Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago and threewalls announce a call for applications to the Propeller Fund, entering its fourth year as a granting opportunity for independent visual artists, curators, and visual arts groups in Cook County, IL. Applications are due August 1, 2013, with 15 grantees announced in October 2013. A total $50,000 will be disbursed in 2013.
"David Salle: Ghost Paintings," features selections from a series of previously unexhibited works made in 1992. The Arts Club will exhibit a selection from the series of 14 canvases from 14 May - 10 August 2013. Public open house on 18 May 2013 from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm, with a gallery talk by the curator and Chicago artist Gaylen Gerber at 1:00 pm.
The 2013 Bodies of Work Festival is a dynamic, international, 11-day celebration throughout Chicago that explores the contributions of artists with disabilities, the contemporary contexts of disabled lives, and works that illuminate disability experiences. Bodies of Work first launched in 2006 as a unique cross-disciplinary event, and the festival continues to challenge and provoke with transformative work in theater, dance, literature, poetry, film, visual art, and sound performance.
Generation L will be hosting the first in a series of free Voguing workshops on Friday, May 17th from 6 - 8pm at Batey Urbano in Humboldt Park. This movement event will focus not only on the foundations of this popular dance style vogue, but also examine its relation to the history of ballroom scenes and connections to Black and Brown queer people, poor and working folks, homeless people, sex workers, and trans people. The workshops will continue throughout the summer on the third Friday of the month.
I didn’t plan to write this book. I had been planning and drafting and revising another book—a novel about a fake Intuitive Medium—for the better part of ten years. That book remains in progress. The new one took over, and it came to me in a flash.
Your art may have a lot a meaning for the queer community. This is one kind of success. Just as queer folk don’t devour strictly queer fare, neither should your art feed only the queer set. You will get further, faster, if you have something to say to the broader audience.
The gut contains more neurotransmitters than the brain. Food is information, not just calories. When I was feeding my gut with crappy Sour Patch Kids and Big Gulps, I was sending a message to my brain to feel like crap, too. When I started treating my belly with the same care as my brain, powerful productivity changes happened.
I wrote this song the night before an audition for a play addressing crime in Chicago. I was driving home and began to think about what to write. I didn’t know anything about crime in my city, so I began to pray and ask God His perspective on this seemingly hopeless issue.
In the months surrounding Jennifer Homans’ 2010 account of the history of ballet, Apollo’s Angels
As an artist, spending money on non-essentials is a difficult concept to get behind. When you’re struggling to make rent, putting money into an abstract project is hard to justify. Why should you put money toward something that might help you when you can pay for something that you need to do now.
Setting a base price is difficult enough: You have to assess the state of the market, your relationships with potential collectors, your sales and exhibition/performance history, your volume of output and perceived demand. Then comes a patron. You "run the numbers" which, for most creatives, means you worry about it for a while. A number floats into focus.
Settled along the Chicago River on the city’s Northwest Side, Albany Park is a neighborhood rich with multicultural storytelling, baseball, paintings, theater, children’s books, hot dogs, and community organizing.
