SHOP COLUMBIA BRINGS IN ALUMNI ARTISTS FOR HOLIDAY MARKET
Media Contact: Elizabeth Burke-Dain 312.369.8695
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 16, 2009
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SHOPCOLUMBIA’S HOLIDAY MARKET
SEASONED ALUMNI ARTISTS TO SELL
AMAZING ONE-OF-A-KIND WARES
December 1 – 3, 2009
Betsy Siber, cancelled postage stamp earrings and other assorted merchandise
While ShopColumbia, Columbia College’s student art store, is always brimming with beautiful artists’ wares made by current Columbia students, the shop is announcing a special Holiday Market of alumni works from December 1 – 3. ShopColumbia will expand by over 1,500 square feet to feature the fine art works of alumni artists returning to campus to celebrate ShopColumbia.
The ShopColumbia Alumni Holiday Market is a great opportunity to purchase unique, holiday gifts made by seasoned artists who have graduated from Columbia College: Rebecca Rakstad of No Coast Collective, Betsy Siber of Foxglove Accessories, hand-sewn bags made from recycled upholstery textiles by Jennifer Edwards, letterpress notecards and stationery by Karol Shewmaker and much, much more. After December 3, many of these items will be sold in ShopColumbia’s 623 S. Wabash store, but don’t wait, these hard-to-find items will disappear quickly.
ShopColumbia opened its doors last year as an opportunity for students to gain hands-on experience selling their work. Exceeding everyone’s expectations, $50,000 from sales has been distributed among 250 students who have sold their work since last year. Twenty-five percent of sales is reinvested towards general operating expenses, including paying student staff, marketing, display and technology.
“We are very proud of the artistry and consistent high quality of the merchandise,” says Neysa Page-Lieberman, Director of Exhibition and Performances Spaces. “With such a positive public response, the students now see ShopColumbia as a viable source of income.”
“ShopColumbia has carried my work since opening their doors,” says alumnus Brandon Graham. “Selling my work has been an important part of my process. Plus, a steady income stream helps me to buy supplies.”
WHAT: ShopColumbia’s Alumni Holiday Market Sale
WHERE: Quincy Wong Center for Artistic Expression
623 S. Wabash Avenue, 1st floor
WHEN: December 1 – 3, 2009
MARKET
HOURS: December 1 – 2, 11am – 7pm and December 3, 10am – 3pm
REGULAR
STORE
HOURS: Mon, Tues, Wed and Fri, 11am – 5pm, Thurs 11am – 7pm. Closed Sat & Sun
MORE
INFO: shop@colum.edu, 312.369.8616, www.colum.edu/shopcolumbia
Columbia College Chicago is an urban institution that provides innovative degree programs in the visual, performing, media and communication arts to nearly 12,500 students in over 120 undergraduate and graduate programs. A liberal arts college with a “hands-on minds-on” approach to arts and media education, Columbia College Chicago’s programs include film & video, art & design, arts management, television, radio, music, interactive multimedia – all within a liberal arts context. Under the current leadership of President Warrick L. Carter, Ph.D., Columbia is dedicated to opportunity and excellence in higher education. For further information visit www.colum.edu.
OPERA IN CINEMA AT COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 9, 2009
Media Contact: Elizabeth Burke-Dain, 312.369.8695, eburkedain@colum.edu
Carmen LIVE from La Scala in Milan, Italy and
Il Trovatore LIVE from Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, Spain
December 7 and 22, 2009
WHAT: Opera in Cinema at Film Row continues with a rare opportunity to see two classic operas LIVE from Europe!
Every year on December 7th, La Scala officially inaugurates its opera season with an opening night regarded as one of European society’s most important cultural events. This year, thanks to the continuing collaboration of Emerging Pictures and RAI Trade, audiences throughout the world will be able to experience this event live.
Opening night at La Scala will feature Georges Bizet’s Carmen. For this production, La Scala has gathered the new generation of opera stars, including the German tenor Jonas Kaufmann, the Uruguayan baritone Erwin Schrott, the Italian soprano Adriana Damato, and newest revelation Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili, who won the Leyla Gencer Voice Competition last year.
Founded in 1847, the Gran Teatre del Liceu has retained its role as a culture and arts center throughout its history. A symbol of the vitality and energy of Barcelona, the Gran Teatre del Liceu has always been a powerful stimulus to artistic creativity in Spain. It aims to innovate with ideas that stimulate the identification of opera with a creative, living art form that is open to new audiences.
