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The International Museum of Surgical Science (IMSS) is the only museum in North America devoted exclusively to the history of surgery, while also embracing contemporary art exhibitions that engage with medicine, the body, and related themes. The IMSS is a division of the International College of Surgeons, founded by Max Thorek in 1934.
The museum is housed in a historic 1917 mansion originally designed by architect Howard Van Doren Shaw for socialite Eleanor Robinson Countiss. The design was inspired by the French Petit Trianon (at Versailles). The building features four floors of gallery space and remains a fine example of early-20th-century luxury residential architecture now adapted for museum use. The IMSS aims to enrich people’s lives by enhancing their appreciation and understanding of the history, development, and advances in surgery and related subjects in health and medicine. While its core is medical history and surgical science, the museum also explicitly supports contemporary art exhibitions that explore the body, medicine, diagnostics, technology, and how they intersect with culture.
For more information visit imss.org.
Image: Hall of Immortals, Michael Robinson Photography
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The Museum’s four floors are filled with extraordinary artifacts, as well as paintings, illustrations, and sculptures that interpret the pre-modern and modern healing practices of human civilization. From early practices to today’s revolutionary techniques, the Museum’s collections and exhibits portray the mysteries, breakthroughs, failures, and milestones that have shaped modern surgical science.
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Simultaneously, artists—painters, sculptors, and draftsmen documenting the wars—engaged in parallel work. They studied the human form, deconstructing and reimagining faces and bodies through drawings, sculpture, and canvas. Anatomical study, once central to classical realism, became a bridge between art and medicine, guiding surgeons in their quest to restore symmetry, balance, and expression. The artist’s eye informed the surgeon’s hand, just as surgical reconstructions inspired new artistic interpretations of the human body.
By the latter half of the twentieth century, plastic surgery had moved beyond reconstruction to self-reinvention. Like artists shaping raw material into beauty, surgeons refined and reshaped faces and bodies to align with personal desires and cultural ideals. The line between restoration and enhancement blurred, and the human body itself became a canvas for transformation.
With the dawn of the new millennium came once-unimaginable feats—most notably, full-face transplantation. Surgeons, like sculptors working in living clay, not only rebuilt faces but gave patients entirely new ones. These innovations merged medicine, aesthetics, and identity in unprecedented ways.
Today, the relationship between plastic surgery and art continues to evolve. Surgeons and artists share a common pursuit: to shape, refine, and redefine the human form. Whether working with marble or muscle, canvas or cartilage, both seek to capture the essence of beauty, resilience, and identity in constant flux.
The International Museum of Surgical Science is proud to present these coinciding exhibitions as \"A Year of Plastic Surgery\"—a yearlong exploration of this remarkable field. Through monthly programs, we celebrate the masters of both flesh and form, bridging the worlds of surgical innovation and figurative art.
Header Image: A soldier of Company K, 110th Regt. Infantry (formerly 3rd and 10th Inf., Pennsylvania National Guard), just wounded, receiving first-aid treatment from a comrade. Varennes-en-Argonne, France, on September 26, 1918. U.S. Army / U.S. National Archives
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Tickets are $15. Purchase here.
About this Event
At this special after-hours presentation, Museum staff will shine a light on some of the most interesting beliefs and developments around the globe throughout history in sex-ed topics such as sexual health, human development, and sexual behavior. We'll touch on STDs, reproduction, sexuality, contraception and more!
The evening will be complemented by a reception where lite fare will be served.
This presentation is perfect for history lovers, hopeless romantics, and those who love to be (mildly) grossed out.
Doors will open at 5:30 and the program will begin at 6:00. The Museum will remain open until 7:30 for guests to explore other exhibits and enjoy the reception.
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For the past three years, Megan Euker has devoted her research and artistic practice to orphan disease (OD) advocacy, specifically focusing on the cure of Sickle Cell Disease and Beta Thalassemia through gene therapy. Called ‘orphan diseases,’ these conditions affect small patient populations who have been ‘orphaned’ by the pharmaceutical industry in pursuit of more lucrative opportunities. Certain incentives have helped remedy this oversight, but all too often lead to monopolies on new medications and high prices for those most in need. In the midst of this is a battle: the ongoing court cases of Errant Gene Therapeutics (Chicago) versus Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Bluebird Bio (New York)* and Errant Gene Therapeutics versus Nick Leschly and Third Rock Ventures (Boston).
The exhibition places these legal cases at the heart of an investigation into orphan diseases and the role of the pharmaceutical industry in controlling treatment research and patient access. Music and videos of the Orphan Dream Band, a group founded around orphan diseases, will fill the space with rock, blues and soul pieces about life with these afflictions.
Euker makes use of illustrations and diagrams explaining gene therapy, Sickle Cell Disease, and Beta Thalassemia; documents and articles relating to court cases; and other data sets to present a case of corruption and fault in the world of “Big Pharma.” She reflects on this data and research through her artmaking, 3D printed and cast metal sculptures, timelines, data visualization, and book promotion to encourage the viewer to both contemplate the workings of the industry and strive for hopefulness and change for those most affected by its practices.**
About Megan Euker:
Megan Euker has been represented by Linda Warren Projects in Chicago since 2008 and featured in The International Museum of Surgical Science; Matthew Rachman Gallery, Chicago; The University Club of Chicago; Chautauqua School of Art, New York; Prince Street Gallery, New York; The Storefront Project, New York; Togonon Gallery, San Francisco; College of DuPage, Illinois; Beverly Arts Center, Chicago; and Western Exhibitions, Chicago and other prestigious venues.
In 2017, at Casa Cava in Matera, Italy, a world heritage site, she, along with The Orphan Dream Band, presented the first Orphan Dream Award to Dr. Franco Locatelli. Her sculptures have appeared on Italian television including Canale 2 and TRM24. She presented the second and third Orphan Dream Awards to Dr. Michel Sadelain of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Dr. John Tisdale of the National Institute of Health. Megan is an orphan disease advocate and is dedicated to supporting the mission of Errant Gene Therapeutics.
She has been the recipient of such honors as a Fulbright Fellowship to Italy; two Faculty Enrichment Grants from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; a Compassion and Belonging Grant from SAIC; the Artists’ Fellowship, Inc. Grant; Change, Inc. Grant;. Artist Assistance Grant; two CAAP (Community Arts Assistance Program) and two DCASE grants. Euker received her BFA and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Euker is a Lecturer in the departments of Architecture, Interior Architecture and Designed Objects; Contemporary Practices; and Continuing Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Advances in computer graphics and imaging are generating new opportunities to aid in understanding the rapidly evolving discoveries in both science and healthcare. Masters students in the University of Illinois at Chicago Biomedical Visualization Program (BVIS) strive to harness these advancements through visual communication. The Student Association of Medical Artists (SAMA) organizes and curates the work for the SAMA Art Exhibition each year. This exhibition is an opportunity for first and second year BVIS students to display their current works of art that are both beautiful and accurate in scientific detail. These pieces feature a wide array of scientific and medical subjects targeting audiences diverse in education, age, and occupation. Oftentimes, these works begin on paper and are then taken into digital media to become professional illustrations, graphic designs, animations, or interactive applications. The broad range of work that BVIS graduate students create is an integral part in communicating new discoveries in science and medicine.
About the Biomedical Visualization Graduate Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago: Founded in 1921 by Professor Thomas Smith Jones, the Biomedical Visualization program (BVIS) at the University of Illinois at Chicago is the second oldest accredited school of its kind and one of only four accredited graduate programs in North America providing professional training for careers in the visual communication of life science, medicine, and healthcare. With a renowned faculty and a curriculum that keeps pace with advances in science and technology, UIC’s Biomedical Visualization program attracts graduate students from a variety of disciplines including medicine, life science, art, sculpture, digital media, and computer science.
About the Student Association of Medical Artists at the University of Illinois at Chicago: The Student Association of Medical Artists (SAMA) was founded in 2006 by students of the Biomedical Visualization graduate program (BVIS) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). The goal of SAMA is to enhance professional development, interdisciplinary collaboration, and the quality of student life at UIC by giving students access to the support and information they need to be successful. SAMA holds regular meetings, assists with the orientation and mentoring of new students, connects current students with alumni, and hosts social and service events to help educate young students in the Chicagoland community about the field of Biomedical Visualization. Organized by SAMA, the annual SAMA Art Exhibition is an opportunity for all current BVIS students to share their work with the community and foster new innovation in the field.
Participating Artists:
(Class of 2020) Saraina Adam, Taylor Brown, Rebecca Bruehl, Sarah Davis, Jenna Espeseth, Darcy Lewis, Morgan Marshall, Sarah McGuinness, Brianna Monroe, Kelly Nguyen, Ushma Patel, Rachel Poli, Maddie Rice, Anri Ryan, Dani Robinson, Leo Swenson, Paul Veach, Annebelle Wang, Monica Wierzbicki, Victoria Zakrzewski
(Class of 2021) Alea Ahmadian, Mary Albert, Jer Weann Ang, Allysa Benedict, Abrielle Cacciaglia, Benjamin Colvin, Regan Falin, Emilyn Frohn, Nicole Hampshire, Katie Harvey, Malcolm Houston, Mikaela Muersch, Alex Nazlidis, Sam Palahnuk, Cathy Roop, Laura Sheehy, Nicole Shepherd, Siwen Wang, Jeni Zernick
This program is partially supported by UIC Applied Health Science’s Student Council.
This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
This project is partially supported by a CityArts Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events.
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Enhance your visit to the Museum with our monthly gallery talks. February is American Heart Month, learn about the history of cardiology.
About this Event:
Enhance your visit to the Museum with our monthly gallery talks! The next gallery talk at the Museum will be Friday, February 28 at 2:00pm, free with the price of admission.
At this month's gallery talk, visitors will learn about some significant moments from the history of cardiology.
Talks will meet on the first floor across from the Admissions desk, in the Surgicogenomics gallery and walk together to the gallery. Talk length is approximately 30 minutes and may require guests to summit up to four flights of stairs. Elevator and accessible entrance is available.
Tickets to the Museum required for entrance to gallery talks.
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Enhance your visit to the Museum with our monthly gallery talks! The next gallery talk at the Museum will be Tuesday, March 10 at 2:00pm, free with the price of admission.
Inspired by our Women in Medicine app tour, at this month's gallery talk visitors will learn about some significant women from the history of medicine.
Talks will meet on the first floor across from the Admissions desk, in the Surgicogenomics gallery and walk together to the gallery. Talk length is approximately 30 minutes and may require guests to summit up to four flights of stairs. Elevator and accessible entrance is available.
Tickets to the Museum required for entrance to gallery talks.
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A complimentary reception follows the tour and lite fare will be served.
$20, Members $10 Tickets here
Happy White Day (ホワイトデー)! This holiday occurs exactly one month after Valentine's Day and was first celebrated in 1978 in Japan.
This program supports the Japan Hall of Fame at the International Museum of Surgical Science which features information on the contributions Japanese surgeons have made to modern surgical science. The artifacts and works of art in this gallery celebrate the medical achievements Japan has made throughout history including advancements in anesthetics, surgical stapling, and ultrasound technology.
RSVP in advance to receive $10 admission.
The International Museum of Surgical Science is excited to celebrate White Day on March 15th. Valentine's Day in countries that celebrate White Day typically involves girls and women presenting chocolate gifts to boys or men. On White Day, the reverse happens. Men and boys return the favor by giving gifts such as cookies, white chocolate, or marshmallows. Our program is open to people of all genders, please join us to make a gift to give to someone you care about. While this day originated in Japan, many other East Asian and Southeast Asian countries also celebrate White Day today.
On this special day we will provide everything you need to put together your own gift of sweets and a handmade card. You can also snack on the sweets, drink tea, and celebrate loved ones.
Drop in anytime between 2-4:30 pm!
FAQs
Are there ID or minimum age requirement to enter the event?
This program is for all ages.
What are my transportation/parking options for getting to and from the event?
Parking and direction information can be found here: https://imss.org/plan-your-visit/
How can I contact the organizer with any questions?
Contact us with any questions at 312-642-6502 or at info@imss.org.
Is the Museum and event accessible?
The Museum is accessible by ramp entrances and elevator that goes to all four floors. If you or anyone in your party requires special accommodations, such as the elevator or wheel-chair ramp access, please call or email ahead.
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FREE
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we invite you to a reading by Megan Euker of excerpts from Patrick Girondi’s not-yet-released book “Flight of the Rondone.” Euker will begin by explaining the relevance of the book to the content of the exhibition, and the evening will conclude with an opportunity to view “Megan Euker: The Cure” in a new light.
FREE
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The International Museum of Surgical Science along with the Japanese Culture Center of Chicago are pleased once again to bring you \"The Anatomy of a Fatality.\"
Featuring a lecture and demonstration from Mugai Ryu Chicago, practitioners of a traditional form of Japanese swordsmanship dating back to the 1600's. Guests can also explore the museum.
\"It is important to realize the consequences of a cut to any part of the human body.\"
The lecture will discuss samurai combative theory in relation to human anatomy and targets on the body both armored and unarmored. Also discussed will be the philosophies around the concepts of Katsujinken, or the use of the sword to protect life the weak, and Satsujinken, or, using the sword with murderous intent.
Samurai history and culture will also be touched upon, as well as a demonstration of traditional Japanese Swordsmanship.
After the lecture a short seminar will allow guests to learn the basics of cutting so they may gain a better understanding of \"The Anatomy of a Fatality,\" Samurai style.
The type of swordsmanship that will be demonstrated and discussed at this event is Mugai Ryu Iai Hyodo. Mugai Ryu is a traditional, feudal-era style of swordsmanship founded by Tsuji Gettan Sukemochi in the year 1675. The style aims at teaching practical, combative sword techniques with an emphasis on Zen and the attainment of enlightenment through swordsmanship. A Mugai Ryu swordsman attacks vulnerable or exposed parts of the body with precise cuts and thrusts to incapacitate its target with minimal force and no wasted effort.
*Doors will open at 5:30pm for this event
*Please arrive no later than 6:00pm
*Tickets for this event are non-refundable
*Guests must be 21 years of age or older to attend this event and a valid ID will be needed to enter
*Photo courtesy of Fauve Foto.
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Interested in becoming a member? Find more info here: https://imss.org/museum-membership/
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Provident Hospital can claim a number of “firsts” in the history of American healthcare. It was the first private hospital in the state of Illinois to provide internship opportunities for black physicians and the first to establish a school of nursing to train black women. It was one of the first black hospitals to provide postgraduate courses and residences for black physicians and the first black hospital approved by the American College of Surgeons for full graduate training in surgery. Provident also offered an important forum, a proving ground for ideas about black self-determination and institutional survival. “Provident Hospital: A Living Legacy” at the International Museum of Surgical Science is the story of this landmark institution, told through rarely exhibited records, photographs and physical objects (including historic uniforms) from the Hospital’s history. Organized as a collaboration between the Provident Foundation and the International Museum of Surgical Science, “Provident Hospital: A Living Legacy” examines health history and social history as not only parallel but interdependent in this country.
