Art Design Chicago
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Art Design Chicago
is a spirited celebration of the unique and vital role Chicago plays as America’s crossroads of art and design, creativity and commerce. With a scope and ambition befitting Chicago’s grit and can-do determination, Art Design Chicago shares with the world a dynamic convergence of more than 25 exhibitions and hundreds of public programs in 2018. Together, they tell the stories of the artists and designers that defined and continue to propel Chicago’s role as a hub of imagination and impact. Yesterday and today, across neighborhoods and throughout the nation, the impact of Chicago art and design can be seen and felt everywhere. From art displayed on museum walls to mass-produced consumer goods, Chicago’s singular creative contributions are showcased in this citywide partnership of museums, universities, galleries, and other cultural organizations. Art Design Chicago offers an opportunity to examine the art and design movements that were born and nurtured in Chicago, and their relationships to other artistic developments throughout the world. To support the success of Art Design Chicago, the Terra Foundation is investing over $6 million in grants and project support for partner organizations.
Exhibitions 11/5/17 – 4/8/18
Hyde Park Art Center
Bill Walker: Urban Griot William “Bill” Walker (1927 – 2011) was a prolific muralist best known for creating the iconic Wall of Respect on Chicago’s South Side in collaboration with the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC) in 1967. This mural has inspired community-based public artworks all over the country and is a cornerstone of socially engaged art practice. Urban Griot explores Walker’s artwork beyond the wall, spanning three series of drawings and several small paintings that he made between 1979 and 1984, many of which have rarely, if ever, been displayed. These works, borrowed from Chicago State University’s collection with some rare additions from the archives of Chicago Public Art Group, highlight a grittier, often ambivalent counterpoint to Walker’s optimistic mural projects and the work of his colleagues in AfriCOBRA.
1/11 – 3/25
DePaul Art Museum
Jose Guerrero, Presente: A Memorial Print Portfolio
1/11 – 3/25
DePaul Art Museum
Barbara Jones-Hogu: Resist, Relate, Unite 1968-1975
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Picture Fiction: Kenneth Josephson and Contemporary Photography
4/28 – 12/30
Jose Guerrero (1938 — 2015) was an artist who impacted his community through printmaking, mural painting, and activism. Guerrero is best known for his work in the Pilsen neighborhood, where his studio and workshop operated as a hub for art classes, mural tours, and political organizing. Jose Guerrero, Presente features a portfolio of prints created in his memory by 25 Chicago artists, as well as some of Guerrero’s own works on paper. The exhibition is led by public artists Héctor Duarte and John Pitman Weber.
Chicago-based artist Barbara Jones-Hogu was a central figure of the Black Arts Movement and a founding member of the African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists (AfriCOBRA). Throughout her career she has worked in painting, printmaking, film, education, and has contributed to major projects including Chicago’s Wall of Respect mural. This is her first solo museum exhibition and features works on paper including woodcuts, etchings, lithographs, and screen prints.
Chicago conceptual photographer Kenneth Josephson (American, b.1932) has spent his career scrutinizing photography’s inherent reproducibility and circulation, making use of a mass-cultural archive of images, and mastering self-reflexive, often humorous devices—methods undoubtedly a result of Josephson’s years at the Institute of Design, where as a student he studied under Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. He afterward went on to teach at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for nearly forty years.
Art Institute of Chicago
Never a Lovely so Real: Photography and Film in Chicago, 1950-1980 Chicago has a celebrated history as a hub of transport, but less known elsewhere (and even to many residents) is its corollary history as a city of neighborhoods, whose communities have developed largely separate from one another, forming loose associations or even shining and sputtering out in isolation. The particular stamp of such segregated worlds is imprinted on Chicago’s vibrant art scene and the larger character of the city itself. Never a Lovely so Real addresses the ways in which the city’s unique character influenced photographers, filmmakers, and other image makers over a period stretching from the 1950s to the 1980s, when the city underwent some of its most significant cultural and social transformations. Using the diverse cultural activity of the city as their main source of inspiration, these individuals are drawn together by their commentary in images and film on the life of the communities to which they belonged or to which they were granted intimate access as outsiders.
6/7 – 8/17
The Arts Club of Chicago
A Home for Surrealism
6/10 – 9/3
Art Institute of Chicago
Charles White: A Retrospective
6/28 – 9/30
Rebuild Foundation
A Johnson Publishing Story
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Chicago Calling: Art Against the Flow
6/29 – 1/6/19
A Home for Surrealism offers an in-depth exploration of a select group of painters who planted domestic roots for the surrealist idiom in the 1940s and 1950s. Working in and around Chicago, Gertrude Abercrombie, Dorothea Tanning, John Wilde, Julia Thecla, Harold Noecker, and Julio de Diego interpreted the European movement as something at once more personal and more accessible to its audience. Thematizing the interior while also reconceptualizing ideas of imagination and fantasy, these artists offer tableaus that emphasize the narrative capacities of self and home. While Chicago has long been acknowledged as an important center for the exhibition and collection of European surrealist painting, its own practitioners deserve more widespread recognition. Through their distinct motifs and styles, these artists made surrealism into something that was local to Chicago, even as it acknowledged its international foundations.
Charles White (1918-1979), born in Chicago and educated at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, was one of the preeminent artists to emerge during the city’s Black Renaissance of the 1930s and 1940s. A passionate mural and easel painter and superbly gifted draftsman, White powerfully interpreted African American history, culture, and lives in striking works that transcend racial categorization. His essential quest was to discover the truth, beauty, and dignity of life and people, using an expressive and highly accessible realism.
