Mirrors and Misconceptions: Gallery Talk + Collage Activity

Gallery Talk + Collage Activity | Saturday, December 18, 2021 – 2:00pm
at Stony Island Arts Bank 

Stony Island Arts Bank, 6760 S. Stony Island Ave

A conversation and creative response to Fred Wilson’s Murano glass sculpture Act V. Scene II Exeunt Omneson display in Toward Common Cause at Stony Island Arts Bank. Presented in conjunction with Court Theatre’s production of The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice. FREE.

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Participants will view the Toward Common Cause exhibition, in collaboration with Smart Museum, at Stony Island Arts Bank. The exhibition includes several works focusing on Black identity as well as Wilson’s sculpture, Act V. Scene II Exeunt Omnes. A gallery talk will follow to identify themes witnessed in The Tragedy of Othello that resonate with this work. Following this conversation, guests of all ages will participate in a collage activity to make their own art in creative response. 

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Programmed during the full moon phases between November and December, Mirrors and Misconceptions is a special series exploring Black identity. It pairs the visual art of Fred Wilson’s Murano Glass sculpture, Act V. Scene II Exeunt Omnes—the final stage direction in Shakespeare’s Othello—with Court Theatre’s production of The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice to build conversation and community while exploring themes on how Blackness is othered and perceived.

Learn more about Toward Common Cause
Organized by the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, in collaboration with more than two dozen partner organizations across Chicago, Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40 uses the idea of “the commons” to explore the current socio-political moment. Questions of inclusion, exclusion, ownership, and rights of access are constantly being challenged across a wide array of human endeavors. 

The Stony Island Arts Bank (SIAB) group show as part of the Toward Common Cause multi-site initiative focuses primarily on the question of race that has been examined by artists for decades and includes artworks by MacArthur Fellows Carrie Mae Weems, Kerry James Marshall, Gary Hill, Whitfield Lovell, Trevor Paglen, Deborah Willis, Dawoud Bey, Fred Wilson and Nicole Eisenman.

COVID-19 Protocol 
Face mask is required for attendance.