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		<title>Victoria Fuller: A Delicate Balance: Nature and Humanity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2025 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>A DELICATE BALANCE: NATURE AND HUMANITY Visual Arts Gallery, Governors State University A DELICATE BALANCE: NATURE AND HUMANITY Visual Arts Gallery, Governors State University Victoria Fuller’s A Delicate Balance: Nature and Humanity showcases her exquisitely detailed sculptures that celebrate the beauty and complexity of the natural world while addressing the pressing issue of extinction. Known<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2025/03/victoria-fuller-a-delicate-balance-nature-and-humanity/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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Visual Arts Gallery, Governors State University</p>
<p>A DELICATE BALANCE: NATURE AND HUMANITY<br />
Visual Arts Gallery, Governors State University</p>
<p>Victoria Fuller’s A Delicate Balance: Nature and Humanity showcases her exquisitely detailed sculptures that celebrate the beauty and complexity of the natural world while addressing the pressing issue of extinction. Known for her hyper-realist style, Fuller’s work captures the delicacy and fragility of life on Earth. This exhibit highlights her nature-inspired creations, immersing audiences in the intricate forms of flora and fauna while prompting reflection on humanity’s role in preserving the fragile balance of our environment.</p>
<p>Exhibition Dates – March 3rd – April 4th, 2025</p>
<p>Reception and Talk: Thurs. March 11th from 3:00 &#8211; 5:00 remarks at 4:00. (Visiting hours, M, T, W 12-5).</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2025/03/victoria-fuller-a-delicate-balance-nature-and-humanity/">Victoria Fuller: A Delicate Balance: Nature and Humanity</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Stephen Eichhorn: Clusters &#038; Stacks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Stephen Eichhorn: Clusters &#38; Stacks</p>
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		<title>Paul Simmons: Blank Slate</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2025 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Reception and gallery talk: February 27, 7-9PM Paul Simmons is a Chicago-based artist and professor. His work explores the possibilities for invention within the printed image using the xerox printer as a starting point. An accumulated personal library of visual information collected over the last thirty years is deconstructed, manipulated and rearranged to create paintings<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2025/02/paul-simmons-blank-slate/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reception and gallery talk: February 27, 7-9PM</p>
<p>Paul Simmons is a Chicago-based artist and professor. His work explores the possibilities for invention within the printed image using the xerox printer as a starting point. An accumulated personal library of visual information collected over the last thirty years is deconstructed, manipulated and rearranged to create paintings that present a familiar visual language in an evolving context.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2025/02/paul-simmons-blank-slate/">Paul Simmons: Blank Slate</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Hijx De Viboras Doradas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2025 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery is pleased to present “Hijx De Viboras Doradas,” an exhibition by Chicago-based artist Moises Salazar Tlatenchi. “Hijx De Viboras Doradas” opens Feb. 10 and runs through March 6. “Hijx De Viboras Doradas” is presented in partnership with the Artists’ Cooperative Residency &#38; Exhibitions (ACRE), an artist-run non-profit<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2025/02/hijx-de-viboras-doradas/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery is pleased to present “Hijx De Viboras Doradas,” an exhibition by Chicago-based artist Moises Salazar Tlatenchi. “Hijx De Viboras Doradas” opens Feb. 10 and runs through March 6.</p>
<p>“Hijx De Viboras Doradas” is presented in partnership with the Artists’ Cooperative Residency &amp; Exhibitions (ACRE), an artist-run non-profit based in Chicago devoted to providing resources to emerging artists and nurturing a diverse community of cultural producers. ACRE’s programs support this generative community with materials, equipment, expertise and opportunities to exhibit and share work.</p>
<p>In conjunction with this exhibition, Tlatenchi will present an Engaged Citizenship Common Experience (ECCE) Speaker Series lecture from 6 to 7 p.m. on Feb. 19 in Brookens Auditorium, located on the lower level of Brookens Library. Tlatenchi’s lecture will explore their work as a non-binary first-generation Mexican American, using glitter, fabrics and traditional techniques to celebrate queer and immigrant resilience.</p>
<p>This exhibition and ECCE lecture are co-sponsored by UIS Gender &amp; Sexuality Student Services and the UIS Diversity Center.<br />
Immediately following this lecture, the UIS Visual Arts Gallery will host an exhibition reception for “Hijx De Viboras Doradas” from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the UIS Visual Arts Gallery. This event is free and open to the public.</p>
<p>“Hijx De Viboras Doradas” pairs marginalized narratives of queer discovery, rejection and acceptance, with popular narrative construction and ancient Aztec deities. An experience laced with beauty, vulnerability and understanding of judgment, eyes and snakes run throughout the space. The serpent is a representation of the Aztec deity Quetzalcoatl, associated with themes of creation. Tlatenchi uses these histories to highlight the vital role that queer communities play in self-discovery. Subverting the associations of snakes, Tlatenchi represents them as glamorous queer mothers. They offer us safety, protection and an invitation to participate in the freedom that comes from thriving in the abyss.</p>
<p>Tlatenchi is a non-binary artist based in Chicago. Tlatenchi earned their bachelor’s degree in fine arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Tlatenchi’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at WOAW Gallery, Salon ACME 8, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, NADA, the National Museum of Mexican Art and the Chicago Cultural Center.<br />
Tlatenchi has focused on conceptual and installation-based work. Tlatenchi’s presentation “Let’s get Physical,” facilitated by Filo Sofi Arts, was included in “HEARSAY:HERESY” Spring Break Art Show to much critical acclaim. A finalist for the QUEER | ART | PRIZE, Tlatenchi’s work has been featured in publications such as The Hispanic Executive, artnet, Hyperallergic and The Latinx Project. Tlatenchi has participated in The Hyde Park Art Center Residency and received the LuminArts Foundation Arts Fellowship, 3Arts Make a Wave Grant and Fire Island Artist Residency. Most recently, Tlatenchi has been named one of the 2023 Breakout Artists: Chicago’s Next Generation of Image Makers.</p>
<p>The UIS Visual Arts Gallery acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council Agency. The gallery is centrally located in the UIS Health and Sciences Building, room 201 (HSB 201). Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Thursday. For more information and future exhibitions, visit the UIS Visual Arts Gallery website.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2025/02/hijx-de-viboras-doradas/">Hijx De Viboras Doradas</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Basia Krol: Wherever I May Roam</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Galesburg artist, Basia Krol, will have her solo exhibition, &#8220;Wherever I May Roam&#8221;, on display February 4 through March 21 at the Western Illinois University Art Gallery. A reception for the artist will be held Tuesday, February 4, 4:30-6:00 p.m. The artist will speak about her work at 5:00 pm. Barbara “Basia” Krol was born<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2025/02/basia-krol-wherever-i-may-roam/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Galesburg artist, Basia Krol, will have her solo exhibition, &#8220;Wherever I May Roam&#8221;, on display February 4 through March 21 at the Western Illinois University Art Gallery.</p>
<p>A reception for the artist will be held Tuesday, February 4, 4:30-6:00 p.m. The artist will speak about her work at 5:00 pm.</p>
<p>Barbara “Basia” Krol was born and raised in Warsaw, Poland. She studied painting and printmaking at Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and traveled through Europe to study old masters in major collections. She received her Masters Degree in Studio Art from Warsaw Academy of Fine Art in 2000. Following several Artist in Residency programs in the US, Krol moved to Chicago in 2004 and then downstate to Galesburg IL in 2011, to raise a family. Since the pandemic Krol has been painting almost exclusively landscapes based on native and restored habitats of the Midwest. She paints in oil on canvas as she considers that tradition the knowledge of our ancestors. Her paintings are loosely realistic but abstract upon closer inspection. She enjoys moving her body through spacetime both hiking and dancing while she paints. The painting is finished in meditative and calligraphy details with the intention of transporting the viewer to metaphysical place they don&#8217;t know they miss.</p>
<p>Admission is free and open to the public.</p>
<p>Parking will be allowed near the gallery starting at 4:00 pm.</p>
<p>Image: The Great Arch, oil on canvas. 60 x 72 in., 2024</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2025/02/basia-krol-wherever-i-may-roam/">Basia Krol: Wherever I May Roam</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Mystery in the Making: GovState Art Faculty Exhibition</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2025 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Mystery in the Making: AN EXHIBITION BY GOVSTATE ART FACULTY Debbie Burk Javier Chavira Gretchen Jankowski Leanne McClurg Jeff Stevenson Paula Swisher Exhibition Dates: January 2 – 27, 2025 Closing Reception: Monday, January 27 at 4 p.m. Please check with us prior to your visit as gallery hours will be adjusted for Spring Semester 2025<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2025/01/mystery-in-the-making-govstate-art-faculty-exhibition-2/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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AN EXHIBITION BY GOVSTATE ART FACULTY</p>
<div>Debbie Burk</div>
<div>Javier Chavira</div>
<div>Gretchen Jankowski</div>
<div>Leanne McClurg</div>
<div>Jeff Stevenson</div>
<div>Paula Swisher</div>
<p>Exhibition Dates: January 2 – 27, 2025<br />
Closing Reception: Monday, January 27 at 4 p.m.</p>
<p>Please check with us prior to your visit as gallery hours will be adjusted for Spring Semester 2025<br />
Updated information will be posted on our <a href="https://www.govst.edu/gallery/">website www.govst.edu/gallery</a> and Facebook event page<a href="https://www.facebook.com/VisualArtsGalleryGSU"> https://www.facebook.com/VisualArtsGalleryGSU</a></p>
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		<title>Ahmed Ozsever: Five Miles/Twenty-Five Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2025 23:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery is pleased to announce, “Five Miles/Twenty-Five Years,” a solo exhibition by interdisciplinary artist Ahmed Ozsever. The exhibition opens Jan. 13 and runs through Feb. 6, 2025. A public reception will take place from 5:30 to 8 p.m. on Jan. 23 at the UIS Visual Arts Gallery. Admission<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2025/01/five-miles-twenty-five-years/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery is pleased to announce, “Five Miles/Twenty-Five Years,” a solo exhibition by interdisciplinary artist Ahmed Ozsever. The exhibition opens Jan. 13 and runs through Feb. 6, 2025. A public reception will take place from 5:30 to 8 p.m. on Jan. 23 at the UIS Visual Arts Gallery. Admission is free and all are welcome to attend.</p>
<p>Aerial imagery often portrays landscapes as neutral, abstract forms&#8211;flattening rivers, silos and roadways into two-dimensional compositions shaped by colors, patterns and values. These visual records, archived in both physical and digital spaces, catalog land at specific moments in time. “Five Miles/Twenty-Five Years” juxtaposes this omniscient aerial perspective with human-scale imagery, creating a dialogue between history, intervention and memory.</p>
<p>Ozsever’s photographic and sculptural works engage archival imagery of central Illinois landscapes, focusing on areas reshaped by coal mining and transportation infrastructure. Through this layered visual exploration, the exhibition reflects on the passage of time as evidenced in land, domestic spaces and industrial infrastructure. By connecting geologic time, cycles of capital and everyday human experience, Ozsever visualizes the significant impact of human presence on the environment.</p>
<p>This project is the latest in Ozsever’s works about land, human intervention upon it and how the intersection of land and the human-made can shape our conceptions of both the past and present. It seeks to visualize the symptomatic evidence of the passage of time in land, infrastructure and domestic spaces. These spaces bind together the incomprehensible deep time (or geologic time), to that of capital, and the cycles of consumption and occupancy that comprise and punctuate our day-to-day existence.</p>
<p>Ozsever is an interdisciplinary artist who works in installation, time-based media, sculpture and photography. His work is geographically focused and responds to the spatial anomalies, as well as the hidden histories of a given location. Ozever’s work explores the articulation and perception of constructed temporalities, mediated experiences of land(scape) and the peculiar human traces inscribed in quotidian spaces. Ozever earned his bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Herron School of Art and Design at Indiana University Indianapolis and received his master’s degree in fine arts from Cornell University.</p>