Founded in 1942 by publisher and art collector John H. Johnson, the Johnson Publishing Company (JPC) rose to prominence due to the widespread popularity of its magazines, including Ebony and Jet. Through books, periodicals, ephemera, paintings, sculptures, and custom-designed office furnishings from the JPC archives and collections held by the Rebuild Foundation, this exhibition explores the enduring role of Johnson and JPC in defining and popularizing a black aesthetic and identity around the globe.
Chicago Calling: Art Against the Flow explores Chicago’s history of robust recognition and early acceptance of self-taught and outsider art and artists. The present and future positioning of outsider art (made by artists who have had little influence from mainstream art) in relation to that mainstream art world is addressed in the exhibition and accompanying catalog, symposium, and educational programming.
Exhi-bi-tions
5/12 – 10/28
7/12 – 9/14
Koehnline Museum of Art, Oakton Community College
Sculpting a Chicago Artist Richard Hunt and his Teachers: Nelli Bar and Egon Weiner
7/14 – 12/31
Illinois Executive Mansion Association
Art of Illinois
8/3 – 9/30
Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
LIONS: Founding Years of UIMA in Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
Hairy Who?
9/1 – 1/6/19
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago cultivated artist Richard Hunt in the 1950s by the guidance of two dynamic teachers. Nelli Bar taught Richard Hunt during his adolescence, and Egon Weiner was his college professor. Bar and Weiner represent the generation of artists who fled Europe after the rise of the Nazi regime and found Chicago as the new home for their artistic ambitions. Both received their education in European academies under prominent teachers during the 1920s. Weiner and Bar produced a new post-war generation of artists, including Richard Hunt. Bar continued to accompany Hunt’s career as he recalls: “She has influenced me as a person over our 30-year relationship.” Hunt remembers Weiner for “his exuberance and nurturing manner—and for being a bundle of energy.”
The inaugural exhibition of the Executive Mansion in Springfield following a major architectural restoration, Art of Illinois examines the creative achievement of fine and applied arts practitioners working in Illinois from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Exhibiting approximately 65 significant examples from the fields of painting, sculpture, furniture, metalwork, ceramics, and glass, Art of Illinois emphasizes themes, including: the historical depth and richness of the state’s artistic legacy, the diversity of Chicago’s and Illinois’ creative community, and how the places and people of Illinois, especially Chicago, have inspired artists. Drawn from collections statewide, the exhibited works exemplify the variety of museums, historic sites, and other settings in which the state’s and Chicago’s art and design heritage are preserved and presented.
Over the 45 years of the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art’s existence, many exhibitions have been mounted featuring artworks from the museum’s artist founders. However, the artworks in the collection only tell a part of the story. In LIONS: Founding Years of UIMA in Chicago, artworks by the museum’s Ukrainian emigre founders are supplemented with selections from UIMA’s extensive collection of ephemera, including vintage posters, archival photographs, video interviews with founding members, and early notes, sketches, and letters.
The Art Institute of Chicago presents the first major survey exhibition dedicated solely to the groundbreaking group of six Chicago-based artists—James Falconer, Art Green, Suellen Rocca, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt and Karl Wirsum— known as the Hairy Who. The name Hairy Who, which was coined by the artists in 1966, came to characterize the work of these young artists, which boldly manipulated popular culture to transmit radical and progressive ideas, and challenge prevailing notions of gender and sexuality, social mores and standards of beauty, war, and nostalgia and obsolescence. Their distinct aesthetic transformed the landscape of Chicago art and put the city on the International art map. The six artists all studied at School of the Art Institute. Groundbreaking impresario Don Baum then invited them to exhibit as a group at the Hyde Park Art Center, where he was curator, and the first three presentations of their work were mounted there. Their powerfully graphic, anti-formal images—often made with unconventional media and supports, featured personal symbolism and brief pieces of text. Bright colors and a brazen sense of humor belied the powerful and transgressive subject matter that the work embraced.
DePaul Art Museum
Someday, Chicago: Yasuhiro Ishimoto and the Institute of Design Someday, Chicago: Yasuhiro Ishimoto and the Institute of Design examines the work of American-born photographer Yasuhiro Ishimoto (1921 – 2012) through the lens of Chicago, where Ishimoto lived for over a decade and where he would continue to return throughout his life. Celebrated by many as one of the most influential photographers of Japan in the 20th century, Ishimoto also maintained deep ties to his adopted home city where he arrived in 1945 after having been interned during World War II. It was in Chicago that he first developed his uniquely modernist vision—both at the historic Institute of Design (ID) in dialogue with László Moholy-Nagy , Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and other teachers there; and in the city’s streets, where he captured changes reflective of broader societal shifts happening across the United States. By exploring the impact of his work—and in particular of his Someday, Somewhere and Chicago, Chicago photograph series—this project suggests how Ishimoto spread his vision beyond Chicago and the United States, and into an international arena.
9/6 – 1/6
Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership
Todros Geller: Strange Worlds
9/8 – 1/6
Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College
3-D Doings: The Imagist Object in Chicago Art, 1964-1980
DuSable Museum of African American History
Holdings: On the Art and Influence of Dr. Margaret T. Burroughs
9/13 – 3/4
Todros Geller: Strange Worlds focuses on the multifaceted oeuvre of Todros Geller (1889 – 1949), “Dean of Chicago Jewish Artists,” an influential Chicago artist and central figure in the history of modern American Jewish art. Born in Ukraine, Geller immigrated to Chicago in 1918, which remained his home until his death. An active proponent of the concept of Jewish art, he served as a mentor to numerous Chicago Jewish artists and as a prominent educator, first as a teacher at the Jewish People’s Institute and Jane Addams Hull House, then as supervisor of art for the College of Jewish Studies (later Spertus Institute) and acting director of The Jewish Museum in Chicago.
