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Art Design Chicago, an initiative of the Terra Foundation EXHIBITIONS for American Art, is a spirited celebration of the 2 unique and vital role Chicago plays as America’s crossroads of creativity and commerce. Throughout 2018, EXHIBITIONS Art Design Chicago presents a dynamic convergence BEYOND CHICAGO of more than 30 exhibitions and hundreds of public 18 programs, along with publications, conferences, and symposia. Together, they tell the stories of the artists and designers who defined and continue to propel PROGRAMS & EVENTS Chicago’s role as a hub of imagination and impact. 20

From art displayed on museum walls to mass-produced GALLERIES & MORE consumer goods, Chicago’s singular creative contributions 26 are showcased in this citywide partnership of more than 75 museums, art centers, universities, and other cultural organizations both large and small. MAPS 28 May 12–Oct 28, 2018 Never a Lovely So Real: Photography and Film in Chicago, 1950–1980 Art Institute of Chicago 111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago 312.443.3600

This exhibition looks at artists who worked across Chicago from the 1950s through the 1970s and commented in EXHIBITIONS images and film on the life of the communities to which they belonged or were granted intimate access as outsiders. Visit ArtDesignChicago.org Using the Art Institute’s photography for the most up-to-date information collection as a springboard, Never a Lovely So Real presents personal and and a full calendar of events. public narratives that defined the city during some of the most pivotal cultural and social transformations. Seen together, these works reveal Chicago’s character: lovely and real. « Billy Abernathy, Mother’s Day (detail) from the series Born Hip, 1962. The Art Institute of Chicago.

Apr 28–Dec 30, 2018 Jun 28–Sep 30, 2018 FREE Picture Fiction: Kenneth Josephson A Johnson Publishing Story and Contemporary Photography Stony Island Arts Bank Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 6760 South Stony Island Avenue, Chicago 220 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago 312.857.5561 312.280.2660 Founded in 1942 by publisher and art Chicago-based photographer Kenneth collector John H. Johnson, the Johnson Josephson changed the way we think Publishing Company (JPC) rose to promi- about pictures. His pioneering concep- nence due to the widespread popularity tual photography pushes the boundaries of its magazines, including Ebony and of the medium, demonstrating that Jet. Through books, periodicals, ephem- photographs are not neutral; on the era, paintings, sculptures, and custom- contrary, they convey an idea in addition designed office furnishings from the to a picture. This exhibition considers JPC archives and collections held by the Josephson’s influence on artists of all Rebuild Foundation, this installation kinds, highlighting links between him explores the enduring role of Johnson and and other contemporary artists working JPC in defining and popularizing a black in photography, film, and sculpture. aesthetic and identity around the globe. » Kenneth Josephson, » Installation view Matthew again (detail), 1980. at Stony Island Arts Bank. Stephen Daiter Gallery. Photo: David Sampson.

2 EXHIBITIONS 3 Jun 29, 2018–Jan 6, 2019 Chicago Calling: Art Against the Flow FREE Aug 3–Sep 30, 2018 Intuit: The Center for LIONS: Founding Years Intuitive and Outsider Art of UIMA in Chicago 756 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art 312.243.9088 2320 West Chicago Avenue, Chicago 773.227.5522 In the world of self-taught art, Chicago is renowned as a center for the genre. This exhibition explores the history of However, outside those circles, Chicago the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art has not been well recognized for its (UIMA), established in 1971 and located leading role. Chicago Calling reclaims in Chicago’s Ukrainian Village neighbor- the city’s status as a preeminent advo- hood. Artworks by the museum’s émigré cate of art from the edge through the lens founders are shown with selections from of 10 exemplary Chicago artists. The UIMA’s extensive collection of ephem- Art Against the Flow Summit, Nov 1–3, era, illustrating the organization’s artistic explores more about this exciting history. endeavors as well as the challenges of See page 19 for additional venues representing a visible immigrant commu- hosting this exhibition. nity in the United States. » Joseph Yoakum, The Mounds of Pleasure ∕ » UIMA artist co-founder on JA Brimms Farm Near Walnut Grove... Konstantin Milonadis, late 1950s (detail). (detail), 1970. Collection of Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art. Richard and Ellen Sandor Family.

