twelve galleries projects presents quarterly site #9 + HOSTED BY cac’s hatch projects + Curated by quite Strong
opening reception jan 20 — runs through feb 10 — 217 north carpenter St — visit support. quitestrong.com
• featuring HATCH Projects Artists Amanda Greive RENEE PRISBLE Brittany Ransom David Wittig Jim Zimpel Marissa Lee Benedict — • lust listers Alanna MacGowan cave party collective Elaine Fong firebelly design José Scaglione Julia Stoltz
Linsey Burritt Margot Harrington meg reilly Monina Velarde Nancy A. Bernardo Nancy McCabe Nicole Lavelle Renata Graw Tinne Van Loon Tonya Douraghy Veronika Burian Veronica Corzo-Duchardt Zara Picken
artists + designers
SUPPORT
twelve galleries projects presents quarterly site #9 + HOSTED BY cac’s hatch projects + Curated by quite Strong
Quarterly Site #9: Support — Chicago Artists’ Coalition 217 N Carpenter St — Jan 2–Feb 10, 2012 — Opening Reception: January 20, 2012 6–9pm
two communities of visual creatives showcased in one show
artists + designers
SUPPORT
art ists + design ers
what does support look like? by jamilee polson lacy
So many questions. And quite a few answers. It looks like this. It could also look like that. Repeat. What does support look like? Repeat. Visual creatives have helped to interpret the past, define the present, and imagine the future. What does support look like?
They utilize their skills as artists and designers to illuminate contemporary issues in order to contribute to the vitalities of their communities and the wider dialogue of art’s integral link with the collective experience. Repeat. In spite of their significant contributions to the beauty of everyday life, there exists an inadequate set of support structures to foster and promote the work of visual creatives, specifically that which does not sell a product or service. Museums and profit-driven galleries can only support a select few. And those who wish to work in the commercial art and fine art sectors find few resources to propel their efforts towards success in the latter area. All this begs the questions: what do visual creatives really need to succeed, to continue making innovative, meaningful work? What do they need from you? From me? From each other? Like our children, our families and friends, our communities, our visual creatives need our support. Repeat. What does support look like?
Communities Must Support. Communities and networks are vital to a visual creative’s career. They facilitate access to sources of validation, material resources, training and professional development, and dissemination of their work. Repeat. They are essential in giving visual creatives a message to work with, a political voice with which to rally. They energize visual creatives to speak out. And they provide emotional encouragement for those pursuing an intense profession, passion, way of life. And most importantly, community and network structures provide support. Repeat. In turn, that support empowers visual creatives, allowing them to be constantly motivated and inspired to do their best work. Repeat. So many questions. And quite a few answers. It looks like this. It could also look like that. Repeat. What does What does support look like?
support look like? Repeat.
Although there is a rich and ever-growing diversity of visual creatives, mainstream validation mechanisms are currently very limited in their ability to reflect or assess certain visual creatives’ work. As community members, we must actively participate in the dialogue created by our visual creatives in order to endorse their production. Repeat. We must educate ourselves and our fellow citizens about the importance of nurturing creativity and its suppliers. We must grow our communities’ respect for visual creatives. We must support our communities to support visual creatives. Repeat. What does support look like? So many questions. And quite a few answers. It looks like this. It could also look like that. Repeat. What does support look like? Repeat.
Resources Are Support. Support for visual creatives can materialize in several forms. Repeat. Funding, space, time and materials support visual creatives and are all things that they must have to sustain themselves and their work. These things amount to a lot. To manage them all, visual creatives must precisely plan their every moment, their every move, their every project. Repeat. When artists and designers are afforded resources, there is one less thing to worry about, even if that thing not worried about is only temporarily not worried about. Repeat. Providing visual creatives with resources as support allows them to focus just that much more on what is really important: creation. Repeat. What does support look like? So many questions. And quite a few answers. It looks like this. It could also look like that. Repeat. What
projects, Quite Strong and Twelve Galleries Project set up fertile ground for visual creatives and audiences to explore creativity in the context of the greater local, national and international creative scenes, and in doing so, they provide creatives with promotion and publicity on a massive scale. Repeat. These kinds of organizations additionally provide important professional development and opportunities that allow visual creatives to broaden their skills, making them even more valuable to multiple markets. Repeat. These organizations not only connect visual creatives to one another and to a given community, they connect them directly to you and to me, consequently connecting you to me. Repeat. What does support look like? So many questions. And quite a few answers. It looks like this. It could also look like that. Repeat. What does support look like? Repeat.