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Nearly every human being experiences pain at some point in life. “The Universal Condition” examines issues in the perception of pain and chronicle medicine’s quest to relieve it, from the ancient use of psychoactive plants to contemporary laser therapy, focusing on milestones such as the discovery of anesthesia. Case studies will provide an in-depth look at some common pain syndromes, explaining their causes and available treatments.
Featured in the exhibit are historical artifacts from the Museum’s extensive collection, including trephined skulls, 19th-century anesthesia inhalers, and packaging for patent medicines containing opium, cannabis, and belladonna. The exhibit also showcases products and innovations in use today for the control of acute and chronic pain.
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Our next meeting will be Wednesday April 15th, 2020. Due to COVID-19, we will be conducting this meeting online! Those who RSVP will receive instructions on how to join.
This time we’re reading The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson.
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Since the 1990s, Scottish-born, artist and researcher Mark Gilbert has innovated portraiture. Depicting caregivers’ and patients’ stories and experiences of illness and recovery within clinical, studio, and domestic settings, each portrait expresses intimate collaborations between artist and sitter.
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Ever since the 19th century, people have been collecting scientific data from the human body and cataloguing emotions. Today, technology is used to turn our emotions into financial assets. Smart devices try to gain our trust in order to compile information that turns our feelings into capital. In Emotions Go to Work, New York based artist Zoe Beloff explores where this evolution is taking us. Can these technological systems understand our feelings? Will emojis determine our emotional life? As technology takes on more and more emotional characteristics, how will they change the nature of our desires?
Emotions Go to Work presents itself as a cacophony of faces (human and nonhuman) which are either animated, illustrated or performed, alongside a series of symbols of old and new technological advancement. The multi-media installation comprising films, charts and figures that explore the interwoven history of human and machine through re-workings and pastiches of existing cultural material from our collective consciousness– from samples of early black and white cartoons to emojis, and from early kinetic experiments in film to slick advertorials.
From a laughing typewriter to the Internet of things (IoT), Emotions Go to Work asks what balance must be struck between creating helpful technologies and entrusting machines with the freedom to reshape us in their image.
This exhibition has previously shown at Ulrich Museum, Wichita USA (January – March 2020), Firstsite Gallery, Colchester, UK (January 18 – April 24 2019), Museum Dr. Guislain, Gent Belgium (11 November – 18 May 2018), Bourse de Travail, Valence (16 May – 4 June 2017), and FID Festival Marseilles (July 12 – July 18 2017). A set of three drawings from this show included in the exhibition “Babel Book Space” Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (February 5 – May 21 2018).
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In a series of detailed mixed-media drawings referencing microscopic cross-sections of human tissue, Chicago artist Mairin Hartt explores microscopic anatomy and its cooperative role in creating and sustaining the complex organisms that make our existence possible. The focus on cross-sectional cuts of muscle and connective tissue reveal the unique patterns and unorthodox shapes they provide while challenging viewers to think critically about the nature of life itself. Embracing these cross-sections seems contrary to the human body’s instinctive need for self-preservation and the maintenance of the whole; severing a group of muscle fibers to view its connective abilities seems more akin to decay and disorder than life.
Mairin Hartt is a Chicago-native visual artist and arts educator. She received a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2006 and an MFA in Studio Art from University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, in 2011, and an MAAE from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014. Utilizing various methods and materials, Hartt explores notions of existence, emergence, and entropy in organic forms and processes. Although working primarily in drawing and mixed media, Hartt’s practice also includes printmaking and installation.
About the \"Anatomy in the Gallery\" Program: The International Museum of Surgical Science supports a commitment to contemporary art and artists through exhibitions and programs that use the frame of contemporary artistic practice to examine new perspectives in medical surgical science and our relationship to the body. The Museum’s Contemporary Arts Initiative includes rotating exhibitions of contemporary art, as well as an ongoing Artist in Residence program.
About the Museum: The International Museum of Surgical Science, a Division of the International College of Surgeons, was founded in 1954 by Dr. Max Thorek. The Museum is committed to enriching lives by enhancing an appreciation and understanding of the history, development and advances in surgery and related subjects in health and medicine. The Museum is located in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood, and is housed in a historic lake-shore mansion designed in the early 20th century by Howard Van Doren Shaw.
Image: Mairin Hartt, Untitled 4 [Against the grain], 2018, Pen and ink on toned paper, 12 x 18 in.
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Ever wondered what happens to the brain when someone has Alzheimer’s? Acclaimed Neuroscientist Joyonna Gamble-George is here to illuminate the secrets of the brain in an hour-long Zoom presentation and Q&A.
This program is made possible in part by a Gender Equity Grant from ASTC and IF/THEN.
This FREE presentation will take place on Zoom. You must RSVP to receive the link.
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Nearly every human being experiences pain at some point in life. “The Universal Condition” examines issues in the perception of pain and chronicle medicine’s quest to relieve it, from the ancient use of psychoactive plants to contemporary laser therapy, focusing on milestones such as the discovery of anesthesia. Case studies will provide an in-depth look at some common pain syndromes, explaining their causes and available treatments.
Featured in the exhibit are historical artifacts from the Museum’s extensive collection, including trephined skulls, 19th-century anesthesia inhalers, and packaging for patent medicines containing opium, cannabis, and belladonna. The exhibit also showcases products and innovations in use today for the control of acute and chronic pain.
View the online exhibition here
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Uma Kamat, Back Mender, Pine, vegan Leather, foam, 2021
BODIES II is a collaborative exhibition between the International Museum of Surgical Science, Curator Megan Euker, and Euker's SAIC undergraduate design students. This exhibition will be up from November 13th, 2021 - February 11th, 2022
Opening Reception:
Saturday, November 13th, 2021
5:30pm - 8:30pm
1524 N Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60610
Please note that registration is required and this event will be capped at 100 guests. Masks are required.
Students in Megan Euker’s Intro to Designed Objects classes (Fall 2019 - Fall 2020) at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago created works in response to a single word prompt: “Bodies.” Using the collections at the International Museum of Surgical Science for inspiration, students began identifying medical or bodily constraints that could be alleviated through a specifically designed assistive device. Through a process of in-depth research and prototype testing, students created preliminary designs intended to increase accessibility, promote healthy behaviors, create comfort and improve safety. After consulting with medical professionals and undergoing critiques, they modified their ideas and remade their objects at full scale.
These designed objects create a social impact by making it easier for all kinds of bodies to move through the world. They also spark new questions: what mental and physical constraints do our bodies place on us all? What are the best uses of designed objects in the fields of health, medicine, and surgery? And how do you design your own environment to fit your day-to-day needs? Works in this exhibition explore these fundamental ideas of ability and the body.
Featuring work by:
Anushka Agarwal
Ran Brian Bi
Diamonde Diggs
Razana Djan
Uma Kamat
Sunhyung Kim
Cassie Kwon
Hei King Lai
Noah Taylor
Yunkai Kerry Xu
Curated by Megan Euker
Megan Euker is the Project Manager at Errant Gene Therapeutics/San Rocco Therapeutics and is based in Tampa, Florida.
Euker has been represented by Linda Warren Projects in Chicago since 2008 and featured in The International Museum of Surgical Science; Matthew Rachman Gallery, Chicago; The University Club of Chicago; Chautauqua School of Art, New York; Prince Street Gallery, New York; The Storefront Project, New York; Togonon Gallery, San Francisco; College of DuPage, Illinois; Beverly Arts Center, Chicago; and Western Exhibitions, Chicago and other prestigious venues.
Image and Text courtesy of the curator.
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Fall 2021 Artist in Residence Anastasia Sitnikova’s practice explores the relationship between body, mind, and technology in order to heal the imperfection of human nature and its tendency for violence. Growing up with World War II survivors, she spent her childhood at a Soviet airbase, lived through the end of the Cold War, survived the collapse of the USSR, and the years of terror that followed, and seven years ago immigrated to the United States. Focusing on psychoanalysis, Sitnikova's research centers around the question of the extent to which human social behavior is conscious and to what extent it is based on uncontrolled physiological responses. Searching for an Exit explores the connection between the body, mind, and instincts. Utilizing mixed materials, Sitnikova develops impossible tools to heal the mind.
Image: \"Shelf\" by Anastasia Sitnikova.
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Paradise Complete presents their new album, Slice of Life, along with live projections at the International Museum of Surgical Science.
Paradise Complete is thrilled to perform on 2/19 at the International Museum of Surgical Science, in tandem with the release of their debut album, Slice of Life. The event, presented in collaboration with Chicago label Parlour Tapes+, will include performances inspired by the record, as well as a set by Youtube quintet NASDAQUIRI.
Slice of Life, Paradise Complete’s debut album to be released on Parlour Tapes+ this February, is equal parts curation, composition, improvisation, and memoir - a sound collage of sound collages. It all started when bandmates Ben Davis and Nick Meryhew exchanged a few brief texts and a real weird Snapchat video in 2019. This interaction established a simple practice that the improvisational sound collage duo followed over the course of the next two years:
Guidelines
Mutual trust
Do what feels right
Take as long as you need
Don’t overthink it
Process
Person A sends Person B audio of anything
Person B could do anything they want with that audio
Person B sends the result to Person A
Person A could do anything they want with that audio
Person A sends the result to Person B
Repeat steps 2-5 until it feels finished
Slice of Life is the result of this collaboration. The work is a conversation between Nick and Ben teeming with daydreams, free associations, and non-sequiturs. The duo assembled, synthesized, scavenged, and denatured gobs of sonic scraps and sculpted the album out of their detritus. Their asynchronous method allowed for destruction, alteration, and addition in the time domain, radically transforming their linear creative process. The result belies the process used to create itself: it is a singular experience shaped by the specter of its past lives.
ABOUT BEN DAVIS
Ben Davis is a composer based in St. Paul, Minnesota whose works are oriented around active discovery, fluid possibility, and (not infrequently) absurdity. Performers including loadbang, Vertixe Sonora, Ensemble SurPlus, and Proxima Centauri have collaborated with them to make new pieces. Ben’s music has won a variety of awards including loadbang’s commission competition and multiple selections in Score Follower’s Follow My Score competitions. They have participated in the Sommerakademie at Schloss Solitude and Festival Mixtur and graduated from DePaul University with an M.M. in Music Composition and from UW-Madison with a B.M. in Music Education.
ABOUT NICK MERYHEW
Nick Meryhew is an experimental musician, educator, improviser, and armchair geologist. Their work explores ideas of assemblage, hybridity, and nonhierarchy through a sculptural approach to found sound. They currently perform as a member of Tallulah Bankheist, Paradise Complete, The Lucky Trikes, Runaway Labs Theater, and alongside artists Lia Kohl and Jen Hill. They have presented work at Roman Susan, MCA Chicago, No Nation Gallery, Comfort Station, Art Institute of Chicago, and High Concept Labs, among others.
ABOUT PARLOUR TAPES
bandcamp.parlourtapes.com | parlourtapes.biz
Parlour Tapes+ is an experimental cassette tape label. A home for artists who are overlooked by midsize and large record labels, Parlour Tapes+ has produced several first-time recordings from now well-known musicians. Spektral Quartet—twice Grammy nominated and Chicago Magazine's 2017 Chicagoans of the Year—released its debut album on Parlour Tapes+ in 2013 featuring all-new music by Chicago composers. The label produced first-time solo records from flutist Tim Munro (formerly of Eighth Blackbird) and violinist Austin Wulliman (formerly of Spektral Quartet, now of JACK Quartet). Most recently, Parlour Tapes+ released a debut solo record from composer and percussionist Sam Scranton (formerly of the band Volcano!) and a first album from the collective Mocrep (artists in residence at Stanford University, Mills College, and Mana Contemporary Chicago). But the label's goal is not to discover hidden talent—it aims to embolden artists to create ambitious, undefined, and weird new projects, setting aside worries about the results. Because producing cassettes is affordable, fast, and easy, Parlour Tapes+ provides an environment in which financial risks are low, overhead is minimal, and creativity is the primary driver.
Parking details can be found here: https://imss.org/plan-your-visit/#nav
Album art by Anna Belozerova (@ladygrinningsoul____)
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Khalid grew up in Pakistan in the foothills of the Himalayas; one hour south of the highest mountains in the world and one hour north of the agricultural plains of Punjab. Along with his family, he moved to the US when he was 12 and started a life of hyper observation of culture, language, and the human experience. This led to a creative and academic career in pattern finding, empathy, and observation.
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Join us for the opening reception of Searching For an Exit, the capstone exhibition by IMSS Artist in Residence Anastasia Sitnikova. Light refreshments included and wine will be served to guests with proof of age. Alcohol served to guests 21+, ID required
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The International Museum of Surgical Science (IMSS) is pleased to introduce their Fall 2021 Artist in Residence, Anastasia Sitnikova. The IMSS resumes its active roll in supporting Chicago and Illinois arts and artists through its Artist in Residency and \"Anatomy in the Gallery\" rotating contemporary art galleries. Anastasia Sitnikova's capstone exhibition opens on February 25th, 2022.
Anastasia Sitnikova (b. 1979, Russia) is a Chicago artist and art educator. Born at the very end of the Cold War era, Sitnikova experienced a period of turbulence between the USSR and new Russia, which shaped her interest in utopian and dystopian ideas. Her art is much driven by the curiosity about human nature and social relations as a representation of inner self and outer world, subconscious and conscious, correspondingly. Sitnikova creates large-scale installations to illustrate, activate and explore these ideas. Like many of us, she tries to understand other people through her own experience and find common ground that can make our coexistence more meaningful and enjoyable. Sitnikova holds an MFA in Studio Arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a master’s degree in Management from the State University of Management, Moscow, Russia. Her work has been exhibited at educational institutions, non-profit and commercial galleries in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio.
Anastasia’s practice explores the relationship between body, mind, and technology in order to heal the imperfection of human nature and its tendency for violence. Growing up with World War II survivors, she spent her childhood at a Soviet airbase, lived through the end of the Cold War, survived the collapse of the USSR, and the years of terror that followed, and seven years ago immigrated to the United States. Focusing on psychoanalysis, Sitnikova's research centers around the question of the extent to which human social behavior is conscious and to what extent it is based on uncontrolled physiological responses. Searching for an Exit explores the connection between the body, mind, and instincts. Utilizing mixed materials, Sitnikova develops impossible tools to heal the mind.
About the Artist in Residence Program: As artistic practice occupies an increasingly pluralistic field, The International Museum of Surgical Science believes that artists are uniquely equipped to extrapolate on Museum collections in innovative ways and introduce novel perspectives to the institutional depiction of medical history. The IMSS Artist Residency Program provides working artists with: access to the Museum’s extensive collections and archive; visibility on the Museum’s website and social media channels; and a month-long capstone Solo Exhibition (or equivalent presentation) at the Museum.
About the Museum: The International Museum of Surgical Science, a Division of the International College of Surgeons, was founded in 1954 by Dr. Max Thorek. The Museum is committed to enriching lives by enhancing an appreciation and understanding of the history, development and advances in surgery and related subjects in health and medicine. The Museum is located in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood, and is housed in a historic lake-shore mansion designed in the early 20th century by Howard Van Doren Shaw.
