• *  The festival will last a full 24 hours, meaning that there will be an event happening at any given time from noon on Saturday, February 4, to Sunday, February 5^th.
• * Events may include, but are not limited to: pop-up galleries and exhibition openings, performances, happenings, concerts, film screenings, sing-alongs, dance parties,                                 group yoga, feasts, storytelling, interactive performance games, Pecha Kucha, open studios, sewing circles, recovery brunch, and/or conceptual puppet shows. The imaginative, the unusual, and the radically hospitable are encouraged.
• * Event locations will be restricted to the northwest neighborhoods of Chicago--specifically those near the blue line (Logan Square, Humbolt Park, Wicker Park, Ukranian Village, Bucktown, etc.) --in order to ease the strain of travel for the audience and to prevent audience dispersal. Events may take place in official alternative spaces, or they may take place in apartments, bars, storefronts, hallways, bathrooms, etc. Alternative spaces located in other neighborhoods may still participate so long as they use a pop-up space near the blue line.
• *Selected participants will be required to pay a $10 fee to cover the cost of promotional materials.
• *  Please send a 250-word proposal describing your event and location to itsaponyprojects@gmail.com no later than January 16^th. Relevant images and video may accompany your proposal, but are not required.

Emily Clayton’s recent work began as a series informed by sunsets, occult photography and stage curtains. Charged with spacial impossibilities, each are asking the viewer for the same thing, to willfully suspend disbelief. Distilling from this a sense of illusion and visual deception, the works are reduced to an atmospheric gradient of color. The series examines the two dimensional plane of an artificial horizon in relation to the stage and studio photography. They are backdrops, scenery, simulated landscapes all void of subject or performer. Situated within the historical tenet of process driven practices the work aims to exhibit a calculated control of material and form.

Eileen Mueller’s work focuses on the material history of the photographic image and its role in confounding unwritten or inaccessible histories. Her latest work links her own practice within communal educational spaces and the historic progeny of the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College. While making a pilgrimage to Black Mountain Eileen sought out the vistas wherein the landscape served as an emulsion, fixing the ghosts of American Modernism. Through embedding her own images into an anomic archive that also contains material mined from historic materials she poeticizes existing histories to build a mythology of the artist.

Emily Clayton is a Nashville based artist who works primarily in sculpture, installation and painting. After receiving her BFA from University of Tennessee in 2004 she spent several years in Chicago helping to organize exhibitions and events with the Co-Prosperity Sphere, Version Festival and Mule Magazine. Her work has been shown in Chicago, New York and Nashville.

www.emilyclayton.com

Eileen Mueller has studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she recently received her BFA. She is the recipient of the Fred Endsley Memorial Fellowship and the World Less Travelled Grant as well as a finalist for the Gelman Travel Fellowship. Eileen recently showed in Ceaseless Blooms in Jobless Colors at Johalla Projects and is scheduled to show at the Kohler Museum this coming fall. Eileen is the co-founder of GURL DON’T BE DUMB, a curatorial project that is currently based out of Chicago.

www.eileenmueller.com