We are releasing the new issue of Proximity during Version Festival and at the NEXT Art Fair. Pick up a (free!) copy of the brand-spanking-new issue themed “Catalog of Strategies.”
Please join us for our PMIRL Launch at our NEXT Booth #9056.
The Public Media Institute is pleased to announce the launch of our latest project, the [...]
We barely had a chance to look at a computer this weekend because the festival has consumed our attention. A quick upload of images from some of the recent days events and shows is on our Flickr site. We have six more days to go and tons of work and projects to share.
Tonight is the [...]
Our new pal Luke Williams made our identity system for the Proximity/PMI project: the Public Media Institute Research Library aka PMIRL. See it at Next Art Fair (as part of Version 10).
Every year we present a snapshot of the ever changing art ecology of Chicago and it’s called Version Festival. For nine years we have been experimenting with the festival format as a way of exposing the Do-It-Together spirit of the Chicago art scenes and highlighting some of the best projects, initiatives and groups that make [...]
We posted a few images of last Friday’s opening of the Printervention show. Thanks for coming! If you didn’t come by then go see it!
April 16, 2010
A night for a jailed Iraq War Veteran and war resister…
A night of cultural and political resistance…
A night to free Marc Hall!
Acts: The Ideologists, Dreamtek, and G-Spot
When: April 16, 2010 7pm – 12am
Where: Decima Musa, 1901 S. Loomis, Chicago, IL 60608-3020
Who: Chicago Hip-Hop Artist, Local War Resisters, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Civilian-Soldier Alliance, Vietnam [...]
Last year you may have heard about how Alderman Balcer censored a mural in Bridgeport at the beginning of Version 9 Festival. Today The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression gave this incident a 2010 Jefferson Muzzle Award.
Announced on or near April 13 — the anniversary of the birth of Thomas [...]
April 16, 2010
BRAIDED BREAD SCOTT COWAN & KATY KEEFE
opening reception, Friday April 16th 8-11 PM
This is a humorous exhibition that was made with an active balance between frustration and friendly relaxation (featuring: secondary objects, eye movement, paintings of paintings of paintings, patience, stability, the formation of doing things together, and 125 lbs. of wax).
THE HILLS ESTHETIC [...]
April 28, 2010
Unearthed Arcana: Narrative Art for Others
@ LVL 3 (1542 N Milwaukee Ave, third floor)
6-10pm (free afterparty @ Rodan – 1530 Milwaukee Ave)
Thirteen living artists representing several generations of American life. Family-men, healers, care-takers, lovers, and a space goddess. Stories for our friends and families told through psychedelic non-fiction and future traditions.
Artists include:
Roderick MacKenzie, Gunsho, Kyla [...]
April 27, 2010
Printervention
Printervention Party and Sticker Awards
@ The Whistler (2421 N Milwaukee Ave)
7pm-2am
We have asked artists from around the country to create works that raise awareness of social and political issues of our day. Printervention is an exhibition of over 70 posters and prints at theChicago Tourism Center Gallery. The show also features a mobile silk screen [...]
April 26, 2010
MONDAY, APRIL 26
Version Residency Space
@ (Con)Temporary Art Space (208 S Wabash)
11:30am-5:30pm (open all week)
What would you do if you were given an empty storefront space in the Loop? This Spring, we used it as a research center, working studio, and place to hold weekly exhibitions. We also held a few screenings, promoted performance art, and [...]
April 25, 2010
NFO XPO
@ Benton House (3052 S Gratten Ave)
www.bentonhouse.org
12pm-6pm (BBQ, films, music afterwards)
$7 adults/free for youth
NFO XPO continues today with exhibitions and Free University, plus a Korean Polish BBQ/Folk Freakout afterwards – all programs take place at Benton House.
See Sat., April 24th for participant list.) (Free University and Re:Claiming Creativity Conference happening simultaneously – Schedule [...]
April 24, 2010
NFO XPO / FREE UNIVERSITY
@ Benton House (3052 S Gratten Ave)
www.bentonhouse.org
12:00PM-7:30pm
$7 adults/free for youth
The NFO XPO (“info expo”) brings art groups and community organizations together to exchange information and ideas, and also provides a public platform for each individual or group to present itself. It’s a trade show for experimental art, emerging art spaces, [...]
April 23, 2010
FRIDAY, APRIL 23
VERSION 10
Telefantasy
The Opening Party
@ Co-Prosperity Sphere (3219-21 S Morgan St)
www.coprosperity.org
8pm – 2am
Telefantasy Studios is a group of artists that specialize in Sci-Fi/fantasy film productions. Their aim is to transport people to realms never before imagined and to tell heroic stories with [...]
April 22, 2010
THURSDAY, APRIL 22
Opening Of Version Festival
Territories Group Exhibition
@ Zhou B Center (1029 W 35th St)
www.zbcenter.org
7-10pm – exhibition runs through May 3
Opening night of Version 10 begins with Territories, a group exhibition. Meet participating artists and get an advanced look at the festival program ahead. Features work by: Tomas Moreno, Chad Gerth, Hui-min Tsen, Chris Larson, [...]
