Month: May 2010
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Call for Submissions: Partner Dance Press
Partner Dance Press co-founders Achy Obejas and Megan Bayles, with help from the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Media, are putting together an online anthology of text-based projects by Chicago women under 40. ‘Text-based’ is broadly defined, including but certainly not limited to: visual pieces that utilize…
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Visiting Lecturer Miriam Schaer is “Fit to Be Bound”!
The catalog for Fit to Be Bound, on view now at the Everson Museum, in Syracuse, NY includes Book and Paper Visiting Lecturer Miriam Schaer’s sculptural books Her Grace and Of The Errors Of My Heart Too Numerous To Count. A full color PDF is available now! Curated by Everson Senior Curator, Debora Ryan, Peter…
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Interarts Students Secure Exhibition for Next Semester!
Congratulations to the Interdisciplinary Arts and Media Department students Victoria Bradford, Michelle Graves, Nic Ruley and Nicholas Sagan, whose exhibition proposal entitled Post-Human//Future Tense was recently selected by Columbia College Chicago’s Department of Exhibition and Performance Spaces as one of the shows for the 2010-2011 academic year. The show will address the concept of Post-humanism…
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Sound Interactive: End of Year Showing from “Sound as an Art Material”
From Live Performance to Interactive Installation, this year’s Sound as an Art Material class is presenting an amazing round of work. Catch these Interdisciplinary MFA students as they sound out at this year’s Manifest. Friday, May 14th @ 1pm 916 S Wabash Ave Rm 207 & 205 FEATURING THE WORK OF: Jenny Garnett • Micahel…
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More End of Year Events at Music Building…
During Manifest, visit “A Full Taste of Happiness” by Laurie LeBreton: 250 figures made of hand-made paper, with sound and video. At the Columbia College Music Building, 1014 S. Michigan Avenue, Friday, May 14th, 10:00 – 9:00.
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ARTifacts: End of Year Show Tomorrow!
Sherry Antonini’s Art as Practice class presents “ARTifacts”: an exhibit of student work, including hand-bound books, paper sculptures, letterpress, an audience participation component, and more. “ARTifacts” is launching this Friday, May 14, in conjunction with manifest. You may view the exhibit throughout the day. Location: 1104 S. Wabash Second Floor Galley (back hallway area) FEATURING…
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Congratulations to Haley Nagy!
Congratulations to Haley Nagy, first-year student enrolled in the Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts MFA program who was recently selected to receive the 2010-2011 Critical Encounters Graduate Fellowship from Columbia College Chicago. Haley was awarded this year-long fellowship, which includes a generous stipend, from among the graduate students at the College. As a Critical Encounter…
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Microwaves and Media at a Mid-May Sundown Screening
History of New Media Collaborative Video Essay Screenings Interdisciplinary Arts Department, Columbia College Chicago Location: 916 South Wabash, 2nd Floor Gathering area (towards front of building) Date: 5/12/10, Screening time: 8:00 – 8:45pm, followed by Q&A session. Do you have plans next Wednesday, May 12th at sundown (appx. 7:56 p.m.)? This semester’s History of New…
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Ammunition for the Virgin received funding from the Ministry of Culture, Serbia
Melissa Potter’s film project, Ammunition for the Virgin has been awarded generous support from the Ministry of Culture, Serbia. Ammunition for the Virgin is a 20-minute video animation project in progress focusing on diverse young women in FR Yugoslavia and their choices today in contrast with Stana Cerovic, the reported “last sworn virgin” in Montenegro.…
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Word/Drama Final Performances
Don’t miss the excitement as converging classes Word: Theory and Practice and Drama: Theory and Practice shuck off the theory and get on with the practice in the annual d’extravaganza of final performances! 9 artists, from our beloved department, will be showing their work as a very eclectic evening within which you will see sandboxes,…