General Information: The International Museum of Surgical Science: 1524. N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL - 60610; tel. 312.642.6502; on the web at www.imss.org and info@imss.org.
Hours and Admission: The IMSS is open Monday-Friday from 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., except for most major holidays. Admission rates are $17 for adults and $13 for students, educators, military members and seniors, with ID.
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The International Museum of Surgical Science (IMSS) is pleased to present the new exhibition, The Start of a New Era. The exhibition will open on Mar. 31, 2022, and run through May 1, 2022. The Museum will host an opening reception on Mar. 31, 2022, from 6-8 p.m. that is free and open to the public.
Advances in computer graphics and imaging are generating new opportunities to aid in understanding the rapidly evolving discoveries in both science and healthcare. Masters students in the University of Illinois at Chicago Biomedical Visualization Program (BVIS) strive to harness these advancements through visual communication. The Student Association of Medical Artists (SAMA) organizes and curates the work for the SAMA Art Exhibition each year. This exhibition is an opportunity for first and second-year BVIS students to display their current works of art that are both beautiful and accurate in scientific detail. These pieces feature a wide array of scientific and medical subjects targeting audiences diverse in education, age, and occupation. Oftentimes, these works begin on paper and are then taken into digital media to become professional illustrations, graphic designs, animations, or interactive applications. The broad range of work that BVIS graduate students create is an integral part of communicating new discoveries in science and medicine. This year is particularly exciting for BVIS as we are celebrating our program’s centennial.
About the Biomedical Visualization Graduate Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago: Founded in 1921 by Professor Thomas Smith Jones, the Biomedical Visualization program (BVIS) at the University of Illinois at Chicago is the second oldest accredited school of its kind and one of only four accredited graduate programs in North America providing professional training for careers in the visual communication of life science, medicine, and healthcare. With a renowned faculty and a curriculum that keeps pace with advances in science and technology, UIC’s Biomedical Visualization program attracts graduate students from a variety of disciplines including medicine, life science, art, sculpture, digital media, and computer science.
About the Student Association of Medical Artists at the University of Illinois at Chicago: The Student Association of Medical Artists (SAMA) was founded in 2006 by students of the Biomedical Visualization graduate program (BVIS) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). The goal of SAMA is to enhance professional development, interdisciplinary collaboration, and the quality of student life at UIC by giving students access to the support and information they need to be successful. SAMA holds regular meetings, assists with the orientation and mentoring of new students, connects current students with alumni, and hosts social and service events to help educate young students in the Chicagoland community about the field of Biomedical Visualization. Organized by SAMA, the annual SAMA Art Exhibition is an opportunity for all current BVIS students to share their work with the community and foster new innovation in the field.
Participating Artists: (Class of 2020) Sydney Agger, Ana Beiriger, Shiyu (Dorothy) Chen, Olivia De Kok, Ben Halverson, Yu-Sin Huang, Anne Hughes, Xiaotian (Ivy) Jiao, Hailey Jorgensen, Natalie Krug, Yilin Li, Marli Markovitz, Delaney Maxwell, Hannah Montague, Ryan Nini, Allison Pardieck, Sara Rutkowski, Shelby Saboo, Maryam Shabbir, Brenna Tremp, Kayla Vasquez
(Class of 2021) Luca Brunozzi, Caroline Chatfield, Odelia Cheng, April Damon, Nina Eckstein, Lauren Elder, Sofia Garcia Martinez, Amy Hoang, Madeleine Howell-Moroney, Dalena Huynh, Aven Jones, Hannah Koffman, SoYoung Kwon, Clara Lee, Joseph Majalca, Laurel Moore, Lauren Muskara, Delilah Przybyla, Sydney Sieh-Takata, Eliza Stierle, Katherine Tran
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About the Contemporary Art Program: This exhibition is presented as part of the Museum’s Contemporary Art Program, “Anatomy in the Gallery.” The Museum supports a commitment to contemporary art and artists through exhibitions and programs that use the frame of contemporary artistic practice to examine new perspectives in surgical science and our relationship to the body.
About the Museum: The International Museum of Surgical Science, a Division of the International College of Surgeons, was founded in 1954 by Dr. Max Thorek. The Museum is committed to enriching lives by enhancing an appreciation and understanding of the history, development and advances in surgery and related subjects in health and medicine. The Museum is located in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood, and is housed in a historic lake-shore mansion designed in the early 20th century by Howard Van Doren Shaw.
General Information: The International Museum of Surgical Science: 1524. N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL - 60610; tel. 312.642.6502; on the web at www.imss.org and info@imss.org.
Hours and Admission: The exhibition will be open Monday-Friday from 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., except for most major holidays. Admission rates are $17 for adults and $13 for students, educators, military members and seniors, with ID. Tuesdays are free for Illinois Residents with proof of residency.
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The International Museum of Surgical Science (IMSS) is pleased to present the new exhibition, GUT by Alexander Utz. The exhibition will open on May 6, 2022, and run through July 3, 2022. The Museum will host an opening reception on May 18, 2022, from 6-8:30 p.m. that is free and open to the public.
GUT: The story of a frontier army surgeon, a fur trapper, and the unlucky gunshot wound that changed our understanding of digestion.
On June 6, 1822, at the American Fur Company Store on Mackinac Island, among a group of fur traders, a musket accidentally misfired and hit a 19-year-old French-Canadian voyageur named Alexis St. Martin. Quickly rushed to the nearby Fort Mackinac hospital, St. Martin’s wound was cleaned and dressed by the fort’s surgeon, William Beaumont. At the time, Beaumont did not believe St. Martin would survive more than 36 hours, but the young voyageur miraculously began a slow recovery.
When the wound healed in a way that left an opening directly into St. Martin’s stomach, Beaumont saw an opportunity to learn more about the process of digestion. For the next 11 years, the two men would work together on a series of 238 experiments and studies that completely reshaped our understanding of the digestive process.
Explore this incredible story and learn from Chicago playwright Alexander Utz, author of the new play Gut, about how history is translated to the stage.
About the Artist: Alexander Utz is a Chicago-based playwright and actor, as well as a co-founder and Artistic Director of Avalanche Theatre. His plays have been read and performed with The Plagiarists, Otherworld Theatre, Bower Theatre Ensemble, Three Brothers Theatre, Benchmark Theatre, Eclectic Full Contact Theatre, Three Cat Productions, and 5th Wall Productions. His play Sunflowers is available through Next Stage Press. He is a resident playwright with Three Brothers Theatre. This summer, he will be participating in an artist residency on Mackinac Island to complete a final revision on his play Gut about William Beaumont and Alexis St. Martin.
Read more about Alexander Utz at www.alexanderutz.com
About the Contemporary Art Program: This exhibition is presented as part of the Museum’s Contemporary Art Program, “Anatomy in the Gallery.” The Museum supports a commitment to contemporary art and artists through exhibitions and programs that use the frame of contemporary artistic practice to examine new perspectives in surgical science and our relationship to the body.
About the Museum: The International Museum of Surgical Science, a Division of the International College of Surgeons, was founded in 1954 by Dr. Max Thorek. The Museum is committed to enriching lives by enhancing an appreciation and understanding of the history, development, and advances in surgery and related subjects in health and medicine. The Museum is located in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood and is housed in a historic lake-shore mansion designed in the early 20th century by Howard Van Doren Shaw.
General Information: The International Museum of Surgical Science: 1524. N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL - 60610; tel. 312.642.6502; on the web at www.imss.org and info@imss.org.
Hours and Admission: The exhibition will be open Monday-Friday from 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., except for most major holidays. Admission rates are $18 for adults and $14 for students, educators, military members, and seniors, with ID.
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This May, the International Museum of Surgical Science will host a presentation by Marlene Rivero. In a fascinating reenactment, Marlene Rivero will breathe life back into Ann Stokes and her story, captivating audiences and informing new learners for approximately 45 minutes, with a 15 minute Q&A session afterwards. Marlene brings and shares a touchable display table that she periodically draws from throughout her performance in costume.
“We are excited to host this presentation in celebration of Nurse’s Appreciation Month in May. Marlene Rivero will give new meaning to the Chicago Nursing community”- Lindsey Herbert, Operations Manager
The presentation, “Ann Bradford Stokes” will take place on May 14th at the International Museum of Surgical Science, 5:30-6:30PM.
Marlene will transform into Ann Stokes for the evening. Ann Bradford Strokes (1833-1903) worked aboard the Navy’s first Hospital Ship, Red Rover, of Mound City, Illinois. She worked with sick and wounded soldiers aboard the United States Naval Hospital Ship (U.S.N.) throughout the Western Theater of the Civil War on both the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and their tributaries. She was the first woman to earn a pension for her work with the U.S.N. Red Rover. After 18 months as an African American Civil War nurse, she left service in November 1864.
The event will be co-produced by the Illinois Humanities Road Scholars Speakers Bureau, which invites Illinois authors, artists and educators to share their expertise and enthusiasm with people throughout the state, enabling local nonprofit organizations to present free-admission cultural programs to their communities. The current edition of the Road Scholars Speakers Bureau, presented in cooperation with the Illinois Bicentennial Commission and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, consists of presentations exploring Illinois history and culture in recognition of the state’s 200th anniversary.
Marlene Rivero is a storyteller and a retired Forest Service employee. Her programs have received many accolades of praise to the present. From 2003 to 2006, she was a national guest speaker for the Corps of Discovery Expedition that retraced the 1803 journey of Lewis and Clark Expedition; the name of the program was York's Mother. She started utilizing my storytelling talents in 1999 as a first-person heritage interpreter with the Forest Service. Later, she became lead heritage interpreter for the agency in African American interpretation and presentations and served in that role for eleven years.
“Ann Bradford Stokes” will take place Saturday, May 15th, 5:30PM, at the International Museum of Surgical Science, 1524 N. Lakeshore Drive. The event is free and open to all audiences. For more information, please visit https://imss.org/public-events/or contact Lindsey Herbert, lindsey@imss.org or 312-642-6502 ext 3130..
About the International Museum of Surgical Science
The International Museum of Surgical Science, a division of the International College of Surgeons (ICS), maintains over 10,000 square feet of public galleries committed to the history of surgery, and an exquisite permanent collection of art and artifacts from the history of Medicine. The Museum supports its Mission through medically themed exhibitions and programs, in addition to a strong contemporary art exhibition program.
About Illinois Humanities
Illinois Humanities strengthens the social, political, and economic fabric of Illinois through constructive conversation and community engagement. Founded in 1974 as the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Illinois Humanities is the only statewide proponent of the public humanities in Illinois. Through public programs, education and training, and grantmaking, we connect Illinoisans who might not otherwise encounter one another.
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The Japanese Arts Foundation in partnership with the International Museum of Surgical Science is excited to announce an upcoming exhibition held at the museum, \"Kintsugi: Healing through Japanese Art\" by multidisciplinary artist Mami Takahashi, curated by Saira Chambers. This exhibition draws upon the traditional Japanese art of Kintsugi, or gold repair, that has been practiced to repair ceramics throughout Japanese history. As gold is used to repair broken ceramics, highlighting the break rather than erasing it, we reflect on how this translates to the human process of overcoming trauma and loss, particularly in our shared moment of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The International Museum of Surgical Science (IMSS) is pleased to present the new exhibition, GUT by Alexander Utz. The exhibition will open on May 6, 2022, and run through July 3, 2022. The Museum will host an opening reception on May 18, 2022, from 6-8:30 p.m. that is free and open to the public.
GUT: The story of a frontier army surgeon, a fur trapper, and the unlucky gunshot wound that changed our understanding of digestion.
On June 6, 1822, at the American Fur Company Store on Mackinac Island, among a group of fur traders, a musket accidentally misfired and hit a 19-year-old French-Canadian voyageur named Alexis St. Martin. Quickly rushed to the nearby Fort Mackinac hospital, St. Martin’s wound was cleaned and dressed by the fort’s surgeon, William Beaumont. At the time, Beaumont did not believe St. Martin would survive more than 36 hours, but the young voyageur miraculously began a slow recovery.
When the wound healed in a way that left an opening directly into St. Martin’s stomach, Beaumont saw an opportunity to learn more about the process of digestion. For the next 11 years, the two men would work together on a series of 238 experiments and studies that completely reshaped our understanding of the digestive process.
Explore this incredible story and learn from Chicago playwright Alexander Utz, author of the new play Gut, about how history is translated to the stage.
About the Artist: Alexander Utz is a Chicago-based playwright and actor, as well as a co-founder and Artistic Director of Avalanche Theatre. His plays have been read and performed with The Plagiarists, Otherworld Theatre, Bower Theatre Ensemble, Three Brothers Theatre, Benchmark Theatre, Eclectic Full Contact Theatre, Three Cat Productions, and 5th Wall Productions. His play Sunflowers is available through Next Stage Press. He is a resident playwright with Three Brothers Theatre. This summer, he will be participating in an artist residency on Mackinac Island to complete a final revision on his play Gut about William Beaumont and Alexis St. Martin.
Read more about Alexander Utz at www.alexanderutz.com
About the Contemporary Art Program: This exhibition is presented as part of the Museum’s Contemporary Art Program, “Anatomy in the Gallery.” The Museum supports a commitment to contemporary art and artists through exhibitions and programs that use the frame of contemporary artistic practice to examine new perspectives in surgical science and our relationship to the body.
About the Museum: The International Museum of Surgical Science, a Division of the International College of Surgeons, was founded in 1954 by Dr. Max Thorek. The Museum is committed to enriching lives by enhancing an appreciation and understanding of the history, development, and advances in surgery and related subjects in health and medicine. The Museum is located in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood and is housed in a historic lake-shore mansion designed in the early 20th century by Howard Van Doren Shaw.
General Information: The International Museum of Surgical Science: 1524. N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL - 60610; tel. 312.642.6502; on the web at www.imss.org and info@imss.org.
Hours and Admission: The exhibition will be open Monday-Friday from 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., except for most major holidays. Admission rates are $18 for adults and $14 for students, educators, military members, and seniors, with ID.
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Artist Phil Gayter captures our collective pandemic years through masked portraits. Maskeraid is a poignant and whimsical reflection on mask-wearing in the age of COVID-19. Gayter explores the people that surround him during the pandemic through glimpses of day-to-day lives captured through the ubiquitous nature of the masks they were wearing.
“I decided to do a self-portrait, painting myself with bright yellow gloves and an N95 mask. That was the start, it was going to be a one-off. As the pandemic was setting in, I was spending more and more time at home, I had my daughter over, and I did a portrait of her in a mask. The mask proved to be that point of distinction, allowing me to think of a collection of paintings that capture the moment, poignant yet whimsical.\"
Inspirations for the paintings came to Gayter through everyday snapshots: his son whose glasses steamed up while wearing a mask, to a couple hugging each other, demonstrating absolute love through the material covering their faces. Driven to capture as many moments as possible, Gayter completed the series of 24 acrylic paintings in eighteen months. Including friends, family, and hospital workers, Maskeraid is an homage to the first responders who supported us through this unprecedented time.