<p>Ozsever’s independent and collaborative works have been exhibited throughout the United States at venues including the South Bend Museum of Art, the Indiana State Museum, HF Johnson Gallery at Carthage College, Gallery19 in Chicago, Pilot Projects in Philadelphia, station923 in Ithaca, New York and Site109 in New York City, among others. Ahmed’s public artworks have been exhibited at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, the 2017 Terrain Biennial in Springfield and the Hapgood-Wright Forest in Concord, Massachusetts. He was an ACRE resident in 2017 and was a CORE Artist in Residence at Chicago Art Department in 2018. Ozsever is based in Bloomington, Indiana, where he is an assistant professor of creative core (foundations) at the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture and Design at Indiana University.</p>
<p>The UIS Visual Arts Gallery acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council Agency. Located in the Health and Science Building (HSB 201) on the UIS campus, the gallery is open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday. For more information about this and future exhibitions, visit UIS Visual Arts Gallery website.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2025/01/five-miles-twenty-five-years/">Ahmed Ozsever: Five Miles/Twenty-Five Years</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Threads and Granules</title>
		<link>https://thevisualist.org/2025/01/threads-and-granules-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2025 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Release Party]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[IL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joanne Aono]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[O'Connor Gallery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[River Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sofía Fernández Díaz]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>No easy beauty characterizes the work of Joanne Aono and Sofía Fernández-Díaz. Grounded in immersive research, both artists de-materialize the familiar, and embrace challenging paths in work and life that recognize the complexities in their twining. They callback to ancestral practices that revel in excavation, renewal and transformation. This feeds a practice that is not<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2025/01/threads-and-granules-2/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2025/01/threads-and-granules-2/">Threads and Granules</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No easy beauty characterizes the work of Joanne Aono and Sofía Fernández-Díaz. Grounded in immersive research, both artists de-materialize the familiar, and embrace challenging paths in work and life that recognize the complexities in their twining. They callback to ancestral practices that revel in excavation, renewal and transformation. This feeds a practice that is not just a pursuit of formal beauty but one that engages holistically in unison with nature and daily ritual, growing studio habits with rigor, and broader ideas about lived experience.</p>
<p>Joanne Aono is a visual artist and curator; she lives, works, and maintains a holistic farm in north central Illinois. Her research-based drawings and installations address identity, immigration, and the environment. Her Japanese American identities and experience as a twin sister find their way into the form and content of her work. Dualities of homeland inform Sofía Fernández Díaz’s practice as well, as she exchanges ideas and documents culturally specific processes with artisans from her birthplace in Mexico City.</p>
<p>Please join us for the reception 4-6- Artist Talk at 4:30</p>
<p>Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 10 &#8211; 5, Saturday, 10 &#8211; 4 Free and open to all.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2025/01/threads-and-granules-2/">Threads and Granules</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Cash for Gold Screening with Q&#038;A</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2024 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ahmos Hassan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew J. West]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cash for Gold Screening with Q&A]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Sullivan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deborah Puette]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>On Thursday, December 12th Wayfarer Theaters invites you to experience the powerful narrative of this gripping independent film from Director Deborah Puette and Producer Ahmos Hassan. Following the screening, there will be a Q and A with Deborah and Ahmos. &#8220;Cash For Gold&#8221; is a poignant tale of loss, forgiveness, and hope in America&#8217;s heartland,<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/12/cash-for-gold-screening-with-qa/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/12/cash-for-gold-screening-with-qa/">Cash for Gold Screening with Q&A</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On Thursday, December 12th Wayfarer Theaters invites you to experience the powerful narrative of this gripping independent film from Director Deborah Puette and Producer Ahmos Hassan. Following the screening, there will be a Q and A with Deborah and Ahmos.</p>
<p>&#8220;Cash For Gold&#8221; is a poignant tale of loss, forgiveness, and hope in America&#8217;s heartland, CASH FOR GOLD tells the story of Grace, an Army widow hiding a dark secret. Fighting to support herself and her young son while clinging to her recent sobriety, and with Christmas fast approaching, she takes a second job at the local pawn shop owned by the town&#8217;s only Muslim family. She initially butts heads with the owner&#8217;s son Hasan, a man with a secret of his own. As their relationship deepens, forces within their local community propel them toward one dangerous, explosive night. Will they each face the mistakes of their post&#8230;or be destroyed by them forever?</p>
<p>Starring Deborah Puette, Farshad Farahat, JoBeth Williams, David Sullivan, Jeff Kober, Marcelo Tubert, and Andrew J. West</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/12/cash-for-gold-screening-with-qa/">Cash for Gold Screening with Q&A</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Red Shawl Day Documentary</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elgin Community College]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>“Bring Her Home” follows three Indigenous women – an artist, an activist, and a politician – as they fight to vindicate their missing and murdered relatives who have fallen victims to the growing epidemic across Indigenous communities. Treats will be provided by Native baker Abaigeal Dempsey.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/11/red-shawl-day-documentary/">Red Shawl Day Documentary</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“Bring Her Home” follows three Indigenous women – an artist, an activist, and a politician – as they fight to vindicate their missing and murdered relatives who have fallen victims to the growing epidemic across Indigenous communities. Treats will be provided by Native baker Abaigeal Dempsey.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/11/red-shawl-day-documentary/">Red Shawl Day Documentary</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>No One Ever Sees Indians: Native Americans in Media</title>
		<link>https://thevisualist.org/2024/11/no-one-ever-sees-indians-native-americans-in-media-2-2-2-2-2/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Meg Duguid]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Nov 2024 20:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elmhurst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elmhurst History Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ernest M. Whiteman III]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[No One Ever Sees Indians: Native Americans in Media]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>This presentation is loosely structured as a three-part magic act. Ernest discusses the many representations of Native Americans in media, how far back these depictions go, and how these representations inform audiences’ perceptions of Native peoples and issues. This presentation reflects the ideology of lived experience, ownership of culture versus the authorship of expertise of<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/11/no-one-ever-sees-indians-native-americans-in-media-2-2-2-2-2/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/11/no-one-ever-sees-indians-native-americans-in-media-2-2-2-2-2/">No One Ever Sees Indians: Native Americans in Media</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
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<p>This presentation is loosely structured as a three-part magic act. Ernest discusses the many representations of Native Americans in media, how far back these depictions go, and how these representations inform audiences’ perceptions of Native peoples and issues.</p>
<p>This presentation reflects the ideology of lived experience, ownership of culture versus the authorship of expertise of Native representation, and its reductive constructs. Ernest will show that what people know and see about Native Americans in media has always been an illusion.</p>
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<p>This event is Free and Open to the public. For more information, please contact Jessie Wandersee at <a href="mailto:jess.wandersee@elmhurst.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">jess.wandersee@elmhurst.org</a>.</p>
<p>Learn more about Ernest M. Whiteman III, this program, and how to book it <a href="https://ilhumanities.org/speakers/ernest-whiteman">here</a>.</p>
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		<title>Trickster Exhibits &#038; Native Beadworking</title>
		<link>https://thevisualist.org/2024/11/trickster-exhibits-native-beadworking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elgin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elgin Community College]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Potawatomi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sam Thompson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trickster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trickster Cultural Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trickster Exhibits & Native Beadworking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trickster Gallery]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Learn and make traditional Native beadwork with Potawatomi artist Sam Thompson, and experience interactive, traveling exhibitions from the Trickster Cultural Center.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/11/trickster-exhibits-native-beadworking/">Trickster Exhibits & Native Beadworking</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
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		<title>History of American Pies: and Illinois is Well Represented</title>
		<link>https://thevisualist.org/2024/11/history-of-american-pies-and-illinois-is-well-represented-2/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Meg Duguid]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Nov 2024 20:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Catherine Lambrecht]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dongola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dongola Public Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History of American Pies: and Illinois is Well Represented]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Pies are as American as pizza is American: we took a great idea, adapted it to our needs and ran with it. Our ancestors used what they had available locally and made the most from it. You might be thinking that pies are just for dessert, but for our American ancestors, they were often considered<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/11/history-of-american-pies-and-illinois-is-well-represented-2/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/11/history-of-american-pies-and-illinois-is-well-represented-2/">History of American Pies: and Illinois is Well Represented</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
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<p>Pies are as American as pizza is American: we took a great idea, adapted it to our needs and ran with it. Our ancestors used what they had available locally and made the most from it. You might be thinking that pies are just for dessert, but for our American ancestors, they were often considered survival food. Sometimes, they ate pie for breakfast, lunch and dinner for months at a time.</p>
<p>Catherine Lambrecht, who achieved Grand Champion and Best of Show at the Lake County Fair for apple pie, will present the history of pies in America and our state. Illinois’ contribution to our country’s pie culture includes the following:</p>
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<li>Pumpkin Pie is Illinois’ State Pie, with over 90 percent of canned pumpkin grown in Illinois</li>
<li>the pecan pie</li>
<li>Did you know Johnny Appleseed roamed our state? Apples originating in Kazakhstan are an introduced crop everywhere in the Americas.</li>
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<p>Lambrecht will share a story from the Family Heirloom Recipe Contest at the Illinois State Fair of love, family, a special pie, and a gift of immeasurable value.</p>
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<p>This event is Free and Open to the public. For more information, please contact Samantha Ralston at <a href="mailto:dongolapld@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">dongolapld@gmail.com</a>.</p>
<p>Learn more about Catherine Lambrecht, this program, and how to book it <a href="https://ilhumanities.org/speakers/catherine-lambrecht">here</a>.</p>