However, society often asks why? Why do visual creatives need my community, my money, my time, space and resources, my eyes and my presence? And an even more frequently asked question: why do they deserve these things? Artists and designers support everyone, so everyone must support them. Repeat. It is widely understood that non-government groups, small collectives, and yes, even individuals, create the most memorable educational experiences and dynamic cultural landscapes in our communities. In their efforts to express themselves and promote the pleasure of beauty and knowledge, visual creatives nurture society’s wildest, most revolutionary ideas until they bear fruits that benefit us all. Repeat.
does support look like? Repeat.
Organizations Provide Support. Nonprofit and informal arts sectors feed new ideas, art forms, and talent to the public and commercial arts sectors, in many ways providing an important research and development function for communities-at-large. Repeat. In this vein, organizations like Chicago Artists’ Coalition’s hatch
So ask yourself: what does support look like? So many questions. And quite a few answers. It looks like this. It could also look like that. Repeat. What does support look like? Repeat. Support visual creatives to support your community, to support me, to support yourself. Repeat. This is what support looks like. Repeat.
Quarterly Site #9: Support
In collaboration with Chicago Artists’ Coalition’s HATCH Projects, Twelve Galleries Project presents Quarterly Site #9: Support curated by female design collective Quite Strong. The exhibition showcases two communities of visual creatives — HATCH Projects artists and Quite Strong Lust List designers. Together, hatch Projects, an organization focusing on contemporary art and professional artist development, Quite Strong, a female collective fostering the overlap of art and design cultures, and Twelve Galleries Project, a roving curatorial experiment exploring collaborative exhibition models, present two communities in an exhibition that demonstrates the diverse and immense talent of Chicago’s artists and designers. In Quarterly Site #9: Support, each respective group challenges artists and designers to step outside their immediate communities to seek vast and varied perspectives and experiences. The result: the facilitation and implementation of a support system beyond what is merely essential and into territory that is rich and rewarding. In essence, Quarterly Site #9: Support connects the ‘support’ theme central to the missions of hatch Projects, Quite Strong and Twelve Galleries Project and to the success of creatives of all kinds.
Featuring Installations by HATCH Projects Artists
Art and design works by Quite Strong Lust Listers
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Marissa Lee Benedict Amanda Greive Renee Prisble Brittany Ransom David Wittig Jim Zimpel
Cave Party Collective The Dye Lab Firebelly Design Elaine Fong Linsey Burritt & Julia Stotz Margot Harrington Monina Velarde Nancy A. Bernardo
Jamilee Polson Lacy is an artist, curator and writer living and working in Chicago. She founded and currently directs the Twelve Galleries Project, a transitory, collaborative exhibition experiment. She has engaged in collaborative projects with numerous Chicago creatives and institutions, including the Black Visual Archive, Chicago Artists’ Coalition, Chicago Art Review, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center, Quite Strong and Swimming Pool Project Space, among others. Lacy holds two undergraduate degrees in studio arts and art history and a Masters of Comparative Literature from Northwestern University.
jamilee polson lacy
Nancy McCabe & Meg Reilly Nicole Lavelle Renata Graw Tinne Van Loon Veronica CorzoDuchardt Veronika Burian & José Scaglione Zara Picken
poetry by
— Hannah Gamble Laura Eve Engel Monica Fambrough
HATCH Projects a juried one-year exhibition hatch projects co-operative, is an initiative of the Chicago Artists’ Coalition. HATCH Projects was artists
created to provide an artist community and professional network for contemporary and emerging Chicago artists. Artists participate in professionally curated group shows throughout the year with direct oversight and support from CAC staff and professionals from the Chicago arts community. HATCH Projects acts as an incubator for developing a creative practice while providing artists with access to educational resources and the opportunity to engage with Chicago’s leading art professionals. HATCH Projects seeks to engage the Chicago arts community and its public in critical dialogue about contemporary art through ground-breaking exhibition programming. http://chicagoartistscoalition.org/ coalition-gallery
Quite Strong is a collaborative made up quite strong’s of five female Chicago-based creatives: lust list Elaine Chernov, Jana Kinsman, Victoria Pater,
Jennifer Sisson and Katherine Walker. Professionally, the founders are graphic designers, art directors, web developers and illustrators. The collective actively engages and persistently promotes the Chicago design community and female creative community-at-large through innovative programming, professional development and advocacy. Quite Strong additionally showcases on its online gallery the Lust List: an eclectic mix of talented female artists and designers from around the world. http://quitestrong.com/lust-list
Twelve Galleries Project began as a roving twelve galleries exhibition series featuring the work of emerging artists over the course of one project year. With each new month, a new location was selected and a new gallery was formed, producing 12 site-specific exhibitions from january all the way through to december gallery.
