Talk the Walk is designed to present signature shows that are unique to Columbia College Chicago. Since the works on view are not meant to be sold, Columbia is able to produce exhibitions with a curatorial intent that creates dialectic tension and addresses issues of both high and low culture. From the pimped-out Low Rider cars that will take over the 600 block of Wabash Avenue to the eloquent Body Maps made by South African women with HIV and AIDS, Talk the Walk is an open forum for discussion between the public, artists and the people behind the exhibitions.
Exalted Trash: Works by Bruno Richard, Patrick Miceli and Marc Fischer
Center for Book & Paper Arts, 1104 S. Wabash Ave., 2nd Fl.
October 7 - December 9
The discarded items from our daily lives; fast food containers, scratched notes, and paper are elevated to reliquary objects left in the wake of our consumer society.
Sartorial Flux: curated by Valerie Lamontagne
A&D Gallery: 619 S. Wabash Ave.
Opens September 7 - October 21
Performance by Hoyun Son and Fashion Show by Art & Design students
Sartorial Flux reflects on the changing nature of clothing and fashion in light of modern society's increasingly nomadic and technologically ubiquitous lifestyle.
Weisman Exhibition: works by student winners of the Weisman Scholarship
Hokin Gallery : 623 S. Wabash Ave.
Opens October 9 - November 17
2006 Albert P. Weisman Scholars are students at Columbia College Chicago who are awarded grants to complete communications projects from the Albert P. Weisman Memorial Fund.
Meridel Rubenstein Photographs: "The Low Riders: Portraits from New Mexico"
Hokin Annex: 623 S. Wabash Avenue
On exhibit: October 12 - 13
A portfolio of twelve photographs of Low Riders and the people who covet them. Created in 1980 by Meridel Rubenstein. Photos on loan from the Museum of Contemporary Photography
Low Rider Vehicles on Parade
600 Block of Wabash Avenue
On exibibit: October 12 - 13, 6 - 8pm
Fifteen low ride automobiles created by low rider car clubs in the Chicago area will be on display on the 600 block of South Wabash.
Body Maps: self-portraits by African women living with HIV/AIDS
C33 Gallery: 33 E. Congress
Opens September 5 - October 13
Body Maps are portraits of women who by mapping and documenting their life and their illness, invite us to name and to identify HIV+ people of South-Africa.
FOCO: Performance Workshop and Installation with Celia Herrera Rodriguez
Glass Curtain Gallery: 1104 S. Wabash, 1st Floor
Opens October 4 - November 8
An exhibition of Latin American art that culturally examines and visually describes the artistic and cultural movement of Chicago's Latin American community.
MP3: Midwest Photographers Pubication Project
Museum of Contemporary Photography, 600 S. Michigan, 1st floor
Opens August 18 - October 14
MP3: Closing Reception and Book Signing: October 12, 5-7pm,
Please join us for a closing reception for the exhibitions MP3, Tim Davis, and Greta Pratt. MP3 artists Kelli Connell, Justin Newhall and Brian Ulrich will be present to sign copies of their newly released trio of books, MP3.
Anchor Graphics, 623 S. Wabash, 2nd fl.
See the new home of Anchor Graphics, the nationally-known fine art print shop who became a part of Columbia College last April. Etching demonstrations will take place in the new print shop throughout the evening.