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threewalls blog - 2012
Time Out Chicago 2012 Holiday Gift Guide
posted December 8, 2012 in reviews
This season's CSA offering mentioned in TOC's Holiday Gift Guide
Spotlight on CSA artist Christine Tarkowski
posted December 7, 2012 in events, news
Artist Christine Tarkowski contributed the bowls to this Winter's Community Supported Art, check out this short interview to learn more about her work. More about Christine at http://christinetarkowski.com/
Spotlight on CSA artist Karolina Gnatowski
posted December 6, 2012 in events, news
Artist Karolina Gnatowski contributed the Feel Good/Good Feel placemat to this Winter's Community Supported Art, check out this short interview to learn more about her work. More about Karolina at http://karolinagnatowski.com
Spotlight on CSA artist John Preus
posted December 5, 2012 in events, news
Artist John Preus contributed the bowls to this Winter's Community Supported Art, check out this short interview to learn more about his work. More about John at http://johnpreus.com/
Spotlight on CSA artist Mindy Rose Schwartz
posted December 4, 2012 in events, news
Artist Mindy Rose Schwartz contributed the Fountain Cup to this Winter's Community Supported Art, check out this short interview to learn more about her work. More about Mindy at http://mindyroseschwartz.com/
Escape Group, Cauleen Smith, and Laurie Palmer in NewCity Best of Chicago
posted December 1, 2012 in reviews
Daniela Ehemann at Lincoln Arts Project
posted November 3, 2012 in events, residents
Previous threewalls artist-in-residence Daniela Ehemann has work in INSIDER/OUTSIDER, a group show at Lincoln Arts Project in Boston.
From the LAP website:
INSIDER / OUTISDER
November 3 - December 1
RECEPTION: Friday, November 16, 7-10pm
Insider/Outsider features photographs, videos, and other traces of live art pieces originally created in non-art contexts. This exhibition addresses the ethics of making art in public, private, and intimate space; investigates art’s role within various social and political structures; and examines the interstices between art action and contemporary life. Local artists show beside artists from China, Australia, The Czech Republic, Israel, Canada, and other parts of the United States, offering a diverse range of perspectives around the concept of place and its power to shape experience.
CSA Program: Interviews
posted April 12, 2012 in events, news | tags: Bernard Williams, Betsy Odom, Carson Fisk-Vittori, CSA, Dan Devening, Derek Chan, Dianna Frid, Elijah Burgher, interview, Kelly Kaczynski
As the Community Supported Arts program progresses and this season's eight artists produce editions to be disseminated, we have interviewed them about their Chicago-based practices. The interviews will appear in print in the CSA Publication, but you can go ahead and download the material here: CSA 2012 Interviews.pdf, featuring the artists:
ELIJAH BURGHER, DEREK CHAN, DAN DEVENING, CARSON FISK-VITTORI, DIANNA FRID, KELLY KACZYNSKI*, BETSY ODOM, & BERNARD WILLIAMS
We will unveil images of the artists' anticipated editions at the end of April.
SAVE THE DATE FOR THE CSA RELEASE EVENT ON MAY 26!
threewalls will be co-hosting our Spring 2012 Release Event with Nite Market, Chicago's first market for unlicensed artisan food vendors. The event will be at Rebuilding Exchange on May 26, 6-9pm located at 2160 N. Ashland Avenue. An individual CSA work from each artist will be framed and available via silent auction that night, shareholders can come pick up their work, and the general public is welcome to attend, check out the work, and peruse the delicious vendors of the Nite Market community.
Entering the Nite Market costs $2 and the Community Supported Art Silent Auction and pick-up zone is free. Shareholders who cannot attend the event are welcome to pick up their work at threewalls anytime after May 26 during open hours, Tuesday-Saturday 11-5pm.
*An extended interview with KELLY KACZYNSKI is published here, check it out.
Adia Millett: Portraits of an Escape
posted March 3, 2012 in events, residents
Past resident artist Adia Millett has a solo show at Mixed Greens. Stop by if you're in NY!
Camlab: Two in the Bush
posted February 28, 2012 in events, residents
From past residents Camlab:
Please join us this Thursday evening March 1st from 7-10pm for Two in the Bush at MOCA (Grand Ave)
In response to an economy gone to the birds, this third installment in CamLab’s Engagement Party residency will “instrumentalize” money and intention in a large-scale hands-on group gathering. Longtime “economicalists,” the members of CamLab invite you into their efficiently excessive installation for a material meditation on the distribution of resources. While occupying a cipher of fabric and song, participants will address their immediate surroundings by graphically converting cash amid the sounds of steel (oil) drumming. Join us to find your sense of re-purpose and build collectivity with conversation and contemplation, not walls with wealth. Make audible your values. CamLab will don “Feast and Famine” outfits designed by Australian artist Glenda Wyman. At the end of the evening, the duo’s Engagement Party series will conclude with a celebratory live performance by Hotel La Rut.
CamLab has apportioned a part of its series’ budget to W.A.G.E. Working Artists and the Greater Economy, in an effort to support the group’s continued work ‘to draw attention to economic equalities that exist in the arts, and to resolve them.'
The Art Lending Library is opening soon at the Hull House museum!
posted January 26, 2012 in events, news
A call from the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum:
Volunteers needed to help bring artwork to people's homes for a curiously fun and radically democratic Art Lending Library.
The Hull-House Museum's Art Lending Library provides artwork for Chicagoans to check out and enjoy in their own spaces for 3 months at a time.
For many, it may be the first time they have had a chance to have an original piece of art in their homes.
Here is how it works:
Interested participants come to the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum to choose a piece of art from our lending library collection.
We contact a volunteer to arrange a mutually convenient time to deliver the art.
The volunteer delivers the art, installs it, and takes a photo to document the art in place.
Happiness and satisfaction ensues to everyone involved!
After three months, a volunteer will return to de-install the art and return it to Hull-House for others to enjoy.
Our initial collection of artworks, curated by Abigail Satinsky and Shannon Stratton, comes from Community Supported Art (CSA) Chicago, a project of threewalls started by Satinsky and Shannon Stratton. Much like Community Supported Agriculture, in which shareholders invest in a local farm and receive a monthly payout of fruits and vegetables, CSA Chicago asks shareholders to invest directly in the arts community and receive limited edition contemporary artist projects in return. Satinsky will continue to work with us to grow our collection with other CSA projects throughout the country.
Contact Heather Radke for more information at heather.radke@gmail.com