Media Contact: Elizabeth Burke-Dain 312.369.8695
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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.
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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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.