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		<title>Fireside Wisdom: Honoring Indigenous Culture</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[flor123]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2024 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abaigeal Dempsey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Buchholtz Allison]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Join Joseph Standing Bear Schranz, founder of the Midwest SOARRING Foundation (Save Our Ancestors’ Remains and Resources Indigenous Network Group) for an engaging conversation around honoring Indigenous culture. Enjoy Native flute playing and storytelling by renowned musician Bill Buchholtz Allison. Treats will be provided by Native baker Abaigeal Dempsey.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/11/fireside-wisdom-honoring-indigenous-culture/">Fireside Wisdom: Honoring Indigenous Culture</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
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		<title>Traditional Jazz: A Historical Perspective of Early Jazz from the New Orleans and Chicago Era</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2024 20:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Jazz is a music best enjoyed in live performance. Audiences are usually encouraged to applaud for soloists and clap rhythmically during performances. In this way, much like dancing, participants feel the music in a very subjective manner. It invades their consciousness and envelopes their soul. It has always been one of the very special elements<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/11/traditional-jazz-a-historical-perspective-of-early-jazz-from-the-new-orleans-and-chicago-era-2/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/11/traditional-jazz-a-historical-perspective-of-early-jazz-from-the-new-orleans-and-chicago-era-2/">Traditional Jazz: A Historical Perspective of Early Jazz from the New Orleans and Chicago Era</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
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<p>Jazz is a music best enjoyed in live performance. Audiences are usually encouraged to applaud for soloists and clap rhythmically during performances. In this way, much like dancing, participants feel the music in a very subjective manner. It invades their consciousness and envelopes their soul. It has always been one of the very special elements of Jazz and any understanding of it must come through experiencing the phenomenon. With that connection, the result is pure joy.</p>
<p>John Cooper will engage listeners through playing literature common to the New Orleans Era of Jazz. Musicians will perform in a collective improvisational texture on instruments common to the genre. You will engage in lecture material describing the role of each instrument in the ensemble citing notable historical musicians and musical examples. Performers will demonstrate techniques on their instrument that are common to this style.</p>
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<p>This event is Free and Open to the public. For more information, please contact Laura Youngstrum at <a href="mailto:lyoungstrum@reddicklibrary.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">lyoungstrum@reddicklibrary.org</a>.</p>
<p>Learn more about John Cooper, this program, and how to book it <a href="https://ilhumanities.org/speakers/john-cooper">here</a>.</p>
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</section><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/11/traditional-jazz-a-historical-perspective-of-early-jazz-from-the-new-orleans-and-chicago-era-2/">Traditional Jazz: A Historical Perspective of Early Jazz from the New Orleans and Chicago Era</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>John Early: A More Perfect Union</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2024 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery is pleased to present “A More Perfect Union” by St. Louis-based artist John Early. The exhibition will open on Monday, Oct. 21 and run through Thursday, Nov. 14. In conjunction with this exhibition, the artist will present an Engaged Citizenship Common Experience (ECCE) Speaker Series lecture from<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/11/john-early-a-more-perfect-union/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/11/john-early-a-more-perfect-union/">John Early: A More Perfect Union</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery is pleased to present “A More Perfect Union” by St. Louis-based artist John Early. The exhibition will open on Monday, Oct. 21 and run through Thursday, Nov. 14.</p>
<p>In conjunction with this exhibition, the artist will present an Engaged Citizenship Common Experience (ECCE) Speaker Series lecture from 6-7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 6 in Brookens Auditorium, located on the lower level of Brookens Library. Early’s lecture, “Creative Practice for Social Change,” will feature images from his art practice, which engages deeply with cultural and social landscapes to address issues of spatial injustice, urban renewal and community identity. His work highlights the complexities of social change, advocating for spatial equity, racial justice and the preservation of community memory through art.</p>
<p>Immediately following this lecture, the UIS Visual Arts Gallery will host an exhibition reception for “A More Perfect Union” from 7-8:30 p.m. at the UIS Visual Arts Gallery. This event is free and open to the public.</p>
<p>Coinciding with the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election, “A More Perfect Union” is a sculptural installation made for a nation at a pivotal moment. Its focal point consists of a massive, fragile panel of compressed earth held up by a wooden frame and cinderblocks. Pierced with fifty holes, the dirt sign sits in front of a bay of windows, thus allowing natural light to shine through an otherwise impenetrable plane. The sculpture evokes old roadside billboards and DIY signage found throughout the Midwest countryside, yet it makes no pronouncements. Rather, it offers an invitation. To reflect, to connect, and, perhaps, even to hope amidst the precarity of the present moment.</p>
<p>Early is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose site-based work explores the textures, layers and histories of place. Much of his recent work addresses power structures of inequity found in the recreational landscape of St. Louis’s public parks. Since 2021, Early has collaborated with sports studies scholar Noah Cohan on “Whereas Hoops,” an interdisciplinary project combining public scholarship, archival research, spatial interventions and activism to address the absence of basketball courts in St. Louis’s Forest Park. In April 2022, Early’s essay about a basketball court in North St. Louis was included in the edited volume, “The Material World of Modern Segregation: St. Louis in the Long Era of Ferguson.” He is currently a senior lecturer in the Sam Fox School of Design &amp; Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis and is a faculty affiliate at the University’s Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Equity.</p>
<p>The UIS Visual Arts Gallery is centrally located on the UIS campus in the Health and Sciences Building, room 201 (HSB 201). Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday. For more information and future exhibitions, visit the UIS Visual Arts Gallery website.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/11/john-early-a-more-perfect-union/">John Early: A More Perfect Union</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Lives in Code: Stories of African American Resilience Under the Illinois Black Codes, 1819-1865</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Nov 2024 21:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>A Road Scholar Program by Caroline Kisiel As the home of celebrated champions of freedom such as Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama, it is often surprising for Illinoisans to learn about the long history of slavery, racial segregation and exclusion in Illinois’s past. Federally obligated by the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 to pass its constitution<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/11/lives-in-code-stories-of-african-american-resilience-under-the-illinois-black-codes-1819-1865/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/11/lives-in-code-stories-of-african-american-resilience-under-the-illinois-black-codes-1819-1865/">Lives in Code: Stories of African American Resilience Under the Illinois Black Codes, 1819-1865</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A Road Scholar Program by Caroline Kisiel</p>
<p>As the home of celebrated champions of freedom such as Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama, it is often surprising for Illinoisans to learn about the long history of slavery, racial segregation and exclusion in Illinois’s past.</p>
<p>Federally obligated by the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 to pass its constitution as a free state in 1818, residents in the region prior to Illinois statehood had practiced slavery and indentured servitude since the 1700s. This laid the groundwork for a series of harsh laws passed post-statehood called the Illinois Black Codes, which regulated the lives of enslaved people, indentured servants and free Blacks in Illinois from 1819-1865 – a period of 46 years.</p>
<p>Among the restrictions under these Codes, free Blacks residing in the state were required to possess certificates of freedom and register themselves and family members with the court; hiring of free Blacks who did not possess certificates of freedom was considered a crime; bringing slaves into the state for the purpose of freeing them was deemed a crime, and if discovered, a fine of $1,000 was to be imposed; and enslaved people or servants were barred from selling goods, gathering in groups of three or more, or traveling more than ten miles from their master’s home.<br />
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<p>Despite these restrictions, African Americans in nineteenth-century Illinois persevered. They forged livelihoods and established communities; they purchased land; they abided by the draconian laws, registering themselves and family members; and they sheltered, protected and defended runaways, or “freedom seekers.” This presentation will highlight stories of African American resilience under the Illinois Black Codes.</p>
<p>Audiences will learn about Gilbert Burres, a free Black resident of Albion in Edwards County, who first registered with the county clerk as a free person of color in 1824, and returned to the county clerk seven times over the next 36 years to register himself, his wife and his children as his family grew. “Uncle Joe” Higginbotham, an ex-slave, arrived in Clay County around 1835 and reportedly acquired 800 acres of land during his time in Illinois, raising a family and attracting other free Black settlers. Free Black settlements such as Brooklyn and New Philadelphia were established and attracted settlers, and these communities were often safe harbors for northbound freedom seekers. And free Black John Jones, a conductor on the Underground Railroad in Chicago, spoke out against the cruelty of the Codes and championed the cause of repealing them through lobbying with lawmakers and publishing “The Black Laws of Illinois and a Few Reasons Why They Should be Repealed” (1864). These are just a few of the stories of African American resilience from this harsh period that will be illuminated in this presentation, which celebrates our Illinois forbears who persevered despite the Codes.</p>
<p>This event is Free and Open to the public. For more information, please contact Kate Garrett at kateg@bataviaparks.org.</p>
<p>Learn more about Caroline Kisiel, this program, and how to book it here.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/11/lives-in-code-stories-of-african-american-resilience-under-the-illinois-black-codes-1819-1865/">Lives in Code: Stories of African American Resilience Under the Illinois Black Codes, 1819-1865</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>69 for 69: a magnetic fields art show</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2024 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>About the event 69 For 69 &#8211; A Magnetic Fields Art Show, curated by Janelle O&#8217;Malley. A collection celebrating 25 years of Magnetic Fields&#8217; 69 Love Songs. 69 for 69 brings together artists spanning several fields in an ode to Magnetic Fields&#8217; album, 69 Love Songs. A love song is the most common and often<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/11/69-for-69-a-magnetic-fields-art-show/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/11/69-for-69-a-magnetic-fields-art-show/">69 for 69: a magnetic fields art show</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>About the event</p>
<p>69 For 69 &#8211; A Magnetic Fields Art Show, curated by Janelle O&#8217;Malley.</p>
<p>A collection celebrating 25 years of Magnetic Fields&#8217; 69 Love Songs.<br />
69 for 69 brings together artists spanning several fields in an ode to Magnetic Fields&#8217; album, 69 Love Songs. A love song is the most common and often banal tune on the radio. So pervasive an idea in music and art how could anyone possibly make anything about love that stands out?<br />
As an homage to the album&#8217;s 25th year in existence, each artist in the exhibition has created a piece decoding a selected song of their choice. Each piece echoes 69 Love Songs&#8217; sentimental goopiness and glaring cynicism. The exhibition serves as a collective look into our perception of relationships and all of its complexities. The album is explored by artists both familiar with the work and those who are experiencing it for the first time. Small scale sculpture, painting and photography come together to explore every facet of the musical score.</p>
