “Radical Visibility”. Saturday, April 22 Co-Prosperity Sphere

10:00 ­– 11:30am 2:30 – 4:00pm 5:00 – 6:30pm Observing Power: Party Noire: Black Joy Developing Artistic TV A History of Imagery and Agency through creativity, resistance, Open TV (beta) Danny Giles, Chris Meerdo, and community This workshop introduces artists to Jayla Neely, Leyla Kiran, Sarah Wild, Nick Alder, Lauren Ash, Rae Chardonnay, a process for developing artist- and and Anna Martine Whitehead RJ Eldridge of Party Noire community-driven TV online and in local Observing Power was originally conceived This session will explore the strategies communities. It focuses on the process as a platform for critical exchange around and tools used by Party Noire to produce of making and releasing video through issues of policing, race and visual culture narratives, cultivate community, and Open TV (beta), a platform for television for students at SAIC. With our panel, activate spaces centered on Black by queer, trans, cis-women and artists we will introduce a wider public to art and Joy. Party Noire co-founders and of color in Chicago. Open TV has released ideas discussed in the class along side documentarian, will share how Party Noire over 15 hours of original programming, two former students and two special utilizes creativity, inclusive of dance and hosting screenings, performance guests originally invited to visit Observing music, to radically spark Black Joy. They and discussions in Chicago and engaging Power at SAIC. will discuss Black joy as resistance within a growing fan base on four social our current political climate and will share media platforms. 12:00 – 1:00pm digital media strategies for creating their ManyHands/LightWork intersectional, Black centered celebration. 9:00 – 9:15pm Joshua Kent / St. Francis House Utopic Monster Theory: of Hospitality 4:00 – 5:00pm On Democracy Situated in opposition to stationary Sappho and Sweat: J’Sun Howard & Jennifer Karmin lectures, “ManyHands/LightWork” is queerfeminist experimental Utopic Monster Theory is a polydesirous a hands-on conversation in which movement seminar/dance party bricolage of text-movement exploring participants are asked to think critically, Chani Bockwinkel 21st century cultural work. The daily while simultaneously rolling up their Sappho & Sweat (S&S) is a struggles of trying to live in America are sleeves and pitching in. Participants will queerfeminist experimental movement amplified. Superhero selves are discuss realities of food systems and seminar/dance party. This all-levels awakened and summoned from both poverty while collectively creating a seminar melds somatics, dance imaginary and realist realms. A series soup for others to eat. MH/LW, examines choreography, poetry, and aerobics of poems based on the idea of the the possibility of collective labor and together to explore the intersection and American dream exposes the ways we responsibility as a tool of justice, while potential of Sappho’s poetry, politics, can feel hunted. Searching for the island exploring the question: “Who labors to embodiment, and community. of Utopia surmises the collective effort feed, while others sit to eat”? needed to reach that place where all are/is worthy.

26 27 Sunday Parallel Sessions Sunday, April 23 Parallel Sessions Building MASS Action: important to Hull-House reformers and As socially-engaged artists speak truth Museum As Site for Social Action their immigrant neighbors. The tours will to power, does fiscal sponsorship Date During four blocks of time on Saturday and Sunday — Alyssa Greenberg, Elisabeth Callihan, culminate with a participatory ‘CareForce matter? This presentation, conducted nikhil trivedi, Therese Quinn Disco’ workshop facilitated by artist Marisa by CultureWorks Greater Philadelphia, morning, lunchtime, afternoon, and evening — Morán Jahn that narrates the growing will examine this question and illustrate, Sunday, April 23 The MASS Action (Museum As Site movement for affordable care, domestic through case studies, how having presentations, workshops and panel discussions take for Social Action) project is a national workers’ rights, and immigration. Come a charitable home can go beyond Locations convening of museum practitioners, visits Hull-House’s current exhibition, VOX administrative services and shared place concurrently. After parallel sessions have wrapped, artists, community organizers, and POP: The Disco Party, on view through fiduciary responsibility. Essentially, Art & Exhibition Hall scholars. Together, they are working to please join us for Maria Varela and Maria Gaspar’s April 30. Dance and protest with us! we’ll explore how a comprehensive build a resource dedicated to social management program can aid in the School of Theater Featured Presentation at National Museum of Mexican justice in museum practices. In this Tours and ‘CareForce Disco’ workshop creation of a more just world and ensure interactive session, led by Chicago-based will begin at 12:00 (Spanish) and and Music Art and celebrate the close of this year’s conference with that artists and their work not only survive, MASS Action contributors, participants 1:00pm (English). but flourish. Jane Addams Slo ‘Mo Party at Reunion. will gain key insights from the project, and Jane Addams Hull House Museum Hull-House Museum come away with strategies to use to Black Box build equity and inclusion when working ALTour UIC Luz del Día: Copyrighting with or within museums. Appalshop, Kate Fowler, Herby Smith, the Light of Day Ben Fink, Sean Starowitz Black Box Estefaní Mercedes Sunday, April 23 Parallel Sessions ALTour UIC investigates important, This project is in direct reaction to Bill Bridging the Rural / Urban Divide yet by and large under exposed histories No. 2517-D-2015 that would extend Appalshop, Kate Fowler, Herby Smith, of student organizing on the UIC campus. happen but also scripted a narrative miles of each other. Established in Argentinian copyright from 20 years 10:00 – 11:30am Ben Fink, Sean Starowitz We offer guided tours of these spaces around the arts. 2013 by Rick Lowe, Trans.lation post-production to 70 years post-mordem, that we walk by and engage with every Vickery Meadow provides a platform Bridging the Rural Divide will engage erasing all images of the Argentine Dirty The “art” of resource Screening Room day in order to shed some new light on the for community leaders to pursue the power of storytelling to build War. Recent documents released by the development: supporting We Are oftentimes complicated histories of the neighborhood initiatives. Community understanding, collaboration and a Obama administration reveal Argentine Here in post-crisis NL Performing Racial and grounds of UIC. leaders in Vickery Meadow will present deepening of our analysis of rural dictator Videla telling secretary of state E. C. Feiss Reproductive Justice: their projects and lead a discussion power in the wake of the presidential Jane Addams Hull-House Museum Henry Kissinger the deaths would “never a play and workshop. election. Participants are invited to join see the light of day.” Estefaní Mercedes This presentation considers an ongoing Aisha Chaudhri, Nik Zaleski, Quenna Barrett, about strategies towards building inter- Appalshop, a rural Appalachian media re-copyrights (and preserves) the light of collaboration between We are Here, a Nic Bell, Danielle Davis, Bella Bahhs, cultural understanding and solidarity. self-organized group of undocumented arts organization, in an exercise in deep day from the images that would be erased Jeffry Freelon Owens, Maggie Mascal Gallery 400 Lecture Room people based in the Netherlands, and listening and story sharing. 2:30 – 4:00pm if the bill passed. “Here to Support” a group of documented In order to address institutional and Great Space What’s the Plan? Artists, Black Spatial Relics: Black Box artists who have organized to assist interpersonal racism in America today, Planners and New Models for them. Here to Support uses the artistic Justice as a Regional Identity we need arts and culture to stimulate our Civic Decision-Making The Rural Model: Community resources at its disposal – art’s social Arielle Julia Brown collective imagination. This workshop will Eric Leshinsky, Lynn Osgood, Henry G. 12:00 – 1:30pm Engagement with an forms, institutional arenas, and funding begin with a performance of “Forecast” Sanchez, Carrie Schneider, Ben Stone What violence are you from? This Under-Represented Population infrastructures – in its support of WAH. from the FYI Performance Company at workshop reconfigures our shared FIELDWORKS: Open Engagement Matthew Fluharty, Dr. Megan Johnston, What does art, specifically, offer to such a the Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health, This panel will explore the potential for understandings of US regions through A Blade of Grass Su Legatt, Donna Neuwirth, Jill Odegaard political partnership, given the violence of an original 20-minute play that intersects a more inclusive approach to the lens of regional histories of state exclusion? racial and reproductive justice. We will civic decision-making as it relates to FIELDWORKS is a short documentary film racial terror. Participants will engage 25% of the nation resides in a rural follow the performance with an interactive series presented by A Blade of Grass community, yet receives 3-9% of arts From Calais Jungle to a artists and cultural policies. Working as cultural justice mapping exercises and workshop and conversation that activates artists, planners, and organizers, that explores the beauty, rigor, and creative coalition building tactics. The funding. Embracing a DIY attitude, low Dagenham housing estate: our imagination in envisioning a less the panelists bring diverse perspectives impact of socially engaged art. This workshop is based in the design thinking cost living, and a freedom to fail, artists sparking community broken world. to the topic formed from years of working 50-minute screening will showcase of Black Spatial Relics, a new performance moved out of traditional art centers to live cohesion through the arts and practice. Without a major institution This session can accomodate on efforts to better integrate artists projects by 2015 ABOG Fellows Sol residency based at Brown University that R.M. Sánchez-Camus formalizing this work, artists are free to 30 participants. into the political frameworks that guide Aramendi, Laura Chipley, Suzanne Lacy, supports new works about slavery, justice create projects that are more experimental, The presentation will focus on Heath many of the decisions for how cities Mary Mattingly, The Plug-In Studio, Nigel and freedom at U.S. sites that are local to Jane Addams Hull-House Museum transitory, and incorporate regional Spark, an artist residency in a large public leverage the arts, allocate resources for Poor, Dread Scott, and Adaku Utah, the transatlantic slave trade. cultural aspects. In turn, this reflects the housing estate in Dagenham, UK. This will the arts and otherwise attempt to shape followed by a short discussion and Q&A #FirstWorldProblems: This session can accommodate potential for creative catalysts. Panelists highlight integration issues in a tradionally the cultural landscape. Building international and 50 participants. use these limitations to their advantage. working class area now mixed with Theater Lecture Hall inter-cultural solidarity Jane Addams Hull-House Museum Screening Room government resettlement of immigrants, Theatre Lecutre Hall Trans.lation Vickery Meadow and CareForce One, Tours and including asylum seekers. The research Public Disco No Admin, No Art: The Power presents work done at the Calais refugee Public Art and Justice, Vickery Meadow is a neighborhood Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and camp in order to help frame the journey. of Management Commons on Fast and Slow in Dallas, TX, where 30,000 resettled CareForce One Artist Flourishing Valentine Cadieux, DeAnna Cummings, The presentation shows how public funding refugees, African Americans, and Jane Addams Hull-House Museum will Jamaine Smith, Trust Director and Roger Cummings, Shanai Matteson, was both important to make the project Latinx immigrants live within 3 square offer Spanish and English language Melissa Hamilton, Community Va-Megn Thoj, Colleen Sheehy tours focused on worker rights issues Engagement Co-Director How can organizations that work in