About the Artist: Phil Gayter graduated with a BA in Communications from Manchester Metropolitan University where he specialized in illustration and painting as well as advertising. He came to the US to work with ad giant Leo Burnett where he was responsible for some of the most enduring campaigns in the last 20 years. While pursuing his career he has also been a prolific painter showing in many galleries in Illinois as well as Kansas, D.C., and his homeland, England. He works in a number of styles from classic landscapes to collaborative campaigns with his identical twin exploring the connections between twin artists, to his latest work Maskeraid. This exhibition was featured in the Chicago Sun-Times and he will have 3 pieces hanging in the lobby of the new Sinai Hospital.
About the Contemporary Art Program: This exhibition is presented as part of the Museum’s Contemporary Art Program, “Anatomy in the Gallery.” The Museum supports a commitment to contemporary art and artists through exhibitions and programs that use the frame of contemporary artistic practice to examine new perspectives in surgical science and our relationship to the body.
About the Museum: The International Museum of Surgical Science, a Division of the International College of Surgeons, was founded in 1954 by Dr. Max Thorek. The Museum is committed to enriching lives by enhancing an appreciation and understanding of the history, development, and advances in surgery and related subjects in health and medicine. The Museum is located in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood and is housed in a historic lake-shore mansion designed in the early 20th century by Howard Van Doren Shaw.
General Information: The International Museum of Surgical Science: 1524. N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL - 60610; tel. 312.642.6502; on the web at www.imss.org and info@imss.org.
Hours and Admission: The exhibition will be open Monday-Friday from 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., except for most major holidays. Admission rates are $18 for adults and $14 for students, educators, military members, and seniors, with ID.
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High School Dropout VS Big Pharma: The Fight to Save My Son’s Life
By Patrick Girondi
“I’d been strangled, shot at, skated more than 20 arrests, made it through three FBI witch hunts, and went from the docks to trading and big money.”
It’s a life description that makes it all the more remarkable to hear gritty high-school dropout, Patrick Girondi, go on to say, “I would see my son cured. How hard could it be?”
Saving his son was the ultimate goal Patrick describes in his incredible-but-true memoir, FLIGHT OF THE RONDONE – High School Dropout VS Big Pharma: The Fight to Save My Son’s Life (Skyhorse; May 24, 2022).
Growing up as a street kid on Chicago’s South Side, Patrick was all too familiar with challenges and the determination needed to survive. Like a dog with a bone, he was relentless when chasing a goal, all while remembering to help those less equipped and less fortunate.
Complete luck landed Girondi on the trading floors of Chicago. Overnight, he found himself a two-time guest on Oprah, and a subject in Playgirl Magazine’s America’s Most Eligible Bachelors, next to Sylvester Stallone and Magic Johnson.
Harsh reality intruded when his son was diagnosed with an orphan disease, Thalassemia (also known as Cooley’s Anemia), an inherited blood disorder. Thalassemia is a cousin disease to Sickle Cell Disease; both afflictions are caused by a defective beta-globin gene. Orphan diseases have patient populations of less than 200,000 people in the US and less than 250,000 in Europe.
FLIGHT OF THE RONDONE is a story of love, luck, and beating the odds, all told with little regard for empire or etiquette. As Girondi points out: “I’m just an average dad. Any parent would do the same if they had the means.”
Girondi founded San Rocco Therapeutics (formerly Errant Gene Therapeutics) in 1993. Over the years he raised funds from friends and angel investors. One of Girondi’s angels was John Walton of Walmart.
To respect his investors, Girondi never took a paycheck. The motto for his life became, “A wasted dollar is one less for research.” This obviously didn’t sit well with many modern CEOs.
San Rocco Therapeutics produced the world’s first commercial batch of gene therapy vectors in 2010. Girondi and his team were jubilant, confident that Sickle Cell Disease and Thalassemia were at the cusp of being defeated. They then confronted an unexpected enemy—more lethal than the disease itself, goliaths of the pharma industry intent on stealing from and destroying the company.
PATRICK FINLEY GIRONDI, originally from the South Side of Chicago, is an Italian-American singer-songwriter, author, and founder of San Rocco Therapeutics. Girondi has released five music albums and is the author of Diamond in the Rough. He has led his company, San Rocco Therapeutics, since 1993, with the mission to cure Sickle Cell Disease and Thalassemia.
The International Museum of Surgical Science, a Division of the International College of Surgeons, was founded in 1954 by Dr. Max Thorek. The Museum is committed to enriching lives by enhancing an appreciation and understanding of the history, development, and advances in surgery and related subjects in health and medicine. The Museum is located in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood and is housed in a historic lake-shore mansion designed in the early 20th century by Howard Van Doren Shaw.
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Register soon because space is limited.
We hope you’re able to join us!
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The International Museum of Surgical Science (IMSS) is pleased to introduce its Spring 2022 Artist in Residence, James R. Wilke. The IMSS continues its active role in supporting Chicago and Illinois arts and artists through its Artist in Residency and \"Anatomy in the Gallery\" rotating contemporary art galleries. James R. Wilke's capstone exhibition, “Pox Americana: How Smallpox Once Plagued America & The World,” opens on July 9th, 2022, and is on view through August 28, 2022. The Museum will host an opening reception on July 9 from 6-8:30 p.m. that is free and open to the public.
During his residency at the IMSS, Wilke researched the smallpox pandemic, vaccines, and the history of inoculation. James R. Wilke is a multidisciplinary Chicago artist-author, playwright, songwriter, director, producer, singer, and assemblage artist, whose creative work has appeared in print nationally, on stage, on film and tv screens, in museums, and beyond Chicago to New York, Los Angeles, and as far away as Scandinavia and Japan.
Wilke’s exhibition, “Pox Americana: How Smallpox Once Plagued America & The World” is a timely overview of the smallpox virus pandemic that devastated human societies from ancient times through eradication in 1980, including a detailed look at its impact in early America. Wilke’s creative writings in association with the exhibition include two explorations of the smallpox pandemic.
The first, with the gracious permission of her estate, is a play adaptation of Toni Morrison’s historical novel, A Mercy. Taking place in 1600s colonial America, A Mercy sheds a spotlight on the ravages of smallpox on the Indigenous peoples and immigrants of the time and illuminates early American slavery and discrimination, political and religious divides, medical superstitions, class struggles, unspoken homosexuality, and more. With an ensemble cast of characters that span races, ages, genders, and cultures, this play will look at situations that educate us to the struggles of early Americans and offer surprising parallels to issues we face in America today. The play adaptation will be presented in two live play-reading performances open to the public and within the exhibit on video.
Wilke’s second associated creative work will be a young adult fiction novel (his first!), inspired by the beliefs, hardships, diseases, wars, and witchcraft trials that faced the diverse peoples of early America. The story is told through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy moving with his family to an old historic mansion in rural upstate New York, who finds a hidden place in the woods behind his new home where timelines between the present and distant past converge. This debut novel, entitled Spiritania, is set for release at the IMSS in October. A labor of love Wilke has been working on for over a decade, Spiritania weaves together folklore from many diverse sources, themes of self-acceptance and accepting others, losing loved ones, sibling rivalry, the value of friends, and more. It is inspired in part by Wilke’s own real-life ordeals and adventures growing up in the small town of Wonder Lake, Illinois, as an outsider/misfit—a short, scrawny gay kid with a dark, patchy birthmark that covered one side of his face, making him noticeably different from other children and often picked on. Yet, with wooded land beginning right at the edge of his backyard, Wilke found in the forests surrounding his home an escape into worlds of fantasy when the real world became too difficult. And it was in these woods also where James developed a life-long reverence and passion for early America and its indigenous peoples and inhabitants.
About the Artist: James R. Wilke is a multidisciplinary Chicago artist-author, playwright, songwriter, director, producer, singer, and assemblage artist, whose creative work has appeared in print nationally, on stage, on film and tv screens, in museums, and beyond Chicago to New York, Los Angeles, and as far away as Scandinavia and Japan. While having spent the past decade primarily as a Certified Public Accountant, James is thankful to the IMSS for helping fulfill his dream of returning to the arts, in which he had worked full-time for over 15 years prior to the Great Recession. A saying that permeates James’ life and art since Covid-19 changed our world is “memento mori – remember that you will die.” Of ancient Latin origin, it is meant not so much to make one think about death but to remind one to live life with meaning, with intention, to seize opportunities, and to do the things that really matter to oneself. In that spirit, James returns joyfully to his greatest passion, storytelling, and to share the message of embracing one’s life with others.
Some notable writing and directing achievements from Wilke’s artistic career include: winning the Chicago/Midwest Emmy Award for Outstanding Director in 2009 for 24/7 Chicago on NBC; a 2nd Emmy Nomination in 2010 for Outstanding Special Event Program for Test Drive on FOX; winning Best Music Video at the San Fernando Valley International Film Festival 2005 for his direction and original story to the song, “Wonder,” by Emmy Award-winning singer-songwriter, Faith Rivera; premiering his original comedy short film, Catastrophe!, at the Naperville Independent Film Festival 2009; his original one-act stage comedy, Undercover (Bailiwick Theatre, Chicago, IL, 2007); writing music & lyrics for the original musical, Inconceivable, book by Marian Partee Lamb (California Institute of the Arts, CA, 2002); and writing book, music & lyrics for the original musical, Lunch Break (Northwestern University, IL, 1997). Wilke holds a Bachelor of Music degree and Certificates in Musical Theatre and Business from Northwestern University and an M.S. in Accountancy from DePaul University. Where his prior arts career focused primarily on creating light, often comedic work, Wilke is inspired now to bring more serious, introspective subjects to audiences at the IMSS and beyond.
About the Museum: The International Museum of Surgical Science, a Division of the International College of Surgeons, was founded in 1954 by Dr. Max Thorek. The Museum is committed to enriching lives by enhancing an appreciation and understanding of the history, development, and advances in surgery and related subjects in health and medicine. The Museum is located in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood and is housed in a historic lake-shore mansion designed in the early 20th century by Howard Van Doren Shaw.
General Information: The International Museum of Surgical Science: 1524. N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL - 60610; tel. 312.642.6502; on the web at www.imss.org and info@imss.org.
Hours and Admission: The exhibition will be open Monday-Friday from 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., except for most major holidays. Admission rates are $18 for adults and $14 for students, educators, military members, and seniors with ID.
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We’re hosting a new event, and we’d love to see you there. Join us for Kintsugi Memory Workshop, July 27, 2022 at 6:00 PM.
Register soon because space is limited.
We hope you’re able to join us!
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Register for opening reception here
Join us for the opening reception of the newest contemporary art exhibition at the IMSS, 'Liminal' by Rosśa Crean.
1524 N Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60610
Light refreshments are included and wine will be served to guests with proof of age. Alcohol served to guests 21+, ID required
Accessible accommodations include a ramp entrance and elevator. If you need additional accessibility options or wheelchair seating please contact us at info@imss.org.
Parking and Directions can be found here: https://imss.org/plan-your-visit/#nav
Synesthesia is a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. In other words, the brain of a synesthete translates one sense into another. Rosśa Crean has what is called chromesthesia (they label it trifold chromesthesia), where their brain translates sound into color and visual patterns, followed by a secondary emotional response. As a composer, their chromesthesia has been a useful tool in their musical projects. Yet chromesthesia could also be overwhelming from overstimulation due to external stimulus.
Crean connected their musical career as a trained classical composer with the visual art of painting several years ago in their mid-career. Crean was prompted by fellow academics in music who contemplated the possibility of showing an audience what a synesthete sees when they hear certain pieces of music. Crean was already a practicing visual artist and began to portray these translations in painting.
Rosśa Crean refers to their work as “liminal abstracts,” conducted in a transitory space between physical stimulus and emotional response. Through two series of paintings, visitors will experience Crean’s large-scale abstract works accompanied by sound compositions. The artist takes you through two time periods in their life – the first through their initial exploration of visually representing synesthesia; and the second, through works they created during the pandemic, and the artist’s response to working through trauma, grief, anxiety disorder, and panic attacks. Crean invites the viewer to experience the works and see what they see—color, movement, and artistic expression as a result of music and sound—the artist’s personal music and art therapy.
Read more about Rosśa Crean’s work at www.rossacrean.com
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The International Museum of Surgical Science (IMSS) is pleased to present the solo exhibition Today and Possibly Tomorrow by artist Ryan Woodring. The IMSS continues its active role in supporting Chicago and Illinois arts and artists through its Artist in Residency and \"Anatomy in the Gallery\" rotating contemporary art galleries. Today and Possibly Tomorrow opens on September 6th, 2022, and is on view through November 13, 2022. The Museum will host an opening reception on September 10 from 2-5:00 p.m. that is free and open to the public.
Today and Possibly Tomorrow borrows technical and pragmatic strategies from medical illustration and art therapy to give momentary shape to an undiagnosed, invisible illness. The exhibition features the premiere of an experimental video that uses machine learning and nontraditional image-editing to play with dichotomies of diagnosis, as well as a new series of 3D printed candies interspersed throughout the museum’s collection and gift shop. Each candy’s unique form is derived from a ritualized 3D modeling practice that seeks to visualize the contours of an invisible nausea while experiencing it. Woodring sets forth a methodology for dually recording and excorsising an otherwise all-consuming illness; fostering its temporary coagulation outside the body. Rendering these forms in sugar advertises their potential for reingestion and subsequent dissolve between representational and catalytic agency.
Harboring an invisible chronic illness the past five years has forced Woodring to contend with his relationship to image production; as his body refuses to perform its ailments not only for the mirror but for the MRIs, endoscopies and other tests specifically designed to draw them out. In a post-artificial intelligence (AI) landscape where image collection hardens medical and other socioeconomic systems towards hegemonic predilection, Woodring is compelled by his body’s furtive miscalibration to use these same technologies to push up against the limits of visual representation. While continued advancements in imaging technologies, many of which are on display at the museum, invite human eyes to scour the forms and processes that make up the human body, the unlocatable experiences that fall outside this optical colonization call for different coaxing and coping strategies. Woodring’s work grapples with notions of visibility and reified selfhood endemic to modern medicine and health narratives; valorizing invisibility and uncertainty as foundations for sustained care for the (unexpected) other brought on by illness.
\"We are thrilled to host Ryan Woodring's solo exhibition, Today and Possibly Tomorrow, which will allow our visitors the opportunity to view an artistic representation of chronic pain and illness. Through the creation of the artist, moving from conception to digital rendering to tangible object, the artist's chronic pain can be experienced through the senses of touch and taste. We hope that visitors take away a renewed understanding and contemplation of chronic pain through this shared experience.\" - Michelle Rinard, IMSS Curator.
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Conceptualized by JAF Executive Director Saira Chambers and created by JAF resident artist Mami Takahashi, this exhibition draws upon the traditional Japanese art of kintsugi, or 'gold repair,' that has been practiced to repair ceramics throughout Japanese history. This exhibition includes hand-made paper works, sculptures, paintings, and a community gallery, all surrounding the idea and practice of kintsugi in relation to the human body. As gold is used to repair broken ceramics in kintsugi, highlighting the break rather than erasing it, the artist invites us to reflect on how this translates to the human process of overcoming trauma and loss, particularly in our shared moment of the COVID-19 pandemic. kintsugi is not only a practice but also a belief, in that the break itself makes the ceramic more valuable and treasured. Takahashi applies kintsugi not to pottery, but to our lived spaces and beings. Through these works, we see a correlation between our own humanity and our shared healing process, and visitors are asked to view their trauma and “breaks” in a similar light. As we approach closer to the other side of the COVID-19 pandemic, this exhibition encourages our broader, and new, community to come together and heal through Japanese art.