<p>Work by: Amy Fleming, Matt Irie, Adam Manley, Dean Krueger, Justin Schmitz, Tom Pekovitch, Marisol Cervantes, Lauren Iacoponi, Camilla Dziadosz, Jessica Labatte, Molly Blumberg, Jeanne Donegan, Sebastian Seb, Will Pergl, Mary Scherer, Jaime Torraco, Paul Simmons, Erin Hayden, Emma Vitallo, Kurt Tomerlin, Melissa Steckbauer, Shane Harris, Kelsea Nichols, Allen Moore, Teagan Hoyne, Drew Dzurko, Jenn Smith, Jaymes Fedor, Jayden M. Dale, Jiayi Liang, Bruce Burton, Christian Ulloa, Meg Duguid, Zachary Buchner, TJ Ly-Donovan, Janelle Rae, Madelene Przybysz, Sophie Juhlin, Mike Rea, Michael Leeson, Veronica Storc, Arthur Arthur, Rebecca Griffith, Jen Schneck, Mary O&#8217;Connor, Oli Watt, Ben Stone, Peter Kusek, Emilia Lichtenwagner, Natalie Pivoney, Jesse Malmed, Zach Sockol, Sunni Ayers, Jules Fisher, Angelina Diana, Cody Hudson, Nick Garcia, Kitty Rauth, Lexi Raia, Liana Gonzalez, Jonathan Worcester, Brett Brady, Janet Lee, Allison Lacher, Valerie Jenig, Craig Yu, and Andrea Alonge.</p>
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<p>Opening reception is November 1, 2024, 6-9pm and is free and open to the public. Exhibition runs through December 1, 2024</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/11/69-for-69-a-magnetic-fields-art-show/">69 for 69: a magnetic fields art show</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Western Illinois University Art Professor Duke Oursler will have his solo exhibition, &#8220;Rural Route 1&#8221;, on display October 1 through November 8 at the Western Illinois University Art Gallery. A reception for the artist will be held Tuesday, October 29, 4:30 &#8211; 6:00 pm The artist will speak about his work at 5:00 pm. Duke<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/10/duke-oursler-rural-route-1/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Western Illinois University Art Professor Duke Oursler will have his solo exhibition, &#8220;Rural Route 1&#8221;, on display October 1 through November 8 at the Western Illinois University Art Gallery.</p>
<p>A reception for the artist will be held Tuesday, October 29, 4:30 &#8211; 6:00 pm The artist will speak about his work at 5:00 pm.</p>
<p>Duke Oursler is a sculptor originally from rural southwest Kansas. Born the son of an oil pumper, his upbringing in a conservative Catholic culture allowed him to visit many large Catholic churches. As a young man, he was enthralled with much of the art that he would see in the cathedrals. He was specifically struck by the high relief stations of the cross exhibited at Saint Dominic’s Church in Garden City, Kansas. As Duke pursued his art career, he ran away from the archaic and strict rules of his raising exploring abstract and nonrepresentational sculptural works only to find that these works would often act as metaphors for stories told to him by his father and relatives. Focusing on writing and creating narratives, Duke has begun to illustrate stories that reference his rural blue-collar heritage. His recent body of work focuses on the virtues and vices of rural America.</p>
<p>Admission is free and open to the public.</p>
<p>Image: Pushing Mud, 2024, wood and found objects, 45 x 31 in.</p>
<p>For more information about the Gallery, visit wiu.edu/artgallery.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/10/duke-oursler-rural-route-1/">Duke Oursler: Rural Route 1</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Blue Moon Gallery Collective Artists Group Show</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Oct 2024 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Meet Our Collective Artists Monthly Every 4th Saturday, 6-9pm Dates: October 26, November 23, December 21 Meet the artists while enjoying wine &#38; our firepit. Juli Janovicz &#8212; the memory of flowers &#8212; watercolor florals Kendra Kett &#8212; painted drawings about the power of healing &#8212; watercolor pencils John Kirkpatrick &#8212; figurative expressionism &#8212; acrylic<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/10/blue-moon-gallery-collective-artists-group-show-8/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Meet Our Collective Artists<br />
Monthly Every 4th Saturday, 6-9pm<br />
Dates: October 26, November 23, December 21</p>
<p>Meet the artists while enjoying wine &amp; our firepit.</p>
<p>Juli Janovicz &#8212; the memory of flowers &#8212; watercolor florals<br />
Kendra Kett &#8212; painted drawings about the power of healing &#8212; watercolor pencils<br />
John Kirkpatrick &#8212; figurative expressionism &#8212; acrylic paintings<br />
Ginny Krueger &#8212; combining the gritty &amp; the sublime &#8212; encaustic, water media painting, printmaking<br />
Matthew Padilla &#8212; the human figure + geometric abstraction &#8212; oil paintings &amp; gestural drawings</p>
<p>Open Weekends 1-4pm</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/10/blue-moon-gallery-collective-artists-group-show-8/">Blue Moon Gallery Collective Artists Group Show</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>GUEST ARTIST: Sinead Carus &#124; Illustration &#038; Photography</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Oct 2024 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>GUEST ARTIST: Sinead Carus &#124; Illustration &#38; Photography Opening Reception: Saturday, October 26, 6-9pm Meet the artist! Wine will be served &#38; our firepit will be going. On view through November 17 &#124; Open weekends 1-4pm Sinéad Carus is a self-taught artist currently focusing on illustration, photography and a combination of the two mediums. A<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/10/guest-artist-sinead-carus-illustration-photography/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/10/guest-artist-sinead-carus-illustration-photography/">GUEST ARTIST: Sinead Carus | Illustration & Photography</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>GUEST ARTIST: Sinead Carus | Illustration &amp; Photography</p>
<p>Opening Reception: Saturday, October 26, 6-9pm<br />
Meet the artist!<br />
Wine will be served &amp; our firepit will be going.</p>
<p>On view through November 17 | Open weekends 1-4pm</p>
<p>Sinéad Carus is a self-taught artist currently focusing on illustration, photography and a combination of the two mediums. A lifelong resident of Grayslake IL and avid nature enthusiast, her artistic inspiration usually begins in the early morning with hikes along local forest preserve trails. Her father is a native of Chicago, her mother a native of Ireland, and her heritage often pops up in her artwork. Her goal is to stir emotion in the viewer, to take them on a journey of nostalgia, to leave them with a sense of hope and inspiration.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/10/guest-artist-sinead-carus-illustration-photography/">GUEST ARTIST: Sinead Carus | Illustration & Photography</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Julie DeFalco: CHEERS! — Paintings Featuring Festive Cocktails &#038; Beverages</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Oct 2024 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Acylic Paintings by Julie DeFalco CHEERS! — Colorful Paintings Featuring Festive Cocktails &#38; Beverages Opening Reception — Saturday, October 26, 6-9pm CHEERS! presents a post-impressionistic celebration of vibrant beverages, along with a duo of meditative cats. Each piece evokes a different emotion and reminds us that every moment is worth celebrating. Small Sizes Ready for<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/10/julie-defalcos-cheers-paintings-featuring-festive-cocktails-beverages/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/10/julie-defalcos-cheers-paintings-featuring-festive-cocktails-beverages/">Julie DeFalco: CHEERS! — Paintings Featuring Festive Cocktails & Beverages</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Acylic Paintings by Julie DeFalco<br />
CHEERS! — Colorful Paintings Featuring Festive Cocktails &amp; Beverages</p>
<p>Opening Reception — Saturday, October 26, 6-9pm</p>
<p>CHEERS! presents a post-impressionistic celebration of vibrant beverages, along with a duo of meditative cats. Each piece evokes a different emotion and reminds us that every moment is worth celebrating.</p>
<p>Small Sizes Ready for Gift-Giving Season: 6&#215;6, 8&#215;8, 8&#215;10, 11&#215;14, 16&#215;20</p>
<p>On View through December 21<br />
Open Weekends 1-4pm</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/10/julie-defalcos-cheers-paintings-featuring-festive-cocktails-beverages/">Julie DeFalco: CHEERS! — Paintings Featuring Festive Cocktails & Beverages</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Encaustic Quartet: Pat Lagger, Laura LaRue, Rebecca Russow, Michele Thrane</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Oct 2024 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Encaustic Quartet: Four Perspectives An exciting group show featuring encaustic art created by four esteemed Chicagoland encaustic artists: Patricia Lagger, Laura LaRue, Rebecca Russow, and Michele Thrane. Encaustic Quartet presents works inspired by ancient writing systems, pre-modern musical notations, concepts of unity &#38; harmony via the use of disparate materials, and feminine strength &#38; wisdom.<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/10/encaustic-quartet-pat-lagger-laura-larue-rebecca-russow-michele-thrane/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/10/encaustic-quartet-pat-lagger-laura-larue-rebecca-russow-michele-thrane/">Encaustic Quartet: Pat Lagger, Laura LaRue, Rebecca Russow, Michele Thrane</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Encaustic Quartet: Four Perspectives</p>
<p>An exciting group show featuring encaustic art created by four esteemed Chicagoland encaustic artists: Patricia Lagger, Laura LaRue, Rebecca Russow, and Michele Thrane.</p>
<p>Encaustic Quartet presents works inspired by ancient writing systems, pre-modern musical notations, concepts of unity &amp; harmony via the use of disparate materials, and feminine strength &amp; wisdom. The exhibition is loaded with color, shapes, textures, layering, and mark-making as well as the use of found objects and offers viewers a visually thrilling entry into the captivating world of ecaustic art.</p>
<p>Opening Reception: October 26 | 6-9pm<br />
Meet the Artists!</p>
<p>We will serve wine and the firepit will be going, too!</p>
<p>On View through November 17.<br />
Open weekends 1-4pm.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/10/encaustic-quartet-pat-lagger-laura-larue-rebecca-russow-michele-thrane/">Encaustic Quartet: Pat Lagger, Laura LaRue, Rebecca Russow, Michele Thrane</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Fires of the Ancestors: Exploring the Mayan Calendar</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2024 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Elgin Community College- Parking Lot A (Outside) Join Nana Shuni Girón and The Great Listening, facilitated by Hallie Sanclemente Morrison, in community around the sacred fire, just like in ancient times. &#8220;Calling all the Elders to Reunite,&#8221; international Mayan Ajq&#8217;iij and Day Keeper Nana Shuni Giron returns to Chicago to share a message of unity,<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/10/fires-of-the-ancestors-exploring-the-mayan-calendar/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/10/fires-of-the-ancestors-exploring-the-mayan-calendar/">Fires of the Ancestors: Exploring the Mayan Calendar</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
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<p>Join Nana Shuni Girón and The Great Listening, facilitated by Hallie Sanclemente Morrison, in community around the sacred fire, just like in ancient times.</p>
<p>&#8220;Calling all the Elders to Reunite,&#8221; international Mayan Ajq&#8217;iij and Day Keeper Nana Shuni Giron returns to Chicago to share a message of unity, peace, and love with a fire offering ceremony.</p>
<p>Our intention with this sacred fire ceremony is to provide a culturally inspirational and educational experience for the Elgin community that highlights the indigeneity and ancient wisdom of those descended from Central America to stand in solidarity with all Native and Indigenous Peoples, and celebrate exploring indigeneity as a way of re-connecting to Earth, our ancestors, and our intercultural communities.</p>
<p>Feel free to bring your chair, your rattle and drum, and anything you would like to share at the ceremony.</p>
<p>You may also bring your own offerings such as tobacco, flowers, incense, pine cones, herbs, candles, honey, and any object you would like to be blessed at the ceremony.</p>
<p>The ceremony is open to everyone, and we invite you with an open heart to join us in this gathering around the fire.</p>
<p>Maltyox Chawe</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/10/fires-of-the-ancestors-exploring-the-mayan-calendar/">Fires of the Ancestors: Exploring the Mayan Calendar</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Muyiwa Adeyanju: Roots and Routes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2024 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Muyiwa Adeyanju &#8220;Roots and Routes&#8221; On View: September 10 – October 17, 2024 Reception: Thursday, October 17, 4:30-6:00 University Art Gallery Western Illinois University Macomb, Illinois Nigerian artist Muyiwa Adeyanju will have his solo exhibition, &#8220;Roots and Routes&#8221;, on display September 10 through October 17 at the Western Illinois University Art Gallery. A closing reception<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/10/muyiwa-adeyanju-roots-and-routes/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Muyiwa Adeyanju &#8220;Roots and Routes&#8221;<br />
On View: September 10 – October 17, 2024<br />
Reception: Thursday, October 17, 4:30-6:00<br />
University Art Gallery<br />
Western Illinois University<br />
Macomb, Illinois</p>
<p>Nigerian artist Muyiwa Adeyanju will have his solo exhibition, &#8220;Roots and Routes&#8221;, on display September 10 through October 17 at the Western Illinois University Art Gallery.</p>