Jul 12–Sep 14, 2018 Sep 3–Dec 23, 2018 FREE FREE Sculpting a Chicago Artist: Living Architecture Richard Hunt and his Teachers 6018North Nelli Bar and Egon Weiner 6018 North Kenmore Avenue, Chicago Koehnline Museum of Art, 773.271.4918 Oakton Community College Chicago has long served as a hub where 1600 East Golf Road, Des Plaines creative people of different cultures, 847.635.2633 customs, and perspectives collide Internationally-renowned sculptor and converge. Living Architecture is Richard Hunt developed his talent in the a timely, multidisciplinary exhibition 1950s at the School of the Art Institute showcasing work of more than 50 of Chicago with the guidance of two local contemporary immigrant artists. dynamic teachers: Nelli Bar and Egon Located at 6018North, a historical home Weiner. Bar and Weiner were both of a in Edgewater built and designed by generation of artists who fled Europe immigrants, the exhibition draws from after the rise of the Nazi regime and made Chicago’s rich heritage of immigrant Chicago their new home for their artis- artists’ work to highlight their continu- tic ambitions. Featuring works by all three ous influence on visual culture locally artists, this exhibition explores creative and nationally. influence across generations. « Kirsten Leenaars, (Re)Housing « Richard Hunt in Chicago (detail), 1962. the American Dream: A Message from the Courtesy of Richard Hunt. Future (detail), 2017.

4 EXHIBITIONS 5 FREE Sep 6–Dec 16, 2018 Yasuhiro Ishimoto: Someday, Chicago DePaul Art Museum A spiky sun 935 West Fullerton Avenue, Chicago 773.325.7506

Japanese-American photographer Yasuhiro Ishimoto lived in Chicago for sinking beneath nearly a decade and returned to the city throughout his life. It was in Chicago that he first developed his uniquely modern- ist vision—both at the historic Institute some very of Design and in the city’s streets. Someday, Chicago traces Ishimoto’s arrival in the city after internment in Colorado, his documentation of Chicago’s diverse neighborhoods, and his later abstract rolling hills. and architectural work made in Japan. « Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Untitled, Chicago (El Over River) (detail), c. 1950. So rolling. DePaul Art Museum. The rollingest. Sep 6, 2018–May 3, 2019 Participatory Arts: Crafting Social Change Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) 800 South Halsted Street, Chicago 312.413.5353

Hull-House settlement, established by social reformer Jane Addams, served as an early and influential site for the visual and performing arts in Chicago. Featuring artworks and artifacts from the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and Special Maybe you should Collections at UIC, the exhibition reveals the significant impact of Hull-House art programs—such as book-binding, ceram- just go see it. ics, theater arts, and art therapy—on Chicago’s art and design legacy. A symposium and workshop series accompany the exhibition. Can you find the art in this guide that matches » Hull-House Community Workshop, Federal Art Project, WPA, 1938. the description above? (Answer on page 27.) Library of Congress.

6 EXHIBITIONS 7 Sep 8, 2018–Jan 6, 2019

FREE Sep 6, 2018–Feb 17, 2019 Gilded Chicago: Portraits of an Era Todros Geller: Strange Worlds The Richard H. Driehaus Museum Spertus Institute for Jewish 40 East Erie Street, Chicago Learning and Leadership 312.482.8933 610 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago 312.322.1700 This intimate exhibition focuses on prominent Chicago citizens and portraits Todros Geller was an influential Chicago they commissioned during the late 19th artist who was central to modern and early 20th centuries, when both American Jewish art. He believed art the newly wealthy and established elite to be a powerful agent for change and sought out artists who could highlight his work addressed social and political their social standing and personal afflu- concerns that still challenge us today. ence. The portraits of Gilded Age Chicago- This exhibition draws primarily from ans—with familiar names like McCormick, Spertus Institute’s collection, which Field, Pullman, and Nickerson—are hung includes extensive Geller holdings. More where the Nickerson family originally than 30 works are on view, the major- displayed their art and design collection, ity for the first time, along with unique which was donated to the Art Institute of archival material. Chicago in 1900. » Todros Geller, South of Chicago » William Merritt Chase, (detail), 1937. Spertus Institute, Chicago. Myra Reynolds (detail), late 19th century. Smart Museum of Art.