“We are thrilled to share the art of kintsugi with the community through innovative perspectives, and diverse mediums. We hope this exhibition inspires visitors to embrace the loss we've collectively felt over the COVID-19 pandemic, and process it along with the vibrant and thriving community we remain despite it.” -JAF Executive Director, Saira Chambers.
\"The IMSS enthusiastically hosts Kintsugi: Healing through Japanese Art in alliance with the JAF to showcase the beautifully intricate handmade work by the internationally recognized artist, Mami Takahashi, linking us to the past, and connecting us all through processes of healing. We hope to reach new and diverse audiences and provide a place for the public to come together through this community partnership.\" - IMSS Curator, Michelle Rinard.
Read more about the exhibition at https://imss.org/kintsugi-healing-through-japanese-art
About the Artist: Mami Takahashi is a multidisciplinary artist from Tokyo, currently residing in two cities–Portland, Oregon, and Chicago, IL. Using photography, performance, installation, and urban intervention, her practice explores the complexities of being Asian and a woman living outside of her home country. The photographic works from the early development of the ongoing project, “Seeing you/Seeing Me”, were on exhibit at the Center for Contemporary Art and Culture, Portland, Oregon in an exhibition entitled The Unknown Artist, curated by former Venice Biannual curator Lucy Cotter.
Previous exhibitions and performances have taken place at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR; San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco; DANK Haus, Chicago, IL; The International Museum of Art, El Paso, TX; Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada; Gwangju Folk Art Museum, Gwangju, Korea; Instituto Municipal del Arte la Cultura, DG Mexico and Toriizaka Art Gallery, Tokyo, among other venues. She holds an MFA from Portland State University and a BFA from Joshibi University of Art and Design, Kanagawa. Takahashi is a recipient of the Ford Family Award for MASS MoCA residency and the Pacific Northwest College of Art+Leland Iron Work residency.
About the Curator: Saira Chambers is the Director of the Chicago Japanese Culture Center and Executive Director of the Japanese Arts Foundation. In addition to these roles, Saira is a curator, educator, event producer, and curriculum developer. She has worked with and maintained strong partnerships with the Hiroshima Peace Institute and Peace Memorial Museum, the Wing Luke Museum, the Seattle Asian Art Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Field Museum, DePaul University, and many other arts and community organizations. With an emphasis on community-driven and innovative exhibition models and programs, her work explores the art, history, and culture of Japan globally to bridge cultural competence and cross-cultural perspectives.
About the JAF: The Japanese Arts Foundation is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that creates inclusive and equitable opportunity, education, and support of Japanese arts thriving in Chicago’s diverse community and beyond. The JAF celebrates the multitude of voices in our community exploring and expanding Japanese arts and culture. The JAF supports this mission by hosting unique programs and open educational opportunities that share Japanese art equitably and accessibly, while highlighting our diverse community of artists, thinkers, and makers.
About the Museum: The International Museum of Surgical Science, a Division of the International College of Surgeons, was founded in 1954 by Dr. Max Thorek. The Museum is committed to enriching lives by enhancing an appreciation and understanding of the history, development, and advances in surgery and related subjects in health and medicine. The Museum is located in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood and is housed in a historic lake-shore mansion designed in the early 20th century by Howard Van Doren Shaw.
About the Contemporary Arts Program: The International Museum of Surgical Science supports a commitment to contemporary art and artists through exhibitions and programs that use the frame of contemporary artistic practice to examine new perspectives in medical-surgical science and our relationship to the body. The Museum’s Contemporary Arts Initiative includes rotating exhibitions of contemporary art, as well as an ongoing Artist in Residence program.
General Information: The International Museum of Surgical Science: 1524. N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL - 60610; tel. 312.642.6502; on the web at www.imss.org and info@imss.org.
Hours and Admission: The exhibition will be open Monday-Friday from 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., except for most major holidays. Admission rates are $18 for adults and $14 for students, educators, military members, and seniors with ID.
Image: Mami Takahashi. Kintsugi Skull 01, 2022. Resin replica skull, gofun (oyster powder), gold leaf, and gold powder. w 4 1/2″ x h 6″ x d 7″.
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Join us for an artist-led felting workshop at the Museum to kick off the Halloween Season. Space limited, RSVP required.
Lucia Calderon Arrieta is an artist + anti-racist educator living in Chicago. They investigate boundaries of identity by depicting emotional blobs and using skin conditions like bruising and eczema as metaphors for trauma held in a racialized body. Their most recent body of work is inspired by undersea ecosystems that find a balance through constant flux.
$30 Ages 8 - Adult TICKETS
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In this talk, Jennifer Borland explores the nature of the households portrayed in a late medieval health guide known as the Régime du corps, and how their members interacted with professionalized medicine. Images in illustrated copies of this text depict simple scenes related to health care, such as patients’ consultations with physicians, procedures like bloodletting, and foods and beverages recommended for good health. These images provide important details about the nature of women’s agency in the home—and offer highly compelling evidence that women enacted multiple types of health care.
$15 Adults; Members, Students, Educators Free with ID REGISTER
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This talk focuses on several late medieval manuscripts that depict scenes of cupping enacted by women practitioners. Cupping, or the application of heated glass cups to the skin to suction away toxins, was among the key surgical interventions used to maintain health in the Middle Ages. Alongside phlebotomy, leeching and scarification, cupping was generally understood as a practice overseen by surgeons and used for the management of a patient’s humoral balance. Such representations provide a window onto women's accepted roles in healthcare, encouraging us to think about the relationships between the images and real-world practice. Providing evidence for the fluidity of the boundaries between domestic care and surgical treatments, these images reinforce the complex and wide-ranging involvement of women in medieval healthcare.
$15 Adults; Members, Students, Educators Free with ID
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The good, the bad, the ugly of Nobel Prize in Medicine winners: a book talk
We’re hosting a new event, and we’d love to see you there. Join us for Author Talk: Dr. Moira Dolan: Heroes & Scoundrels, October 20, 2022 at 7:00 PM.
Register soon because space is limited. Register
We hope you’re able to join us!
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Presented by the Hektoen Institute and the Academy of Medical Surgical Nurses, Sed will lead this sketching workshop at the International Museum of Surgical Science. All materials provided. Light refreshments will be served.
$15. TICKETS
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The Japanese Arts Foundation and International Museum of Surgical Science cordially invite you to their inaugural joint Kintsugi Gala. Experience an evening of fine Japanese cuisine, spirits, and artistic performances and activations with full access to the historic museum and its charm. Enjoy a special viewing of the new Kintsugi exhibition and explore the art of Kintsugi, or ‘gold repair’, through the work of Japanese Arts Foundation resident artist Mami Takahashi, who fuses human skulls with gold, bringing to life the philosophy of celebrating the beauty of broken cracks. This fundraising gala directly supports the efforts of the Japanese Arts Foundation and the International Museum of Surgical Science. Guests in attendance and at home are encouraged to participate in the virtual silent auction featuring gifts from over 50 partners.
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The International Museum of Surgical Science (IMSS) is pleased to present the exhibition Art Therapy & Tarot: The Importance of Symbol; Then, Now, and Forevermore by artist Eric Dean Spruth, MA, ATR. The IMSS continues its active role in supporting Chicago and Illinois arts and artists through its \"Anatomy in the Gallery\" rotating contemporary art galleries. Art Therapy & Tarot opens on November 18th, 2022, and is on view through February 12, 2023. The Museum will host an opening reception on Friday, November 18 from 6-8:00 p.m. that is free and open to the public.
Eric Dean Spruth, MA, ATR (Ph.D. Candidate, Walden University) is a highly accomplished art therapist, practicing in fields across disciplines, including his therapeutic works and services within tattooing, music, writing, body casting; mastering many art media in the name of service as an art therapist, in service to his special needs populations across the country and around the world. In “Art Therapy & Tarot: The Importance of Symbol; Then, Now, and Forevermore,” Spruth gives us a look into his most recent works encompassing a college set of 78 card tarot cards and the craft, history, and cultural importance of the media. The borderless symbolism surrounding tarot is not of one person but all people. Through the tarot deck, Spruth connects the importance of creating art in unique ways as therapy for not only his patients but also himself.
It’s been a long and winding road for Eric Dean Spruth, MA, ATR with an evolution from his childhood doodling mad-boy to a profoundly spiritual, psychological, and personal approach to the world of fatherhood, tattooing, and art therapy he has today. Symbolism and art in tarot can be seen in the art of tattoo that the artist produces with clients in his nonprofit studio, Sacred Transformations/ TATTOO ART THERAPY. Tattoo is not only an art form but also a tool of healing for Mr. Spruth. Spruth and his clients share a deep investment in both the process and the product of tattoo. Spruth considers the art therapy process, including tattooing, as an act of empowerment and a tool for expressing intrinsic experiences.
\"We are so pleased to host this exhibition by Eric Dean Spruth; a body of work that represents his artistic practice in unique areas of art and services, highlighting his prolific career in Art Therapy and his unparalleled endeavors in giving back to the community. We hope that this exhibition not only spotlights the importance of empathy in Art Therapy but also sparks important conversations surrounding healing.\" - Michelle Rinard, IMSS Curator.
\"This exhibition and related topic are all based on my Mother's (Dalen Ida Spruth) and Father’s (Harold Alfred Spruth) love for the arts, persistence of freedom for all people, and the basic and fundamental right to explore the world we live on and those we live with. Many thanks to my mom and dad and my family at large for fueling my insatiable appetite for the Arts, for reading between the lines, for celebrating the symbol versus the word, the action versus the thought. My father’s 1973 gift to my mother of her very own James Bond 007 Tarot Deck, AKA Tarot of the Witches cards by Fergus Hall, that gift and access to those cards along with our family BOOK OF SAINTS was and continued to be the foundation of my lifelong fascination, inspiration and a very good place for me to be in this life.\" - Artist Eric Dean Spruth, MA, ATR.
This exhibition is done in connection with a programming series including artist talks, guest speakers in the field, and engagement events all surrounding the importance of Art Therapy and topics of healing, empowerment, remembrance, symbolism, and rebirth. Schedule information is forthcoming.
About the Artist: Eric Dean Spruth MA, ATR (Ph.D. Candidate) is a trained artist, graduating from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an undergraduate degree in fine art with a minor in Psychology and Philosophy and a Master’s Degree in Art Therapy. He has served as a professor at the Adler School of Professional Psychology Art Therapy program and expressive art therapist within the Cook County Bureau of Health Cermak Health Services/ Cook County Jail, as well as a certified Hospital Bedside Magician offering Magic Therapy with Open Heart Magic. Additionally, Spruth is the founder of Sacred Transformation / TATTOO ART THERAPY collaborating with various human service agencies across the country and around the world including human trafficking programs, mental health programs, and correctional centers. Spruth’s efforts have been featured and recognized by many forms of media, including National Public Radio, Chicago Tonight, Chicago Tribune, The National Health Care, WTTW City Talk, Chicago Reader, WGN TV Morning News, Lakelife Magazine, and many many Tattoo Magazines. Spruth has received many awards and recognition in his field, both as an artist, art therapist, and tattooist.
About Tattoo Art Therapy: TAT: Sacred Transformations/ TATTOO ART THERAPY, is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization that was founded by Eric Dean Spruth in 2003 after realizing a need to help those with demonstrative tattoos that he could recognize were experiencing great distress in their self-identity and their personal value as a result of their tattoos. TAT seeks to help people move forward with their lives and away from negative experiences by providing transformative art therapy that minimizes, transforms, or erases these no-longer desired body marks or scars, to give people a fresh start. Eric never claims he is the one helping the individuals but rather the organization is the one helping. https://www.tattooarttherapy.org/about-us
Image Credit: Eric Dean Spruth, MA, ATR. Judgement Major Arcana Tarot Card #20. 2022. Collage Art.
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Book Talk 6-7PM, with book signing afterwards. | $5, $28.99 additional for the book | TICKETS
Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big, too small, or anywhere in between, humans have a complicated relationship with butts. It is a body part unique to humans, critical to our evolution and survival, and yet it has come to signify so much more: sex, desire, comedy, shame. A woman’s butt, in particular, is forever being assessed, criticized, and objectified, from anxious self-examinations trying on jeans in department store dressing rooms to enduring crass remarks while walking down a street or high school hallways. But why? In Butts: A Backstory, reporter, essayist, and RadioLab contributing editor Heather Radke is determined to find out.
Spanning nearly two centuries, this “whip-smart” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) cultural history takes us from the performance halls of 19th-century London to the aerobics studios of the 1980s, the music video set of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s “Baby Got Back” and the mountains of Arizona, where every year humans and horses race in a feat of gluteal endurance.
Part deep dive reportage, part personal journey, part cabinet of curiosities, Butts is an entertaining, illuminating, and thoughtful examination of why certain silhouettes come in and out of fashion—and how larger ideas about race, control, liberation, and power affect our most private feelings about ourselves and others.
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An Electroacoustic Concert. We’re hosting a new event, and we’d love to see you there. Join us for Nois Presents: Wired, December 2, 2022 at 7:00 PM.
Register soon because space is limited. We hope you’re able to join us!
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Join us for a group lecture, \"Art Therapy Identity: Splicing Text and Symbolism in the Discovery of our own Dynamic Meaning\"
Exhibiting artist Eric Dean Spruth MA, ATR, Art Therapist, Cermak Health Services at Cook County Jail, is joined by Violetta Woznicka MA, ATR LCPC, Denise Colletti MA, ATR, and Maureen Wilson MA, ATR LCPC for a lecture panel titled, \"Art Therapy Identity: Splicing Text and Symbolism in the Discovery of our own Dynamic Meaning.\"
\"Four art therapists in a correctional setting reflect on the practice of collage art to explore and evolve identity. Throughout life, but particularly at times when we feel stuck, it can be empowering to remember that our identity is dynamic. We can and likely will be different moving forward, and through art, we can manifest transformation. Meaning is drawn from our surroundings and experiences, as we make choices of what and how to incorporate into our sense of self. In this hands-on workshop, we will select and combine imagery, and engaging collage–a simple process that may lead to complex symbolism. A discussion will follow, observing the resulting imagery and reflecting on potential messages or insights we can draw from our own choices.\"
This program is provided in connection with the current exhibition, “Art Therapy & Tarot: The Importance of Symbol; Then, Now, and Forevermore,” by By Eric Dean Spruth, MA, ATR, on view through February 12, 2023. The programming series includes artist talks, guest speakers in the field, and engagement events all surrounding the importance of Art Therapy and topics of healing, empowerment, remembrance, symbolism, and rebirth. For schedule information, visit https://imss.org/programs/.
