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As the fine arts museum of the University of Chicago, the Smart Museum of Art is a site for rigorous inquiry and exchange that encourages the examination of complex issues through the lens of art objects and artistic practice.
Through strong scholarly and community collaborations and a welcoming approach to its exhibitions, collections, publications, research and teaching, and public programs, the Smart Museum plays a dynamic role in expanding artistic canons, rethinking received histories, introducing new perspectives, and engaging diverse communities-locally, nationally, and internationally.
Visit smartmuseum.uchicago.edu for more.
Admission to the Smart Museum of Art is always free and open to all.
Image: Theaster Gates: Unto Thee, opening reception. Photo by Jason Smith.
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Fall Exhibition Opening
Saturday, October 3rd
2:00–5:00 pm
Celebrate the Smart's new fall exhibitions, teamLab: Everything Exists in Infinite Continuity, Nina Chanel Abney: Between Us, and How Do We Heal?. The opening reception will include music, hors d’oeuvres, and a themed cocktail.
This program is free and open to all; RSVP is encouraged.
The Smart Museum of Art is honored to present a site-specific installation entitled Between Us by artist Nina Chanel Abney, on view from September 22, 2026, through July 11, 2027.
Commissioned as part of the Smart’s ongoing Threshold series, which brings large-scale installations of contemporary art annually to the Eunice Ratner Reception Gallery in the Museum’s lobby.
Nina Chanel Abney takes the most familiar images of American life, drawn from advertising, sports, cartoons, and the news, and turns them against themselves, using humor and accessibility to draw viewers in before the harder questions surface. For the commission at the Smart, Abney created a large-scale 70-feet-wide and 40-feet-high mural, entitled Between Us, that borrows the visual language of childhood instruction, such as diagrams, wall charts, and educational puzzles. The forms stay recognizable, but their reassurances curdle the longer one looks.
This site-specific installation will form the opening of Nina Chanel Abney’s major solo exhibition at the Smart, While Supplies Last, which will be on view March 23, 2027, through July 11, 2027.
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\r\n\r\nCurators: Christine Mehring, Professor and Chair, Department of Art History, in collaboration with Diane Miliotes, Interim Curator of Modern Art and Design, Smart Museum of Art, and Caroline Lillian Schopp, Curatorial Research Associate and PhD Candidate in Art History.
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\r\nOpening reception: Wednesday, February 22, 7-8:30pm
Classicism, as an aesthetic ideal, is often associated with a conventional set of rules founded on supposedly timeless notions such as order, reason, and decorum.
\r\n\r\nAs a result, it can be understood as rigid, outdated, or stodgy. But classicism is actually far from a stable concept—throughout history, it has given rise to more debate than consensus, and at times has been put to use for subversive ends.
\r\n\r\nOrganized by the Smart Museum of Art and informed by an interdisciplinary planning process involving faculty members from across the University of Chicago, Classicisms explodes the idea of classicism as an unchanging ideal. The exhibition features 70 objects spanning diverse genres, eras, and media—paintings, ancient and modern sculpture, cast plaster replicas, and works on paper.
\r\n\r\nTogether with a scholarly catalogue, the exhibition traces classicism’s meanings across the centuries from varying artistic, cultural, and ideological perspectives to reveal a multifaceted concept with a complicated history.
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Top image: Sébastien Bourdon, Christ Receiving the Children, c. 1655, Oil on canvas. The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mrs. Eugene A. Davidson, 1959.57.
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\r\n\r\nThe exhibition is on view February 16-June 11, 2017.
\r\n\r\nClassicism, as an aesthetic ideal, is often associated with a conventional set of rules founded on supposedly timeless notions such as order, reason, and decorum.
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Top image: Sébastien Bourdon, Christ Receiving the Children, c. 1655, Oil on canvas. The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mrs. Eugene A. Davidson, 1959.57.
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\r\n\r\nOpen to all skill levels
\r\n\r\nAdmission is free
\r\n\r\nClassicisms on view February 16-June 11
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\r\n\r\nExhibition on view: February 16-June 11, 2017
\r\n\r\nClassicism, as an aesthetic ideal, is often associated with a conventional set of rules founded on supposedly timeless notions such as order, reason, and decorum.
\r\n\r\nAs a result, it can be understood as rigid, outdated, or stodgy. But classicism is actually far from a stable concept—throughout history, it has given rise to more debate than consensus, and at times has been put to use for subversive ends.
\r\n\r\nOrganized by the Smart Museum of Art and informed by an interdisciplinary planning process involving faculty members from across the University of Chicago, Classicisms explodes the idea of classicism as an unchanging ideal. The exhibition features 70 objects spanning diverse genres, eras, and media—paintings, ancient and modern sculpture, cast plaster replicas, and works on paper.
\r\n\r\nTogether with a scholarly catalogue, the exhibition traces classicism’s meanings across the centuries from varying artistic, cultural, and ideological perspectives to reveal a multifaceted concept with a complicated history.
\r\n\r\nImage: Raffaelo Monti, Veiled Lady, c. 1860, Marble. Collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Collectors’ Group Fund, 70.60.
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\r\n\r\nThis Saturday, make pocket books with guest artist Olivia Leyva. Learn how to stitch beautiful decorative paper into personal books for drawing, writing, and painting.
\r\n\r\nFree. All materials provided.
\r\n\r\nActivities best for kids ages 4–12, accompanied by an adult.
\r\n\r\nDrop by, or join in on Facebook
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\r\nWhen posing, live models will utilize sculptures like Scott Burton’s Bench and Table and Richard Hunt’s Why.
Drop by and join in the Smart’s free family activities every month!
\r\n\r\nEach Family Day features hands-on art activities designed to inspire children to think about and respond creatively to art and the world around them.
\r\n\r\nThis Saturday, make garments that swish, swash, ding, and sing. Learn the principals of beading, then try out other weird and wacky materials to create accessories—necklaces, hats, bracelets—that make noises as you move.
\r\n\r\nInspired by Nick Cave’s twig Soundsuit in the Smart’s collection.
\r\n\r\nFree. All materials provided. Activities best for kids ages 4–12, accompanied by an adult.
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\r\n\r\nThis Saturday, Chicago-based artist and pintrepreneur Stephanie Graham leads a workshop on making pins and buttons of all kinds. Create classic and wooden buttons, brooches, and pins inspired by the art on display in our galleries.
\r\n\r\nFree. All materials provided. Activities best for kids ages 4–12, accompanied by an adult.
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\r\n\r\nRadical [Re]Constructions connects the Museum space to Pratt’s ongoing work through the Sweet Water Foundation, where Pratt is co-founder and executive director, and the development of the Think-Do House and Perry Avenue Commons, a community hub and urban farm located two miles west of the Smart in a so-called “blighted” neighborhood.
\r\n\r\nThe installation features a large three-dimensional representation of a formerly abandoned house which is currently under reconstruction by the Sweet Water team. Materials include salvaged wood pieces that were used to transport large glass windows for the new Campus North Residence Hall adjacent to the Museum. The wood has been treated by Pratt and youth apprentices from the Sweet Water Foundation and finished with the traditional Japanese charring technique shou sugi ban, an investment of time and labor that brings out the natural beauty of the wood. It also includes a sectional perspective drawing based on activities that currently occur in the Think-Do House.
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Exhibition on view: September 14-January14, 2017
\r\n\r\nOpening reception: Wednesday, September 27, 6:30-8:30pm
\r\n\r\nPresented on the centenary of the Russian Revolution, this exhibition juxtaposes Soviet posters from the 1920s and 1930s with works on video and film with a focus on the experiences of women under (and after) communism.
\r\n\r\nArtists: Lene Berg, Maria Bri-Bein, Olga Chernysheva, Aleksandr Deineka, Elizaveta Ignatovich, Gustav Klutsis, Vitaly Komar, Viktor Koretsky, Valentina Kulagina, Anri Sala, Cauleen Smith, Dziga Vertov, and others.
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\r\n\r\nOpening reception: Wednesday, September 27, 6:30-8:30pm
\r\n\r\nThis exhibition investigates the emotional possibility of material in works Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) and Bruce Nauman (born 1941). It places works by Rodin and Nauman into unusual spatial relationships, calling attention to how each sculptor conceives of the body as an emotional instrument. Presented as part of Rodin 100, a worldwide celebration of the artist's work and legacy.
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\r\n\r\nOpening reception: Wednesday, September 27, 6:30-8:30pm
\r\n\r\nArtists: Lene Berg, Maria Bri-Bein, Olga Chernysheva, Aleksandr Deineka, Elizaveta Ignatovich, Gustav Klutsis, Vitaly Komar, Viktor Koretsky, Valentina Kulagina, Anri Sala, Cauleen Smith, Dziga Vertov, and others.
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\r\n\r\nOpening reception: Wednesday, September 27, 6:30-8:30pm
\r\n\r\nEmmanuel Pratt’s interdisciplinary approach to regenerative placemaking on the South Side of Chicago mixes art, architecture, and community and economic development. His new, site-specific installation transforms the Smart Museum’s lobby and courtyard.
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\r\n\r\nOpening reception: Wednesday, September 27, 6:30-8:30pm
\r\n\r\nThis exhibition mixes works from across eras, cultures, and media to question the ways we occupy and perceive the built environment. The project dramatically reconfigures the Smart’s collection and own interior environment, opening up new perspectives on works by John Chamberlain, Walker Evans, Yves Klein, Frank Lloyd Wright, Xing Danwen, and other artists and architects.
\r\n\r\nJohn Chamberlain, Walker Evans, Yves Klein, Frank Lloyd Wright, Xing Danwen, and many other artists and architects
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\r\n\r\nOpening reception: Wednesday, September 27, 6:30-8:30pm
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\r\n\r\nOpening reception: Wednesday, September 27, 6:30-8:30pm
\r\n\r\nThis exhibition mixes works from across eras, cultures, and media to question the ways we occupy and perceive the built environment. The project dramatically reconfigures the Smart’s collection and own interior environment, opening up new perspectives on works by John Chamberlain, Walker Evans, Yves Klein, Frank Lloyd Wright, Xing Danwen, and other artists and architects.
\r\n\r\nJohn Chamberlain, Walker Evans, Yves Klein, Frank Lloyd Wright, Xing Danwen, and many other artists and architects
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\r\n\r\nJoin artists Judy Chicago and Jayna Zweiman as they discuss issues of feminism that permeate their practices.
\r\n
\r\nThe two artists will explore how political activism is manifested in various forms, particularly in community-based projects like Welcome Blanket that confront contemporary social and political issues. The talk is moderated by Alison Gass, Dana Feitler Director of the Smart Museum.
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\r\nFREE, open to all. Advance registration required.
Logan Center for the Arts, 915 E. 60th Street, screening room
\r\n\r\nIn conjunction with the special exhibition Revolution Every Day, the Film Studies Center and the Smart Museum present three screenings of rarely seen films by Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov.
\r\n\r\nThe final film in the series is the documentary The Three Heroines. In September 1938, a plane piloted by three female aviators went down in the Soviet Far East. Vertov and Elizaveta Svilova reconstructed the flight and suspense of the search and rescue operation using models, animation, and footage shot entirely in Moscow. The screening will be followed by never-before-seen outtakes from the film.
\r\n\r\nFREE and open to the public. Seating is limited and offered on a first come, first served basis.
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\r\n\r\nThis talk will unpack the creative practices of Chicago-based artist Emmanuel Pratt and Boston-based Dan Borelli, highlighting how locally deployed creative interventions can yield innovative models for community-conscious economic development.
\r\n\r\nPratt and Borelli will also share their collaboration at the Harvard University Graduate School Design entitled ‘We The Publics,’ an open call to define Publics today that is currently at the Smart as part of Pratt’s Threshold installation Radical [Re]Constructions.
\r\n\r\nFREE, but space lis limited. Please register in advance.
\r\n\r\nRegister HERE
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\r\n\r\nThis mini-exhibition allows us to examine how artists arrived at surprising effects through their creative use of materials, techniques, sizes, and scales. It also prompts us to explore how it is these artists could produce significant works without recourse to identifiable subjects or figuration. And it makes us question how we should best articulate our responses to works that seem to have been created so as to defy traditional ways of finding and articulating meaning.
\r\n\r\nSelections from a History of Modernism is one of several concurrent exhibitions that showcase the ways in which the Smart Museum engages with and shares the intellectual life of the University with the broader public.
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\r\n\r\nThis exhibition of 16 works in a variety of media explores the eclectic range of sources and precedents—from the very ancient to the most up-to-date—that served as inspiration for nineteenth-century artists in France: photographers documenting medieval monuments, printmakers producing scenes of modern leisure, painters reflecting on their creative practice through the lens of classical mythology, and more.
\r\n\r\nOrganized by a trio of students who participated in the spring 2017 course The Past Resurgent in Nineteenth-Century Art, it is one of several concurrent exhibitions that showcase the ways in which the Smart Museum engages with and shares the intellectual life of the University with the broader public.
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\r\n\r\nDrop in and enjoy a tea party on Emmanuel Pratt’s Living Bench Sculpture in our lobby and paint and decorate ceramic dishes you can take home. This afternoon of hands-on activities is inspired by works by Judy Chicago, Theaster Gates, Daniel Spoerri, and Emmanuel Pratt on view throughout the Museum.
\r\n\r\nFREE, all materials provided. Activities best for kids ages 4–12, accompanied by an adult.
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\r\n\r\nDrawn from the Smart Museum’s collection, the works on view range from optically focused color abstractions by Josef Albers and Kenneth Noland to seductively tactile works by Magdalena Abakanowicz to large light-based sculptures by Charles Biederman, Robert Irwin, and Antony Gormley.
\r\n\r\nThe exhibition was first incubated during a class visit to the Smart’s study room and serves as primary source material for a course of the same title offered through the University of Chicago’s Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge. It is one of several concurrent exhibitions that showcase the ways in which the Smart Museum engages with and shares the intellectual life of the University with the broader public.
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\r\n\r\nIn the first decades of the 20th century, many intellectuals complained that monuments had become invisible, irrelevant. Ancient buildings and sculptures are part of the everyday life of people, who may run into their city monuments so often that they lose interest and pay little attention to their familiar forms. Communist artists and intellectuals were particularly concerned with overcoming this crisis and re-inventing monuments in a way that they would regain their effectiveness, becoming tools of political transformation.
\r\n\r\nThis gallery talk seeks to be a bridge between the ongoing exhibition Revolution Every Day in the Smart Museum and the upcoming exhibition Brick, Cardboard and Ashes. The Experimental Monuments of International Communism, which will take place in the Schusev State Museum of Architecture in Moscow in 2019. Participants will be invited to look at the pieces shown in the current exhibition in order to reflect on what a monument was and what role monuments had in Soviet everyday life in the 1930s. Likewise, this talk will address the discussions developed between Spanish and Soviets artists and intellectuals regarding this issue, presenting a particular case: the exchange of experimental monuments between the two countries in 1937, against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War and the tangible opportunity for the internationalization of socialism.
\r\n\r\nFREE, open to all.
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\r\n\r\nFollowing the reading, Medvedev will join exhibiting artist Cauleen Smithand Revolution Every Day guest curators Robert Bird, Zachary Cahill, and Christina Kiaer for a conversation that reflects on the relationship between art and revolutionary ideals and practices.
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\r\n\r\nFREE, open to all.
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\r\n\r\nOur monthly family day features activities inspired by the master of the color blue, Yves Klein. Play in a blue sandbox and draw on blue paper with blue pens, pencils, paints, and inks. Plus, enjoy live bluegrass music by banjo player Matt Brown.
\r\n\r\nFREE, all materials provided. Activities best for kids ages 4–12, accompanied by an adult.
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\r\n\r\nJoin the Race and Pedagogy Working Group and the Smart Museum of Art for an evening of stories on race in the classroom. Inspired by 2017–2018 Interpreter in Residence Emmanuel Pratt’s methods of regenerative placemaking, this event will encourage participants to think through the effects of the physical space of the classroom on group dynamics.
\r\n\r\nFREE, but space is limited. Please register in advance.
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\r\n\r\nOrganized by University of Chicago students in a related class, this event provides an interdisciplinary platform to examine and discuss qualities of perception
\r\n
\r\nFREE, open to all.
Logan Center for the Arts, 915 East 60th Street, performance penthouse
In her Chicago debut, Leila Bordreuil performs a solo amplified cello set, using a multichannel set-up of different types of speakers and guitar amplifiers. An assemblage of microphones placed on various parts of the cello create unique sound distortion possibilities that transform the cello into a polyphonic instrument, enhancing the instrument’s diversity of timbres.
Presented by Lampo and the Smart Museum of Art in conjunction with the special exhibition The History of Perception.
FREE, but space is limited. Please register in advance.
Diasporal Rhythms collectors forum presents a discussion around art and the law.
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\r\n\r\nThis all-ages art-making workshop features treats from Bang Bang Pie Shop and hands-on activities inspired by Robert Arneson’s Cherry Pie, on view in The History of Perception.
\r\n\r\nOn March 31, join us for an exclusive tour of Bang Bang Pie Shop’s kitchen and more art-making activities.
\r\n\r\nFREE, all materials provided. Open to all skill levels Please RSVP and let us know if you plan to come to one or both sessions.
\r\n\r\nRSVP for Painting with Pie
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Public art on campus is a fascinating, spontaneous experience, with some sculptures boldly claiming open spaces and others tucked unexpectedly between buildings. This one-hour tour led by a Smart Museum docent covers a small sample of the stunning works that have helped shape the University of Chicago's intellectual and cultural life for decades.
\r\n\r\nMonthly tours (Thursdays April 5, May 3, and June 7) begin at 5:30 pm at Black Sphere, across the street from Cobb Hall, 5811 S. Ellis Avenue, and end at the Smart Museum of Art.
\r\n\r\nFree, and open to all. Space is limited. Please register in advance.
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\r\n\r\nThis exhibition of works by Chicago artists samples a selection of themes that have defined artmaking in Chicago from the start.
\r\n\r\nOrganized in conjunction with the spring 2018 University of Chicago Art History course Into the City: Art in Chicago from the Fire to Now, this exhibition is one of several that showcases the ways in which the Smart Museum engages with and shares the intellectual life of the University with the broader public.
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\r\nJoseph Regenstein Library, The University of Chicago
\r\n1100 E. 57th St., Chicago, IL 60637
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\r\nCelebrate the opening of Play on Surfaces and Surfing, a temporary exhibition of new work by Jessica Stockholder.
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\r\nThe reception also marks the launch of the revised and expanded edition of Jessica Stockholder from Phaidon. This is the definitive book on a creative force who continues to influence sculpture and installation art. Stockholder has long broken down the boundaries between painting, sculpture, and architecture to explore the body in social and cultural space—using found objects intertwined with profusions of vivid colors. This revised, updated edition spotlights the extraordinary evolution of her career, and examines the pivotal role she has played in shaping some of the most fundamental ideas around which contemporary sculpture and painting revolve today.
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Jessica Stockholder is Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor and Chair of the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago.
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\r\n\r\nTickets: Diasporal Rhythms members: $10 / Non-Members: $15 / Students with ID: $5
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\r\n\r\nArtist Sabba Elahi and dancer-choreographer Ahalya Satkunaratnam premiere their new, collaborative work, Darmiyaan. The performance explores the global war on terror through meditative drawing, repetitive news reels, and physical, visual, and sonic movements. It will be followed by a brief discussion with the artists.
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FREE, open to all.
\r\n\r\nAs a capstone to the school year, the Smart Museum of Art’s Student Advisory Committee presents two in-gallery performances from University of Chicago composers.
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\r\nPlate und Marginalia (premieres May 30, 5pm) is an original composition for cello and electronics by Jonathan Gardner inspired by the etchings of Félix Buhot. Soundscapes of Color (June 3, 2:30pm) is an avant-garde opera composed and produced by University of Chicago fourth-year student Michał Dzitko that uses as its stage the exhibition Expanding Narratives: The Figure and the Ground.
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Drop by and join in the Smart’s free family activities every month! Each Family Day features hands-on art activities designed to inspire children to think about and respond creatively to art and the world around them.
\r\n\r\nThis Saturday, use fingers, hands, huge brushes, and more to paint giant words and expressive marks on paper and canvas. Inspired by the painting and poetry of Tang Chang.
\r\n\r\nFREE, all materials provided. Activities best for kids ages 4–12, accompanied by an adult.
\r\n\r\nFamily programs are supported by the Harper Court Arts Council
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\r\n\r\nJoin the Smart Museum of Art and Spudnik Press for a two-part, hands-on printmaking program.
\r\n\r\nWednesday, June 6, 6–8pm
\r\nSmart Museum of Art
\r\nThe University of Chicago
\r\n5550 S. Greenwood Avenue
In Part I, curator Anne Leonard leads a tour of the prints on view in the special exhibition Expanding Narratives: Theme and Variations—The Multiple Sorceries of Félix Buhot. Then, print-master and founder of Spudnik Press Angee Lennard leads a etching workshop using copper plates. Participants will scratch their own images onto individual plates, inspired by Buhot's techniques and imagery.
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FREE, open to all
\r\n\r\nJoin Senior Curator Anne Leonard for an in-depth examination of the evocative prints of the late nineteenth century printmaker Félix Buhot.
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\r\nFollowing the talk, enjoy a cocktail as we celebrate the release of the catalogue Theme and Variations: The Multiple Sorceries of Félix Buhot, which features an essay by Leonard and a series of texts authored by University of Chicago students in response to the works on view.
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Public art on the University of Chicago's campus is a fascinating, spontaneous experience, with some sculptures boldly claiming open spaces and others tucked unexpectedly between buildings. This one-hour tour led by a Smart Museum docent covers a small sample of the stunning works that have helped shape the University's intellectual and cultural life for decades.
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\r\nTour begins at 5:30 pm at Idee di Pietra (Ideas of Stone), located near the south entrance of the Booth School of Business, Charles M. Harper Center, 5807 S. Woodlawn Avenue. The tour ends at the Smart Museum of Art.
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\r\nFree, and open to all.
Drop by and join in the Smart’s free family activities every month! Each Family Day features hands-on art activities designed to inspire children to think about and respond creatively to art and the world around them.
\r\n\r\nThis Saturday, splash on into the Smart and make wild ink drawings on waterlogged paper. Plus, join in the first-ever “Sprinkler Print” activity in our courtyard!
\r\n\r\nFREE, all materials provided. Activities best for kids ages 4–12, accompanied by an adult.
\r\n\r\nFamily programs are supported by the Harper Court Arts Council.
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\r\n\r\nJoin Jennifer Scappettone, poet and Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature as she reflects on works by Tang Chang and their relationship to international poetry movements.
\r\n\r\nTang Chang pioneered a new style of visual poetry in his native Thailand, often repeating words and phrases drawn from his observations of daily life. The resulting poem-drawings, examples of which are on view in The Painting that is Painted with Poetry Is Profoundly Beautiful, have a visual relationship to the Concrete Poetry produced in the middle of the 20th century in South America and Europe and Japan.
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Art historian Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol on Tang Chang and the social history of the 1960s in Thailand
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\r\n\r\nJoin us for a festive summer evening featuring an outdoor musical performance by Growing Concerns Poetry Collective and a series of site-specific poetry readings within our special exhibition Expanding Narratives: The Figure and the Ground.
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\r\nEnjoy beer provided by Lagunitas Brewing Company and burgers, tacos, and other summertime food from Idio Food Service and Royal Flat Caribbean Jerk Cuisine. Plus, Regine T. Rousseau, author of Searching for Cloves and Lillies, will offer a special poetry reading paired with wines curated by 57th Street Wines.
Strap on your skates and roll on down to the Smart Museum of Art!
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\r\nLearn cool roller skate and roller blade tricks from our docent and rollerskater extraordinaire Alisha Webster. Plus, get creative with rolling pins and make rolling prints on paper and in clay during this fun-filled Family Day.
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FREE. A limited number of skates will be available to borrow if kids don’t have their own. All other materials provided. Activities best for kids ages 4–12, accompanied by an adult.
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\r\nFamily programs are supported by the Harper Court Arts Council.
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This major new exhibition offers an immersive examination of the South Side, as told by the art and artists who shaped its contours— from the Chicago Imagists to the Black Arts Movement. The Time is Now! reassesses the story of postwar Chicago art through a nuanced look at the artists living, working, and exhibiting on the South Side. The exhibition focuses primarily on African American artists in and out of the Black Arts Movement and explores the ways artists applied their creative practices to address some of the most urgent issues of this momentous era of change and conflict, producing work that continues to resonate within current national dialogues around race, protest, and belonging. Presented as part of Art Design Chicago, a citywide exploration of Chicago’s art and design legacy spearheaded by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Opening event: Celebrating South Side Stories, September 15, 11am–6pm
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\r\n\r\nJoin us for a symposium that addresses the historic significance of the South Side as a community, a set of institutions, and a collection of artists.
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\r\nAlthough under-recognized in most surveys of Chicago art, the South Side nurtured important artistic movements, raised complex questions about the nature of black aesthetics, and promoted the arts through community arts organizations in ways that are still shaping the fabric of Chicago.
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Drop by and join in the Smart’s free family activities every month! Each Family Day features hands-on art activities designed to inspire children to think about and respond creatively to art and the world around them.
\r\n\r\nThis Saturday, join Alexandra Antoine and explore the power of a good night’s sleep! Sew and design pillows using letter stencils and create powerful statements to fuel your dreams at night.
\r\n\r\nFREE. All materials provided. Activities best for kids ages 4–12, accompanied by an adult.
\r\n\r\nFamily programs at the Smart Museum are supported by the Harper Court Arts Council.
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FREE, all materials provided. Open to all skill levels. Space is limited, please RSVP in advance and let us know if you plan to come to one or both sessions.
\r\n\r\nJoin the Smart Museum of Art and the Poetry Foundation for a two-part program investigates the work of artists and poets working on the South Side of Chicago in the 1960s and 70s.
\r\n\r\nPART I
\r\n\r\nTuesday, November 6, 6–8 pm
\r\nSmart Museum of Art
\r\nThe University of Chicago
\r\n5550 S. Greenwood Avenue
Part I features a tour of The Time Is Now! at the Smart Museum and hands-on printmaking and collaborative mural-making projects that take inspiration from artists who applied their creative practices to address some of the most urgent issues of a momentous era of change and conflict.
\r\n\r\nPART II
\r\n\r\nTuesday, November 13, 6–8 pm
\r\nPoetry Foundation
\r\n61 W. Superior Street
Part II is a special Forms & Features poetry workshop and discussion dedicated to the work of poets who called and continue to call the South Side home.
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Since its founding in 1970, the International Black Writers Conference (IBWC) served as an important point of connection for Black writers in Chicago and beyond under the leadership of its founding executive director, Alice Browning, who organized the conference until her passing in 1984.
Therefore, as a tribute to Browning’s legacy and as part of the Smart Museum of Art's exhibition The Time Is Now!: Art Worlds of Chicago’s South Side, 1960–1980, her work will be honored and uplifted through a revisiting of the International Black Writers Conference (IBWC). Bringing together literary giants across genres and experience levels, IBWC showcased writers at the top of their game and the global Black literary community by focusing on the challenges, points of progress, and pressing questions of the industry. This revisiting of IBWC will do the same while bringing together writers who participated in the original conferences and also seasoned and emerging Chicago-based writers who are unknowingly continuing Alice Browning’s legacy in their own ways.
The conference will include a series of intimate roundtable discussions and readings that explore the topics of Poetry and Lyricism; Narrative and Storytelling in Film and on Stage; Cultural Commentary and Criticism; and Black Press, Publishing, and Journalism.
FREE, all materials provided. Open to all skill levels. Space is limited, please RSVP in advance and let us know if you plan to come to one or both sessions.
Join the Smart Museum of Art and the Poetry Foundation for a two-part program investigates the work of artists and poets working on the South Side of Chicago in the 1960s and 70s.
PART I
Tuesday, November 6, 6–8 pm
Smart Museum of Art
The University of Chicago
5550 S. Greenwood Avenue
Part I features a tour of The Time Is Now! at the Smart Museum and hands-on printmaking and collaborative mural-making projects that take inspiration from artists who applied their creative practices to address some of the most urgent issues of a momentous era of change and conflict.
PART II
Tuesday, November 13, 6–8 pm
Poetry Foundation
61 W. Superior Street
Part II is a special Forms & Features poetry workshop and discussion dedicated to the work of poets who called and continue to call the South Side home.
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Free, open to all.
The new voices in nonfiction series from the University of Chicago’s Program in Creative Writing comes to the Smart Museum of Art with in-gallery readings by Joshua Rivkin and Michael Fischer.
Rivkin is the author of two books, Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly(Melville House, October 2018) and Suitor (forthcoming Red Hen, 2020). His poems and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Slate, Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Best New Poets. Fischer is a candidate in the Master of Arts Program in Humanities at the University of Chicago. His essays appear or are forthcoming in The New York Times, Boston Globe Magazine, Salon, The Sun, Guernica, The Rumpus, and elsewhere.
Join the Smart Museum of Art and the UChicago student organization Outside the Lines for an in-gallery figure drawing session with live models.
The workshop is inspired by figurative works by Sylvia Sleigh and Paul Delvaux on view in Expanding Narratives: The Figure and the Ground. Paper, pencils, and other materials provided.
FREE, all materials provided. Open to all skill levels.
Presented by the Smart Museum of Art and Outside the Lines.
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This Saturday, create fantastic kingdoms and queendoms based on your wildest imagination. Inspired by bejeweled crowns and other wearable art on view in the special exhibition The Time Is Now!, create jewel-encrusted headgear, handmade costumes, and royal robes.
FREE. All materials provided. Activities best for kids ages 4–12, accompanied by an adult.
Family programs at the Smart Museum are supported by the Harper Court Arts Council.
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Rebecca Zorach is Mary Jane Crowe Professor in Art and Art History at Northwestern University
FREE, open to all.
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Make the most of your museum trip through the act of drawing the art on view. Join the Smart Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago for a special two-part workshop on drawing in museums.
Thursday, December 13, 5:30–7:30 pm
Smart Museum of Art
The University of Chicago
5550 S. Greenwood Avenue
Pick up a sketchbook and pencil and learn secret techniques from an incredible group of Chicago artists who got their start in Hyde Park, the Hairy Who. Part I of this two-part program begins with an in-gallery drawing exercise and a deep dive tour of a masterful painting by Sullen Rocca as well vintage Hyde Park Art Center posters and comix on view in the exhibition The Time Is Now! Then, draw and sketch motifs and Hairy Who-inspired tattoo designs for use in Part II at the Art Institute.
Thursday, December 20, 5:30–7:30 pm
Art Institute of Chicago
111 S. Michigan Avenue
Meet at the entrance to Galleries 124–27
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During this intimate gallery discussion, The Time Is Now!exhibiting artists Carolyn Lawrence and Robert Paige share their stories about working and living on the South Side.
Carolyn Lawrence is a painter, printmaker, educator, and member of AfriCOBRA (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists) who also contributed to Chicago’s iconic mural The Wall of Respect.
Lawrence will be in conversation with fiber artist Robert Paige, who has developed several fashion collections for African American consumers that he sold through major retailers. Paige also coined the term “Cool Aid colors” then used by members of AfriCOBRA.
Image: Robert Paige, Power to the People (detail), circa 2002, Hand-dyed silk. Courtesy of the artist.
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Thursday, December 13, 5:30–7:30 pm
Smart Museum of Art
The University of Chicago
5550 S. Greenwood Avenue
Pick up a sketchbook and pencil and learn secret techniques from an incredible group of Chicago artists who got their start in Hyde Park, the Hairy Who. Part I of this two-part program begins with an in-gallery drawing exercise and a deep dive tour of a masterful painting by Sullen Rocca as well vintage Hyde Park Art Center posters and comix on view in the exhibition The Time Is Now! Then, draw and sketch motifs and Hairy Who-inspired tattoo designs for use in Part II at the Art Institute.