Sep 8, 2018–Jan 13, 2019 The Figure and the Chicago Imagists: Sep 8, 2018–Jan 6, 2019 Selections from the Treasures from the White City: Elmhurst College Art Collection The Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 Elmhurst Art Museum The Richard H. Driehaus Museum 150 South Cottage Hill Avenue, Elmhurst 40 East Erie Street, Chicago 630.834.0202 312.482.8933 The Chicago Imagists cast the figure in On the occasion of the 125th anniversary numerous roles, distorting and layering of the World’s Columbian Exposition, it with metaphor and personal meaning. this exhibition displays original objects Outrageous, irreverent, humorous, and and memorabilia designed for and exhib- inspired by popular culture, these works ited at the fair, drawn from the Driehaus reflect highly original expressions of Museum’s collection and the Richard H. human form. This exhibition features the Driehaus private collection. The his- Elmhurst College Art Collection, focused toric Nickerson Mansion, the residence on artists working in Chicago between that now houses the museum, hosted a about 1950 and the present. The exhibition large reception in 1893 celebrating the is curated by Suellen Rocca, an original Chicago World’s Fair. member of the prominent Imagist group known as the Hairy Who. « Tiffany and Gorham exhibits in the Manufactures Building, 1893. « Barbara Rossi, Shep Step II, 1973 (detail). Elmhurst College Art Collection.

8 EXHIBITIONS 9 Sep 13, 2018–Mar 4, 2019 Sep 18–Dec 9, 2018

The Art and Influence of FREE Up is Down: Mid-Century Dr. Margaret T. Burroughs Experiments in Advertising and Film DuSable Museum of at the Goldsholl Studio African American History Block Museum of Art, 740 East 56th Place, Chicago Northwestern University 773.947.0600 40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston 847.491.4000 Influential Chicago artist, writer, and cultural leader Margaret Burroughs Up is Down examines the work and co-founded the DuSable Museum in impact of Chicago-based design studio 1961 and was instrumental in creating Goldsholl Design Associates, which the South Side Community Art Center rose to prominence in the 1950s in 1940. This exhibition explores Dr. with inventive “designs-in-film.” The Burroughs’s art, legacy, and impact studio’s clients included international during the 1960s and 1970s, and investi- corporations such as Motorola and gates how her practice and philosophies Kimberly-Clark. Films, television ads, continue to shape and influence institu- print campaigns, and experimental tions and artists to this day. Presented light works provide a context for under- in partnership with the Smart Museum standing Chicago as a testing ground as part of South Side Stories. for ideas connecting art, design, and film. « Margaret T. Burroughs, « Goldsholl Design Associates, Untitled, 1962. DuSable Museum Still from Kleenex X-Periments: Sneeze of African American History. (detail), c. 1960. Chicago Film Archives.

Sep 13–Dec 30, 2018 Sep 18–Dec 9, 2018 FREE FREE The Time is Now! Art Worlds of Break a Rule: Ed Paschke’s Chicago’s South Side, 1960–1980 Art and Teaching Smart Museum of Art, Block Museum of Art, The University of Chicago Northwestern University 5550 South Greenwood Avenue, Chicago 40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston 773.702.0200 847.491.4000

In the 1960s and 1970s Chicago’s cul- Ed Paschke is celebrated as one of the tural landscape was shaped by the South leading Chicago Imagists, a group of Side’s vibrant art worlds. The Black artists who emerged in the late 1960s Arts Movement, the Community Mural with an expressive style of figurative Movement, and the Chicago Imagists painting rooted in Surrealism, outsider represent the dynamic community of art, and popular culture. Less is known artists living, working, and exhibiting of his almost 30 years teaching art and on the South Side who charted new artists at Northwestern University. This artistic courses, challenged the political show celebrates his legacy as an educator status quo, created new spaces for art, with artworks by Paschke alongside his and reimagined the future. Presented in teaching material from the Northwestern partnership with the DuSable Museum University Archives and loans from Marc as part of South Side Stories. Paschke and Sharon Paschke. » Gerald Williams, Messages (detail), 1970. » Ed Paschke, Ponderosa (detail), 1991. Smart Museum of Art. Block Museum of Art.