3-D Doings: The Imagist Object in Chicago Art, 1964-1980 examines the little-known sculptural work and dimensional painting made by the Chicago Imagists during the early years of their practice. As the first in-depth exploration of the overall affinity of Imagist artists for objects, the exhibition features artists who worked individually to craft unique approaches, but who shared key influences, such as Surrealism and the Surrealist objects. Artworks range from interventions in mass-produced materials—such as Suellen Rocca’s painted purses and reworked thriftstore finds, Ray Yoshida’s decorated crutches, and Roger Brown’s shelf works including ceramics bought by the artist—to finely crafted objects such as Ed Flood’s multilayered back-painted Plexiglas boxes.
Influential Chicago artist and cultural leader Margaret Burroughs co-founded the DuSable Museum in the early 1960s and was instrumental in creating the South Side Community Art Center (opened in 1940). Holdings: On the Art and Influence of Dr. Margaret T. Burroughs explores the ways in which artists, institutions, and individuals collect, shape, and embody history by focusing on Burroughs’ legacy as an artist, writer, and institution-builder. While concentrating on what individuals and arbiters of history choose to publicly and privately preserve, Holdings gives a nuanced illustration of how Dr. Burroughs influenced artistic production, collection-building, community identity, and cultural awareness within and beyond Chicago’s South Side between 1960 and 1980.
Exhi-bi-tions
9/6 – 12/16
Smart Museum of Art
South Side Stories: Rethinking Chicago Art, 1960–1980
9/18 – 12/9
Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
Ed Paschke: Process and Pedagogy
9/18 – 12/9
Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
Up is Down: Mid-century Experiments in Advertising and Film at the Goldsholl Studio
Newberry Library
Pictures from an Exposition: Visualizing the 1893 World’s Fair
9/13 – 12/30
9/28 – 12/31
10/ – ongoing
During the 1960s and 1970s, Chicago was shaped by art and ideas produced and circulated on the South Side. Yet the history of the period’s creative and social ferment has often remained segregated by the city’s social, political, and geographic divides. South Side Stories: Rethinking Chicago Art, 1960 – 1980—organized by the Smart Museum in collaboration with the DuSable Museum of African American History and presented concurrently with Holdings: On the Art and Influence of Dr. Margaret T. Burroughs at the DuSable—takes a nuanced look at the cultural history of Chicago’s South Side during this momentous era of change and conflict, with a focus on artists of the Black Arts Movement. Through nearly 100 objects, the show upends dominant narratives of the period and unearths rich stories by examining watershed cultural moments from the Hairy Who to the Wall of Respect, from the Civil Rights movement to the AfriCOBRA, from vivid protest posters to visionary outsider art, and from the Free University movement to the radical jazz of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.
The exhibition presents artworks by Ed Paschke along with archival material from Northwestern University Archives to explore his role both as an educator and as an artist. The project is led by 2017-18 Block Museum Graduate Fellow Beth Derderian, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Curator of Academic Programs at the Block Museum.
Up is Down: Mid-century Experiments in Advertising and Film at the Goldsholl Studio examines and illuminates the distinctive vein of industrial films which Chicago became known for in the 1950s and 1960s, and their compelling relationship to more avant-garde film experiments produced by the same artists and designers, including, most prominently, Morton and Millie Goldsholl and their firm Goldsholl and Associates. The Goldsholls were part of a generation of designers that emerged from the Institute of Design, where László Moholy-Nagy famously fostered a curriculum of aesthetic experimentation and social engagement. The Goldsholls’ innovative integration of film with other forms of visual production such as print advertising and brand development placed them at the forefront of their peers in design, and the wider community of filmmakers in Chicago.
As the grandest international spectacle in a great age of spectacles, the World’s Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893 captured the public’s imagination through a dazzling array of visual images, from photographs, paintings, and illustrated albums to souvenirs, guidebooks, magazine features, and popular histories. But the allure of the fair depended less on the aesthetics of single objects than upon its status as a total, unified work of art. Featuring works of art and ephemera from the Newberry Library’s extensive collection of exposition materials, Pictures from an Exposition explores the fair’s tremendous power of attraction, both at the time of its presentation and through history into the present for both those who attended and those who experienced it from afar.
National Public Housing Museum
Homecoming: Public Art for a Public Museum Edgar Miller’s Animal Court is an enchanting seven-piece public sculpture and a stellar example of art and design facilitated by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the largest federal agency created in 1938 to provide jobs and income for unemployed Americans. The beloved sculptures were central to the design of the Jane Addams Homes, Chicago’s first integrated public housing project, and site of the National Public Housing Museum. From 1938 – 2006, they helped to create a gathering place in the courtyard, where people crossed boundaries of race and class to gather and build community.
Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago
The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold: Art, Identity and Politics
10/19 – 2/15
Chicago Design Museum
Keep Moving: Designing Chicago’s Bicycle Culture
10/27 – 3/3
Chicago Cultural Center
African American Designers in Chicago: Art, Commerce, and the Politics of Race
10/27 – 12/2/19
Chicago History Museum
Modern by Design: Chicago Streamlines America
Video Game Art Gallery
Chicago New Media 1973–1992
South Side Community Art Center
Change the Canvas, Change the World: A Landscape of Cultural Discovery
11/1 – 12/15
11/3 – 3/2
During the tumultuous 1960s and 70s, the prolific artist Ralph Arnold made photo collages that appropriated and commented upon mass media portrayals of gender, sexuality, race and politics. Arnold’s complex visual arrangements of photography, painting and text were built upon his own multilayered identity as a black, gay veteran and prominent member of Chicago’s art community, hence the title for the exhibition, which is drawn from one of the artist’s more personal pieces. Arnold participated in some of the era’s most provocative exhibitions yet by the mid-1980s he increasingly focused on his teaching and service to the art community.