Thursday, December 20, 5:30–7:30 pm
Art Institute of Chicago
111 S. Michigan Avenue
Meet at the entrance to Galleries 124–27
In the second part of this two-part program, delve deeper into the fearless work of the group known as The Hairy Who in the Art Institute of Chicago’s exhibition, Hairy Who? 1966–1969. We’ll investigate works of Jim Falconer, Art Green, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Suellen Rocca, and Karl Wirsum and practice various drawing techniques, including the game “Exquisite Corpse,” collaborative comic-book making, and using motifs in your own work.
FREE, all materials provided. Open to all skill levels. Space is limited, please RSVP in advance and let us know if you plan to come to one or both sessions.
Presented by the Smart Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Image: James Falconer, Art Green, Gladys Nilsson, Suellen Rocca, and Karl Wirsum, Poster for the first Hairy Who group exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, February 25–April 9, 1966 (detail), 1966, Offset lithograph commercially printed on buff wove paper, based on an original exquisite corpse drawing made for the purpose by the six artists. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Gift of Dennis Adrian in honor of Don Baum, 2001.581
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Douglas Williams works across painting, drawing, and sculpture. In addition, Williams has been director of the South Side Community Art Center and the summer arts program On the Beach at the 63rd Street Beach, and curator of the annual Black Esthetics exhibition at the Museum of Science and Industry.
Douglas Williams will be in conversation with his son Dr. Douglas Williams, a scholar whose research bridges the relationship between design, policy, and application for the built environment. They will be joined by journalist Norman Parish III, who is currently the metropolitan editor for the Daily Southtown. He is the son of The Time Is Now! artist Norman Parish Jr. (1937–2013), who was a painter, member of the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC), and owner of the Parish Gallery in Washington, DC.
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In January, join us for an afternoon of warmth and merriment as we create our own cold weather gear by adding wild monster faces to our hats and cute kitten ears, noses, and whiskers to our mittens! Knit mittens and hats will be provided. Plus, free hot apple cider!
FREE and open to all. Art-making supplies and other materials are provided. Family programs are best for kids 4–12, but all ages are welcomed! Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
Family programs at the Smart Museum are supported by the Harper Court Arts Council.
Drawing by Erik L. Peterson.
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Celebrate the Smart Museum of Art’s winter exhibitions!
Experience works by multiple generations of African American artists that challenge a monolithic narrative of modern art history, join an intimate gallery talk, see the first major exhibition from the Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry, and get a first look at new commissions by Bethany Collins, Samuel Levi Jones, and Amanda Williams.
Featured exhibitions
Plus—food, drink, and conversation.
This exhibition considers how selfhood has been variously constructed and performed by visual artists in the modern era, with particular attention to gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, and intersectional identities.
The works of art on view—many suggesting autobiography—articulate personhood in complex ways, by engaging with challenging histories, playing with stereotypes, reflecting on family and social relationships, or embracing a multiplicity of identities. Accentuating a level of self-consciousness about the relationship between identity and embodiment, these works in turn encourage viewers to consider their sense of themselves and the forces that shape it.
Smart to the Core is an ambitious new program from the Smart Museum’s Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry. The exhibitions are curated for teaching in The University of Chicago’s famed undergraduate Core curriculum, which introduces students to foundational texts that raise fundamental questions about human experience. This first iteration is organized as primary source material for the Social Sciences course sequence, “Self, Culture, and Society.” Throughout the 2019 winter and spring academic quarters students will interpret the artworks in tandem with the theories and texts associated with their course. Overall, this new exhibition program showcases the ways in which the Smart Museum engages with and shares the intellectual life of the University with the broader public.
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Solidary & Solitary tells the history of art by African-American artists, with a particular emphasis on abstraction, from the 1940s to the present moment. That story is a complicated one, woven from the threads of debates about how to represent blackness, social struggle and change, and global migrations and diasporas.
The exhibition is drawn from the Pamela J. Joyner and Alfred J. Giuffrida Collection, and explores abstraction, broadly understood, as a meaningful political focus, rather than a stylistic preference. For black artists, abstraction is charged with the refusal of representation that is socially dictated, both by racist stereotypes of the dominant culture, and the pressure from within the black community to create positive imagery. Abstract art as a practice embodies the possibility of individual freedom and autonomy, even within larger social identities.
Solidary & Solitary ties together artists like Norman Lewis and Mark Bradford in an intergenerational history and presents a story of mutual aid and care, of artistic inspiration—the power for a young artist of seeing another black person as a creative producer. It also examines the historical role of African-American collectors who have made it possible for generations of artists to sustain a livelihood and career outside the mainstream. Today, those collectors, together with scholars, curators, and other supporters, have been instrumental in claiming a seat at the central table for these artists.
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Art-making supplies and other materials are provided. Family programs are best for kids 4–12, but all ages are welcomed! Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
Family Days at the Smart Museum are designed to celebrate the creative potential in all of us. With new projects every month, Family Days offer opportunities for kids and their caregivers to create together and connect with one another. Each program is unique, fun, and free, emphasizing invention, improvisation, and hands-on creativity.
This Saturday, brighten up your winter with some flower-based art. Learn how to create colorful 'flower power' portraits, make headdresses from silk flowers, and even use floral-like stencils on paper. The activities are inspired by a giant new wallpaper workby Bethany Collins in the Smart Museum's lobby as well as floral flourishes found throughout the galleries.
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Inspired by work on view at the Smart by Sam Gilliam, Shinique Smith, and Leonardo Drew.
FREE, all materials provided. Open to all skill levels. Space is limited, please RSVP in advance. Registration opens January 7.
Image: Photo by Erik L. Peterson.
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Performed in the galleries, each installment is designed for a different section of the exhibition and explores the relationship between abstraction and blackness reflecting on questions of distance and anonymity, chance, blurring and erasure, and invisibility.
Brother El will incorporate a series of synthesizers, samplers, sequencers, and fx as part of the works.
FREE, open to all.
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Art-making supplies and other materials are provided. Family programs are best for kids 4–12, but all ages are welcomed! Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
WITH GUEST ARTIST KIA MIAKKA NATISSE
Family Days at the Smart Museum are designed to celebrate the creative potential in all of us. With new projects every month, Family Days offer opportunities for kids and their caregivers to create together and connect with one another. Each program is unique, fun, and free, emphasizing invention, improvisation, and hands-on creativity.
This Saturday, special guest artist Kia Miakka Natisse brings her Selfie Portrait Project to Chicago for the first time. Participants will work together to swap 'written selfies' and draw portraits based on the descriptions. Plus, have your face painted by UChicago student artist and even make an imaginative mask that you can wear home.
The activities are inspired by the special exhibition Embodying the Self.
Image: Photo by Erik L. Peterson
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FREE and open to all.
BETHANY COLLINS
Alabama-born, Chicago-based artist Bethany Collins fills the forty-foot wall in the Museum’s lobby with a blind embossed wallpaper comprised of official state flowers. Drawn to the language of flowers, or floriography, the artist investigated flower dictionaries that regained popularity in the nineteenth century and allowed for the sharing of hidden messages through bouquets. According to these dictionaries the state flower of Delaware relays the message “I am your captive,” while Louisiana’s state flower, the iris, says “I burn for you,” and the camellia of Alabama, “My destiny is in your hands.” Operating in a space between love, power, ownership, and nationhood, this largescale “talking bouquet” will, as the artist states, “memorialize moments of repeated violence throughout American history.”
SAMUEL LEVI JONES
In a new body of work, Chicago- and Indianapolis-based artist Samuel Levi Jones calls into question the authoritative and institutional power certain objects and materials can hold. Through a labor-intensive practice Jones transforms law and medical books into new and arresting abstractions, physically stripping, stitching and pulverizing book covers and in the process unravelling symbols and systems of knowledge and power.
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Prepare for finals amidst the art in the Smart’s galleries! The late-night session includes free pizza, snacks, and coffee.
This event is part of a series of special UChicago Arts Pass study sessions and offers an perspective-expanding environment where you can prepare for finals next to paintings and sculptures in the Smart’s collection and the special exhibitions 'Solidary & Solitary' and 'Embodying the Self.'
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Free & Open to the Public
Lional “Brother El” Freeman performs a series of four Live PA electronic compositions commissioned in conjunction with Solidary & Solitary.
Performed in the galleries, each installment is designed for a different section of the exhibition and explores the relationship between abstraction and blackness reflecting on questions of distance and anonymity, chance, blurring and erasure, and invisibility.
Brother El will incorporate a series of synthesizers, samplers, sequencers, and fx as part of the works.
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The Smart Museum has collaborated with Diasporal Rhythms to host an ARTSmart at the Smart titled “Abstract does not Distract.” This is a collector and artist talk featuring local abstract artists, Pearlie Taylor, G.L. Smothers and Felicia Grant Preston. The collectors include Diasporal Rhythms' collectors, D.E. Simmons, Gail E. Spann and more. The panel moderator will be Michael Christiano , Deputy Director and Curator of Public Practice at the Smart Museum.
The current exhibition at the Smart is Solidarity & Solitary, which tells the history of art by African-American artists, with a particular emphasis on abstraction from the 1940s to the present. That story is a complicated one, woven from the threads of debates about how to represent blackness, social struggle and change, and global migrations and diasporas.
The Smart Museum exhibition is drawn from the Pamela J. Joyner and Alfred J. Giuffrida Collection, and explores abstraction, broadly understood, as a meaningful political focus, rather than a stylistic preference. For black artists, abstraction is charged with the refusal of representation that is socially dictated, both by racist stereotypes of the dominant culture, and the pressure from within the black community to create positive imagery. Abstract art as a practice embodies the possibility of individual freedom and autonomy, even within larger social identities.
Solidary & Solitary ties together artists like Norman Lewis and Leonardo Drew in an inter-generational history and presents a story of mutual aid and care, of artistic inspiration—the power for a young artist of seeing another black person as a creative producer. This Art Smart will address the subject from the local view.
Image: G.L. Smothers, Untitled.
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Register in advance HERE
Artist Leonardo Drew manipulates materials like wood, rusted iron, and mud to create imposing sculptures that still maintain connections to the gallery wall.
Several of Drew’s large-scale abstract works are featured in the Smart Museum’s exhibition Solidary & Solitary, through May 19.
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FREE. Participants have the option to attend one or both sessions. Space may be limited, please register in advance.
Presented by the Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago Library's Special Collections Research Center, and the Poetry Foundation.
Part I features artist Lise Haller Baggesen reading from her book Mothernism and a discussion of motherhood and otherhood in Smart to the Core: Embodying the Self, as well as a tour of The Fetus in Utero: From Mystery to Social Media at the nearby Special Collections Research Center, led by exhibition co-curators Brian Callender, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, The University of Chicago; and Margaret Carlyle, Postdoctoral Researcher and Instructor, Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge, The University of Chicago.
Part II takes place on Thursday April 18, 6-8pm
Image: Spiegel, detail of De formato foetu liber singularis aeneis figuris exornatus, [1626]. alc fQM21.S672 1627 Rare. Special Collections Research Center, The University of Chicago Library.
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FREE and open to all.
Family Days at the Smart Museum are designed to celebrate the creative potential in all of us. With new projects every month, Family Days offer opportunities for kids and their caregivers to create together and connect with one another. Each program is unique, fun, and free, emphasizing invention, improvisation, and hands-on creativity.
This Saturday, build toy boats from wooden blocks, inspired by Bauspiel Schiff (Ship Building Toy) a colorful woodblock toy boat built by Bauhaus artist Alma Buscher in 1923 and our own sculpture Ghost Ship by H. C. Westermann. The hands-on projects are presented in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus school of design.
Art-making supplies and other materials are provided. Family programs are best for kids 4–12, but all ages are welcomed! Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
Image: by Erik L. Peterson.
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In this two-part program presented in collaboration with the University of Chicago Library’s Special Collections Research Center and the Poetry Foundation, explore the concept of motherhood through contemporary art, medical and anatomical publications, and poetry.
FREE. Participants have the option to attend one or both sessions. Space may be limited, please register in advance.
Presented by the Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago Library's Special Collections Research Center, and the Poetry Foundation.
For Part II, we will reconvene at the Poetry Foundation for a special Forms & Features poetry workshop and discussion of the question of motherhood as both a hindrance and boon to artistic and poetic production. The evening also features a poetry-writing exercise and readings of poems about mothers by Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and others.
Part I: takes place on Thursday April 11, 6-8pm
Image: Spiegel, detail of De formato foetu liber singularis aeneis figuris exornatus, [1626]. alc fQM21.S672 1627 Rare. Special Collections Research Center, The University of Chicago Library.
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Free & Open to the Public
Lional “Brother El” Freeman performs a series of four Live PA electronic compositions commissioned in conjunction with Solidary & Solitary.
Performed in the galleries, each installment is designed for a different section of the exhibition and explores the relationship between abstraction and blackness reflecting on questions of distance and anonymity, chance, blurring and erasure, and invisibility.
Brother El will incorporate a series of synthesizers, samplers, sequencers, and fx as part of the works.
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Drawing on the Smart’s collection, Zorach will reflect on the prolific creative accomplishments of the Black Arts Movement in Chicago. Books will be available for purchase and refreshments will be provided.
ABOUT THE BOOK
In Art for People's Sake Rebecca Zorach traces the little-told story of the visual arts of the Black Arts Movement in Chicago, showing how artistic innovations responded to decades of racist urban planning that left Black neighborhoods sites of economic depression, infrastructural decay, and violence. Working with community leaders, children, activists, gang members, and everyday people, artists developed a way of using art to help empower and represent themselves. Showcasing the depth and sophistication of the visual arts in Chicago at this time, Zorach demonstrates the crucial role of aesthetics and artistic practice in the mobilization of Black radical politics during the Black Power era.
Zorach is Mary Jane Crowe Professor in Art and Art History at Northwestern University. In 2018, she curated the Smart Museum’s exhibition The Time Is Now! Art Worlds of Chicago’s South Side, 1960–1980.
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Location: Robert F. Carr Memorial Chapel of St. Savior, Illinois Institute of Technology, 65 E. 32nd Street, Chicago, Illinois 60616
Free & Open to the Public
Guests may come and go as they please
Organized by artist Bethany Collins, this four-hour performance in Mies van der Rohe’s “God Box” presents a chronological retelling of American history, politics and culture through many lyrical variations of My Country ’Tis of Thee.
Presented in conjunction with Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection, on view at the Smart Museum of Art through May 19.
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
Since the debut of My Country ’Tis of Thee by the Rev. Samuel F. Smith on July 4, 1831, the song’s lyrics have been re-titled and re-written at least one hundred times. Each re-writing in support of a passionately held cause—from temperance and suffrage to abolition and even the Confederacy—articulates a version of what it means to be American. In 1839 for instance, the familiar first lines of “My country ’tis of thee / Sweet land of liberty,” morphed into the mournful abolitionist verse:
My country! ’tis of thee,
Stronghold of Slavery,
Of thee I sing:
Land where my fathers died,
Where men man’s rights deride,
From every mountainside,
Thy deeds shall ring.
Organized by artist Bethany Collins, this four-hour performance features all 100 versions of the song, sung by Madeline Aguilar, Katherine Davis, Steve Hetzel, and Keanon Kyles.
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Logan Center for the Arts
The University of Chicago
915 E. 60th Street
Part II convenes at the KilnHouse at the Logan Center for the Arts for a look at the history of ceramic firing broadly and within the Bauhaus.
The evening begins with a tour of KilnHouse, a recently completed structure designed and built with students as part of Amber Ginsburg’s five year course series, “How to House a Kiln.” This hands-on workshop will delve into the intellectual history of pottery, glazing, and the connection between craftspeople, workshops, and industrial production. And, of course, we will use the kilns and see how glazing and firing processes transform clay into archival artwork.
FREE, this program can be experienced as a stand-alone event or as a compendium to Part I. Space may be limited, please register in advance.
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FREE and open to all.
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS AMANDA WILLIAMS AND NATALIE MOORE
Family Days at the Smart Museum are designed to celebrate the creative potential in all of us. With new projects every month, Family Days offer opportunities for kids and their caregivers to create together and connect with one another. Each program is unique, fun, and free, emphasizing invention, improvisation, and hands-on creativity.
This Saturday, artist and architect Amanda Williams and the author of The South Sideand WBEZ reporter Natalie Moore help young guests think through ideas of what constitutes a block, a city, and public space. The hands-on projects are inspired by their collaborative work on redlining, featured in the exhibition Solidary & Solitary.
Art-making supplies and other materials are provided. Family programs are best for kids 4–12, but all ages are welcomed! Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
Image: Erik L. Peterson
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Artist Melvin Edwards (b. 1937) uses existing objects—chains, shovels, hooks—in small, fierce sculptures that respond to racial violence in the United States.
Examples of this ongoing series Lynch Fragments and the two-part floor work A Conversation with Norman Lewis (1970) are featured in the Smart Museum’s Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection, through May 19.
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This two-part printmaking workshop presented in collaboration with Spudnik Press draws from images found at the margins of urban life.
FREE. Space and materials may be limited, please register in advance.
Thursday, May 9, 6–8 pm
Smart Museum of Art
The University of Chicago
5550 S. Greenwood Avenue
Part I features a tour of Solidary & Solitary, led by curator Jennifer Carty, and an in-depth discussion about new work created for the exhibition by Chicago-based artists Bethany Collins and Amanda Williams. Following the discussion, Spudnik Press executive director Angee Lennard will lead a hands-on block-printing and monotype workshop, teaching participants how to print on a wooden block and how to print using unconventional materials found in the city, like flowers, weeds, rocks, and asphalt.
Saturday, May 11, 10am–noon
Spudnik Press
1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 302
Chicago, IL 60622
Part II of the program delves further into the printmaking process. Printmaker Angee Lennard will discuss how Spudink Press collaborated with artist Amanda Williams to create Cadastral Shaking (Chicago v1) using blind debossment and screen and relief printing. Then, using the blocks and floral arrangements made in the first part of the workshop, participants will make their own prints to take home.
Image: Angee Lennard and members of the Smart Museum's Student Advisory Committee at Spudnik Press looking at printmaking components for Amanda Williams, Cadastral Shaking (Chicago v1). Photo by Erik L. Peterson.
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Who we are is profoundly shaped by our relationships with others, particularly the maternal figures in our lives.
In this series of self-representational films, trans artists Zackary Drucker, Chase Joynt, Mx. Enigma, and Vivek Shraya depict themselves through their relationships with mothers, grandmothers, and siblings. Following the tradition of Cindy Sherman and Claude Cahun, these self-portrait films are only possible through collaboration, just like the self emerges through relationality. Featuring Drucker’s Unison (2018) and Southern for Pussy (2015), Mx. Enigma and Hazel Katz’s Bubby & Them (2017), Joynt’s Akin (2012), and Shraya’s Holy Mother, My Mother (2014) and I Want to Kill Myself (2017).
Following the screening, Drucker and Joynt will be in conversation with curator Nicole Morse.
FREE, and open to the public. Doors open a half-hour before the top of the show. Seating is limited and offered on a first come-first served basis unless otherwise noted.
Curated by Nicole Morse (Florida Atlantic University) in conjunction with the Smart Museum’s exhibition Smart to the Core: Embodying the Self, the screening also coincides with the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality’s exhibit of Shraya’s self-portrait series TRISHA and the exhibition at Special Collections The Fetus in Utero: From Mystery to Social Media.
Co-sponsored by the Film Studies Center, the Smart Museum of Art, the Department of Cinema and Media Studies, the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture, and the Center for Identity + Inclusion.
Zackary Drucker is an independent artist, cultural producer, and trans woman who breaks down the way we think about gender, sexuality, and seeing. She has performed and exhibited her work internationally in museums, galleries, and film festivals including the Whitney Biennial 2014, MoMA PS1, Hammer Museum, Art Gallery of Ontario, MCA San Diego, and SF MoMA, among others. Drucker is an Emmy-nominated producer for the docuseries This Is Me, as well as a producer on Golden Globe and Emmy-winning Transparent.
Mx. Enigma (They/Them & Queen) is a multi-disciplinary artist, writer and media maker. They are a nonbinary transfemme of color living in New York City. They graduated Cum Laude at Brooklyn College in 2017 with a B.A in Media/Film & a side concentration in gender, race and sexuality. Their work focuses on the intersections of queerness, American culture & the public’s perception. Their work has been featured in over 40 galleries in nyc including cultural institutions like MOMA, MAD, Bronx Museum, Tribeca Film Festival, HBO & BRIC media. Mx.Enigma was also a title to one of their first short docs about one’s struggle with gender and religion has been a finalist at Tribeca Institute’s spring 2018 film fest “Our City, Our Streets.” They made history in Summer 2018 as the first nonbinary host on an American public tv network on Manhattan Neighborhood Network where they produced 1st season of Queer Justice! a human rights talk show focusing on Global Queer liberation. They are an alum of the BCI artist residency in Summer 2017, UrbanWord NYC Poetry Institute and a Spring 2019 artist in residency at Judson Memorial Church in NYC. They are currently working in collaboration with Theatre of the oppressed and New York Public Library a summer reading of their play production “L’Chaim 2 Dykes” a truthful comedy humanizing the lives of Queer Ex-Hasidic Women who are struggling with their custody battles. Stay tuned for their film adaption.
Chase Joynt is a moving-image artist and writer whose films have won awards internationally (Bangalore, Ecuador, Seattle, Toronto). He is the author of You Only Live Twice (with Mike Hoolboom, 2017) and the forthcoming Conceptualizing Agnes: Exemplary Cases and the Disciplines of Gender(with Kristen Schilt). Joynt holds a PhD in Cinema and Media Studies from York University and is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago.
Hazel Katz’s short videos focus on trans experience, employ found footage archives, and use essayistic storytelling. Her art practice includes her youth media work. She is lead media educator at Global Action Project, a grassroots organization that cultivates and trains youth from low-income, new immigrant, and LGBTQ communities to tell innovative stories that promote and amplify movements for social justice. Her films have been shown on public TV and festivals internationally, and her short film Acting Erratically recently won top experimental film at Art of Brooklyn Film Festival. Hazel recently completed a yearlong collaborative residency at UnionDocs.
Vivek Shraya is an artist whose body of work crosses the boundaries of music, literature, visual art, and film. Her best-selling new book, I’m Afraid of Men, was heralded by Vanity Fair as “cultural rocket fuel,” and her album with Queer Songbook Orchestra, Part‑Time Woman, was included in CBC’s list of Best Canadian Albums of 2017. She is one half of the music duo Too Attached and the founder of the publishing imprint VS. Books.
Nicole Erin Morse is an assistant professor in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies at Florida Atlantic University. They are writing a book titled Selfie Aesthetics: Seeing Trans Feminist Futures in Self-Representational Art that explores the political, aesthetic, and theoretical possibilities of selfies by transgender artists. Their research on gender and race in television, social media, and pornography has been published in Jump Cut, [in]Transition, Feminist Media Studies, M/C Journal, and Porn Studies.
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Premiere performance of Five Studies and a Postlude, written and performed by violinist Will Myers.
The performance was commissioned for the Chicago presentation of Solidary & Solitaryby the Smart Museum’s Student Advisory Committee. Doors open at 6:30 pm. A reception will follow the performance.
FREE, open to all.
Will Myers writes music that is concerned with memory and fragility, as well as the agency, labor, consent, and physicality of the performer(s). His work has been performed by Yarn/Wire, Spektral Quartet, Quatuor Bozzini, Vertixe Sonora, [Switch~ Ensemble], pianists Daniel Pesca and John McDonald, and conductors Gil Rose, John Page, and Lio Kuokman. His first orchestral piece, Bright Shadows, won New England Conservatory’s inaugural orchestral composition competition in 2013 and was premiered in Jordan Hall.
Will is pursuing a PhD at the University of Chicago and holds degrees from New England Conservatory and Tufts University in composition, music theory, and cognitive science. He has studied composition with Augusta Read Thomas, Sam Pluta, Anthony Cheung, Marta Ptaszyńska, Kati Agócs, John Heiss, and John McDonald.
Will is also a conductor, violist, and violinist. He served as assistant conductor and principal violist of the Tufts University orchestras from 2013 to 2015, and has premiered works by many composers as a conductor and a performer. As a violist and arranger, he is half of the video game music cover duo Frog & Cid, whose debut album Boss Chamber Music was released in 2016.
Image: Erik L. Peterson
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This two-part printmaking workshop presented in collaboration with Spudnik Press draws from images found at the margins of urban life.
FREE. Space and materials may be limited, please register in advance.
Thursday, May 9, 6–8 pm
Smart Museum of Art
The University of Chicago
5550 S. Greenwood Avenue
Part I features a tour of Solidary & Solitary, led by curator Jennifer Carty, and an in-depth discussion about new work created for the exhibition by Chicago-based artists Bethany Collins and Amanda Williams. Following the discussion, Spudnik Press executive director Angee Lennard will lead a hands-on block-printing and monotype workshop, teaching participants how to print on a wooden block and how to print using unconventional materials found in the city, like flowers, weeds, rocks, and asphalt.
Saturday, May 11, 10am–noon
Spudnik Press
1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 302
Chicago, IL 60622
Part II of the program delves further into the printmaking process. Printmaker Angee Lennard will discuss how Spudink Press collaborated with artist Amanda Williams to create Cadastral Shaking (Chicago v1) using blind debossment and screen and relief printing. Then, using the blocks and floral arrangements made in the first part of the workshop, participants will make their own prints to take home.
Image: Angee Lennard and members of the Smart Museum's Student Advisory Committee at Spudnik Press looking at printmaking components for Amanda Williams, Cadastral Shaking (Chicago v1). Photo by Erik L. Peterson.
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U.K. sound artist Jon Davies (Kepla) and New York based-media theorist DeForrest Brown Jr. perform Substantia Nigra, the concluding opus of a three-part work.
This is the duo’s first U.S. appearance. The works follows their previous collaborations, Absent Personae and The Wages of Being Black is Death.
FREE, but PLEASE NOTE: RSVP is required, and event entry is on a first-come, first-served basis. RSVP does not guarantee entry. RSPV here »
Presented by Lampo and the Smart Museum of Art in conjunction with the special exhibition Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection, and organized in coordination with Arts + Public Life.
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In-gallery performance of Rivmic Conversation by Jonathan Gardner and Botany Pond.
Responding to artworks by Jennie C. Jones, Rivmic Conversation presents hyper-focused rhythmic fragments within an electric band texture. The performance was commissioned for the Chicago presentation of Solidary & Solitary by the Smart Museum’s Student Advisory Committee.
FREE, open to all.
COMPOSER
Jonathan Gardneris a Music Composition major in the College, writes songs and pieces, and plays cello in the Jazz X-Tet under director Mwata Bowden. His interests include Black music, Brazilian popular music, and walking.
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Everyone and every-body is welcome to this special figure drawing session presented by the Smart Museum of Art and the UChicago student organization Outside the Lines.
Draw along with Sky Cubacub of Rebirth Garments and Carrie Kaufman, artists for whom modeling is an integral part of their art practice. The sessions feature clothed models in the lobby and nude models within the special exhibition Embodying the Self.
FREE, all materials provided. Participants of all skill levels, ages, and gender identities are welcome!
Carrie Kaufman is a white, queer femme, physically disabled, Jewish activist and artist raised outside of Chicago. Her painting, writing, and modeling focus on the intersections of sex/uality and disability. She works with other disabled activists facilitating workshops and developing curriculum to help organizations create more accessibility across the board. She is a member of the Chicago chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace, a Palestinian solidarity organization and she is a board member of Project Fierce Chicago, an organization creating housing for LGBTQ young adults.
Sky Cubacub is a non-binary Filipinx human from Chicago, IL. Rebirth Garments is their line of wearables for the full spectrum of gender, size, and ability. They maintain the notion of Radical Visibility, a movement based on claiming our bodies and, through the use of bright colors, exuberant fabrics, and innovative designs, they refuse to assimilate and are spearheading a Queer and Disabled dress reform movement. They are the editor of the Radical Visibility Zine, a magazine for Queer and Disabled teens based off of their manifesto.
Images: Photo of Carrie Kaufman courtesy of the artist. Photo of Sky Cubacub by Ryan Burke. Sketching photo by Erik L. Peterson
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Please join Jessica Sack, Jan and Frederick Mayer Senior Associate Curator of Public Education at the Yale University Art Gallery, for a series of interactive experiences in the Smart Museum of Art's presentation of Solidary and Solitary.
Sack has developed unique resources in her career designed to engage diverse audiences with multi-sensory approaches. In this hands-on workshop, she will introduce participants to key activities that foster close looking, multiple forms of learning, and building reflection into your teaching practice.
This workshop is free and open to all, though it will be geared toward gallery educators, classroom teachers, and teaching artists. A short reception will kick off the event at 5pm. CPDUs available.
Jessica Sack is the Jan and Frederick Mayer Senior Associate Curator of Public Education at the Yale University Art Gallery. Since 2004, she has led the development of the Gallery’s school, youth, and family programs as well as resources for teachers and students. She runs the Wurtele Gallery Teacher Program which trains Yale graduate students to teach the K-12 school groups, programs for visitors with special needs, and professional development programs for teachers. Prior to coming to Yale, Jessica was Senior Museum Educator and Coordinator of Teacher Services at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. She has contributed to publications including The Caring Museum: New Models of Engagement with the Ageing, Interpreting the Art Museum, “Looking to Learn, Learning to Teach” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin and Picturing a Nation: Teaching with American Art and Material Culture. Jessica received her M.Phil. in Ethnology and Museum Ethnography from Oxford University, England, and a M.A. in Performance Studies from New York University.
Installation view of Solidary & Solitary, showing works by Serge Alain Nitegeka and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.
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An after-hours, semi-formal garden party for University of Chicago students!
Close out the school year with a bash featuring grilled skewers, pie, mocktails, music, and exclusive closing-weekend access to the special exhibitions Solidary & Solitary and Embodying the Self.
FREE, drop by or join in on Facebook »
Open exclusively to UChicago students. Presented by the Smart’s Student Advisory Committee.
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Lional “Brother El” Freeman performs a series of four Live PA electronic compositions commissioned in conjunction with Solidary & Solitary.
Performed in the galleries, each installment is designed for a different section of the exhibition and explores the relationship between abstraction and blackness reflecting on questions of distance and anonymity, chance, blurring and erasure, and invisibility.
Brother El will incorporate a series of synthesizers, samplers, sequencers, and fx as part of the works.
FREE, open to all.
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Family Days at the Smart Museum are designed to celebrate the creative potential in all of us. With new projects every month, Family Days offer opportunities for kids and their caregivers to create together and connect with one another. Each program is unique, fun, and free, emphasizing invention, improvisation, and hands-on creativity.
This Saturday, make a radical abstract spray-painted cotton tote to take home and learn how to silkscreen your own Smart summer t-shirt. The activities are inspired by works in the Smart's collection.
FREE and open to all.
Tees, totes, and art-making supplies are provided. Family programs are best for kids 4–12, but all ages are welcomed! Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
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There will be a public opening on Thursday, June 13 from 7 to 8:30 pm. Free and open to all.
Fieldwork celebrates American artist Tara Donovan’s distinctive practice that transforms mundane materials like plastic straws, index cards, rubber bands, Slinkys, and Mylar into elaborate, mind-bending objects evocative of the natural world.
Donovan manipulates a material over and over again, to see what it is capable of becoming, where it might lead, and how it migrates from an object of practical use to something surreal or sublime. In some instances, she reworks a material into both two-dimensional and three-dimensional forms, engaging with space and light in nuanced and unexpected ways.
Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, this exhibition presents, for the first time, wall-based and freestanding objects together, demonstrating how fully the artist reimagines everyday materials. Taken together, the works in this exhibition demonstrate how order and structure give way to unpredictability and how the mundane cedes to the marvelous.
Tara Donovan was born in 1969 in New York City, where she currently lives and works.