10 EXHIBITIONS 11 Sep 27, 2018–Jan 6, 2019 Oct 11–Dec 21, 2018 Hairy Who? 1966–1969 FREE Art Institute of Chicago The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold: 111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago Art, Identity, and Politics 312.443.3600 Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago This is the first major comprehensive 600 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago retrospective focused exclusively on the 312.663.5554 groundbreaking Hairy Who, held on the 50th anniversary of their final Chicago During the tumultuous 1960s and 1970s, show. Beginning at the Hyde Park Art the prolific artist Ralph Arnold made Center in the late 1960s, this self-named, photocollages that appropriated and self-organized group of six artists—Jim commented upon mass-media portrayals Falconer, Art Green, Gladys Nilsson, Jim of gender, sexuality, race, and politics. Nutt, Suellen Rocca, and Karl Wirsum— This exhibition showcases Arnold’s com- presented six exhibitions across the coun- plex visual arrangements of photography, try in just four short years. Together, their painting, and text that built upon his inventive and outrageous artwork, comic own multilayered identity as a black, book publications, and posters trans- gay veteran and prominent member of formed the landscape of art in Chicago Chicago’s art community. and beyond. » Ralph Arnold, Who You ∕ Yeah Baby (detail), » Jim Nutt, Miss E. Knows, 1967. c. 1968. DePaul Art Museum. Reproduced The Art Institute of Chicago, Twentieth- with permission from The Pauls Foundation. Century Purchase Fund. © Jim Nutt.

Sep 28–Dec 31, 2018 Oct 11–Dec 21, 2018 FREE FREE Pictures from an Exposition: Echoes: Reframing Collage Visualizing the 1893 World’s Fair Museum of Contemporary Photography Newberry Library at Columbia College Chicago 60 West Walton Street, Chicago 600 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago 312.943.9090 312.663.5554

As the grandest international spectacle in A companion to The Many Hats of Ralph a great age of spectacles, the 1893 World’s Arnold, this exhibition examines paral- Columbian Exposition held in Chicago lels between Chicago-based artist Ralph captured the public’s imagination through Arnold, who made photocollages in a dazzling array of visual images, from pho- the 1960s and 70s, and 21st-century artists tographs, paintings, and illustrated albums working with similar media, including to souvenirs, guidebooks, magazine Wardell Milan, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, features, and popular histories. Featuring Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Ayanah Moor, Krista works of art, manuscripts, books, and Franklin, and Xaviera Simmons. These ephemera from the Newberry’s collection, contemporary works further deepen our this exhibition explores the fair’s tremen- understanding of Arnold’s lasting contri- dous power of attraction. bution to Chicago’s creative legacy. « Hubert Howe Bancroft, A Summer Day « Wardell Milan, Early Spring, at the Exposition from “The Book of the Fair” The Charming Evening (detail), 2014. (detail), 1893. The Newberry Library. Museum of Contemporary Photography.

12 EXHIBITIONS 13 Oct 27, 2018–Mar 3, 2019

FREEAfrican American Designers in Chicago: Art, Commerce, and the Politics of Race A frozen, Chicago Cultural Center 78 East Washington Street, Chicago 312.744.3316

Celebrating the works of Chicago-based smoky, snow- graphic artists in fields ranging from sign-painting to product design, this exhibition is the first to demonstrate how African American designers remade covered the image of the black consumer and the work of the black artist in a major hub of American advertising and consumer culture. A symposium, The Designs of factoryscape. African American Life, on November 2–3 explores current work in the field, beyond graphic arts and beyond Chicago. « Robert Savon Pious, American Negro It’s quite Exposition (detail), 1940. Ryerson and Burnham Archives, lovely. The Art Institute of Chicago. Oct 27, 2018–Mar 3, 2019 FREE Keep Moving: Designing Chicago’s Bicycle Culture Chicago Design Museum at Expo 72 72 East Randolph Street, Chicago 312.894.6263

At the end of the 19th century, the popularity of the bicycle in America was at an apex and Chicago-based manufacturers were producing the majority of American- made bicycles. However, in just a few decades the industry was a shell of its Maybe you should former self, as consumer focus shifted to cars, planes, and surviving the Great just go see it. Depression. This exhibition explores how bicycle design in Chicago contrib- uted to the early popularity of bicycles in America, their survival through the 20th century, and their resurgence today. Can you find the art in this guide that matches » America Cycle Manufacturing Company, the description above? (Answer on page 27.) Advertisement for “The America” (detail), c. 1898. Chicago Design Museum.

