For Immediate Release
January 19, 2007
The Interactive Arts and Media Gallery will be presenting the works of two New Media artists and current Interactive Arts and Media faculty members, Annette Barbier and Patrick Lichty.
When: March 1 - March 31
Opening
Reception: Thursday, March 1, 5-7 pm
Where: Columbia College
Interactive Arts and Media Gallery
623 S. Wabash Ave., Rm. 416
Gallery
Hours: Mon.- Sat. 9am-5pm
Info: Free and open to the public. Information call, 312.344.7957
For Immediate Release
January 22, 2007
The Interdisciplinary Arts Department is pleased to announce it's third annual MFA in Arts & Media Thesis Exhibition, an opportunity to view cutting-edge artwork that crosses disciplines and integrates media produced by students at the culminating points of their graduate study in the arts. Video installations with performance elements; environmental sound combined with photography; poetry with moving images; digital video and printmaking in the form of a comic strip; Web, video, and photography construct an interplay of fiction and non-fiction, are just a few examples of the materials these projects weave together into complex, multi-layered works of art.
When: March 30 - April 19
Where: Columbia College
Center for Book & Paper Arts
1104 S. Wabash Ave., 2nd Fl
Info: Free and open to the public. Information call, 312.344.7199
Images are available electronically.
For Immediate Release
January 22, 2007
Boston-based multimedia artist Liz Nofziger is currently developing Core, a new large-scale site-specific installation for Columbia College Chicago's Glass Curtain Gallery.
Working with the physical space of the gallery, its myriad past and present uses, and its architecturally significant beginnings, Nofziger's installation will present an abstracted "core sample" of architect William LeBaron Jenney's Ludington Building. Core will disrupt our expectations of architecture, creating a quiet spectacle in response to the structural columns punctuating the gallery.
Viewer exploration will lead to intimate discoveries within the space, revealing elements of the research Nofziger been compiling since her first site-visit in June 2006. Looking through the past of the Glass Curtain, Nofziger filters, reflects and juxtaposes the findings of her research from a contemporary perspective, from the vibration of printing presses to toothpaste and auto-parts. By reanimating forgotten stories, Nofziger will impact the relationship visitors have with the Ludington Building.
Sparked by religion, politics, pop culture and personal experience, Nofziger's "site manipulations" are comprised of familiar, benign elements that are re-configured with the result of blurring the lines between attraction and repulsion, high and low. Playing with perspective, voyeurism, scale and humor, Nofziger aims to challenge the viewers' perception and awareness of their surroundings within the exhibition and beyond.
"I am interested in broadened relationships to our environments, current events and history within the context of physical personal experience and possibilities for the impact each of us has on our surroundings," says Nofziger.
When: March 12 - April 20
Opening
Reception: Tuesday, March 12, 2007, 5-7pm
Where: Columbia College, Glass Curtain Gallery 1104 S. Wabash Ave.
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Info: 312.344.6643 or http://cspaces.colum.edu/
Media
Contact Elizabeth Burke-Dain, 312.344.8695
For Immediate Release
January 3, 2007
Chicago, IL - An academic, writer and jazz guitarist, George Bailey teaches courses such as Blues as Literature and Representing the African in the New World to his students at Columbia College Chicago. An activist engaged in human relations and educational issues in his hometown community of Oak Park, Bailey will provide his guidance and expertise for Looking At: Jazz, America's Art Form when the six-week cultural program comes to the Oak Park Public Library, 834 W. Lake Street, Oak Park, January 31 through March 8.
[Detailed schedule below.]
Looking At: Jazz is a national initiative organized by Re: New Media in partnership with the American Library Association and Jazz at Lincoln Center. Only 50 libraries nationwide are presenting the series; Oak Park is the only site in the Chicagoland area. All events in the series are free and open to the public. For more information call 708-383-8200 or visit www.oppl.org.
On six consecutive Wednesday nights, the audience will view films including segments from the Ken Burns' PBS series JAZZ and documentaries on jazz icons such as Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker and Benny Goodman. Bailey will guide the post-screening discussions.
In addition to the Wednesday night screening/discussions, the Oak Park series will feature additional programming - including live music - on selected Thursday evenings and Saturday afternoons during the series. Kicking off will be a Ragtime piano concert by renowned composer, performer, Chicago native and 2004 MacArthur Foundation 'genius' Reginald R. Robinson. The Peter Budd Jazz Trio, jazz vocalist Marie Alexandre, a panel discussion led by Art Lange, music producer, critic, former editor of DownBeat magazine and Columbia College teacher and a concert by a quartet of emerging young jazz musicians from New Orleans will round out the offerings.
Looking At: Jazz, America's Art Formis supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. All programs are free and open to the public.
Visit www.lookingatjazz.com for more information on this national initiative.
NOTE: George Bailey, Art Lange and Reginald R. Robinson are available for interviews.
Digital images available.
Media Contacts: Columbia College, Micki Leventhal 312-344-7383
Oak Park Library, Deborah Preiser 708-697-6915
New Orleans and the Origins of Jazz
Wednesday, January 31, 7 p.m: Screening and Discussion -- Ken Burns' JAZZ
Episode 1:Gumbo, Beginnings to 1917.
Thursday, February 1, 7:30 p.m - UNITY TEMPLE.: Ragtime Piano concert with Reginald R. Robinson.
The Jazz Age and Harlem as a Center for Jazz
Wednesday, February 7, 7 p.m: Screening and Discussion -- Harlem Renaissance: The Music & Rhythms that Started a Cultural Revolution + Ken Burns' JAZZ Episode 2: The Gift, 1917-1924.
Thursday, February 8, 7:30 p.m.:Peter Budd Jazz Trio.
The Jazz Vocalists
Wednesday, February 14, 7 p.m.: Screening and Discussion - Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday.
Thursday, February 15, 7:30 p.m.: Women in Jazz vocal concert with Marie Alexandre; Frank Portolese accompanies on guitar.
Family Music Matinee
Saturday, February 17, 3 p.m.: Young musicians who lived and worked in New Orleans perform in concert and discuss jazz and the New Orleans music scene pre- and post-Katrina. Quin Kirchner, drums; Matthew Golombinsky, bass; Robin Boudreaux, saxophone, Matthew McClimon, vibraphone.
The Swing Era
Wednesday, February 21, 7 p.m.:Screening and Discussion - Benny Goodman: Adventures in the Kingdom of Swing.
Thursday, February 22, 7:30 p.m.:Dicussion on Media & Criticism's relationship with Jazz - with Art Lange, former WBEZ radio Jazz historian and disk jockey Dick Buckley, and music photographer Jeff Lowenthal.
Jazz Innovators: From Bebop to Hard Bop to Cool and more
Wednesday, February 28, 7 p.m.: Screening and Discussion - Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker.
Thursday, March 1, 7:30 p.m.Kimo Williams, composer and jazz guitarist will play and discuss the influence of jazz on African-American classical composers (program details in development).
Latin Jazz and Jazz as an International Music
Wednesday, March 7, 7 p.m.: Screening and Discussion - A Night in Havana: Dizzy Gillespie in Cuba