Image: Tara Donovan, Untitled (Mylar), 2011, Mylar and hot glue, dimensions variable. Installation view, Fieldwork, MCA Denver, 2018. Courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery. Photo: Wes Magyar.
On Thursday, July 11 from 5–8pm attend a social summer opening evening jointly hosted by the Smart Museum and National Museum of Mexican Art celebrating the exhibition Cross Currents/Intercambio Cultural.
The outdoor evening get-together features a DJ set from the collective (((SONORAMA))), a printmaking activity, exhibition-inspired food, beer provided by Lagunitas Brewing Company and other refreshments, plus a first look at work by Chicago- and Havana-based artists who took part in an artist exchange.
This exhibition explores how issues of Latin American and Latinx identity and place are manifest in the practices of artists working in Chicago and Havana at a moment of social change and strained political relations between the United States and Cuba.
Cross Currents is the result of an artist exchange organized by the National Museum of Mexican Art. Six Chicago-based artists visited Havana in spring 2017 and six Cuban artists visited Chicago in fall 2017 and summer 2018. The work on view reflects the artists’ experiences and observations as they interacted with each other, curators, cultural spaces, and neighborhoods during their trips. The project aims to open pathways of communication and understanding between the two cities and peer artists while also reflecting on their own artistic practices at this moment in time.
ARTISTS
Based in Chicago:
Alberto Aguilar (b. 1974, Chicago)
Carlos Barberena (b. 1972, Nicaragua)
Dianna Frid (b. 1967, Mexico City)
Rodrigo Lara Zendejas (b. 1981, Toluca, Mexico)
Harold Mendez (b. 1977, Chicago)
Edra Soto (b. 1971, San Juan, Puerto Rico)
Based in Havana:
Humberto Díaz (b. 1975, Cuba)
Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo (b. 1984, Cuba)
Douglas Pérez Castro (b. 1972, Cuba)
Alejandro González (b. 1974, Cuba)
Celia Irina González Álvarez (b. 1985, Cuba) and Yunior Aguiar Perdomo (b. 1984, Cuba)
Requer (Renier Quer Figueredo, b. 1983, Cuba)
TOUR: A version of the exhibition will travel to El Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba in January 2020.
Image: Visiting Celia Gonzalez’s home/studio in the Playa neighborhood, May 2017. Left to right are: Rodrigo Lara, Carlos Barberena, Harold Mendez, Dianna Frid, Alberto Aguilar and Celia Gonzalez.
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Learn more about his work in the exhibition, experience traveling in Cuba, Guest Walks series on Instagram, and approach to making.
FREE, open to all.
Presented by the Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry at the Smart Museum of Art.
Image: During one of his Guest Walks to the Smart Museum, Alberto Aguilar made a line of stones through Richard Serra's Seattle Right Angles Propped.
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Join Cross Currents/Intercambio Cultural artist Alberto Aguilar for a special family day at the Smart Museum of Art.
The artist will lead an adventurous walk, leaving trails of surprising materials to mark our path. After the walk, enjoy a picnic party to share photos and make posters. Plus, be sure to check out the silkscreen station and take home your own limited edition Smart Summer tote bag!
FREE and open to all. Art-making supplies and other materials are provided. Family programs are best for kids 4–12, but all ages are welcomed! Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
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WITH GUEST ARTIST EDRA SOTO
Family Days at the Smart Museum are designed to celebrate the creative potential in all of us. With new projects every month, Family Days offer opportunities for kids and their caregivers to create together and connect with one another. Each program is unique, fun, and free, emphasizing invention, improvisation, and hands-on creativity.
This Saturday, join artist Edra Soto as we \"visit Cuba\" through hands-on art-making. Cast handmade clay shells and decorate found bottles based on the beaches of Havana. Then, see the streets and people of Cuba through an artist's eyes by using some of Edra Soto's photographs to make your own \"Cuba-scope\" telescopes.
The activities are inspired by the artist’s work featured in Cross Currents / Intercambio Cultural.
FREE, open to all.
Art-making supplies and other materials are provided. Family programs are best for kids 4–12, but all ages are welcomed! Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
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Join artist Edra Soto for a lunchtime artist talk in Cross Currents/Intercambio Cultural.
Learn more about her work in the exhibition, experience traveling in Cuba, and approach to making.
FREE, open to all.
Presented by the Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry at the Smart Museum of Art.
Image: Guests view photographs of Cuba through a reja (fence) structure in Cross Currents/Intercambio Cultural. Edra Soto, GRAFT, 2019, Site-specific architectural intervention. Courtesy of the Artist. Photo by Nancy Wong.
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WITH GUEST ARTIST MAYRA PALAFOX
Join artist and educator Mayra Palafox for a strange and wonderful journey of color and light through the Smart Museum.
Take a tour of our current exhibitions Tara Donovan: Fieldwork and Cross Currents/Intercambio Cultural and then make your own art using brightly colored transclucent Mylar and other materials.
FREE, open to all. All materials provided. Open to all skill levels.
Image: Tara Donovan, Untitled (Mylar), 2011/2019, Mylar and hot glue, Dimensions variable. Installation view, Tara Donovan: Fieldwork, Smart Museum of Art, 2019. Courtesy of the artist and Pace Gallery. Photo: Michael Tropea.
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Take a drawing voyage through two Chicago art museums this fall and winter.
In the first of this two-part program, we’ll immerse ourselves in the lyrical details of painter Edouard Manet’s work. Sketching exercises and discussion of the Art Institute’s collection of paintings by Manet—as well as those of his predecessors—will call your attention to small details that make a big difference.
Though we will not be visiting the special exhibition Manet and Modern Beauty during the program, we highly encourage you to see it before it closes on September 8, 2019.
Don't miss Part II...
This is the first in a two-part workshop series happening at the Art Institute of Chicago and Smart Museum of Art this fall and winter. Part II takes place December 5, and features a series of sketching exercises around Meleko Mokgosi's monumental paintings.
FREE, all materials provided. Open to all skill levels. Space is limited, please register in advance and let us know if you plan to come to one or both sessions.
Presented by the Smart Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Image: Edouard Manet, detail of Fish (Still Life), 1864. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1942.311.
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Family Days at the Smart Museum are designed to celebrate the creative potential in all of us. With new projects every month, Family Days offer opportunities for kids and their caregivers to create together and connect with one another. Each program is unique, fun, and free, emphasizing invention, improvisation, and hands-on creativity.
This Saturday, take inspiration from artist Tara Donovan to tear up roofing paper and glue it together into craggy peaks and alpine views. Then add on cotton clouds, spray snow, and maybe even some little skiers to make it your own. Mountains aren't so hard to climb if you build them yourself!
The activities are inspired by the artist’s work featured in Tara Donovan: Fieldwork.
FREE, open to all.
Art-making supplies and other materials are provided. Family programs are best for kids 4–12, but all ages are welcomed! Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
Image: Tara Donovan, Untitled, 2014, Styrene index cards, metal, wood, paint, and glue. 12 feet 5-1/2 inches x 22 feet 4 inches x 22 feet 11-1/2 inches. Courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery, Photograph by Christopher Burke Studios.
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In his first U.S. museum exhibition, Samson Young premiers a trilogy of animated music videos that explore varying concepts of social progress and utopia.
Loosely taking the idealism displayed at the 1933 World’s Fair in Chicago as a point of departure, this multimedia exhibition asks how do people adapt to societal changes that they have little control over. For Young, “progress” as it was defined in the 1933 fair’s subtitle “A Century of Progress” represents a specific variant of aspirational thinking. From cars to shopping malls and houses designed for the future to political change, progressive thinking has had contrasting consequences as it made its impact felt across the globe in the decades that followed.
The exhibition is the culmination of a year-long research project undertaken by the artist that commenced during a residency co-sponsored by the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum and Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society. In addition to the video installations The Highway is Like a Lion’s Mouth, Da Da Company, and Houses of Tomorrow it includes archival materials related to the 1933 World’s Fair and “sound drawings” by the artist.
PUBLICATION
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue featuring essays on Samson Young’s recent video work. Available fall 2019.
Photos by Jonathan Loïc Rogers.
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The Chicago Sound Show is the first exhibition to showcase Chicago’s extraordinary sound art scene in over three decades. The participating artists will create new works for historic and modern outdoor sites across the University’s campus, includingSwift Cloister Garden, Campus North Residential Commons, Cobb Gate, Botany Pond, and the Smart Museum of Art courtyard. Through use of “found sound,” meditative human voice, acoustic archaeology, and more, the works reveal and amplify the architectural peculiarities of campus while enriching our sensual knowledge of space.
ARTISTS
Olivia Block
Nomi Epstein
David Wallace Haskins
Walter Kitundu
Lou Malozzi
Stephan Moore
Sam Pluta
Andy Slater
Katherine Young
Photo by Jean Lachat.
ABOUT
The Chicago Sound Show is curated by Laura Steward, Curator of Public Art, and Sam Pluta, Assistant Professor of Composition and Director of the Computer Music Studio, the University of Chicago.
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An afternoon celebrating the opening of the exhibition, featuring the artist Meleko Mokgosi in conversation with curator Erica P. Jones at 2 pm, followed by a panel of UChicago scholars at 3:30 pm. Presented in collaboration with Humanities Day at the University of Chicago. Refreshments will be provided.
Exhibition:
Meleko Mokgosi’s large-scale episodic painting cycle Bread, Butter, and Power forms the newest chapter in his ongoing series Democratic Intuition, which seeks to explore ideas about the many ways that democratic concepts influence our lives, loves, and relationships on macro- and micro-levels.
This twenty-panel installation interrogates the theme of feminism in the context of southern Africa, and considers the consequences of dividing labor practices by gender.
Mokgosi’s approach to storytelling through the form of history painting allows us to compare what we see in the paintings to the realities of inequality and gendered labor division we know from experience. This approach to the content also inspires us to think expansively about politics, power structures, and the role of history in the creation of the current nations of southern Africa.
Image: Meleko Mokgosi: Bread, Butter, and Power, 2018, Installation view, Fowler Museum at UCLA. Courtesy the artist and Honor Fraser, Los Angeles. Photo © Monica Nouwens.
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Where can we turn when we need space and time away? What do those spaces look like, and how do we create them? Who has access? And can we ever really get away, even for a little while?
The artworks in Down Time present a range of public, private, and imagined settings—from lush gardens in France, to shadowy hallways, to kaleidoscopic landscapes—that point to realms of retreat. With particular attention to how artists have represented black subjects in places of respite, and how black artists have aspired to, imagined, performed, and created spaces for sustaining themselves at a remove from everyday life and extreme events, this exhibition asks: what drives the creation of these “other” spaces, how have artists envisioned them, and how does “getting away” shape an ultimate return?
A collaboratively produced exhibition organized through the Smart Museum of Art’s Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry, Down Time was conceptualized and curated by the University of Chicago graduate and undergraduate students of the Department of Art History’s course Exhibition in Practice taught by Leslie Wilson, with further support from two Summer Undergraduate Research Associates. The curatorial cohort worked closely with the Smart Museum’s team to shape all parts of this exhibition including selecting artworks from the Smart’s permanent collection and from private collectors, overall interpretation, design and layout, programming, and publications.
Romare Bearden, Dino Campbell, Nick Cave, Roy DeCarava, Minnie Evans, Ja’Tovia Gary, Naima Green, Loïs Mailou Jones, Hughie Lee-Smith, Simone Leigh, Patric McCoy, Wayne F. Miller, Mario Moore, Faith Ringgold, Art Shay, Fazal Sheikh, Xaviera Simmons, Lorna Simpson, Ming Smith, Rosalind Solomon, John Szarkowski, James Van Der Zee, Carrie Mae Weems, Gerald Williams, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, and Derrick Woods-Morrow
Image: Nick Cave, Arm Peace, 2018, cast bronze and vintage tole flowers.
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Family Days at the Smart Museum are designed to celebrate the creative potential in all of us. With new projects every month, Family Days offer opportunities for kids and their caregivers to create together and connect with one another. Each program is unique, fun, and free, emphasizing invention, improvisation, and hands-on creativity.
This Saturday, design and make your own costumes, storyboard a cool idea, and create your very own music video in front of our dreamy green screen! This afternoon of making is inspired by the music videos featured in Samson Young: Silver Moon or Golden Star, Which Will You Buy of Me?
Free. Art-making supplies and other materials are provided. Family programs are best for kids 4–12, but all ages are welcomed! Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
Photo by Erik L. Peterson
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An after-hours party inspired by the student-curated exhibition Down Time: On the Art of Retreat.
Students will have the opportunity to dance and commune at the Smart Museum.
FREE, open exclusively to UChicago students.
Image: Patric McCoy, Youngblood (detail), 1985, printed 2016, digital print from original negative. © Patric McCoy. Courtesy of the artist.
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Join Hlonipha Mokoena, PhD as she reflects on Pax Africana: The Southern Question exploring how Meleko Mokgosi’s large-scale paintings open up novel histories of southern Africa’s contested political ideas and traditions.
Mokoena is currently an Associate Professor at WISER (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research) at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
This program is co-presented by the African Studies Workshop and Smart Museum at the University of Chicago.
RELATED EXHIBITIONS: Meleko Mokgosi: Bread, Butter, and Power
Image: Meleko Mokgosi, Bread, Butter, and Power (detail), 2018, Oil paint on canvas. Courtesy the artist and Honor Fraser, Los Angeles. Photo © Monica Nouwens.
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Join exhibiting artists Naima Green and Derrick Woods-Morrow for an intimate gallery conversation about their respective artistic practices and the themes of retreat and labor.
This conversation is presented in conjunction with Down Time: On the Art of Retreat.
FREE, open to all.
Left: Derrick Woods-Morrow, Honey Racks (Untitled from the \"Bags\" series and the Fire Island Archives 2016) (detail), 2018, Archival pigment print. Courtesy of the artist.
Right: Naima Green, Shani, Garfield Park Conservatory (detail), 2019. Archival inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist.
Manet & Mokgosi – Oysters/Butter/Bread
Take a drawing voyage through two Chicago art museums this fall and winter.
Part II
In Part II of this series, jump from Edouard Manet’s groundbreaking work into Meleko Mokgosi’s monumental paintings in Meleko Mokgosi: Bread, Butter, and Power, a 20-panel installation exploring themes of feminism in the context of southern Africa. Through sketching exercises and discussion, continue exploring themes of lyricism, history, and contemporary life.
Don't miss Part I...
This is the second in a two-part workshop series happening at the Art Institute of Chicago and Smart Museum of Art this fall and winter. Part I takes place September 5, and features a series of sketching exercises and discussion of the Art Institute’s collection of paintings by Edouard Manet as well as those of his predecessors.
FREE, all materials provided. Open to all skill levels. Space is limited, please register in advance and let us know if you plan to come to one or both sessions.
Presented by the Smart Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Image: Meleko Mokgosi, detail of Bread, Butter, and Power, 2018. Courtesy the artist and Honor Fraser, Los Angeles. Photo © Monica Nouwens.
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Learn to crochet, make imaginative quilts, and create fantastic spaces for relaxation during this special family day.
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WITH GUEST ARTIST TANYA SCRUGGS FORD
Family Days at the Smart Museum are designed to celebrate the creative potential in all of us. With new projects every month, Family Days offer opportunities for kids and their caregivers to create together and connect with one another. Each program is unique, fun, and free, emphasizing invention, improvisation, and hands-on creativity.
This Saturday, join local artist Tanya Scruggs Ford and program partner Sweet Water Foundation on a journey through Chicago's architectural history. Build a kid-sized worker cottage, create cities with wooden blocks, and make your own paper houses using a take-home workbook designed by Scruggs Ford. Plus, enjoy a storytime reading of Home by Carson Ellis. The collaborative projects connect kids from across Chicago as they dream big and build their own city together.
FREE. Art-making supplies and other materials are provided. Family programs are best for kids 4–12, but all ages are welcomed! Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
Image: Erik L. Peterson.
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Virtual exhibition on view here
The Allure of Matter is the first exhibition partnership between the Smart Museum and Wrightwood 659. Too large for a single venue, the exhibition takes up the full gallery footprint of both institutions. It opens twenty years after the Smart Museum’s first contemporary Chinese art project with exhibition co-curator and University of Chicago professor Wu Hung.
Since the 1980s, Chinese contemporary artists have cultivated intimate relationships with their materials, establishing a framework of interpretation revolving around materiality. Their media range from the commonplace to the unconventional, the natural to the synthetic, the elemental to the composite: from plastic, water, and wood, to hair, gunpowder, and Coca-Cola.
Artists continue to explore and develop this creative mode, with some devoting decades of their practice to experiments with a single material. For the first time, The Allure of Matter brings together works from the past four decades in which conscious material choice has become a symbol of the artists’ expression, representing this unique trend throughout recent history.
The exhibition features 45 monumental works that are complementary in form, material, and visual effect.
ARTISTS
Ai Weiwei, Cai Guo-Qiang, Chen Zhen, Gu Dexin, gu wenda, He Xiangyu, Hu Xiaoyuan, Huang Yong Ping, Jin Shan, Liang Shaoji, Lin Tianmiao, Liu Jianhua, Liu Wei, Ma Qiusha, Shi Hui, Song Dong, Sui Jianguo, Sun Yuan and Peng Yu, Wang Jin, Xu Bing, Yin Xiuzhen, Zhan Wang, Zhang Huan, Zhang Yu, and Zhu Jinshi.
Image: Zhu Jinshi, Wave of Materials, 2007, Xuan paper, cotton thread, bamboo, and stones. Installation view, Tokyo Gallery, Beijing, 2007. Gift of Zhu Jinshi and Pearl Lam Galleries in honor of Wu Hung, jointly acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago. Installation view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Photo: © Museum Associates/LACMA.
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A drop-in puppet-making workshop, inspired by the work of The Allure of Matter artist Ma Qiusha. Participants are invited to “stretch” their imagination while using nylons to make fantastical puppets. This family-friendly event also features a Pantyhose Puppet Show.
Art-making supplies and other materials are provided. Family programs are best for kids 4–12, but all ages are welcomed! Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
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Join Amplify for a professional learning community workshop inspired by the special exhibition The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China.
The evening workshop for educators, teaching artists, and administrators features hands-on activities that explore the embedded history of materials, manipulation, and adaptation. Using artwork by contemporary Chinese artists on view at the Smart Museum, the workshop also considers strategies for working across cultures and disciplines.
FREE, but space is limited. Registration information will be posted in January 2020.
Amplify is a partnership of arts and cultural organizations at the University of Chicago including Arts + Public Life, Court Theatre, Logan Center for the Arts, Oriental Institute, and the Smart Museum of Art. As a collective, Amplify is developing a new model of collaboration by building a networked education community. The collective offers extensive K–12 arts programs and multi-site field trips for students, as well as professional learning opportunities for educators.
Image: Ai Weiwei, Tables at Right Angles, 1998, Tables from the Qing dynasty (1644–1911). Stockamp Tsai Collection, New York.
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This evening workshop for teachers features hands-on activities that explore the embedded history of materials, manipulation, and adaptation, and working across cultures and disciplines.
Free, but space is limited. To register, please visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/amplify-workshop-creative-change-growth-and-transformation-registration-88776973317
This workshop is presented by Amplify, a partnership of arts and cultural organizations at the University of Chicago including Arts + Public Life, Court Theatre, Logan Center for the Arts, Oriental Institute, and Smart Museum of Art.
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Thursday, February 27, 6–8pm
LOCATION: Poetry Foundation, 61 W. Superior Street
Investigate how poems “materialize” through interaction with the physical world during two unique drop-in workshops co-presented by the Smart Museum of Art and Poetry Foundation.
Drop by the Smart Museum on Tuesday for a guided tour of The Allure of Matter followed by an art-making session focused on linguistic and artistic play. Then, on Thursday at the Poetry Foundation, take part in a guided creative writing workshop and practice working with physical materials to craft original poems as hard as a rock, as swift as a river, or as smooth as silk.
FREE, open to all. No RSVP required. Drop in as you are able—it is not required that you attend one workshop in order to attend the other.
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Conghao Tian, an art history MA student studying Asian Art at the University of Chicago, will demonstrate the traditional art of Chinese calligraphy as a durational performance. Conghao will, for three hours, slowly copy, from memory, An Ode to the Prosperous Great Tang Dynasty upon Song Dong’s Traceless Stele, on view at the Smart Museum of Art.
An Ode to the Prosperous Great Tang Dynasty is a famous stone stele carved in 771, the middle of the Tang Dynasty (618–907). The text documents the great deed of Emperor Suzong who pacified the Anshi rebellion, probably the most famous rebellion in the history of China, regained lost cities, and recovered the glory of the dynasty. More famous is the calligrapher who wrote down the text that was later carved into stone. Yan Zhenqing (709–785) is one of the most renowned calligraphers in China. He is known for his solid, solemn, powerful, imposing, yet energetic style, which best captures the aesthetic of the prosperous middle Tang Dynasty. Later critics thought of the Ode to the Prosperous Great Tang Dynasty as the best of all Yan Zhenqing’s works.
Conghao writes, “For young calligraphy learners, this stele is often the beginning point of their life-long practice of copying classic works. I began studying calligraphy when I was about five years old and started studying this stele when I was about seven. In the past seventeen years, I have copied it countless times, and it is still my favorite stele. I choose to perform this stele on Song Dong’s Traceless Stele not only because of its rich history and connection to Song Dong’s work, but also because of my personal attachment to this particular monument.”
FREE, open to all.
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Join Lori Waxman and Rachel Cohen for a discussion about practices—art criticism as a practice of writing about art, art history as an attention to artistic practices, art making as a practice of all sorts of things (walking, cooking, painting, thinking, researching, drawing, etc.).
What does it mean to practice these professions? Is it unprofessional? Waxman will talk about her approach to conventional art reviewing through her decade of work as the primary critic for the Chicago Tribune and her attempts to question some of these norms in her ongoing performance project, the 60 wrd/min art critic. Cohen will raise questions that have come up in teaching writing about the arts at the University of Chicago, and through the Speaking of Art working group on campus. The focus of Waxman’s scholarly work, on walking as an art form, will offer a chance to consider how artists themselves engage in alternate practices, and ways that art historians and art writers can meet them somewhere along the road.
FREE, open to all.
This event is organized by the Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry at the Smart Museum and co-sponsored by the Open Practice Committee in the Department of Visual Arts, Department of Art History, Creative Writing, and the RAVE and Speaking of Art workshops.
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Presented in collaboration with the Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry at the Smart Museum of Art, the Smart Talk: What About Human Rights? series brings together experts exploring some of the knottiest human rights issues of our time. Each of these quarterly discussions is moderated by Pozen Center faculty and followed by a catered reception, where attendees can explore the Smart Museum galleries after hours.
According to Hannah Arendt, the ultimate test of human rights is whether a human being loses her rights when she crosses a border and leaves her home state. Controversies over the rights of refugees and migrants have come to dominate political discourse in elections around the world. What should a just society do to protect its own citizens and residents but also help the stranger in need? Can we imagine open borders? If we can’t, what criteria should we use to decide who gets in and who doesn’t? Join University of Chicago Law Professors Tom Ginsburg and Claudia Flores alongside activist Oscar Chacón as they discuss this highly emotional topic.
Tom Ginsburg (Leo Spitz Professor of International Law and Professor of Political Science, UChicago Law School)
Claudia Flores (Associate Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the International Human Rights Clinic, UChicago Law School)
Oscar Chacón (Co‐Founder and Executive Director, Alianza Americas)
9PM - 10PM: Discussion and dialogue
10PM - Midnight: Reception and time to explore Smart Museum galleries
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Family Days at the Smart Museum are designed to celebrate the creative potential in all of us. With new projects every month, Family Days offer opportunities for kids and their caregivers to create together and connect with one another. Each program is unique, fun, and free, emphasizing invention, improvisation, and hands-on creativity.
This Saturday, learn how to weave using wild wigs and colorful fake hair as yarn! Plus, try out a new hairstyle—local stylists will be on hand to teach guests of all ages the arts of braiding. The activities are inspired by artist gu wenda’s united nations: american code, a tent made from colorful braids of hair on view in The Allure of Matter.
FREE. Art-making supplies and other materials are provided. Family programs are best for kids 4–12, but all ages are welcomed! Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
Image: Erik L. Peterson.
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Save the date for our final Smart Talk of the academic year:
Wednesday, May 13, 7:00-10:00 PM: \"Our Changing Relationship with Animals and Our Responsibilities\"
Frans B. M. de Waal (C. H. Candler Professor of Psychology, Emory University; Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Utrecht)
Martha Nussbaum (Ernest Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics in the Law School and Philosophy Department; Associate in the Classics Department, the Divinity School, and the Political Science Department)
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Films and Natural Processes
From Soil, Sand, and Salt Crystals
Virtual screening: May 15–28
Filmmaker conversations: May 15, 7 pm and May 27, 1 pm
Saltwater, plastic, toxic minerals, sand or waste: matter accumulates and overwhelms, dissolves, decomposes, and reforms.
With the widespread closure of movie theaters and screening rooms, online experiences of film and media works are increasingly facilitated by digital devices. Material relations and components enmesh these objects within earthly cycles and natural processes as matter is mined, assembled, used, discarded or recycled—the aluminum that provides a polished shell for many laptops is also an abundant metallic element found in the Earth’s enveloping crust.
This program brings together a dozen films that emerge from material interactions between moving images and natural processes.
This screening was developed as part of the Department of Cinema and Media Studies and Smart Museum of Art’s Graduate Curatorial Internship, co-sponsored by the Film Studies Center. It is presented in conjunction with the special exhibition The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China.
From Soil, Sand, and Salt Crystals is curated by Sophie Lynch, Smart Museum Curatorial Graduate Intern for Media Programming and PhD student, Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago.
Films and Natural Processes
From Soil, Sand, and Salt Crystals
Virtual screening: May 15–28
Filmmaker conversations: May 15, 7 pm and May 27, 1 pm
Saltwater, plastic, toxic minerals, sand or waste: matter accumulates and overwhelms, dissolves, decomposes, and reforms.
With the widespread closure of movie theaters and screening rooms, online experiences of film and media works are increasingly facilitated by digital devices. Material relations and components enmesh these objects within earthly cycles and natural processes as matter is mined, assembled, used, discarded or recycled—the aluminum that provides a polished shell for many laptops is also an abundant metallic element found in the Earth’s enveloping crust.
This program brings together a dozen films that emerge from material interactions between moving images and natural processes.
This screening was developed as part of the Department of Cinema and Media Studies and Smart Museum of Art’s Graduate Curatorial Internship, co-sponsored by the Film Studies Center. It is presented in conjunction with the special exhibition The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China.
From Soil, Sand, and Salt Crystals is curated by Sophie Lynch, Smart Museum Curatorial Graduate Intern for Media Programming and PhD student, Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago.
Join via Zoom
Composed of human hair sourced from around the world, gu wenda’s united nations: american code is a monument to a utopian ideal of peaceful human coexistence.
Join Lori Tharps, author of Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America, and the members of multidisciplinary artist group HAIR CLUB, for a conversation about hair as a material carrier of identity and social meaning. The conversation will take gu wenda’s work in The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China as a starting point, while also touching upon the status of hair in our current circumstances, both through a consideration of the meaningful social ramifications of the crisis, and through a lighthearted look at how our hair care has changed in isolation.
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Films and Natural Processes
From Soil, Sand, and Salt Crystals
Virtual screening: May 15–28
Filmmaker conversations: May 15, 7 pm and May 27, 1 pm
Saltwater, plastic, toxic minerals, sand or waste: matter accumulates and overwhelms, dissolves, decomposes, and reforms.
With the widespread closure of movie theaters and screening rooms, online experiences of film and media works are increasingly facilitated by digital devices. Material relations and components enmesh these objects within earthly cycles and natural processes as matter is mined, assembled, used, discarded or recycled—the aluminum that provides a polished shell for many laptops is also an abundant metallic element found in the Earth’s enveloping crust.
This program brings together a dozen films that emerge from material interactions between moving images and natural processes.
This screening was developed as part of the Department of Cinema and Media Studies and Smart Museum of Art’s Graduate Curatorial Internship, co-sponsored by the Film Studies Center. It is presented in conjunction with the special exhibition The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China.
From Soil, Sand, and Salt Crystals is curated by Sophie Lynch, Smart Museum Curatorial Graduate Intern for Media Programming and PhD student, Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago.
Since the 1980s, artists working in China have experimented with various materials, transforming seemingly everyday objects into large-scale artworks. These artists have exploded fireworks into paintings, felted hair into gleaming flags, stretched pantyhose into monochromatic paintings, deconstructed old doors and windows to make sculptures, and even skillfully molded porcelain into gleaming black flames.
Artists continue to explore and develop this creative mode, with some devoting decades of their practice to experiments with a single material. For the first time, The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China brings together works in which conscious material choice has become a means of the artists’ expression, representing this unique trend throughout recent history. The exhibition features 48 two- and three-dimensional works made from a range of unique and humble materials.
RECONFIGURED CHICAGO PRESENTATION
In its original Chicago presentation, scheduled for February 7–May 3, 2020 but closed on March 14, 2020 due to COVID-19, the exhibition was divided into two halves, taking up the entire footprints of the Smart Museum of Art on the South Side and Wrightwood 659 on the North Side. The consolidated presentation at the Smart Museum in summer 2020 features a handful of works originally shown at Wrightwood 659.
EXHIBITION WEBSITE
The companion website theallureofmatter.org offers a wealth of digital content that builds upon the exhibition—including virtual tours, original interviews, at-home activities, online programs, and behind-the-scenes videos and photos.
ARTISTS
Ai Weiwei, Cai Guo-Qiang, Chen Zhen, Gu Dexin, gu wenda, He Xiangyu, Hu Xiaoyuan, Huang Yong Ping, Jin Shan, Liang Shaoji, Lin Tianmiao, Liu Jianhua, Liu Wei, Ma Qiusha, Shi Hui, Song Dong, Sui Jianguo, Sun Yuan and Peng Yu, Wang Jin, Xu Bing, Yin Xiuzhen, Zhan Wang, Zhang Huan, Zhang Yu, and Zhu Jinshi.
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How can art serve as evidence? Intensely naturalistic art—be it a photograph or an ancient sculpture—seems to make truth claims about the world around it. But a discussion of objects reveals that interpreting representational practices produces a host of common questions and dilemmas that thread through time and place.
Drawing upon photographs, ceramics, and sculpture, Professor Claudia Brittenham and Smart Museum curator Leslie Wilson consider the ways that material objects serve as testimony to a particular moment, period, and site, and reveal how, in so doing, they both convey and obscure meaning.
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University of Chicago students are invited to join Smart Museum curators for a virtual private tour of Take Care at the Smart Museum of Art.
Drawing generously from the Smart Museum’s permanent collection, this large-scale group exhibition seeks to unpack matters of care from the personal to the collective. The artworks in Take Care draw on a range of themes—from familial relations and societal obligations, to immersive networks and ecologies of care—examining how systems of maintenance, sustenance, and storytelling can bring about collective action.
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Join Laura Steward, Curator of Public Art, and Alex Serbanescu, Summer 2020 Public Art Intern at the Smart Museum, for a virtual tour of public art that University of Chicago students can later visit on their own, as an in-person, safe, socially distanced, art-driven guide to familiarize themselves with campus. This session welcomes dialogue through Q&A.
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What does it mean to care for something, someone, or ourselves?
Caring can be a form of affection, a survival strategy, a political tool, a mode of labor, and a means of sustenance. It can be driven by moral imperative or necessity. Whether an accumulation of small gestures, a singular bold act, or even strategic indifference, expressions of care—or the lack thereof—shape the world in which we live, a world that is often fraught with competing tensions and complexities.
Drawing generously from the Smart Museum’s collection, Take Care seeks to unpack matters of care from the personal to the collective. The artworks on view range from portrayals of familial relations and societal obligations, to gestures of hospitality and ritual, from strategies of bearing witness and evoking empathy, to explorations of networks of care and the results of their absences. This cross-historical conversation between over 60 works of art considers and reveals the multi-faceted nature of the ways care is conveyed and experienced. And, in doing so, urges the open-ended question of how we care for ourselves and each other in our broader social worlds.