Just before the turn of the century, the popularity of the bicycle in America was at an apex and Chicago-based manufacturers shops were producing the majority of American-made bicycles. However, in just a few years the industry was a shell of its former self, as consumer focus shifted to cars, planes, and surviving the Great Depression. Keep Moving explores how bicycle design in Chicago contributed to the early popularity of bicycles in America, their survival through the 20th century, and their resurgence today.
Presented at the Chicago Cultural Center, African American Designers in Chicago: Art, Commerce, and the Politics of Race explores how African American designers in Chicago worked across different media and practices to define a role for African Americans in the design professions. Featuring work from a wide range of practices including cartooning, sign painting, architectural signage, illustration, graphic design, exhibit design and product design, the exhibition is the first ever to demonstrate how African American designers remade the image of the black consumer and the work of the black artist in a major hub of American advertising/ consumer culture.
Modern by Design: Chicago Streamlines America reveals how Chicago brought cutting-edge modern design to the American marketplace on a scale unmatched by any other city. The exhibition focuses on 1930s – 50s, a critical period in American history. It presents issues of design and aesthetics within the larger social, economic and cultural context of the time and explores how the city’s hosting of the 1933 – 34 World’s Fair, its industries, advertising firms and mail order companies advanced modern design on local, regional and national levels. Innovative designs coupled with the might of Chicago’s manufacturing and distribution infrastructure led to mass production of affordable state-of-the-art products featuring a new urban-inspired aesthetic that furnished public and private spaces across the country.
Chicago New Media 1973–1992 seeks to illuminate the largely untold story of Chicago’s role in the history of new media. Consisting of an exhibition, public program, and scholarly catalog, the project yields a new art historical understanding of the artists and organizations that contributed to digital art and technology in the latter half of the twentieth century.
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Chicago was being transformed by successive waves of African American migrants from the rural south. These migrants brought visions of a better future and a desire to find a home to freely express their creative potential—a place unbound by the strictures of southern racial repression. This influx of talent made Chicago a creative hub of Black cultural life that rivaled Harlem in its heyday.
Exhi-bi-tions
10/11 – 12/21
Academic Pro-grams 9/2017 – 10/2018
Newberry Library
Chicago: City of Design and Commerce, 1890-1990 The Newberry Library presents the interdisciplinary scholarly seminar Chicago: City of Design and Commerce, 1890 – 1990 which will run from fall 2017 through fall 2018. This academic program offers a forum for scholars to gather, share works-in-progress, and discuss new scholarship that explores Chicago’s contributions to design history. A steering committee will invite scholars whose work analyzes Chicago’s role as a design capital and explores intersections among visual, material, cultural, and economic developments. Visit the Newberry Library’s website for a full seminar schedule.
Fall 2017 – Spring 2019
Newberry Library
American Art and Visual Culture Seminar The Newberry Library presents the American Art and Visual Culture seminar—a scholarly forum with a special focus on Chicago’s art and design history, including topics such as world’s fairs, art/gender/sexuality, the visual cultural of (im)migration, picturing places, and urban landscapes and their representation. The Newberry welcomes undergraduate and graduate students, independent scholars, curators, librarians, university instructors, and artists to participate in this academic program series designed specifically for presenting current research and convening a diverse community of local and regional Americanists for intellectual exchange. The seminars will take place over the course of two academic years, including 2017/18 and 2018/19. Visit the Newberry Library’s website for a full seminar schedule.
10/26 – 10/27/17
11/2 11/3/17
Cultural Center
Public Art Symposium
Bradley University Art Department
Midwest Women Artists Symposium 2017
All are welcome to discuss current issues in public art and the unveiling of Chicago’s new Public Art Plan, the first major revision to the Public Art Program since the creation of the city’s historic Percent for Art Ordinance in 1978. The Symposium and the Plan are the culmination of Chicago’s Year of Public Art celebration marking the fiftieth anniversary of two of its most important monuments of public art, the Chicago Picasso and the Wall of Respect, and the commissioning of new artworks in each of Chicago’s fifty wards.
The 1960s, ‘70s, and ‘80s were a period of great cultural, political, economic and technological change in the United States. The optimism of the Kennedy presidency gave way to the turmoil of civil rights struggles and anti-war demonstrations in the 1960s, as America sent men to land on the moon and sought economic parity through a multi-pronged War on Poverty. Feminist organizations proliferated during the second wave feminist movement and the environmental movement took hold despite the growth of conservative populism in the 1970s, as the Middle Eastern oil crisis brought consumerism up short. The 1980s saw the end of the Cold War, the rise of evangelicalism, the de-regulation of industry, and the introduction of personal computers and mobile telephones. The 2017 Midwest Women Artists Symposium, Transforming Culture and Society: Midwest Women Artists, 1960s – 1980s, explores the social issues and subject matter that Midwestern women artists of the period addressed in their work, as well as their impact on their communities through the organizations they formed to exhibit and promote their creative activities.
University of Chicago
The Black Metropolis, Between Past and Future: Race, Urban Planning, and Afro-American Culture in Chicago The Black Metropolis, Between Past & Future: Race, Urban Planning, and Afro-American Culture in Chicago is a three-day, multidisciplinary colloquium in Paris bringing together sociologists, historians, art historians, and artists to reevaluate the cultural contributions of Chicago’s South and West Sides in defining an African American identity nationally and internationally. The colloquium celebrates the centenary of the “Great Migration” and explores the social and cultural life of Chicago’s South Side and West Side from the end of the 1930s, which were marked by the cultural zenith of the Bronzeville neighborhood, to the present, which is characterized by numerous private and public initiatives in favor of an urban renewal.