14 EXHIBITIONS 15 Oct 27, 2018–Dec 2, 2019

Modern by Design: FREE Chicago Streamlines America Nov 1, 2018–Feb 15, 2019 Chicago History Museum Where the Future Came From 1601 North Clark Street, Chicago Glass Curtain Gallery 312.642.4600 at Columbia College Chicago With more than 300 objects, photo- 1104 South Wabash Avenue, graphs, and documents dating from the 1st Floor, Chicago 1930s–1950s, many on view for the 312.369.6643 first time, this exhibition reveals how Chicago brought cutting-edge modern Self-propelled, artist-run spaces have been design to the American marketplace the lifeblood of Chicago’s contemporary on a scale unmatched by any other city. art scene. Serving as an open participatory Innovative designs coupled with the research lab, Where the Future Came might of Chicago’s manufacturing and From focuses on the role of feminist artist- distribution infrastructure led to mass run activities in Chicago from the late 19th production of affordable products featur- century to the present. ing a new urban-inspired aesthetic that furnished public and private spaces » Eleanor Boyer and Karen Peugh across the country. taping the Festival de Mujeres, 1979. Photo: Wayne Boyer. » Furniture sketch by Wolfgang Hoffmann for Howell (detail), c. 1935. Chicago History Museum.

FREE FREE Nov 3, 2018–Mar 2, 2019 Nov 1–Dec 15, 2018 Change the Canvas, Change the World: Chicago New Media, 1973–1992 A Landscape of Cultural Discovery Gallery 400, College of South Side Community Art Center Architecture and the Arts, 3831 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago University of Illinois at Chicago 773.373.1026 400 South Peoria Street, Chicago 312.996.6114 In the first half of the 20th century, Chicago was being transformed by suc- Featuring video game artifacts, new media cessive waves of black migrants from technologies, historical photographs, the rural South who brought visions game stills, playable video game consoles, of a better future and a desire to find and virtual reality modules, this exhibition a home to freely express their creative illuminates the largely untold story of the potential—a place unbound by racial contributions of Chicago-based artists and repression. This exhibition explores the organizations to the history of new media. work and careers of the groundbreak- Organized by Video Game Art Gallery. ing artists who created the South Side Community Art Center, and who made Dan Sandin, Tom DeFanti, and « the city a hub of black cultural life. Mimi Shevitz, Spiral PTL (detail), 1980. Video Data Bank. « Elizabeth Catlett, Black Maternity (detail), 1959. South Side Community Art Center.

16 EXHIBITIONS 17 BEYOND CHICAGO Sep 8, 2018–Jan 6, 2019 3-D Doings: The Imagist Object in Chicago Art, 1964–1980 Jul 14–Dec 31, 2018 Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum FREE Art of Illinois and Art Gallery at Skidmore College Illinois Governor’s Mansion Saratoga Springs, NY 410 East Jackson Street, Springfield 518.580.8080 217.782.2526 This exhibition explores the sculptural Art of Illinois is the inaugural exhibition work and dimensional paintings of of the Governor’s Mansion in Springfield Chicago artists who invented their own following a major architectural resto- kind of pop art: Chicago Imagism—a ration; and it examines the creative warmer, more personal, and humorous achievements of artists and designers strain of pop in contrast with varieties working in Illinois from the mid-19th cen- in New York and London. The first in- tury to the present, many from Chicago. depth exploration of the overall affinity Approximately 100 significant examples of Imagist artists for the object, 3-D of painting, sculpture, furniture, metal- Doings expands the Imagist legacy to work, ceramics, and glass demonstrate audiences beyond Chicago. A sympo- the historical depth, richness, and diver- sium on Oct 25–26 brings together many sity of the state’s creative legacy. of the exhibiting artists for a dialogue, gallery talk, and panel discussion. « Manierre Dawson, Desert (detail), 1920. ( ) Illinois State Museum. « Karl Wirsum, Armpits detail , 1963. Private collection.

