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The Gallery of Contemporary Mosaics (GoCM) exhibits internationally recognized, emerging, and established contemporary artists working across various disciplines, including mosaic art. GoCM champions artists who demonstrate exceptional conceptual and technical skill through a wide range of approaches and materials. In the US, contemporary mosaics remain relatively unacknowledged as a fine art; therefore, GoCM offers a platform for highly respected and regarded artists to showcase their work in our state-of-the-art facility. GoCM is affiliated with The Chicago Mosaic School (CMS), the preeminent center for mosaic arts education in the Americas. The Gallery of Contemporary Mosaics will significantly transform how audiences experience mosaics, both within and beyond our walls.
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Connected Landscapes: The MacInnes Brothers
June 27th - September 7th, 2024
Opening Reception: Thursday, 6/27, 7–9pm
The MacInnes brothers are returning to GoCM with their new exhibition \"Connected Landscapes: The MacInnes Brothers\".
Dugald creates abstract impressions using Scottish slate to recreate emotional responses from childhood memory. His connection to the landscape is influenced by regional geology and archaeology. Different stimuli affected the childhood experience of Roddy. His photographs memorialize locations of significant memory associations.
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A Group Exhibition of Maestro Verdiano Marzi and His Students
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March 7th - April 5th, 2025
Brick Mugs is an ode to Chicago brick streetscapes. It is an exhibition by and for Chicagoans, that brings scenes from our daily lives into the intimate space of a domestic household object: the ceramic mug.
In a city famous for its architectural attractions, this body of work instead focuses on ordinary experiences of our neighborhoods by calling on local artists who work in clay to notice and create their own rendition of the clay-based structures that surround us.
The artists celebrate the link between craft and place by creating unique pieces, variations on the theme of vernacular brick and terra cotta architecture. They do the double work of highlighting the labor that built Chicago as well as demonstrating the broad range of their own artistic voices. The artists’ interpretations of sites in their neighborhoods on the surfaces of their mugs are paired with reference photos and a map of locations from which they draw inspiration, to offer audiences multiple perspectives and multi-media impressions of the places we call home.
Brick Mugs blends many types of knowledge--trade, historical, design, architectural, craft, spatial--with a focus on sharing and the collective over an understanding of art or public space as the product of an isolated individual “genius.” We want to learn more about the versatility of our medium of clay from each other, both by seeing the techniques and perspectives different artists use to solve the same artistic problem, as well as studying the original buildings and the work of the bricklayer.
Brick Mugs includes an exhibition, a zine, and a public program. The exhibition invites artists from across Chicago to select a brick or terra cotta architectural feature somewhere in the city, and create a mug inspired by that surface. A panel of jurors, including architectural historian Will Quam (Brick of Chicago) and Jackie Townsend (Chicago Women in Trades), will select their favorites. The zine will feature reference photos and photos of the mugs, essays and interviews about Chicago brick and terra cotta, and maps of local architectural quirks, oddities, and wonders.
CMC's Spring Exhibition: Urbs in Myco
April 11-May 10
Opening May 16, 7-9pm
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From September 15 to 21, 2025, CMS will host the 1st International Mosaic Arts Symposium to celebrate their 20th anniversary, remaining the only art school of its kind outside of Europe.
Intersections Symposium will serve as a round-table for shaping the future of Mosaic Arts education and engaging international artists. CMS Visiting Artists, who are both leaders and renowned experts in mosaic art and education, will conduct short workshops, lectures, presentations, and exhibitions in Chicago.
The Details:
Additionally, the purchase of the Intersections Package for $1,500 gets you access to 7 full days of events:
Walking Tour, Welcome Reception, Artist Workshops, Panels, Lectures, Closing Reception!
For the visiting artist workshops, you will build your own class schedule for each day. Please respond to the info@chicagomosaicschool.org confirmation email with your chosen workshop(s) to secure your spots.
Important information: we have several half-day workshops as well as the full day workshops. Therefore you may pick two(2) half day workshops or one (1) full day. Please look closely at the schedule so it aligns with your availability.
All of our workshops and activities below can be purchased A La Carte, or you can purchase in ONE BUNDLED PACKAGE
This juried exhibition features students working at all levels of experience, who have studied at CMS from 2005 - present.
This exhibition showcases the variety of approaches to contemporary mosaic works from local, nation and international artists and reflects the expertise of our dedicated faculty and staff that have made The Chicago Mosaic School the premier center for Mosaic Arts Education in the United States. Through classes, workshops and Visiting Artist Seminars, these artists have utilized exemplary conceptual and technical excellence in varied approaches and materials. We are proud to encourage our students to explore their artistic voices and discover their potential through the medium of mosaic.
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The show will feature works that convey meaning through embodied art practice. Pieces that explore the rich history, tradition, and cultural expression of contemporary sculpture, including ceramics, glass, and stone, as well as innovative, reinterpretative sculptural works using non-traditional materials that push the boundaries of visual art.
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This exhibition aims to honor collage and its history while inspiring contemporary collage artists to reconsider their work through the Femmage framework, which is both openly political and deeply personal.
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Featuring:
Etty Hasak
Toyoharu Kii
Dugald MacInnes
Deborah Bell Madsen
Dean Madsen
David Chidgey
Carolynn Friedman
Eugenia Sherman Brown
Verdiano Marzi
This special exhibition features 'From Darkness to Light: Mosaics Inspired by Tragedy.' 36 small mosaic works created in response to the 2018 shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.
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