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Generations is a seven-year survey of the distinctive, multi-faceted practice of Berlin-based artist Claudia Wieser.
Drawing upon the history of art, design and architecture—from the democratic stage of ancient Roman forums to the esoteric principles of Bauhaus craftsmanship—Wieser’s practice carefully stitches together a constellation of elements. Influenced by the modernism of Hilma af Klint, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, who embraced spirituality as part of their aesthetic processes, Wieser broadens their ideals, using spatial installations to consider the coexistence of abstraction and physiological experience.
Generations features hand-painted and patterned ceramics, carved wooden sculptures, tiled mirrored works, colored-pencil-and-gold-leaf drawings, and a new site-specific wallpaper spliced together from imagery of historic sculpture and architecture as well as images from popular culture and found photographs. This exhibition of geometric abstractions, surfaces, and references challenges us to look at ourselves looking and invites us to have a new experience of the Smart Museum’s modernist lobby and gallery spaces.
This will be Wieser’s first solo-traveling museum exhibition in the United States and her first project in Chicago. The exhibition is organized by Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and the Smart Museum of Art.
Image: Claudia Wieser, Untitled, 2017, Acrylic, ink, and gold leaf on wood, three works. Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen. © Claudia Wieser. Photo credit: Object Studies.
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Drawing upon the history of art, design and architecture—from the democratic stage of ancient Roman forums to the esoteric principles of Bauhaus craftsmanship—Wieser’s practice carefully stitches together a constellation of elements. Generations features hand-painted and patterned ceramics, carved wooden sculptures, tiled mirrored works, colored pencil and gold leaf drawings, and a new site-specific wallpaper spliced together from imagery of historic sculpture and architecture as well as images from popular culture and found photographs.
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Saturday, October 10, 1 pm
FREE virtual program • RSVP for link
Open your screens as a family and delve into ancient trading practices and create your own cool coins during a collaborative family day presented by the OI Museum and Smart Museum of Art!
For this hands-on trade-stravaganza, OI educator Calgary Trautman-Haines and Smart Scholar Katerina Stefanescu will lead a virtual tour of the OI Museum and Smart Museum’s collections of coins and trading tools. Then, use your new knowledge to craft your own coins to trade within your own household.
Supplies: have a pencil, piece of paper, scissors, and aluminum foil at the ready.
Smart Scholars is an initiative of the Smart Museum of Art’s Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry made possible in part by generous funding from the Smart Family Foundation of New York. Additional support has been provided by the University of Chicago’s College Center for Research & Fellowships (CCRF).
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FREE virtual program • RSVP for link
As part of the University of Chicago’s Homecoming celebration, join the Smart Museum of Art for a virtual panel discussion inspired by Take Care, a new exhibition that seeks to unpack matters of care from the personal to the collective.
The panel discussion features Brian Callender (Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago Medical Center) and Andrea Yarbrough(founder of in c/o Black women), who will discuss their own ideas around the forms and effects of care as well as their contributions to Take Care. The panel is moderated by Aneesah Ettress, Curatorial and Academic Engagement Graduate Intern at the Smart Museum.
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Take Care with Art After Dark
Slow Dance, Music, and Art Making
Wednesday, October 21, 6–7:30 pm
FREE virtual program • Register for link
Join the Smart Museum of Art for a virtual gathering that mixes art inquiry, music sharing, and communal art making.
Led by Mayra Cecilia Palafox, this program is inspired by Slow Dance by Kerry James Marshall, a painting that is included in our current exhibition Take Care. As we make close observations, discuss his process of color mixing, the mood of the painting, and the two figures, we will also think of what songs come to mind and how that makes us feel. There will be space to share our artworks, process, and listen to music as we spend time together.
FREE. Join in from home—participants are encouraged to use readily available materials during this live art-making session. To help build a community of participants, capacity is limited and advanced registration is required.
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Panel Discussion: Built Environments, Text Sources, and Media Technologies, from the Truisms to YOU BE MY ALLY
Monday, October 26, 1 pm
FREE virtual program • Register for link
This panel consider the central components of Jenny Holzer’s new work, YOU BE MY ALLY—including the built environment, text sources, as well as so-called “new media\" and mass media—to consider the University’s commission in relationship to Holzer’s past work, to our present context, and to practices in architecture, liberal arts education, and new media art and archaeology.
Panelists include award-winning architect Billie Tsien (Williams and Tsien Architects); media archaeology scholar Ina Blom (Professor, University of Oslo and Wigeland Visiting Professor in the Department of Art History, University of Chicago); head of Media Aesthetics Core and literary scholar Benjamin Morgan (Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature); and moderated by art historian and Holzer team member Christine Mehring (Mary L. Block Professor of Art History and the College; Adjunct Curator, Smart Museum of Art).
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A Live Celebration
The Fall of the House of Lead
Saturday, October 31, 1–2:30 pm
FREE virtual program • Streaming live
Toward Common Cause exhibiting artist Mel Chin inaugurates the Civic Arts Church at Sweet Water Foundation as headquarters for the Chicago Fundred Initiative: A Bill for IL. Presented on the 12th anniversary of the Fundred Initiative, Chin will be joined by Sweet Water Foundation Executive Director Emmanuel Pratt and participants from the Smart Museum and SkyART teen programs to collectively imagine a future free from lead poisoning.
Tune in to Lumpen Radio’s Twitch channel for the live, multi-site broadcast.
Mark your calendar and tune in
Chicago Fundred Initiative: A Bill for IL is presented as part of Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40, and will be presented at locations across the city, including Sweet Water Foundation, Hyde Park Art Center, SkyART, and the Smart Museum of Art. This program is co-presented with Sweet Water Foundation and Public Media Institute.
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FREE. Register for event link »
Mel Chin, Lisa Lee, and Peggy Salazar discuss the intersection between environmental justice, socially engaged artistic practice, and community organizing. Presented in collaboration with the Harris School of Public Policy as part of Toward Common Cause.
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Wednesday, November 18, 6–7:30 pm
FREE virtual program • Register for link
Can boys wear pink or brides wear red? Does bright orange make you think of a sunset or a parking ticket?
Join Nicole Bond, Lead Museum Educator, for an interactive virtual workshop that examines some of the meanings assigned to colors. Make art from home during this 90-minute interactive virtual workshop—bring your own box of crayons and a bottle of something colorful to drink, for a spirited discussion and fun coloring exercises.
FREE. Join in from home—participants are encouraged to use readily available materials during this live art-making session. To help build a community of participants, capacity is limited and advanced registration is required.
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Thursday, November 19 at 12pm
Register for the event
Join the Smart Museum of Art and EXPO CHICAGO for a live-streamed discussion with Claudia Wieser.
During this event, Wieser reflects on the myriad influences that inform her work—from the democratic stage of ancient Roman forums to the esoteric principles of Bauhaus craftsmanship—to produce immersive spatial installations.
In conversation with artist Claudia Wieser are Jennifer Carty, Associate Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Smart Museum, and Rachel Adams, Chief Curator and Director of Programs at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts.
The program is moderated by Christine Mehring, Adjunct Curator at the Smart Museum and Mary L. Block Professor of Art History and the College at the University of Chicago.
This discussion is presented by the Smart Museum of Art in partnership with EXPO CHICAGO.
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Register for the workshop » FREE. To help build a community of participants, capacity is limited and advanced registration is required.
This virtual gathering mixes art-making and conversation inspired by the Smart Museum’s exhibition Take Care.
Led by Rita Alvarez, Lead Museum Educator at the Smart Museum, the program looks at Suellen Rocca’s painting Cha Cha Couple. Using one piece of paper, cardboard from our numerous at home deliveries or from a pizza box, participants will draw/color/create/glue/tape a collage of their own. Join in from home—relax and create together during this guided art-making session and discussion about what it means to \"take care\" and how we care for ourselves and others.
Rita Alvarez is a former Social Services Coordinator, Community Activist, primary grade CPS Teacher, Dual Language Consultant, TV/Movie Extra, current Non Profit Executive Director of Sunflower Project US, Caregiver, and Lead Museum Educator. She discovered her appreciation for art later in life and believes that art provides an important pathway to expression, activism, social commentary, empowerment, relaxation and fun.
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Wednesday, January 6, 2 pm • RSVP
Friday, January 8, 12 pm • RSVP
Contemporary photographer Lorna Simpson first became known in the 1980s for work that confronted race, gender, and history.
These two participatory conversations—co-led by Sam Ramos, Art Institute educator, and Aneesah Ettress, curatorial and academic engagement intern at the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art—consider Simpson’s combination of large-scale, multi-panel photographs and paired text in order to put word and image into a poetic dialogue.
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Wednesday, January 6, 2 pm • RSVP
Friday, January 8, 12 pm • RSVP
Contemporary photographer Lorna Simpson first became known in the 1980s for work that confronted race, gender, and history.
These two participatory conversations—co-led by Sam Ramos, Art Institute educator, and Aneesah Ettress, curatorial and academic engagement intern at the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art—consider Simpson’s combination of large-scale, multi-panel photographs and paired text in order to put word and image into a poetic dialogue.
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Tuesday, January 12, 12 pm • Live stream on Lumpen Radio
In a virtual conversation, MacArthur Fellows Jason De León and Wendy Ewald join Centro Romero’s executive director Daysi Funes to reflect on recent projects that address critical immigration, migration, and human rights issues, including the current Toward Common Cause collaborative youth photography project Daily Life and Dreams in the Pandemic.
FREE, tune in to Lumpen Radio’s Twitch channel for the live broadcast.
This program is offered as part of Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40 and co-presented by the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, Centro Romero, and Public Media Institute. Toward Common Causeis organized by the Smart Museum of Art in collaboration with exhibition, programmatic, and research partners across Chicago. It is supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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Unroll a scroll on a new year with a guided art-making session and discussion. Join in from home as Kathryn Fitzgerald leads an evening of art exploration and creative drawing within a supportive, caring community.
FREE.
To help build a community of participants, capacity is limited and advanced registration is required.
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This workshop will demonstrate hands-on approaches to strategies and tools for virtual object-based pedagogy. Designed for faculty, instructors, and graduate students as well as museum educators, it is organized by the Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry and led by Gary Kafer.
FREE.
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Kenjiro Lee, UChicago Class of 2020, performs PRIMAL, a short play he wrote for the Zoom environment.
Join Lee for this cathartic, participatory performance, presented by the Smart Museum as part of the initiative Beyond Pomp and Circumstance to the Problems of Our Time.
FREE, please register for the Zoom link.
Disclaimer: PRIMAL involves an awful lot of shouting, on the performer's part and partially on your part. Be prepared to scream, but take care of your voice. Notify any housemates or neighbors of what you’re about to do. The performance will be recorded.
ABOUT
Last July, I was given the following assignment by one of my playwriting teachers: write a play a day for five days. These plays could be as long or short as we wanted, and could literally be about anything. PRIMAL is one of those plays—the third, if I’m remembering correctly. At that point it’d been four months since I left Hyde Park for the foreseeable future, and I’d spent most of those four months sitting in a chair and staring at a screen. I was restless, I was depressed, I was itching to write something in response to the current moment. And that’s when the idea hit me: I wanted to write a play where I screamed into a megaphone about how stressed I was.
July seems like ages ago, doesn’t it? I mean, a lot has happened in America since July: there was a presidential election, a vaccine is finally within our reach, the balance of power shifted in the Senate, and there was an attempted coup (and most of that was only in the last month). It almost feels like we’re dealing with a different world. Well, not exactly—I and my fellow Class of 2020 grads still missed out on a senior spring and an in-person graduation. And most of us are still stuck at home, waiting for all of this to be over. Yet there’s one thing that’s stayed constant in most of our minds since July: the primal urge to scream.
PRIMAL is an invitation to unleash that urge for an all-too-brief moment. I will be screaming. You will be screaming. It will be loud. It will be disorganized. And maybe, just maybe, it will be cathartic.
–Kenjiro Lee
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Join in on Facebook for the premiere
Grab your art supplies and learn a magical drawing technique to create an imaginary shelter. Based on drawings by Henry Moore in the Smart Museum of Art’s collection, this at-home family activity reveals a creative way to make a place of your own while letting your imagination run wild.
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Wednesday, February 3, 7 pm
Broadcasting on 105.5 FM WLPN-LP Chicago and streaming on twitch.tv/lumpenradio
Performance artist, writer, activist, and MacArthur Fellow Guillermo Gómez-Peña has an obsession with rewriting and restaging so-called “Western Art History” while highlighting colonial legacies of systematic exclusion, demonization and fetishization of Brown, Black, and indigenous bodies. Presented in conjunction with Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40, this live radio keynote challenges contemporary art museum practices and calls for an open discussion regarding radical restructuring from within.
Learn more and join the livestream
Gómez-Peña’s Mex Files: Audio Art and Strange Poetry from the US/Mexico Border is presented in partnership between Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Public Media Institute, and the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art. The series is an initiative of Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40, a multi-venue exhibition and program series that marks the 40th anniversary of the MacArthur Fellows program throughout 2021.
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How does contemporary art intersect with South, Southeast, and East Asia? How is it defined and contested across these regions? How do new geographic formations and constellations—global to region to state—provide alternative methodologies for studying contemporary art?
Cross Currents: Contemporary Art from New Delhi to Beijing brings together scholars throughout Asia to discuss pressing contemporary issues. It is the first in a new series of events organized by the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art for the UChicago Centers in Beijing and New Delhi, and Yuen Campus in Hong Kong. This session assembles curators from East, Southeast, and South Asia to deliberate on how the art scenes from each region inform new understandings of the global and the contemporary in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and our post-COVID futures.
The Smart Museum’s Global Asia Initiative builds upon the Museum’s history as a leader in theorizing and presenting Contemporary Chinese Art in the United States over the last two decades, particularly the pioneering work of Professor and Curator, Wu Hung. Expanding from this foundation, Global Asia seeks to position Asian contemporary art within the complex networks, entanglements, and mobilities that structure the universality of our world.
FREE, please register for the webinar link.
Please note this event takes place at 6:00 pm IST/8:30 pm HKT/6:30 am CST
Organized by the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art for the UChicago Centers in Beijing and New Delhi, and Yuen Campus in Hong Kong.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Carol Yinghua Lu is an art critic and curator, as well as a PhD candidate in art history at the University of Melbourne. In collaboration with artist Liu Ding, she is in the process of researching the legacy of Socialist Realism in the practice and historical narrative of contemporary art in China. Lu is a contributing editor at Frieze, on the advisory board of The Exhibitionist, and was on the jury for the Golden Lion Award at the 2011 Venice Biennale. She also served as co-artistic director of the 2012 Gwangju Biennale and co-curator of the 7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale in 2012. From 2012 to 2015, she was the artistic director and chief curator of OCAT Shenzhen, and in 2013 was the first visiting fellow in the Asia-Pacific Fellowship program at the Tate Research Centre. Carol Yinghua Lu is currently the director of the Inside-Out Art Museum in Beijing.
Adele Tan received her PhD in art history from The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London and is currently Senior Curator at National Gallery, Singapore. Her research focuses on contemporary art in Southeast Asia and China, with a special interest in performative practices, photography, and new media. Her recent projects include the exhibition “Awakenings: Art in Society in Asia, 1960s to 1990s,” the 2019 annual Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission, and OUTBOUND, a series of large-scale site-specific artwork commissions at the Gallery. Previous exhibitions she has curated at the Gallery include “A Fact Has No Appearance: Art beyond the Object” (2016) and “Yayoi Kusama: Life is the Heart of a Rainbow” (2017). Adele Tan was formerly Assistant Editor at the British art journal Third Text and her articles have appeared in numerous publications, exhibition catalogues, and journals, including PAJ, Broadsheet, Yishu, Eyeline and Third Text.
Veeranganakumari Solanki is an independent curator and writer. Her research interest lies in the manner in which: interdisciplinary forms and art merge to create dialogues that travel from public spaces into private ones, the dissemination and varied interpretations of images across disciplines, and the structuring of curatorial research around artistic practices that expand the ideas of medium specificity through narrative and story-telling. Her curatorial discourse has primarily focused on art practices within the extended South-Asian context. She was the 2019 Brooks International Research Fellow at Tate Modern in the curatorial and photography department and a resident at the Delfina Foundation. Veerangana is currently based in India.
Orianna Cacchione is Curator of Global Contemporary Art at the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago. Her curatorial practice is committed to expanding the canon of contemporary art to respond to the global circulations of art and ideas.At the Smart Museum, Cacchione curated the exhibitions, The Allure of Matter: Material Art in China (with the esteemed art historian, Wu Hung); Samson Young: Silver moon or golden star, which will you buy of me?; and Tang Chang: The Painting that Is Painted with Poetry Is Profoundly Beautiful, the first solo presentation of the pioneering abstract artist’s work outside of Thailand. At the Art Art Institute of Chicago, she organized Zhang Peili: Record. Repeat., the first major presentation of the Chinese video artist at an American museum. She is currently conducting new research for an exhibition that explores major transnational shifts in art making since the 1970s. A specialist in contemporary Chinese art, Cacchione holds a Ph.D in Art History, Theory and Criticism from the University of California, San Diego.
Image: Zhu Jinshi, Wave of Materials, 2007/2020, Xuan paper, cotton thread, bamboo, and stones, Installation view, The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China, Wrightwood 659. Gift of Zhu Jinshi and Pearl Lam Gallery in honor of Wu Hung, jointly acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago.
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Since the early 1990s, Erika Rothenberg has been creating satirical greeting cards that exposed the private and public maladies of American life. In connection with the exhibition Take Care, this participatory conversation considers Rothenberg’s humorous approach and graphic sensibility towards taste, care, and politics.
Program led by Gary Kafer, Academic Engagement Graduate Intern in the Smart Museum’s Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry.
FREE, please register with for the Zoom event link.
Image: Erika Rothenberg, Greetings II(detail), 1991, Gouache and ink on paper, plastic shelves. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Gift of Penny Pritzker and Bryan Traubert, 2018.17.
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Given the complexities and varying modes of care, how might we create sites of care that speak to our evolving needs and circumstances?
Join artists engaged with in ℅: Black women, a creative placekeeping initiative anchored on the South Side of Chicago, as they discuss connections between art objects from the Smart Museum’s permanent collection and their own artistic practices.
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Ho Tzu Nyen, Serge Alain Nitegeka, Sean Lowry, and Simone Douglas consider the impacts of the pandemic on global practices. Co-presented with the Hood Museum of Art.
FREE, please register for the webinar link »
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Marking the end of the Smart Museum’s exhibition Take Care, and situated one year after Chicago’s stay-at-home order, this day-long series of live-streamed experiences and recorded content reveals the myriad ways we may turn toward each other for mutual support, sustenance, and compassion.
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Passion, violence, and virtue emerge in this exhibition as fundamental, intertwined elements in the artworks of Renaissance Europe.
The objects on view—created for private homes and personal consumption—offer glimpses into the lives of artists and their audiences. Painters, printmakers, and craftsmen, inspired by popular literary sources including Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Boccaccio’s Decameron, and the Bible, interpreted their stories for everyday settings.
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Domestic objects such as painted panels and ceramics celebrated momentous life events, including marriage and childbirth, yet their narratives were not overtly festive. Imagery frequently recounted the dire fates of mismatched lovers, revealing societal anxieties about fidelity and paternity. Large-scale oil paintings echo these ideas in grander formats, highlighting the consequences of moral trespass. Male and female protagonists alike suffer fatal repercussions for their transgressive longings. Meanwhile, in engravings and woodcuts, even happy and passionate couples face the inexorable progression of time. Viewers of these prints, poring over images of hapless lovers pursued by menacing skeletons, confronted the end of earthly pleasures and their own mortality.
Taken together, the works of art on display illuminate the many ways that objects lay at the heart of cultural rituals and consuming desires through which relationships were formed, celebrated, and extinguished.
PLAN YOUR VISIT
Beginning April 8, the Smart Museum of Art will be open with special public hours and visitor protocols, including timed reservations and required face coverings. For information on how we’re supporting a safe museum space and campus environment, read our updated visit guidelines and then make a reservation.
The first batch of reservations will be made available on March 29.
Top: Master of the Apollo and Daphne Legend, Daphne Fleeing from Apollo, c. 1500, Oil, formerly on panel, transferred to canvas. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1973.45.
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Thursday, April 8, 5:30 pm CT • Register for the webinar link
Join the Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry at the Smart Museum of Art for a conversation marking the opening of Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe.
Andrea Bayer (Metropolitan Museum of Art) and Jacqueline Marie Musacchio (Wellesley College) reflect on the themes of the exhibition and their echoes in the Met’s 2008 exhibition, Art and Love in Renaissance Italy, which looked closely at objects associated with love, marriage, and family in the Italian Renaissance. These objects have never been more fascinating than today, as they lead us into an expanded Renaissance world that includes the more private lives of women and children and their domestic spaces, and also introduce us to remarkably complex imagery that could unexpectedly weave together love, family, and death. Moderated by Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe exhibition curator Nora S. Lambert.
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How can engaging with an artwork open new ways of thinking? And, what can be experienced in-person that might not manifest virtually?
By making connections between the Smart Museum’s collections and the arguments, questions, and themes of courses across disciplines, the Museum’s Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry actively engages with and contributes to the intellectual life of the University of Chicago. The divergent array of objects in this expanded presentation was curated by faculty in collaboration with the Feitler Center and connects to five separate spring courses: “The Idea of Africa,” “Woodblock Prints of Japan,” “Introduction to Printmaking,” “Queer Theory and Queer Practice,” and an advanced painting course called “Through the Looking Glass.”
The works on view include a number of newer acquisitions in conversation with longstanding favorites, all from the Smart Museum’s permanent collection. While many classes are currently taught virtually, this space offers students living locally an opportunity to study artworks in person and provides a glimpse of University teaching for all our visitors.
Top: Shunkōsai Hokushū, Actors Nakamura Utaemon III (Shikan) as Shunkan and Nakamura Matsue III as Oyasu, 1825, Woodblock print. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, The Brooks McCormick Jr. Collection of Japanese Prints, 2015.794.
In our April Smart Reads selection, Love is the Way, Bishop Michael Curry offers an inspirational road map for living the way of love, illuminated with moving lessons from his own life. We invite you to read along with us and engage in two thought-provoking conversations with host Dorian H. Nash.
FREE. To help build a community of participants, capacity is limited and advanced registration is required. If needed, the Smart Museum can pick up the cost of the book for participants in this reading group. Instructions will be provided with your registration confirmation.
Smart Reads is presented by the Smart Museum of Art in collaboration with Seminary Co-op Bookstores.
About Smart Reads
The Smart Museum of Art's virtual book club, Smart Reads, aims to foster care within our community during an unprecedented time of collective social anxiety and separation. Over the next year, we invite you to delve into books surrounding love, art, culture, politics, relationships, and more. Each book selection features a series of small group conversations hosted by Dorian H. Nash.
Schedule
Please register to receive the zoom links for each session.
Part I : Thursday, April 15, 6 pm
Part II: Thursday, April 22, 6 pm
Smart Reads will return in June 2021 with a new book selection—stay tuned!
Love is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times
by Bishop Michael Curry and Sara Grace
As the descendant of slaves and the son of a civil rights activist, Bishop Michael Curry's life illustrates massive changes in our times. Much of the world met Bishop Curry when he delivered his sermon on the redemptive power of love at the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at Windsor Castle. Here, he expands on his message of hope in an inspirational road map for living the way of love, illuminated with moving lessons from his own life. Through the prism of his faith, ancestry, and personal journey, Love Is the Way shows us how America came this far and, more important, how to go a whole lot further.
The way of love is essential for addressing the seemingly insurmountable challenges facing the world today: poverty, racism, selfishness, deep ideological divisions, competing claims to speak for God. This book will lead readers to discover the gifts they need in order to live the way of love: deep reservoirs of hope and resilience, simple wisdom, the discipline of nonviolence, and unshakable regard for human dignity.
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In our April Smart Reads selection, Love is the Way, Bishop Michael Curry offers an inspirational road map for living the way of love, illuminated with moving lessons from his own life. We invite you to read along with us and engage in two thought-provoking conversations with host Dorian H. Nash.
FREE. To help build a community of participants, capacity is limited and advanced registration is required. If needed, the Smart Museum can pick up the cost of the book for participants in this reading group. Instructions will be provided with your registration confirmation.
Smart Reads is presented by the Smart Museum of Art in collaboration with Seminary Co-op Bookstores.
About Smart Reads
The Smart Museum of Art's virtual book club, Smart Reads, aims to foster care within our community during an unprecedented time of collective social anxiety and separation. Over the next year, we invite you to delve into books surrounding love, art, culture, politics, relationships, and more. Each book selection features a series of small group conversations hosted by Dorian H. Nash.
Schedule
Please register to receive the zoom links for each session.
Part I : Thursday, April 15, 6 pm
Part II: Thursday, April 22, 6 pm
Smart Reads will return in June 2021 with a new book selection—stay tuned!
Love is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times
by Bishop Michael Curry and Sara Grace
As the descendant of slaves and the son of a civil rights activist, Bishop Michael Curry's life illustrates massive changes in our times. Much of the world met Bishop Curry when he delivered his sermon on the redemptive power of love at the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at Windsor Castle. Here, he expands on his message of hope in an inspirational road map for living the way of love, illuminated with moving lessons from his own life. Through the prism of his faith, ancestry, and personal journey, Love Is the Way shows us how America came this far and, more important, how to go a whole lot further.
The way of love is essential for addressing the seemingly insurmountable challenges facing the world today: poverty, racism, selfishness, deep ideological divisions, competing claims to speak for God. This book will lead readers to discover the gifts they need in order to live the way of love: deep reservoirs of hope and resilience, simple wisdom, the discipline of nonviolence, and unshakable regard for human dignity.
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Through a series of presentations across disciplinary and methodological boundaries, this symposium explores the relationship between health, healing, and crisis.
FREE. Learn more and register »
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Join in from home for an evening of art exploration and creative bookmaking, led by Lead Museum Educator Jo McEntee.
This virtual gathering mixes hands-on creation and conversation inspired by the Smart’s collection and community empowerment initiatives, as well as great libraries throughout the region like the Johnson Publishing archive at Stony Island Arts Bank, the Newberry Library, and the Hall branch of the Chicago Public Library.
FREE. To help build a community of participants, capacity is limited and advanced registrations is required.
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Take a poetic trek through Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe during this lunchtime reading, discussion, and artmaking series. Presented in collaboration with the Poetry Foundation, Ovid Over Lunch investigates themes of trauma, transformation, and love through the lens of ancient Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
Join us for the lunchtime series
FREE. To help build a community of participants, capacity is limited and advanced registrations is required. You are welcome to attend one or both sessions.
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Thursday, May 6, 4 pm CT • RSVP
Join Jill Burke (University of Edinburgh) and Patricia Simons (University of Michigan) for a nuanced investigation into the construction of gender-based narratives and power dynamics in early modern European art.
Many of the works in the Smart Museum of Art’s exhibition Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe feature dramatic stories of feminine exemplars drawn from biblical texts, mythology, and ancient history. Simons and Burke will explore how representations of these female subjects—most often created by male artists—shaped and reflected the political, religious, and cultural upheavals of the era. In conversation with the exhibition curator, Nora Lambert, our panelists will also consider how these artworks continue to elicit powerful responses in their viewers today.
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FREE. Please register for the webinar link.
A conversation with Rachel Cohen, Bellamy Mitchell, and Nora Lambert
Join us for an evening conversation about the place of artworks in the personal lives of their beholders, both past and present.
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Renaissance historian Ada Palmer (The University of Chicago) explores the relationship between war, strife, and artistic production.
FREE. Learn more and register »
Top Image: Jan Brueghel the Younger and Hendrick van Balen, Venus at the Forge of Vulcan (detail), 1617, Oil on panel. From the Grohmann Museum Collection at Milwaukee School of Engineering.
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Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40 (now on view through December 19, 2021) is an ambitious multi-venue exhibition, organized by the Smart Museum in collaboration with more than two dozen partner organizations across Chicago, presents the work of 29 artist-MacArthur Fellows exploring the extent to which certain resources—including air, land, water, and culture—can be held in common. Never timelier than in this moment, Toward Common Cause invites visitors to investigate some of today’s most pressing challenges: the worsening climate crisis, the fight for racial justice, discrimination in housing, and many other vital issues.
The exhibition affirms the power of art—and, in particular, community and socially engaged art—as a channel for discovery, exchange, and action. In the same way, UChicago and the organizations and programs of UChicago Arts have always served as a space for inquiry, debate, and critical discussion. Toward Common Cause demonstrates the University’s commitment to these ideals, combined with creativity and the spirit of collaboration. In line with the ethos of this exhibition, we have invited many involved with the project to further illuminate the issues and artworks. In this monthly communication, we will explore the work of artists, venues, and community partners; provide further insight into the past, present, and future of exhibition projects; and showcase the voices of students across our community as they respond to the exhibition and its impacts. Each newsletter will be organized around a distinct yet interdependent thematic component: identity in America (September), environmental justice (October), and restructured structures (November).
For more information on Toward Common Cause, please visit the exhibition website at towardcommoncause.org.
In addition to the many partners involved in Toward Common Cause citywide, UChicago partners include the Abrams Center for Environmental Law, Arts + Public Life, the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, the Harris School of Public Policy, the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation, the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, the Open Practice Committee, and the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts.
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–Abigail Winograd, MacArthur Fellows Program 40th Anniversary Exhibition Curator. Read the full curatorial statement for Toward Common Cause.
Join artist Rick Lowe and journalist Natalie Moore as they dish and dissect the intersections of race and economic development. Presented in conjunction with Lowe’s Black Wall Street Journey initiative, and anchored by the centennial anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and observation of the historic Black Wall Street, this three-part conversation series touches on cultural dimensions of Black ownership, business, self-reliance, determination and mutual aid. This week’s CHOP IT UP featured guests: Keewa Nurullah, Kido Chicago; Richard Wallace, Equity and Transformation (EAT); and Damon Jones, University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy.
The Black Wall Street Journey edition of CHOP IT UP is presented by Arts + Public Lifein partnership with the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, in conjunction with Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40.
FREE, please register in advance for the webinar link.
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The Newberry Library presents a conversation between MacArthur Fellows Jeffrey Gibson and Sven Haakanson, in conjunction with the Toward Common Cause exhibition Sweet Bitter Love.
FREE. Register for the webinar link »
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Friday, June 25, 4:30 pm CT • RSVP for Zoom link
This virtual conference brings together graduate and undergraduate students at the University of Chicago to discuss the intertwined themes of material culture, life cycles, and the passage of time. The Lives and Afterlives of Objectsfeatures presentations on diverse time periods, geographies, and disciplines, ranging from contemporary art to classical artifacts. Stream prerecorded video presentations from Emily Kang, Eugene Yu Ji, Madeleine Harris, and Honglan Huang and then join moderator Stephanie Reitzig for a live panel session, which will take place via Zoom.
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Join artist Rick Lowe and journalist Natalie Moore as they dish and dissect the intersections of race and economic development. Presented in conjunction with Lowe’s Black Wall Street Journey initiative, and anchored by the centennial anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and observation of the historic Black Wall Street, this three-part conversation series touches on cultural dimensions of Black ownership, business, self-reliance, determination and mutual aid. This week’s CHOP IT UP featured guests include Andrea Polk (Solo Noir, L1 2020–2022 Creative Business Fellow) and Stephanie Hart (Brown Sugar Bakery).
The Black Wall Street Journey edition of CHOP IT UP is presented by Arts + Public Lifein partnership with the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, in conjunction with Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40.
Lead support for Black Wall Street Journey is provided by Allstate.
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FREE, all materials provided. Activities best for kids ages 4–12, accompanied by an adult.