Eric Dean Spruth, MA, ATR (Ph.D. Candidate, Walden University) is a highly accomplished art therapist, practicing in fields across disciplines, including his therapeutic works and services within tattooing, music, writing, body casting; mastering many art media in the name of service as an art therapist, in service to his special needs populations across the country and around the world. In “Art Therapy & Tarot: The Importance of Symbol; Then, Now, and Forevermore,” Spruth gives us a look into his most recent works encompassing a collage set of 78 tarot cards and the craft, history, and cultural importance of the media. The borderless symbolism surrounding tarot is not of one person but all people. Through the tarot deck, Spruth connects the importance of creating art in unique ways as therapy for not only his patients but also himself.
For more information about the exhibit, visit https://imss.org/art-therapy-and-tarot/.
Accessible accommodations include a ramp entrance and elevator. If you need additional accessibility options please contact us at info@imss.org.
PARKING AND DIRECTIONS: https://imss.org/plan-your-visit/#nav
Questions? Contact us at info@imss.org.
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Join us for a workshop led by Eric Dean Spruth, MA, ATR on candle making and remembrance.
In this workshop, exhibiting artist Eric Dean Spruth, MA, ATR will engage the public in making candles to take home.
Maximum 15 participants
Candle-making: the healing nature of ritual fire and symbol. For nine and a half years, Spruth served the homicide support program as an art therapist, helping families within the scope of art therapy to find healing and wellness in their lives, individually and as a family. He will draw on those experiences to facilitate a public workshop at the IMSS.
\"I had an adult and Adolescent and a children's program I ran monthly co-facilitating with the State's Attorney's victim Witness Programs. Our Adolescent group focused more on developing poetry and raps actually producing our own CD single Flying Wingless at a professional recording studio. Our children's program worked in an open studio format, allowing the kids to find a place with the art media; the Adult program a full gambit of art therapy directives, including candle making, finding a place to return to mediation, again and again, giving respect and remembrance to their lost loved one as a result of murder.\"
All workshop supplies are provided
Participants are asked to bring remembrance paraphernalia including photos or copies of:
- people/ person
- special places
- things
- one or so words printed out
This program is provided in connection with the current exhibition, “Art Therapy & Tarot: The Importance of Symbol; Then, Now, and Forevermore,” by By Eric Dean Spruth, MA, ATR, on view through February 12, 2023. The programming series includes artist talks, guest speakers in the field, and engagement events all surrounding the importance of Art Therapy and topics of healing, empowerment, remembrance, symbolism, and rebirth. For schedule information, visit https://imss.org/programs/.
Eric Dean Spruth, MA, ATR (Ph.D. Candidate, Walden University) is a highly accomplished art therapist, practicing in fields across disciplines, including his therapeutic works and services within tattooing, music, writing, body casting; mastering many art media in the name of service as an art therapist, in service to his special needs populations across the country and around the world. In “Art Therapy & Tarot: The Importance of Symbol; Then, Now, and Forevermore,” Spruth gives us a look into his most recent works encompassing a collage set of 78 tarot cards and the craft, history, and cultural importance of the media. The borderless symbolism surrounding tarot is not of one person but all people. Through the tarot deck, Spruth connects the importance of creating art in unique ways as therapy for not only his patients but also himself.
For more information about the exhibit, visit https://imss.org/art-therapy-and-tarot/.
Accessible accommodations include a ramp entrance and elevator. If you need additional accessibility options please contact us at info@imss.org.
PARKING AND DIRECTIONS: https://imss.org/plan-your-visit/#nav
Questions? Contact us at info@imss.org.
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A conversation between Lucas Livingston, MA, Exec. Director of Chicago Hyde Park Village & Eric Spruth MA on how art can combat loneliness
Chronic loneliness has been called the silent epidemic of the 21st century. Studies demonstrate it can lead to premature death. In this spirited conversation, Lucas Livingston, MA, Executive Director of Chicago Hyde Park Village & Eric Dean Spruth, MA, ATR Art Therapist explore strategies, approaches, and examples for how arts enrichment can be a meaningful and impactful intervention in mitigating the harmful effects of loneliness in people’s lives. Some concrete examples include the imperative of touch in art museums for those who cannot see, the therapeutic value of coloring through the Libations Art Therapy Coloring Book, trauma-informed mural transformations of clinical staffing areas in the Cook County Temporary Youth Detention Center, and much more.
This program is provided in connection with the current exhibition, “Art Therapy & Tarot: The Importance of Symbol; Then, Now, and Forevermore,” by By Eric Dean Spruth, MA, ATR, on view through February 12, 2023. The programming series includes artist talks, guest speakers in the field, and engagement events all surrounding the importance of Art Therapy and topics of healing, empowerment, remembrance, symbolism, and rebirth. For schedule information, visit https://imss.org/programs/.
Eric Dean Spruth, MA, ATR (Ph.D. Candidate, Walden University) is a highly accomplished art therapist, practicing in fields across disciplines, including his therapeutic works and services within tattooing, music, writing, body casting; mastering many art media in the name of service as an art therapist, in service to his special needs populations across the country and around the world. In “Art Therapy & Tarot: The Importance of Symbol; Then, Now, and Forevermore,” Spruth gives us a look into his most recent works encompassing a collage set of 78 tarot cards and the craft, history, and cultural importance of the media. The borderless symbolism surrounding tarot is not of one person but all people. Through the tarot deck, Spruth connects the importance of creating art in unique ways as therapy for not only his patients but also himself.
For more information about the exhibit, visit https://imss.org/art-therapy-and-tarot/.
Accessible accommodations include a ramp entrance and elevator. If you need additional accessibility options please contact us at info@imss.org.
PARKING AND DIRECTIONS: https://imss.org/plan-your-visit/#nav
Questions? Contact us at info@imss.org.
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The hidden warnings in medical labeling: what you don't know about your health treatments and how they may harm you.
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A discussion of Horticulture Therapy at Cook County Jail and Cook County Temporary Detentions Center in Chicago
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Experience a sound installation around the grand staircase by Mami Takahashi and Adrian McBride.
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My work walks the line between taxidermy, toy, and sculpture. Each sculpture is meticulously fabricated to create an unnervingly accurate, uncanny version of the natural animal. Fragility and vulnerability are central to my work. The sculptures become inverted anatomies showing the interior organ structures embroidered on the body's surface. In revealing the similarities between mammals, the raw, vulnerable interiors connect us all. The sculptures create a tension between the reality of animals, humans, and our cultural concepts of animals; the wild and the tame, the beautiful and grotesque.
Over the past few years, my work has focused on two of the most anthropomorphized animals in our culture: bears and rabbits. Bears interest me as they are the ultimate stuffed animals: both the iconic plush toy and the prized taxidermy specimen for hunters. A stuffed bear is the enduring toy of childhood. The fierce predator declawed and defanged to become a child's best friend and sense of security. While bears and rabbits start as beloved childhood characters, our attitudes towards them quickly diverge. Bears, both revered and feared, are treated with far more respect. Our treatment of rabbits is more complex. Our attitudes range from adoration of their cuteness to contempt. Rabbits are animals that everyone has encountered, from storybook characters like Peter Rabbit and Bugs Bunny to the real rabbits kept as pets and running wild across our lawns. They evolve from childhood toys to pampered pets, garden pests, science experiments, dinners, and clothing. With the rabbits, I play with peoples' expectations and emotions; peel away some preconceptions, and expose the unease of our relationship with these animals and how we symbolize them.
Many people assume my sculptures are created from taxidermy. They are not. I make everything by hand, starting with painted sketches and sculpted maquettes. I embroider samples to figure out the fabric, fur, floss colors, and stitch directions. I then sculpt the body, make the skin pattern and sew the fabric and fur together. I hand embroider the organ systems onto the fabric skin. The head and paws are then sculpted in polymer clay, baked, and the fur carefully glued on. All the parts are assembled and permanently attached. The finished object is important to me; like the stuffed toys that are the first objects we treasure, the sculptures become beings completely contained within themselves.
Ursus americanus: Standing, polymer clay, faux fur, linen, embroidery floss, acrylic paint, glass, wire and foam, 40”H x 18”D x 16”W, 2015. Photo credit: Dan Wonderly.
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A conversation between Kevin Davis, journalist, author, and writing teacher, and Eric Dean Spruth, MA, ATR, on the healing power of writing.
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How do we perform grief?
On the last day of the year, the Ecuadorian New Year celebration sees its citizens erecting bonfires to collectively burn effigies made of discarded clothes, wood shavings, and paper maché. These Año Viejos symbolize the end of the year that is to be destroyed, and on their ashes to begin a new day. The exact history of the Año Viejos has been lost to time and colonization. What remains of our culture is an embodied knowledge, a series of rituals that persist without written history.
In the spring of 2020, hospitals in the city Guayaquil, Ecuador became overcrowded due to the then-emerging Covid-19 pandemic. With no room in the hospitals, the government took on an emergency action and began to burn the bodies of the dead on the streets.
I return to Ecuador every New Year for the celebrations. On January 3rd, 2023, I performed this grief ritual under the context of memory.
The videos on view are documentation from the endurance performance that took place in the coastal town of Playas, Ecuador. The performance, named Año Nuevo (2023), saw me return to my ancestral lands. There, I burned one Año Viejo every hour for 24 consecutive hours. Through this act which recalled my childhood, I embody the memories of those left behind, the land I left and continue to grieve, the labor of grief, and the passage of time.
This performance is dedicated to my brother, who was among the millions who passed in 2020
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https://imss.org/fabrizzio-subia-ano-nuevo-2023/
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Strips & Needles—A Day in the Life responds to a staggering reality—nearly half of all people in the U.S. experience direct, adverse impacts of diabetes. The project directly benefits patients and families living with diabetes, healthcare providers, and the general public. Building community, raising awareness, and humanizing the patient are but a few impacts that translate into long-term, lasting impacts, particularly within the healthcare community.
The project is a narrative art and medicine initiative centered on the installation of 366 Lucite panels. Each panel encapsulates the syringes and test strips used by the artist each day. A digital story loop plays alongside the installation, connected to a participatory station for visitors to share their own stories and ideas.
A primary goal of this project is to create a humanizing opportunity for healthcare providers and students of medicine and allied health fields to reflect and reconsider the patient. Delivering a project that incorporates the visual arts, digital arts, and narrative nonfiction storytelling, enables participants experiencing the exhibition to step outside of their everyday routine so they can reflect and reconsider their actions. Then, they can step back in. When they do, we hope to have achieved a primary goal of this project—to create long-term impacts on healthcare providers’ thinking and actions in patient care. This means humanizing clinical care and recognizing our patients’ individuality.
Through a series of events that use the exhibition as a catalyst for dialogue, programming will 1) bring hidden rituals of the disabled into the purview of the public; 2) elicit the curiosity of viewers to promote interest in science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (STEAM); 3) promote the human element in health care; 4) drive public dialogue about health and wellness.
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Individuals and families explore parts of life with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D), a hidden disability. The activity offers experiential opportunity for exploration and reflection. By crafting their own Diabetes Care Kit, participants are afforded time to learn about what a person with T1D uses on a daily basis. This allows exploration of the materials, the science behind blood sugar, dosing of medication, and insulin. The activity enables a review of process and procedure in daily practices. It also affords participants with opportunity to consider compassion for others in myriad ways.
Disability is experienced by 26% of the US population, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2023).
Exploring what a day in the life with T1D looks like offers space for understanding, reflection, and development of compassion. Participants may benefit from the experiential activity by developing additional insights into the lives of people and families living with hidden and visible disabilities.
Participants will:
• Experience a day in the life of a person living with Type I Diabetes
• Gain insights about the time commitment involved in managing life with Type I Diabetes
• Reflect on their experience while considering values and ideas around hidden disability.
This is a drop-in program that will run approximately 30 minutes and will run between 1PM and 3PM. The program is free with Museum Admission, which can be purchased online at imss.org or at the front door.
This public program was developed as part of the visual arts exhibition Strips & Needles—a day in the life, by artist, Michael L. Zirulnik. The exhibit and artworks explore a year of one man’s life with Type I Diabetes (T1D). The works seek to prompt contemplation, conversation, and collaboration among publics by exploring humanity and hidden disability.
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Inspired by the medical illustrations in journals and books, artist Alexander Gonzalez adapts and arranges anatomical figures to represent and tell an intimate story of his personal physical pain and its connectedness with various parts of his body and mind.
\"As an artist, I find my motivation lies in the physical pain and trauma I have experienced throughout my time in the military and young adulthood. I find it’s easier to draw and paint to tell my story, than it is for me to talk about. As I grow older my physical pain becomes more prominent and so does my urge to create. I want to show you my story before that is no longer an option.\"
-Alexander Gonzalez
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In this artist talk, Fabrizzio Subia will speak on the process and history behind the grief performance known as Año Nuevo (2023). Cultural rituals, migration, loss, community, and family play a part in all of our lives, and were present in this 24 hour durational artwork.
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This program is provided in connection with the current exhibition, “Año Nuevo (2023)” by Fabrizzio Subia, on view through May 7, 2023. For more information about the exhibit, visit https://imss.org/fabrizzio-subia-ano-nuevo-2023/
Image courtesy of the artist.
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Presenter: Eric Dean Spruth, MA, ATR
Laughter Yoga is a body and mind wellness workout started in 1995 by Dr. Kataria and his wife Madhuri. And it’s being practiced in 116 different countries all over the world. It is easy, fun, and a free solution that can be done by everyone.
Eric Spruth was a small part of the team at the therapeutic team at The Muktangan De-Addiction Centre in Pune India some years ago, and has trained in the art of Mehndi / Henna Body Arts with the Palshikar Family, as well as training in Laughter Therapy with Founder Dr. Madan Kataria a practicing physician Mumbai and world pioneer of laughter clubs around the world.
Eric Dean Spruth, MA, ATR (Ph.D. Candidate, Walden University) is a highly accomplished art therapist, practicing in fields across disciplines, including his therapeutic works and services within tattooing, music, writing, body casting; mastering many art media in the name of service as an art therapist, in service to his special needs populations across the country and around the world.
Accessible accommodations include a ramp entrance and elevator. If you need additional accessibility options please contact us at info@imss.org.
Image courtesy of Eric Dean Spruth.
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Doors open at 6:45PM. The concert will begin at 7PM, and the Museum will close at 9PM. The concert will last approximately 60-70 minutes.
Fat Pigeon
Based in Chicago, Fat Pigeon is an experimental music trio consisting of bass clarinetist Emily Beisel (USA), percussionist Luis Fernando Amaya (Mexico), and guitarist Craig Davis Pinson (Mexico). Fat Pigeon makes use of both score-based composition and visceral free improvisation, aiming to create gripping gestural music as a collective unit. The group’s debut album, FANG POET I, was released in 2020 by Gilded Records.
~Nois
Founded in 2016, ~Nois (pronounced “noise”) has become one of the premier ensembles in the United States by combining contemporary chamber music and improvisation to connect with audiences in unique concert experiences. Heralded as “fiendishly good” (Chicago Tribune) and known for their “supremely sensitive balance and control” (Chicago Classical Review), ~Nois has been awarded top prizes at prestigious chamber music competitions including the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and the M-Prize International Arts Competition.