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Aug 25, 2018–Jan 6, 2019 Chicago Calling: Art Against the Flow New to Mia: Art from Chicago Charles White: A Retrospective Minneapolis Institute of Art Mar–Aug 2019 2400 Third Avenue South, Minneapolis Oct 7, 2018–Jan 13, 2019 Halle Saint Pierre, Paris 612.870.3000 The Museum of Modern Art, New York Sep 2019–Jan 2020 212.708.9400 This exhibition includes a broad range of Prinzhorn Collection, work by artists who have called Chicago Feb 17–June 9, 2019 Heidelberg, Germany home. It features recent gifts to Mia’s Los Angeles County Mar–Aug 2020 collection from critic Dennis Adrian and Museum of Art, Los Angeles Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne art historian Richard Born, both champi- 323.857.6000 ons of Chicago art of the 1960s–1980s. Sep 2020–Mar 2021 Initially presented at the Roger Brown, (detail), 1971. Outsider Art Museum, Amsterdam » Skyscraper Art Institute of Chicago. Minneapolis Institute of Art. Visit ArtDesignChicago.org Initially presented at Intuit: for more information. The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art. See page 4 for description.

18 BEYOND CHICAGO 19 Sep 27–30, 2018 EXPO CHICAGO Festival Hall, Navy Pier 600 East Grand Avenue, Chicago 312.867.9220 PROGRAMS Every September, EXPO CHICAGO hosts leading international art galleries alongside one of the highest-quality platforms & EVENTS for global contemporary art and culture. On September 28, EXPO CHICAGO 2018 presents Present Histories: Art & Design in This section includes just a sampling of the hundreds of Chicago, a day-long series of panels, perfor- tours, talks, and special events featured as part of Art mative interventions, screenings, and book Design Chicago. Visit ArtDesignChicago.org for the most signings tracing the legacies of Chicago’s alternative models in art and design, and up-to-date information and a full program calendar. their continued impact internationally. » Courtesy of EXPO CHICAGO.

FREE Sep 15, 2018 FREE 11 am–6 pm Sep 29, 2018 1–6 pm Celebrating South Side Stories The Roundhouse at Creative Chicago: DuSable Museum of An Interview Marathon African American History Aon Grand Ballroom, Navy Pier 740 East 56th Place, Chicago 600 East Grand Avenue, Chicago 773.947.0600 312.605.8444

This event celebrates the historic and A multi-dimensional look at creativity in ongoing role of art and design in growing the city, the first U.S. marathon conducted communities and strengthening neighbor- by London-based Serpentine Galleries hoods on Chicago’s South Side. At several curator Hans Ulrich Obrist features con- locations, participants will experience versations with Theaster Gates, Jeanne this rich history through a variety of activ- Gang, Dawoud Bey, Barbara Kasten, ities, including all-ages artmaking work- and many others. It is presented by the shops and other artist-led projects, Chicago Humanities Festival in collabora- live performances, and film screenings. tion with EXPO CHICAGO. Free trolley transportation between Hans Ulrich Obrist, Miracle Marathon venues is provided. « Day 2, 2016. © Yousef Eldin. « Courtesy of the Smart Museum of Art.

20 PROGRAMS & EVENTS 21 September 29, 2018 FREE 6–9 pm Art on theMART Launch Riverfront Façade of theMART It’s a super- Chicago Riverwalk between Franklin and Wells Streets

Projecting across more than 2½ acres of theMART’s exterior river-facing façade, detailed sketch this ambitious new ongoing installation extends Chicago’s tradition of innovation in public art. Two of the inaugural artworks are commissioned as part of Art of a chair Design Chicago and take inspiration from the city’s art and design history. Works by Jason Salavon, Diana Thater, and Jan Tichy launch this first-of-its-kind canvas from a time for digital art and continue in rotation through December 30, 2018. « Jan Tichy, Artes in Horto: Seven Gardens for Chicago when Chicago (sketch detail), 2018. was really FREE churnin’ those October 5, 2018 6–8 pm

Book Launch Art in Chicago: A History puppies out. from the Fire to Now Chicago Cultural Center 77 East Randolph Street, Chicago 773.702.7740

Published by University of Chicago Press in 2018, Art in Chicago: A History from the Maybe you should Fire to Now is the first historical survey of Chicago’s spirited art scene. Book editors just go see it. and contributors join in conversation and celebrate its publication. Party to follow. » Art in Chicago co-editor Maggie Taft. Photo: University of Chicago Press. Can you find the art in this guide that matches the description above? (Answer on page 27.)