For its second transitory venture, Twelve Galleries Project presents the Quarterly Site Series. QSS will focus its attention to the efforts of curators and current Chicago galleries. Every quarter for the next three years, within an existing Chicago gallery, three curators will collectively organize a themed exhibition. Specific to the Quarterly Site Series is collaboration. With the exception of a predetermined theme conducive to varied interpretation, there are no rules. Because there are no rules, each group of curators has the possibility to develop a unique model of curatorial practice and a one of a kind exhibition. http:// twelvegalleriesproject.org
society often asks why? Why do visual creatives
need my community, my money, my time, space and resources, my eyes and my presence? And an even more frequently asked question: why do they deserve these things?
hatch projects artists
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marissa lee benedict
Supplemental library (access to tools), 2012 Mobile bench (re-purposed plywood, pine, wheels), the Whole Earth Catalog (1969, 1974), books, pamphlets, handouts, migrating donations and material samples Dimensions variable
America, The Freedom Museum, Perimeter Gallery, Northeastern Illinois University, Loyola University and The California Institute of Integral Studies. She currently teaches at Loyola University Chicago, Wright College and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Prisble’s work examines systems of connectivity through sculpture, installation, and drawing. In particular, her projects explore natural systems and liminal states within those systems, creating works that often materialize as series and multiples.
Nancy Bernardo is a Quite Strong Lust Lister. www.nancyabernardo.net
Veronika Burian and JosÉ Scalgione
Renee Prisble is a hatch projects artist. www.reneeprisble.com
brittany ransom
• Marissa Lee Benedict is a native of southern California and currently lives and works in Chicago. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design and a Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she was awarded an mfa fellowship from the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Her work has been presented in exhibitions at the LaSalle College of the Arts, Singapore, the Arsenal Center for the Arts, Columbia College Chicago, the Sullivan Galleries, Zhou B Center, Defibrillator and Heaven Gallery. Benedict’s sculptural practice is an ongoing investigation into the forms, states and situations, which play a part in the complex, ever-evolving, symbiotic relationship between humans and the material world. A sculptural supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog of the 1960s and 1970s, the mobile library initiated for the Quarterly Site #9: Support exhibition represents/re-presents the catalog’s motto “access to tools”, touching upon themes of material knowledge and networked inter-connectivity. The piece is a micro-sampling of the energy and ideas of artists, designers, scientists, tinkerers, engineers, material enthusiasts, architects and innovators both past and present.
them with appropriated imagery and text from time periods spanning the Victorian era to the modernist 1950s. Typography, composition and layering are all strategies used to enhance subject matter and subvert or offer up alternative meaning.
#tag, 2011 Steel, burlap, plaster, dirt, Magic Message plant (swordbean), custom electronics Dimensions vary Illuminators, 2011 Resin, Bess beetles Approximately 5 x 5 x 3 inches • Brittany Ransom is an artist and educator living and working in Chicago. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in art and technology from Ohio State University and a Master of Fine Arts with emphasis in new media arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is a College Art Association fellow, two-time recipient of the Lincoln Fellowship, and Provost Award recipient at uic. Ransom creates interactive installations, electronic art objects and site-specific interventions that consider the paradoxical bond between human, nature, its inhabitants and the co-evolution between the living and budding technological innovation.