6/11 6/29/18
Newberry Library
Art & Public Culture in Chicago Art and Public Culture in Chicago is a three-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for college and university faculty at the Newberry Library. The seminar looks closely at the arts, their reception, and their civic import in Chicago from the 1893 World’s Fair through the present moment. The institute emphasizes artistic communities, small-scale venues, and vernacular expressions that developed against or alongside Chicago’s mainstream cultural institutions—especially those that took shape in the city’s African American neighborhoods. The setting of Art and Public Culture in Chicago provides participants with a coherent case study, a wealth of archival resources, and the opportunity to experience the actual institutions, places, and neighborhoods of the program of study. For information about eligibility and the application process, visit the Newberry Library’s website. All applications must be postmarked no later than March 1, 2018.
Fall 2018
11/8 11/10/18
Asian/Pacific/ American Institute at New York University
Online Essays on Chicago Artists: Yoshida, Itatani, Numata, Ishimoto
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago Design: Histories and Narratives
A scholarly convening and research travel for the development of essays on Chicago artists Ray Yoshida, Michiko Itatani, James Numata, and Yasuhiro Ishimoto. The essays will be published with their related source materials as part of a digital humanities project—the Virtual Asian American Art Museum—a peer-reviewed resource that presents a transnational American art history using connected collections from multiple institutions.
The first international scholarly conference devoted to the subject, “Chicago Design: Histories and Narratives” will be convened jointly by the School of Art & Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in fall 2018. Covering the period between the late nineteenth century and the end of the twentieth century, this conference will bring together scholars working on all aspects of the city’s design history, including craft fields such as textiles, jewelry, and ceramics; important business sectors such as the furniture and printing industries as well as the numerous large-scale manufacturers and distributors of consumer goods based in the city; and established fields of design production such as graphic design, industrial design, and architecture.
Aca-demic Pro-grams
11/15 11/18/17
Public Pro-grams 12/20 – 5/30 2 – 4pm
1/15 11 – 4pm
1/18 3 – 5pm
1/21 11am – 1pm
Chicago Architecture Foundation Shop and Tour Center
224 South Michigan Ave. Chicago, Illinois 60604
Tiffany Treasures Tour
Hyde Park Art Center
5020 South Cornell Ave. Chicago, Illinois 60615
Martin Luther King Day of Reflection: Film Program and Discussion
60 West Walton St. Chicago, Illinois 60610
Walter Paepcke, IDCA, and the Challenge of Design in Post-War Corporate Culture Featuring: Wim de Wit
12 South Michigan Ave. Chicago, Illinois 60603
Art Design Chicago Storytelling Series Featuring: Curator Juarez Hawkins and Artist Damon Reed
Newberry Library
Chicago Athletic Association Hotel, Drawing Room Library
Visit four of Chicago’s most magnificent art-glass and mosaic installations, each designed and crafted by the Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company. Included are a vault, a rotunda, several domes and light fixtures in four landmark buildings of the late-19th century.
Filmmaker Floyd Webb curates a selection of short films highlighting the Black Arts and Black Power movements, including a short film on the Wall of Respect. Floyd Webb is the founder of the Blacklight Festival of International Black Cinema.
Wim de Wit, Adjunct Curator of Architecture and Design at Stanford University’s Cantor Arts Center, discusses the tension between Walter Paepcke, a modernist designer and original supporter of Chicago’s New Bauhaus, and his contemporaries. De Wit’s discussion expose their mutual distrust and examine the role of the post-World War II designer in Chicago and elsewhere in the country. Michaelangelo Sabatino, Interim Dean of the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, moderates the discussion.
In conjunction with Art Design Chicago exhibition, Bill Walker: Urban Griot, on view at the Hyde Park Art Center through April 8, the exhibition’s curator Juarez Hawkins talks with artist Damon Reed. This conversation focuses on the legacy of Bill Walker, one of the forefathers of the modern mural movement, and his influence on socially engaged art practice and street art of today.
2 – 5pm
Newberry Library
60 West Walton St. Chicago, Illinois 60610
American Art and Visual Culture Seminar Featuring: John Murphy, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Kelsey Malone, University of Missouri at Columbia John Murphy of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago discusses his research “Flesh: Ivan Albright and Antihumanism” in which he argues that Albright, who seemed to have few contemporaries as a painter, is more productively understood as an antihumanist philosopher investigating the “aesthetics of ugliness” and the flat ontologies of humans and objects. Kelsey Malone of the University of Missouri at Columbia presents her work “Enid Yandell and the White Rabbits: Crafting a Career in Sculpture in the White City” in which she traces the career of Yandell, who began her career as an assistant in Lorado Taft’s studio in the late 19th century, and her fellow female sculptors to show how women artists worked together, utilizing collaborative strategies to achieve professional success in an American art world that was rapidly changing. Alexis Boylan of the University of Connecticut moderates the discussion.
1/31 6 – 8pm
Hyde Park Art Center
5020 South Cornell Ave. Chicago, Illinois 60615
The Artist’s Artist: Bill Walker Featuring: Turtel Onli, John Pitman Weber, Dorian Sylvain, and Arlene T urner-Crawford Friends of Bill Walker discuss his impact and influence on a new generation of socially-conscious artists in Chicago and across the world. Artist and educator Turtel Onli, photographer and author John Pitman Weber, and Hyde Park Art Center exhibiting artist Dorian Sylvain join artist and activist Arlene Turner-Crawford in discussing the pivotal role Walker and his artwork played in the Chicago art community.