28 29 Sunday, April 23 Parallel Sessions Parties & Projects the public realm achieve social and 5:00 – 6:30pm Traveling Minds: The Power of economic justice for youth, people of Youth and Contemporary Art color, immigrants, and others? Speakers Victoria Martinez, Elise Sanchez from organizations in Minneapolis/St. Paul STREETWORK: Engaging Lead artist and facilitator Victoria will share questions, approaches, and Education Outside the Classroom projects that take a variety of approaches M. Michelle Illuminato and Brett Hunter Martinez along with participants from the Dates Transformative acts of change are made possible, in part, to art, food systems, ecology, economic (moderators) Traveling Minds project will present about through accessible blueprints of the utopias we strive for. opportunity, and civic life. Public art and A panel that will unpack the challenges, their collaborative actions in the Pilsen Friday, April 21 social practices that aim for deep system strategies, successes, and failures community. High school participants Saturday, April 22 Any sustainable politics of dissent, is deeply indebted change require “slow,” sustained duration, in bringing artists and students to work will talk about their creative learning while other “fast” approaches can make in local communities. This group of process with Martinez and experience Sunday, April 23 to disruptions of collective joy. Join us as we close mentoring elementary youth through art immediate impact. educators will discuss how they work with students on the ground, outside the making at Chicago Public Schools. Learn each day of OE 2017 with celebrations co-hosted by Jane Addams Hull-House Museum classroom, to support local communities, about the process that highlighted their Various locations femme-centric, queer-inclusive nightlife organizers from and prepare students to be socially neighborhood by executing a public mixed #FreeTheYouth: Art an engaged citizens. Structured in a lively talk media installation at the National Museum across Chicago. Artists’ projects will enliven this year’s Incarceration Alternative show format, panelists will be interviewed of Mexican Art. conference with provocative and playful interventions. Matthew Fluharty, Dr. Megan Johnston, individually about their educational Great Space Su Legatt, Donna Neuwirth, Jill Odegaard practice and remain on stage to respond Through dialogic displays of magic, critical race theory, to subsequent panelists. Beauty Breaks: In this interactive youth-led presentation, Black Box representational justice, labor activism, love, and more, learn some of the ways the justice system On Tender Resistance exacerbates the trauma already inflicted on Amina Ross, Sojourner Wright, Jade Perry these activations of the conference model add a visual How Art Making Gave Birth our communities, and see how art can be and poetic vocabulary to our collective envisioning of used as an alternative to jail. Attendees will to a Reparations Campaign Beauty Breaks is an artwork in the form consider the questions, What is justice? (#RahmRepNow) for Chicago of a workshop series. This Beauty Breaks what justice can and should be. How do my racial and gender identities highlights the importance of self-defined Police Torture Survivors spaces for black-identified people along impact the way I experience justice? and Chicago Torture Justice Memorials, a spectrum of femininity. Sojourner What is the role of art in our freedom? Darrell Cannon, Christine Haley, Alice Kim, Chicago Parties Zenobia Wright, will lead a meditation Great Space Joey Mogul, Mary Patten, Mario Venegas on creating safe space within ourselves. From this meditation we transition into This panel will discuss the work of Chicago Friday, 5:30 – 7:30pm KC Ortiz, music by Party Noire’s Saturday, 9:00 – 9:15pm Inverting Expertise: Creative a presentation on Beauty Breaks and its Torture Justice Memorials who organized Party Noire Presents: Black Joy co-founder and DJ Rae Chardonnay, Utopic Monster Theory: origins in language by Amina Ross. The strategies to challenge a call for speculative memorials to recall and additional Party Noire co-founders workshop will then end with a writing Kickback On Democracy the Criminal Justice System and honor the decades-long struggles and hosts Nick Alder and Lauren Ash, exercise led by Jade Perry on Style as a Party Noire J’Sun Howard & Jennifer Karmin Mark Strandquist and Courtney Bowles for justice in the Chicago police torture this evening is sure to be your necessary tool of resistance. We invite our fellow Black artists, activists, Utopic Monster Theory is a polydesirous cases. Culminating in a major exhibition release, turn up, and joyful connection How would incarcerated youth train an activists, and culture pushers to kiki with bricolage of text-movement exploring 21st and series of events, this effort paved the This session is intended exclusively for with other Open Engagement attendees. entire police force? way for a grassroots campaign that won participants of color. Party Noire at Jeffrey’s Pub. We’re here century cultural work. The daily struggles unprecedented reparations legislation for for Black Joy and we’d love to vibe with Stony Island Arts Bank of trying to live in America are amplified. How would former prisoners transform a Jane Addams Hull-House Museum torture survivors. Panelists will explore the other black folk who are invested in the Superhero selves are awakened and city’s reentry services and policies? Saturday, 10:30pm – 1:00am relationship between art and activism and Mirror Casket — Ferguson Protest necessity of Black Joy as a refuge for, and summoned from both imaginary and realist By connecting those directly affected the power of memorials. crucial foundation of, the work that we do. ¡JUST DANCE! realms. A series of poems based on the by the criminal justice system with artists, Art and Beyond TRQPITECA Theater Lecture Hall Join Party Noire co-founders Nick Alder, idea of the American dream exposes the organizers, and policy experts, we De Nichols and Mallory Nezam Lauren Ash, and Rae Chardonnay for this ways we can feel hunted. Searching for the can transform the stereotypes, services, TRQPiTECA is a unique cultural The Mirror Casket is a sculpture and conference kickback. island of Utopia surmises the collective and socio-political platforms that impact The Space in Be-Tween: Teens, platform that creates space for local tactical performance that emerged effort needed to reach that place where all our communities. Institutions, and Social Practice Intended for black-identified artists only. and international artists working Teen Advisory Group (TAG), Museum of during the Ferguson Protests. The casket, are/is worthy. This presentation will showcase originally carried in a procession and 21+ with queer and tropical aesthetics to Contemporary Art San Diego Co-Prosperity Sphere creative tactics and strategies laid at the police line of the Ferguson Jeffery Pub experiment, thrive, and celebrate life. for collectively imagining and performing Police Department to reflect the images Since 2015, resident DJs and co-founders With funding through the American Sunday, 9:00 – 11:00pm more just, creative, and whole worlds. of police and protestors, asks who is Friday, 9:00pm – 12:00am CQQCHIFRUIT and La Spacer curate Alliance of Museums, and partnership Open Engagement Closing Event Great Space with the Tamayo Museum in Mexico complicit, and who is victim. The piece JOY this environment through the incorporation City, TAG explored social issues and is now acquired by the Smithsonian Party Noire + KC Ortiz of installation art, video art, soundscaping, with Slo ‘Mo Party strategies for coping with violence/ NMAAHC. This presentation will engage and performances, with the intention Reunion, Slo ‘Mo Party what makes effective protest art, and trauma-through contemporary art and Being a socially engaged artist can of fostering creative engagement with the The dance floor is a revolutionary place. what happens when protest objects are social practice. Meeting with artists be exhausting. Standing on the frontlines diverse communities of which we Slo ‘Mo, Chicago’s party celebrating slow and community organizations, teens acquired by arts institutions. of activist movements is often draining. are a part. jams and queer community, welcomes researched, held conversations about This session can accommodate Working for JUSTICE takes hard work, Open Engagement fam to come groove art, gaining insight into art and social Co-Prosperity Sphere 50 participants. focus, and longstanding dedication. We’re practice–helping them to imagine, to favs like Sade, Aaliyah, Erykah at here for all of this, and we’re also here develop, and realize projects designed to Screening Room the closing party, hosted by Reunion, educate and reach peers, while engaging for JOY. Join us for Party Noire Presents: Chicago’s LGTBQ and POC centered a wider audience. JOY at the Stony Island Arts Bank on event/coworking space in Humboldt Park. Friday, April 21st. With a performance by Great Space Reunion

30 31 Chicago Projects Open Platform Saturday, 9:45 – 10:15pm Friday – Sunday, 10:00am–6:00pm Sunday, 12:00pm & 1:00pm Rebirth Garments Presents Present Futures: Strategies Jane Addams Hull-House Museum Radical Visibility: A QueerCrip Toward Emancipation Open House with CareForce One Dress Reform Movement Lynnette Miranda, Suhaly Bautista-Carolina, Marisa Morán Jahn, CareForce One Teal Baskerville, Kathy Cho, Henry Murphy, Rebirth Garments Date Open Platform has been designed as a space in the Anthony D. Stepter Jane Addams Hull-House Museum will Rebirth Garments is a gender non- offer spanish and english language Saturday, April 22 conference to facilitate the sharing of many ideas, conforming line of clothing, wearables, In moments of injustice, how do we think tours focused on worker rights issues strategies, projects, actions, and efforts within the field. and accessories for the full spectrum of about the future when the present is important to Hull-House reformers and Sunday, April 23 gender, size, ability handmade by Sky so daunting and fraught? Present Futures: their immigrant neighbors. The tours will Conference goers are encouraged to drop in and out Cubacub in Chicago, IL. Rebirth Garments Strategies Toward Emancipation culminate with a participatory ‘CareForce at their leisure throughout the weekend. Open Platform is presenting a fashion performance with (Part Two) brings together artists and Disco’ workshop facilitated by artist Marisa Location local trans*, queer, fat, disability activists cultural producers whose practices Morán Jahn that narrates the growing presentations are ten minutes long with five minutes dancing in all custom made spandex and work are grounded in the present movement for affordable care, domestic Gallery 400 Lecture Room garments and chainmaille as an act of moment while generating and expanding workers’ rights, and immigration. Tours and for Q&A with the audience. Open Platform presentations resistance against mainstream fashion artistic strategies for making change. workshops will begin at 12:00 (spanish) are free and open to the public. and society. Rebirth is leading the This is a space for arts practitioners and 1:00PM. QueerCrip dress reform movement exchange ideas around and methodologies Jane Addams Hull-House Museum entitled “Radical Visibility.” for self-preservation, self-determination, Saturday, April 22 Open Platform Co-Prosperity Sphere and collective organizing. Sunday, 12:00pm – 2:00pm GBU Gallery We are WITCH: A Ritual Sunday, 9:00 – 9:45am Performance for the Fundamental and police in post-conflict The law is an ever-present force in our Golden Class Language Breakfast Saturday 10:00am – 12:00pm Right of Education Saturday Northern Ireland lives, but its relationship to justice is Shaghayegh Cyrous, Magdalena Sunday 1:30am – 5:00pm W.I.T.C.H. 12:00 – 12:15pm Elaine Forde constantly in flux. In this talk, Graphic Jadwiga Härtelova The Coalition of Docile and Advocacy Project founder Hallie Jay Pope WITCH fights against the use of money and Welcome to Camp America: Like most other countries, policing in explores the benefits and limitations of Golden Class Language Breakfast is Agreeable Femmes of Color for power as tools of oppression, and aims Toward a New Documentary Form Northern Ireland is complex stemming using visual communication to transform an event opened to all OE attendees. the Continuation and Propagation Debi Cornwall to protect and heal those who struggle from a bitter conflict, known as the law into a more just and democratic During the VIP party gentrification of of White Fragility for a more just and equal society. In this Welcome to Camp America is a photo Troubles 1969 – 1998. As a result of the enterprise. Using examples of her own Satpreet Kahlon and The Department for the city will be discussed in everybody’s action, WITCH will create a protective book and touring exhibition about Troubles negative opinions and bitterness work, she discusses why the integration New Member Recruitment and Retainment towards the police are embedded in the own mother tongue(s).The Breakfast is ritual space, and participants can engage Guantánamo Bay, and a case study in of art and law is crucial to the evolution of at The CODAAFOCFTCAPOWF mindset of many people. Elaine Forde, simultaneously a symbolic act, an attempt in a hex against those who prevent others new forms of conceptual documentary social justice legal advocacy. practice. What if we turn away from Project Director at The Playhouse Derry, on new solution-finding strategies, and a The Coalition of Docile and Agreeable from accessing free, quality education as the thing itself and instead expose the will showcase two projects which aim to real data gathering. Despite its dissonant Femmes of Color for the Continuation and well as a protective spell those who fight 1:40 – 1:55pm machinery designed to distract us from explore how the arts interface between exterior, the participatory performance Propagation of White Fragility is actively for this fundamental right. Participants will it? Can disparate materials, jarringly police and communities in Northern Ecstatic Nudes: Reclaiming, aims to ignite meaningful conversations seeking new members! If you are a femme also have the ability to speak about their juxtaposed, provoke a more disruptive, Ireland, and enable communities and Black Joy, Radical Love, & and address specific issues. The language of color who is looking for ways to support personal experiences with education. visceral response than mere empathy? police to humanize one another. Representation dissensus serves to release what unified Ella Cooper white communities as they navigate Peoria Overpass This 10-minute talk investigates strategies tongue compresses. an increasingly hostile world that negates for upending assumptions to increase 1:00 – 1:15pm Ella Cooper approaches the theme engagement across political boundaries. Jane Adams Hull House Museum and threatens their agency and privilege, Artist Working: A Year-Long of justice from an embodied elated we are looking for you! Stop by our booth