The Liceu’s new Opera in Cinema program will begin on December 22nd with Guiseppe Verdi’s Il Trovatore featuring some of the world’s greatest names such as Fiorenza Cedolins, Marco Berti, Luciana D’Intino, Roberto Frontali, and Paata Burchuladze.
Film Row Cinema, located at the historic Ludington Building, is equipped with a 260-seat, state-of-the-art theater that offers high-definition digital projection along with professional quality surround sound. The Ludington is also home to Columbia College Chicago’s Film & Video Department.
WHEN:
December 7th Carmen 11 AM LIVE 6:30 PM Re-broadcast
December 22nd Il Trovatore 1 PM LIVE 6:30 PM Re-broadcast
WHERE: Columbia College Chicago’s Film Row Cinema, 1104 S. Wabash, 8th floor
COST: $25. To purchase tickets, please visit the website: http://www.colum.edu/opera.
MORE INFO: Contact Eileen Dominick: 312-369-6709, edominick@colum.edu
UPCOMING IN January 2010:
Rigoletto – January 4th and 10th
Otello – January 19th and 24th
Columbia College Chicago is an urban institution that provides innovative degree programs in the visual, performing, media and communication arts to nearly 12,500 students in over 120 undergraduate and graduate programs. A liberal arts college with a “hands-on minds-on” approach to arts and media education, Columbia College Chicago’s programs include film & video, art & design, arts management, television, radio, music, interactive multimedia – all within a liberal arts context. Under the current leadership of President Warrick L. Carter, Ph.D., Columbia is dedicated to opportunity and excellence in higher education. For further information visit www.colum.edu.
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Studio Chicago
INTRODUCING STUDIO CHICAGO
A Year-Long Collaboration Celebrating the Working Artist and Creative Spaces
October 2009 – October 2010
Program kicks off at Artists at Work Forum on October 29 at Chicago Cultural Center
The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with Columbia College Chicago, UIC - Gallery 400, Hyde Park Art Center, Museum of Contemporary Art, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and threewalls, announces STUDIO CHICAGO, a year-long collaborative project focusing on artists' studios. The project will be introduced at a DCA Artists at Work Forum on Thursday October 29, 2009, in the Millennium Park Room on the 5th floor of the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington Street. The event is free and open to the public.
STUDIO CHICAGO will explore the artists' studio in terms of creativity; production; and infrastructure at venues across the city. In exhibitions, talks, publications, tours and research presented throughout the year, as well as the Studio Chicago website, participating organizations and artists will celebrate the working artist and reveal their sites of creative production. From both historical and contemporary perspectives, topics ranging from the "studio as muse", "virtual studios" "street as studio" and "gallery as studio" will consider:
• Why is the studio important to art and artists today?
• What is the artist studio today?
• What infrastructures are needed to support art practice and production?
Artists at Work Forum: Introducing Studio Chicago
Thursday, October 29, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Chicago Cultural Center, 5th Floor Millennium Park Room
78 E. Washington Street
This Artists at Work Forum will introduce key components of STUDIO CHICAGO, including the new interactive website and blog (www.studiochicago.org), and explain how artists, art organizations and the "art-curious" can become involved. Presenters will represent the core partner institutions: Barbara Koenen (DCA); Elizabeth Burke Dain (Columbia College Chicago); Lorelei Stewart (UIC); Chuck Thurow (HPAC); Dominic Molon (MCA); Mary Jane Jacob (SAIC); and Shannon Stratton (3W). A reception will follow at the nearby Hard Rock Hotel to continue the discussion.
The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs' Artists at Work Forums address current issues of interest and concern in Chicago's art community. Please visit www.chicagoculturalcenter.org or call 312.744.6630 for more information.
Featured STUDIO CHICAGO programs include:
(More information available at www.studiochicago.org)
Artists Run Chicago Digest Release Party
Sunday, November 8, 2:00 – 5:00 pm
Hyde Park Art Center (HPAC), 5020 S. Cornell Avenue, Chicago ADMISSION FREE
To celebrate the launch month of Studio Chicago, HPAC hosts a book release party for ARC Digest, published by threewalls and Green Lantern Press. The book is the official catalog of Artists Run Chicago, a recent Hyde Park Art Center exhibition that featured 34 Chicago-based artist-run spaces. The book documents the history of artist-run spaces from 1999-2009, offering a look at exhibition venues that often act as extensions of studio practices.