2/11 1 – 4pm
2/22 3 – 5pm
Hyde Park Art Center
Newberry Library
5020 South Cornell Ave. Chicago, Illinois 60615
Family Art Making Day Featuring: Juarez Hawkins
60 West Walton St. Chicago, Illinois 60610
Collecting Chicago Design: Who Should Do It, When, and Where Featuring: Paul Gehl
Artist, educator, and curator of Bill Walker: Urban Griot, Juarez Hawkins, leads a free hands-on, art-making activity for all ages. The project addresses design elements explored in Walker’s work.
Paul Gehl, Curator Emeritus of the John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing at the Newberry Library, discusses the history of collecting design objects and the role private collectors can play. Dan Meyer, Alison Fisher, and Tanner Woodford offer examples from collections they have developed or used, and Paul leads the seminar participants in an informal discussion about developing priorities, institutional commitments needed, and the role private collectors can play. An interactive discussion to follow.
Pu-blic Pro-grams
1/26
2/25 11am – 1pm
3/4 11am – 1pm
3/11 1 – 4pm
3/15 3 5pm
Art Design Chicago Storytelling Series Featuring: DePaul Art Museum Director Julie Rodrigues Widholm and Artist Faheem Majeed
Chicago Athletic Association Hotel, Drawing Room Library
12 South Michigan Ave. Chicago, Illinois 60603
Chicago Athletic Association Hotel, Drawing Room Library
12 South Michigan Ave. Chicago, Illinois 60603
Hyde Park Art Center
5020 South Cornell Ave. Chicago, Illinois 60615
Family Art Making Day Featuring: Dorian Sylvain
60 West Walton St. Chicago, Illinois 60610
New Negro Modernism: Commodity Racism, Race Consumption, and the Making of a Black Commercial Aesthetic in Interwar Chicago Featuring: Davarian Baldwin
Newberry Library
DePaul Art Museum Director Julie Rodrigues Widholm and artist Faheem Majeed discuss the important legacy of Chicago-based artist Barbara Jones-Hogu (1938 – 2017) who was a central figure of the Black Arts Movement and a founding member of the African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists (AfriCOBRA). Julie is the curator of the Museum’s current exhibition Barbara Jones-Hogu: Resist, Relate, Unite 1968 – 1975 and Faheem is a contributor to the exhibition catalog.
Art Design Chicago Storytelling Series Featuring: National Museum of Mexican Art Curator Cesáreo Moreno and Artist Errol Ortiz In alignment with the National Museum of Mexican Art’s exhibition, Arte Diseño Xicágo: Mexican Inspiration from the World’s Columbian Exposition to the Civil Rights Era, opening March 23, curator Cesáreo Moreno talks with artist Errol Ortiz about the experiences of Chicago’s Mexican-American artists and designers and their contributions to the city’s reputation as a hub of creative production.
Dorian Sylvain, educator and artist exhibiting her work at the Hyde Park Art Center leads a free, hands-on art-making activity for all ages. The project addresses social justice themes that connect Sylvain’s and Bill Walker’s work.
Davarian Baldwin, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies at Trinity College, presents the commercial artistic biography of Charles Dawson to explore the rarely acknowledged role of graphic design as part of the modern race consciousness produced within Chicago’s larger New Negro movement. Brad Hunt, Vice President for Research and Academic Programs at the Newberry, moderates.
2 5pm
Newberry Library
60 West Walton St. Chicago, Illinois 60610
American Art and Visual Culture Seminar Featuring: Ellen Handy, The City College of New York , CUNY and Amy Mooney, Columbia College Chicago Ellen Handy of the City College of New York presents her work “Picturing the World in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Chicago’s Image Factories at the Center of the Continent” on the history of commercial and image printing in Chicago during the twentieth century. Amy Mooney of Columbia College Chicago discusses “Photos of Style and Dignity: Woodard’s Studio and the Delivery of Black Modern Subjectivity” in which she studies the development of black modern subjectivity in the work of Woodard’s Studios, a photography studio active during the 1920s through the 1940s with franchises in Chicago, New York and Kansas City. Han-Chi (Peter) Wang of Temple University moderates the discussion.
4/8 2 4pm
Hyde Park Art Center
5020 South Cornell Ave. Chicago, Illinois 60615
Loud and Clear: Speaking the Language of Bill Walker Featuring: Romi Crawford, Victor Sorell, and Jeff Huebner Bill Walker employed song lyrics, poetry, and personal texts in his paintings and collages to thoughtfully critique cultural signifiers of contemporary urban life. Moderated by Romi Crawford, Victor Sorell and Jeff Huebner discuss the various modes of expression found in Walker’s work and the efficacy his murals had in communicating messages of social justice and responsibility to the community.
4/26 3 5pm
Newberry Library
60 West Walton St. Chicago, Illinois 60610
Will Bradley’s Art of Design Featuring: Jennifer Greenhill, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Southern California Jennifer Greenhill, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Southern California, presents a work-in-progress on graphic artist Will Bradley (1868–1962). Specifically, Greenhill goes beyond Bradley’s well-known contributions to magazine covers and advertisements in publications such as The Inland Printer and The Chap-Book. Greenhill instead focuses on the profound, but under-explored, impact Bradley made on American design in his role as art director for properties owned by William Randolph Hearst. Commissioning art, revamping layouts, and so on, Bradley shaped the look of the popular magazine at a key moment in its history when an influx of advertising revenue and advances in printing technologies made magazines an attractive artistic outlet. This program is wheelchair accessible.