Durational Performance on Art, resistance that draws from Black joy, for thoughtful dialogue that encourages 12:20 – 12:35pm Caregiving, and Value pleasure politics and Afro-futurism to create new representations of the the much-needed centering of the Weinberg/Newton Gallery: Rebecca Kautz Black female nude. Ella uses her white experience, as well as some sweet At the corner of art and activism Rebecca Kautz spent every day of own racialized body as a site of inquiry swag giveaways! in Chicago one year wearing the same white to develop workshops, photovideo works David Weinberg and Nabiha Khan AEH 5th Floor jumpsuit with the words “Artist Working” & community collaborations as an act Over the past two years, Weinberg/ on the back without washing it. From of reclaiming, locating and re-inserting Newton Gallery has partnered with dozens January 1st, 2016 – January 1st, 2017 she the Black female body within dominant of artists and activists in order to address engaged in performance work as part art, visual culture and western society. some of the most pressing social justice activism, and research. She presents her issues of our time. For each exhibition, documentation and reflections considering 2:00 – 2:15pm the gallery joins forces with a non-profit issues of gender equity, motherhood, and partner in order to use the medium of caregiving in the context of labor and art. A Dictionary of the Revolution: visual art to catalyze engagement and While engaging 21st Century concerns Documenting Public Political activism regarding critical sociopolitical about what art is, who artists are and in Speech in Egypt concerns. Representatives from the gallery what spaces we find them. Amira Hanafi will present Weinberg/Newton’s mission— A Dictionary of the Revolution documents past, present and future. the rapid amplification of public political 1:20 – 1:35pm speech following the uprising of 25 January Terms of Art: How Visual 2011 in Egypt, through a series of imagined 12:40 – 12:55pm Communication is Transforming ‘national dialogues’ prompted by 125 Street Talk— How the arts Legal Advocacy key terms. Amira Hanafi will talk about interface between communities Graphic Advocacy Project designing an art object to engage hundreds of everyday Egyptians in documenting 32 33 Saturday, April 22 & Sunday, April 23 Open Platform Sunday, April 23 Open Platform

political speech. The discussion will focus When does a campaign become something Sunday 1:20 – 1:35pm 2:20 – 2:35pm 3:40 – 3:55pm on listening as a radical act, and how it we do, together? With the first framing. #NEWGLOBALMATRIARCHY Research in the midst of ways of knowing lays the foundation for recording diverse This session resists exploitative marketing 12:00 – 12:15pm Maya Mackrandilal, Stephanie Graham Decolonization: Cape Town, Honey Pot Performance popular narratives. practices by embracing questions we Making A Way Out Of No Way #NewGlobalMatriarchy is an itinerant South Africa A meditation on the value and alchemy of a organize around. Attendees (you!) will Felicia Holman space that exists simultaneously Felicia Mings practice, ways of knowing invites the public come away with a campaign reframing 2:20 – 2:35pm online and in real space. Launched in into a studio workshop mixing dialogue rooted in generosity and reciprocity, not Felicia Holman’s 10-minute presentation on Felicia Mings embarked on a research 2016 by Stephanie Graham and Maya and pedagogy as Honey Pot Performance Organize: A Commemoration extraction or transaction, to support the functions of select ‘artivist’ collectives trip to Cape Town, South Africa to explore Mackrandilal, it has taken many forms, explores this long time multidisciplinary and Celebration of the Biloxi organizing resources to raise funds and & communities in Chicago. the process of instituting diversity from performance and installation to creative collaborative’s hybrid ways of Wade-Ins of 1959 – 1960 recruit members. change in art museums and academia. wearable art and instagram posts. For Elizabeth Englebretson, Gulf Coast Her time in the country coincided with making. In reciprocal acts of knowledge 12:20 – 12:35pm Open Platform, Graham and Mackrandilal Community Design Studio and mass student movements for free exchange, ways of knowing asks the Working at Navajo Mountain. will present current projects from East Biloxi Community Collaborative 4:00 – 4:15pm and decolonized education known as public to share their own stories and Algorithms, Big Data The Implications of Social #NewGlobalMatriarchy that imagine a #FeesMustFall. Prompted by her journey, skills of expertise with us as HPP shares A series of large scale banners hand & Social Justice Practice. future of radical justice, abundance, join Felicia as she reflects on ways to their process of codifying their methods stitched by the College and Youth Stephanie Dinkins Magdalena Jadwiga Härtelova, Ryan Frank and balance. engender equitable and collaborative of art making. NAACP with quotes from participants Hueston, Ella Schoefer-Wulf We will be presenting a video followed by a research practices outside of one’s culture and organizers of the Biloxi Wade-Ins Algorithms are becoming ubiquitous Q+A Session and across continents. (1959 – 1960) Civil Rights action. Final arbiters that govern our social interactions, In a presentation on the Navajo Mountain 4:00 – 4:15pm display forms a gateway leading to the medical records, judicial systems, and so School Project, the project leaders will The Jumpsuit Project Sherrill Roland water allowing for reflection on the past on. Citizens and cultural producers must critically discuss personal impacts of 1:40 – 1:55pm 2:40 – 2:55pm Civil rights movement and the continued understand how algorithms, the artificially social practice and their implications, Bonerkill’s guide to alternative Incarceration: A New Narrative The Jumpsuit Project is a socially engaged demonstrate how the idea of radical fight for equity and justice. More than the intelligent systems they underpin, and big resource extraction Through the Arts art project conducted at the UNC at data impact social justice. It is imperative tenderness can manifest in theory and final installation this was about process (formally known as “How to Justice-in-Education Greensboro during the 2016-17 academic and the power of gathering and coming that those who understand the need for what it faces in practice, and discuss year. Sherrill Roland is wearing an orange Steal”). A work in progress. The Justice-in-Education Initiative [JIE] together focused on a common goal. inclusion and equity participate in the the course of such a project. Part of the jumpsuit to campus each day to raise Bonerkill offers arts and humanities programming creation and testing of smart technologies presentation will be dedicated to future questions about incarceration in our for young people at Rikers Island, and to help keep biases and discrimination out plans answering to the specific urgencies We have been engaging with creatives, society. For more than three years, Sherrill 2:40 – 2:55pm for youth through the Just Arts Lab on of our newly encoded social systems. of the Navajo Mountain reservation in Utah. and writing down a shortlist of favourite was forced to relinquish control of his Abundance: Ancestral crops as Columbia University’s campus, to reflect social hacks. Since this open platform life, and through this very personal project, on justice issues. JIE seeks to help those resilience and research has a Q&A component this will be hopes to provide an opportunity for 4:20 – 4:35pm 12:40 – 12:55pm directly affected by incarceration to be the PansyGuild an opportunity for Bonerkill to open up people impacted by incarceration Stories of Solidarity Draw From Life leading voices in advocating for themselves To investigate the intersections of dialogue and to include new strategies to share their stories and to create a new Glenda Drew, Jesse Drew Mj Merkley and to educate the public about systemic queer, black, and indigenous identities, in our guide. network of support. Artist and clinical psychology student, injustices in incarceration policies as a charlesRyanlong and Ian Kerstetter Stories of Solidarity (SOS) is an innovative Mj Merkley is partnered with Jasper This presentation will be broken down into means to build public support for an end to (PansyGuild) are growing crops of their social media platform and multifaceted House Haiti, a non-profit operating in Haiti three parts: mass incarceration. 4:20 – 4:35pm ancestors. Planting these legacies in the research project that overlaps the humanities, arts, social sciences and focusing on empowering women survivors How to Steal from A Store Deeply Rooted: Excavating same soil allows interconnected histories of sexual exploitation, to produce a 10-day How to Steal from Institutions to literally grow–not simply suggest– computer science. The working group 3:00 – 3:15pm individual & institutional racism includes academics, designers, activists creative arts workshop. The focus was How to Steal from the State catherine SCOTI scott solidarity and allows for the synthesis of self empowerment through an art-based Network Anxieties Design Packets and computer programmers. SOS Bonerkill does not condone or something new. Thus, farming becomes leadership curriculum. James Pierce, Carl DiSalvo Our bodies are the archive of our performance, research, and praxis. Charles addresses enormous problems millions encourage theft, this is merely an core beliefs and attitudes. Our world of workers face today — including low By using artistic projects, creative prompts analysis on social loopholes. When design is dominated by incremental and Ian hope to grow a healing practice improvements and techno-utopian views, attitudes, and behaviors are that points towards abundant futures. wages, insecure work and lack of benefits and psychology healing techniques the all rooted in embodied knowledge that such as health care — through a new women stepped into the art projects with dreams, we believe their is a need to 2:00 – 2:15pm aesthetically engage the shadowy and is embedded in our bodies. Created platform with storytelling, solidarity- open self expression and leadership. as a series of physical experiences 3:00 – 3:15pm building and advocacy at its core. Performing Inequality: contradictory aspects of technologies. Self-Organised Protest and the As a cross between participatory design coupled with dialogue we will mine our Towards a philosophy of bodies and minds to articulate our 1:00 – 1:15pm Politics of the maternal and art intervention, we have been socially-engaged photography existing practices or personal biases Fereshteh Toosi 4:40 – 4:55pm Art and Human Rights: Elena Marchevska experimenting with the release of Network Creativity for Social Change Anxieties Packets. Covering concerns and institutional racism. Participants will Fereshteh Toosi served as the inaugural Hands off Our Revolution This presentation will look at political Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS) from Facebook Likes to weaponized drone sing, move, talk and share based Rhoda Rosen protest, where female activists are raising Dammeyer Fellow in Photographic strikes, our packets engage negative on their personal somatic feedback. Arts and Social Issues, a collaboration Hands Off Our Revolution is a global Can art attract new supporters to the awareness of precarious conditions affective dimensions of networks including between Columbia College Chicago and coalition of cultural practitioners affirming human rights cause? What can result from of maternal experience in economic paranoia, exhaustion, and creepiness. the Heartland Alliance, a global social the radical nature of art and countering the combination of these two worlds? Is neoliberalism. The research is focused justice organization. The result was an the rising rhetoric of right-wing populism, art a good tool for expanding a human on links between Focus E15 Mothers experimental pedagogy project featuring a and its stark expressions of xenophobia, rights organization’s audience and gaining Group in London, #protestiram movement 3:20 – 3:35pm series of hands-on workshops for residents racism, sexism, homophobia and more followers? What challenges would in Macedonia and Black Lives Matter: Art Revolution: Social Engagement of a supportive housing apartment in intolerance. We seek to reinvent social this entail and what is its potential? CELS, Mothers of the movement, in USA. I will in the K-12 Environment the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago. relations, to stand together in solidarity, an Argentine nonprofit organization that analyse the feminist performance protest Stacey Goodman works both nationally and internationally strategies that this movements are using Fereshteh will recount her fellowship year and to think collectively about the In this presentation, artist and educator defending and promoting human rights, (Garoin 1999). of enacting process-based methods of power of visual culture to spur people to Stacey Goodman will present an overview will explore possible answers to these socially-engaged photography. personal and collective action. Hear about of his curriculum taught to high school questions based on our recent work with our projects worldwide, determine how students in the San Francisco Bay Area. we can support your cultural initiatives, this intersection 3:40 – 3:55pm At the heart of this curriculum is the PIE-Q: A poetic reframing for arts and help us define open engagement as course Art Revolution, which brings social & culture campaigning a strategy to keep those corrupt populist practice concepts and projects, as well as hands off Our Revolution! Danny Spitzberg performative work, to the K-12 classroom.