22 PROGRAMS & EVENTS 23 FREE FREE Nov 10, 2018 October 5, 12, 19, & 26, 2018 10 am–4 pm 8:30–9 pm Near North Design Day Art and Design in Chicago Chicago History Museum On WTTW11 and wttw.com 1601 North Clark Street, Chicago 312.642.4600 WTTW presents a four-part series exploring Chicago’s art and design his- Presented by institutions on Chicago’s Near tory. Hosted by local artists and experts, North Side, including the Chicago History including Naomi Beckwith and Miguel Museum, DePaul Art Museum, Edgar Miller Aguilar, the episodes examine different Legacy, and the Newberry Library, this facets of the city’s creative past: from all-ages day of exploration and hands-on the impact of Chicago’s institutions activities draws on iconic Chicago design to its importance in the fields of design objects, interiors, and images as inspira- and advertising; from the history of tion—the Radio Flyer wagon, 1950s street African American artists who shaped photography, World’s Columbian Expo- the city to an in-depth look at the city’s sition postcards, Edgar Miller’s handmade most fiercely independent artists. homes, and much more. Free trolley transportation between venues is provided. » Dorothy & Otis Shepard, Cubs Scorecard, 1953. » Courtesy of Chicago History Museum.

Oct 27–Nov 11, 2018 FREE Chicago Humanities Festival Dec 16, 2018 Fallfest GRAPHIC! 11 am–3 pm Various Locations The Figure, Humor, 312.605.8444 and the Chicago Imagists The Chicago Humanities Festival’s 2018 Illinois Hall at Elmhurst College Fallfest GRAPHIC! explores our increasingly and Elmhurst Art Museum visual world, examining how visual modes, 190 Prospect Avenue, Elmhurst from emojis and selfies to design thinking 630.617.6110 and data visualizations, are transforming This full-day symposium explores works the way we work, play, communicate, by the Chicago Imagists with specific and think. As part of Art Design Chicago, emphasis on the ways in which they used Fallfest includes a dialogue with famed humor in their depictions of the figure. visualist Chris Ware, a reunion of original The symposium features presentations members of the seminal Chicago art on the topic and the opportunity to collective the Hairy Who, an exhibition view Elmhurst College’s extraordinary and panel discussion focused on Chicago’s Imagist art collection on view at the street art tradition, and much more. Elmhurst Art Museum. « Questlove, Ben Greenman, and Gladys Nilsson, In Vertical Shade (detail), Theaster Gates at Springfest 2018. « 1984. Elmhurst College Art Collection. Photo: David T. Kindler for the Chicago Humanities Festival.

24 PROGRAMS & EVENTS 25 GALLERIES & MORE Winner? Or low- Advisory Committee Members down cheating Greg Cameron, Joffrey Ballet Sep 29–Nov 24, 2018 John Corbett, Corbett vs. Dempsey FREE AfriCOBRA 50 scoundrel? Wanda Corn, Stanford University Emeritus Kavi Gupta Let’s go with (Academic Advisor) 219 North Elizabeth Street Kim Coventry, The Richard H. Chicago winner. Driehaus Foundation 312.432.0708 Robert Cozzolino, Minneapolis Answers below: AfriCOBRA (African Commune of Institute of Art Bad Relevant Artists) is the influential Alison Cuddy, Chicago Humanities Festival 7: Joseph Yoakum’s The Mounds of collective that defined the aesthetic of Pleasure / on JA Brimms Farm Near Walnut Michael Darling, Museum of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s Grove…, 1970, featured in Chicago Calling: Contemporary Art Chicago and 70s. Marking the 50th anniversary Art Against the Flow. See page 4. Amina Dickerson, Dickerson of its founding in Chicago, this exhibi- Global Advisors tion presents works by the five original 14: Todros Geller’s South of Chicago, 1937, members—Gerald Williams, Wadsworth Wendy Greenhouse, featured in Todros Geller: Strange Worlds. Jarrell, Jae Jarrell, Jeff Donaldson, Independent Art Historian See page 6. and Barbara Jones-Hogu—as well as Neil Harris, University of Chicago Emeritus