Four-hand typography, 2011 Video • Veronika Burian lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic. Burian holds an undergraduate degree in industrial design and a Master of Arts in typeface design. She now dedicates her time fully to TypeTogether, an independent typelabel and foundry she co-founded with José Scaglione. An original typeface called Maiola and designed by Burian received, among others, the tdc Certificate of Excellence in Type Design, while several other typefaces created by TypeTogether have been recognized by international competitions, including ed-Awards and istd.
Veronica Corzo-Duchardt
Support Material, 2011 Mixed-media and wood 30 x 40 inches • Veronica Corzo-Duchardt is a CubanAmerican artist, designer and art director who has worked in Philadelphia, nyc and Chicago. Primarily working in the music, fashion and magazine industries, she has worked for v2 records, Surface magazine and enk International and freelanced for clients such as Artista records and Sony Music. She holds two Master of Fine Arts degrees in visual communication and writing, founded the art and design studio winterbureau and teaches as an adjunct faculty member at Harrington College of Design. Corzo-Duchardt’s work has been exhibited internationally and is held in permanent collections at the Newberry Library, History of Prints Collection, Joan Flasch Artist’s Book Collection, all in Chicago, at Museum of Design in Atlanta and as part of the Zürich Poster Collection in Switzerland. Veronica Corzo-Duchardt is a Quite Strong Lust Lister. www.winterbureau.com & www.nechecollection.com
Wolfgang Weingart at the Basel School of Design and received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is native of Rio de Janeiro, where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica. Renata Graw is a Quite Strong Lust Lister. www.weareplural.com
margot harrington
The Rules, by Sister Corita Kent, 2011 Site-specific installation Approximately 72 x 36 inches • Margot Harrington is a designer, writer and founder of blog and design studio Pitch Design Union. She employs a variety of media, such as letterpress, screenprinting and digital tools. Harrington has worked with clients like Proximity Magazine, CS Interiors, Ratatat, iocom, among others. For the Quarterly Site #9: Support exhibition, Harrington has created an installation featuring “Rules & Hints for Students and Teachers,” a set of guidelines meant to support and foster successful learning outcomes in creative curriculum. These rules were authored by Sister Corita Kent, an important figure in education and history of design.
Tinne Van Loon
Palestine Through Their Eyes, 2011 Installation including archival digital prints on Kodak lustre paper 120 inches across • Tinne Van Loon is a Belgian-American designer currently working at Thirst in Chicago. With a growing concern for the atrocious neglect of human rights around the world, Van Loon has recently chosen to pursue a career in photojournalism. Her series Palestine Through Their Eyes invites viewers to meet and experience the everyday realities of Palestinians whose entire existence has been transformed as a result of Israel’s military occupation. The photographs included in her Quarterly Site #9: Support installation were taken during a delegation to Palestine and Israel with Global Exchange, a human rights organization focused on connecting Americans with people in conflict areas. Van Loon’s photographs present a rare view of Palestine’s innocents—activists, educators, citizens working for good—who struggle to create a meaningful existence amidst a violent crisis. Tinne Van Loon is a Quite Strong Lust Lister. www.tinnevanloon.com
ON DISPLAY Marissa Lee Benedict is a hatch projects artist. www.marissaleebenedict.com
Amanda Greive
Waiting for the other shoe to drop, 2011 Oil on wood panel 20 x 20 inches
You Are, I Am Part 1, 2009 You Are, I Am Part 3, 2009 Oil on wood panel Each 16 x 16 inches Nail Nest, 2011 Oil on wood panel 36 x 20 inches
• Amanda Greive holds a Bachelor of Arts in visual arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago and has exhibited her work nationally. Her paintings have been featured at the St. Louis Artist’s Guild and the Louisville Visual Arts Association, among others, and most recently, she mounted solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Center of Peoria, Lincoln Land Community College and the Buchanan Center for the Arts. Using historical and contemporary methods of symbolism, Greive’s works explore human interaction through the creation of photo-realistic, uniquely structured still-life paintings. Amanda Greive is a hatch projects artist. www.amandagreive.mosaicglobe.com