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Date These trainings are offered to provide attendees Saturday, April 22 with skills and tools to help better address creative Date These facilitated small group conversations provide Sunday, April 23 work at the complex intersection of art and social Saturday, April 22 attendees with spaces to explore conference-related justice, with skill-sharing opportunities from professional topics and projects through intimate dialogue. Led by Location Sunday, April 23 facilitators for practicing artists, administrators artists, organizers, and activists, with a special focus Henry Hall 106 and activists to use in the field. Each training can Location on Chicago, each conversation will draw on the work Henry Hall 107 accommodate approximately 30 participants and GBU Gallery, 5th Floor and practice of invited facilitators as a starting point for pre-registration will be available online. Art and Exhibition Hall discussion. The series aims to provide an informal space to reach outside your existing social networks to build Saturday, April 22 & Sunday, April 23 Trainings Each conversation is 50 minutes and new relationships and cross-pollinate ideas with peers limited to 30 participants on a first-come, first serve basis. across this diverse field. Saturday most marginalized: the youth. Working with 9:30 – 11:30am those closest to the issues, THC is closest Fighting adultism within 9:30 – 11:30am to the solutions. Participants will walk Creating Access away with a thorough, often times deeper, and outside organizations Saturday, April 22 & Sunday, April 23 Conversation Series Mayadet Patitucci Cruz Candace Coleman and Carrie Kaufman understanding of Restorative Justice, and it’s importance and power to transform. This workshop is geared towards adults Resistance and movements for justice Henry Hall 107 who want to learn the basics of what Saturday 4:00 – 5:00pm 4:00 – 5:00pm must include disabled people. As artists, adultism is and how to better create ways our strategies are creative and innovative — Prison-Museum-Zoo Assembling and Reassembling: 2:00 – 4:00pm to build youth leadership within your work 2:00 – 3:00pm access must be the same. We will break Risa Puleo and Che Gossett Decolonizing the (Media) Archive and organizations. down the terms “access” and “disability” Identity, Power and Oppression Education in Crisis: Student Debt Alejandro T. Acierto and Oli Rodriguez Henry Hall 106 Foucault explored the logic of the hospital, to better understand what it means to Xavier MaatRa and School Privatization asylum, and prison, but not the zoo or In an effort to reimagine the archive, meet the needs of everybody that comes Participants will reflect on their own Rashayla Brown and Helen Maurene Cooper 2:00 – 4:00pm museum. Curator Risa Puleo shows how artists Alejandro T. Acierto and Oli to our spaces, shows, and events. How identity and how their identities intersect This facilitated conversation will gather the museum operates through capture can we use the tools and languages that with systems of power and oppression. Creating access Rodriguez are trying to remake it. resources and foster collective action we use in art to make the art world Together, participants will develop Candace Coleman and Carrie Kaufman and the prison through collection in her By assembling and reassembling around the decreases in state and federal and our larger society more welcoming practices to name, interrupt and transform Resistance and movements for justice must research into the museum’s history of the media archive to speculate new and accessible to everyone? oppression in communities, workplaces, include disabled people. As artists, our funding for education and the increases collecting people-as-objects. Theorist Che possibilities and other histories, we Henry Hall 106 schools, and day to day interactions. strategies are creative and innovative — in debt incurred by students. We invite Gossett connects the prison to the zoo, can begin to decolonize the images Henry Hall 106 access must be the same. We will break attendees to bring their expertise and forging connections between black radical and ephemera from which colonialist 9:30 – 11:30am down the terms “access” and “disability” community-driven solutions so that we thinking and critical animal studies to discourses are built. Looking historically to better understand what it means to meet Understanding Adultism & can collectively imagine a world where understand the caging and mass killing of to re-invent the present, this conversation the needs of everybody that comes to Building Partnerships with Youth Sunday education is always free for everyone at animal and Black lives. our spaces, shows, and events. How can focuses on what we can begin to do and Xavier MaatRa every age. Local artists, educators, and 9:30 – 11:30am we use the tools and languages that we what strategies we can engage so as to activists will facilitate the dialogue. This interactive training is for adults who TRAP House Chicago: Streetwear use in art to make the art world and empower the historically marginalized. work with youth. Adultism is a form × Art × Radical Restorative Justice our larger society more welcoming and Sunday of oppression that perpetuates age- accessible to everyone? 3:00 – 4:00pm Mashaun Ali Hendricks 4:00 – 5:00pm based stereotypes and limits the potential Henry Hall 106 What is a Feminist Social Practice? 2:00 – 3:00pm TRAP House Chicago is a Chicago based Beyond Narrative: Journalism as for intergenerational power-building. Neysa Page-Lieberman and Response: Funding Social Justice streetwear brand and boutique. All THC Participants will explore strategies to Melissa Hilliard Potter Tracie D. Hall, Mashaun Ali Hendricks, an Organizing Tool products are geared towards sparking 2:00 – 4:00pm dismantle adultism and strengthen skills Erica Mott, Coya Paz, Sara Slawnik, Andrea Hart, Darryl Holiday, to build strong youth-adult partnerships deeper thought and dialogue about root Working at the Intersections: Revolution at Point Zero reclaims Amanda Williams and Harry Backlund for youth-led social change. causes of — and solutions to — Chicago’s Reproductive Justice Includes feminism’s influence on social practice City Bureau is a civic journalism lab Henry Hall 107 crime and gun violence. THC serves those Racial Justice discourse by featuring artists who This facilitated conversation will offer most marginalized: the youth. Working with based on Chicago’s South Side that is re- Aisha Chaudhri, Illinois Caucus exemplify feminist strategies that parallel an opportunity for further discussion those closest to the issues, THC is closest imagining local media. We want to host a 2:00 – 4:00pm for Adolescent Health commonly understood social practice on the topic of funding social justice, to the solutions. Participants will walk discussion around the following questions: TRAP House Chicago: Streetwear This workshop, in conjunction with tactics. We recognize this work as a timely inviting attendees of the Saturday panel away with a thorough, often times deeper, What does it mean for journalism to be × Art × Radical Restorative Justice understanding of Restorative Justice, and “Performing Racial and Reproductive and urgent response to the internationally and others to explore the ideas and an organizing tool? What does it look like Mashaun Ali Hendricks it’s importance and power to transform. Justice: a play and workshop,” will empower relevant socially-engaged art movement. challenges surrounding this work. Local to empower folks to have control over TRAP House Chicago is a Chicago based Henry Hall 107 partipants to identify barriers to freedom We invite you to participate in this in a representatives from the Joyce Foundation information systems, not just through streetwear brand and boutique. All THC and bodily autonomy in the context of conversation to answer the question, What and 3Arts are joined by Chicago artists to race, define reproductive justice and sharing their narratives? products are geared towards sparking Is A Feminist Social Practice? introduce the topic and lead the dialogue. deeper thought and dialogue about root intersectionality, understand how prisons causes of — and solutions to — Chicago’s are a reproductive justice issue, and apply crime and gun violence. THC serves those an intersectional lens to your own work. Henry Hall 107 36 37 create change on personal and currently a PhD candidate standard-setting; advocacy and MFA from School of the Art systemic levels. They’re 2016 in Art History, Theory & media work. Institute of Chicago. Her visual A Blade of Grass Fellows for Criticism at the University of work is collaborative in nature Jacquelyn Carmen Guerrero Contributor Bios Socially Engaged Art. California, San Diego. Cachia and grounded female kinship aka CQQCHIFRUIT is a has curated approximately communities. Cooper’s decade Leonardo Bravo is an artist, Chicago-based multidisciplinary 40 exhibitions over the last long project with nail artists educator, and curator. He is artist of Afro-Cuban and Puerto 20 years in the USA, England, on the West Side has been the Director of Education and Rican descent, originally from Australia and Canada. published as a monograph Public Programs at the Palm Miami, FL. They have performed A artist, public speaker, and and creativity as necessary Art Institute of Chicago. He by Onomatopee, Eindhoven Springs Art Museum and Valentine Cadieux is Director and exhibited across the US and community interviewer. Andy tools of social change. works in North Lawndale as Netherlands, 2017. Paint & Gina Acebo is the Deputy founder of Big City Forum, an of the Environmental Studies internationally in Cuba, Mexico, has worked in communities Baskerville is the Summit the Homan Square Community Polish: Cultural Economy and Director at the Akonadi interdisciplinary, social practice Program and the Sustainability and Canada, and in 2016 they across Los Angeles County on Coordinator at Creative Time. Coordinator focusing on Visual Culture from the West Foundation. There, she and curatorial research project. Program at Hamline University became a certified Reiki Master. projects in public health, the community outreach. From Side, disrupts the narrative leverages over 25 years of New Yorker by birth and Bravo is the co-founder of in St. Paul. Using art and arts, and marketing. India, he has a background in Chances is a collective of of violence on the West experience as a movement AfroDominican by bloodline, Praxis Studio. science approaches to the film & television in Mumbai. queer artists, activists and DJs Side, revealing the long organizer to strengthen Arts of Life Band is a Chicago Suhaly Bautista-Carolina is an political ecology and moral Arielle Julia Brown is a based in Chicago, IL. Since its standing and thriving group of Akonadi’s growth and to deepen based mixed-ability rock ‘n’ artist, educator, and community Sara Black is an artist, economy of agrifood systems, creative producer and social founding in 2005, Chances has female owned Hispanic and its engagement with the roll band with the mission of organizer. Bautista-Carolina is artist-teacher, arts organizer she builds publicly engaged, practice theatre artist. sought to create safer spaces African American nails shops Oakland community. promoting inclusivity for all the Director of Public Programs and curator. She creates participatory research. Arielle is the creative producer for all gender expressions, and the communities that individuals. at the Caribbean Cultural works that aim to expose the Alejandro T. Acierto is an artist, of Black Spatial Relics, a Consortium Cultural bringing together the varied support them. Center African Diaspora complex ways in which things musician, and researcher Lauren Ash is the Founder and new performance residency Accessibility Consortium LGBTIQ communities of Institute and the Community and people are suspended in Debi Cornwall is a conceptual interested in the voice, the Creative Director of Black Girl about slavery, justice and (CCAC) is a volunteer-run Chicago through performance, Relations Manager at the worlds together. documentary artist who breath, and the technologies In Om, a lifestyle brand focused freedom. She is a graduate group of cultural administrators outreach, and WERQ. Brooklyn Museum. returned to creative expression that mediate them. He has on cultivating holistic wellness Black Quantum Futurism fellow with the Center for and people from the disability Rae Chardonnay is a DJ in 2014 after a 12-year career shown and performed works and self empowerment for Bianca Bernardo is an artist Collective is an interdisciplinary the Study of Slavery and Justice community. Their mission is to and event organizer with a as a wrongful conviction lawyer. nationally and internationally women of color. She is also a developing hybrid practices collaboration exploring the at Brown University. empower Chicago’s cultural background Arts Management. Her visual work, informed by and is on faculty in the certified yoga instructor and between performance, intersections of futurism, spaces to become more Denise M. Brown is executive She is also Co-Founder of her background representing departments of New Media and writer passionate about building education, curatorship and creative media, DIY-aesthetics, accessible. director of the Leeway Party Noire and the Founder innocent DNA exonerees, Moving Image at University of meaningful community among cultural administration. Her and activism in marginalized Foundation. She was previously California State University of Black Eutopia. Recently marries dark humor and Illinois at Chicago. people of color. practice is collaborative communities through an associate director of the Bread Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) noted as Chicago’s Best DJ empathy with systemic critique. and she works with artists alternative temporal lens. ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Axis Lab is a community & Roses Community Fund. located in South Los Angeles by the Chicago Reader, she and independent art spaces BQF Collective are creators I am Monica Cosby from the Residency and Exhibitions) engagement platform curating She is currently a member of was established in 1960 in is dedicated to making backs throughout Brazil. of Community Futures Lab in Uptown neighborhood of is an artist-run non-profit cultural programming within a number of boards including response to the Watts Rebellion. sweat on the dance floor. North Philadelphia. Chicago. I come from a long, devoted to providing resources Chicago’s historic Southeast Big City Forum, founded Bread & Roses, Philanthropy The key investment in Praxis Kathy Cho is an artist and rich history and tradition of to emerging artists and Asian corridor, Argyle Street, to in 2008 by Los Angeles- The Block Museum at Network of Greater Philadelphia, Studio by the CSUDH Art & curator whose practice focuses activism for social justice, nurturing a diverse community incite equitable and inclusive based artist, educator, and Northwestern University is a Scribe Video Center, and Design Department is to expand on affect theory, affective labor beginning with my parents. of cultural producers. ACRE’s development with its immigrant activist Leonardo Bravo, is an teaching and learning museum PhillyCAM. community engagement, by and archiving lived experience. I was lost in the cycle and programs support this and refugee community through independent, interdisciplinary whose global program crosses fostering collaboration and Rashayla Marie Brown is an She has co-curated shows for system of incarceration for generative community with the intersection of food, design, project that explores the time and place, and serves as a social change. artist and scholar who works ACRE Projects in Chicago, High twenty years, but have found materials, equipment, expertise, and arts education. intersection between design- springboard for conversations with themes of selfhood, Elisabeth Callihan is Head of Tide Gallery in Philadelphia and my way home. Home, for me, conscientiously produced food, based creative disciplines within of relevance to our lives today. performativity, pop culture, Multi-Generational Learning at Denny Gallery in New York City. is the movement/struggle/work and opportunities to exhibit and the context of public space, the blockmuseum.northwestern.edu global religious studies, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Cho currently lives and works for justice. share work. B built environment, and social Chani Bockwinkel is a performer and activism. Her work has where she creates platforms in Philadelphia. change. Poet and fiction writer Aaron Allison Agsten is Director of Harry Backlund is a City Bureau and filmmaker. She makes appeared in Art Forum, Art for audience-centered public Michael Christiano, Interim Counts has written and read The Main Museum of Los Co-Founder and the Director A Blade of Grass is a NYC ­­—­ interdisciplinary-collaborative- in America, Blouin Modern programs. She organizes the Senior Director of Museum with professors, prisoners, Angeles Art, a new institution of Operations. He is also the based arts nonprofit feminist imagery for the stage, Painters, among others, and has museum’s Diversity, Equity, Programs at the Smart Museum dropouts and scholars. He holds devoted to the art of Los Publisher of the South Side dedicated to nurturing socially gallery, and internet. She is also been shown within and outside Accessibility, and Inclusion of Art, develops strategies an MFA from the U of British Angeles. Previously, as Curator Weekly and works on business engaged art. a founding member of SALTA, institutions globally. committee, and is the project and programs that reflect on Columbia and is the author of of Public Engagement at the development and strategic a feminist dance collective. manager for MASS Action. Allison Rowe and Dulcee Noni Brynjolson is a PhD the nature of the Museum’s the poetry collection, Strange- Hammer Museum, she led a planning for a range of civic Currently working on a queer Boehm are artists currently Candidate in Art History, Theory Initiated by lead artist Marisa institutional practice, with a tongued Names. pioneering program devoted to media and literary organizations feminist film set in religious based in the Midwest. Through & Criticism at the University of Morán Jahn, the CareForce is particular focus on education, creating an exchange between in Chicago, including the movements of 1850’s America. The Creative Justice Youth studio research both artists California, San Diego. a public art project, web series, interpretation, engagement, visitors and the museum Invisible Institute. Leadership Board consists work to understand the political Established in 2013, Bonerkill and mobile studio (CareForce hospitality, installation strategy, through works of art. Asiaha Butler co-founded of young artists and activists Christopher Barahona is an potential of care for both human is an intergenerational / One) that amplifies the voices and other key issues. Resident Association of Greater dedicated to using art to uplift Nickecia “Nick” Alder is Urban Futures Lab Fellow with and non-human entities. intersectional, feminist- of America’s fastest growing Englewood (R.A.G.E.), which Ella Cooper is an award winning our communities and tear down Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Public Matters. He has a B.A. in identified art collective with workforce — caregivers. The Susy Bielak is an artist, writer, she currently serves as the filmmaker, founder of Black oppressive structures. Black Girl Fly Magazine and Co- Visual and Public Arts from Cal occasional invitational guest CareForce’s goal is to spark educator, and Curator of Public president. The mission of Women Film! Canada, photo- Founder of Party Noire. She is a State, Monterey Bay (2016). He artists, focused on collaborative the public imagination around Sky Cubacub is a QPOC Practice/Associate Director R.A.G.E is to mobilize people video artist, educator, impact doctoral candidate & researcher, is a visual artist and musician, art-making and transdisciplinary caregiving relationships. (Gender Queer Person of of Engagement at the Block and resources to force a producer and community & digital content creator & and has a passion for social exchange. Crisscrossing public Color) from Chicago with Museum. Prior to the Block, she change in the community and to CELS, an Argentine NGO, programmer based in Toronto. strategist, engineering online justice, education and the arts. pedagogy, intersectional life long anxiety and panic directed programs at the Walker shift the negative narrative that addresses human rights Her collaborative creative communities and digital stories feminism and contemporary art. disorders. They are the creator Teal Baskerville is an artist, Art Center. Bielak approaches is often heard about Englewood. violations, the intersection work explores the diaspora, that celebrate the complexities of the clothing line Rebirth researcher, and organizer museums as laboratories and Mark Strandquist and Courtney between those violations representation of the Black of Black women and girls. Garments that specializes in from New York City. Her cities as studios. Bowles organize projects and social inequality, and female body, equity and arts for lingerie, swimwear, and clothing Andy Alvarez is an Urban practice focuses on imagining that connect those directly C the structural causes behind social change. Taykhoom Biviji is a for trans* folx and people Futures Lab Fellow with Public and enacting new ways of affected by the criminal justice them. CELS’ strategies include graduate student in the Arts Amanda Cachia is an Helen Maurene Cooper is in with disabilities, as well as Matters. He is a skilled young being and learning together system with artists, advocates, strategic litigation; advocacy- Administration and Policy independent curator from artist and educator with a BA handmade chainmaille. educator, project leader, visual that embrace multiplicity and political stakeholders to oriented research; promotion of program at the School of The Sydney, Australia and is from Bard College and an

38 39 DeAnna Cummings is CEO and and Design in 2012. She has E in New York City. As Programs interactive intervention for the graphic expressions of law that been recognized with a 2016 For over a decade, Afrofeminist co-founder of Juxtaposition Arts exhibited her work in the United Director at Visual AIDS, already existing ALTour, entitled engage, inform, and empower. Artraker Award for Challenging creative ensemble Honey Pot Sara Zia Ebrahimi is the (JXTA) a youth-focused cultural States and in India, including a Fialho facilitates projects and “Landmarking UIC Activism.” the Narrative. Performance has cultivated Program Director at the Leeway Alyssa Greenberg is a doctoral development center in North solo exhibition in Pune in 2014 – conversations around both the an approach to performance Foundation, as well as a candidate in the Department Rachel Harper is an artist, Minneapolis, which is home 15. She resides in Chicago. history and immediacy of the integrating movement, theater, past grantee of the foundation. of Art History at UIC and a educator and founder of Seen to younger, lower income, and HIV/AIDS epidemic, utilizing art G and first-voice to examine Diaz Lewis— comprised of She previously worked as museum professional interested + Heard, an artist project more people of color than the to maintain HIV/AIDS visibility. the nuanced ways people Alejandro Figueredo Diaz- the Development and Comm- Ananda Gabo is an in how museum education, advocating for the cultural city at large. JXTA has created a negotiate identity, belonging Perera and Cara Megan unications Director at Bread & Ben Fink directs Appalshop’s interdisciplinary designer, facilitated dialogue, and works of people age 0 –12. social enterprise business that and difference in their lives and Lewis— creates art to prompt Roses Community Fund. Culture Hub, a grassroots fabricator and social technician. community engagement can trains and employs youth. Andrea Hart is a Chicago- cultural memberships. social change. Based in Los cultural and economic Their experiences have advance social justice. She is a The Edgewater Environmental based multimedia journalist Roger Cummings is a founding Angeles, their practice is development project. He has spanned from exploring the founding member of Museum J’Sun Howard is originally Sustainability Project (EESP) and interdisciplinary educator. principal of Juxtaposition fueled by deconstructing social served on the board of directors world of supply chains, working Workers Speak. from Tennessee. A Chicago is an all volunteer group She is a Co-Founder and Arts, a visual art, cultural, and processes and the symbols and of Pedagogy and Theatre of in a domestic robotics company Dancemakers Forum grantee, whose goal is to create a Eliza Gregory is a writer, the Director of Community social enterprise center that politics behind them. the Oppressed, Inc. and has in China, designing the his choreography has appeared healthy environment and educator, and social Engagement at City Bureau. mentors youth from inner directed the zAmya Theater perfect farm, and building across the Midwest. He was Amy Sadao, Daniel W. Dietrich, a sustainable future by practice artist, who mixes She also currently serves city Minneapolis. Cummings Project. He holds a Ph.D. in labyrinths with a new age cult selected for a residency at II Director, Institute of minimizing current demand media ranging from images as a local news consultant activates relationships between cultural studies from the in their youth. Links Hall, had work Contemporary Art, University while conserving resources for to text to relationships. researching Chicago’s space and place through art, University of Minnesota. commissioned by Chicago of Pennsylvania future generations. Danny Giles is an Her work examines community media ecosystem for the design, independent livelihood, Academy School for the Arts, Matthew Fluharty is an artist, interdisciplinary artist connections, cultural identity, Democracy Fund. and collective social enterprise. Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land is an RJ ELDRIDGE is a and been a sponsored artist at writer, and researcher living working between sculpture, relationships across class, Assistant Professor of Criminal multidisciplinary artist, writer Magdalena J. Härtelova is High Concept Laboratories. Shaghayegh Cyrous is in Winona, MN and Executive performance and installation. and families. Justice at the University of and educator. He is the an artist and curator from a San Francisco-based Director of Art of the Rural, an He teaches at the School of Ryan F. Hueston is an Winnipeg and holds a PhD photographer for Party Noire, Lena Guerrero Reynolds is the Prague. She moves between interdisciplinary and Social organization that incubates the Art Institute of Chicago. interdisciplinary artist in the in Sociology from the City and his writings have appeared civic engagement educator at video art, performance, social practice artist. She was born exchanges to transcend the Giles received his BFA from MFA program at California University of New York (CUNY) or are forthcoming in Obsidian, the UIC Latino Cultural Center. practice, and curating to talk in 1987 in Tehran, Iran and boundaries between rural and SAIC in 2011 and his MFA from College of the Arts. Working Graduate Center. Kweli, The Offing, and others. Lena has a bachelors in History about radical tenderness moved to San Francisco in 2011. urban culture. He is a member Northwestern University in 2013. in drawings, sculpture, and For more information, please from the University of Illinois and response-ability. She is She has widely exhibited and Glenda Drew makes media of M12 Studio, exploring the full-scale installations of visit whoisrjel.com. Amber Ginsburg maintains a at Urbana, and a Masters in currently an MFA Curatorial presented her work in solo and for social change. Through an aesthetics of rural cultures. psychological spaces, Hueston research-based practice that Museum and Exhibition Studies Practice candidate at California group settings in the United engaged-practice she explores Elizabeth Englebretson is builds alternative histories Elaine Forde is from Northern employs her roles as an artist, from the UIC. She believes in College of the Arts. States, Iran, India, England, the working class and other a Public Interest Designer/ that create space for queer Ireland. After spending ten social scientist, and curator. She the power of cultural spaces to Sweden and Mexico. subjects including feminism Landscape Architecture Intern Mashaun Ali Hendricks is a and native resistance and years in London where she works primarily with site and challenge our communities. and the politics of country at the Gulf Coast Community restorative justice practitioner empowerment. D completed a Masters in Fine Art community and objects. music. Using time-based and Design Studio (GCCDS). Her and artist committed to she returned home. She gained Aaron Hughes is an artist, Janet Dees is a curator, interactive media, she seeks to work focuses on placemaking, Stacey Goodman is an artist resolving social issues around a position at The Playhouse H activist, organizer, teacher, focusing on global modern engage in conversations that environmental education and and educator living in Oakland, crime and violence in under- Derry where she managed and Iraq War veteran based in and contemporary art at the amplify everyday struggles. engagement, environmental California. While his interest Tracie D. Hall is the Culture served communities. He owns an international art project and Chicago. His multidimensional Block Museum, Northwestern justice, equitable access to art, in activism and social Program Director at the Joyce the streetwear brand, TRAP Jesse Drew’s work centers on then developed a youth art creative practice operates in a University. Before joining the music, and play, public policy, justice has always been Foundation and founder of House Chicago, and is a 2016 alternative and community project in partnership with diversity of spaces and media Block in 2015, she spent 7 years and ecosystem restoration clear, he believes art allows Rootwork Gallery, in Pilsen - a SAIC Homan Square Artist in media and their impact on the Police. as he seeks out connections, at SITE Santa Fe, where, us to transcend the grind community arts space centering Residence and a 2017 3Arts democratic societies, with a poetics, and moments of beauty among other projects, she Kate Fowler is the Director of the everyday, so that on the presentation of art that Projects artist. particular emphasis on the in order to create projects was a co-curator of the 1st F of Appalshop’s Appalachian our imagination remains has healing, reconciliation global working class. His new Samantha Hill is a that expose and deconstruct SITElines: New Perspectives on Media Institute. Previously, Kate aspirational and our souls and the investigation of book is A Social History of E. C. Feiss is a critic and PhD transdisciplinary artist from systems of oppression and Art of the Americas. worked for Magnum Foundation fully human. street and folk culture as its Contemporary Democratic candidate at UC Berkeley. Her Chicago, IL who transforms dehumanization. as Program Coordinator of focus. Previously she served Stephanie Dinkins is an Media (Routledge). work has appeared in Afterall, Che Gossett writes about queer archival images & material into their Photography, Expanded as Deputy Commissioner of Brett Hunter is an artist, Artist and Professor at Stony Radical Philosophy, and necropolitics, prison abolition, historical installations. Her Jim Duignan is a Chicago initiative, where she directed Chicago’s Department of educator, and facilitator living in Brook University interested in Texte zur Kunst, among others. (anti)blackness, Palestinian current endeavor, the Kinship artist and Associate Professor programming on documentary Cultural Affairs and Special Hornell, NY. Teaching at Alfred creating platforms for ongoing She is a co-organizer solidarity, and how the radical Project, is an archive of over in the College of Education at storytelling at the intersection Events and in non-profit University, he is dedicated to conversations about Artificial of the publication project potentiality of black study/ 150 years of African-American DePaul University where he of social justice and technology. posts nationally. bringing students into the street. Intelligence as it intersects ‘Policy People.’ Prior to moving thought forces a rethinking of family photographs from across founded the Arts Education He is the director of the Hornell race, gender, the proliferation of to CA, she was a resident Krista Franklin’s poems and critical animal studies. Melissa Hamilton is the the US and Europe. Program. He is the founder of Community Arts Center and knowledge and social justice. at the Jan van Eyck Academie visual art have been published Community Engagement Stockyard Institute. Stephanie Graham is a Darryl Holliday is a City Bureau co-founder of Broadway Union, in Maastricht. in Poetry, Black Camera, Copper Co-Director at CultureWorks Carl DiSalvo is an Associate Chicago-based artist Co-Founder and Editorial an arts programing organization Kate Dumbleton is the Artistic Nickel, Callaloo, Vinyl, BOMB Greater PHL. Involved in arts Professor in the Digital The FHI Social Practice Lab at and entrepreneur. Maya Director. He is a Studs Terkel in Hornell. and Executive Director for Magazine, Encyclopedia, and culture for a decade, she Media Program in the School Duke brings together scholars, Mackrandilal, a former resident Award-winning journalist, the Hyde Park Jazz Festival Vol. F-K, and the anthology is committed to justice & of Literature, Media, and artists, and activists through of Chicago currently based multimedia storyteller and and Assistant Professor at The BreakBeat Poets: New understands that art is a vital Communication at the Georgia regional and international in LA, is an artist, writer, and reformed crime reporter. He’s I the School of the Art Institute American Poetry in the Age tool for community building & Institute of Technology. At projects, public interventions, arts administrator. They have also a producer with the of Chicago in Arts of Hip-Hop. Willow Books a conduit for change. She gets ICAH is a network of Georgia Tech he directs the advanced research, and other shown work independently Invisible Institute and a founder Administration and Policy. published Study of Love & Black high on collective dreaming & empowered youth and allied Public Design Workshop: a exchanges. Presenters for OE: and collaboratively in many of Illustrated Press. She has worked for more Body, her chapbook of poems, resource sharing. adults that transform public design research studio that Justice include Pedro Lasch venues throughout Chicago than two decades numerous in 2012. Lifelong Chicagoan Felicia consciousness and increase explores socially-engaged (Director), Charlotte McKay and nationally. Amira Hanafi is an artist and capacities with jazz, improvised Holman is an artist and co- the capacity of school, and design and civic media. (UG), Tamika Galanis (MFA), Alyssa Frystak is a senior in writer working with language as music, and performance . The Graphic Advocacy founder of both Honey Pot healthcare systems to support Shannan Hayes (PhD), Eylul the Architectural Studies a material. She weaves, collages, Ishita Dharap studied Project makes legal concepts Performance (HPP) and the the sexual health, rights and Ozgun Iscen (PhD), and Max Program at UIC, where she is assembles, and sculpts multi- interdisciplinary design at the accessible to everyone using Art Leaders of Color Network identities of youth. FYI is the Symuleski (PhD). also minoring in Museum and vocal histories that encompass Srishti School of Art, Design visual communication. GAP (ALCN). Felicia is also Artist participatory theater company Exhibition Studies. She was the personal, the particular and Technology, Bangalore and Alex Fialho is an independent partners with social justice Services Manager at Links Hall. of ICAH. part of a team that designed an and the ordinary. Her work has graduated with a Diploma in Art curator and arts writer based advocates to create customized

40 41 M. Michelle Illuminato creates art centers in the US, UK and is situated in conversation with as a classroom to generate Leonardo is a Brooklyn-based to improving how we breathe, Museum of Contemporary Art, Visual and Critical Studies from public-exchanges and artworks Ireland. Her PhD introduces their daily labor of maintaining collaborative projects artist from Queens, New York eat, and grow together. In DOCUMENT, Exgirlfriend, Coco the School of the Art Institute to help reveal the complicated new approaches to curating an intentional communities for addressing art’s intersections City. elcleonardo.com Chicago she runs Pyrite Sun, Hunday, and The Hills. of Chicago in 2014 and her BA and often contradictory and museology. adults facing homelessness. with ecology. a catering company creating in Art and Art History from the Eric Leshinsky is a designer, Ann Meisinger is a Chicago relationship between people, sensory art with food grown University of Toronto in 2008. The Justice-in-Education Norman Livingston Kerr leads Alice Kovacik is a graduate planner and artist based in based curator and writer who their culture and the land at The Physic Garden at The Initiative, a collaboration UCAN’s violence prevention of the Museum & Exhibition Austin, TX, where he leads works as the assistant curator Lynnette Miranda is a latinx they live on. She often works Pie Patch. between Columbia University’s initiative and PEACE HUB, Studies program at UIC. She the Urban Ecology studio for of public programs at the curator and writer from Miami, with the collective next question Center for Justice, the designed to address the is a non-profit practitioner Asakura Robinson, a landscape Dr. Elena Marchevska is a Museum of Contemporary Art FL, and currently the 2016 – and teaches at Portland Heyman Center, and the Center violence in Chicago. His goal and cultural worker interested architecture and planning firm. practitioner and academic Chicago. She is a member of 2017 Curator-in-Residence at State University. for the Study of Ethnicity and is to transform young lives in how arts and culture can He is the recipient of awards interested in issues of the the curatorial collective Third Charlotte Street Foundation Race, provides educational through programs promoting inform and enhance the work of from Creative Capital, Baltimore female body, the border Object and currently serves as in Kansas City, MO. Her ongoing opportunities to those healing, self-empowerment community-based organizations Creative Fund, and Austin’s Art and intergenerational trauma. a curatorial fellow for ACRE. research critically examines J impacted by incarceration and and community transformation. and the intersections between in Public Places Program. Her artistic work explores the social and political role Estefaní Mercedes is a Ayesha Jaco is the Co-Founder expands public engagement in Prior to UCAN, he worked for 14 social work and museums. stories that emerge from living of contemporary art, media, Sylvia Limbana is a self taught Argentinian/American artist/ of the Lupe Fiasco Foundation justice issues. years at CeaseFire. in transition. and craft. multidisciplinary artist focused activist/educator who teaches: where she currently serves as Nabiha Khan is a Pakistani- on the black identity. Her Nicole Marroquin is a trans- Using Art as a Political Tool, Valeria Mogilevich is an the Director. She is a Youth L American artist based in practice currently takes her disciplinary artist, researcher the Politics of Hope and Law independent visual storyteller Empowerment Expert and K Chicago. Through performance, The Language Project through histories otherwise and teacher educator whose as Form. Mercedes is a artist in who designs tools and curricula Professor. Ayesha has worked Satpreet Kahlon is a Seattle- photography, and filmmaking (Shaghayegh Cyrous, untold and actively forgotten. current research looks at resident at the Flower City to foster participation. with many Chicago based based artist and community she develops themes of woman, Magdalena J. Härtelova) She seeks to close the gap Chicago school uprisings Art Center, AIM fellow at the She has over a decade of organizations to provide activist who combines oral homosocial boundaries, and examines alternatives of between continental Africans between 1967-74. Marroquin Bronx Museum and a recent experience in community comprehensive social services histories, visual language, foreignness. Khan is part of oral communication by and Africans by way of exhibits work internationally, Art + Law Fellow. engagement strategy and and artistic programming and petty humor to articulate Weinberg/Newton Gallery encouraging discussions in displacement. presents research at national design for social impact. for inner-city youth and their Mj Merkley is an artist getting intersectional experiences where she curates exhibitions one’s mother tongue(s). conferences, and is a parent of families. She also serves as the Damon Locks is a Chicago a masters degree in clinical Initiated by lead artist Marisa through her work. She is a and programming. In an ongoing series of events, two CPS students. founder of Move Me Soul, a based visual artist, educator, psychology with an emphasis in Morán Jahn, the CareForce is curator at The Alice, where she it keeps creating engaged dance company that provides Alice Kim is an educator, vocalist/musician, and deejay. Victoria Martinez is a Art Therapy at the The Wright a public art project, web series, uses her position as an excuse conversations, generating teens and young adults with cultural organizer, activist, Recently, he has been lending transdisciplinary artist and Institute in Berkeley, CA. She and mobile studio (CareForce to hang out with awesome unexpected ideas, professional dance training and and writer. A long-time death his artistic and/or teaching educator from Pilsen. She works as an international One) that amplifies the voices femmes of color. and empowering those life skill development. penalty and prison abolitionist, talents to organizations such as explores installation art, fashion photographer and of America’s fastest growing deemed foreign Jennifer Karmin has performed Alice is a founding member of Prisons and Neighborhood Arts site-specific experiments, manages creative projects in workforce — caregivers. The Jaclyn Jacunski is an artist across the U.S., Cuba, Japan, the Chicago Torture Justice The Lavender Menace Project, Art Reach, the Center printmaking, and painting. NY, London, Paris and Milan for CareForce’s goal is to spark working with themes of Kenya, and Europe. She is the Memorials project, a collective Occupation was developed for Urban Pedagogy, and at UIC. As a teaching artist she luxury brands and publications. the public imagination around community and its boundaries. author of Aaaaaaaaaaalice and that documents the history of from a series of posters and enjoys working with youth to caregiving relationships. She also works at the School Juliana Lujan is a Venezuelan Shanna Merola is an artist other poetry collections. In Chicago police torture through other text based artworks produce vibrant collaborations of the Art Institute of Chicago artist and writer based in Los and documentary photographer Cesáreo Moreno is the Visual Chicago, she curates the Red the arts and seeks justice for that use various printmaking throughout various at the Earl and Brenda Shapiro Angeles. Her initative “Arepa from Detroit, MI. Working Arts Director / Chief Curator at Rover Series, teaches creative the survivors of police torture. techniques to address queer neighborhoods in Chicago. Center for Research and Where I am” aims to connect for civil rights attorneys, NMMA. Over the last 25 years writing to immigrants at Truman Alice teaches writing with visibility politics, while creating Collaboration promoting artist people through the experience Shanai Matteson is an artist and she monitors police activity he has curated exhibitions College, and is co-founder of a PNAP and is also a 2016 Soros art objects that are easily led research and culture while of sharing a meal. Lujan activist who leads collaborative during protests. Her artwork such as The African Presence new housing cooperative. Justice Fellow. You can find distributed through an invisible coordinating programs at received her MFA from CalArts public art and design projects is informed these rallies, in México- From Yanga to her instigating, conspiring, and network of participants. Homan Square. Carrie Kaufman is a white, and is the Assistant Coordinator through Works Progress Studio. from direct actions against the Present, A Declaration of building around the clock. disabled, queer femme working Chicago-based performance of Praxis Studio. She is cofounder of Water Bar fracking companies to water Immigration, the Border Art Marisa Morán Jahn is an artist on alternative structures for Leyla Kiran grew up in and video artist Kirsten & Public Studio. A mother of 2 privatization both globally Biennial III and ten annual Day and the founder of Studio Anthony Luvera is a UK-based accessibility, support, and care. Blacksburg, VA and is currently Leenaars’ practice is place- young children, she is active in and locally. of the Dead exhibitions to date. REV-, an art and social justice artist, writer and educator. The She sits on the board of Project a BFA student at SAIC. She and community-based. Her her Minneapolis neighborhood non-profit. Currently a Lecturer long-term collaborative works Sofia Mesa is a multi- Jessica Moss is Curator of Fierce Chicago, a collective is a recipient of the SAIC participatory works, shown and on water-related causes at MIT, Jahn has published 3 he creates with community