<p>A closing reception for the artist will be held Thursday, October 17, 4:30-6:00 p.m. The artist will speak about his work at 5:00 pm.</p>
<p>Muyiwa Adeyanju, born in 1997 in Kwara State, Nigeria, holds an MFA in Drawing and Painting from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. His lifelong fascination with figures has honed his skill in accurately replicating them. Despite initially earning a National Diploma in Architecture and a Bachelor of Science in Applied Geophysics, he worked diligently to establish himself as an artist. In fall 2021, he was admitted to the SIUC Art Department.</p>
<p>During his three years in graduate school, Muyiwa received numerous awards and recognition. He won the prestigious Windgate Research Scholarship Award, was featured in New American Paintings and Friend of the Artist publications and was honored as the Best Graduate Student in the School of Media Arts and Communications.</p>
<p>Muyiwa employs oil, acrylic paints, and Dutch wax textiles (African fabric) to create collage figurative compositions. His work explores themes of identity, neocolonialism, family memories, and contemporary social issues. Having left his full-time academic position at a private Nigerian university, Muyiwa is now focusing on artworks that narrate his and others&#8217; experiences of migrating from their homeland to other countries.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/10/muyiwa-adeyanju-roots-and-routes/">Muyiwa Adeyanju: Roots and Routes</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Oct 2024 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>TRIO: Seeking Synergy by: Beth Wilson From a distance TRIO flutters and sings in the wind. Come closer and see yourself in the materials, recognize the weight of history and begin to wonder about a new way forward. The Inoca people believe the “Three Sisters,&#8221; corn, beans and squash, are the physical and spiritual sustainers<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/10/trio-seeking-synergy/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>TRIO: Seeking Synergy<br />
by: Beth Wilson<br />
From a distance TRIO flutters and sings in the wind. Come closer and see yourself in the materials, recognize the weight of history and begin to wonder about a new way forward.</p>
<p>The Inoca people believe the “Three Sisters,&#8221; corn, beans and squash, are the physical and spiritual sustainers of life. Beth honors this belief by presenting 3 sculptural forms, each approx 20 feet tall made from reclaimed materials found in the area. Each form honors the unique character of each sister, rising above the flower field on a bluff overlooking Emiquon Nature Preserve and the confluence of Illinois and Spoon Rivers just beyond.</p>
<p>Beth Wilson is a Portland based visual artist and is Black Sheep Flower Farm’s first artist in residence, launching our programming with a permanent sculpture that functions both as a welcome sign and a land acknowledgement. This project is funded by a grant from the Oregon Arts Commission and will be presented as part of Black Sheep’s “Spoon River Scenic Drive” festivities that include: you pick flowers, pottery demonstrations and an artist bazaar.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/10/trio-seeking-synergy/">Trio: Seeking Synergy</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2024 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Works by Linye Jiang 江麟冶 September 26 &#8211; October 21,2024 Opening Reception: Thursday, September 26, 6:00-8:00pm with special artist talk from Linye Jiang and Marvin Veloso from 7:30 &#8211; 8:00pm Alimentary Affects: Performance by Marvin Veloso Thursday, October 10, 7:00 &#8211; 8:00pm Dittmar Memorial Gallery &#8211; see below for more detaiils &#8220;Fruit&#8221; was historically a<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/09/sweet-juicy-and-rebellious/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Works by Linye Jiang 江麟冶</p>
<p>September 26 &#8211; October 21,2024</p>
<p>Opening Reception: Thursday, September 26, 6:00-8:00pm<br />
with special artist talk from Linye Jiang and Marvin Veloso from 7:30 &#8211; 8:00pm</p>
<p>Alimentary Affects: Performance by Marvin Veloso<br />
Thursday, October 10, 7:00 &#8211; 8:00pm<br />
Dittmar Memorial Gallery &#8211; see below for more detaiils</p>
<p>&#8220;Fruit&#8221; was historically a derogatory term in Western culture, targeting gay men by associating them with femininity. In &#8220;Sweet, Juicy, and Rebellious,&#8221; I reclaim this symbolism through Fruit Portraits—a series that challenges societal norms and celebrates queer identity and femininity. By transforming fruit, I project my personal experiences, desires, and frustrations onto it, redefining a traditionally innocent subject.</p>
<p>The installation also features two video pieces: Tenderness and Warmth. In Tenderness, a hand gently caresses a soft object in water, transitioning from black and white to color. Warmth captures the gradual transformation of a frozen object as it responds to warmth, inviting viewers to reflect on the subtle, yet profound, effects of touch and their surroundings.</p>
<p>Featured Events<br />
Alimentary Affects<br />
Performance by Marvin Veloso</p>
<p>Thursday, October 10, 7:00 &#8211; 8:00pm<br />
Dittmar Memorial Gallery<br />
In engaging with Linye Jiang’s photo-series “Sweet, Juicy, and Rebellious”, Marvin Veloso foregrounds the feelings and personal reflections that emerge from an intimate exchange between the viewer, the artwork, and the space they share. Marvin’s performance titled Alimentary Affects, captures these sensational and embodied experiences that can animate the potential of community building through artistic practices. Here, he evokes practice as a participatory way of knowing that unsettles the normative conventions of academic settings. Alimentary Affects explores through a performance lecture on affect theory, critical and poetic forms that will invite audience members with writing prompts that flirt with themes of pleasure, reflexivity, and queerness. Using various works from “Sweet, Juicy, and Rebellious” as a turning point, this interactive mode asks us to consider alternative ways of interpretation, so that we might lean into creative expression, as critical to nourishing our relationships to the production and dissemination of knowledge.</p>
<p>About the Artist<br />
Marvin Veloso is a Chicago-based artist and researcher pursuing graduate studies in the Department of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Drawing upon themes across queerness and multimodal studies, his interdisciplinary approach to material cultures and social theory. As an artist–researcher within the Filipinx diaspora, his critical interrogations toward ongoing legacies of colonial and imperial expansion, informs his artistic practice with performance, poetry, and moving image.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/09/sweet-juicy-and-rebellious/">Sweet, Juicy, and Rebellious</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Laura Anderson: Continuum</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2024 22:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery is pleased to present “Continuum” by Springfield-based artist and Lincoln Land Community College (LLCC) Professor Laura Anderson. “Continuum” will open on Sept. 26 and run through Oct. 17. A reception for this exhibition will be held at the gallery from 5:30 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept.<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/09/laura-anderson-continuum/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery is pleased to present “Continuum” by Springfield-based artist and Lincoln Land Community College (LLCC) Professor Laura Anderson. “Continuum” will open on Sept. 26 and run through Oct. 17. A reception for this exhibition will be held at the gallery from 5:30 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 26. This event is free and open to the public.</p>
<p>“Continuum” will feature a series of recent works that examine the structural frameworks of the microverse, exploring the interplay between natural and man-made structures. Anderson’s focus on cellular forms, fungi and mycelium serves as both subject and metaphor, revealing the interconnectedness of all living systems.</p>
<p>Natural imagery within the works depicts qualities of growth, decay and regeneration. The pieces combine elements of nature with found objects to reflect the gradual transformation of man-made artifacts back into their organic origins. This synthesis reflects the perpetual cycles of creation and destruction, emergence and dissolution, exploring the underlying structures that sustain life at its smallest scales.</p>
<p>Anderson is an artist, designer and educator whose creative practice is rooted in a lifelong fascination with the complexities of nature. Originally from a small town on Chicago&#8217;s southeast side, Anderson&#8217;s passion for art developed alongside a connection to the natural world. This early inspiration has continued to shape her artistic identity, drawing on themes of plant and animal life that consistently inform her creative work.</p>
<p>Anderson earned a bachelor’s degree from Eastern Illinois University and a master’s degree in fine art from the University of Kansas. Her work has been exhibited both locally and nationally. Anderson’s fascination with design led her to a successful career in graphic design in California, where she contributed to corporate and agency environments while maintaining a thriving freelance business.</p>
<p>This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency. The UIS Visual Arts Gallery is centrally located on the UIS campus in the Health and Science Building, room 201 (HSB 201). Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday. For more information and future exhibitions, visit the UIS Visual Arts Gallery website.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/09/laura-anderson-continuum/">Laura Anderson: Continuum</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2024 13:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Nancy Natow-Cassidy is known for her energetic, colorful, movement-based paintings. &#8220;Color makes me happy ~ I breathe deeper and my heart expands in the presence of color and organic shapes.&#8221; She explores color and shape as energy and vibration. Painting after walking through a forest or studying the ever-changing glints of color on water, she<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/09/nancy-natow-cassidy-exuberance/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nancy Natow-Cassidy is known for her energetic, colorful, movement-based paintings. &#8220;Color makes me happy ~ I breathe deeper and my heart expands in the presence of color and organic shapes.&#8221; She explores color and shape as energy and vibration. Painting after walking through a forest or studying the ever-changing glints of color on water, she moves through space to inhabit the sensations she feels, and upon returning to her studio, retrieves that movement, her gestures expressing themselves in pigment.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/09/nancy-natow-cassidy-exuberance/">Nancy Natow-Cassidy: Exuberance</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Chicago at the Millennium: Paintings by Jill Jeannides, 1995 &#8211; 2021</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2024 23:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Please join us for an exhibition of paintings by Jill Jeannides (1975 &#8211; 2021), from September 12th &#8211; October 6th, at the Friendly Community Gallery in Berwyn, Il. Jeannides is an alumnus of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and a Lake Forest native of Ukrainian heritage. She passed unexpectedly in 2021,<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/09/chicago-at-the-millennium-paintings-by-jill-jeannides-1995-2021-opening-reception/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Please join us for an exhibition of paintings by Jill Jeannides (1975 &#8211; 2021), from September 12th &#8211; October 6th, at the Friendly Community Gallery in Berwyn, Il. Jeannides is an alumnus of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and a Lake Forest native of Ukrainian heritage. She passed unexpectedly in 2021, leaving behind a large, captivating collection of artworks now managed by her family.</p>
<p>This presentation of Jeannides’ explores her paintings created in Chicago at the turn of the last century, including her Ukrainian Heritage Collection. These works are deeply rooted in her immediate surroundings at the SAIC dorm at State and Madison, an area undergoing a fundamental shift at that time. And also, by her apartment on Thomas Street in Ukrainian Village, where she painted Ukrainian landmarks, as well as alleyways and quintessential Chicago interiors. Her unique style, inspired by French impressionism, and her practice of en plein air painting give a rich authenticity to these scenes. The love and respect she had for her subject matter is on full display.</p>
<p>Jeannides’ sister, Lindsey Casey, has taken on the task of preserving her estate and continuing her legacy through the sale of her artworks, which are housed in Chicago and California. Casey recently oversaw the sale of 3 of Jeannides’ works to one of the country’s largest privately owned drayage companies: IMC Companies, representing her largest sale to date. Jeannides’ work resides in numerous private collections including the City of Chicago Mayor’s office.</p>
<p>Proceeds from this show will go to preserving her work with a portion going to support the Friendly School of Folk Music.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/09/chicago-at-the-millennium-paintings-by-jill-jeannides-1995-2021-opening-reception/">Chicago at the Millennium: Paintings by Jill Jeannides, 1995 – 2021</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Sep 2024 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Rafael Nieves: Welcome Home Exhibition Dates: August 2 – October 31, 2024 Riverside Town Hall: 27 Riverside Road, Riverside, Illinois 60546 Viewing Hours: Monday – Thursday 9:00 am – 4:00 pm, Friday 9:00 am – 3:00 pm Artist Reception: Sunday, September 8, 2024, 3:00 – 6:00 pm The Riverside Arts Center is pleased to present<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/09/rafael-nieves-welcome-home/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rafael Nieves: Welcome Home<br />