Please join us at the opening of the pre Version 10 Festival exhibition, Printervention.
It opens Friday April 16 from 5 to 7pm at the Chicago Tourism Center Gallery, 72 E Randolph.
We have asked artists from around the country to create works that raise awareness of social and political issues of our day. Printervention underscores the [...]
April 16, 2010
Post No Bills: Contemporary Polish Posters
April 16–May 16, 2010 | Opening Reception: Friday, April 16, 7–9 p.m.
A Colorful and intriguing poster exhibition by very talented and accomplished students and faculty from The Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and Katowice, Poland. Polish poster art has long enjoyed world-wide prestige for its exceptional originality. This show [...]
We are approaching our epic annual springtime art and social activism adventure, Version Festival. Our ninth edition, Version 10: Territories and Infrastructures, takes place April 22 to May 2, 2010 throughout the city of Chicago.
We need your help in creating this entirely artist-run affair. If you want to meet incredible people from Chicago and around [...]
April 9, 2010
Pride of Paper/Orgullo en Papel: Arte Papel Oaxaca & Kiff Slemmons
Chicago Cultural Center, Michigan Avenue Galleries
Friday, April 9, 6-8 pm
Over the past 10 years Chicago-based artist Kiff Slemmons has been collaborating with Mexican artists at a papermaking facility outside of Oaxaca.
Using local plants, fibers, and natural and synthetic dyes, Slemmons has worked with a group [...]
Today, (C)TAS-ers present another fabulous round of ambitious works, just for you. We’ll provide the art, the drinks — also just for you — and, at 8pm, a very special presentation by POCKET GUIDE TO HELL TOURS’ Paul Durica. Paul will talk about hobos, from human parasites to Charlie “The Little Tramp” Chaplin. He’ll bring [...]
PLAND, Practice Liberating Art through Necessary Dislocation, is an off-the-grid residency program that supports the development of experimental and research-based projects in the context of the Taos mesa. PLAND finds its inspiration in a legacy of pioneers, entrepreneurs, homesteaders, artists, and other counterculturalists who – through both radical and mundane activities – reclaim and reframe [...]
April 16, 2010
THE FOLLOWING OF ONE THING AFTER ANOTHER
Show Opening
All the way from Dresden, Germany, Ina Weise came to Chicago eager to become the first intern at The Post Family. This opportunity rapidly evolved into a self-initiated artist residency. Over the past year Ina has created a large portfolio including screenprinted and letterpressed works, small scale sculptural [...]
The Chicago Art Parade: Call for Participants
The second annual Chicago Art Parade will be taking over Chicago’s West Loop on Saturday May 1st at 2pm. An amazing line-up has been formed that includes marching bands, fashionistas, dancers, fluxus folks, a bar on wheels, and artists. We still want [...]
April 9, 2010
Garage Spaces re-opens with Retrospective
By Mike Bancroft and Evan Plummer
•• April 9, 2010 5 pm-Midnight ••
Food provided by Co-op Food Carts Project
•• April 13, 2010 ••
Finding Artist Run Galleries Everywhere Tour (presented by the Art Institute of
Chicago—Sold Out)
•• April 26, 2010 ••
Forced Meat Festival Fundraiser at Treat 1616 N Kedzie Avenue
•• Closing April 30, 2010 [...]
April 3, 2010
I’M OK YOU’RE OK: THE ART OF SELF-IMPROVEMENT
Jacob C. Hammes
Faith La Rocque & Jaimie Henthorn
Gregg Louis
Habby Osk
Jill Pangallo
April 3 – April 18, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 3, 7:00 – 10:00pm
Gallery Hours: Sundays, 12:00 – 5:00pm
CHICAGO: Concertina Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of I’m OK You’re OK: The Art of Self-Improvement, a group exhibition [...]
April 2, 2010
April 2 – April 24, 2010
GOLDEN
816 W. Newport, Chicago, USA
www.golden-gallery.org
Mike Schuh
Set
Opening Reception:
Friday, April 2, 2009
6 – 9pm
April 16, 2010
Printervention: Printing for the Public
EXHIBITION AND PUBLIC ART PROJECT RAISING AWARENESS OF SOCIAL ISSUES OF OUR DAY
CHICAGO TOURISM CENTER GALLERY,
72 E. RANDOLPH ST.
APRIL 16 – MAY 4
Features Workshops and Mobile Silkscreen Printing Cart for Distributing Art on Streets and in Parks
WHO: Chicago Department of Cultural [...]
April 3, 2010
VERSION 10 SILENT AUCTION & RAFFLE
Saturday April 3, 2010
7pm to 1am
Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St
$10 admission (you get two raffle tickets)
Please join us at our only fundraiser for the year which helps fund the projects, publications and exhibitions that are part of our annual arts convergence, Version Festival. There will be extraordinary [...]