disciplinary artist who explores Contemporary Art at the Smart focused on housing LGBTQ Presidential Merit Scholarship nationally and internationally, across Minnesota. books; including Byproducts: groups are exhibited widely themes of social action in her Museum of Art. Her recent youth. She works with Rebirth and the Morton Salt Scholarship. explore a quintessential On Embedded Art Practices, and in galleries, museums Dr. Meida McNeil is an Artist work. In this way her practice project, The Sahmat Collective, Garments, helping to spread Kiran is an active advocate American ideal: the pursuit drives a souped up 1967 station and public spaces such as and performance studies becomes about the process situated two decades of queercrip visibility. Her own art for mental health awareness of happiness. Leenaars is an wagon, the CareForce One. London Underground, Malmö and ethnography scholar. of making, as a well as the contemporary art within India’s and writing focus on identity, and works as an illustrator for Assistant Professor at the Fotobiennal, National Portrait She works as Arts & Culture enduring question of how art social and political sphere and Tonika Johnson is a isolation, sex, and relationships. Shine On, a children’s book School of the Art Institute. Gallery, British Museum and Manager for Chicago Park can function as a foil to the way won the 2014 Forbes India photographer. Her project, publisher that focuses providing Rebecca Kautz is an artist, Su Legatt’s work focuses Belfast Exposed. District as well as Artistic that marginalized communities Art Award for “best exhibition “From the INside,” seeks content for kids who struggle educator and mother of two. on capturing the narratives and Managing Director organize, connect, and exist. of Indian art curated on an to challenge the perpetual with reading. She holds a Bachelor of Fine of everyday life and creating of Afro-feminist movement international stage.” negative perception of Mario Mesquita, Education Arts from the School of the Art Maurine Knighton is the experiences for such moments M collaborative, Honey Englewood as a dangerous, Associate, M.F.A in Public Erica Mott is a multi-media Institute of Chicago, A Masters program director for the arts to be shared and celebrated. Pot Performance. crime-infested community Xavier Danae MaatRa is a Practice, Otis College of Art and artist, cultural organizer, and of Arts in Education from at the Doris Duke Charitable Legatt works to strengthen plagued with poverty by offering community organizer and Barbara Hunt McLanahan, Design. His past education and deviser of performance — Argosy University-Chicago, and Foundation. Previously, she the role of art in her community artistically beautiful images of activist from Southern New Executive Director, Children’s professions, from community a meticulous inquisitor and is currently pursuing a Masters was senior vice president for by serving as a commissioner happiness and normalcy from Jersey. For over a decade Museum of the Arts based research to higher poetic demolitionist. Interested of Fine Arts from the University grantmaking at The Nathan on the city’s Arts and Culture her “insider” perspective. he has traveled the country education, have influenced the in interdependence over of Wisconsin-Madison (2018). Cummings Foundation. Commission. Christopher Meerdo is a as a organizer in the labor way he seeks ways in which interdisciplinarity, she creates Dr. Megan Johnston’s, Director Chicago-based artist who grew Joshua Kent is an Knowledge Lab is a series Shaun Leonardo’s artwork movement, social justice art can be used as a tool for performance experiences at Rochester Art Center up in the Upper Peninsula of interdisciplinary artist working of courses hosted by the negotiates societal workshop facilitator and education and an agent of where mediums and ideas in Rochester, MN, socially Michigan and Lithuania. Meerdo in live performance, writing, School of the Art Institute’s expectations of masculinity, youth advocate. social change. are created in relationship to engaged practice centers on received his MFA from UIC in and sculpture. Concerned with sculpture department. The along with its notions of one another. key questions about art, its Sarah Mallin is a chef, organic 2011. He currently teaches at Felicia Mings is a Canadian- poetics of the commonplace course uses the Columbus achievement, collective identity, display and mediation. She has gardener, medicinal herb farmer, SAIC. Recent solo exhibitions born and US-based curator and Natalie Murillo aka La Spacer Kent’s immersive life practice building courtyard garden and the experience of failure. held positions in museums and artist, and educator dedicated include The Mattress Factory educator. She gained her MA in creates audio art with Techno

42 43 & House as the groundwork, from Chicago’s Englewood currently a research project at Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, and Risa Puleo is an independent neighborhood. Cultural engage and expand audiences Law Office for Citizenship and using HARDWARE machines neighborhood. His works Northwestern University. The the US and is Artistic Director of curator and critic. She is producers Kristen Kaza and in a welcoming exhibition space. Art in Houston, TX. during production and live project incubates art and artists currently curating an exhibition Elijah McKinnon founded the include large outdoor murals, Free Street Theater, cofounder Rhoda Rosen, art historian R.M. Sánchez-Camus is a NYC performance. Raised in the commercial television studios of artists directing their space to provide a collaborative wood sculptures, customized of Proyecto Latina, and was and curator, teaches at SAIC, born and London based artist birthplace of HOUSE music, La and networks cannot develop practices towards the prison- and grounding environment vinyl toys to oil canvases. founding co-Artistic Director of Chicago. She is co-founder who creates social works in the Spacer has been a staple in consistently. industrial complex that will for women, LGBTQ people and The content of his pieces Teatro Luna. of Red Line Service, which form of live events, site-specific Chicago’s underground nightlife vary, but more often than not, open at the Contemporary people of color in creative roles. Lynn Osgood is an urban Jade Perry is a writer and reframes art as a broad social installations, contemporary for the past 8 years. they intersect humor, human Arts Museum Houston in August @reunionchicago planner and researcher that student affairs professional. justice endeavor. She serves circus, immersive theatre behavior, and city life. of 2018. Henry Murphy is a Jackson, works at the intersection of Her mission includes offering The Reva and David Logan on the Board of Hands Off & performance. His work Mississippi native, technologist, Donna Neuwirth is the co- public space, community ideas, & counter-cultural Center for the Arts advances Our Revolution, a global explores place-making, folklore, musician, and creative engagement, and the arts. narratives that will empower arts practice, inquiry, and coalition affirming the radical politics, mythologies and founder of Wormfarm Institute Q thinker interested in issues in Reedsburg, WI. Struck She teaches at the University readers to thrive and creatively presentation at the University of nature of art and resisting right psychogeography. of access and equity at by the parallels in process of Texas at Austin, and is the challenge secular and sacred Therese Quinn is Director of Chicago, and fosters meaningful wing populism. www.appliedliveart.com the intersection of art and principal of GO collaborative Museum and Exhibition collaboration and cultural between farming and art systems toward greater levels Amina Ross is a creator, Courtney Sass is a graduate technology. Henry is a Public which has led the development Studies at the University of engagement at the university, making, Wormfarm began of inclusion. educator and organizer of the Museum Studies Programs fellow as a part of an Artist Residency program of projects for the NEA and Illinois at Chicago. She is the on the south side, and in the ArtPlace America. James Pierce is a designer committed to honoring, program at UIC. She created MoMA and the Studio Museum on a working farm. Out of author and editor of several city of Chicago. and researcher focused on celebrating and the Museum Accessibility in Harlem’s collaborative this fecundity, agri/cultural Out of Site curates cutting books. She is currently working speculative design, design Adrienne Skye Roberts is an reimagining love and darkness. Toolkit, a website that offers fellowship program. programs across the rural/ edge unexpected encounters with a collaborative of Chicago- theory, and everyday social educator, artist, and long- These ambitions manifest ideas for accommodations for urban continuum have grown. in public space, supporting based artist, activists and Move Me Soul is a youth practices. His more recent time volunteer organizer with themselves in many forms, visitors with disabilities. She is contemporary performance educators on the Illinois Deaths Dance Company that fuses Mallory Nezam, Founder of STL research interests include the California Coalition for from video installation to interested in the role cultural artists to create new work that in Custody Project. technique, performance and Improv Anywhere, is a public state surveillance, digital Women Prisoners. She was community organizing. organizations play in creating an engages directly with the public. character development. Teens born and raised in the Bay inclusive environment. artist, cultural producer, & writer disconnectivity, and ghosts. Sarah Ross is an artist whose are empowered to “move” their Area. In addition to organizing who integrates interactive, art- James is lecturer and R work uses narrative and Carrie Schneider is an artist limits on and off stage. Move against Life Without Parole, based play to disrupt routine P researcher at the Jacobs the body to address spatial who is interested in collapsing Me Soul was founded in 2008 Radius is an experimental radio Adrienne works as Restorative and reconnect citizens with a Institute for Design, concerns as they relate to moments across time and by Ayesha Jaco at Austin High Neysa Page-Lieberman is broadcast platform located in Justice practitioner. sense of magic. She believes UC Berkeley. access, class, anxiety and the ability of people to School. The program began sharing creative expressions the Director of Department Chicago. Radius provides artists Cheryl Pope’s project ALWAYS Oli Rodriguez is an activism. Since 2006, Sarah reimagine their space. She with 30 students taking the in public is a political act that of Exhibitions, Performances with live and experimental HERE worked with community interdisciplinary artist working has been working with is a 2017 Fellow with Project class as a gym elective. Today connects & empowers. and Spaces and the curator/ formats in radio programming to members creating a memorial in filmmaking, photography, incarcerated artists in IL prisons. Row Houses and University more than 150 teens participate director of the Wabash Arts support work that engages the De Nichols is a St. Louis-based quilt to express personal stories performance, installation In 2011, Sarah co-founded the of Houston College of the throughout Chicago in several Corridor. She is the co curator tonal and public spaces of the designer, activist, and lecturer incorporating Batik dyeing as a and writing. Rodriguez has Prison + Neighborhood Arts Arts researching the turning programs that develop dance of Revolution at Point Zero: electromagnetic spectrum. who directs Civic Creatives, a technique to share with others screened, performed, lectured Project (PNAP), a cultural of trauma into speech acts. technique, spoken word artists Feminist Social Practice. social design organization that while also building a metaphor Team co-facilitator Rashmi and exhibited his works project that brings together CarrieMarieSchneider.com while enhancing their character. PansyGuild is a collective creates interactive experiences of resistance. Ramaswamy is a licensed internationally and nationally. artists, writers and scholars in The programs additionally of makers dedicated to Ella Schoefer-Wulf is a Bay Area and tools to help changemakers, architect and founder of City Currently, he is faculty in the and outside Stateville prison to provide college readiness investigating and lifting up the Melissa Hilliard Potter is based German-American writer, citizens, and civic leaders Productive, currently working Photography Department at The create public projects. workshops, field trips and intersections of queer, Black, an Associate Professor artist and curator. Her work develop creative approaches on socially engaged design School of the Art Institute of performance opportunities. in the Art & Art History Allison Rowe and Dulcee is a linguistic inquiry on the and indigenous resilience and projects in partnership with Chicago (SAIC). to issues that matter most in intersections between language healing. Through making and Department of Columbia communities in Chicago Boehm are artists currently their cities. and the body. She is currently performative fuckery — we work College Chicago and co-curator and Cambridge, MA. She is Katharina Rohde is an based in the Midwest. Through an MFA candidate at California N towards the Gayvolution, of Revolution at Point Zero: the Program Director for urban practitioner. Through studio research both artists Feminist Social Practice. transdisciplinary approaches, work to understand the political College of the Arts. She co- The Navajo Mountain School O where queers and people of Territory NFP. she encourages creative potential of care for both human curates The Orange Box and Project works with the color live with abundance, Now in it’s eighth year, Propeller Jill Odegaard engages Shirley Ramirez is an Urban processes and dialogical and non-human entities. The Room galleries. Navajo Mountain community bravery, and power. Fund is a Chicago-area granting communities in dialogue while Futures Lab Fellow with Public formats between professionals on restoration of historical organization that supports Cristina Scorza, Education weaving woven structures as When three of Chicago’s Matters. She is a 2016 graduate and non-professionals as urban buildings, documentation of artist-led, collaborative, public- Curator, B.A. in Arts metaphor for community. As leading curators of culture and from University of California, experts. She is conducting S oral history, and passing on oriented projects that are Administration, Baruch College, Professor/Chair of the Art cool got together in spring of Riverside with a B.A. in Public research (PhD) on Critical of craft. It facilitates practical independent and self-organized. Amy Sadao, is the Daniel W. CUNY, M.S. Ed. in Leadership Department at Cedar Crest 2015 Party Noire originated as Policy. Shirley is exploring Urban Practices and Migration opportunities while carrying on Dietrich, II Director at the Museum Education from College, Allentown PA she a simple yet profound idea to Sterling Price is known as how her interest in policy can in Berlin and Brussels. symbolic meaning. The work on Institute of Contemporary Art, the Bank Street College of holds a BFA from Minnesota