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Join us for an afternoon of scavenger hunts, kid-friendly tours, and outdoor art activities at the DuSable Museum of African American History, Logan Center for the Arts, and Smart Museum of Art. This creative trek connects three exhibitions through a bookmaking project inspired by the citywide initiative Toward Common Cause and the work of MacArthur Fellows like Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, and Xu Bing.
FREE, all materials provided. Activities best for kids ages 4–12, accompanied by an adult.
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How do different types of media over time impact the way our world is represented and perceived? What is the relation between images, human sensations, and reality? How are media instruments of power and how are they used in creating senses of self?
Bringing together paintings, photographs, prints, and new media, this conceptually-driven exhibition traces the philosophical and aesthetic debates that examine Western culture’s relationship with visual media. The artworks on view delve into questions of mimesis and indexicality, systems of value and reception, the dynamics of mediation, and the gendered and racialized gaze. In doing so, Smart to the Core: Medium / Image seeks to interrogate the structures that underpin perception and explore the social impact of visual culture.
Smart to the Core: Medium / Image is the second in a series of exhibitions designed by the Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry to expand object-centered teaching across all fields and disciplines in the University of Chicago’s celebrated College Core, which introduces students to foundational texts that raise fundamental questions about human experience. This project was particularly inspired by, and curated for, the Humanities Division course “Media Aesthetics,” which focuses on “Image” in the fall (followed by “Text” and “Sound” in winter and spring). Throughout the 2021 fall quarter students will interpret the artworks on view in tandem with the theories and texts associated with their course. Overall, this exhibition program showcases the ways in which the Smart Museum engages with and shares the intellectual life of the University with the broader public.
CURATORS
Smart to the Core: Medium / Image is co-curated by Berit Ness, Assistant Curator of Academic Initiatives, and Issa Lampe, Deputy Director for Academic and Curatorial Affairs and Director of the Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry, in collaboration with Bill Brown, Karla Scherer Distinguished Service Professor in American Culture, and Benjamin Morgan, Associate Professor in the Department of English, and with assistance from Calvin Wang (AB’20), Daisy Coates (AB’22), and Ruofan Zhao (AB’24).
Support for this exhibition has been provided by the Carl and Marilynn Thoma Foundation, the Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry Fund, and the Museum’s SmartPartners.
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Monday, September 27, 7 pm CT
Register for webinar link
Join curator Hamza Walker and artist-MacArthur Fellow Kara Walker for a virtual discussion as they reflect on Presenting Negro Scenes Drawn Upon My Passage through the South and Reconfigured for the Benefit of Enlightened Audiences Wherever Such May Be Found, By Myself, Missus K.E.B. Walker, Colored. The installation was first commissioned by The Renaissance Society in 1997 and is now presented at the DuSable Museum of African American History as part of Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40.
FREE, please register in advance for the webinar link.
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Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
Explore the social and perceptual impact of visual culture at this special opening of Smart to the Core: Medium / Image. With the exhibition designed and curated around the University of Chicago’s popular “Media Aesthetics” course, the opening will include a gallery walkthrough, remarks from curators and faculty, light refreshments, and a unique visual experience.
We look forward to seeing you at the Smart!
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This hybrid symposium—taking place in person at the Logan Center and available virtually via livestream broadcast—brings together Indigenous scholars, activists, and policymakers for dialogue around Indigenous environmental advocacy and research.
FREE.
Browse the schedule and register »
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Relational Futures continues with a film program and discussion around the legacy of public lands appropriation and the role of Indigenous activism in reminding us whose lands we are fighting to protect. Hosted by UChicago’s Film Studies Center.
FREE.
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Smart to the Core: Medium / Image
Am I What You’re Looking For?
Wednesday, October 13, 6 pm • Register the link
Join exhibiting artist Endia Beal for a virtual conversation about the personal and contemporary stories of women of color working within the corporate space. Beal’s work merges fine arts with social justice. She uses photography and video to reveal the often overlooked and unappreciated experiences unique to people of color. Foregrounding figures who also powerfully return the viewer’s gaze, Endia Beal’s series Am I What You’re Looking For? dramatizes the constrictive and subjugating space of white-collar office environments.
FREE, open to all. Please register for the virtual conversation.
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A virtual conversation with cultural and business leaders Rick Lowe and John W. Rogers, Jr.
Join us for a discussion of Black wealth-building in Chicago, focusing on the challenges, gains, and opportunities being made by Black businesses, entrepreneurs, and residents.
This conversation is presented with the current exhibition Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40 and the Black Wall Street Journey project—a hub for neighborhood regeneration initiated by Lowe in Washington Park. The talk is also anchored by the centennial anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and observation of the historic Black Wall Street.
FREE, please register for the webinar link.
Presented by the Smart Museum of Art, Booth School of Business, and Arts + Public Life.
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Join exhibiting artist Laura Letinsky for an in-gallery conversation about her work that is currently on display in the Smart Museum of Art’s group exhibition Smart to the Core: Medium / Image.
Although Laura Letinsky depicts the remnants of a meal in her displayed archival pigment print, Untitled #37, the medium of her work communicates something very different. Her subtle combination of magazine cutouts and images snipped from photographs including her own, along with occasional actual objects on this tablescape defamiliarizes the medium of a photograph, underlining the gap between the present image and the absent object it represents.
The artist will discuss her work in the context of the exhibition and her artistic practice followed by a Q&A session.
FREE, but space is limited for this in-person event. Please register in advance.
This exhibition and related programs are organized by the Smart Museum’s Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry.
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Inspired by the major themes of the Smart Museum of Art’s citywide exhibition Toward Common Cause as well as the social and racial justice movements sweeping the US and the world, the program includes films by University of Chicago student filmmakers Atman Mehta, Jode Sparks, and Andrei Thüler as well as UChicago alumni Cameron Hu, Amy Tian, and Ellen Askey.
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Join Christine Mehring, Mary L. Block Professor of Art History and the College, and Adjunct Curator at the Smart Museum of Art, for a close looking exercise and in-gallery conversation about artist Gerhard Richter’s work, 7. Dez. 2014. On display in Smart to the Core: Medium / Image, the overpainted photograph brings attention to questions of artistic media and the problems and possibilities inherent in both painting and photography.
FREE, but space is limited for this in-person event.
This exhibition and related programs are organized by the Smart Museum’s Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry.
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Postponed due to inclement weather: the screening will now take place on November 4.
This outdoor film screening presents work by established and emerging filmmakers that interweave the pressing concerns of climate change with racial, economic, ecological, and social justice. Inspired by the major themes of the Smart Museum of Art’s citywide exhibition Toward Common Cause as well as the social and racial justice movements sweeping the US and the world, the program includes films by University of Chicago student filmmakers Atman Mehta, Jode Sparks, and Andrei Thüler as well as UChicago alumni Cameron Hu, Amy Tian, and Ellen Askey.
FREE, open to all. The films will be projected onto the façade of the Smart Museum. Please bring your own blanket or chair and set up on the grassy area between the Smart Museum and Henry Crown Field House.
This film program is co-presented by the Smart Museum of Art and Center for Leadership and Involvement at the University of Chicago in conjunction with Toward Common Cause.
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Join exhibiting artist Jason Salavon for an in-person gallery talk reflecting on his 2002 work, Every Playboy Centerfold, The 1980s (normalized)—currently on display in Smart to the Core: Medium / Image—and his broader artistic practice.
The talk will be followed by a Q and A session.
FREE, but space is limited for this in-person event. Please register in advance.
This exhibition and related programs are organized by the Smart Museum’s Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry.
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Register for the event
Join us for a pop-up marketplace and in-gallery conversation about the Black economy.
During this unique event where art, activation, and reflection intersect, several small Black-owned businesses will set up shop in the Smart Museum of Art’s lobby, including Dinah Clottey’s T’kor Couture. After shopping, join Toward Common Cause artist Rick Lowe (beaming in virtually) and University of Chicago researchers Ashley Truehart and Jennifer Etienne for a behind-the-scenes discussion about the ongoing project Black Wall Street Journey.
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Thu, Dec 9, 6 pm CST
Thu, Dec 16, 6 pm CST
Join in our virtual book club, Smart Reads!
The December 2021 Smart Reads selection is Søren Kierkegaard’s short masterpiece,The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air. We invite you to read along with us and engage in two thought-provoking conversations with host Dorian H. Nash.
FREE. To help build a community of participants, capacity is limited and advanced registration is required.
, advanced registration required.
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Mirrors and Misconceptions: Poetry Reading + Activation
Poetry Reading + Activation | Friday, December 17, 2021 – 6:00pm
at Stony Island Arts Bank
Stony Island Arts Bank, 6760 S. Stony Island Ave
Poems and prose from Runako Jahi, Tarnynon Onumonu, rebecca brown, Reginald Rice, and others, presented in conjunction of Toward Common Cause at Stony Island Arts Bank and Court Theatre’s production of The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice
FREE.
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Porcelain is an artistic medium as well as a material substance. It can be used to represent figures and to tell stories in two-dimensional and three-dimensional forms, and its own materiality can also be made into the subject of artistic expression. In this small exhibition, guests are encouraged to ask the underlying question: Why porcelain?
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Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine
February 15–May 15, 2022
First major survey of Bob Thompson’s work in more than 20 years travels to Chicago Acclaimed exhibition is organized by the Colby College Museum of Art
The University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art presents Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine, the first museum exhibition dedicated to this visionary painter in more than twenty years. Organized by the Colby College Museum of Art, where it debuted in summer 2021, the exhibition features more than 85 paintings and works on paper. This House Is Mine centers Bob Thompson’s brief but prolific transatlantic career within expansive art historical narratives and ongoing dialogues about the politics of representation, charting his enduring influence.
EXHIBITION OVERVIEW
This House Is Mine borrows its name from a diminutive but exquisite painting created by Thompson in 1960. With this title, Thompson declared his ambition to synthesize a new visual language out of elements of historic European painting. The exhibition examines both his formal inventiveness and his engagement with universal themes such as collectivity, freedom, bearing witness, struggle, justice and music.
“Thompson’s career offers tremendous insight into the aesthetic possibilities available to post-war artists. Faced with the expectation that he, like other Black artists of that era, commit to socially illustrative representation, Thompson instead honed a brilliant and complex figurative style,” notes exhibition curator Diana Tuite, who organized the exhibition while at the Colby College Museum of Art. “He brings into relief the unnatural, ideologically constructed, violent—even absurd—conventions underlying canonical Western art, prompting us to see those paintings with fresh eyes, and to examine the exclusion—or conditional inclusion—of artists like himself in certain narratives. This House Is Mine highlights the incredible ambition and range of Thompson’s work and establishes important connections to historic genealogies, contemporaries, and new generations of artists continuing to press the possibilities of figuration. Artists have always been looking at Bob Thompson.”
The exhibition includes work from almost 50 public and private collections across the United States and is accompanied by a lavishly illustrated catalogue featuring contributions from scholars, artists, and poets, published in association with Yale University Press. Following the presentation at the Smart Museum, the exhibition next travels to the High Museum of Art, Atlanta (June 18–September 11, 2022) and Hammer Museum at UCLA (October 9, 2022–January 8, 2023).
Bob Thompson, Blue Madonna, 1961. Oil on canvas. 51 1/2 × 74 3/4 in. (130.8 × 189.9 cm). The Detroit Institute of Arts. Gift of Edward Levine in memory of Bob Thompson. © Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York. Photo: The Detroit Institute of Arts, USA / Bridgeman Images
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VERA AND A. D. ELDEN SCULPTURE GARDEN
Situated between the Smart and Art History buildings, the sculpture garden offers a modern take on the classic quadrangles found around the University of Chicago’s campus.
The courtyard, which was renovated in 2008 under the direction of landscape architect Chandra Goldsmith and UrbanLab, features a distinctive, sloping hill and a patchwork of green grass, native plantings, and river stones. It is home to contemporary sculptures by notable American and European artists Scott Burton, Jene Highstein, Richard Hunt, Arnaldo Pomodoro, and Richard Serra.
In warmer months, the courtyard has outdoor seating open to all.
Richard Serra, Seattle Right Angles Propped, 1991. Photo by Sarah Larson.
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Join Museum Educator Jo McEntee for the opening weekend tour Art & The Very Artful Bob (Saturday, February 19, 2 pm) or make a reservation to visit
Admission is free of charge, and reservations are open to anyone who can safely visit.
Masks and proof of vaccination or a COVID-19 test are required for entry to exhibitions and events at the Smart Museum unless otherwise noted.
About
What do you see when you look at Bob Thompson’s \"The Snook\" or \"The Wind\"? Primary colors, abstract shapes? In his own words, Thompson expresses his interest \"in the relationships of the figure and landscape—mass against movement.\" But which is moving? Join Museum Educator Jo McEntee for a tour and discussion of select pieces on display in \"Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine,\" followed by an interpretative art-making activity.the exhibition, which traces Bob Thompson’s brief but prolific transatlantic career through more than 85 paintings and works on paper.
Bob Thompson, Blue Madonna, 1961. Oil on canvas. 51 1/2 × 74 3/4 in. (130.8 × 189.9 cm). The Detroit Institute of Arts. Gift of Edward Levine in memory of Bob Thompson. © Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York. Photo: The Detroit Institute of Arts, USA / Bridgeman Images
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Virtual program- Register for the Zoom link
In honor of Black History Month, Art after Dark celebrates the incomparable Nina Simone through the eyes of artist Bob Thompson, under the influence of AfriCOBRA.
During this virtual gathering facilitated by Lead Museum Educator Nicole Bond, recreate Bob Thompson’s 1965 oil on canvas Homage to Nina Simone, using actual Kool-Aid colors, as an homage to the signature style of AfriCOBRA (the African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists). Paint in the comfort of your own home or studio while relaxing to the sounds of Nina Simone music.
FREE. To help build a community of participants, capacity is limited and advanced registrations is required.
Bob Thompson, Blue Madonna, 1961. Oil on canvas. 51 1/2 × 74 3/4 in. (130.8 × 189.9 cm). The Detroit Institute of Arts. Gift of Edward Levine in memory of Bob Thompson. © Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York. Photo: The Detroit Institute of Arts, USA / Bridgeman Images
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Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden
Virtual gathering
Register for Smart Reads (Required)
Join in the Smart Museum of Art’s virtual book club, Smart Reads!
In this edition of Smart Reads, we explore intersections of art and poetry through the exhibition Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine and the book Bearden’s Odyssey: Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden.
We invite you to read along with us and engage in two thought-provoking conversations with host Dorian H. Nash.
FREE. To help build a community of participants, capacity is limited and advanced registration is required. If needed, the Smart Museum can pick up the cost of the book for participants in this reading group. Use coupon code SMARTREADS when ordering through Da Book Joint.
Bearden’s Odyssey: Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden, edited by Kwame Dawes and Matthew Shenoda
Borrowing from Romare Bearden’s aesthetic palette and inspired by his Odysseus series, Bearden’s Odysseygathers, for the first time, poems from thirty-five of the most revered African diaspora poets in the United States. Poetic echoes come forth in themes of inspiration with historical intersections of one of the greatest visual artists of the twentieth century.
The award-winning editors, Kwame Dawes and Matthew Shenoda, assemble an esteemed literary congregation, with original poems by Chris Abani, Rita Dove, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Ed Roberson, Aracelis Girmay, Yusef Komunyakaa, and more. With a powerful foreword by Nobel laureate Derek Walcott and stunning visual reproductions of select Bearden masterpieces, this anthology fuses art and literature, standing as a testament to Romare Bearden’s power and influence in the contemporary artistic world.
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Ballet des Porcelaines
Wednesday, March 2, 7:30 pm
Thursday, March 3, 7:30 pm
Logan Center for the Arts, The University of Chicago, 915 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
Ballet des Porcelaines (also known as The Teapot Prince) is an eighteenth- century French pantomime-ballet reimagined for the twenty-first century as an interdisciplinary project by Meredith Martin (NYU) and Phil Chan (Final Bow for Yellowface). It will be performed at the University of Chicago on March 2 and March 3, 2022. The short performances, sponsored by UChicago Arts, the Center for East Asian Studies, the Committee on Theater and Performance Studies, the Office of the Provost, and the Music Department at the University of Chicago, will be followed by in-depth panels on art history, dance and diversity, along with Q&A sessions with the artists.
The Smart Museum of Art’s concurrent exhibition Porcelain: Material and Storytelling is open February 15–March 6, 2022.
About the Ballet
In 1739, a group of artists and aristocrats staged a ballet pantomime known as the Ballet des Porcelaines. It tells the story of a prince searching for his lover on a faraway island ruled by a magician, who has transformed the inhabitants into porcelain. On the one hand a standard Orientalist fairy tale, the ballet is also an allegory for the intense European desire to know and possess the secrets of making porcelain. Although it would later inspire famous ballets featuring sleeping beauties and porcelain princesses, the Ballet des Porcelaines is virtually unknown.
Photo Credit: Joe Carrotta, Villa Albertineʼs headquarters at the Payne Whitney Mansion in New York City
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Virtual workshop | FREE. | Learn more and register »
Designed for UChicago faculty, instructors, graduate students, this virtual workshop explores the relationship between art and writing pedagogies. With Rachel Cohen (Department of English), Patrick Barry (Law), and Ashley Lyons (University Writing Program).
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Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden
Virtual gathering
Register for Smart Reads (Required)
Join in the Smart Museum of Art’s virtual book club, Smart Reads!
In this edition of Smart Reads, we explore intersections of art and poetry through the exhibition Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine and the book Bearden’s Odyssey: Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden.
We invite you to read along with us and engage in two thought-provoking conversations with host Dorian H. Nash.
FREE. To help build a community of participants, capacity is limited and advanced registration is required. If needed, the Smart Museum can pick up the cost of the book for participants in this reading group. Use coupon code SMARTREADS when ordering through Da Book Joint.
Bearden’s Odyssey: Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden, edited by Kwame Dawes and Matthew Shenoda
Borrowing from Romare Bearden’s aesthetic palette and inspired by his Odysseus series, Bearden’s Odysseygathers, for the first time, poems from thirty-five of the most revered African diaspora poets in the United States. Poetic echoes come forth in themes of inspiration with historical intersections of one of the greatest visual artists of the twentieth century.
The award-winning editors, Kwame Dawes and Matthew Shenoda, assemble an esteemed literary congregation, with original poems by Chris Abani, Rita Dove, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Ed Roberson, Aracelis Girmay, Yusef Komunyakaa, and more. With a powerful foreword by Nobel laureate Derek Walcott and stunning visual reproductions of select Bearden masterpieces, this anthology fuses art and literature, standing as a testament to Romare Bearden’s power and influence in the contemporary artistic world.
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Hybrid in-person and virtual program | FREE. | Learn more and register »
Inspired by the exhibition, Smart to the Core: Medium / Image, this symposium traces the philosophical and aesthetic debates that examine the dynamics of media, mediums and mediation.
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Performances exploring the relationship between the ephemerality of movement and the materiality of bodies and place, presented as the public culmination of the UChicago course “Site-Based Practice: Choreographing the Smart Museum.”
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FREE. | Learn more and register » | In-person tour
During this informal in-gallery discussion, curator Orianna Cacchione (Smart Museum of Art), gallerists John Corbett and Jim Dempsey (Corbett vs. Dempsey), and a special guest offer insights into Bob Thompson and his contemporaries, from friend and artist Emilio Cruz to jazz greats like Ornette Coleman and Nina Simone.
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In-person tour FREE. Learn more »
A companion discussion and tour of Emilio Cruz Inter-Planetary Slavery at Corbett vs. Dempsey.
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Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine
Art and the Poets
Saturday, March 19, 2 pm •
Join us for a in-person tour and interactive exploration of works on display in
Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine
at the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art.
Facilitated by Lead Museum Educator Nicole Bond, this program takes a guided look at Bob Thompson’s portraits of poets Amiri Baraka and Allen Ginsberg. Then, guests will be invited to read selected poems and excerpts from both writers, creating an impromptu afternoon open mic.
FREE, but space is limited. Please register in advance. Poetry selections contain adult themes—suggested for mature audiences.
Bob Thompson, LeRoi Jones and his Family, 1964. Oil on canvas. 36 3/8 × 48 1/2 in. (92.4 × 123.2 cm). Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966. © Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York. Photo: Cathy Carver. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
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The artworks presented in Unsettled Ground speak to a generative conversation between art and the environment—whether understood as natural, human, or something altogether more complex—across multiple scales of time and space. Drawing on photography, prints, sculpture, and mixed media works from the Smart Museum’s permanent collection, this exhibition positions artists as astute observers of local, regional, and global ecologies, whose work offers new insight into our shared world. Themes of wonder, agency, dispossession, and resistance animate the objects on display, inviting us to reflect on the vital sustenance offered by the earth, as well as its fragility, and our responsibility to the planet and one another.
Organized by the Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry, this exhibition was collaboratively curated by Katerina Korola (PhD ’21) and the undergraduate and graduate students of her seminar, “Picturing the Earth: Art and Environment in the Modern Era.” Over Fall 2021, the students worked together to research, conceptualize, and develop interpretive materials for the exhibition. Student essays and creative projects, hosted on the exhibition’s digital platform, will offer additional insight into select works on display.
ARTISTS
Arthur Amiotte, Giovanni Castrucci (Attributed to), Mukul Dey, Mark Dion, Ruth Duckworth, Minnie Evans, Terry Evans, Walker Evans, Emile Gallé, Leonard Havens, Bertha Evelyn Jaques, Sheila Hicks, Yun-Fei Ji, Glasfabrik Johann Loetz Witwe, Eli Lotar and Jean Painlevé, Richard Misrach, Timothy H. O’Sullivan, Toshio Shibata, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, H. C. Westermann, and Joseph E. Yoakum.
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FAMILY DAY: KID-YOU-TOPIA!
WITH GUEST ARTIST LAURA SHAEFFER
Register for Family Day (in person)
Create imaginative utopias, colorful cities, and fantastical playground designs for children, by children during this special family day at the Smart Museum of Art.
Join artist Laura Shaeffer for an interactive afternoon of hands-on projects that are inspired by sculptor Cosmo Campoli’s playful 1970s engagements with the Hyde Park neighborhood and the visionary paintings on view in Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine. Working in our outdoor sculpture garden, imagine new kid-centered worlds of play by making 3D paintings using fluorescent paints and glitter.
This program is presented as part of Cosmo’s Cosmos: 100 Years of Birth, Death, and Rebirth, a daylong series of events marking the centenary of the birth of sculptor and Hyde Park resident Cosmo Campoli.
FREE. Art-making supplies and other materials are provided. Family programs are best for kids 4–12, but all ages are welcomed! Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times. Advanced registration is strongly encouraged—please review our current health and safety guidelines prior to your visit.
ABOUT OUR GUEST ARTIST
Laura Shaeffer works as an artist-organizer, independent cultural producer, and informal teacher. Over the past 20 years, she has worked alone and in collaboration on numerous projects housed within unconventional and often underutilized spaces on the South Side of Chicago, including Home Gallery, The Op Shop, and Southside Hub of Production (SHoP) and now, in Oak Park, Compound Yellow. She specializes in developing collaborative networks in the arts and other creative endeavors.
Smart Family Day
Photo by Erik L. Peterson
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Art and Environment from the Smart Museum Collection
Thursday, March 31, 5–7 pm • RSVP
Join the Smart Museum of Art for a special celebration marking the opening of Unsettled Ground: Art and Environment from the Smart Museum Collection. Enjoy food, drink, conversation, and gallery talks led by the UChicago student curators.
Organized by the Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry, the exhibition examines how the environment has shaped artistic practice on conceptual, aesthetic, and material levels. The exhibition was collaboratively curated by Katerina Korola (PhD ’21) and the undergraduate and graduate students of her fall 2021 seminar, “Picturing the Earth: Art and Environment in the Modern Era.”
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7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
A night of discussion and performance surrounding the art of Bob Thompson and the artists that inspired his work—paintings, songs, and poetry that confront the artistic tension of expression and protest.
Join renowned Blues musician and Lead Museum Educator Katherine Davis and other special guests as they share their musical interpretation of selected Nina Simone songs and poetry readings. Plus, enjoy special after-hours access to Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine and Unsettled Ground: Art and Environment from the Smart Museum Collection.
FREE, but space is limited. Please register in advance.
Art After Dark: Art and Protest features Katherine Davis (voals) with Kayla Henderson (vocals), Priscilla Young (vocals), Devyn Longstreet (vocals), William Corduroy (bass), Keith A. Hudson (drums), and Tony Milano (keyboard, music arrangements).
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Wednesday, April 20, 5 pm
The University of Chicago Divinity School, Swift Hall, 1025 E. 58th Street, Common Room
Join Nicole Woods (Assistant Professor, History of Modern & Contemporary Art, University of Notre Dame) for a talk that revisits canvases currently on view in Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine and examines Thompson’s visual lexicon and reconfiguration of the Western tradition.
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Thursday, April 21, 7:30–9:30 pm
This outdoor film screening presents work by established and emerging filmmakers that interweave the pressing concerns of climate change with racial, economic, ecological, and social justice.
The program—a reprise of a screening held last fall—includes films by University of Chicago student filmmakers Atman Mehta, Jode Sparks, and Andrei Thüler as well as UChicago alumni Cameron Hu, Amy Tian, and Ellen Askey. It is presented in conjunction with the UChicago Earth Week 2022 celebrations as well as the exhibition Unsettled Ground: Art and Environment from the Smart Museum Collection.
FREE, open to all. The films will be projected onto the façade of the Smart Museum. Please bring your own blanket or chair and set up on the grassy area between the Smart Museum and Henry Crown Field House.
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A concert stream from UChicago Presents
A virtual concert stream features dazzling soprano Sarah Brailey and cellist Caleb van der Swaagh performing in the Smart Museum and Fulton Recital Hall. $20/$5 students.
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FREE, open to all. Events and activities will happen throughout the day. Please let us know if you plan to attend by registering in advance.
Join the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art as we mark the end of the exhibition Bob Thompson: This House is Mine with a day-long series of live experiences created by artists, students, community partners, and educators. Share in the artmaking, enjoy live music, talks, and so much more happening throughout the day, inside the galleries and outdoors in the sculpture garden.
Full schedule now available, including:
Live music & Performances: Ari Brown • Avreeayl Ra • Ben Lamar Gay • David Boykin • Fifth House Ensemble • Lional “Brother El” Freeman • Marvin Tate • Nick Mazzarella & Dana Hall • Richardson Middle School
Participatory Experiences: Alberto Aguilar & Alex Bradley Cohen • Tin-type photobooth with Max Li • Tattoos by Aidan Frierson, Baby, and Nani Nathan • Caricatures by Lothar Speer • Build-a-bird family art activities • Figure drawing • Free Life for Bob Thompson, by Arnold J. Kemp
Tours, Talks, & Readings: Storytime with Elizabeth Hereford • Poetry with Metropolitan Tenants Organization • History of Happenings talk by Professor Nicole Woods • Tours led by Smart Museum Educators • Virtual appearance by Sonny Rollins
Campus Creativity: Catcher in the Rhyme • Choreographing the Smart: Enter the House • Dirt Red Brass Band • Groove Theory • Lullaby Project • Sarah Brailey • Underground Collective
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Join Smart Scholar (UChicago art history major and chemistry minor) Sarahi Rincon Molina, as she shares her research into the wildest art materials in use today! Sarahi is part of the Smart Scholars program and will be presenting her research on materiality, the use of plastics in art, and the art of Andrew Luk. After her presentation, she will lead a hands-on art lab where participants can experiment with modern materials such as polystyrene, plaster, polyurethane foam, spray paint and more.
FREE, all materials provided. We will have a limited number of aprons and smocks, but please wear clothes you don’t mind getting messy!
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In-person gathering. Learn more and register »
Join us for an interactive cameraless photography workshop with Professor Emeritus Joel Snyder. Two sessions of the workshop will be offered. FREE, but but space is very limited.
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Virtual gathering. FREE. Learn more and register »
Explore the nature of feminism during a two-part virtual discussion of the book Feminism is for Everybody by bell hooks. Hosted by Dorian H. Nash.
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In-person film screening | FREE. Learn more »
The films featured in this open-air screening approach the cinematic medium as a looking glass that opens onto the strange and wondrous worlds hidden in the smallest and most humble of things.
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Virtual gathering | FREE. Learn more and register »
Explore the nature of feminism during a two-part virtual discussion of the book Feminism is for Everybody by bell hooks. Hosted by Dorian H. Nash.
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FREE, but space is limited. Please register in advance • RSVP
Conference begins at the Smart Museum of Art and continues at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
Join UChicago Arts for a symposium on the work of the renowned ceramicist and sculptor Ruth Duckworth.
Featuring presentations from scholars Sequoia Miller, Jack Schneider, and Matthew Groves as well as a panel of UChicago students, this symposiummakes use of art historical advances of the last several decades to examine Duckworth’s Chicago work in a new light. It investigates the influence of geomorphology and the nascent environmental movement in her work, beginning with her commission to create a complete environment of clay tiles in the vestibule of the newly built Hinds Geophysical Laboratory, moving through her monumental tile mural Clouds Over Lake Michigan, into wall works in high relief, Mama Pots, and clay sculptures.
Browse the full schedule of presentations and panels
The symposium is organized by Laura Steward, Curator of Public Art at the University of Chicago, in conjunction with the Smart Museum of Art’s fall 2023 exhibition Ruth Duckworth: Life as a Unity.
This symposium is part of Art Design Chicago, an initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art exploring and elevating Chicago’s rich art and design histories and diverse creative communities.
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This exhibition offers an expansive narrative of modern monochrome, or “one color,” art. Revisiting classic modernist ideas of flatness, idealized form, and color, Monochrome Multitudes opens this fundamental artistic practice up to reveal its surprising creative possibilities.
The exhibition features monochromatic groupings—rooms of blue, white, yellow, gray, black, and red works respectively—alongside thematic sections where single colors address questions of texture, the body, urban space, and sound. Throughout, Monochrome Multitudes engages North American art in a global dialogue and emphasizes the significance of multiple media ranging from weaving to wall-painting to video, and multiple materials including footballs, pantyhose, and Vinylite.
The exhibition features approximately 100 works, drawn primarily from the Smart Museum’s and other collections at the University of Chicago, supplemented by a number of important loans primarily from UChicago alumni and Chicago-area collectors.
Throughout the galleries, students, faculty, conservators, scientists, and legal and other specialists across disciplines add their voices in written and spoken forms, providing a multitude of perspectives on the artworks on view.
Additional examples of monochrome art are on display across the University of Chicago’s campus.
In conjunction with Monochrome Multitudes, visitors are invited to explore a wider world of monochrome through works of public art and unexpected groupings in the Harper Center headquarters of the Booth School of Business, the Harris School of Public Policy’s Keller Center, David Rubenstein Forum, and other locations.
Unless noted, programs are free and open to the public and take place at the Smart Museum of Art. Some programs require advanced registration.
Browse the full schedule of programs at
smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/calendar
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ARTISTS INCLUDE
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Josef Albers, Chryssa, Bethany Collins, Barbara Crane, Leonardo Drew, Sheila Hicks, Lotte Jacobi, Sam Levi Jones, Jules Olitski, Avery Preesman, Mark Rothko, David Schutter, Lee Ufan, Amanda Williams, and Claire Zeisler, among many others.
RELATED AUDIO PROJECT
In an effort to make this notoriously challenging art form more accessible, inclusive, and engaging, Monochrome Multitudes features supplemental audio commentary from a variety of artists, current and former museum staff, faculty, students, collectors, conservators, and members of our expanded community.
PROGRAMMING
Supplemented programming will include a series of artist’s talks. The exhibition will be the classroom for a University of Chicago fall seminar co-taught by the curators.
Image: Claire Zeisler, Triptych, 1967, Knotted and tied dyed wool. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joel Starrels, Sr., 1973.213a-c.
