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Entwined: Banner Making&nbsp;with Kathryn Hempel, Bishal Manandhar, Lori Kaplan, and Tamara Wasserman&nbsp;Kathryn Hempel, Bishal Manandhar, Tamara Wasserman, and Lori Kaplan welcome you to participate in the Culture Flow Entwined fabric and mixed media workshop at Oliva Gallery, 3816 W. Armitage Ave in Chicago, on Monday, July 21st, 2025, from 6 - 8 pm. A variety of textiles, fabric paint, and art supplies will be available for use. Participants are encouraged to bring a piece of fabric representative of their culture, ancestry, homeland, or neighborhood to add to our collaborative work or their individual artwork. We look forward to ripping, weaving, painting, knotting, and possibly sewing together.

Entwined: Banner Making with Kathryn Hempel

Join artist Tom Burtonwood in conversation with arts writer and critic Susan Snodgrass, as they discuss Burtonwood’s current installation at 21c Chicago, Recurring. In Recurring, Tom Burtonwood presents three elements of his ongoing project “A Cube is a Rectangle”, featuring a large-gridded wall installation of over 200 of Burtonwood’s signature “Würfel” drawings. Adjacent to the gallery, two large “Würfels” crafted from mixed media materials, including hydrocal, paint, soil, and natural fibers, hang side by side. Accompanying these two-dimensional works is a new single-channel stop-frame animation of his unfolding cube motif.

On Creative Practice: Tom Burtonwood and Susan Snodgrass

Please join MoCP for a lecture by acclaimed artist Alfredo Jaar, followed by a wine reception in the museum. Jaar’s installation, Caritas, Real Pictures (1995) is on view in the current exhibition&nbsp;Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography in Dialogue with the MoCP Collection.Alfredo Jaar is an artist, photographer, architect, and filmmaker who lives and works in New York. His work has been shown extensively around the world. He has participated in the Biennales of Venice (1986, 2007, 2009, 2013), Sao Paulo (1987, 1989, 2010, 2021) as well as Documenta in Kassel (1987, 2002).Over eighty monographic publications have been published about his work. He became a Guggenheim Fellow in 1985 and a MacArthur Fellow in 2000. He received the Hiroshima Art Prize in 2018 and the Hasselblad Award in 2020. In 2024 he was awarded the IV Albert Camus Mediterranean Prize. He was recently selected as the recipient of the 2025 Edward MacDowell Medal. Stage 2618 S. Michigan Ave., Floor 2Chicago, IL 60605 *Registration is required Please register by clicking the button below.<a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://mocp.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e4250b7536dc23e9352b28ee&amp;id=26e3cec141&amp;e=62775191de" target="_blank">Register for Lecture</a>

Lecture with Alfredo Jaar

<a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/M3sCoPTIQLuhQYPomKPUiw" target="_blank">Register here!</a> The 8th annual Chicago Vicinity Exhibition opens noon July 3rd at Perspective Gallery in Evanston.&nbsp;The opening reception and award announcements will be on July 12th, 5-7 p.m. followed by a virtual artist talk on July 24th, 7.&nbsp;The Vicinity 2025 juror is Erin Hoyt, an arts administrator specializing in contemporary photography. She is the Executive Director of Filter Photo, a non-profit arts organization based in Chicago that focuses on professional development practices for fine art and documentary photographers.&nbsp;Each of the exhibiting artists has a different take on the theme HOME.&nbsp;There is a wide range of visual interpretations on the idea of what represents home.&nbsp;Congratulations to 23 artists who will be showing their work:Pamela Allen, Elijah Barnes, Reeves Beckley, John Bolin, David Brodsky, Sam Burzak, Larry Chait, Stephen Clay, Amanda Colon, Riley Curtis, Maria Finitzo, Alan Leder, Lucy Mueller, Patrick Pagnono, Warren Perlstein, Dorothy Perry, Darlene Poloniak, Carolyn Potts, Joan Tortorici Ruppert, Ryan Searl, Claire Shoolin, Benjamin Tholotowsky, and Becki Utigard.Perspective Gallery is celebrating its 15th year. Vicinity 2025 will have a Closing Reception on Sunday, July 27th from 3&nbsp;- 5 p.m. This reception also will be a fifteen-year gallery anniversary party and public reception for Perspective Gallery.Image:&nbsp;David Brodsky -&nbsp;"The Party's Over"

Virtual Artists’ Talk: The 8th annual Chicago Vicinity Exhibition

Please join us in a viewing and conversation around works in the MoCP permanent collection on&nbsp;the topic of autonomous power in photography. Works presented include photographic practices of Black, Indigenous,&nbsp;and queer artists to expand topics presented in the exhibition, Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography&nbsp;In Dialogue with the MoCP Collection. This discussion will be led by MoCP Curatorial and Education Assistant, Kyli Hawks.*This program will be held in the MoCP print study room.&nbsp;

Photos at Noon: Autonomous Power in Photography

Saturday, August 16, 2-5 pm,&nbsp;Collage and Thinking: a Writing Workshop&nbsp;with Dale Pesmen at Oliva Gallery&nbsp;Dale Pesmen, a painter, collage and encaustic artist, author, and PhD in Cultural Anthropology, has run creative nonfiction writing workshops for over ten years in the U.S., Canada, Ireland, and Serbia. Influenced by dadaist techniques, the workshops are inspired by the principle that making art can be thinking. In this 3-hour session, we will do exercises to demonstrate to ourselves how it feels when unexpected jumps, ideas, and images emerge in the process of wordplay. ﻿Image Credit Dale Pesmen

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