Carol Genetti
Carol Genetti is a Chicago-based vocalist whose work encompasses sound and visual art media. Her palette is primordial, existing in a space where “language” and “music” have yet to be formulated into familiar cultural patterns. Genetti’s aesthetic is one of raw power, yet also delicate and subtle. She likes to combine various devices with her vocal performance as she “refracts and abrades her wordless vocals with electronics” (Bill Meyer, The Wire). She has performed with many improvising musicians, including Jack Wright, Eric Leonardson, Peter Maunu, Olivia Block and many others. Most recent recordings include a duet with Claire Rousay \"Live at Elastic Arts\" (Astral Spirits) and a collaborative release with visual artist Gwyneth Zeleny Anderson “Chyme\" (Suppedaneum).
Samuel Scranton
Samuel Scranton is a composer/performer/artist based in Chicago. He improvises and records music with percussion and electronics. He makes evening-length tear-jerker conceptual ceremonies. He makes installations with friends that take the form of guided tours, psychedelic waiting rooms, and swarming sonic creatures.
He plays music in bands: Honestly Same (with Zach Good, Mabel Kwan, Lia Kohl, Zach Moore), Beautifulish (with Katherine Young), Physique (with Neil Quigley), with records released on Amalgam and Shinkoyo Artists Pool.
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Accessible accommodations include a ramp entrance and elevator. If you need additional accessibility options please contact us at info@imss.org.
Image courtesy of artists.
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Doors open at 6:30PM. Concert begins at 7PM. The Museum will close at 9:30PM.
Ben Roidl-Ward presents \"Solitary Vices,\" a concert of new works for bassoon that reimagine the instrument's sonic, technical, and expressive capabilities. These pieces are the result of close collaboration between Roidl-Ward and the featured composers, and illustrate his continued commitment to championing the work of living composes and building a new repertoire for his instrument. The program will feature world premieres by Liza Lim, Pierce Gradone, Osnat Netzer, and Pablo Rubino, as well as the Chicago premiere of Yi-Ting Lu's solo work Taxidermy.
Solitary Vice* by Pierce Gradone
Boat Song* by Liza Lim
Monoblogue* by Osnat Netzer
Dualismos* by Pablo Rubino
Taxidermy by Yi-Ting Lu
*indicates world premiere performance
Featuring Dominik Belavy, baritone and Isidora Nojkovic, cello.
Accessible accommodations include a ramp entrance and elevator. If you need additional accessibility options please contact us at info@imss.org.
Image courtesy of artist.
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Live Book Reading at 2PM and 4PM in the Hall of Immortals
Free program with the purchase of Museum Admission. Tickets can be purchased online at imss.org or at the door.
Come see author Angel Abcede read from his latest book on Filipino-American nurses called,House of Nurses: An American Journey. It’s a collective memoir of three Filipino sisters who helped mold the fledgling profession of nursing, while at the same time, quietly weaving a new American tapestry. Each 10 years apart, their individual stories of finding love and professional success in a new country parallels a turbulent time in America, spanning the ‘40s, ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s. In this exciting, foreign, inspiring new place, could each find their own happiness? America was the dream, but would promise turn into true satisfaction, reward and security? At every turn, each sister started the process of building. They were creating a path for each other, offering theiryounger sister opportunities that most of their countrymen could not attain. But at what cost? What price would they ultimately pay? And could they ultimately shelter each other from tragedy even in this newfound land of opportunity and hope?
For more information on the eBook, visit http://houseofnurses.com
Image credit: Angel Abcede
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Featured nurses will include:
Artists include:
Guest Speakers related to the arts and humanities as well as workshops and conversations among nurse artists will be scheduled.
Learn more: https://imss.org/remembrance-renewed-hope/
Light refreshments are included and alcohol will be served to guests with proof of age. Alcohol served to guests 21+, ID required.
Accessible accommodations include a ramp entrance and elevator. If you need additional accessibility options or wheelchair seating please contact us at info@imss.org.
Image courtesy of Hektoen Nurses and the Humanities.
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This eclectic presentation will map out my own journey as an Asian American and immigrant storyteller and delineate how my personal stories reflect and mirror the urgent social concerns of our time. It also includes my experiences as a storytelling producer, who engages in community-based storytelling. This workshop aims at providing community builders with the foundational skill set to build intimate communities through storytelling.
The workshop includes the following components:
I. Why is storytelling important to our understanding of personal and collective experiences?
II. How can we use personal stories to critically reflect urgent social issues of our time, such as racism, xenophobia, gender-based violence, etc.?
III. What does community-based storytelling mean? How do we use personal storytelling for collective identity formation and community engagement?
IV. How can we strategically use storytelling to address the issue of equity, beyond diversity and inclusion?
PROGRAM TOPICS
FAQ:
The presentation takes approximately 45 minutes, with extra time at the end for Q&A, making it approximately one hour.
This event is open to all ages.
Parking and Directions can be found here: https://imss.org/plan-your-visit/#nav
An elevator and wheelchair accessible entrance is available. For additional accessibility accommodations please contact info@imss.org.
Image courtesy of Dr. Cheng.
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In her work, multidisciplinary artist Mel Keiser claims that she has been several different “mels” since she was born. During her life, there have been (and will continue to be) discrete moments of self-change. However, in her work this is not just a state of identity flux; no, Keiser looks at these moments of change as the birth of a new mel and the death of the old.
In her ongoing project, The Life and Deaths of The Mels, Mel grieves for her deceased past selves. Borrowing from traditional funeral rituals, Keiser processes the grief—and sometimes relief—of burying past versions of herself.
We invite you to explore Mel’s work installed at IMSS from May 20 to July 9 in three places: the first-floor Welcome Room (1F), the fourth-floor Temporary Gallery (4C), and outside in the museum’s parkway. While you may come to see how Mel died and what it was like, you may leave asking yourself how many times you, yourself, have died. And how many times you’ve been born anew.
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The International Museum of Surgical Science (IMSS), a division of the International College of Surgeons in Chicago, is pleased to announce its newest exhibit, “The Operating Room: Surgical Technology Then and Now.” The exhibit will open on Thursday, May 25, 2023, in conjunction with AST’s Surgical Technology Conference, May 25-27. Leading sponsors for this exhibition include the Accreditation Review Council on Education in Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting and the Association of Surgical Technologists. “The Operating Room: Surgical Technology Then and Now” is the only exhibition of its kind and the first exhibition dedicated to the profession of surgical technology.
“The Operating Room: Surgical Technology Then and Now” at the International Museum of Surgical Science leverages widespread public interest in the field and the figures and technologies that support it. During World War II, the need for perioperative personnel was overwhelming. The role of the surgical technologist was born and evolved into a separate health field. Surgical technologists serve as an integral part of the surgical team providing surgical care to patients, working under the supervision of the surgeon to facilitate the safe and effective conduct of surgical procedures. Today, surgical technologists are working in one of the fastest-growing professions in the country. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that the surgical technology profession will grow faster than the average of all other occupations through 2030. To illuminate the current state of surgical technological practices, this exhibition prominently features ground-breaking medical devices and emerging innovations while also highlighting the critical trajectory of the surgical technologist.
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We hope to see you there!
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These designed objects create a social impact by making it easier for all kinds of bodies to move through the world. They also spark new questions: what mental and physical constraints do our bodies place on us all? What are the best uses of designed objects in the fields of health, medicine, and surgery? And how do you design your own environment to fit your day-to-day needs? Works in this exhibition explore these fundamental ideas of ability and the body.
About the Curator:
Megan Euker is an Italian and American artist/designer and a two-time U.S. Fulbright recipient to Italy (Fellow, 2008-9 to Florence and scholar, 2022-23 to Sicily).
She comes from a background in art and design, obtaining MFA and BFA degrees from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Euker is the Project Manager at San Rocco Therapeutics and has also taught at SAIC, USF in Tampa, Florida, the Siena Art Institute, Italy, and MADE in Sicily, among other universities. Additionally, Euker is the agent for Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author Patrick Girondi and his band, Patrick Girondi & the Orphan’s Dream.
Euker has exhibited artwork internationally at galleries (represented by Linda Warren Projects since 2008) and museums, including a solo exhibition “The Cure” at The International Museum of Surgical Science” (IMSS) in Chicago. This exhibition showcased current issues in orphan diseases, especially Sickle Cell Disease and Beta Thalassemia. She has additionally curated three exhibitions of her students work at the (IMSS), featuring medical devices created under her mentorship.
Meet at the front desk for the tour.
Accessible accommodations include a ramp entrance and elevator. If you need additional accessibility options or wheelchair seating please contact us at info@imss.org.
Parking and Directions can be found here: https://imss.org/plan-your-visit/
About the Contemporary Art Program: The International Museum of Surgical Science supports a commitment to contemporary art and artists through exhibitions and programs that use the frame of contemporary artistic practice to examine new perspectives in medical-surgical science and our relationship to the body. The Museum’s Contemporary Arts Initiative includes rotating exhibitions of contemporary art, as well as an ongoing Artist in Residence program.
Image credit: Clare Britt
Life and Limb: The Toll of the American Civil War explores the experiences of men whose lives were saved by sacrificing limbs during the war and disabled veterans in the post-war period. Over three million soldiers fought in the American Civil War. More than half a million died and almost as many were wounded. Hundreds of thousands were permanently disabled by battlefield injuries, or surgery, which saved lives by sacrificing limbs. These men remained a stark reminder of the costs of the conflict for long after the war, becoming symbols of the fractured nation.
Image: Soldiers at Armory Square Hospital, Washington, D.C., 1860s Courtesy National Library of Medicine
We will survive as Hybrids: Vernacular Embodiments features Moscow-born, Chicago based multimedia artist Galina Shevchenko's current musings: sculptural, projected, performed, embroidered and augmented.
Light refreshments are included and alcohol will be served to guests with proof of age. Alcohol served to guests 21+, ID required.
Image: Hybrid 7.1 . Digital machine embroidery with polyneon thread on translucent polyester. 16\"x22\". 2023
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Tickets are $13 for adults (ages 13+) and $7 for children under 13. Adults who wish to visit the Museum without children are also welcome and can purchase tickets at the discounted rate of $13.
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The International College of Surgeons Taiwan Section (ICSTW) successfully applied for the establishment of the Taiwan Room in 2012. In response to the trend of digitization in healthcare technology, the Taiwan Room underwent a hardware and software equipment upgrade. In addition to showcasing a wide range of remarkable achievements in Taiwanese surgical medicine, epidemic prevention, and international cooperation to keep up with the times, the upgraded room will provide visitors with a multi-dimensional understanding of Taiwan. Join us for a re-opening ceremony this Thursday.
5 - 5:30pm Welcome
5:30 - 6pm Re-opening Ceremony
6 - 7pm Tour of Taiwan Room
7 - 8pm Reception
The International Museum of Surgical Science, a Division of the International College of Surgeons (ICS) with members in over 100 countries of the World, is collaborating with the Taiwan Section, ROC of the International College of Surgeons, in re-opening the Taiwan Room in the International Museum of Surgical Science (IMSS).
The IMSS was founded on the principle of offering general health-oriented educational information to all people on a global basis. The Museum, founded and opened in 1954, has 50,000 visitors annually, including students, school groups, and the public at large who have an interest in health care.
The country of Taiwan has a long, distinguished history in providing health care services to people in all parts of the World, including health missions providing services to poor and underserved populations. The Public Health Service in Taiwan has an outstanding record of being in the vanguard of creative, effective, innovative procedures provided not only to its own population but to populations around the globe.
It is, therefore, only natural that the IMSS and the ICS Taiwan Section collaborate in presenting an updated, exciting presentation for the benefit of the general public. This creative presentation involves audio-visual formats with programmatic content emphasizing new, state-of-the-art technology and health procedures in Taiwan.
The IMSS and the Taiwan Section of the ICS sincerely wish to share this re-opening celebration with all persons. Media contact may be accomplished by reaching Max Downham via max@icsglobal.org and Anko Chang via anko@imss.org.
Event on Thursday, September 14th, 5pm - 8pm. Details on Eventbrite
The International College of Surgeons Taiwan Section (ICSTW) successfully applied for the establishment of the Taiwan Room in 2012. In response to the trend of digitization in healthcare technology, the Taiwan Room underwent a hardware and software equipment upgrade. In addition to showcasing a wide range of remarkable achievements in Taiwanese surgical medicine, epidemic prevention, and international cooperation to keep up with the times, the upgraded room will provide visitors with a multi-dimensional understanding of Taiwan. Join us for a re-opening ceremony this Thursday.
5 - 5:30pm Welcome
5:30 - 6pm Re-opening Ceremony
6 - 7pm Tour of Taiwan Room
7 - 8pm Reception
Friday, September 15th from 6-7pm at the International Museum of Surgical Science.
Embracing the Grotesque: From the Renaissance Grotto to the Metaverse.
A performance lecture in conjunction with the current IMSS exhibition “We Will Survive as Hybrids”
\"This project plumbs the depths of the aesthetic and conceptual aspects of the “Grotesque”: a sacred place of intersection between visual culture and the depths of the subconscious.
I am embracing the Grotesque as embodiment of creation and procreation, the Renaissance wonder and vitality along with the Feminist corporeal sensibility. I consistently re-enact the world being born: the moment of birth, of delivery. Emulating the biological: morphology, deformity, through wonders of technology and mediation.Joy of delivery. Empowerment of a Cyborg.\"
-Galina Schevchenko
Admission $77~$100 | RSVP
Each ghost you encounter has a unique backstory–and they’re just dying to tell you about it. By speaking with them, you’ll slowly uncover the season’s original ghost story that connects each of the specters to a dark force that haunts the venue. What is the true nature of the dark force? That is up to you to discover! Each season’s story is an original tale, inspired by historical hauntings and regional folklore from a specific culture. Every season is different, with a different cultural inspiration and folklore to discover!
Show Length: 2 Hours
Age Restrictions: 21+ With Valid ID
Mini-Cocktail Tastings: Included in Ticket Price. 4-5 Curated Mini-Cocktails, Depending on Ticket Type.
Adult Trick or Treating: Decadent French Chocolates, Included With The Gold Package.
Join a team of actors as we take a casual dive into the first cold reading of this new work by playwright/songwriter James R. Wilke. Fortune and the Soapmaker is a macabre comedy horror musical that takes place in WWII Italy. It is loosely based on the life and times of real female Italian serial killer, Leonarda Cianciulli, who defied forensic and medical experts by the ingenious ways she disposed of her victims. Add to this murderous mother's mix an ambitious Italian dictator, young lovers and heroes, and a dash of Faustian lore to complete this recipe for Italian magical realism!
General Admission $15 ($20 at the Door), Member Admission $10
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Get ready to embark on a bone-chilling adventure through the eerie corridors of the historic mansion that is home to IMSS, notorious for cursed objects and mysterious happenings. Whether you're a seasoned ghost enthusiast or a curious adventurer, the Haunted Mansion Flashlight Tour promises to be an unforgettable evening filled with spooky surprises.