5/12 12 5pm
National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 West 19th St. Chicago, Illinois 60608
Arte Diseño Xicágo: A Neighborhood Fiesta in the Heart of Pilsen All are invited to a family fiesta celebrating the diverse stories of creativity on Chicago’s West Side. Inspired by the National Museum of Mexican Art’s exhibition exploring the contributions of Mexican and Mexican-American artists and designers in Chicago, the fiesta includes hands-on activities, Pilsen-neighborhood mural walks, demonstrations by printmakers and other artists, live music, and outdoor performances throughout the day. This event is free and open to the public.
Pu-blic Pro-grams
3/30
5/24 3 5pm
7/21 10:30am 10:30pm
9/6 3 5pm
60 West Walton St. Chicago, Illinois 60610
Moholy-Nagy and the Materiality of Industry Featuring: Robin Schuldenfrei
Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Ave. Chicago, Illinois 60603
Art Institute of Chicago Block Party
Newberry Library
60 West Walton St. Chicago, Illinois 60610
A Threat to Human Scale: The Eames Office’s Tandem Seating System for Chicago’s O’Hare Airport (1962) Featuring: Michael Golec
Newberry Library
When the newly emigrated László Moholy-Nagy encountered Chicago’s exhilarating built environment and its exceptional space of commerce—with its framework for the production, distribution, and movement of vast quantities of goods—he had already been evoking, from his earliest days in 1920s Berlin, the rationalization of industry for art. In Chicago, Moholy re-instigated the primacy of the 3D object in his practice. This lecture by Robin Schuldenfrei of the Courtauld Institute of Art seeks to understand Moholy’s engagement with Chicago, and the US, by tracing a long arc across Moholy’s investigations in ephemeral surface effects and the materiality of industry. Liesl Olson, Director of Chicago Studies at the Newberry Library, moderates the discussion.
Join artists, historians, storytellers, performers, and a crowd-sourced roster of community contributors for short talks, interactive gallery experiences, and creative responses to the Art Institute’s renowned permanent collection. This 12-hour Block Party celebrates the deep and lasting contributions of Chicago creatives on view in the museum’s galleries, libraries, study rooms, gardens, and public spaces.
Michael Golec, Associate Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, discusses how Charles Eames incorporated the notion of “human scale” into his design approach for Chicago’s O’Hare Airport in the early 1960s. Jonathan Mekinda, Assistant Professor in Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, moderates.
9/11 6 7pm
Newberry Library
60 West Walton St. Chicago, Illinois 60610
Wish You Were Here: Postcards and Visual Culture Featuring: Katherine HamiltonSmith, Mark Pascale, and Mike Jackson Explore the history of the American postcard during this panel presentation exploring the Newberry Library’s Curt Teich Postcard Archives Collection, a collection 2.5 million postcards offering a rich look into the history of printing, design, and advertising in Chicago. The panel features Katherine Hamilton-Smith, Director of Public Affairs and Development at the Lake County Forest Preserves; Mark Pascale, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago; and Mike Jackson, historian and architect. Liesl Olson of the Newberry Library moderates the discussion.
DuSable Museum of African American History
740 East 56th Place, Chicago, Illinois 60637
Celebrating South Side Stories Join this celebration of the historic and ongoing role that art and design played in growing communities and strengthening neighborhoods on Chicago’s South Side. Participants will experience this rich history through a variety of activities, including family-friendly artmaking workshops and other artist-led projects, live performances, an interactive trolley tour of cultural spaces across the South Side, and a story sharing exchange. This all-day festival of art, music, film, and food kicks-off a series of exhibitions and projects about the history of South Side art and design that will take place at the DuSable Museum of African American History, Hyde Park Art Center, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Smart Museum of Art, and South Side Community Art Center during the fall of 2018 as part of Art Design Chicago. This event is free and open to the public.
9/29
Navy Pier
12 7pm
600 East Grand Ave. Chicago, Illinois 60611
Creative Chicago: An Interview Marathon Featuring: Hans Ulrich Obrist, Theaster Gates, Jeanne Gang “Creative Chicago: An Interview Marathon” will be the first US-based marathon by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director of London’s Serpentine Galleries, and one of the world’s leading curators, critics, and art historians. In 2005, Obrist hosted his first interview marathon—a 24-hour conversational exploration of art, ideas and creativity. The marathon format has become a central part of his practice ever since. “Creative Chicago” will take a multi-dimensional, multidisciplinary look at creativity in the city—past, present, and future. Bringing together artists, authors, activists, architects, historians, musicians, philosophers and scientists, the “Creative Chicago” marathon will examine the numerous sparks that make the city a center for art, design and architecture. Among the notable figures already slated to participate in the Marathon are artist Theaster Gates and architect Jeanne Gang. This program is is wheelchair accessible and includes sign language interpretation.
10/18 3 5pm
Newberry Library
60 West Walton St. Chicago, Illinois 60610
The Open Plan Office in the Windy City Featuring: Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler In the late 1960s, the open plan office concept challenged conventional office planning by radically reimagining the office as a space that could reduce hierarchy, increase communication, and support organizational change. Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler, Assistant Professor of Design History at Purdue University, argues that the city of Chicago was a vital nexus of activity in the earliest promotion and experimentation of the open plan office concept.
Pu-blic Pro-grams
9/15 11am 6pm
6 7pm
Newberry Library
60 West Walton St. Chicago, Illinois 60610
Collective Thought: Chicago Clubs and Their Patrons, 1880 to 1920 Featuring: Paul Durica, Celia Hilliard, and Liesl Olson Explore the proliferation of clubs and small arts organizations in Chicago between 1890 and 1920 during this panel discussion featuring Paul Durica, Director of Programs at Illinois Humanities; Celia Hillian, cultural historian; and Liesl Olson, Director of Chicago Studies at the Newberry Library. The program includes a display of archival materials including photographs, artwork, correspondence, guestbooks, and ephemera from several Chicago clubs.