Press: Crystal Pernell cpernell@hydeparkart.org
Reflection: a video program
Through Nov. 21
Gallery 400 at UIC, 400 S. Peoria Street
Hours: Tuesday–Friday, 10 am–6 pm; Saturday 12–6 pm ADMISSION FREE
In Reflection, video works by five artists are linked by their varying approaches to artistic agency. From the consequences of action in the studio to the productive talk of a therapist's office, from providing platforms for the creativity of others to asserting an alternative national history, the works in Reflection, while literally featuring the artist's voice, activity, and milieu, disclose the breadth of how artist's conceive of their making. Exhibited as a recurrent weeklong program, the selected works are shown one artist per day. Each work is scheduled for a specific day of the week: Phyllis Baldino's work is shown on Tuesday, Alex Hubbard's on Wednesday, Glenn Ligon's on Thursday, Andrea Zittel's on Friday and Patricia Esquivias' on Saturday.
PRESS: Anthony Elms elms@uic.edu
Picturing the Studio
Dec. 12, 2009 – Feb. 13, 2010
Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), 33 S. State Street, 7th floor
Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 11 am–6 pm ADMISSION FREE
Picturing the Studio explores the richly complex politically and psychologically charged notion of the artist's studio through the work of contemporary makers including Susanne Doremus, Joe Fig, Rodney Graham, Karl Haendel, Bruce Nauman, David Robbins, Amanda Ross-Ho, and Frances Stark. Curated by SAIC Professor and Chair, Department of Painting and Drawing Michelle Grabner, and Annika Marie, Columbia College Chicago Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Design, this show is presented in conjunction with the College Art Association's 98th Annual Conference, February 11-13, 2010 and is supported in part with funds from the College Art Association and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency. A poster-catalogue with art by Adelheid Mers will also be available.
Numerous artists, historians and critics expand upon these themes in the forthcoming book The Studio Reader: On the Space of Artists a co-publication of the University of Chicago Press and SAIC, co-edited by SAIC Executive Director of Exhibitions Mary Jane Jacob and Michelle Grabner.
Press: Elysia Borowy-Reeder eborowy@saic.edu
Production Site: The Artist's Studio Inside-Out
February 6 – May 30, 2010
Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), 220 E. Chicago Avenue
Hours: Tuesday, 10 am–8 pm (FREE); Wednesday–Sunday, 10 am–5 pm
Production Site reflects and addresses the pivotal role of the studio in artists' practice while alluding to its enduring status in the popular imagination. The exhibition reexamines the artist's studio as subject and reconstructs, documents, and depicts that space with work from local to international artists. Multi-channel video projections, photographic light-boxes and installations, and life-sized fabrications of artists' studios — real and imagined — are presented. The exhibition provides the viewer with an unprecedented and illuminating look at how some of the most compelling artists of our time have demystified, remystified, and reconsidered this site. The exhibition is organized by MCA Curator Dominic Molon and accompanied by numerous educational programs.
Press: Erin Baldwin ebaldwin@mcachicago.org
Summer Studio
July – Sept. 2010
Sullivan Galleries, SAIC, 33 S. State Street, 7th floor
Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 11 am–6 pm ADMISSION FREE
In summer 2010 the Sullivan Galleries of SAIC will be transformed into living studios—bringing together the space of production (the studio) and the space of exhibition and display (galleries). Participating artists working in a wide range of media, and coming from Chicago and beyond, will open up their creative processes for public view. This "Summer Studio" will become, too, a site for forums and workshops on artists' issues and practices. It will host probing discussions for practitioners and public alike on Chicago as a site of production and the contribution of artists to the local community. This exhibition is presented by the SAIC Department of Exhibitions and Exhibition Studies and supported in part by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.
Press: Elysia Borowy-Reeder eborowy@saic.edu
threewalls summer thematic residency
July – Sept 2010
Threewalls
threewalls summer thematic residency program will be integrated into the Sullivan Galleries Summer Studio. Curated from an open application by Mary Jane Jacob, Michelle Grabner and Shannon Stratton, four emerging professional artists working across similar concepts and methodologies will be selected to participate and included in additional programming at threewalls, including their annual summer symposium. This once-a-year, two-day event is organized around a chosen theme featuring a panel of local and national visual arts professionals. This year the Symposium will focus on "The Studio," presenting work by critics, historians and artists that address the questions raised by Studio Chicago. Press: Lauren Basing Lauren@three-walls.org
Additional programs will be forthcoming.
BIZ STONE -Co-Founder of Twitter to Speak at Conversations in the Arts
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September, 2009
Media Contact: Elizabeth Burke-Dain: 312-369-8695 or eburkedain@colum.edu
Biz Stone to Kick-Off 2009-2010 Conversations in the Arts Lecture Series
Co-Founder of Twitter Speaks at Columbia College Chicago About the Role of Social Media in the 21st Century
Tuesday, October 6, 7:00 p.m.
