The International Currents Gallery of the John David Mooney Foundation exhibits and offers residencies to international artists whose challenging work push boundaries and explore new territories.&nbsp;Lectures, workshops, and Master Classes are interwoven into Chicago’s diverse creative communities; exhibitions run concurrently in three galleries, each 4,000 sq. ft.&nbsp;Since 2022, the Foundation’s Art Bridge Fellowships have supported “At-Risk” artists from war-torn countries, including 16 Ukrainian artists and one Palestinian artist from the West Bank.&nbsp;The Albert I. Goodman Collection of wartime paintings, posters, and drawings from the 1960 and 70’s is on view in the third-floor gallery.&nbsp;This unique and important Collection serves as a study center for Chicago colleges and universities engaging in cross-cultural investigations.&nbsp;Ongoing are the Foundation’s environmental projects helping to control Climate Change in vibrant new ways through Art. The JDMF is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 educational arts organization. All events are free and open to the public. Image: Performance:&nbsp;Daria Holovchanska,&nbsp;“Night Call I,” January 21, 2024. Photo by JDM.

Irish artist Elaine Byrne and Aliza Shvarts, Director of SAIC's Low-Residency MFA and Assistant Professor, Performance will discuss how borders political, social, and psycho- logical- define, divide, and drift, shaping the sense of belonging and exclusion. Drawing on Byrne's Drifting Sovereignty and her research into borders and the essay film, the conversa- tion explores how art can make visible the fluidity of environmental and geopolitical change.

In Conversation: Boundaries/Borders a discussion with Elaine Byrne & Aliza Shvarts

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