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For Sol LeWitt Upside Down onto Wall – Modular Wall Structure, Expanded 20 Times, Haegue Yang (born 1971, Seoul, South Korea) employs her signature material to domesticate the white, open cube sculptures of Sol LeWitt (1928–2007). This installation joins a larger series that “traces” the conceptual artist’s modular composition begun in the 1960s: expands or reduces their size, upends their orientation, suspends them from the ceiling or mounts them on the wall. Filling the spaces LeWitt had left open in his sculptures, the sterile white blinds become a permeable monochrome that plays with density and lightness, opacity and transparency. Yang’s blind structures channel these canonic examples of conceptual art, but the artist seeks to restore that movement’s “spiritual aspect” by striving for what she considers a certain “freedom within a narrative freighted with symbolism.”
Mounted in the lobby, the arrangement of the blinds is contingent and fleeting as they simultaneously reveal and obscure a bright blue wall behind. Per the artist’s specifications for this installation of the artwork, the exhibition team voted on a selection of blues available at the Museum’s local paint supplier to choose the shade most similar to French artist Yves Klein’s patented International Klein Blue. Centered on what Yang calls “quasi-Yves Klein Blue,” the quasi-empirical survey—both absurd and precarious—contests Klein’s individualistic legacy to offer a more collective set of relations between artists, museum professionals, and the history of art. This absurdist take on historical precedent extends to Yang’s treatment of this LeWitt’s Modular Wall Structure (1968), which is flipped on its head but appears to stay the same due to its quadrilateral format. Complicating notions of originality, “quasi” is an artistic strategy to relativize the Western canon, to turn it “upside down.” Yang’s layers of citation, expansion, and overturning at once oppose and honor the art historical narratives the West long took for granted.
THRESHOLD
Sol LeWitt Upside Down onto Wall – Modular Wall Structure, Expanded 20 Times was commissioned for the exhibition Monochrome Multitudes (September 22, 2022–January 8, 2023) as part of the Smart Museum of Art’s ongoing Threshold series. Launched in 2010, the Threshold series brings large-scale installations of contemporary art to the Smart Museum’s lobby and courtyard on a regular basis. The prominent placement of these commissions ensures that all visitors—whether they have come to the Museum for a class, an exhibition, or a program—will instantly encounter thought-provoking new art.
Image: Haegue Yang, Sol LeWitt Upside Down onto Wall - Modular Wall Structure, Expanded 20 Times, installation view, 2022, Aluminum Venetian blinds, powder-coated aluminum hanging structure, steel wire rope, LED tubes, cable. Commissioned by the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Tyler Mallory.
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This event talks place at: Cochrane-Woods Art Center, 5540 S. Greenwood Avenue, Room 157
WHAT IS ART HISTORY FOR?
In conjunction with Monochrome Multitudes, the Smart Museum of Art and University of Chicago partners present a quarter-long artist talk series.
Join Irena Haiduk and other exhibiting artists as they consider the rich and sometimes idiosyncratic references and resonances in their own work, while also speaking to the histories of the monochrome and abstraction broadly conceived.
FREE, but space is limited. Advanced registration encouraged »
ABOUT THE ARTIST
She cleaned props at the Yugoslav Dramatic Theater. When the war broke all currency, most people lost their jobs. Money proved, again and again, a weak foundation for anything, an economy for those who have no imagination to transact in any other way. Both she and her sister worked to help the family survive. She cleaned after school.
Every night, for a year, she prepared the props and handed them to actors as they entered the stage. Before coming on, the actor was just a person, and the prop was just a thing, but when they crossed over they transformed. The prop wanted to act as much as the actor. They played. After their work was done, both the prop and the actor would exit and re-assume their former states.
The frame of the stage endowed everything crossing it with living, and a will to act; the prop and actor equals, vivified by the frame of art. This life that favors everything as animate, charged with will and relation, this is the life art has to offer. Our work is to demonstrate it and expand the frame of art outward until there is no outside.
RELATED EXHIBITIONS: Monochrome Multitudes
Image: Irena Haiduk, Proof of Sirens (Siren Bay), 2017. Photo by Tom Van Eynde. Various distribution formats.
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This talk takes place at: Cochrane-Woods Art Center, 5540 S. Greenwood Avenue, Room 157
In conjunction with Monochrome Multitudes, the Smart Museum of Art and University of Chicago partners present a quarter-long artist talk series.
Join Arturo Herrera and other exhibiting artists as they consider the rich and sometimes idiosyncratic references and resonances in their own work, while also speaking to the histories of the monochrome and abstraction broadly conceived.
FREE, but space is limited. Advanced registration encouraged »
Arturo Herrera’s artist talk is co-sponsored by the Goethe-Institut.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Arturo Herrera’s work includes collage, works on paper, sculpture, relief, wall painting, photography, and felt wall hangings. His work taps into the viewer’s unconscious—often intertwining fragments of cartoon characters with abstract shapes and partially obscured images that evoke memory and recollection. Using techniques of fragmentation, splicing, and re-contextualization, Herrera’s work is provocative and open-ended. Following his MFA degree from the University of Illinois, Chicago, he has had solo and project-based exhibitions at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK; The Art Institute of Chicago; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; Dia Center for the Arts, NY; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, NY; Americas Society Art Gallery, NY; ICA Philadelphia; The UCLA Hammer Museum; Museum of Modern Art, NY; and The Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago. Herrera will be represented in Monochrome Multitudes with a Smart Museum-owned work of cartoon characters contemplating monochrome art.
RELATED EXHIBITIONS: Monochrome Multitudes
Image: Arturo Herrera, Untitled, 1997–1998, Collage on paper. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Gift of Susan and Lewis Manilow, 2006.98.4.
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This Saturday, join us for a toy boat making workshop. We’ll use recycled pop bottles as hulls and Tyvek sheeting as sails. Paint it black like artist-carpenter H. C. Westermann did with his Ghost Ship, on view in Monochrome Multitudes, leave it clear, or use bright hues before setting it on a sink or bathtub voyage at home.
FREE, drop-in. Art-making supplies and other materials are provided. Family programs are best for kids 4–12, but all ages are welcomed! Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
Image: Still from video by Erik L. Peterson.
RELATED EXHIBITIONS
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In conjunction with Monochrome Multitudes, the Smart Museum of Art and University of Chicago partners present a quarter-long artist talk series.
Join Dan Peterman and other exhibiting artists as they consider the rich and sometimes idiosyncratic references and resonances in their own work, while also speaking to the histories of the monochrome and abstraction broadly conceived.
FREE, but space is limited. Advanced registration encouraged »
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Dan Peterman is Professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and a local leader with a long relationship to the University of Chicago. He is a graduate of the Department of Visual Art (MFA ’86) and has been an active lecturer in the department’s Open Practice Committee and other University units. He co-founded with Connie Spreen “The Experimental Station,” which has been an engine for revitalization and resource reuse ever since its founding in 2002 and built on over a decade of related prior work. As part of the Smart Museum’s 2000 exhibition Ecologies: Mark Dion, Peter Fend, Dan Peterman, Peterman produced the installation Excerpts from Universal Lab (Plan B), now in the permanent collection; it incorporated discarded objects from University laboratories and set up a new independent lab for idiosyncratic research. He revisited this work in the Smart Museum’s 2004 exhibition Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art. Recently, Peterman worked with University leadership to receive the construction model of the Rubenstein Forum for future use in his artistic practice. Beyond the University, Peterman is an internationally renowned artist. In addition to his recent exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, his work has been exhibited at Documenta 14, the Venice Biennial, the Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, and the Kunsthalle Basel, among many others.
Image: Dan Peterman, installation view of Corridor (sulfur cycle), 2022, 72 sheets gypsum drywall, wood, straps, build agreement with South Side Chicago housing developer. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Claire Rich.
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RELATED EXHIBITIONS: Monochrome Multitudes
OCTOBER 15, 2022
12:15 PM
Smart Museum of Art, 5550 S. Greenwood Avenue
Explore the global resonance and creative possibilities of “the monochrome” during this guided tour of Monochrome Multitudes led by Mary Huber (MAPH 2022). This exhibition offers an expanded history of 20th and 21st century art through more than 100 monochromatic works.
FREE, but space is limited. Register online at humanitiesday.uchicago.edu.
HUMANITIES DAY
An annual tradition at the University of Chicago since 1980, Humanities Day celebrates the humanities with free discussions, tours, performances, and lectures featuring the latest research of the award-winning faculty in the Division of the Humanities.
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OCTOBER 15, 2022
1:30PM
Smart Museum of Art, 5550 S. Greenwood Avenue
Explore the global resonance and creative possibilities of “the monochrome” during this guided tour of Monochrome Multitudes led by Mary Huber (MAPH 2022). This exhibition offers an expanded history of 20th and 21st century art through more than 100 monochromatic works.
FREE, but space is limited. Register online at humanitiesday.uchicago.edu.
HUMANITIES DAY
An annual tradition at the University of Chicago since 1980, Humanities Day celebrates the humanities with free discussions, tours, performances, and lectures featuring the latest research of the award-winning faculty in the Division of the Humanities.
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RELATED EXHIBITIONS: Monochrome Multitudes
OCTOBER 15, 2022
3:00PM
Please check back later for location
Join curator Orianna Cacchione and Professors Christine Mehring (Art History) and Jessica Stockholder (Visual Arts) for a Humanities Day session that reflects on the exhibition Monochrome Multitudes through art historical, curatorial, and artistic points of view.
Monochrome Multitudes revisits a notoriously hermetic art to reveal its creative possibilities and conceive pedagogical strategies that make abstraction accessible from multiple perspectives. The exhibition aims to expand existing histories of “the monochrome” in three ways: articulating cultural, social, political, racial, or gendered meanings of monochrome art; emphasizing the hermeneutic significance of materials and media; and engaging North American art in a global dialogue.
FREE, but space is limited. Register online at humanitiesday.uchicago.edu.
PANEL
Orianna Cacchione, Curator of Global Contemporary Art at the Smart Museum of Art; Lecturer in the Department of Art History
Christine Mehring, Faculty Adjunct Curator at the Smart Museum of Art; Mary L. Block Professor in the Department of Art History and the College; and Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Visual Arts
Jessica Stockholder, Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Visual Arts
HUMANITIES DAY
An annual tradition at the University of Chicago since 1980, Humanities Day celebrates the humanities with free discussions, tours, performances, and lectures featuring the latest research of the award-winning faculty in the Division of the Humanities.
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Virtual event
In conjunction with Monochrome Multitudes, the Smart Museum of Art and University of Chicago partners present a quarter-long artist talk series.
Join Sheila Hicks and other exhibiting artists as they consider the rich and sometimes idiosyncratic references and resonances in their own work, while also speaking to the histories of the monochrome and abstraction broadly conceived.
FREE, please register for the webinar link »
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Sheila Hicks received her BFA and MFA degrees from Yale University. She received a Fulbright scholarship in 1957–58 to paint and take photographs of archaeological sites in Chile. While in South America she developed her interest in working with fibers. After founding workshops in Mexico, Chile, and South Africa, and working in Morocco and India, she now divides her time between New York and Paris, where she studied Pre-Columbian textiles. In each place, she has mined local knowledge to inform work that transcends geographic boundaries. Her diverse approach to textiles put her at the center of the burgeoning Fiber Art movement of the 1960s and ’70s, in which artists were inventing new possibilities for pliable media. They created sculptural and three-dimensional fiber works that upended conventions, establishing a new order in the largely male-dominated arena of two-dimensional tapestry-making. Hicks continues employing intensely saturated color and the raw materials of textiles—wool, synthetic thread, linen flax—in works that are rigorously constructed by wrapping, piling, and weaving her materials. Hicks has exhibited in the 2017 Venice Biennale, the 2014 Whitney Biennial, and the 2012 São Paulo Biennial. Recent solo presentations include “Lignes de Vie” at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2018; Free Threads 1954-2017, Museo Amparo, Mexico; and “Pêcher dans La Rivière” at the Alison Jacques Gallery, London. Hicks will be represented in Monochrome Multitudes with a 1984 work she gifted to the Smart Museum, Evolving Tapestry.
RELATED EXHIBITIONS
Image: Sheila Hicks, Evolving Tapestry—Soleil (detail), 1984, Wound, tied and knotted dyed linen. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Gift of the artist, 1995.45a-c. Courtesy of the artist.
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Smart Museum of Art, 5550 S. Greenwood Avenue
As the autumn leaves begin changing colors it’s pretty easy to see delightful shades of red along your path. Though red is most often associated with warmth and love, red also can signal anger, danger, and debt.
Join Smart Museum Lead Museum Educators for a guided inquiry based tour and discussion in the exhibition Monochrome Multitudes. Together, explore five selected works from the show which may not necessarily all be red in color but are sure to make you see red, in one way or another.
FREE, open to the public. Mature themes and images will be on view and in conversation—suggested for adult audiences.
RELATED EXHIBITIONS
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This event takes place at Cochrane-Woods Art Center, 5540 S. Greenwood Avenue, Room 157
In conjunction with Monochrome Multitudes, the Smart Museum of Art and University of Chicago partners present a quarter-long artist talk series.
Join Amanda Williams and other exhibiting artists as they consider the rich and sometimes idiosyncratic references and resonances in their own work, while also speaking to the histories of the monochrome and abstraction broadly conceived.
FREE, but space is limited. Advanced registration encouraged »
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Amanda Williams is a visual artist who, after graduating from the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, trained as an architect at Cornell University and taught architecture at the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Her practice employs color as an operative means for drawing attention to the complex ways race informs how we assign value to the spaces we occupy. Williams’s installations, paintings and works on paper seek to inspire new ways of looking at the familiar and, in the process, raise questions about the state of urban space and citizenship in the United States of America. Williams has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (2021), the Venice Architecture Biennale (2018) in the American Pavilion co-commissioned by the University of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2020), and at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis, a public commission with Andres L. Hernandez (2017). She is on the Museum Design Team for the Obama Presidential Library Center. Monochrome Multitudes will feature her Color(ed) Theory suite of photographs, which the Smart Museum acquired soon after they were made.
Image: Amanda Williams, Color(ed) Theory Series, each 2014–2016, printed 2017, Color photographs. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Purchase, The Paul and Miriam Kirkley Fund for Acquisitions and Ann E. Ziegler, 2018.9.1–7. Installation view in Take Care, 2020. Photo by Michael Tropea.
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This workshop and reception engage the themes of Monochrome Multitudes as catalyst for discussion with Smart Museum thought partners and community members. The evening program and exhibition serve as a “welcoming table” for dialogue around issues of art access, community engagement, and belonging.
In addition to cocktails and monochromatic bites, the evening also includes in-gallery performances of color-corresponding monologues from the choreopoem For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuff by Ntozake Shange.
FREE, but space is very limited. In addition to invited thought partners, a limited number of seats will be available to the public. Advanced registration is required. RSVP info will be available soon.
Image: Linda Montano, 7 Years of Living Art, and Another 7 Years of Living Art = 14 Years of Living Art (detail), 1984–1998, Performance relics, seven sets of coats each corresponding to the color of one of the seven chakras, Accompanied with seven pairs of shoes from the performance. Courtesy of Volatile [redux], Cincinnati, Ohio.
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This event takes place at: Cochrane-Woods Art Center, 5540 S. Greenwood Avenue, Room 157
In conjunction with Monochrome Multitudes, the Smart Museum of Art and University of Chicago partners present a quarter-long artist talk series.
Join Byron Kim and other exhibiting artists as they consider the rich and sometimes idiosyncratic references and resonances in their own work, while also speaking to the histories of the monochrome and abstraction broadly conceived.
FREE, but space is limited. Advanced registration encouraged »
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Byron Kim received a B.A. from Yale University in 1983 and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1986. Kim’s formal paintings double as portraits and landscape paintings, utilizing the languages of formal abstraction, observational paintings, and conceptual art. His well-known Synecdoche series (1991–present) is a group portrait composed of hundreds of 10 x 8 in panels, each painted to match the skin tone of a sitter. Four panels from Synecdoche are on display in Monochrome Multitudes. His work is in the permanent collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Berkeley Art Museum; the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin; the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.; the Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Norton Family Collection, Santa Monica; the Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Whitney Museum of American Art; and the Worcester Art Museum
Image: Byron Kim, installation detail from the series Synecdoche, 1992, Oil and wax on lauan plywood, birch plywood, and plywood. Collection of Helyn Goldenberg and Michael Alper. Photo by Claire Rich.
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This intimate symposium seeks to bring together experts from theater, literature, and art history to explore the relation between page and stage. Sponsored by UChicago’s Center for East Asian Studies in conjunction with the Smart Museum of Art, Franke Institute for the Humanities, and the Center for the Art of East Asia.
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Family Days at the Smart Museum are designed to celebrate the creative potential in all of us. With new projects every month, Family Days offer opportunities for kids and their caregivers to create together and connect with one another. Each program is unique, fun, and free, emphasizing invention, improvisation, and hands-on creativity.
This Saturday, build wild baubles, bells, stuffed shapes, and cool jewelry for your kicks. Turn your shoes into winged things, create silvery sensational sandals, and make your boots a bit more “boot”iful! This family day is inspired by Yayoi Kusama’s silver shoe sculpture on view in Monochrome Multitudes. All the projects are made to be temporarily tied on, so you can take them on or off on your own at home.
FREE, drop-in. Art-making supplies and other materials are provided. Family programs are best for kids 4–12, but all ages are welcomed! Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
Photo by Erik L. Peterson
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Consider the perceptive, emotive, and artistic resonance of “blue.”
Blue is a color in nature and art, a genre of music, and a mood. It is associated with distance, serenity, intelligence, and sadness. “Into the Blue” asks us to consider the multi-dimensional resonance of blue from the art historical to the neurobiological. How is our experience of Blue, common and disparate? Does our perception change depending on its presentation? Why do we call it the Blues?
Presented by the Smart Museum of Art in collaboration with Logan Center for the Arts, this program begins with a close looking exercise within the “blue room” of the exhibition Monochrome Multitudes. Afterward, University of Chicago faculty share disciplinary perspectives of the color blue through the lens of art history, neurobiology, and anthropology. The evening concludes with a live performance from Lead Museum Educator and Blues singer Katherine Davis.
FREE, but space is limited. RSVP info will be available soon.
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This event will take place at the Logan Center for the Arts, 915 E. 60th Street
Color is the focus of this Film Studies Center program; or, more correctly, monochromatic color and the diverse ways that eleven different artists have used either a single color exclusively or various colors one at a time.
The always-playful Émile Cohl’s Le Peintre Neo-Impressioniste (1910) combines live action and his trademark animation to “illustrate” the single-hued subjects of a modernist painter. Yves Klein’s Bas Relief in a Forest of Sponges (1959) moves beyond simple documentation of one of his blue-dominant installation works. Joyce Wieland’s Hand Tinting (1967) transforms footage from a Jobs Corps documentary through her editing and the coloring of the footage through the titular process. Paul Sharits’ aggressive color field flicker film T, O, U, C, H, I, N, G (1968) intercuts single color frames and images of a man about to cut off his tongue. Hollis Frampton foregrounds yellow in his wry “still life” Lemon (1969), and dn rodowick answers with an orange in Pyramid (2016). Pierre Rovere’s cameraless structural film Red Light (1975) presents patterns of red, then blue, dots. Several recent artists continuing the creative exploration of monochromatic possibilities include Fred Worden (Plotting the Grey Scale: 2 or 3 Quick Traverses, 1986), Maida Barbour (Linda M. Montano’s Seven Years of Living Art, 1994), Jeanne Liotta (Loretta, 2003), and Simon Payne (New Ratio, 2007).
FREE, open to the public. Doors open a half-hour before the top of the show. Seating is limited and offered on a first come-first served basis unless otherwise noted. Please call for information or assistance.
Co-curated by Patrick Friel and Mike Phillips. (1910–2016, various countries, 76 min., digital video, 35mm, and 16mm)
Presented by the Film Studies Center in conjunction with the Smart Museum of Art’s exhibition Monochrome Multitudes.
Image: Still from Paul Sharits’ T, O, U, C, H, I, N, G (1968)
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This event takes place at Cochrane-Woods Art Center, 5540 S. Greenwood Avenue, Room 157
In conjunction with Monochrome Multitudes, the Smart Museum of Art and University of Chicago partners present a quarter-long artist talk series.
Join Haegue Yang and other exhibiting artists as they consider the rich and sometimes idiosyncratic references and resonances in their own work, while also speaking to the histories of the monochrome and abstraction broadly conceived.
FREE, but space is limited. Advanced registration encouraged »
Haegue Yang’s artist talk is co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Spanning a vast range of media—from collage to kinetic sculpture and room-scaled installations—Haegue Yang’s work links disparate histories and traditions in a visual idiom all her own. The artist draws on a variety of craft techniques and materials, and the cultural connotations they carry: from drying racks to venetian blinds, hanji paper to artificial straw. She is known for her multisensory environments that activate perception beyond the visual, creating immersive experiences that treat issues such as labor, migration and dislocation, replete with references to various moments of abstraction throughout art history.
Haegue Yang (b. 1971, Seoul) lives and works between Berlin and Seoul. She serves as Vice-Rector of the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, where she also graduated as Meisterschüler in 1999. A recipient of Germany’s Wolfgang Hahn Prize in 2018, Yang has been the subject of major solo exhibitions at museums around the world, including the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (2022); the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2020); Tate St. Ives, United Kingdom (2020); National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (2020); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2019); Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2018); Centre George Pompidou, Paris (2016); Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul (2015); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2012); and the Korean Pavilion of the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009). Her work has been the subject of numerous essays and monographs and is included in public collections across Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
Yang will be represented in Monochrome Multitudes with a new installation commissioned by the Smart Museum as part of the ongoing Threshold series, titled Sol LeWitt Upside Down onto Wall – Modular Wall Structure, Expanded 20 Times, a sculpture in venetian blinds inspired by Sol LeWitt’s modular white grids set against a “quasi-Yves Klein Blue” wall, as well as a series of spice prints, titled Cinnamon Sheets Composition, on loan from a local private collector.
Image: Haegue Yang, Cinnamon Sheets Composition, 2017. STPI handmade mulberry paper, cinnamon spices. Photo: Katariina Traeskelin, courtesy of STPI, Singapore.
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Smart Museum of Art, 5550 S. Greenwood Avenue
What do trumpeter Miles Davis, Yves Klein, a little boy in a nursery rhyme, and a bride on her wedding day all have in common? They all know a thing or two about the color blue!
Join Smart Museum Lead Museum Educators for a guided inquiry-based tour and discussion in the exhibition Monochrome Multitudes. Together, explore select works on view and investigate some of the ways the color blue connects to mood and emotion.
FREE, open to all.
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In conjunction with Monochrome Multitudes, the Smart Museum of Art and University of Chicago partners present a quarter-long artist talk series.
Join Tobias Rehberger and other exhibiting artists as they consider the rich and sometimes idiosyncratic references and resonances in their own work, while also speaking to the histories of the monochrome and abstraction broadly conceived.
FREE, but space is limited. Advanced registration encouraged »
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Tobias Rehberger studied at the Staedelschule in Frankfurt am Main with Martin Kippenberger where he currently teaches. Rehberger’s artistic practice transforms architecture, design, and industrial objects into high-chroma, often absurdist, multi-media installations. He is represented in Monochrome Multitudes by his time-based installation 81 years (2002), a video that takes a lifetime to display, pixel by pixel, the entire color spectrum. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Basel (1998); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1998); Sprengel Museum, Hannover (1998); Museum Für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe (2002); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2002); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2004); Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2014); Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai (2019); and Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart (2022); and received the Golden Lion award for best artist at the 2009 Venice Biennale.
Image: Tobias Rehberger, 81 Years, 2002, Dimensions variable, Computer software projection installation. Tobias Rehberger and neugerriemschneider, Berlin
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Family Days at the Smart Museum are designed to celebrate the creative potential in all of us. With new projects every month, Family Days offer opportunities for kids and their caregivers to create together and connect with one another. Each program is unique, fun, and free, emphasizing invention, improvisation, and hands-on creativity.
This Saturday, fight the winter chill by creating warm colorful weavings! The yarn weavings will be about the size of a book—perfect for making your favorite stuffed animals cozy. Or, sew your creations together to start a family quilt. The activities are inspired by fiber art in Monochrome Multitudes by Sheila Hicks and Claire Zeisler.
FREE, drop-in. Art-making supplies and other materials are provided. Family programs are best for kids 4–12, but all ages are welcomed! Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
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This event takes place at Logan Center for the Arts, Performance Penthouse, 915 E. 60th Street
Solo concert by Bonnie Jones, a Korean-American improvising musician and poet, working primarily with electronic sound and text.
Jones premieres samessame (2022), a multichannel electronic music, sonic counter-narrative. Using field recordings, circuit bent electronics, samples, and historical recordings, samesame considers how the specificities of our individual experience and perception of the world are reflected and refracted within geopolitical and historical conditions.
FREE, but space is limited. RSVP info will be available soon.
Presented by the Smart Museum and Lampo.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Bonnie Jones is a Korean-American improvising musician, poet, and performer working with electronic sound and text. She performs solo and in numerous collaborative music, film, and visual art projects. Bonnie was a founding member of the Transmodern Festival and CHELA Gallery and is currently a member of the High Zero Festival collective. In 2010, along with Suzanne Thorpe she co-founded TECHNE, an organization that develops anti-racist, feminist workshops that center on technology-focused art making, improvisation, and community collaboration. She has received commissions from the London ICA and Walters Art Museum and has presented her work extensively at institutions in the US, Mexico, Europe and Asia. Bonnie was a 2018 recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. Born in South Korea she was raised on a dairy farm in New Jersey, and currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland and Providence RI on the lands of the Susquehannock, Piscataway, Algonquian, and Narrangansett.
LAMPO
Founded in 1997, Lampo supports artists working in new music, experimental sound, and other interdisciplinary practices. Lampo helps these artists realize ambitious, risk-taking performances, and offers the public opportunities to actively engage with their work.
Photo by Nora Belblidia
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Family Days at the Smart Museum are designed to celebrate the creative potential in all of us. With new projects every month, Family Days offer opportunities for kids and their caregivers to create together and connect with one another. Each program is unique, fun, and free, emphasizing invention, improvisation, and hands-on creativity.
Have you ever looked in the sky or looked deeply into Lake Michigan and just saw BLUE as far as the eye can see? This Saturday, jump into the color blue and explore how one single color can open up a universe of possibilities. Play with blue sand, create giant blue drawings and paintings, and listen to blues music all afternoon long. The activities are inspired by the blue room in Monochrome Multitudes, featuring works by Helen Frankenthaler, Ellsworth Kelly, Yves Klein, Haegue Yang, and others.
FREE, drop-in. Art-making supplies and other materials are provided. Family programs are best for kids 4–12, but all ages are welcomed! Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
Photo by Erik L. Peterson
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The things we call art can, at their best, provide a way to peek a sideways glance at the emotions behind someone else’s human experience. In this relating to others—be they friends, family, strangers, or the citizens of a different time and place—facts and truth go only so far.
The Metropol Drama proposes another way of looking at our aesthetic, economic, and emotional history—one that it rooted in the contradictions of interaction that produce peoples and states that are smudged and complex, hybrid and tragic. Having gone by many names, today we call this social and economic amalgam “cosmopolitanism.” The term can best be thought of as a kind of shorthand for a sensibility where the exchange of capital, ideas, and people have provided fertile ground and vulnerabilities for ways of feeling and living.
This exhibition is a case study in how the things we call art speak to and embody values. It presents a terrain comprised of traditionally-defined works of art and artifacts, as well as objects such as legal documents and currencies—forms of negotiation between peoples. The diversity of objects within the exhibition space reflects the ways in which we form the complex subjectivities of selfhood across cultures since the time of the ancients up until the present moment within ourselves.
CURATORS Geof Oppenheimer, Associate Professor of Practice, Department of Visual Arts, in coordination with Berit Ness, Associate Curator for Academic Engagement
Support for this exhibition has been provided by the Smart Museum’s Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry, and the Museum’s SmartPartners.
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FREE, open to the public. Advanced registration encouraged.
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A new exhibition at the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art addresses the role of photography in Africa’s long 1960s—a period of resistance, revolution, new national and transnational movements, and the stuff of daily life therein. not all realisms: photography, Africa, and the long 1960s (February 23–June 4, 2023) focuses on Ghana, Mali, and South Africa and features photographic prints, reprints, books, magazines, posters, and other material means through which photography’s relationships to real people and events were articulated, produced, and circulated.
The exhibition brings together nearly 60 photographic prints—including works by photographers such as Ernest Cole, Malick Sidibé, James Barnor, Peter Magubane, Seydou Keïta, Paul Strand, and Henri Cartier-Bresson—and displays them alongside over 130 publications and pieces of print ephemera, many of which come from Chicago-area collections, including UChicago’s Regenstein Library, Northwestern’s Herskovits Library of African Studies, and the Art Institute of Chicago. In the exhibition’s examination of the enduring significance of the 1960s, it reaches back into the 1950s and forward into the present, by incorporating contemporary works in other media by Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Sam Nhlengethwa that engage and reimagine photographic materials from that era.
“In this exhibition, the 1960s is an idea that’s loose, expansive, hiccupping, looping. not all realisms poses questions about photography’s relationship to time, place, individual experience, and collective continuities, breaks, and transformations. Through a diverse body of material—ranging from studio portraits and magazine photo essays to book-length photographic studies and government pamphlets—the exhibition examines photography’s capacity to construct and convey what happened across Africa during the 1960s. In turn, it challenges us to consider our own relationships with photography and our hopes for what photographs can be and do,” said guest curator Leslie M. Wilson, who began this project as a two-year Curatorial Fellow at the Smart Museum from 2019–2021. She is now Associate Director of Academic Engagement and Research at the Art Institute of Chicago.
“I am grateful to Leslie and the team for realizing an impactful and thoughtful project that will stand as the Smart’s first self-organized exhibition focusing on material from Africa,” said Vanja V. Malloy, Dana Feitler Director of the Smart Museum. “In addition to serving as a catalyst for expanding the collection and providing opportunities for student research, not all realisms pushes the boundaries of disciplines to engage scholars and build relationships through courses in Art History, Political Science, Anthropology, English, and History across the University, Chicago, and beyond.”
The Smart Museum celebrates the opening of not all realisms and the concurrent exhibition The Metropol Drama (February 23–July 9, 2023) with a free public reception on Thursday, February 23, from 5 to 7 pm.
About the exhibition
For many parts of Africa, to refer to the 1960s is to gesture broadly toward a time of great transformation: the postcolonial turn. But that era of sweeping change is bound up in a chain of events long preceding that watershed decade with ramifications that reach potently into our present. Treating the 1960s expansively as an era and idea, not all realisms: photography, Africa, and the long 1960s examines photography’s role in relation to a time of intense self-consciousness about change, celebration, stagnancy, struggle, and representation.
As an exhibition, not all realisms is divided into four thematic sections. The first section, “making matter,” introduces the wide range of printed matter in the exhibition. It emphasizes the conversation between images, as well as text, and how the outlets for photography’s circulation reveal varying desires for representation, changing technologies and platforms for communication, and shifting political conditions. Next, “before & after” considers how change is represented. It explores how governments and non-governmental organizations represented the impact of their policies, aiming to make persuasive cases for the success of their visions. And it also reflects on altogether more personal transformations. The section “us & not-us” asks: how is it that people often look at photographs of others and claim to see themselves? How do portraits of individuals, places, and systems do the work of representation, and how do people identify (or not) with those representations? Finally, “again & again” looks at how the visual vocabularies of sixties-era African photography have reemerged over time, and features examples of artists working today who reach back to the sixties to reflect on the past and contemplate the future.
The wide-ranging photographic practices represented in this exhibition traced rises and falls, new directions and ongoing struggles. As the official and unofficial collide, as the personal portrait and the object of state surveillance oscillate, and as the flow of people and their image worlds transcend borders and genres, not all realisms considers the ways that the 1960s is still coming into view.
This is the second exhibition in recent years at the Smart to think expansively about recent political and social histories of Africa, joining the fall 2019 presentation of Meleko Mokgosi: Bread, Butter, and Power, organized by the Fowler Museum at UCLA.
Related publication
The exhibition will be accompanied by a booklet that offers an expanded series of cross-disciplinary perspectives on African studio and event photography in the long 1960s. It features an in-depth essay by curator Leslie M. Wilson; contributions from University of Chicago faculty members Adom Getachew (Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science), Kathryn Takabvirwa (Assistant Professor of Anthropology), Natacha Nsabimana (Assistant Professor of Anthropology), and Emily Lynn Osborn (Associate Professor of African History); and select object treatments by UChicago Research Assistants Serin Lee (AB ’21), Daisy Coates (AB ’22), and Mariah Bender (AM ’22). Once published, the complimentary booklet will be available in a limited edition for taking in the exhibition and for download on the Museum’s website.
Related public programs
In conjunction with the exhibition, the Smart Museum presents an array of free programs, including exhibition tours, conversations with scholars and curators, and workshops for families and adults. A complete schedule of programs will be posted online at smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/calendar.
About
not all realisms: photography, Africa, and the long 1960s is curated by Leslie M. Wilson, Associate Director of Academic Engagement and Research at the Art Institute of Chicago, with Berit Ness, Associate Director and Curator of Academic Engagement, for the Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry at the Smart Museum of Art.
Support for this exhibition has been provided by the Smart Museum’s Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry Fund, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Endowment, and the Museum’s SmartPartners.
The exhibition is presented in the Robert and Joan Feitler Gallery, the Joel and Carole Bernstein Gallery, and the Richard and Mary L. Gray Gallery.
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Image
Ernest Cole, From “House of Bondage,” 1960s, Gelatin silver print. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Gift of the Estate of Lester and Betty Guttman, 2014.224. © Ernest Cole / Magnum Photo.
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Logan Center for the Arts, 915 E. 60th Street, Room 901
In this talk presented by the Open Practice Committee in the Department of Visual Arts, The Metropol Drama exhibiting artist John Miller discusses his most recent photographic and video work.
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Image: Tip of the Iceberg, 2019.
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Drop in and use recycled cardboard tubes and boxes to assemble an imaginary camera during this Family Day inspired by photographs on view in not all realisms.
FREE, drop-in. Art-making supplies and other materials are provided
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Calling on the Past invites visitors to experience the Smart Museum’s collection anew, through a sensory exploration of color, texture, and form.
In lieu of customary chronological or geographical divisions, such as those that have often guided the display of the collection in the past, this installation draws on the breadth and depth of the Museum’s holdings to situate key works side by side across centuries. From antiquities to contemporary painting and sculpture, the cross-historical selection of objects speaks to the varied materials, ideas, and questions artists continue to explore, while emphasizing the editing of history.
Calling on the Past is inspired in part by art historian George Kubler’s seminal text The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things (1962), which argues the art of the past is in constant conversation with the present. Kubler replaces the notion of art historical styles with the understanding that time is both linear and looped, and artists have been revisiting the same sets of questions across the ages. Rather than emphasizing objects’ original context, this exhibition inserts them into imaginative groupings, unraveling historical hierarchies and encouraging us to see the collection with fresh eyes.
“Knowing the past is as astonishing a performance as knowing the stars. Astronomers look only at old light. There is no other light for them to look at. This old light of dead or distant stars was emitted long ago and it reaches us only in the present.”
—George Kubler
CURATOR Jennifer Carty, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art
Image: Amir H. Fallah, Calling on the Past, 2018, Acrylic on canvas. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Gift of the 2018 Northern Trust Purchase Prize, 2018.46.
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Join us for the first in a series of “Create-a-Country” Family Days! Dream, vision, and build imaginary countries, designed by kids and inspired by ideas and artworks presented throughout the Smart Museum of Art this spring.
A country, at its core, is a place, its people, and an idea. This Saturday, draw a map of your imagined nation and use colorful ink washes to fill it with lakes, mountains, roads, and cities. Then, try your hand at calligraphy, using calligraphy pens, quills, and ink brushes to write out the ways in which your country should work—a kid’s constitution and bill of rights!
FREE, drop-in. Art-making supplies and other materials are provided. Family programsare best for kids 4–12, but all ages are welcomed! Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
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FREE, open to the public. Advanced registration encouraged. Walk-ins will be welcome as space allows.
Celebration and Performances
Join the Smart Museum of Art for an evening of art, performance, and conversation in celebration of the special exhibition Calling on the Past. This exhibition invites visitors to experience the Smart’s collection anew, and highlights old favorites and recent acquisitions on display for the first time.
The after-hours reception features performances by puppetry artist Samuel J. Lewis II and poet Audrey Petty, a walkthrough with exhibition curator Jennifer Carty, and gallery talks throughout the evening led by our Museum Educators. Plus, food, drink, and conversation.
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Drop in for a figure drawing session with live models posing in the galleries and lobby. Led by Outlisde the Lines, this workshop is inspired by work by Amir H. Fallah and other artists in Calling on the Past.
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FREE, but space is limited. Please register in advance.
Celebrate the launch of the companion booklet to not all realisms: photography, Africa, and the long 1960s during this roundtable discussion that foregrounds the essays and contributions of UChicago faculty.
Join faculty writers Adom Getachew (Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College), Emily Lynn Obsorn (Associate Professor in the Department of History and the College), Kathryn Takabvirwa (Assistant Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College), and Natacha Nsabimana (Assistant Professor of Anthropology) in conversation with guest curator Leslie M. Wilson. The discussion will touch on the work of Ernest Cole and Sam Nhlengethwa, decolonization and the struggle for national independence in West Africa, transformation, and an expansive yet diverse body of photography.
The evening begins with a semi-directed close looking exercise in not all realisms, followed by the roundtable discussion and open Q&A. After the discussion, enjoy light refreshments in the Smart Museum of Art’s reception hall.
Presented by the Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry at the Smart Museum of Art and the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs (OMSA).
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Celebrate the launch of the not all realisms booklet during a roundtable discussion featuring Adom Getachew, Emily Lynn Obsorn, Kathryn Takabvirwa, Natacha Nsabimana, and Leslie Wilson.
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Smart Scholar and UChicago College student Simone Gulliver leads a discussion of the poem Voyage of the Sable Venus by Robin Coste Lewis and a lithograph by Robert Cottingham.
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FREE, drop in. Art-making supplies and other materials are provided Learn more »
Join us for the second in a series of “Create-a-Country” Family Days! Dream, vision, and build imaginary countries, designed by kids and inspired by ideas and artworks presented throughout the Museum this spring.
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The public culmination of the UChicago Theater and Performance Studies course “Site-Based Practice,” through which students created a collaborative work that responds to our gallery spaces and exhibitions.
FREE, learn more »
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FREE. Please register in advance »
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Dancing the Twist in Bamako, a 2021 film that is inspired in part by the 1960s photographs by Malick Sidibé, examples of which are on display in not all realisms.
FREE, drop in. Learn more »
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FREE, drop-in. Art-making supplies and other materials are provided. Family programs are best for kids 4–12, but all ages are welcomed! Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
Join us for the continuation of the Smart Museum of Art’s series of “Create-a-Country” Family Days! Dream, vision, and build imaginary countries, designed by kids and inspired by ideas and artworks presented throughout the galleries this spring.
This Saturday, make your own money! Create metal coins and wearable copper currency inspired by ancient Babylonian coil currency. Then, design and draw your own dollar bills, paper money to play with and exchange with your friends, and participate in Mel Chin's Fundred project as well.
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Ted Stamm: In Transit celebrates the work of Ted Stamm (1944–1984), an artist whose gregarious practice expanded abstract painting into his everyday life. Employing stencils and spray paint, mail art, games of chance, collaboration, and site-specific performances, the artist blended contemporary experience with modernist abstraction.
This small, focused exhibition centers on a selection of Stamm’s paintings and drawings all titled after Wooster Street, the Lower Manhattan corridor where the artist lived and worked in the 1970s and early 1980s. After encountering an abstract shape on the street, Stamm played with its repetition at different scales to affect a sense of malleability between color, architecture, and place. Featuring small-scale monochromatic wood panel paintings, recently acquired graphite drawings, and archival material, Ted Stamm: In Transit invites you to consider yourself within the museum space and to seek inspiration in the everyday.
Image: Ted Stamm, PW-14 (Ply Wooster), 1978, Oil on wood, 8 x 5 in. Collection of Amy Gold and Brett Gorvy, New York. © Ted Stamm Estate.
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Plus, from 2–3 pm, join our partners from the Chicago Public Library for a Destination Discover Story Time featuring books all about shapes and colors.
FREE, drop-in. Art-making supplies and other materials are provided. Family programsare best for kids 4–12, but all ages are welcomed! Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
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Bring your friends and pop the summer into high gear with an art-making celebration inspired by artist Ted Stamm.
Drop by the Smart Museum of Art and explore how Stamm blended contemporary experiences with modernist abstraction through his “Wooster” series. Then, move to our outdoor sculpture garden to make your own Wooster-shaped magnets to post around your neighborhood on cars, fridges, lightpoles, and benches.
Plus, enjoy (free) delicious hand-crafted frozen treats from Frio’s Popsicle Truck!
FREE, open to all. All materials provided, all skill levels welcome.
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This combination gallery talk and film screening explores Mark Rothko’s color field paintings and his captivation with seeing religious artwork in its original context in Italy.
Join curator Jennifer Carty for a close look at No. 2, a signature 1962 Abstract Expressionist painting by Rothko in the Smart Museum of Art’s collection, as well as other luminous paintings from the Renaissance on display in Calling on the Past. Then, walk across campus to the nearby Logan Center for the Arts for a special screening of the 2016 film The Silence of Mark Rothko.
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FREE, drop-in.
Join us for a close look at pairings of works from the collection on display in Calling on the Past.
Led by a Museum Educator, each Saturday afternoon gallery talk offers a guided exploration of two or more works that have been set in conversation with one another, speaking to wide-ranging themes like identity, love, reclamation, and loss.
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Join guest artist and roller-skating champ Alisha Webster for a summertime rollerskating and art-making festival!
FREE, drop in. Art-making supplies and other materials are provided. Learn more »
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FREE, drop in. Learn more »
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FREE, but space is limited.
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What is poetry and why do we do it?
This exhibition examines the practice of poetry as a form of communication, linguistic innovation, political performance, and embodied presence—considering how poetry can be a lens for understanding humanity. Ranging from an ancient fragment of papyrus to contemporary video works, this diverse collection of objects speaks to themes of memory, kinship, revolution, and play, as well as translation and adaptation over time. And, as a visual arts exhibition, foregrounds poetry’s adjacencies to other forms of making.
Organized by the Museum’s Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry, Poetry is Everything is the third iteration of “Smart to the Core,” a collaborative series of exhibitions that are simultaneously designed for teaching in the University’s celebrated Core undergraduate curriculum and curated to make that curriculum accessible to broader publics. This exhibition was particularly inspired by, and curated for, the Humanities Division course “Poetry and the Human.” Throughout the exhibition, around 200 first-year students will interpret the artworks on view in tandem with the global set of readings associated with their course—transforming the Museum into their classroom.
Above: Jackson Mac Low, Drawing Asymmetry #42, 1961, Ink on paper. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Purchase, The Paul and Miriam Kirkley Fund for Acquisitions, 2017.131.
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The Smart Museum of Art presents the first monographic museum exhibition devoted to Ruth Duckworth in nearly twenty years, foregrounding the artist’s sculptural production across a prolific period in Chicago and at the University of Chicago. Ruth Duckworth: Life as a Unity (September 21, 2023–February 4, 2024) brings together a diverse array of nearly sixty objects made between 1966 and 2005—earthy vessels, large-scale clay-tile murals in high relief, bird-like stoneware figures, and nearly translucent porcelain sculptures—and traces the influence of geomorphology and the nascent environmental movement across Duckworth’s work.
“Like many women working in craft media at mid-century, Ruth Duckworth did not receive the critical consideration her work merits,” said Laura Steward, Curator of Public Art. “This exhibition and accompanying catalogue are the result of the growth of ‘eco-criticism’ in the field of art history. This novel critical framework allows us to center the artist’s relationship with the natural world, which in Duckworth’s case was profoundly influenced by the ‘Satellite Era’ and her engagement with the geophysical sciences at UChicago.”
Life as a Unity also marks the arrival of Duckworth’s Clouds Over Lake Michigan to its new home in the first floor reading room of the University’s Joseph Regenstein Library. This monumental, 240-square-foot, 1976 ceramic slab wall sculpture is a recent gift of Cboe Global Markets and was a fixture of the Cboe headquarters in Chicago’s Loop for decades.
“Libraries like Regenstein are simultaneously places for intense study and research, as well as sources of inspiration and community,” said Torsten Reimer, University Librarian and Dean of the University Library. “The creation of knowledge and the inspiration of art have always been closely linked, and we are delighted to highlight this connection by displaying Ruth Duckworth’s Clouds Over Lake Michigan prominently at the entrance of the Regenstein Library. We are also pleased to know that the archives of the Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center proved useful to the creators of the Smart Museum exhibition as they were researching Duckworth’s connections to UChicago.”
On campus, Clouds Over Lake Michigan joins Earth, Water, Sky, from 1968, an environment in clay that covers four walls and the ceiling of the foyer of the Henry Hinds Laboratory for Geophysical Sciences. Both works will be accessible to the public throughout the exhibition, and beyond.
“The Smart is honored to present Life as a Unity, celebrating Ruth Duckworth’s expansive life, career, and deep connections to Chicago and the University,” said Vanja Malloy, Dana Feitler Director of the Smart Museum of Art. “This exhibition reintroduces Duckworth as a critical and compelling visual artist and reexamines her practice and research through interdisciplinary scholarship. Duckworth’s impact can be seen and experienced in every aspect of this presentation: from partnership opportunities with UChicago students and colleagues, to programming that engages the community, and in the public installations of the artist’s work across campus. As the Smart approaches its fiftieth year, it is important that we share and reflect on the significant history and cultural exchange at UChicago and the Museum itself. Life as a Unity embodies the Smart’s mission, as well as its vision for the future.”
Life as a Unity features several objects on loan from close friends of the artist that have never been publicly exhibited. Other objects are on public view for the first time in decades, including a 1974 ceramic wall relief from the Smart’s collection. The exhibition also presents other more well-known works in new contexts, such as the mural Clouds Over Illinois (1985), which was on permanent display in the State of Illinois James R. Thompson Center prior to the building’s sale last year.
About the exhibition
“I think of life as a unity. This includes mountains, mice, rocks, trees, women, and men. It’s all one big lump of clay.” —Ruth Duckworth
When Ruth Duckworth arrived in Chicago from London to teach at the University of Chicago’s Midway Studios in 1964, she planned to stay for a year. Instead, she lived in the city for nearly fifty years until her death in 2009—half her life. It is strange, then, that she is still primarily known as a “British studio potter,” rather than as an innovative Chicago sculptor, deeply engaged in the natural world and responding to artistic developments in the United States in the 1960s and 70s.
This monographic exhibition makes use of art historical advances of the last several decades to examine Duckworth’s Chicago work in a new light. Duckworth referred to herself not as a potter or ceramicist, but as a sculptor with clay. The exhibition takes her at her word, foregrounding her sculptural practice, fascination with geomorphology, and contemplation of the interconnectedness of nature.
The exhibition begins with a presentation of nearly thirty works across a series of gently curving tiered platforms in a large central gallery. Combined on these open-air plinths are varying sculptures made between the 1960s and 2000s: spherical Mama Pots with fractured surfaces, tall abstract forms in stoneware, and other clay objects. Large-scale murals and wall sculptures are presented throughout, highlighting reoccurring geological and meteorological motifs and showcasing the influence of geomorphology on Duckworth’s overall practice. Another section of the exhibition is dedicated to a series of small, pristine “cups and blades,” which the artist returned to at different points in her career.
As a coda, the exhibition also presents archival material that documents the dawn of the Satellite Era, the emergence of a more unified approach to the natural sciences, and the new environmental perspectives and activism of the 1960s. Through archival materials from the Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center at the University of Chicago Library and other sources, it connects Duckworth to key figures at the University of Chicago and Hyde Park, such as Professor of Meteorology Tetsuya “Ted” Fujita, whose photographs of clouds the artist first encountered when working on the commission Earth, Water, Sky; Martyl Langsdorf, who designed the iconic Doomsday Clock for the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists; and Laura Fermi, who founded the Hyde Park Committee for Cleaner Air.
The 58 objects featured in the exhibition are drawn from public and private collections in the Midwest, including the Smart Museum of Art, the Illinois State Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Racine Art Museum, and the Schweikher House and Studio, as well as the artist’s estate.
Life as a Unity is the first exhibition devoted to Duckworth since the 2005 touring retrospective Ruth Duckworth: Modernist Sculptor.
About the artist
Born in Hamburg, Germany in 1919, Ruth Windmüller Duckworth fled to England in 1936, where she built a career as a ceramicist during the post-war period. As a young artist in the 1940s and 50s, she struggled like so many others, working as a tombstone cutter, button-maker, and puppeteer, trying several art schools before finally graduating from the Central School of Arts and Crafts.
In 1964 at the invitation of the University of Chicago, Duckworth immigrated to the U.S. to teach ceramics at Midway Studios. In 1966, she had her first solo exhibition in the U.S. at the Renaissance Society, where she attracted the attention of Julian Goldsmith, Dean of Geophysical Sciences. Goldsmith, an avid collector of pre-Columbian ceramics, commissioned Duckworth to create a ceramic installation for the Hinds Geophysical Laboratory, then under construction. This experience had a profound impact on the artist throughout her long career.
She died in Chicago in 2009, at the age of 90, having significantly expanded the possibilities of her chosen medium.
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This concert experience actively addresses subjects of wellness and community through music, poetry, and nature guided by selections from Tyler’s Sow the Seeds: A Composition in Verse. Each poem plows the surface of daily living, to plant and nurture the meditations that yield our understanding of life and features musical works inspired by local green spaces. Throughout the performance, audiences are encouraged to converse, journal, and reflect on the ways they treat their neighbors and themselves.
FREE, but space is limited. Please register in advance.
Create incredible works of art using the forces of nature—wind, erosion, and magnetism—during this drop-in Family Day.
Celebrate Ruth Duckworth’s love of nature and explore how the same natural forces that move mountains and create canyons can be used to make art! Experiment with straws and colorful inks to make “wind paintings,” use a water and sand table to play with erosion, and build your own magnetic drawing pad.
FREE, drop-in. Art-making supplies and other materials are provided. Family programs are best for kids 4–12, but all ages are welcomed! Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
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On Humanities Day, join Professor Daisy Delogu for an examination of the ways in which the figure of Joan has been invoked and deployed over the centuries to serve a dizzying array of religious, political, cultural, and artistic ends. This talk in the study room will be illustrated in part by a small selection of objects on display from the Smart Museum of Art’s collection.
Learn more about Humanities Day
An annual tradition at the University of Chicago since 1980, Humanities Day celebrates the humanities with free discussions, tours, performances, and lectures featuring the latest research of the award-winning faculty in the Division of the Humanities.
FREE, but space is limited. Register online at humanitiesday.uchicago.edu.
Angel Bat Dawid performs an original Afro-sonic sonata for clarinet and piano, responding to the works of sculptor Ruth Duckworth.
In this continuation of the Smart Museum of Art’s Moon Songs series, internationally renowned composer and multitalented artistic genius Angel Bat Dawid presents an interstellar musical tribute to sculptor Ruth Duckworth though her expert command of various instruments and original compositions, orchestrated under the inspiration of Duckworth’s philosophical leanings toward the interconnectivity of life.
FREE, but space is limited. Tickets will be released early this fall.
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During this monthly Family Day, become an “astro-artist” and create glow-in-the-dark starscapes for your bedroom, make shimmering moon posters that can change phases, and even play with a moon balloon. The afternoon art activities are inspired by artist Ruth Duckworth’s love of the natural world and an anecdote that she once climbed to the roof of her studio and sang a song to the full moon.
FREE, drop-in. Art-making supplies and other materials are provided. Family programs are best for kids 4–12, but all ages are welcomed! Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
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Thursday, November 16, 6 pm
Gordon Parks Arts Hall, Griffin Auditorium,
The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools
5815 S. Kimbark Avenue
Join the Smart Museum of Art as we welcome exhibiting artist Bethany Collins for a talk on her series The Odyssey (2018–ongoing) and her broader practice of engaging language and poetics.
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Smart to the Core: Poetry is Everything, where The Odyssey: 2000 / 2017 is on view, with support from the University of Chicago Humanities Collegiate Division.
FREE. Advanced registration encouraged, as space may be limited.
About the artist
Bethany Collins is a multidisciplinary artist whose conceptually driven work is fueled by a critical exploration of how race and language interact. Language is both her subject and primary material—from dictionaries and encyclopedias to literary journals and newspaper archives. Language is also a prism through which she explores American history and the nuance of racial and national identities.
Collins received her BA in Studio Art and Photojournalism from the University of Alabama in 2007, and her MFA from Georgia State University in 2012. She was the 2013-2014 Artist-in-Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, and 2019 Public Humanities Practitioner-in-Residence at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. Collins was awarded the Hudgens Prize in 2015 and Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship in 2018. Upcoming and recent solo museum exhibitions include presentations at the Frist Museum, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, CAM St. Louis, Peabody Essex Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Collins is a Lecturer in UChicago’s Department of Visual Arts.
Emmy-nominated, award-winning writer, filmmaker and author Kevin Coval shares ekphrastic poems and Chicago stories in dialogue with the works of sculptor Ruth Duckworth. Join the Smart Museum of Art for “The Natural World: Reflections on Halstead” and the conclusion to our full moon performance series.
FREE. Advanced registration encouraged, as space may be limited.
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Join exhibition curator Laura Steward for a guided tour of the exhibition and discussion of Ruth Duckworth’s sculptural production across a prolific period in Chicago and at the University of Chicago.
FREE, learn more and register »
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During this monthly Family Day, create clay slabs, make tile relief sculptures, and collaborate at our one-of-a-kind clay-play table. The afternoon art activities are inspired by works on display in Ruth Duckworth: Life as a Unity.
FREE, drop-in. Art-making supplies and other materials are provided. Family programs are best for kids 4–12, but all ages are welcomed! Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
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In collaboration with the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago, the Smart invites you to an evening of reflection, conversation, and performance. This feast of ideas within the exhibition Calling on the Pastfeatures a live performance and short talks by UChicago students about ideas they feel passionate about.
Hosted by Ross Shapiro (Class of 2024, Philosophy and Statistics), with a performance by Conor Krane (Class of 2020, Fundamentals and German) and talks by Nevin Hall (Class of 2026, Economics and Political Science), Leo Kupperman (Class of 2026, Mathematics), Marcus Longo (Class of 2025, Computational and Applied Mathematics), and Lauren Rooney (Class of 2024, Art History and Romance Languages and Literatures).
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Join guest artist Maria Villarreal and make your own mosaic art inspired by ancient fragments on view in Calling on the Past.
FREE, drop-in. Art-making supplies and other materials are provided.
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Join us for a special performance by Smart Museum of Art and UChicago alum A. Ng Pavel (BA/MA 2020).
This participatory program and performance is inspired by A. Ng Pavel’s experiences living as an undergraduate at the University of Chicago in Hyde Park and, more recently, as a graduate student in Oxford, Mississippi. Situating childhood memories of their mother’s quilting among the textile works of global diasporas on view in Calling on the Past, Ng Pavel connects the threads of their role as a writer, textile artist, musician, and lyricist to bring us all together in an afternoon of care and rest.
This performance is:
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FREE. Advanced reservation encouraged. Walk-ins will be welcome as space allows.
Smart to the Core: Poetry is Everything explores poetry’s expansiveness through the lens of visual art.
Join exhibition co-curators Berit Ness and Sarah Nooter, Professor in the Department of Classics and the College at the University of Chicago, for a guided tour of the exhibition and a discussion on poetry’s breadth and magnitude.
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Join us for in-gallery conversation and walk-through of Ruth Duckworth: Life As A Unity.
Led by artists Katherine (Kitty) Ross and Amber Ginsburg, this conversation considers Ruth Duckworth’s work and practice beyond a \"studio potter\" attribution and places her work in the broader context of sculpture, as well as her trajectory in Chicago’s ceramic community.
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EMBODYING CLIMATE
JANUARY 25, 2024
6:00 PM
Related exhibitions: Ruth Duckworth: Life as a Unity
Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, 5550 S. Greenwood Avenue
Reflections on Ruth Duckworth: Life as a Unity in an Era of Climate Change
SPEAKERS
Saadia Mirza, American University in Paris / University of Chicago
Joshi Radin, Chicago-based artist/writer
Alberto Ortega-Trejo, Chicago-based artist, architect, and researcher
MODERATORS
Jessica Landau, UChicago, CEGU (Introduction)
Alexander Arroyo, UChicago, CEGU (Moderator)
Individual and collective experiences of climate change are mediated simultaneously by embodied encounters with extreme weather events and by now-familiar abstractions of climate models and satellite imagery. As we grapple with the increasing dissonance between everyday life and epochal climatic and environmental change, how might we hold these intimate and remote forms of sensing in generative tension? How might we learn from the space between what we can touch, smell, see, or hear and what we can observe or study from afar?
This event explores how the prescient work of sculptor Ruth Duckworth might guide us through that space, offering insight and inspiration for ways of knowing climate and its many forms of change through embodied aesthetic practice. In so doing, Duckworth points toward new forms of climate media attuned to the multiple scales of transformation—climatic, environmental, social, bodily—to which we must so urgently attend.
Join us for a conversation with UChicago faculty and distinguished guests.
FREE. Advanced registration encouraged, as space may be limited.
Presented by the Committee on Environment, Geography, and Urbanization (CEGU) and the Smart Museum of Art’s Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry.
Image: Installation view, Ruth Duckworth: Life as a Unity, Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago. Photo by Bob.
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Join us for a screening of the 3D documentary Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea (2023), which tells the story of the life and work of artist, marine, and acrobat H. C. (Cliff) Westermann.
As a veteran of World War II and the Korean War, Westermann’s dramatic personal history can be traced through beguiling, surreal artworks he made to process the horrors he witnessed on the front lines. Drawing on themes of resiliency, hope, and humor, the film reveals ways in which Westermann protected his empathic spirit—and sanity—by ‘sculpting’ his body, artworks, friendships, his hand-hewn house, and his art-filled letters to his dearest friends and family.
Presented by the Smart Museum of Art and Film Studies Center.
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Saturday, January 27, 1:30–4:30 pm
Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago,
5550 S. Greenwood Avenue
H. C. Westermann Study Collection
The Smart Museum of Art is home to the H. C. Westermann Study Collection, one of the most significant public collections of artwork and archival material related to Westermann’s life and work.
Join us for a special viewing of Westermann’s art-filled letters, sculptures, sketch books, prints, drawings, and photographs—materials that are incorporated into the new 3D documentary Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea.
Register for the collections viewing
You can also attend a screening of the documentary
Join the Smart Museum of Art and Film Studies Center for a day of art, film, and conversation dedicated to the life and work of artist, marine, and acrobat H. C. (Cliff) Westermann.
Screenings: Saturday, January 27, 11:30 am & 5 pm
Logan Center for the Arts, The University of Chicago,
915 East 60th Street, screening room
Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea
(Directed by Leslie Buchbinder, USA, 2023, 86 min., 3D DCP)
Panel Discussion
Following the 5 pm screening, a panel discussion featuring John Corbett (Corbett vs Dempsey), Berit Ness (Smart Museum of Art), Leslie Buchbinder (Pentimenti Productions), and artist Alex Chitty will start a conversation about Westermann’s ongoing significance and his specific legacies in Chicago.
Register for the film screening
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FREE. Advanced registration encouraged, as space may be limited.
Join exhibiting artist Amir H. Fallah for a discussion of his work Calling on the Past and his broader practice around identity, culture, and space.
On view through February 4, the exhibition Calling on the Past borrows its title from Fallah’s painting, and encourages us to see the Smart Museum of Art’s collection with fresh eyes.
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In celebration of Poetry is Everything’s closing weekend, join us for an open mic night of poetry readings and performances. All are welcome to recite a short poem—whether it be your own or one simply you love.
The event will also feature an unfurling of a participatory scroll in the galleries that has accumulated drafts and drawings from Smart Museum visitors over the course of the exhibition. Our collective poem.
Signing up for a reading slot in advance is encouraged. Walk-on recitations will be accommodated as capacity allows.
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Drop by the Smart Museum of Art and make sculptures in celebration of the final weekend of Ruth Duckworth: Life as a Unity.
The afternoon activities make use of our stock of cardboard maquettes—full-scale replicas of Duckworth’s ceramic sculptures, which were used by the exhibition team when planning where to place the real artworks on their plinths and platforms in the galleries. Pick one up and paint it with a colorful design to take home, or build your own cardboard creation from scratch!
FREE, drop-in. Art-making supplies and other materials are provided. Family programs are best for kids 4–12, but all ages are welcomed! Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
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FREE. Advanced registration encouraged, as space may be limited.
In celebration of Black History Month, Black Moon Trio presents Spilling Over: Music Inspired by the Art of Bob Thompson.
This classical music performance and interdisciplinary experience highlights inspirations of Bob Thompson’s own work, seen in the Smart Museum of Art’s 2022 presentation of This House is Mine, including musical representations of other visual artists such as Francisco de Goya, music influenced by New York City Jazz clubs, and works by other artists.
The Chicago-based Black Moon Trio was founded in 2022 by Parker Nelson, Jeremy Vigil, and Khelsey Zarraga. Harnessing the experience from years of professional chamber music performance, music-making in social service settings, facilitating workshops at universities, developing curriculum for youth in schools, and leading community development through music, Black Moon Trio is excited to provide a classical music experience that resonates far beyond the vibrations of a final chord. By engaging with diverse audiences, youth, and artists of every type, Black Moon Trio works to prove that classical music is for everyone.
Co-sponsored by the Logan Center for the Arts and Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, with support from the Music Performance Trust Fund.
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This landmark exhibition takes a fresh look at the art of Japan’s Meiji era (1868–1912), four remarkable decades that propelled the country into the modern era.
Comprising nearly 150 artworks—including paintings, prints, photographs, sculptural works, and objects in various media, such as enamel, lacquer, embroidery, and textiles—the exhibition presents some of the finest examples of Meiji period artworks in American collections, both public and private. Organized around time-honored Japanese motifs, such as the sea and nature, Buddhist deities, and mythical animals, Meiji Modern highlights these themes as they are transformed with the introduction of newly imported techniques, materials, and audiences. The exhibition historically situates the period and transports the public to the latter 19th century—a time of political upheaval, imperial expansion, economic transformation and social unrest worldwide.
Meiji Modern emphasizes modern Japanese artists’ engagement with both European and Asian trends and the concurrent invention of “classical Japan” as a category. Showcasing Japan as a case of nonwestern modernity, the exhibition also addresses issues surrounding art and identity resonant with audiences today.
Top: Watanabe Nobukazu (1872–1944), Bronze Statue of SaigōTakamori in Ueno Park, Tokyo, 1899. Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed vertical ōban triptych, ink and color on paper, overall: 14 1/2 × 28 in. (36.8 × 71.1 cm), each sheet: 14 1/2 × 9 3/4 in. (36.8 × 24.8 cm). Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, Gift of Irwin Lavenberg, The Lavenberg Collection of Japanese Prints, 2021:36.453a–c.
Image: Watanabe Nobukazu (1872–1944), Bronze Statue of SaigōTakamori in Ueno Park, Tokyo, 1899. Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed vertical ōban triptych, ink and color on paper, overall: 14 1/2 × 28 in. (36.8 × 71.1 cm), each sheet: 14 1/2 × 9 3/4 in. (36.8 × 24.8 cm). Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, Gift of Irwin Lavenberg, The Lavenberg Collection of Japanese Prints, 2021:36.453a–c.
