Dec 6th 2025

MAS Context | Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2025

@ The Art Institute of Chicago

111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603

Opening Saturday, December 6th, from 11:30AM - 1PM

Join MAS Context for the ninth edition of its Tracing/Traces event, offering a behind-the-scenes look at selected items from the Art Institute of Chicago’s Ryerson & Burnham Art and Architecture Archives.

Five architects and designers will select items from the collection and discuss them in relationship to their practice, the discipline, and/or society. Nathaniel Parks, Tigerman McCurry Director of the Art Institute of Chicago Archives, will provide a brief introduction to the archives.

Participants include: Zehra Ahmed, researcher and writer: Dirk Denison, Dirk Denison Architects; Anders Nereim, Anders Nereim Architects; Uthman Olowa, educator, artist, and designer; and Melissa Rovner, educator and historian.

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