Headshot available digitally
CHICAGO, IL – Columbia College Chicago announces its fifth year of Conversations in the Arts, a program series that offers in-depth dialogue with some of the world's most notable cultural figures in a select and intimate setting. This season's speakers will be addressing major trends and issues in the world of media, including social media, journalism, and the moving image.
Biz Stone, the co-founder of Twitter, a real-time, one-to-many network that is changing the way people communicate around the world, will speak on Tuesday, October 6, beginning at 7:00 p.m. in Columbia’s Film Row Cinema, 1104 S. Wabash, 8th Floor. This event is free and open to the public, however, space is limited and reservations are required. RSVP by Tuesday, September 29 at www.colum.edu/conversations. For questions call 312-369-7420.
In addition to co-founding the social media phenomenon Twitter, Biz Stone helped build other popular social media services Xanga, Blogger, and Odeo. After launching the journaling service Xanga in 2000, he went on to publish two books about the origins and social significance of blogging.
In 2003, Google invited Stone to join a recently acquired Blogger.com team at its Silicon Valley headquarters in a full-time, senior role. Stone helped re-launch the service and grow Blogger significantly worldwide. He left Google in 2005 to rejoin the startup world.
Stone, 35, is a native of Boston, Massachusetts and teaches an annual master class at Oxford's Saïd Business School. In the fall of 2008, he debated and won at Oxford Union against the proposition, "The Problems of Tomorrow Are Bigger Than the Entrepreneurs of Today" along with his esteemed teammates, including Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn.
Serving as an advisor to startups such as answer community Fluther.com, travel service Trazzler.com (which he co-founded), content encouragement service Plinky.com, and the non-profit organization Justgive.org, among others, allows Stone to share much of what he has learned over the past decade.
The speakers that have been a part of Conversations in the Arts exemplify the humanistic qualities and values Columbia College Chicago brings to education. The past five seasons have brought many legendary cultural figures: Lauren Bacall, Ben Vereen, Mary Tyler Moore, Julie Andrews, James Earl Jones, Debbie Reynolds, Joan Lunden, Richard Roundtree, Salman Rushdie, Jane Alexander, Edward James Olmos, Diahann Carroll, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Jonathan Kozol, Sir Ken Robinson, Anna Deavere Smith, and Richard Florida have all offered a depth of perspective and personal recollection that has created truly memorable experiences.
Future speakers for the 2009-2010 media-focused Conversations in the Arts Series will be Arianna Huffingtion, co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Huffington Post news website, and Mira Nair, director of the films Salaam Bombay!, Mississippi Masala, Monsoon Wedding, and Amelia. The history and details regarding Conversations in the Arts along with full biographies of the presenters can be found at www.colum.edu/conversations.
Columbia College Chicago, an urban institution that provides innovative degree programs in the visual, performing, media and communication arts to nearly 12,500 students in over 120 undergraduate and graduate programs. A liberal arts college with a “hands-on minds-on” approach to arts and media education, Columbia College Chicago’s programs include film & video, art & design, arts management, television, radio, music, interactive multimedia – all within a liberal arts context. Under the current leadership of President Warrick L. Carter, Ph.D., Columbia is dedicated to opportunity and excellence in higher education. For further information visit www.colum.edu.
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Columbia College Chicago Hosts Printers' Ball
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact Columbia College: Micki Leventhal, 312.369.7383, mleventhal@colum.edu
Celebration of print culture features free publications and entertainment
CHICAGO (July 23, 2009)—The fifth annual Printers’ Ball is set for Friday, July 31, at Columbia College Chicago in the city’s vibrant South Loop neighborhood. The event, which runs from 5 - 11 pm, will be held on several floors of the college’s landmark Ludington Building, at 1104 South Wabash. The Ludington is the former home of the American Book Company and current home to Columbia’s Center for Book and Paper Arts. The Printers' Ball is free and open to the public. More information at 312.787.7070 or http://www.poetryfoundation.org
Founded by Poetry magazine and other independent Chicago literary organizations, the Printers’ Ball is an annual celebration of print culture, featuring thousands of magazines, books, and broadsides available free of charge; live readings and music; letterpress, offset, and paper-making demonstrations; and much more. This year’s Printers’ Ball is co-produced with Columbia College Chicago and the Center for Book & Paper Arts. Select events during the Printers’ Ball are being recorded for Chicago Public Radio’s Chicago Amplified.
Major collaborators for the fifth annual Printers’ Ball are the Alternative Press Center, the Center for Book & Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago, Chicago Amplified, Chicago Underground Library, CHIRP (Chicago Independent Radio Project), MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine, Newcity, Opium Magazine, Poetry magazine, Poetry Foundation, and the Student Affairs Offices of Columbia College Chicago. The Printers’ Ball extends special gratitude to Lagunitas, Hofbrau, and Chimay breweries for their generous support of the evening’s festivities.
More than 1,500 people annually attend what has become one of the largest celebrations of print culture in the country. This year, for the first time ever, the Printers’ Ball features publishers outside of Chicago, showcasing more than 200 local, national, and international literary organizations and the various ways they bring print to life.
The 2009 Printers’ Ball features:
Free ink on paper, including magazines, books, broadsides, and more
Printers’ Ball Library, hosted by the Alternative Press Center and Chicago Underground Library
Papermaking and book-binding workshops
Silkscreen, letterpress, offset, and rubber stamp printing demonstrations
CHIRP (Chicago Independent Radio Project) presents Smashing Time DJs Carrie Weston and Mary Nisi
Baby Alright: “All-star Chicago funk-soul-boogie” cover project featuring Marvin Tate (vocals), Dan Bitney (drums), LeRoy Bach (guitar), Matt Lux (bass), and Toby Summerfield (guitar)
Joe Meno reading for McSweeney’s, Nick Twemlow for Jubilat, Eula Biss for Iowa Review, John Beer for The Hat, and Caitlin O’Connor Creey for Open City, accompanied by Philip Jenks, poet and drummer for the Howling Hex
Opium Magazine’s Literary Death Match, hosted by Tod Zuniga, featuring: Robert Archambeau for Poetry, Michael Czyzniejewski for ACM (Another Chicago Magazine), Gabe Gudding for MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine, Adam Levin for Ninth Letter, Kathleen Rooney for Switchback Books, and Febronio Zatarain for contratiempo; celebrity judges Barry Hite, Jay Ryan, and Nami Mun
Nearly two dozen readers over six hours, representing 21 Chicago reading series, literary organizations, and publications:
Featured organizations include: Danny’s, Dreaded Biscuits, Elbowing off the Stage, The Encyclopedia Show, f magazine, Guild Complex’s Palabra Pura, Hair Trigger, Homolatte, Mental Graffiti, Off the Stage, Quickies, Ray’s Reading Series, recroom, Red Rover, Reading Under the Influence, 2nd Story, Second City Third Person, Silver Tongue, South Loop Review, Story Week Reader, Sunday Night Sex Show, and Thumbs and Knuckles
Readers include: Toby Bengelsdorf, Chris Bower, Casey J Bye, Brian Costello, Kate Dougherty, Lesley Kartali, Ish Klein, James Lower, Adam McOmber, Santiago Martinez, Jill Neumann, Coya Paz, Johanny Vazquez Paz, Paul Martinez Pompa, Jacob Saenz, Ashley Schroeder, Megan Stielstra, Erin Teegarden, Andi White, and Christopher Williams.
About Chicago Amplified
Chicago Amplified is a web-based audio library of diverse educational events recorded throughout the Chicago region.
About the Ludington Building
The Ludington Building at 1104 South Wabash on Columbia’s South Loop campus, was commissioned by Mary Ludington Barnes for the American Book Company. Built in 1891, The Ludington was designed by William LeBaron Jenney, the architect acknowledged as the inventor of the skyscraper. At the time, Chicago was a national center for the publishing industry and Ludington Barnes commissioned the building to house the offices, printing presses, and packaging and shipping operations of her husband’s company. The Ludington, named a City of Chicago Landmark in 1996 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, currently houses the school’s Center for Book & Paper Arts, Film and Video Department facilities, the Glass Curtain Gallery and the Conaway Student Center.
About Poetry Magazine
Founded in Chicago by Harriet Monroe in 1912, Poetry is the oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world. Harriet Monroe’s “Open Door” policy, set forth in volume 1 of the magazine, remains the most succinct statement of Poetry’s mission: to print the best poetry written today, in whatever style, genre, or approach. The magazine established its reputation early by publishing the first important poems of T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, H.D., William Carlos Williams, Carl Sandburg, and other now-classic authors. In succeeding decades it has presented—often for the first time—works by virtually every significant poet of the 20th century.
About the Poetry Foundation
The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine and one of the largest literary organizations in the world, exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience. The Poetry Foundation seeks to be a leader in shaping a receptive climate for poetry by developing new audiences, creating new avenues for delivery, and encouraging new kinds of poetry through innovative literary prizes and programs.
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