Choose from tours at 6 PM and 8 PM. Flashlights will be provided. 21+ BYOB
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The National Library of Medicine’s traveling exhibition, Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature, explores the power of the novel Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus to expose hidden fears of science and technology as human efforts to penetrate the secrets of nature continue. In 1816, Mary Shelley conceived a story about a scientist who creates a creature that can think and feel but is monstrous to the eye. Spurned by all, the embittered creature turns into a savage killer. Shelley’s story served as a metaphor for apprehensions about scientific advancement that continue to resonate today.
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The gesture of repair in art is a powerful and moving metaphor for human healing, both physical and emotional. Broken Yet Whole explores mending and all its implications through broken yet mended objects, darning, and painting. The work speaks to our human optimism and also our failures. A tender attempt to recreate the legs of a broken figurine horse or repair a damaged book demonstrates love and determination. However, in the end, the attempt falls short. Once broken, we/things are never the same. At the same time, becoming broken is inevitable and does not negate wholeness.
The mended objects in Broken Yet Whole come from different sources. Some are from the IMSS’s collection; others are from the artist’s own life, such as Mend (Horses). Others yet have been gifted or loaned to the project through a call for objects, where individuals are invited to contribute loved yet damaged domestic objects.
The core catalyst for the work is Gill’s own health. Gill is a stroke survivor, and her first-hand experience of her brain repairing itself profoundly shifted her artistic practice. Gill’s experience with physical trauma and recovery is by no means unique; it is a part of our collective story. We all experience traumatic events that change our course, demanding that we remake ourselves. Gill is invested in visualizing the complexity of healing and what mending the pieces back together might look like. She strives to create a space where we catch glimpses of our ability to mend, transform, and absorb change.
Light refreshments are included and alcohol will be served to guests with proof of age. Alcohol served to guests 21+; ID required.
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Inside the globe through which we experience and interpret our surroundings, the jelly-like mass slowly changes its solidity which gradually leads to visual distortions in the form of shadows. These so-called floaters, visual traces of the aging eye, work as a starting point for the project Vitreous bodies and the exhibition at the International Museum of Surgical Science in which parts of the project are presented.
Vitreous bodies is an ongoing project revolving around the anatomy of the eye and the development of optics, with an emphasis on visual noise and entoptic phenomena. The project is comprised of drawn reproductions of photocopies, printouts and stills from dissection videos, together with glass objects resembling lenses and eye models. The drawings are based on source material collected both online and from ophthalmology literature published mainly in the 18th -19th century.
In the exhibition at the International Museum of Surgical Science, a selection of drawings and objects from the project are displayed both in the contemporary gallery setting and in the optical history room of the museum, in this way creating a dialogue with the permanent collection related to ophthalmology.
About the Artist:
With a starting point in the field of perception Jenny Åkerlund’s practice revolves around aspects of time and transformation in relation to visual culture. Through the use of disciplines like history of science and astronomy, and with techniques spanning drawing, glass and video, she investigates the impermanent character of the visible in different ways. This field of interest has led her to work on subjects such as human computers (women working in the field of astronomy in the early 20th century), scientific depictions in relation to objectivity, entoptic phenomena (visual effects occurring within the eye itself) and studies of material such as dust.
Åkerlund (b. 1984) holds an MFA from Malmö Art Academy. Her work has, among other places, been exhibited at Studio PRÁM, Prague, CAGE Gallery, Tokyo, Hagströmer Medico-Historical Library, Stockholm, DISPLAY, Parma, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Galerie Jeanroch Dard, Paris, Goya Curtain, Tokyo, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin and Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.
Image: Vitreous bodies, slumped and cast glass, variable dimensions. Photo credit: Hendrik Zeitler
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The gesture of repair in art is a powerful and moving metaphor for human healing, both physical and emotional. Broken Yet Whole explores mending and all its implications through broken yet mended objects, darning, and painting. The work speaks to our human optimism and also our failures. A tender attempt to recreate the legs of a broken figurine horse or repair a damaged book demonstrates love and determination. However, in the end, the attempt falls short. Once broken, we/things are never the same. At the same time, becoming broken is inevitable and does not negate wholeness.
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Early Bird Special $35 until 1/15/24, then $50 General Admission | TICKETS
Looking to meet new people in the Windy City? Perhaps someone to spend Valentine's Day with? Come mingle at the International Museum of Surgical Science on February 9th for our 2nd Annual Speed Friending at the Museum!
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$15 - $20 TICKETS
IMSS Multidisciplinary Recovery Series presents the performance/installation by Spiral Body. These performances consider the space itself to feature as the “main character” while Spiral Body merely gives voice to a personality felt within the space. The sound installation arises from our questions about our presence without physical existence. Around, inside and outside the installation, Takahashi’s spoken word is warped and modified within the space and within McBride’s soundscapes and sound responses.
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All levels are welcome to enjoy this workshop!
About the Instructor: Mami Takahashi is a Japanese multidisciplinary artist. Previous exhibitions and performances have taken place at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago IL; San Francisco Art Institute, The International Museum of Art, El Paso, Southern Alberta Art Gallery in Canada, Gwangju Folk Art Museum in Korea, Instituto Municipal del Arte la Cultura in Mexico and Toriizaka Art Gallery in Tokyo, among other venues. She holds an MFA from Portland State University and a BFA from the Joshibi University of Art in Japan. Takahashi is a recipient of the Ford Family Award for the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art residency program.
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This exhibition focuses on the art of biomedical visualization, celebrating its ability to captivate and educate in equal measure. From its niche intersection among science, medicine, and art, biomedical visualization plays many important roles in the world around us. Medical illustrations and animations work to bridge the gap between healthcare professionals and the general public, making complex information more accessible. By centering diversity as a core principle, biomedical artists can empower underrepresented patient audiences. Scientific art educates and inspires, fostering curiosity for the natural world in an increasingly digital age. Biomedical visualizations are both a reflection of and response to the state of scientific and medical education, as well as a force for accessibility.
The exhibition A Body of Others, presents a series of sculptures that explore what it means for an animal to be artificially contained as an impetus for human theory, experimentation and consumption—existing in a sanctioned world within the human factory and institution. This enquiry encompasses animals living within the confines of medical, scientific and industrial food complexes.
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Eventbrite link
Two soft sculptures (“Inner Child” and “Older Sister”) find their home in a cave-like grotto surrounded by protective spirals of dirt and mica. The cavern drips with dried paper pulp, insulated by swirling colorful layers of wool roving, illuminated by twinkling bioluminescent lights. They use their tentacles to explore the pulpy surface of the cave walls, holding hands as they go, wondering how far they can safely explore outside of the cavern’s hugging hold. Their world is encircled by a protective band of soil- not so much a border as a boundary, the boundary not meant for them but for us, the audience. This boundary lets us know that we create their safety when we give them space to exist on their terms.
Celebrate with us at the release concert for Yi-Ting Lu’s debut album, An Unopened Seashell.
The album features five solo works for classical guitar, harp, piano, bassoon, and saxophone, inviting listeners to explore each piece as if uncovering hidden sounds within a \"seashell,\" akin to opening an unread book and immersing themselves in each instrument’s rich sound world.
The evening will present three solo compositions from the album, a duo composition for soprano and bassoon, and a collaborative music-animation piece with Japanese-based animators muzhi Leng and stina-uka.
About the Composer:
Yi-Ting Lu, born and raised in Taiwan and currently based in Chicago, is a composer whose works often reflect and reshape live scenes or experiences through fragmented acoustic sounds. Concepts of transcultural exchanges and collectivity can be discovered within her music.
Lu has received several awards such as the Carl Kanter Prize for orchestral composition, the William T. Faricy Award for creative music, and the Gerts and Hammond and Farewell Award from the Musicians Club of Women. Other distinctions include the Nief-Norf Festival International Call for Score Winner, Transient Canvas Composition Fellowship, and an honorable mention at the DeGaetano Composition Institute. In addition, she was a finalist in the Talea Ensemble Emerging Composer Commissioning Program, the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra Competition, and the Rudolph Award. Her work was selected to represent Taiwan at the 66th International Rostrum of Composers in Argentina, and her compositions have been supported by the Taiwan National Culture and Arts Foundation. Find more: https://www.yitinglu.me/
General Admission $20
Student Admission $10
Admission at the door $25
Free for IMSS Members
Doors open at 6:30 pm
Performers:
Harp: Ben Melsky
Bassoon: Ben Roidl-Ward
Classical Guitar: Dan Lippel
Saxophone: Sam Alvarez
Soprano and Bassoon DUO: Pushback Collective (Ally Smither and Ben Roidl-Ward)
Album Artwork design: Ray Weng
The album is released by New Focus Recordings.
Light refreshments will be provided at the reception.
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Join us for a night of mindfulness practices and the resonant sounds of French horns!
The Alloy Horn Quartet is pleased to combine their virtuosic musical talents, training in meditation, and the latest research on physiological regulation to offer Soothing Sounds. This unique program integrates the resonant sounds of the french horn, mindfulness practices, and discussion on nervous system modulation to create an atmosphere of peace and wellbeing. In addition to a beautiful concert experience, the audience will learn about the mitigating effects that music and meditation have on stress, chronic illness, and emotional dysregulation.
Admission at the door $25
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Doors open at 6:30 pm
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We're thrilled to be welcoming back Cheri Lee Charlton for an evening of conversation and presentation, reflecting on her art and residency here at IMSS. Cheri, whose gallery premiered in August, used her residency to research and artistically explore the the medical profession's history of misdiagnosing and failing women throughout history.
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Are you ready for a night of thrills and chills? Join us at the International Museum of Surgical Science for our MEMENTO MORI Halloween Gala on October 31st at 7:00 PM.
Step into a world of spooky delights and eerie surprises as we celebrate the spirit of Halloween in style. Don't miss out on this unforgettable evening of fun and frights.
The devastation of the two world wars played a pivotal role in shaping the field of modern plastic surgery. In the early twentieth century, surgeons became artisans—suturing torn flesh like tailors mending fabric, reinforcing facial structures like carpenters restoring damaged frames. These groundbreaking reconstructive techniques laid the foundation for a discipline that would evolve beyond necessity into the realm of aesthetics.
Simultaneously, artists—painters, sculptors, and draftsmen documenting the wars—engaged in parallel work. They studied the human form, deconstructing and reimagining faces and bodies through drawings, sculpture, and canvas. Anatomical study, once central to classical realism, became a bridge between art and medicine, guiding surgeons in their quest to restore symmetry, balance, and expression. The artist’s eye informed the surgeon’s hand, just as surgical reconstructions inspired new artistic interpretations of the human body.
By the latter half of the twentieth century, plastic surgery had moved beyond reconstruction to self-reinvention. Like artists shaping raw material into beauty, surgeons refined and reshaped faces and bodies to align with personal desires and cultural ideals. The line between restoration and enhancement blurred, and the human body itself became a canvas for transformation.
With the dawn of the new millennium came once-unimaginable feats—most notably, full-face transplantation. Surgeons, like sculptors working in living clay, not only rebuilt faces but gave patients entirely new ones. These innovations merged medicine, aesthetics, and identity in unprecedented ways.
Today, the relationship between plastic surgery and art continues to evolve. Surgeons and artists share a common pursuit: to shape, refine, and redefine the human form. Whether working with marble or muscle, canvas or cartilage, both seek to capture the essence of beauty, resilience, and identity in constant flux.
The International Museum of Surgical Science is proud to present these coinciding exhibitions as \"A Year of Plastic Surgery\"—a yearlong exploration of this remarkable field. Through monthly programs, we celebrate the masters of both flesh and form, bridging the worlds of surgical innovation and figurative art.
Header Image: A soldier of Company K, 110th Regt. Infantry (formerly 3rd and 10th Inf., Pennsylvania National Guard), just wounded, receiving first-aid treatment from a comrade. Varennes-en-Argonne, France, on September 26, 1918. U.S. Army / U.S. National Archives
Buñuel: Master of Dreams pays tribute to visionary filmmaker Luis Buñuel, tracing his journey through exile, dream, and cinematic revolution. Marking the centennial of Surrealism, the exhibition explores Buñuel’s poetic imagination, his literary adaptations, and his lifelong fascination with collage as an artistic practice.
A centerpiece of the exhibition is the mysterious return of Buñuel’s ashes—vanished for over four decades following his death in Mexico City in 1983. Long rumored to have been kept in a monastery, his remains were recently returned to his son, Rafael Buñuel. Their presence now marks a symbolic homecoming to the land where Buñuel first set out to raise his family and pursue his cinematic vision.
The exhibition features personal family archives, rare books, awards, and ephemera that accompanied Buñuel in exile from Spain in 1936 until his death. A curated selection of contemporary surrealist artists will also contribute, including acclaimed Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin.
Maddin presents original collage works and film screenings in dialogue with Buñuel’s legacy. Presented by the Luis Buñuel Film Institute, the exhibition explores Surrealism across generations.
Additional programming includes special live performances (TBA) and a citywide film retrospective in Chicago.
Buñuel’s ashes will be unveiled on November 1, 2025, in observance of Día de los Muertos.
The exhibition runs August 28, 2025 – February 22, 2026, marking the 125th birthday of Luis Buñuel.
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Check-In at 1:30pm
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The International Museum of Surgical Science and Stephanie Sack present a one-night-only screening of David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers on Thursday, June 25, 2026, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m., with doors opening at 6:30 p.m.
Experience David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers in one of Chicago’s most unforgettable screening locations: the Hall of Immortals at the International Museum of Surgical Science. A master of body horror, psychological dread, and the messy relationship between flesh, identity, and technology, David Cronenberg has spent his career turning the human body into a site of transformation, terror, and desire.
With Dead Ringers, his 1988 masterpiece, Cronenberg created one of his most elegant and disturbing visions: a film where medicine, desire, and obsession collapse into one another with surgical precision. Co-presented by the International Museum of Surgical Science and local programmer Stephanie Sack, this ultra-rare Chicago presentation brings Dead Ringers to a setting that feels almost uncannily designed for the film. Surrounded by imposing statues honoring major figures in medical history, audiences will encounter Cronenberg’s work not simply as a screening, but as a site-specific experience where twentieth-century cinema and millennia of medical history collide. The evening invites only 50 lucky attendees to consider flesh as subject, mystery, and battleground, and to confront the long, complicated history of women’s bodies inside medical spaces: examined, interpreted, pathologized, desired, surveilled, and controlled. Inside the Hall of Immortals, Dead Ringers becomes more than a film about twin doctors unraveling. It becomes a confrontation with the legacies of medical power and the bodies that power has claimed to know. A rare film. A singular venue. One night only.
Dead Ringers at the International Museum of Surgical Science will be an unforgettable evening of scenery, cinema, and cervixes.
Tickets are available in advance for $15 general admission, $10 for students with code STUDENT, and $10 for IMSS members with code IMSSMEMBER. At-the-door tickets will be $20 general admission and $15 for students and IMSS members.
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Our Free Days Are Taking The Night Shift!
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Join us at the IMSS for an in-depth exploration of the science and cultural history behind Japanese Whiskey.
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