About: Meg Duguid

Editors Jayne Kelley and Paul Preissner will discuss their new book, “American Framing: The Same Something for Everyone.”  Presented in partnership with the Chicago Humanities Festival REGISTER HERE About the Book: Originating in 1832 in Chicago with a balloon-framed warehouse designed by George Washington Snow, the technique of timber framing — also known at the time as “ChicagoContinue Reading

Bass Dreams minus B Record Release! Tatsu Aoki has done a lot. The MIYUMI Project mastermind has composed jazz orchestral suites about the Asian immigrant experience in the US; performed and recorded with a host of legendary Chicago AACM musicians – Fred Anderson, Malachi Favors, Mwata Bowden, Edward Wilkerson Jr. on the short list; beenContinue Reading

To register How can we begin to imagine Chicago’s future? Sometimes, turning to the past can provide a clue to the way forward. In collaboration with the Chicago Film Archives, visual artist zakkiyyah najeebah dumas o’neal and composer Ayana Contreras, Chicago Humanities Festival presents to render the infinite, a new film meditating on what’s toContinue Reading

Freed from the constraints of the picture plane, large, brazenly-coloured anthropomorphic figures constructed from collaged carpet scraps of prior projects strut across the walls of the gallery in Jessica Campbell’s second solo show at Western Exhibitions, Gigantomachinations. This show, her first in Chicago since her acclaimed 2019 Chicago Works show at the MCA Chicago, opensContinue Reading

For his fourth show at Western Exhibitions, Dan Attoe presents a series of new paintings on panel that reflects the changing conditions of his life as a result of the ongoing pandemic. Known for his tight and highly detailed paintings, this body of work is looser, more impulsive, and improvisational as Attoe moves towards anContinue Reading