Exhibition Dates: August 2 – October 31, 2024<br />
Riverside Town Hall: 27 Riverside Road, Riverside, Illinois 60546<br />
Viewing Hours: Monday – Thursday 9:00 am – 4:00 pm, Friday 9:00 am – 3:00 pm Artist Reception: Sunday, September 8, 2024, 3:00 – 6:00 pm</p>
<p>The Riverside Arts Center is pleased to present local designer, Raphael Nieves’ exhibition of graphic posters at the Riverside Town Hall. Please join us for a reception for the artist on Sunday, September 8, 2024 from 3-6pm. The Town Hall is located at 27 Riverside Road, a short block from the Riverside Arts Center. Refreshments will be served in RAC’s sculpture garden. Afterwards, join us for a private happy hour of artisanal spirits across the street at the Quincy Street Distillery.</p>
<p>What is “home”? The place you were born. The town you grew up in. The village where you settled with family.<br />
And where is home? According to the Temptations, it’s wherever Papa laid his hat. But it could also be that house you grew up in. That fountain where you professed your love to your partner. That school you went to or escaped from.<br />
The Welcome Home series is about nostalgia. It’s about roots. It’s about memories of a time and place that had a significance to you. It’s about love and life.</p>
<p>Often at shows, a potential customer will pore over my displayed prints and reminisce about the images that are presented; “Oh, I went to school in Riverside. My parents lived in Berwyn. My spouse was born in Oak Park. I loved going to the zoo in Brookfield. I remember Kiddieland in Melrose Park.”<br />
I don’t identify the landmarks or buildings in my prints. I don’t have to. If you lived or loved or left a town, you’ll recognize the image and you’ll remember what it meant to you.</p>
<p>Parents will buy a print for their child who is going to school in another state, to remind them where they came from. Children will buy a print for their parents who would regale them with stories of the town they grew up in. And real estate agents will prints for their clients who are buying or selling their home in a particular village, to give them a memento or a sense of place.<br />
The Welcome Home series is about location. It’s about memory. It’s about hometown pride. It’s about all of us, where we come from and where we are going.<br />
— Rafael Nieves</p>
<p>Rafael “Unca Raffy” Nieves is a North Riverside, IL, based graphic designer. By day, he works as an office manager. At night and on weekends, he writes graphic novels and creates digital art for logos and prints. In 2010, he began illustrating a series of images entitled “Welcome Home”, that commemorate iconic architecture and landmarks of various towns and villages in the Western Suburbs, selling them at local arts and craft shows as well as online, via his website and e-commerce shop, for national and international customers. His artwork evokes the look and feel of the WPA, European travel posters, and propaganda. Today, with over 30 prints (and counting) that celebrate such towns as Western Springs, Brookfield, Riverside and Oak Park, he is regarded locally as the preeminent chronicler of “hometown pride” by his clientele, which include homeowners, businesses, and real estate agents.<br />
Sarah Thomas of the Brookfield Farmers Market wrote this about Nieves’s Welcome Home. Brookfield print: “His work captures iconic sculptures and architecture that can bring the viewer instantly to the place they represent. He takes that element and gives it dimension, enhancing it on<br />
a plain backdrop that magnifies its importance. The Brookfield piece captures your eye with a<br />
whimsical bird placed atop a magnificent beast.”</p>
<p>Nieves is largely self-taught. His tools include an iPhone, a laptop, and the Adobe Illustrator program. He cites Michael Schwab, Saul Bass and Alphonse Mucha as influences. He is married, with two children, a dog, a cat, big dreams, and a mortgage.</p>
<p>Like him at facebook.com/nievesdesigns, follow him at instagram.com/raf_nieves, visit him at rafnieves.com</p>
<p>Riverside Town Hall exhibitions feature work by area artists, celebrating the exchange of support and generosity between the community of Riverside and the Riverside Arts Center.</p>
<p>Riverside Town Hall<br />
27 Riverside Road Riverside, Illinois 60546<br />
Riverside Town Hall Hours: Monday – Thursday: 9am-4pm, Friday: 9am – 3pm, Closed Saturday, Sunday, and major holidays</p>
<p>Riverside Arts Center<br />
32 East Quincy Street Riverside, Illinois 60546</p>
<p>All of our exhibitions are free and open to the public.<br />
For press inquiries and high-resolution images or for additional information including purchasing art from the exhibition, please contact Gallery Director, Joanne Aono at jaono@riversideartscenter.com</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2024 22:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery is pleased to present “From Here to the Sun,” a mixed-media exhibition by Champaign-based artist Lee Hunter. “From Here to the Sun” will open Monday, Aug. 26 and run through Thursday, Sept. 19. A reception for this exhibition will be held at the gallery from 5:30 to<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/09/lee-hunter-from-here-to-the-sun/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery is pleased to present “From Here to the Sun,” a mixed-media exhibition by Champaign-based artist Lee Hunter. “From Here to the Sun” will open Monday, Aug. 26 and run through Thursday, Sept. 19. A reception for this exhibition will be held at the gallery from 5:30 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 5. This event is free and open to the public.</p>
<p>This solo exhibition focuses on the legacy of Mithras, a deity worshipped in the mystery cults of the late Roman Empire. Mithras&#8217; followers practiced in secret and many of their temples were later converted into early Christian churches, leaving much of their rituals shrouded in mystery.</p>
<p>Hunter’s works in this exhibition draw on the nature of Mithras, telling a story through ceramics, needlepoint and textiles. The ceramics reflect the timelessness of relics while the needlepoint and textiles offer a tactile connection to the past. “From Here to the Sun” prompts viewers to explore the intersections of history, myth and art. It pays tribute to the enduring mystery of Mithras and highlights Hunter’s interest in materials.</p>
<p>“From Here to the Sun” is an iteration of Hunter’s ongoing world-building project called “Cosmogenesis,” which is an archive of material culture from the future, where travel-cults have learned to move through parallel universes. There is a diverse spectrum of belief systems in the travel cults and “Cosmogenesis” focuses mainly on the Temple of Light—a group inspired by ancient mystery cults and Western Esotericism. The archive contains photographs, videos, needlework, textiles, sculptures, found objects, works on paper and texts. “Cosmogenesis” explores ideas related to archives, collecting, materials and belief.</p>
<p>Hunter is a visual artist focused on the human relationship to nature; or how humans think about nature. Since 2015, they have been working on a durational worlding project called Cosmogenesis that includes photos, videos, sculptures, textiles, found objects and writing. Hunter is interested in how people know what they know and learning about how belief systems are formed.</p>
<p>Hunter’s work has been exhibited at Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art, Buffalo, New York; Mother Gallery, Beacon, New York; John Michael Kohler Art Center, Wisconsin; The Luminary, St. Louis, Missouri; Vox Populi, Pennsylvania; Berkeley Art Center, California; and Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Florida. They have been an artist in residence at Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska; Palazzo Monti, Italy; Illinois State University, Bloomington; ACRE, Wisconsin; I-Park Foundation, Connecticut; and Vermont Studio Center, Vermont. Hunter earned a bachelor’s degree in arts and letters from Portland State University and a master’s degree in fine art in new genres from the San Francisco Art Institute.</p>
<p>This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency. The UIS Visual Arts Gallery is centrally located on the UIS campus in the Health and Science Building, room 201 (HSB 201). Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday. For more information and future exhibitions, visit the UIS Visual Arts Gallery website.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/09/lee-hunter-from-here-to-the-sun/">Lee Hunter: From Here to the Sun</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2024 16:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Artist Talk &#38; Reception: Wednesday, September 11 2:30 p.m. — Artist Talk in the Luecht Auditorium, B170 &#124; In-person and presented virtually on Zoom: https://mchenrycc.zoom.us/j/99782565489 3:30 p.m. — Reception in Gallery One, A212x Free and open to the public &#160; The exhibition Natural Recall addresses the shifting landscapes of nature and memory through methodically deconstructing<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/08/christine-forni-natural-recall-2/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Artist Talk &amp; Reception: Wednesday, September 11<br />
2:30 p.m. — Artist Talk in the Luecht Auditorium, B170 | In-person and presented virtually on Zoom: <a href="https://mchenrycc.zoom.us/j/99782565489">https://mchenrycc.zoom.us/j/99782565489</a><br />
3:30 p.m. — Reception in Gallery One, A212x</p>
<p>Free and open to the public</p>
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<p>The exhibition Natural Recall addresses the shifting landscapes of nature and memory through methodically deconstructing and then reinterpreting relationships merging from the past to the present. The installations I create are an archive of discarded elements from other more meticulously crafted bodies of work. I capture moments of solitude with terrain using light in interaction with glass, porcelain, reclaimed minerals, and paint skins. The work merges unused remnants or overlooked relics to evoke, recall, and remember. Salvaged and mounted together like specimens, they form a “beautiful but broken” material memory of a point in time. Unlike precious specimens, these are not preserved under glass but placed vulnerably on the surface with their fragility on display. The glass layers in my sculptural paintings invite close observation and reveal unexpected margins as well as the tenacity of nature through time. Layering these elements in a complex deconstruction/reconstruction process and employing chromatic translucent shifts straying from a source’s original color allows the landscape to become mentally stratified. In this work, I use imagery collected from my environmental community drawing project, Drawing You Outside. My experience growing up in the Rust Belt—where industry and nature are often starkly juxtaposed—informs my studio practice.</p>
<p>&#8212;<br />
BIO</p>
<p>Currently based in Chicago, Christine Forni is a multidisciplinary artist working in painting and sculpture, alternative photography, drawing, and installation. Her work has been exhibited at venues such as Ueno Royal Japanese Art Museum and Awagami Paper Museum, Japan; Museo Internazionale Italia Arte and Museo di Scienze Naturali, Italy; Busan Federation of Art &amp; Culture, South Korea; Centro de Artesanía Catalunya, Spain; Academia Romana, Romania; Museo Franz Mayer and Centro Cultural de Baja California, Mexico; Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Rockford Art Museum and Hyde Park Art Center, Illinois; Houston Museum of Contemporary Craft, Texas; and DeCordova Sculpture Museum, Massachusetts. For more information about the Forni, visit www.christineforni.com and her Instagram page @christineforni.</p>
<p>IMAGE CREDIT: Christine Forni, Looking for Refractions in the Light (detail), 2024, Oil and acrylic on canvas, paint skins, glass, stainless steel wire and aluminum</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/08/christine-forni-natural-recall-2/">Christine Forni: Natural Recall</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>AREA 22: Arts, Crafts, &#038; Oddities Fair</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Aug 2024 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>AREA 22 Arts, Crafts, &#38; Oddities Fair ​ AREA 22 will serve as the premiere fine arts, crafts, and oddities fair in the Fox Valley. The festival will take place on Riverside Drive in downtown Elgin, showcasing the creations and collections of visual artists in our area. AREA 22 will feature artist exhibition and sale,<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/08/area-22-arts-crafts-oddities-fair/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>AREA 22<br />
Arts, Crafts, &amp; Oddities Fair<br />
​<br />
AREA 22 will serve as the premiere fine arts, crafts, and oddities fair in the Fox Valley. The festival will take place on Riverside Drive in downtown Elgin, showcasing the creations and collections of visual artists in our area. AREA 22 will feature artist exhibition and sale, live art/sculpture making, entertainment, food vendors, beverages&#8230; and fun for the whole family. Free Admission and Parking. Rain or Shine.</p>
<p>Side Street Studio Arts invites you to participate in the first of this one of a kind event in Downtown Elgin. For those who can remember, think of AREA 22 as Art and Soul on The Fox meets Next Wave, a mix of the traditional fine-art fair concept, with a generous dusting of the eclectic and avant garde. So grab your kids, your parents, your neighbors, your pets… yes, dogs and snakes are allowed… and join us at the most exciting art fair you will ever experience!</p>