a select group of their peers. 23: Furniture sketch by Wolfgang Hoffmann Cheryl Hughes, Chicago Community Trust « Wadsworth Jarrell, Steel Square for Howell, 1938, featured in Modern By Judith Russi Kirshner, Art Critic (detail), 1995. Kavi Gupta. Design: Chicago Streamlines America. See and Educator page 16. Marcia Lausen, University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Design Lisa Yun Lee, University of Illinois THANK YOU at Chicago and National FREE FREE Public Housing Museum Oct 19, 2018 Jamey Lundblad, Chicago Department of 6:30–9 pm Cultural Affairs and Special Events Nov 2, 2018–Jan 2019 Victor Margolin, University of Chicago Collects Robert Lostutter Illinois at Chicago Emeritus Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Corbett vs. Dempsey We gratefully acknowledge the 1338 West Lake Street, Chicago Cesáreo Moreno, National Museum 1120 North Ashland Avenue, following cultural leaders who guide 312.280.1212 of Mexican Art 3rd Floor, Chicago and shape this initiative. Hugh Musick, University of 773.278.1664 This evening event includes an indus- Civic Committee Members Illinois at Chicago, try panel discussion accompanied by Identified as one of the Chicago Imagists, Richard H. Driehaus, Program for Healthcare Delivery Design a reception and early preview of the co-chair a group of artists that emerged from Amy Rule, co-chair Tim Samuelson, Chicago Department of exhibition for the Oct 23 Made in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago John Bryan Cultural Affairs and Special Events Chicago auction, which features items during the post-World War II era, Robert Nora Daley from a number of local collections. Daniel Schulman, Chicago Department of Lostutter has gradually evolved an Thomas Dyja Starting at 7:30 pm, Janine Mileaf, Cultural Affairs and Special Events approach to figuration that hybridizes Elizabeth Glassman Executive Director of The Arts Club of Tom Shapiro, Cultural Strategy Partners the human form with birds and flowers. Leslie Hindman Chicago, moderates a panel about This exhibition unveils a new strain of Clare Muñana Janet Carl Smith, Arts Consultant contemporary collecting practices: these personages. Linda Johnson Rice taking risks and the collecting opportu- Jacqueline Terrassa, Art Institute nities that either stuck or missed. of Chicago Lynne Warren, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

26 27 15 1 22 Intuit 6018North 8 Navy Pier 18 4 756 N. Milwaukee 6018 N. Kenmore Corbett vs. Dempsey 600 E. Grand Des Plaines Evanston 1120 N. Ashland 16 23 2 Jane Addams Hull- Art Institute of 9 Newberry Library House Museum Chicago DePaul Art Museum 60 W. Walton 800 S. Halsted 111 S. Michigan 935 W. Fullerton 24 17 3 10 The Richard H. Kavi Gupta Art on theMART DuSable Museum Driehaus Museum 219 N. Elizabeth Chicago Riverwalk of African 40 E. Erie American History 18 4 25 740 E. 56th Pl. Block Museum of Art Koehnline Smart Museum of Art Museum of Art 40 Arts Circle Dr. 11 5550 S. Greenwood 1 1600 E. Golf Evanston Elmhurst Art Museum Des Plaines 26 CHICAGO 150 S. Cottage Hill 5 South Side Community Elmhurst 19 Art Center Chicago Leslie Hindman Cultural Center 12 3831 S. Michigan Auctioneers ADC Activity Space Elmhurst College 1338 W. Lake 27 78 E. Washington 190 Prospect Spertus Institute Elmhurst 20 610 S. Michigan 6 Museum of Chicago 13 Contemporary Art 28 Design Museum Gallery 400 Lake 220 E. Chicago Stony Island Arts Bank 72 E. Randolph 400 S. Peoria 6760 S. Stony Island Michigan 21 7 14 Museum of 29 Chicago History Glass Curtain Gallery Contemporary Ukrainian Institute of Museum 1104 S. Wabash 9 Photography Modern Art 1601 N. Clark 2320 W. Chicago 11 Lincoln 600 S. Michigan Park 7 12 8 15 23 Elmhurst 29 West 17 Town 19 20 13 Near 16 14 North Side 24

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Greater 28 21 TOWN Grand Crossing 27 28 MAPS 29 Above: Gerald Williams, Cover: Gladys Nilsson, Messages (detail), 1970. In Vertical Shade (detail), 1984. Smart Museum of Art. Elmhurst College Art Collection.

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