Drop by and create wild tiger drawings using bamboo calligraphy brushes and black and orange ink!
FREE, Art-making supplies and other materials are provided. Learn more »
Family programs are supported by the Harper Court Arts Council.
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FREE, all materials provided, all skill levels welcome. Learn more and register »
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FREE, but space is limited. Learn more and register »
Co-presented with UChicago’s Architectural Studies program.
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Enjoy a live performance from Tatsu Aoki’s The MIYUMI Project that illuminates the drum traditions of Japanese taiko and jazz and toast the opening of EXPO ART WEEK with a night of South Side Openings and Events.
Since the band’s formation two decades ago, Aoki has forged an exceptional and inimitable Afro-Asian musical hybrid. Presented in conjunction with Meiji Modern at the Smart Museum of Art, this performance incorporates the drummer languages of taiko and jazz. The MIYUMI Project fuses the Japanese taiko drumming tradition with first-class improvisers—who mostly herald from Chicago where Aoki has been based since 1979—such as woodwind specialists Ed Wilkerson and Mwata Bowden, experimentalist Jamie Kempkers, Tsukasa Taiko and others.
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Dive into the wonderful world of fish and fishing at the Smart Museum of Art.
Get inspired by depictions of fish, fisherman, and the sea in artworks on display throughout the special exhibition Meiji Modern. Then, make your own fish on a fishing pole using toilet paper tubes and colorful streamers, string, and bamboo. The afternoon activities also include a gyotaku fish printing project that uses realistic rubber fish, ink, and paper.
Plus, join our partners from the Chicago Public Library as Librarian Megan reads aloud from the book Window Fishing. In this book written by DK Dyson and illustrated by Rudy Gutierrez, an artist rediscovers his inspiration when he sees a fishing line outside his window with a note reading, “Play with me!”
Family programs are supported by the Harper Court Arts Council.
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Register | FREE, but space is limited. Please register in advance.
Join the Center for the East Asian Studies for an exciting evening of Japanese storytelling, presented in conjunction with Meiji Modern at the Smart Museum of Art.
Performed by a single storyteller who brings to life multiple characters through gesture and voice, rakugo is a dynamic storytelling tradition with 200+ years of history in Japan. While it is perhaps most known today for its brief and comic stories, it has a long legacy of moving tales of human emotion and frightening ghost stories. For this event, Ponta has specially prepared a thrilling piece by San’yūtei Enchō I (1839–1900), the most influential rakugo storyteller of the Meiji period, whose stories captured the atmosphere and dynamism of Japanese society at the end of the nineteenth century.
While the essential elements of rakugo are quite basic—one performer, a fan, a tenugui towel, and a story—the skill of rakugo performers have used these simple elements to develop a performance tradition with a staggering variety of narratives and rich expressive gestures which has lost none of its relevance, humor, or entertainment over its hundreds of years of history.
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago, with support from a Title VI National Resource Center Grant from the U.S. Department of Education, the Global Voices Program at International House, and the Japan Business Society of Detroit.
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Utilizing analog modular synthesizers and modern digital audio technology, Kikù will bring to sonic life a diverse range of influences in the exhibition, from the precise craftsmanship of Meiji cloisonné, to the colorful layering of woodblock prints, to the repeating patterns and tesselating shapes found within ceramic vases in the exhibition.
FREE, open to the public. Space may be limited, please register in advance.
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Leading scholars from the United States, Japan, and Great Britain engage in a wide-ranging discussion of prints, paintings, photographs, and craft objects from the Meiji era.
Co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies, with generous support from a Title VI National Resource Center Grant from the U.S. Department of Education; the Smart Museum of Art; the Center for the Art of East Asia; and the International House’s Global Voices Program at the University of Chicago.
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Organized by the Smart’s Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry.
Join us in celebrating the interdisciplinary and creative work of the 2023–2024 Smart Scholars cohort! This event highlights four undergraduate research projects into the collection and creative interventions in film, poetry, photography, and lyric essay.
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Family programs are supported by the Harper Court Arts Council.
Drop by and create peacock feather masks and make a golden screen featuring our feathered friends. This afternoon of free family activities is inspired by the many magnificent works featuring birds on view in Meiji Modern.
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Seaside Bathing: Discussion and Art-Making
What are we to make of the explicit imagery in the print Seaside Bathing? UChicago’s Hilary Strang and Carl Fuldner discuss questions of intimacy, desire, humor, and the encounter of erotic art in the context of a museum. The evening will finish with an art-making activity.
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To RSVP, please complete the registration form »
Not a SmartPartner yet? Make a gift today »
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FREE, drop-in. Art-making supplies and other materials are provided. Family programs are best for kids 4–12, but all ages are welcomed! Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
Family programs are supported by the Harper Court Arts Council.
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On the closing day of the special exhibition Meiji Modern, join us for an intimate viewing of additional Meiji period prints from the collection in the study room.
Presented by the Smart’s Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry and the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago.
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Give the Drummer Some! is rooted in Paige’s decades-long practice as an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and educator who bridges cultural boundaries. A lifelong resident of the Woodlawn neighborhood just south of the University of Chicago campus, he merges African aesthetics, modernist painting, and Bauhaus architecture in creations that blur the line between fine art and craft. Paige’s infectious rhythm of repeating motifs originates as a complete environment in the Smart’s lobby, where the artist layers gold-trimmed fabrics and Chicago-inspired designs over the building’s walls, floors, and furniture. The project then extends outward, wrapping around the exterior of the Museum and ultimately out across the UChicago’s historic Hyde Park campus and beyond.
Through Paige’s iconic and wildly patterned designs, Give the Drummer Some! makes the Smart’s building more porous and inviting, and fosters a shared sense of belonging between campus, neighborhood, and global communities.
THRESHOLD
Robert Earl Paige: Give the Drummer Some! is commissioned as part of the Smart’s ongoing Threshold series. Launched in 2010, the initiative brings large-scale installations of contemporary art to the Smart’s lobby and courtyard on a regular basis. The prominent placement of these commissions ensures that all visitors—whether they have come to the building for a class, an exhibition, or a program—will be welcomed with thought-provoking new art.
ON CAMPUS
Throughout the Smart’s 50th anniversary season, Give the Drummer Some! will extend to additional UChicago locations, responding to new sites and collaborations in unique ways.
Image: Robert Earl Paige
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This exhibition traces the layered, sometimes hidden, histories that have made up the Smart Museum of Art. These histories range from fraught beginnings of building a teaching collection and important relationships with local artists, critics, and community leaders, to opportunities presented by unexpected gifts and partnerships. It reconsiders the impact of the Museum’s past exhibitions that have told different narratives, programs that have pushed boundaries, and acquisitions that have altered the course of the collection. It explores the Smart’s dedication to broadening academic engagement on and off campus. Drawn from the collection, the exhibition presents over a hundred works from across the breadth and depth of the Museum’s holdings, including paintings, works on paper, sculpture, and archival materials.
For the past five decades, artworks in the Smart’s collection have been activated in myriad ways to generate curiosity, pursue knowledge, and foster creative modes of interdisciplinary thinking and collaboration with diverse audiences in mind. In reflecting on this institution’s past, The 50th hopes to chart new possibilities for the role university art museums play in our communities.
Image: Joan Mitchell, Untitled, ca. 1961, Oil on canvas. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Gift of Katharine Kuh, 1968.3 © Estate of Joan Mitchell.
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October 11, 2024
12:30PM – 1:00PM
Building on historical Smart programs such as “object chats,” “Objects and Voices,” and “object roundtables,” Conversation Pieces is a series that invites UChicago scholars and their surprise guests to enter into dialogue with artworks in The 50th: An Anniversary Exhibition. Join us in the Smart galleries for the launch of these micro-talks with Dr. Andrei Pop, Allan and Jean Frumkin Professor in the Department of History of Art and Committee on Social Thought, who will speak about Sylvia Sleigh’s 1973 The Turkish Bath. Drop-in.
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Family Day: The Golden Jubilee!
October 12, 2024
1:00PM – 4:00PM
The Smart is turning 50! Celebrate our Golden Jubilee during a more than 30-year museum tradition of Family Days through drop-in art projects inspired by the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the Smart’s doors in 1974. Drop in; all families and kids of all ages are welcome. Art supplies provided.
Celebrate our 50th at Family Day
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Visual journalists and editors with the Chicago Tribune join the Smart Museum of Art x the Chicago Center on Democracy for a panel discussion about the critical role that images play in the ideals and practices of democracy, in political communication, and in public culture. Free with registration; refreshments and snacks will be provided.
Learn more about this program.
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To commemorate fifty years of collecting photography at the Smart Museum of Art, renowned UChicago Professor Emeritus Dr. Joel Snyder explores noteworthy objects, artists, and inquiries in the field of photography. The program features an intimate presentation of photographs from the museum’s permanent collection, displayed in the Feitler Center Education Study Room (ESR). Free, learn more here.
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Robert Earl Paige: Give the Drummer Some!
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
In conversation with Curator of Public Art, Laura Steward, South Side artist Robert Earl Paige discusses his newly-commissioned installation Give the Drummer Some! and his decades-long practice as an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and educator. Free, register online here.
Co-presented with the Open Practice Committee in the Department of Visual Arts. With an introduction by Ian Brundige, Art Design Chicago Engagement Fellow.
Multi-disciplinary artist and arts educator Robert Earl Paige lives and works in Woodlawn, on the South Side of Chicago, where he was born in 1936. He is one of very few artists who participated not only in the Black Arts Movement, but also in the Chicago Bauhaus, while working at Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill in the 1960s. Following his education in textile design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he went on to an international career in design, while at the same time nurturing the art scene on the South Side. He was given a retrospective at the Hyde Park Art Center in the summer of 2024.
Laura Steward is Curator of Public Art at the University of Chicago and Smart Museum. Her recent projects include Ruth Duckworth: Life as a Unity in fall 2023. A specialist in commissioning works of art, she joined UChicago in 2017. Previously she served as Phillips Director and Chief Curator of SITE Santa Fe and founding curator of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA). She is the author of many exhibition catalogues, occasional lecturer at UChicago, and a graduate of Harvard College and the Williams/Clark Program in the History of Art.
ABOUT SMART SALONS. Smart Salons is an interdisciplinary conversation series that fosters dialogue between UChicago students, faculty, staff, and the South Side community at the intersections of art and culture. From close-looking in the galleries to panel discussions, artists, researchers, scholars, and practitioners are invited to help us think and reflect expansively about art, ideas, and stories that matter today.
Photo: Robert Earl Paige
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RELATED EXHIBITIONS
Robert Earl Paige: Give the Drummer Some!
NOVEMBER 9, 2024
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Stop by the Smart for an afternoon of free, hands-on art activities inspired by Give the Drummer Some!, the Smart’s newest installation by South Side interdisciplinary artist, designer, and educator Robert Earl Paige. Drop in; all families and kids of all ages are welcome. Art supplies provided.
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The 50th: An Anniversary Exhibition
Robert Earl Paige: Give the Drummer Some!
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Join Smart curators Galina Mardilovich and Laura Steward to take a guided tour of The 50th: An Anniversary Exhibition and Robert Paige: Give the Drummer Some! Free, register online here.
Galina Mardilovich is Curator at the Smart Museum of Art. Mardilovich is a specialist in works on paper and has over fifteen years of professional experience. Prior to joining the Smart, her museum experience included the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has published widely, including in Print Quarterly, Art History, and The Burlington Magazine, as well as in several edited volumes. Her research has been supported by grants from the Getty Research Institute, the American Philosophical Society, and the Association of Print Scholars, among many others. She holds a Ph.D. in History of Art from the University of Cambridge and an MA in Humanities and Social Thought from New York University.
Laura Steward is Curator of Public Art at the University of Chicago and Smart Museum. Her recent projects include Ruth Duckworth: Life as a Unity in fall 2023. A specialist in commissioning works of art, she joined UChicago in 2017. Previously she served as Phillips Director and Chief Curator of SITE Santa Fe and founding curator of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA). She is the author of many exhibition catalogues, occasional lecturer at UChicago, and a graduate of Harvard College and the Williams/Clark Program in the History of Art.
Image: Joan Mitchell, Untitled, ca. 1961, Oil on canvas. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Gift
of Katharine Kuh, 1968.3 © Estate of Joan Mitchell.
Explore twentieth-century collages in the work of artists across the globe, including Romare Bearden, Arturo Herrera, Karel Lodr, Hannah Höch and Marie Zoe Greene-Mercier. Then, create your own collages and photomontages using paper, found images, fabric, and more. Drop in; all families and kids of all ages are welcome.
Image: Romare Bearden, Farewell in New Orleans (detail), 1975, Cut paper, newsprint, and glossy magazine paper
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Explore twentieth-century collages in the work of artists across the globe, including Romare Bearden, Arturo Herrera, Karel Lodr, Hannah Höch and Marie Zoe Greene-Mercier. Then, create your own collages and photomontages using paper, found images, fabric, and more. Drop in; all families and kids of all ages are welcome.
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This lecture will explore several varieties of infinity as they are realized in the visual arts now on display at the Smart Museum, from William Blake’s Minute Particulars to J. M. W. Turner’s sublime landscapes to Antony Gormley’s Infinite Cube.
Discover how artists featured in The 50th create their work in unexpected ways. Families will experiment with pattern, printing, and repetition using unique art-making techniques such as printmaking, paint, and ink. Drop in; all families and kids of all ages are welcome.
Come stretch your winter stresses away at the Smart Museum of Art! Join us for an evening of beach themed yoga led by the artist and certified instructor, Tina Wang. Tropical food, drinks, music, photo booth, and relaxation provided by the Smart! IMPORTANT: please bring your own yoga mat.
Free, register online.
Conversation Pieces is a programming series that invites University of Chicago scholars and their surprise guests to enter into dialogue with artworks in The 50th: An Anniversary Exhibition. On Valentine’s Day, Associate Professor of Art History and the College, Dr. Martha Ward will be joined by Ph.D. candidate Jenny Harris to discuss Marcel Duchamp’s Box in a Valise (Boîte-en-valise).
Presented by the Feitler Center Faculty Advisory Committee. Free, drop-in program.
Image: Marcel Duchamp, Box in a Valise (Boîte-en-valise), 1966, Mixed media, assemblage: red leather box containing miniature replicas, photographs, and color reproductions of works by Marcel Duchamp. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Gift of Helen and Sam Zell, 2015.31.1-8.
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About Early Summer
Originally named after a tune popularized by the Japanese pianist Ryo Fukui, Early Summer is a Jazz Octet based out of the University of Chicago. The group's repertoire ranges from classic standards to music from contemporary composers (Kenny Garrett, Walter Smith III, etc.), all arranged by members of the band. Contributing to the greater Hyde Park jazz scene is of great importance — guitarist Seamus runs a jam session at the university that welcomes in students and faculty alike, and the group has put together events for the public radio station WHPK. Learn more about Early Summer on their Instagram page.
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In addition to our ever-popular artmaking activities, this Family Day will also feature a special Storytime in the galleries from 1-3 PM. Curated by storyteller Carmenita Peoples and co-sponsored by the UChicago Library, the selected stories highlight tales of strong, trailblazing women and encourage young minds to embrace their unique identities. Storytime performances will begin at 1:15 PM and 2:15 PM, but families are welcome to flow in and out of the space throughout each 45-minute performance.
Spend your day on campus and head over to the UChicago Library (1100 E. 57th St.) to view their current exhibition, A Pressing Call: 500 Years of Women Printing, which explores the deep history of women printers.
Image: Suzanne Valadon, Portrait of Lily Walton, 1923, Oil on canvas. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Bequest of Joseph Halle Schaffner in memory of his beloved mother, Sara H. Schaffner, 1973,119.
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Join the Smart Museum of Art and the Nicholson Center for British Studies for the lecture “The Museum as Cenotaph or Time-Machine? Thoughts on Art, History, and Institutions in Our Nearsighted Moment,” with Dr. Julia Alexander, President of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. Free, register online.
About the speaker: Julia Alexander, Ph.D., was appointed as the President of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation in 2024. Before joining the Kress Foundation, she served as the Andrea B. & John H. Laporte Executive Director and CEO of the Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore, since 2013, and prior to that, the Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs at The San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA), where she also served as the Interim Co-Director (2009-2010) and Interim Deputy Director for Education (2010-2011). Before relocating to San Diego, Alexander worked at the Yale Center for British Art from 1997-2008, serving in multiple roles, including Associate Director for Programmatic Affairs and Associate Director for Exhibitions and Publications.
Alexander has a Ph.D in the History of Art from Yale University (1999) and an M.A. in French Literature, New York University (1992), following the completion of her B.A. in Art History and French at Wellesley College (1989). Alexander recently served as President of the Association of Art Museum Directors’ (AAMD) Board of Trustees, and has been engaged with a number of other entities promoting the arts, including serving as an Assessor for the annual William MH. Berger Prize for excellence in the field of British Art History, and serving on the boards of the Maryland Citizens for the Arts and the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance.
Image: Dr. Julia Alexander. Photo courtesy of the Walters Art Museum
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About the speakers:
Julia Alexander, Ph.D., was appointed as the President of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation in 2024. Before joining the Kress Foundation, she served as the Andrea B. & John H. Laporte Executive Director and CEO of the Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore, since 2013, and prior to that, the Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs at The San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA), where she also served as the Interim Co-Director (2009-2010) and Interim Deputy Director for Education (2010-2011). Before relocating to San Diego, Alexander worked at the Yale Center for British Art from 1997-2008, serving in multiple roles, including Associate Director for Programmatic Affairs and Associate Director for Exhibitions and Publications. Alexander has a Ph.D in the History of Art from Yale University (1999) and an M.A. in French Literature, New York University (1992), following the completion of her B.A. in Art History and French at Wellesley College (1989).
Andrei Pop, Ph.D., is the Allan and Jean Frumkin Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and Chair of the Department of Art History. He has written books on romantic neoclassicism, and on fin-de-siècle art and science, and translated a nineteenth-century philosophy of ugliness, among other things. Read more about Pop here.
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Robert Earl Paige: Give the Drummer Some!
Join the Hyde Park Art Center and the Smart Museum of Art in celebrating the first major publication to focus on artist, designer, and educator Robert Earl Paige. Held in the Smart Museum's atrium where Paige's installation, Give the Drummer Some!, is currently on view, the evening will include an introduction by Allison Peters Quinn, newly appointed Executive Director and Chief Curator at the Elmhurst Art Museum; a conversation between Paige and fellow Chicago artist Anne Wilson; light refreshments and an opportunity to purchase the new publication, The United Colors of Robert Earl Paige. Free, register online.
About the Publication
\"Robert Earl Paige is one of the most iconic artists and designers from Chicago’s South Side. A multidisciplinary artist and arts educator, he works across textile design, painting, collage, and sculpture. During the 1970s, he brought West African–inspired patterns to U.S. shoppers through the Dakkabar fabrics collection available at Sears, Roebuck, leading to the inclusion of Black culture in home design.
In addition to exploring Paige’s personal and artistic practice, The United Colors of Robert Earl Paige contextualizes his work in relation to social and artistic movements, from the minimalism and abstraction of the 1960s and 1970s to AfriCOBRA and the Black Arts Movement in Chicago and across the United States. Curator Allison Peters Quinn collaborates with Paige to offer inspiration and tools for younger artists to develop lifelong creative practices. An interview between Paige and fiber artist Anne Wilson traces his career path, starting as a young designer at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; his travel to West Africa, South Africa, and Milan; his studies at the Art Institute of Chicago; and features insights into Paige’s influences; his friendships with important cultural figures such as James Baldwin; his interest in blurring boundaries between design, art, and craft; and his teaching philosophies.
Published in conjunction with Paige’s exhibition at Hyde Park Art Center in 2024, this fully illustrated book includes reproductions of the artist’s handpainted scarves, collages, and rugs made during the past sixty years, along with new ceramic tiles, collages, and textiles.\"
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Presented by the Feitler Center Faculty Advisory Committee. Free, drop-in program.
Alice Goff is Assistant Professor of History and the College at the University of Chicago. Her work focuses on the history of art, museums, and material culture in modern Germany. Her first book The God Behind the Marble: The Fate of Art in the German Aesthetic State appeared from the University of Chicago Press in 2024. She is currently working on a new project on church bells.
Madeline Adams is a PhD candidate at the University of Chicago studying queer German history. Her dissertation, “Materiality and Memory in East German LGBT Communities, 1982 to 2003,” explores queer media, everyday life, and archival projects in and after the German Democratic Republic. From 2023 to 2025 she was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam. She has also worked in public history through the University of Chicago’s Special Collections Research Center and Public History Practicum as well as at the Wende Museum in Los Angeles.
IMAGE: Marianne Brandt, manufactured by Bauhaus Metal Workshop, Tea Service: Tea Infuser (Pot), Creamer, Sugar Bowl, and Tray, 1924, Hand-wrought sterling silver (tea infuser and creamer also with ebony). Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Anonymous Gift in memory of Liesl Landau, 2006.19.1-4. Copyright managed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
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For the last in the series this academic year, join dancer, writer, and multidisciplinary artist Irene Hsiao and fourth-year student and Smart alum Julian Stern for a screening, reading, and discussion about Yeesookyung's Translated Vase (2007).
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1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Free, Register Online
Dive into the vibrant world of color, shape, and scale as you explore the evolution of abstract art, with influences from twentieth-century artists Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, and Norman Lewis. Then, make your own abstract works, experimenting with tools, materials, and methods of creating! Because we will be using wet media, be sure to dress for a mess! Drop in and register for free; all families and kids of all ages are welcome.
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Join artists LaKela Brown and Abdolreza Aminlari, studio collaborator Katharine L. DeLamater, and strategic advisor to Dieu Donné John Shorb for a panel discussion about art in paper, co-creative practices, and their work in the Smart's permanent collection currently featured in Expanding the 50th: Shared Stories. The panel will be followed by a reception with light refreshments.
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Through the course, students created a collaborative work using embodied research methods that interact with the Smart Museum through moving, sensing, and listening, while also responding to the current exhibitions Expanding the 50th: Shared Stories and Robert Earl Paige: Give the Drummer Some!
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Families will construct and paint colorful birdhouses while sharing stories of what “ home” means to them. In addition, families can enjoy story time performances with librarian Megan from the Chicago Public Library.
Be sure to dress for a mess! Drop in; families and kids of all ages are welcome.
Free, Register Online
Drop in any time between 10 AM-4 PM
Go beyond a typical visit to the museum and enjoy a “Smart Find” experience at the Smart! Work together to solve riddles, respond to questions, and explore the exhibition like true detectives.
Free, Register Online
Start the day by creating a handmade bookmark to use with all of your favorite reads, then talk, sing, and listen along to Librarian Megan who will share stories about pattern, color, and nature.
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Smart to the Core: Wise to Power examines questions about the formation of political communities, the organization of economic lives by political society, and individual navigation of society. The exhibition integrates visual art with foundational texts of modern social and political thought spanning nearly four centuries. It addresses themes familiar yet deeply connected to specific political, economic, and cultural histories.
Wise to Power is the fourth installment of “Smart to the Core,” a series fostering collaboration with the University of Chicago’s Core undergraduate curriculum and exploring the role of art across disciplines. The exhibition is drawn primarily from the permanent collection and organized by the Smart’s Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry with UChicago’s Social Sciences Core, “Power, Identity, Resistance.”
Support is provided by the Smart Museum’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Endowment, Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry Fund, and SmartPartners, with special thanks to Jack Shainman Gallery and The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections.
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The Smart Museum of Art presents Theaster Gates's first solo museum exhibition in his hometown of Chicago.
A self-designated “keeper of objects,” the artist Theaster Gates investigates the value of things and their potential to hold layered meanings. He has been dedicated to investing in the care of these objects as a way to nurture stories and voices – often Black stories and voices – largely overlooked by history or institutional structures.
The exhibition Theaster Gates: Unto Thee is rooted in several core collections of objects that have been part of Gates’s artistic practice which he acquired through the University of Chicago, where he is Professor of Visual Arts. Ranging from the Department of Art History’s glass lantern slides and display vitrines from the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (formerly the Oriental Institute), to paint-stained concrete from the floors of Midway Studios and wooden pews made for Bond Chapel, all objects have been discarded and identified as no longer needed. In creating new works with them over the years – and, as will be done again, in new installations at the Smart – Gates challenges that notion of stasis by instead excavating more histories, more stories. These installations will be accompanied by Gates’s more recent work including paintings, ceramics, film, and pieces incorporating the archive of the Johnson Publishing Company.
Rooted in materials and Gates’s interest in the process of making, Unto Thee embodies the relationships Gates has fostered within the University of Chicago, local communities, the South Side and broader Chicago. It underscores the artist’s unassailable belief in the potential of art to connect with and transform communities.
The exhibition is accompanied by a site-specific installation as part of the Museum’s Threshold Lobby Series, which will be on view through July 2026.
Family Day: Make Some Noise! at The Smart Museum of Art on Saturday, October 18th from 10 am to 1 pm.
Participants will have the opportunity to create handmade instruments from everyday materials and enjoy a special musical performance by artist and musician Joe Rauen.
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The event will take place at The Smart Museum of Art on Friday, October 24th, from 1 - 2 pm.
The tour is part of the Unto Thee programming at the Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago.
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A film series, curated by Visual AIDS NYC, and conversation with Chicago-based artist and activist Mary Patten on this international day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis.
Scholar Laura Lee discusses how teamLab engages with contemporary visual culture, digital technologies, and interdisciplinary practices. A moderated discussion and audience Q&A will follow.
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Join a 1-hour guided tour of Theaster Gates: Unto Thee, led by Smart Museum Fellow, Ian Brundige.
Due to weather conditions, the Museum will be closed to the public TODAY, Friday, January 23rd.
Today’s “Unto Thee tour has been canceled at this time.
Free Registration Open!
Join a 1-hour guided tour of Theaster Gates: Unto Thee, led by Smart Museum Fellow, Ian Brundige.
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Part II, March 24, 2026 - July 26, 2026
Why and how do people form political communities? How does political society organize our economic lives - and vice versa? And how as individuals do we navigate society?
Smart to the Core: Wise to Power examines these questions by integrating visual art with foundational texts of modern social and political thought spanning nearly four centuries. Through a wide range of creative practices and philosophical perspectives, the exhibition addresses themes that are widely familiar yet deeply connected to specific political, economic, and cultural histories.
Learn more about this exhibition
Alma Thomas (1891–1978) is a singular figure of twentieth-century American art. She developed her form of abstraction – characterized by the dazzling interplay of pattern and hue – late in life, after retiring from a long career as a schoolteacher. Her vibrant and rhythmic art transcended established genres, incorporating elements of gestural abstraction and color field painting and creating a style distinctly her own.
Composing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas draws on the extensive holdings of the artist’s paintings at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) and offers an intimate view of Thomas’s evolving practice during her most prolific period, from 1959 to 1978. At a deeply politicized moment in American life, Thomas’s abiding sources of inspiration became the cosmos, nature, and music. As she stated, “Through color I have sought to concentrate on beauty and happiness, rather than on man’s inhumanity to man.” The exhibition invites visitors to see the world through the eyes of Alma Thomas.
SUPPORT
Composing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas is organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Generous support has been provided by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Chris G. Harris, the Wolf Kahn Foundation, and Susan Talley.
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Taking these earlier exhibitions as points of departure, Beyond Boundaries: Three Decades of Contemporary Chinese Art at the Smart reflects on the enduring adaptability of contemporary art from China as it continues to grow within and beyond cultural and academic institutions. Bringing together artworks acquired by the Museum over the last three decades, archival materials, ephemera, as well as new work, Beyond Boundaries explores how artists navigate and challenge physical limitations across cultural, environmental, and political terrains. Through strategies of fluidity, they confront dominant social expectations and political hegemonies – not only within a rapidly transforming China, but also amid broader global uncertainties. In doing so, Beyond Boundaries invites us to revisit fleeting moments, environments, and actions, and urges us to reconnect, return, and remember.
Support for Beyond Boundaries is provided by Markovitz Family Foundation for the Arts and Education. Additional support is provided by the Smart Museum's Board of Governors, and SmartPartners.
Presented in the Robert and Joan Feitler Gallery, and the Joel and Carole Bernstein Gallery.
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Join Smart curator Galina Mardilovich for a guided tour of Composing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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A screening of Wu Wenguang's documentary about Beijing in the late '80s. In collaboration with Doc Films.
Watch a short clip of Bumming in Beijing: The Last Dreamers below, and grab your free seat at Doc Films next week!
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Art History professor Wei-Cheng Lin and artist Xuanlin Ye discuss Zhan’s Ornamental Rock, on view in Beyond Boundaries: Three Decades of Contemporary Chinese Art at the Smart.
Dorothy Berry and Sumayya Ahmed discuss the possibilities of Black archives within and outside of cultural heritage institutions. In collaboration with the Black Metropolis Research Consortium.
Free—RSVP encouraged
Olga Alexopoulou & Vanja Malloy on Quantum Color
at the Smart Museum of Art
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
5:00 - 6:30 pm
Artist Olga Alexopoulou and Smart Museum Dana Feitler Director Vanja Malloy discuss the history and future of color.
Free - RSVP encouraged
Ross Gay & Angel Bat Dawid on Poetry
at the Smart Museum of Art
Thursday, May 14, 2026
5:00 - 6:30 pm
Poet Ross Gay and composer and multi-instrumentalist Angel Bat Dawid host an evening of creative exchange inspired by the vibrant abstractions of Alma Thomas.
Free - Drop-in program
Conversation Piece: On Alma Thomas’s Snoopy Sees the Earth Wrapped in Sunset
at the Smart Museum of Art
Friday, May 15, 2026
12:30 - 1:00 pm
Professor Jordan Bimm and Adler Planetarium Curator and Director of Collections Katie Boyce-Jacino discuss Thomas’s Snoopy Sees the Earth Wrapped in Sunset.
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Free - RSVP encouraged
Nicole Stott with Sarah & Joseph Belknap on the Cosmos
at the Smart Museum of Art
Monday, May 18, 2026
5:00 - 6:30 pm
Join a conversation at the intersection of art, science, and imagination, featuring astronaut Nicole Stott in dialogue with artists Sarah and Joseph Belknap.
Free - RSVP encouraged
Smart Salon: Contemporary Chinese Artists in Chicago
at the Smart Museum of Art
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
5:00 - 6:30 pm
Ellen Larson, Associate Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia, moderates a conversation with artists magicfeifei, Miao Wang, Linye Jiang, and gallerist Qiuchen Wu.
Tuesday, June 16
Morning Session: 10 – 11 am
Afternoon Session: 11 am – 12 pm
Together with your family, enjoy a guided tour of the Smart’s current exhibitions, Composing Color and Beyond Boundaries, and outdoor public art (weather-permitting). Free with RSVP.
Drop in: 10 am – 4 pm
Go beyond a typical visit to the museum and enjoy a “Smart Find” experience at the Smart! This scavenger hunt will activate the galleries with hidden cues and clues. Free with RSVP.
Bookmark Activity: 10 – 11 am
Story time with CPL: 11 am – 12 pm
In partnership with the Chicago Public Library, creating a handmade bookmark to use with all of your favorite reads, then listen along to Librarian Megan as she share stories about pattern and color.Free with RSVP.
The Smart Museum of Art is honored to present teamLab: Everything Exists in Infinite Continuity. The exhibition marks the international art collective’s first major institutional presentation in the midwestern region.
Fall Exhibition Opening
Saturday, October 3rd
2:00–5:00 pm
Celebrate the Smart's new fall exhibitions, teamLab: Everything Exists in Infinite Continuity, Nina Chanel Abney: Between Us, and How Do We Heal?. The opening reception will include music, hors d’oeuvres, and a themed cocktail.
This program is free and open to all; RSVP is encouraged.
teamLab member Sohee Hong and curator Allison Martino discuss teamLab’s creative practice and interests in perception through artworks in the exhibition.
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