<p>(You may experience more exciting art fairs but we highly doubt it! <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.0.3/72x72/1f642.png" alt="🙂" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p>
<p>ARTIST VENDOR LIST</p>
<p>ARTIST NAME/GROUP &#8211; BOOTH NUMBER</p>
<p>Arturo Aldama &#8211; 47</p>
<p>Caitlin Alejandre &#8211; 46</p>
<p>Audrey Avril -18</p>
<p>Jennifer Bordis &#8211; Jen Made Goods &#8211; 21</p>
<p>Brad Cahill &#8211; The Church of Dust &#8211; 5</p>
<p>Shannon Carlson &#8211; Shanni Marie &#8211; 43</p>
<p>Kara Cho &#8211; Onsemiro Art and Craft &#8211; 35</p>
<p>Katherine Einhorn &#8211; Reflections with Kate &#8211; 11</p>
<p>Sarah Emerson &#8211; Eddie Little Bear&#8217;s Sundries &#8211; 31</p>
<p>Caleb Evans &#8211; First Circle Chainmaille &#8211; 7</p>
<p>Ashy Finch &#8211; 39</p>
<p>Leah Fine &#8211; Beyond Beleaff &#8211; 36</p>
<p>John Firak &#8211; Loma Wood Studio &#8211; 41</p>
<p>Ashley Hanna-Quade &#8211; 32</p>
<p>Ally Haran &#8211; cards by ally &#8211; 44</p>
<p>Kit Hunney &#8211; The Little Things &#8211; 3</p>
<p>Steven Janssen &#8211; Day of the Dollies &#8211; 40</p>
<p>Christopher Karkos &#8211; Natural Brilliance &#8211; 23</p>
<p>Aly Kelly &#8211; Adorably Kowai &#8211; 26</p>
<p>Bay Kennedy &#8211; 50</p>
<p>Zoephia Laughlin &#8211; Zoyph Co &#8211; 33</p>
<p>Keira Lofthouse &#8211; KREATRESS -1</p>
<p>Allison Mack &#8211; Allison Faye Creations &#8211; 6</p>
<p>Scott Maki &#8211; DANGLING FURY STUDIOS &#8211; 9</p>
<p>Tola Makinde &#8211; Tcreativ Designs -10</p>
<p>Janice Mancusi &#8211; Designs by Beadweyr -13</p>
<p>Megan Manske &#8211; megan down the rabbit hole &#8211; 2</p>
<p>Funky Rooster Tattoo and Art Gallery &#8211; 25</p>
<p>Lauren Muskara &#8211; 49</p>
<p>Wendi Napoli &#8211; 24</p>
<p>Kai Niederpruem &#8211; Juno and Mars LLC &#8211; 34</p>
<p>Anna North &amp; Kalli Doty &#8211; gremlin.girl.co &#8211; 20</p>
<p>Jaina Novak &#8211; Lunar Kitty Co &#8211; 37</p>
<p>Tim Odea &#8211; Psilent skater &#8211; 38</p>
<p>Janelle Omalley &#8211; Queer artist collective &#8211; 27</p>
<p>Kersten Peterson &#8211; Punkburd Arts &#8211; 22</p>
<p>Cortney Philip &#8211; Cortney Makes Art! &#8211; 29</p>
<p>Jane Remigio &#8211; 45</p>
<p>Mike Rende &#8211; Oddball Art Labs &#8211; 4</p>
<p>Marilyn Reyes GALISAPIO &#8211; 15</p>
<p>Sarah Rieser &#8211; Sarah Upcycles &#8211; 8</p>
<p>Sarah Rochacz &#8211; Sarah&#8217;s Creations -17</p>
<p>Vaiju Saraf &#8211; The Red Maple -12</p>
<p>Ken Simonsen &#8211; Psymonsen Studios -19</p>
<p>Heather Smith &#8211; Ohhunni -30</p>
<p>Sofia Stojakovic and Lorelei Smith &#8211; 48</p>
<p>Jerry Strub &#8211; Jerry Strub Art &#8211; 28</p>
<p>Mary Sweeney &#8211; Horror Floral -14</p>
<p>Connie Toebe &#8211; connietoebe -16</p>
<p>Sonia Vallez &#8211; Crochet Cuties LLC &#8211; 42</p>
<p>SIGHTINGS<br />
ROVING</p>
<p>Radically, Rachael | The Modern Mystic</p>
<p>Rachael is an Intuitive, Card Reader and Reiki practitioner.</p>
<p>www.radicallyrachael.com</p>
<p>​<br />
LIVE ART</p>
<p>Live art making by Side Street Studio Arts&#8217; COMMUNITY MOVES program including free kids art/craft making, and community mural project… fun for the whole family!​</p>
<p>​<br />
FOOD</p>
<p>Cook&#8217;s Ice Cream</p>
<p>Goose&#8217;s Natural Juices</p>
<p>​<br />
BEVERAGE</p>
<p>Service provided by Vern&#8217;s Tavern!​​</p>
<p>​<br />
COMMUNITY</p>
<p>Grab some paint and let the creativity flow!</p>
<p>Our community mural project</p>
<p>Anyone can join!</p>
<p>NEIGHBORS</p>
<p>In solidarity with our local eateries, we will be limiting food trucks at AREA 22. Folx have many amazing downtown options within a 5 minute walk of the fair, including:</p>
<p>El Patio Mexican Restaurant</p>
<p>Kubo Sushi and Saki Lounge</p>
<p>Bea Unique Latin Kitchen</p>
<p>Dream Hall</p>
<p>Jimmy John&#8217;s</p>
<p>Udon Nomi</p>
<p>Al&#8217;s Cafe &amp; Creamery</p>
<p>Elgin Public House</p>
<p>Blue Box Cafe</p>
<p>Sugar and Rhyme Coffee House</p>
<p>Las Gorditas De Don Angel #4</p>
<p>Shwarma Stop</p>
<p>Cook&#8217;s Ice Cream and Goose&#8217;s Natural Juices will be on site providing cool refreshments and treats!</p>
<p>AND, we are partnering with Vern’s Tavern to provide beverages for the event. We will be showcasing our brand new collaboration with Penrose Brewing Company, selling our very own Side Street Lager! All proceeds from these beer sales go to the 62 Bound Fundraiser for the new Side Street facility, located at 62 S. Grove Ave. in downtown!!!</p>
<p>We are so excited… can you tell??!!!</p>
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		<title>Ginny Krueger: SUNBURST</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2024 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Ginny Krueger SUNBURST: ART INSPIRED BY THE SUN RECEPTION: Friday, August 2, 6-8pm Plus Gallery Hours: Saturday &#38; Sunday, August 3 &#38; 4 — 1-4pm Works on Paper: Collagraph Monoprints &#38; Watercolor Paintings Professionally Presented &#124; Ready for You to Frame &#8220;Since childhood, I have been fascinated with the wonders of life found in the<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/08/ginny-krueger-sunburst/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ginny Krueger<br />
SUNBURST: ART INSPIRED BY THE SUN</p>
<p>RECEPTION: Friday, August 2, 6-8pm<br />
Plus Gallery Hours: Saturday &amp; Sunday, August 3 &amp; 4 — 1-4pm</p>
<p>Works on Paper: Collagraph Monoprints &amp; Watercolor Paintings<br />
Professionally Presented | Ready for You to Frame</p>
<p>&#8220;Since childhood, I have been fascinated with the wonders of life found in the natural world. The seasons, and the palette of each, hold significance for me. I am driven to make art that is elemental and evocative. I typically paint on wood panels using the encaustic medium which suits me because it has a warm aroma, a lush and sensuous touch, and an unrivaled luster. However, water media painting, glass casting, and printmaking are disciplines that also engage me. I envision each painting as a medley, a melded place, where the gritty and sublime combine.&#8221; &#8212; Ginny Krueger</p>
<p>Ginny has a Master’s of Fine Art degree in painting and drawing. She continuously seeks out new and varied experiences through post-graduate study and artist-in-residency opportunities. She has recently traveled to Italy, Mexico, and Spain to participate in residencies to further her art practice.</p>
<p>SUNBURST features works on paper from Ginny&#8217;s various artist-in-residencies abroad.</p>
<p>Wine will be served and a large selection of artwork will be available for purchase.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/08/ginny-krueger-sunburst/">Ginny Krueger: SUNBURST</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2024 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>CAVA (Chicago Alliance of Visual Artist) is delighted to announce our first juried exhibition entitle Latter Impressions: A Lifetime of Creativity at the Elmhurst Guild Gally located at Elmhurst Art Museum. This intimate space will showcase over 100 pieces of recent work by mature artist, consisting of 187 pieces including: oils, watercolor and sculpture.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CAVA (Chicago Alliance of Visual Artist) is delighted to announce our first juried exhibition entitle Latter Impressions: A Lifetime of Creativity at the Elmhurst Guild Gally located at Elmhurst Art Museum. This intimate space will showcase over 100 pieces of recent work by mature artist, consisting of 187 pieces including: oils, watercolor and sculpture.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/06/latter-impressions-a-lifetime-of-creativity/">Latter Impressions: A Lifetime of Creativity</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Life in Reverse: The Photographs of  Jason Thomas Geering</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2024 11:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Geering is a Montana born, New York based fashion photographer making some of the most intriguing editorial campaigns in Europe, Asia and North America. In his gallery debut he hones his exceptionally original perspective into a rhapsodic storytelling experience that is both more intimate and more deeply personal than his renowned editorial work. Geering centers<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/05/life-in-reverse-the-photographs-of-jason-thomas-geering-2/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/05/life-in-reverse-the-photographs-of-jason-thomas-geering-2/">Life in Reverse: The Photographs of  Jason Thomas Geering</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Geering is a Montana born, New York based fashion photographer making some of the most intriguing editorial campaigns in Europe, Asia and North America. In his gallery debut he hones his exceptionally original perspective into a rhapsodic storytelling experience that is both more intimate and more deeply personal than his renowned editorial work. Geering centers women in his photographs and presents us with complex female lead characters that reveal a spectrum of femininity and humanity. His work is cinematic and captivating. Life in Reverse has an almost classic-movie narrative and Hitchcock-like aesthetic that is reminiscent of films like Rear Window. Geerings stunning work is worth making time for this spring. We are excited to see you at the gallery on the evening of May 30th for an opening reception from 5-8pm. You can visit this exhibit at Lunk + Hancy through June 23rd.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/05/life-in-reverse-the-photographs-of-jason-thomas-geering-2/">Life in Reverse: The Photographs of  Jason Thomas Geering</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Susannah Papish: Ova Amina</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2024 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Cultivator is pleased to present Susannah Papish’s painting exhibition, Ova Anima, during Bray Grove Farm’s Spring Farm Day. This exhibition coincides with Melissa Potter’s presentation of Dung Paper with Annabelle and Loretta. Susannah will exhibit egg tempera paintings sourced from the farm&#8217;s duck eggs on handmade paper made by Melissa. Please rsvp and join us<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/05/susannah-papish-ova-amina/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cultivator is pleased to present Susannah Papish’s painting exhibition, Ova Anima, during Bray Grove Farm’s Spring Farm Day. This exhibition coincides with Melissa Potter’s presentation of Dung Paper with Annabelle and Loretta. Susannah will exhibit egg tempera paintings sourced from the farm&#8217;s duck eggs on handmade paper made by Melissa.</p>
<p>Please rsvp and join us on Memorial Day, Monday, May 27th from 2-5pm for art, conversation, light refreshments, and a day on our small holistic farm. Bray Grove Farm is located 70 miles southwest of Chicago in Grundy County. To confirm your attendance and receive directions and parking information, kindly email joanne@cultivatorarts.com. Note: the address shown here is a mailing address only not the address of this event.</p>
<p>For this exhibit at Cultivator, I created egg tempera using dry pigments and duck eggs from Bray Grove Farm. Using Melissa’s handmade paper, I made paintings with the tempera and in some cases, watercolor, gouache, and casein paints. Egg tempera is a stable paint that has been used for hundreds of years, and mostly maintains its depth of color. Color has been an important aspect of my research and paintings for many years. I gleaned the imagery in these paintings from my native garden, Lurie Garden in Chicago’s Millenium Park, and other native gardens in the Midwest. The basis of this work was guided by the ethos of Bray Grove Farm, the elemental connections to my observations of flowers and plants, and the sensuous qualities of hand-crafted materials.<br />
&#8211; Susannah Papish</p>
<p>Susannah Papish is a Chicago-based artist, writer, curator and educator. She earned a MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in Art History from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her paintings have been exhibited at many Chicago-based spaces including Gallery 400, slow, and the Beverly Art Center. She is a recipient of grants from 3Arts, the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, the Hyde Park Art Center&#8217;s Artists Run Chicago fund and the Illinois Arts Council.</p>
<p>Papish served a residency with The Center Program at The Hyde Park Art Center and was a visiting artist at the Chautauqua Institute. A limited edition artist book entitled Invisible Labors, co-authored with Melissa H. Potter was released in Spring 2023. The publication includes their collaboration of research, writings, and reproductions of her paintings, It is in the collections of the Field Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, Smithsonian Library, and numerous other public and private collections. She has taught at several colleges and universities in the Chicago area. Papish directs boundary, a contemporary visual arts project space founded in 2017, located in her renovated garage.<br />
https://susannahpapish.us/home.html</p>
<p>www.cultivatorarts.com<br />
joanne@cultivatorarts.com</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/05/susannah-papish-ova-amina/">Susannah Papish: Ova Amina</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Melissa Potter: Dung Paper with Annabelle and Loretta</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2024 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Cultivator is pleased to feature Melissa Potter’s project, Dung Paper with Annabelle and Loretta, during Bray Grove Farm’s Spring Farm Day. This presentation coincides with Susannah Papish’s exhibition, Ova Amina. Please rsvp and join us on Memorial Day, Monday, May 27th from 2-5pm for art, conversation, light refreshments, and a day on our small holistic<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/05/melissa-potter-dung-paper-with-annabelle-and-loretta/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cultivator is pleased to feature Melissa Potter’s project, Dung Paper with Annabelle and Loretta, during Bray Grove Farm’s Spring Farm Day. This presentation coincides with Susannah Papish’s exhibition, Ova Amina.</p>
