For Immediate Release
July 19, 2006
WHAT: A Movable Feast of Pop-ups, volvelles, tunnels, flaps and other movable books of one kind or another have been traced back as far as the thirteenth century. This exhibition is drawn from a number of important private collections spotlighting the "heroes" in the field of both yesterday and today.
A large portion is devoted to the work of the very influential Czech artist and paper engineer Vojtěch Kubašta who is credited as the inspiration of many of the "pop-up people" working today. His faux-naif style with a Bohemian flavor produced richly vivid illustrations that were used for both books and advertisements.
Throughout this exhibition are Kubašta's anthropomorphic animals, dwarves, puppets, and wizards that are highly desirable to collectors of vintage pop-up and movable books.
Also featuring:
Ron van der Meer
Robert Sabuda
Ib Penick
John Strejan
David Carter
WHEN: August 12 - September 23
WHERE: Center for Book & Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago
1104 S. Wabash Ave., 2nd Fl.
Gallery Hours: 10am to 6pm Monday through Saturday
COST: Free and Open to the Public
INFO: 312.344.6630 or www.bookandpaper.org
ALSO INCLUDED in A Movable Feast are important artworks and curiosities from movable book's past and present.
PANEL DISCUSSION: The Mavens of Movable: Pop-up aficionados! Here's the opportunity of a lifetime: World-renowned master pop-up engineers Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhard, as well as others from their knock-out staff, will provide insights into the lives of commercial book artists. Come prepared to be wowed by images of their process and to share in a panel discussion. This panel is offered in conjunction with the 2006 meeting of The Movable Book Society.
WHEN: Friday, September 15 at 6:30 pm
WHERE: Columbia College Chicago's Center for Book & Paper Arts
1104 S. Wabash Ave., 2nd Fl.
Media Contact: Elizabeth Burke-Dain 312.344.8695
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 13, 2006
WHAT: Inactive/Active places the artist in the role of inventor. The performative sculptures in the exhibition investigate the role of technology in the human environment. The role of the machine is to automate functions in order to make life simpler or enable industry to punch out products in vast quantities. Our reliance on machines also makes them a presumed extension of the human experience. The machines featured in Inactive/Active either function to comment on the idea of mechanization or serve to produce narrative and metaphor.
Sabrina Raaf's Icelandic Rift, represents a future vision of agriculture and growth in a zero-g environment. While this machine is meant to exist and function in a future dystopic environment, it also presages that nature can no longer perform without the intervention of machinery. Heidi Kumao's, Letter Never Sent, shows a weeping, moaning manual typewriter that is obviously
WHEN: August 28 - September 29, 2006
Opening Reception: September 7, 5pm to 8pm
Gallery Hours: Mon. and Thurs., 10am-7pm, Tues. Wed. & Fri., 9am-5pm
WHERE: Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College Chicago
1104 S. Wabash, 1st floor
COST: Free and Open to the Public
MORE INFO: 312.344.6643
Note: Digital images are available.
Media Contact: Elizabeth Burke-Dain, 312.344.8695
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.
Chicago, June 2006 --- Columbia College Chicago has named Eric V.A. Winston, Ph.D. to the position of vice president for institutional advancement, announced President Warrick L. Carter. Winston joined the college in December 2005 as interim vice president of the office.
"Dr. Winston has a proven track record when it comes to fundraising for scholarships and endowment and engaging alumni in fundraising. He has more than 36 years experience in higher education and we are appreciative he has agreed to come out of semi-retirement to accept our offer as we look to future expansion of our campus," says Dr. Warrick L. Carter, Columbia's president.
Winston is the principal and owner of Eric Winston & Associates, a fundraising consulting firm located in Wilberforce, Ohio that specializes in fundraising, annual fund, government and alumni relations and educational programs for colleges and universities.
He resigned his role as a city councilman in Xenia, Ohio after 14 years of service to that city. He also served as chair of the Planning and Zoning Commission for the last five years.
Prior to forming Eric Winston & Associates in 2002, Winston served as president for development and university relations at Wilberforce University from 1983 to 2002. Under Dr. Winston, the university's endowment increased from $1.5 million in 1990 to more than $12 million in 2002; alumni annual giving increased from seven percent to 28 percent annually; and he was responsible for raising revenue to build a $2.6 million alumni multiplex, $1 million of which was donated by alumni. His 24-year affiliation with Wilberforce University began in 1979 as vice president for student affairs and cooperative education, a position he held until 1983.
His career in higher education began in 1969 at Michigan State University where he served as assistant dean and assistant professor of urban development for five years. From 1975 to 1978 he served as vice president for student affairs, dean of students and associate professor of education at Chicago State University.
His professional affiliations over the years have included the National Society of Fundraising Executives, American Library Association, Ohio Association of Student Personnel Administrators, Illinois Association of Deans of Students, Florida A&M Library, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity and director of the Second Annual Summer Institute on Non-Violence for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change. On June 16th he was elected to the Illinois Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors.
Winston is the recipient of numerous awards and distinctions. He is an active member of many community-based organizations and a U.S. Army Vietnam Veteran.
He received his doctorate in administration and higher education from Michigan State University. He holds a master's in library science from Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia and a bachelor's degree in history from Morehouse College, also in Atlanta, Georgia.
He divides his time between Chicago and Xenia, Ohio. He is married and has two daughters and one grandchild.