bring together black creative Pugs Atomz, the Chicago rapper, connect to real world projects, site started in summer 2016. Sherrill Roland is a student in University of Pennsylvania. Education. Over 10 years State University, Moorhead MN millennials in a positive, joyful Radio host, and painter who such as serving her community the MFA program at UNCG. In of museum education Jayla Neely grew up on and an MFA from the MCAD, atmosphere. Nick Alder, Lauren was born in born in Pittsburgh, of East Los Angeles. Elise Sanchez is one of the October 2013, Sherrill went to experience, she is responsible the Southside of Chicago. Minneapolis MN. Ash, and DJ Rae Chardonnay, PA but raised in Chicago’s high school participants who Sara Reisman is the Artistic trial and subsequently lost, and for developing Education and She currently attends The each have impressive individual Englewood neighborhood. executed the design for the Nikkita Oliver is a Seattle-based Director of the Shelley & 11 months later he was released Public programming at MCASD. School of the Art Institute of projects and loyal followers He has released numerous Traveling Minds project. She creative, teaching artist/mentor, Donald Rubin Foundation. from state prison in Washington, Chicago where she studies and have beautifully merged albums, compilations and mix is currently a sophomore, catherine SCOTI scott — and organizer. She was recently She has curated exhibitions DC. Almost a year and a half Art Education with a focus in together their collective passion tapes with key independent interested in photography, and human being, artist, ethnologist admitted to the WA State Bar for the Queens Museum of Art, after being released, he was Photography. Jayla creates work Association to practice law, for black culture, creativity, labels and blogs. appreciates incorporating her and activist bridging ritual, Socrates Sculpture Park, the exonerated of all charges and that caters to those that would and is completing a Masters of and joy to curate what is now Latino roots into the artwork dance and performance, Public Matters is an award- Cooper Union School of Art, granted his innocence. not be typically considered Education at the University of recognized as Chicago’s most she produces. exploring engagement as a winning, interdisciplinary, Los the Philadelphia Institute of beautiful by white standards. Washington. She is the 2014 exciting new day party and Roots & Culture is a nonprofit catalyst to shift ideas and Angeles-based social enterprise Contemporary Art, Momenta Henry G. Sanchez is an Through art making Jayla is able Seattle Poetry Slam Grand Slam hub of one of Chicago’s most art center in Chicago’s actions around issues of that designs and implements Art, and Smack Mellon, among artist whose practice addresses to rebel against norms that for Champion. interesting subcultures. Noble Square neighborhood inequity, social justice and long-term, place-based, socially other venues. social and environmental many years she struggled to established in 2006. Our quality of life. Open TV (beta) is a Chicago- Coya Paz is a writer, director, engaged art, media, education, justice. Sanchez has two conform with. Reunion is a gallery, event mission is to provide career-­ based web platform for and Chair of DePaul University’s and civic engagement projects ongoing art projects; The Colleen Sheehy is Executive space and co-working studio strengthening opportunities Joe Nelson is a painter, television by queer, trans and Theatre Studies department. that advance social change. ENGLISH KILLS PROJECT in Director of Public Art Saint in Chicago’s Humboldt Park for artists and curators and to muralist and graphic designer cis-women and artists of color, She was raised in Peru, Bolivia, Brooklyn, NY and LOCCA: Paul, an organization that

44 45 places artists in leading roles to bodies and expressions through design perspective. Nell has programs to advance business integrate co-productive Weinberg/Newton Gallery is an experiments with quantum and Art History at Northwestern. shape urban spaces, improve the celebration of slow jams consulted on a wide range of and culture of its lower-income methodologies into their exhibition space with a mission free fall and Black folk dances She teaches and writes on city systems, and deepen and community. @slomoparty projects ranging from sites constituencies. projects––particularly when to educate and inform the public of death. early modern European art, civic engagement. Her work is for global NGOs and Fortune authorship structures are on social justice issues. Through contemporary activist art, a Herby Smith has worked Scheherazade Tillet is an artist, For the last four years Sarah concerned with ways in which 500 companies to arts data revised so people who may artwork and programming, the nd art of the 1960s and 1970s. at Appalshop as a filmmaker an organizer and the co-founder Wild has been part of the art and artists play vital roles in mapping tools. have previously been ‘subjects’ gallery provides an engaging She is working on a book on since 1969, producing films of A Long Walk Home (ALWH), Chicago Alliance Against Racist civic life. of documentary texts become environment for discourse on Art & Soul and the landscape of on cultural, social and economic Ben Stone is Director of Arts she empowers girls and young Political Repression and their co-creators. critical contemporary issues the Black Arts Movement Aram Han Sifuentes is a social issues on his home in the & Culture at Smart Growth women of color to find their Stop Police Crimes organizing facing our communities. in Chicago. practice fiber artist. She uses a Appalachian Region. His America. Based in Detroit, he voices, and advocate for gender committee, working on the Witches were the first guerrilla campaign for an all elected needle and thread to explore her films have been shown leads the organization’s broad equality and racial justice. V experiences as a first generation throughout the country from efforts to help communities warriors and resistance fighters, Civilian Police Accountability Owen Toews holds a PhD #’s immigrant. She is a 2016 3Arts community centers to the across the country better Omar Vargas is an Urban and in its inception, witchcraft Council — community control in Human Geography from the Awardee and a Smithsonian Museum of Modern Art and the integrate artistic practice into Futures Lab Fellow with Public was an act of social protest. of the Chicago police. 1Hood Media is a collective City University of New York Matters. He is a 2016 graduate WITCH (Women’s International of socially conscious artists Artist Research Fellow. She Kennedy Center. neighborhood revitalization, Amanda Williams, a visual artist (CUNY) Graduate Center from Denison University with a Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell) and activists who utilize currently has a solo exhibition equitable development, and who trained as an architect, Jamaine Smith is the Trust and teaches at the University B.A. in Sociology/Anthropology. uses ritual, performance, and art as a means of raising at the Jane Addams Hull-House Director at CultureWorks transportation planning efforts. serves on the Groundswell of Manitoba. Omar’s interests are in public the powers inherent inside awareness about social justice Museum (Sept. 2016 – May Greater PHL. Guided by the Advisory Board and teaches Mark Strandquist and Courtney health and urban planning, ourselves to demand justice and matters effecting people 2017), and is a resident at the belief that everyone has innate Fereshteh Toosi’s participatory Architecture at the Illinois Bowles organize projects seeking to impact the world equality for all. around the world. Chicago Cultural Center (Feb. dignity, he uses his creative, art work takes many forms, Institute of Technology. that connect those directly through his attention to detail 2017 – May 2017). strategic, & people-centered ranging from sculptures made David Weinberg is a Chicago- 2nd Floor Rear is an annual DIY affected by the criminal justice and spontaneous ambition. approaches to get down to the from oyster mushrooms that based photographer. His festival of art in experimental Roberto Sifuentes is an system with artists, advocates, “Why?” and create opportunities are used for bioremediation, photographs have been Z contexts, apartment galleries, interdisciplinary performance for growth in individuals, and political stakeholders to films processed in mint tea and exhibited at such venues as and ephemeral and migrant artist and co-founder of the organizations, & communities. create change on personal and W SOJOURNER ZENOBIA began yeasts, and guided walks about the Elmhurst Art Museum, Art projects, celebrating Chicago’s performance troupe La Pocha systemic levels. They’re 2016 practicing Samatha at Naropa Omar Solorio is an the lithium mining industry. Tanya Ward is a Chicago born, Chicago, Loyola University vibrant community of alternative Nostra. #exsanguination - A Blade of Grass Fellows for University. She studied at undergraduate studio art Learn more about her projects Englewood-raised, Engagement Museum of Art, and the Field art spaces. Sifuentes’ new collaboration Socially Engaged Art. Amaravati Monastery in London student at CSUDH and Praxis at fereshteh.net and Social Media marketing Museum. He is the founder and with Jon Cates is currently and currently at Life Force 6018North is an artist-centered, Studio Undergraduate Research professional. With more Executive Director of Weinberg/ touring. Sifuentes is Associate Trans.lation Vickery Meadow Arts Center. She practices sustainable, nonprofit platform T than 15 years in grassroots Newton Gallery. Fellow. He is a McNair Scholar is an arts, culture and energy work through ancestor/ Professor of Performance at and traditional marketing and venue for innovative art and and Vice President of the DH guide relationships and vision the School of the Art Institute Nell Taylor is the founder neighborhood development engagement, she serves the As a choreographer, performer, culture. Located in a dilapidated Arts Collective interdisciplinary journeys. She facilitates of Chicago. and executive director of Read/ organization in the immigrant, arts/entertainment community sound and video-maker, writer, mansion, we create intimate and community organization Write Library and a digital refugee, African American, and curator, Anna Martine meditations at the Shambhala encounters that challenge what Amy Silva is a volunteer as a publicist, blogger of popular dedicated to facilitating the strategy consultant specializing and Latinx neighborhood of Whitehead has presented work Center in Chicago. art is, whom it’s for, and where organizer with California culture, and social media accessibility and engagement of in user experience, data, and Vickery Meadow, Dallas, Texas across North America and and how it’s created. Coalition for Women Prisoners. consultant. Rebecca Zorach is the Mary the arts. discovery strategies from a that combines arts access with Europe. Anna Martine lives in Amy is a research and policy Jane Crowe Professor in Art Danny Spitzberg is an human-centered research and community development. Chicago, where she regularly analyst focusing on ensuring ethnographer who does design perspective. Nell has the rights of children with an nikhil trivedi is a Web community product design as consulted on a wide range of emphasis on issues of racial and Architect at a museum in principal at peakagency.co. Say projects ranging from sites economic equity. Chicago and a social justice masters in social practice art for global NGOs and Fortune hi on Twitter @daspitzberg activist. His activism work Leslie Simon, co-coordinates 500 companies to arts data Sean Starowitz is an artist and focuses on ending rape culture (with Ann Wettrich) Groundswell, mapping tools. the Arts Administrator for the and patriarchy through his role do more than create art, Impact your community. an architectural literacy program City of Bloomington, Indiana. Teen Advisory Group (TAG), as a volunteer educator for at City College of San Francisco. Notable projects include the Museum’s teen program, Rape Victim Advocates. He is Team co-facilitator Helen Slade Fresh Bread, BREAD! KC and explores social issues through co-creator of visitorsofcolor. is a licensed architect, and Byproduct: The Laundromat. contemporary art; teens gain tumblr.com. A one-year masters program for one of the midwest’s 1st the Executive Director of insight into social practice — social practice art programs. He has also explored curatorial TRQPiTECA is an art and students in music, art & design, Territory NFP. She has been a recontextualizing the use of projects such as The Speakeasy, nightlife event that celebrates practicing curator and public art to address social issues theatre or creative writing. and Vagabond, Kansas City’s the art and dance music of artist since 1989. In 2011 she and activism. premiere pop-up restaurant. queer and tropical cultures. and architects Mike Newman COURSES IN: Creative Placemaking • Social Practice Anthony D. Stepter is the Territory Urban Design Team CQQCHIFRUIT and La Spacer and Rashmi Ramaswamy Grant Writing • Urban & Community Sociology graduate program coordinator is young people ages 14–21 who founded TRQPITECA in January launched Territory Urban Design for Museum and Exhibition want to create a better Chicago 2015, and have performed and Social Entrepreneurship Team in Albany Park. Studies at University of Illinois working in the communities toured together across the US. Sara Slawnik is Director of where they live and learn. Team at Chicago. As an independent Devon Tsuno is an LA artist Programs at 3Arts, a nonprofit members are recruited from curator, Stepter has and Assistant Professor at organization that advocates local high schools. Each team organized projects for ACRE, CSUDH. His long-term interest FOR MORE INFORMATION, for Chicago’s women artists, member brings life experiences the Washington Park Arts in community engagement and VISIT UINDY.EDU/SOCIALART artists of color, and artists with that inspire, define and inform Incubator at the University of water has been central to his disabilities. She has worked in our work. Chicago, and Chicago’s 2nd work at the Hammer Museum nonprofit arts administration Floor Rear festival. Va-Megn Thoj is co-founder Venice Beach Biennial, iMOCA for fifteen years leading Miriam Stevens is the founder and Executive Director of and Current: LA Biennial. He initiatives in program and executive director of Read/ Asian Economic Development is a SPArt Grantee, CCF Fellow, development and fundraising. Write Library and a digital Association. AEDA responds and co-founder of Praxis Studio. Slo ‘Mo is Chicago’s party for to the needs of the Asian strategy consultant specializing Gemma-Rose Turnbull’s lovers with Kristen Kaza and community centered around in user experience, data, and research interests lie with the Audio Jack, and is a party that the Green light rail transit line discovery strategies from a ways in which photographers unites people of all identities, human-centered research and in St. Paul, offering economic 46 47 Credits:

Front and back cover: Brontë Price, Chicago Torture Justice Memorial first participatory memorial action with Amnesty International on April 4, 2014.

UIC Map: Ricardo Garcia

Text & design edits: Amanda Sanchez