renee prisble
Migrating Thunder Cell & Ghost Thunder Cell, 2010 Ink on illustration board archivally framed with UV glass 14.5 x 14.5 inches Migrating Thunder Cells (3), 2010 / Thunder Cells (2), 2010 / Thunder Cells (6), 2010 / Thunder Cells (8), 2010 Ink on watercolor paper archivally framed with UV glass 10.5 x 14.25 inches / 8.5 x 11.5 inches / 8.5 x 11.5 inches / 10.5 x 14.25 inches Colors of the Desert (yellow and blue), 2010 / Colors of the Desert (yellow and green), 2010 Ink and egg tempra on watercolor paper Each 14.5 x 11 inches Thunder Cell Shards, 2011–12 Cast paper, ink Dimensions vary Thunder Cell Pods, 2011 Cast bronze Each pod 6 inches in diameter Desert Form (1), 2011 / Desert Form (3), 2011 / Desert Form (4), 2011 Cast iron 12 x 8 x 8 inches / 14 x 12 x 10 inches / 12 x 14 x 8 inches • Renee Prisble is a Chicago-based artist working in sculpture, installation and drawing. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her Master of Fine Arts from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. She has shown at The International Museum of Surgical Science, The Polish Museum of
Brittany Ransom is a hatch projects artist. www.brittanyransom.com
David Wittig
Aerials, 2011 c-print vacuum mounted on acrylic Each 24 x 16 inches After Ives, 2010 photograph on stretched canvas Each 40 x 60 inches
• David Wittig, a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, is an artist and commercial photographer living and working in Chicago. He studied photography and political science and had his first solo show in 2006 in Northern Italy, coinciding with the publication of his first book. For the Quarterly Site #9: Support exhibition, Wittig’s photography explores repetition and formal qualities of landscape and composition and is presented as an installation that aptly metaphors the power of numbers and intricacies of community structures. David Wittig is a hatch projects artist. www.davidwittig.com/art
jim zimpel
Untitled (Ice Fishing Station), 2010 Clamps, buckets, rods, acrylic, aquarium, driftwood, motorized lift, plywood, pvc, cherry, pine, extension cords Dimensions vary Untitled (topo), 2010 CNC routed poplar, buckets, treated lumber 72 x 36 x 24 inches
• Jim Zimpel is a native of Saint Paul and an artist living and working in Chicago. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Master of Fine Arts from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. Zimpel’s work explores support in terms of personal, familial and regional customs. Utilizing recollection and recognition, the pieces included in the Quarterly Site #9: Support exhibition present interpretations of tradition, constructions of regional past times, and his own, unique understanding of patrilineal relationships and communication. Jim Zimpel is a hatch projects artist. www.jimzimpel.com
lust list designers
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Nancy Bernardo
Lightweight Yet Powerful!, 2011 Tracing paper, ink, Letraset transfer letters Each 11 x 17 inches • Trained as a graphic designer, Nancy Bernardo currently lives and works in New Orleans, Lousiana, where she teaches graphic design at Loyola University. Bernardo’s work focuses on the relationship between text and the interpretation of messages. Bernardo experiments with her observations of everyday life, juxtaposing
• José Scaglione is a graphic and typeface designer and co-founder of TypeTogether. He teaches typography at the National University of Rosario and University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a member of the Board of the Association Typographique Internationale and chairman of the Letter.2 type design competition and conference.
For the Quarterly Site #9: Support exhibition, Burian and Scaglione have created Four-hand typography, a video that lets the audience take a look into the daily routines of type designers, from everyday individual and communication routines to the complex planning of long-term projects and future outlooks. The video strives to impress upon the viewer the reality of the typeface designer’s work as neither solitary nor enclosed anymore. Rather, the piece illustrates that the creation of new letterforms is comprised of the personal, the subjective and is ripe for successful collaboration, as is evident by the cooperative-duo TypeTogether.
Veronika Burian is a Quite Strong Lust Lister. www.type-together.com
the dye lab 2,858 Miles, 2011
Installation including two 18 x 24 inch largeformat posters and collected take-away objects Dimensions vary
Monina Velarde
Margot Harrington is a Quite Strong Lust Lister. www.pitchdesignunion.com
nicole lavelle
• The Dye Lab is an independent graphic design studio based in Seattle and Brooklyn that is owned and operated by Alanna MacGowan and Tonya Douraghy. When the virtual world is your main form of communication, the designers admit that even the smallest physical object takes on great sentimental value. Living on opposite coasts, packages have become MacGowan’s and Douraghy’s standard form of support for each other. 2,858 Miles consists of the artifacts collected and sent between the designers over three years of living 2,858 miles apart—some objects are specific to an occasion, some for everyday. To make this personal tradition public, the Dye Lab has created an installation featuring one hundred objects collected for Quarterly Site #9: Support visitors to take and give as they please. The Dye Lab is a Quite Strong Lust Lister. www.thedyelab.com
You Hold Me Up, 2011 Ink on paper Approximately 72 inches across
• Nicole Lavelle lives and works in Portland, Oregon as an artist and designer. She works on creative projects with Pinball Publishing and teaches design and visual communications courses at Portland State University. Her work incorporates her interest in language and socially engaging public art and has been exhibited nationally. Created for the Quarterly Site #9: Support exhibition, Lavelle’s You Hold Me Up weaves a dynamic look at an intimate yet universal conversation of mutual support. Nicole Lavelle is a Quite Strong Lust Lister. www.makingstuffanddoingthings.com
Golden, 2011 Brooklyn, 2011 Millau, 2011 Inkjet print on matte paper Each print 13 x 19 inches
• Monina Velarde is a graphic designer based in Chicago. She received her design education at the Kansas City Art Institute, where she majored in graphic design and art history. Velarde has worked for Critical Mass, Inc., Hallmark Cards Inc. and Hammerpress Letterpress, and she currently designs for Designkitchen. Her work is often inspired by layers of color and shape and has been featured by aiga Kansas City, The New Yorker, Graphic Exchange and Design Work Life, among others. For the Quarterly Site #9: Support exhibition, Velarde has created a series of three inkjet-printed patterns inspired by the support structures, colors and environments of notable bridges. Monina Velarde is a Quite Strong Lust Lister. design.moninavelarde.com
Linsey Burritt and Julia Stotz
Nancy McCabe and Meg Reilly
Built Together, 2011 Installation containing 500 sheets of salvaged paper from Speedball Press screenprinted using Leftover ink from Spudnik Press Approximately 66 x 48 x 48 inches
No longer hidden: the inside known, 2011 Hand embossment on paper Four prints each 13 x 13 inches and three poem prints each 6.5 x 13 inches
featured poets
• Nancy McCabe is a graphic designer, typographer, photographer and mixed-media artist originally from Minneapolis and now living and working in Chicago. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in graphic design from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and a Master of Visual Communications from Milan, Italy’s Scuola Politecnica di Design. She designs for Costello Communications, and in her studio practice, she composes two-dimensional works with a variety of media and an affinity for letters, words and messages that at once powerful and subtle.
To further illustrate the mutual understanding and support of creative communities in general, Quarterly Site #9: Support will feature poetry readings by three local poets at the exhibition’s opening reception:
• Linsey Burritt is co-founder of the Chicagobased design studio indo, where she creates window displays out of materials sourced from local waste and recycling streams. A graphic designer trained at Columbia College Chicago, Burritt works individually and collaboratively to produce pieces that are print-, illustration-, sculpture- and web-based, among other forms. Her projects have been displayed by numerous Chicago establishments, including Barbara&Barbara Gallery, The coop, The Post Family’s Family Room gallery and post27, among others.