<p>Please rsvp and join us on Memorial Day, Monday, May 27th from 2-5pm for art, conversation, light refreshments, and a day on our small holistic farm. Bray Grove Farm is located 70 miles southwest of Chicago in Grundy County. To confirm your attendance and receive directions and parking information, kindly email joanne@cultivatorarts.com. Please note the address shown here is a mailing address, the event is at another address.</p>
<p>For my Cultivator project, I created sheets of handmade paper from composted dung sourced from Annabelle and Loretta, Bray Grove Farm’s mules. Each mule produced a distinctive paper differing in color and texture offering a “portrait” of their digestive systems, diet, and temperament. The waste herbivores produce is essentially raw cellulose—the foundation of paper—and is used around the world as a source material for micro-industry and waste remediation projects. Dung Paper with Annabelle and Loretta introduces the public to a surprising form of reuse and a tree-free alternative to one of the most environmentally toxic methods of industrial paper production. It also offers a window into their digestive systems as a different kind of farm labor.<br />
&#8211; Melissa Potter</p>
<p>Melissa Hilliard Potter is a feminist interdisciplinary artist, writer, and curator whose work has been exhibited in venues including White Columns, Bronx Museum of the Arts, and Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, to name a few. Her films have been screened at international film festivals, such as the Cinneffable and the Reeling International LGBT Film Festival.</p>
<p>Potter has been the recipient of three Fulbright Scholar grants, as well as funding from CEC ArtsLink, Trust for Mutual Understanding, and Soros Fund for Arts and Culture, all of which enabled her to build two papermaking studios at university art departments in Serbia and Bosnia &amp; Hercegovina. In addition, she collaborated with women felt artisans and activists from Georgia through her project, “Craft Power,” with Miriam Schaer.</p>
<p>As a curator, Potter’s exhibitions include “Social Paper: Hand Papermaking in the Context of Socially Engaged Art” with Jessica Cochran and “Revolution at Point Zero: Feminist Social Practice” with Neysa Page Lieberman. Her curatorial and recent hand papermaking projects, including “Seeds InService” with Maggie Puckett, have been funded by the Crafts Research Fund, Clinton Hill Foundation, The Nathan Cummings Foundation &amp; Jane M. Saks, and the MAKER Grant.</p>
<p>A prolific writer, her critical essays have been printed in BOMB, Art Papers, Flash Art, Metropolis M, Hand Papermaking, and AfterImage among others.<br />
https://www.melpotter.com</p>
<p>www.cultivatorarts.com<br />
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		<title>Reflection</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2024 09:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>University Galleries of Illinois State University is pleased to present Reflection from May 20 through July 28, 2024. All events are free and open to the public. University Galleries’ Teen Art Group, composed of students from Bloomington High School, developed the concept, theme, checklist, and layout of the exhibition. The Teen Art Group invited regional artists<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/05/reflection/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>University Galleries of Illinois State University is pleased to present <em>Reflection </em>from May 20 through July 28, 2024. All events are free and open to the public.</p>
<p>University Galleries’ Teen Art Group, composed of students from Bloomington High School, developed the concept, theme, checklist, and layout of the exhibition<em>.</em> The Teen Art Group invited regional artists to submit artworks that interpret the theme of reflection. In the selected paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, mixed-media works, and video, reflection suggests the act of looking forward or backward, inward or outward. It also addresses the mirroring of reflective surfaces.<strong> </strong></p>
<p>Exhibiting artists include Illinois State University students and alumni; Lexington High School, Bloomington High School, and El Paso Gridley High School students; art educators; and owners of art-related businesses. <strong>Artists:</strong> <strong>Jan Brandt, Milo Cline, Ella Cooper, Mary Doll, Danell Dvorak, Ben Gardner, Jenna Germano, Steve Gossard, Rick Harney, Dante Hernandez, Barbara Hertel, William Hopper, Beth M. House, H.A. Hugenberg, Santino Lamancusa, Emily Lehman, Angeline Manalo, Sharini Menon, Kathryn C. Novotny, Alondra Quezada, Peg Schickedanz, Miette Smith-Golwitzer, Emilee Spicer, Thomas Stone, Montana White, Amy Wolfe, Amy Yeager, </strong>and<strong> Keith</strong> <strong> Zimmerman.</strong></p>
<p>Teen Art Group members include <strong>Jocelyn Anderson, Angeline Manalo, Ivan Martin, Sharini Menon, Ryleigh O&#8217;Dell, Miette Smith-Golwitzer, </strong>and<strong> Montana White.</strong></p>
<p>The Teen Art Group was founded in 2018 at University Galleries by Kendra Paitz (director and chief curator at University Galleries) in partnership with Monica Estabrook (art teacher at Bloomington High School). The inaugural year was supported by a grant from the Illinois Prairie Community Foundation—Mirza Arts and Culture Fund. Each academic year, Teen Art Group participants engage in professional development activities, take field trips, and curate an exhibition. The 2023–2024 cohort was led by Paitz, Estabrook, and Tanya Scott (curator of education at University Galleries). The group took a field trip to the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago Cultural Center; participated in meetings and exhibition tours at University Galleries; met with artists Jan Brandt and Rick Harney; and organized this exhibition.</p>
<p class="elementToProof">Teen Art Group is supported by University Galleries’ grant from the Illinois Prairie Community Foundation—Mirza Arts and Culture Fund. Additional support is provided by the Lori Baum and Aaron Henkelman University Galleries Community Fund.</p>
<h2>Events</h2>
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<li><strong>Fridays (May 24 through July 26) from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.<br />
</strong>Independent drawing hour. Look closely at artworks in the exhibition and draw at your own pace. No registration required. Materials provided.</li>
<li><strong>Saturdays (May 25, June 1, June 22, July 13, July 20) from 11:00 a.m. to noon<br />
</strong>Sensory-friendly hour. Visit before opening hours to enjoy dimmed lighting and a quiet space.</li>
<li><strong>Wednesdays (May 29, June 12, July 3, July 17) from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m.<br />
</strong>Sensory-friendly hour. Visit before opening hours to enjoy dimmed lighting and a quiet space.</li>
<li><strong>Saturday, June 8 from noon to 2:00 p.m.<br />
</strong>Drop-in art-making workshop for all ages. Explore the concept of figure/ground relationships through drawing, sculpture, and photography. No registration required. Materials and instruction provided.</li>
<li><strong>Saturday, June 22 from noon to 2:00 p.m.<br />
</strong>Drop-in art-making workshop for all ages. View Ilse Bing’s photographs and explore digital photography. No registration required. Materials and instruction provided.</li>
<li><strong>Thursday, June 27 from noon to 4:00 p.m.<br />
</strong>Stop-motion animation workshop for all ages. <a href="https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=OphfCGkLcEK3HRBpUHa6_kx-qOKn8YxDrMuxRtAfh9xUNklRSFI5VkhUWlMyV1pNQUtEU0I3OEpNVS4u">Registration required</a> . Materials and instruction provided.</li>
<li><strong>Friday, June 28 from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.<br />
</strong>Poetry workshop. Write and perform poems in response to artworks on view.</li>
<li><strong>Saturday, July 13 from noon to 3:00 p.m.<br />
</strong>Weaving workshop for adults. Create a textile inspired by Naomi Whiting Towner’s textiles. <a href="https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=OphfCGkLcEK3HRBpUHa6_kx-qOKn8YxDrMuxRtAfh9xUMDlKSzgxWEhQTEpDUEo5WUNOT1dVMEVYSi4u">Registration required</a> . Materials and instruction provided.</li>
<li><strong>Wednesday, July 17 from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.<br />
</strong>Poetry workshop. Write and perform poems in response to artworks on view.</li>
<li><strong>Friday, July 19 from noon to 4:00 p.m.<br />
</strong>Stop-motion animation workshop for all ages. <a href="https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=OphfCGkLcEK3HRBpUHa6_kx-qOKn8YxDrMuxRtAfh9xUNk81UkFFSllSNEM0RzZLSlNBNDJaOURJVi4u">Registration required</a> . Materials and instruction provided.</li>
<li><strong>Saturday, July 20 from noon to 2:00 p.m.<br />
</strong>Hand-sewing workshop for families. Create miniature hand-stitched pillows in a shape of your choice inspired by Camila Marianela’s soft sculptures. Recommended for children and their caregivers. <a href="https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=OphfCGkLcEK3HRBpUHa6_kx-qOKn8YxDrMuxRtAfh9xUNkZON1hJQVFEV0dZVzg2R0daSVRNN1MyQi4u">Registration required</a> . Materials and instruction provided.</li>
<li><strong>Tuesday through Friday, July 23 through July 26 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.<br />
</strong>Summer camp for ages 10 through 14. <a href="https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=OphfCGkLcEK3HRBpUHa6_kx-qOKn8YxDrMuxRtAfh9xUNVUzSU9IVElKRVdSOTg5S0tMOUU0MTM4Uy4u">Registration required</a> . All materials provided.</li>
<li>Free curator-led exhibition tours and workshops are available by appointment for classes and community groups. Contact <a href="mailto:Gallery@IllinoisState.edu">Gallery@IllinoisState.edu</a> to schedule.</li>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Join us for a night of music and art to celebrate the work of award winning, multimedia artist Joe Fournier. Joe Fournier has been able to share with us his unique take on American life and love through an extraordinarily strong sense of curiosity and joy in his image/music/animation making. Fournier works with a limited<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/05/joe-fournier/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Join us for a night of music and art to celebrate the work of award winning, multimedia artist Joe Fournier.</p>
<p>Joe Fournier has been able to share with us his unique take on American life and love through an extraordinarily strong sense of curiosity and joy in his image/music/animation making. Fournier works with a limited color palette in order to push the focus of each piece to his cutting wit and sensitivity, which is the strength of this artist. Fournier is a uniquely authentic artist, using an uncommon yet compelling visual language to help relieve us from an extremely divisive, relentlessly hostile, social climate. Fournier&#8217;s work has been shown at The National Gallery of Art, The Cannes Film Festival and has works in The Library of Congress. Fournier is also an award winning political cartoonist, whose satirical political strip appeared three times a week in The Chicago Tribune.</p>
<p>Oh, and he has zero cavities. Not a one.</p>
<p>Fournier’s work focuses on mental health, particularly since being diagnosed as a Highly Sensitive Person.</p>
<p>“I see a lot of myself in our anxiety-riddled society, and try to show the various constructive methods I have found to be of benefit to me : meditation, yoga, Taoist teachings and the like. I show them as they’re being used and not prior to their need in hopes that the viewer will &#8211; at the very least &#8211; consider these ideas for relief or respite.”</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/05/joe-fournier/">Joe Fournier</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Darkroom Open House with Rich Ankeney</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 10:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Witness the Magic of Film in our New Darkroom! &#160; Welcome to the GCAC Darkroom! Stop in for a film developing &#38; printing demonstration with Rich Ankeney, and learn about our upcoming opportunities in photography. From operating digital cameras to developing and printing film, we have classes for every level of photo-enthusiast! Demos will take<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/05/darkroom-open-house-with-rich-ankeney/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/05/darkroom-open-house-with-rich-ankeney/">Darkroom Open House with Rich Ankeney</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
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<p>Welcome to the GCAC Darkroom! Stop in for a film developing &amp; printing demonstration with Rich Ankeney, and learn about our upcoming opportunities in photography. From operating digital cameras to developing and printing film, we have classes for every level of photo-enthusiast!</p>
<p>Demos will take place every half hour, from 5:30pm until 7:30pm. Participants <em><strong>must</strong></em> register for a time slot.</p>
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</div><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/05/darkroom-open-house-with-rich-ankeney/">Darkroom Open House with Rich Ankeney</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>UIS Visual Arts Senior Student Exhibition</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Meg Duguid]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 15:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>UIS Visual Arts Senior Student Exhibition April 22 &#8211; May 2, 2024 Reception: Thursday, April 25, 5:30 &#8211; 8:00 p.m. Exhibiting artists include Sophia Britt, Cicely Flynn, