Using their own practices as a jumping off point, first-year BOLT Residents Kathryn Trumbull Fimreite and Stacia Yeapanis will host a public roundtable discussion with featured artists, who will share their experience as makers. The discussion will delve into themes such as labor, anxiety, ritual, and routine. A tactile activity and guided meditation will augment the expertise of the featured guests with a phenomenological exploration of the repetitive gesture.

Featured Artists for Again, and again, and again, and again: A Roundtable Exploration of the Repetitive Gesture in Art:

John Paul Morabito
John Paul Morabito is a Chicago based artist whose work triangulates between masochism, Catholic devotion, and textile labor. His work has been exhibited at numerous venues internationally including the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; Snyderman-Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY; the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA; the Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA; the RabbitHoleStudio Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; the Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY; and the Local Lore Museum, Kherson, Ukraine. Publications include Surface Design Journal, Fiberarts Magazine, American Craft Magazine, and Casa e Jardim. He holds a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Morabito is a Lecturer in the Department of Fiber and Material Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Jean Alexander Frater
Over the last few years, Jean has been focused exclusively on the materials and process of painting. Her most recent work is involved in ideas about the disruption of repetition and pattern. Jean graduated with a BA in Philosophy, and received her MFA from the School of Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited internationally in venues such as the Wexner Center for Arts in Columbus, El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, the Images Festival in Toronto, Possible Project Space in Brooklyn, the Big Screen Project in New York, GuestSpot in Baltimore, the Ben-Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, and the Kulturhuset in Stockholm. Jean was arecipient the Working Artists Grant, 2014; and shortlisted for the Dave Bown Artist Competition: December 2014. In 2015, Jean’s work will be part of a group exhibition at The Mission Gallery in Chicago; and her paintings and sculptural works, will be in a solo exhibition at The GuestSpot @ The Reinstitute, in Baltimore, Maryland. Jean lives and works with her family in Chicago.

Jaclyn Jacunski
Jaclyn Jacunski is a printmaker, sculptor, organizer, writer, and teacher whose artistic considers the of productive engagement of vacant spaces, gentrified neighbors and contested landscapes. Her works questions what is present in the land and what has been left behind for communities. The materials from lots, found objects, news articles are used to create new objects that work to be critical of the operations of power and property. She Chicago-based artist earning her M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and B.F. A. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She has written for the magazine ArtInPrint and was recently highlighted for Chicago Artists Month. She currently works at SAIC’s Shapiro Center for Research and Collaboration, has also taught there along with Harrington College of Design. She has exhibited at Hyde Park Art Center, Harold Washington College, Columbia College’s Center for Book and Paper Arts and A + D Gallery. She was an artist in residence at Spudnik Press and the Director of the Chicago Printer’s Guild.

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