• Julia Stotz is a Chicago-based freelance commercial photographer, bookbinder and founder of tipinfold books, a custom-made portfolio, book, and box enterprise. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography from Columbia College Chicago, where she additionally studied bookbinding at the Center for Book and Paper Arts. Within her art practice, Stotz’s work focuses on unique function and form within a book’s structure, paper manipulation, and the sincere quality of light on ordinary moments. www.juliastotz.com Lindsey Burritt is a Quite Strong Lust Lister. www.linseyburritt.com
Cave Party Collective
Friendship Bracelet, 2011 Military grade rope 50 inch support ropes • An art and design group, Cave Party Collective is made up of four women currently working as graphic designers. The designers’ clients have included Urban Outfitters, Apple, msnbc, Harvard Business School and Topman, while their efforts outside of the commercial design realm continuously shift the boundaries between fine and conceptual art and design. Most important to the collective is their mission to empower females by embracing and supporting a practice that offers a unique, positive and unapologetic view of contemporary femininity. Members include Emily Reile, Alexandra Roche, Julie Roche, and Annie Yiling Wang. Annie Yiling Wang is a Quite Strong Lust Lister. www.cave-party.com
firebelly design
Community Compilation, 2012 Video installation Dimensions vary
• Firebelly is a Chicago-based collaborative team of visual creatives working to create positive change through socially responsible design. In addition to their design projects, the group organizes innovative programming and opportunities to support creatives, nonprofit and philanthropic groups, and the Chicago community-at-large. For the Quarterly Site #9: Support exhibition the team has created a video installation that encourages audience participation in order to consider the nature of collaboration. Firebelly members include Dawn Hancock, Nick Adam, Nate Beaty, Ohn Ho, Alex Killough, Lindsay McMenamin and Will Miller. Dawn Hancock is a Quite Strong Lust Lister. www.firebellydesign.com
elaine fong
Netted, 2011 Ink on paper 30 x 44 inches • Elaine Fong is a graphic artist and designer originally from New Orleans and now living and working in Chicago. She has worked in exhibition design, stationery greetings and advertising and is currently a senior communication designer at ideo. Her work has been featured in Print, ReadyMade, spin magazine and has exhibited at the Selby Gallery in Sarasota and the Museum of Design in Atlanta. Fong’s design utilizes bright, brilliant color combinations to investigate a variety of topics. For the Quarterly Site #9: Support exhibition, she has put together a large infographic documenting dates, locations and instances of friends supporting her over the last 10 years. Elaine Fong is a Quite Strong Lust Lister. www.elainefong.com
renata graw
Fear No Fear, 2011/2012 Mixed-media 9 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches • Renata Graw is a partner at Plural Design and teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her work has been recognized and published by the Art Directors Club, Type Directors Club, aiga, Society of Typographic Arts, Print Magazine, Eye Magazine and Communication Arts, among others. Graw studied typography under
• Meg Reilly lives and writes in Chicago. Her poetry has appeared in Columbia Poetry Review, rhino, So to Speak, Diagram, and Versal, and is forthcoming in tim. She teaches writing rhetoric at Columbia College Chicago and works as a doula and yoga instructor in Chicago. Meg Reilly holds a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia College Chicago. Nancy McCabe is Quite Strong Lust Lister. www.designahoy.com
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hannah gamble
• Hannah Gamble is the author of Your Invitation to a Modest Breakfast, selected by Bernadette Mayer for the 2011 National Poetry Series and to be published by Fence in 2012. Hannah is the Poet-in-Residence at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago and teaches literature at Prairie State College. Her poems and interviews appear or are forthcoming in apr, Indiana Review, Ecotone, Mid-American Review and elsewhere. Gamble is also the founder and curator of the Dose reading series in Nashville.
Laura Eve Engel zara picken
Divisions, 2011 Giclée print on archival acid-free cotton rag paper Each 8 x 8 inches • Zara Picken currently lives and works as a full-time illustrator in Bristol, England. Picken has been recognized internationally by 3×3, Association of Illustrators, Creative Quarterly and D&AD and has worked with international clients, such as The Guardian, Waitrose and Wired Magazine. Her illustrations approach vast and varied subjects, exploring shape, color and pattern. “When the individual is in danger of disconnection, support facilitates focus, strength and identity,” writes Picken. Working within the framework of the exhibition’s ‘support’ theme, the Divisions prints explore the concept of detachment, communicating the designer’s belief that support should be considered neither ancillary nor secondary, but essential to survival. Zara Picken is a Quite Strong Lust Lister. www.zaraillustrates.com
• Laura Eve Engel’s work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in The Southern Review, Black Warrior Review, Indiana Review, Pleiades, Salt Hill, Versal and elsewhere. Additionally, [Spoiler Alert], a chapbook she co-wrote with Adam Peterson, is forthcoming from Dzanc Books. Engel is the current Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing.
monica fambrough
• Monica Fambrough is a native of Mableton, Georgia and the author of the chapbooks Black Beauty (Katalanche) and the self-published Meta Parka. Her poems have been featured in the anthologies Poets on Painters and Poems About Horses, and her recent work is new or forthcoming in GlitterPony Magazine, Open City, A Public Space, and Denver Quarterly. In addition to writing poetry, Fambrough currently works as a freelance literary publicist and lives in Chicago.