Media Relations Contact:
Elizabeth Burke-Dain, 312.344.8695 or eburkedain@colum.edu
Chicago, December 2007 -- Secrets is a self-organized project initiated by the 6+ women’s art collective in collaboration with eight Palestinian women artists. This project and art exhibition, now being presented at Columbia College Chicago’s Glass Curtain Gallery, is an attempt to develop cooperation across enormous geographic and cultural distance, to build solidarities in recognition of the interconnectedness between women artists from different cultural backgrounds.
The exhibition will open March 10 and run through April 25, 2008 at the Glass Curtain Gallery, 1104 S. Wabash Avenue. An opening reception will be held on March 19 from 5pm to 7pm. The reception and exhibition are free and open to the public. The gallery hours are 9am to 5pm M,T,W,F and 9am to 7pm Thursdays. For more information visit www.colum.edu/cspaces or call gallery coordinator, Mark Porter, at 312.344.6643.
Much of the art in Secrets is videographic and photographic works that are real time documents of the artists’ lives. Getting pulled over by a Checkpoint Charlie (Larissa Sansour) or the aftermath of an honor killing (Shuruq Harb) are just two of the subjects presented. Other works include the documentation of a series of workshops with young Palestinian women in Dheisheh Refugee Camp, a site of great suffering and resistance, in the audio journal, Turning our Tongues and a performance/installation that asks the viewer to write their own secrets or “undisclosed information” on postcards. At the end of the exhibition Nathalie Handal will compose a poem from the secrets of others.
The title, Secrets, asked each artist to consider what is hidden and what is revealed, what can and cannot be known – as well as other aspects of secrecy which may be coercive, protective, or empowering.
“Many of these artists chose not to address the subject of occupation in head-on documentary style,” writes Lucy Lippard in the catalog essay, “but to see Palestine’s crisis through the lenses of their own and others’ lives, reflecting the feminist understanding that the personal is political.”
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Media Contact: Micki Leventhal 312-344-7383 or mleventhal@colum.edu
CHICAGO, IL – Raymond Spencer (57), CEO of the Capgemini Financial Services Strategic Business Unit, has been named to the Columbia College Chicago Board of Trustees, announced college President Warrick L. Carter, Ph.D.
Spencer was Chairman and CEO of Kanbay International, Inc. prior to that firm’s acquisition by Capgemini. As founder of Kanbay, he led the organization from its inception in 1989 to become a publicly-traded global company with over 7500 associates located in 14 cities in eight nations. The company was ranked number nine on BusinessWeek’s annual “Hot Growth Companies List, 2005.”
Before founding Kanbay, Spencer focused on world-wide rural and community development through his 20-year association with the Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA), a United Nations-recognized private voluntary organization. During that period, Spencer resided in India for six years, establishing the Indian division of ICA. He later held numerous leadership roles in ICA’s Chicago headquarters.
With over 30 years of experience in the areas of management, planning, finance, team building and leadership, Spencer has worked with many multinational and Fortune 500 clients.
Spencer has received numerous honors for his visionary approach to global enterprise and leadership. He was most recently named a Laureate in the Computerworld Honors Program, which distinguishes innovators around the world whose visionary use of information technology produces and promotes positive social change. He was inducted to the Chicago Area Entrepreneur Hall of Fame in 2003 and was named Ernst & Young Illinois Region Entrepreneur of the Year 2005. Spencer is a member of the Advisory Board of the Cross Atlantic Technology Fund, a board member of the Information Technology Association of American and a member of The Economic Club of Chicago.
Spencer was born in Adelaide, South Australia and attended law school at the University of Adelaide.
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