11/1 2 4pm
11/1 5 8pm
Gallery 400
400 South Peoria Ave. Chicago, Illinois 60607
Chicago New Media Symposium
Gallery 400
400 South Peoria Ave. Chicago, Illinois 60607
Chicago New Media Exhibition Opening
Join the Video Game Art Gallery for a one-day symposium featuring artists and scholars in conversation about Chicago’s history of new media between 1950 and 2000. Confirmed speakers include Christiane Paul, Curator of New Media Art at the Whitney Museum; Oliver Grau, founder in the field of Media Art Histories and faculty at Danube University in Austria; Ellen Sandor, artist and co-editor of Women in New Media Arts: Perspectives on Innovative Collaboration; Dan Sandin, Professor Emeritus of the School of Art & Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he co-founded and co-directed the Electronic Visualization Laboratory; and many others.
Celebrate the opening of Video Game Art Gallery’s exhibition Chicago New Media with exhibiting artists and guests from near and far. Light refreshments will be served. This event is wheelchair accessible.
11/10 10am 4pm
Chicago History Museum
1601 North Clark St. Chicago, Illinois 60614
Near North Design Day Presented by institutions on Chicago’s Near North Side, including the Chicago History Museum, DePaul Art Museum, Edgar Miller Legacy, and the Newberry Library, this family-friendly day of exploration and hands-on activities draws on iconic Chicago design objects and interiors as inspiration—the Radio Flyer wagon, World’s Columbian Exposition postcards, Edgar Miller’s handmade homes, and much more. This event is free and open to the public.
12/1 10am 12pm
Newberry Library
60 West Walton St. Chicago, Illinois 60610
Chicago Style: Typography and the City Featuring: Paul Gehl and Tanner Woodford Explore the aesthetic and technological dimensions of typography and book design in Chicago with an in-depth look at the Newberry’s collection of type specimens, book designs, and advertising materials. The program opens with a discussion by Paul Gehl, Curator Emeritus at the Newberry Library, and Tanner Woodford, Executive Director of the Chicago Design Museum. Gehl and Woodford provide historical depth to what we utilize every day—the fonts on our computer screens. Gehl and Woodford illuminate how fonts came into being and the historical role Chicago played in font design.
Pu-blic Pro-grams
10/24
Art Design Chicago
Contact
Art Design Chicago Terra Foundation for American Art 120 East Erie Street Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA silverman@terraamericanart.org 312 664 3939
Partners Civic CommitteeThe development of Art Design Chicago is guided by active Civic and Advisory Committees made up of leaders in Chicago’s art and design communities.
Advisory Committee-
Richard H. Driehaus (Co-chair) Amy Rule (Co-chair) John Bryan Nora Daley Thomas Dyja Elizabeth Glassman Leslie Hindman Linda Johnson Rice Clare Muñana
Joy Bivins, Chicago History Museum Greg Cameron, Joffrey Ballet John Corbett, Corbett vs. Dempsey Wanda Corn, Stanford University Emeritus (Academic Advisor) Kim Coventry, The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Robert Cozzolino, Minneapolis Institute of Art Alison Cuddy, Chicago Humanities Festival Michael Darling, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Amina Dickerson, Dickerson Global Advisors Wendy Greenhouse, Independent Art Historian Neil Harris, University of Chicago Cheryl Hughes, Chicago Community Trust Judith Russi Kirshner, Art Critic and Educator Marcia Lausen, UIC School of Design Lisa Yun Lee, University of Illinois at Chicago Jamey Lundblad, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events Victor Margolin, University of Illinois at Chicago Cesáreo Moreno, National Museum of Mexican Art Hugh Musick, University of Illinois at Chicago, Program for Healthcare Delivery Design Tim Samuelson, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events Daniel Schulman, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events Tom Shapiro, Cultural Strategy Partners Janet Carl Smith, Arts Consultant Jacqueline Terrassa, Art Institute of Chicago Lynne Warren, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Sponsors-
Art Design Chicago is an initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art, dedicated to helping people in Chicago and around the world experience, understand, and enjoy America’s extraordinary artistic legacy. The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation is the Presenting Partner of Art Design Chicago.
Supporting Partners-
Accomodations-
Registered guests receive discounts at the following hotels when you mention you are with Art Design Chicago:
Leslie Hinman Auctioneers MacArthur Foundation The Joyce Foundation In-Kind Partners The Chicago Community Trust Leo Burnett Polk Bros. Foundation Expo Chicago
The Westin Michigan Avenue Hotel 909 North Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60611 (312) 943-7200 Hilton Garden Inn Downtown Magnificent Mile 10 E. Grand Avenue Chicago, Illinois, 60611 (312) 595-0000 Hilton Garden Inn Downtown Magnificent Mile 10 E. Grand Avenue Chicago, Illinois, 60611 (312) 595-0000
Travel -
Two international airports, O’Hare and Midway with approximately 1,450 daily direct flights to more than 245 directions make Chicago accessible to the world. O’Hare is just 17 miles from downtown and is one of the busiest hub airports in the country. An average taxi fare from O’Hare to downtown Chicago is $30 – $40. Midway is a mere 10 miles from downtown, Midway is a premier point-to-point airport. An average taxi fare from Midway to downtown Chicago is $28 – $30. Both airports are served by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) trains to downtown.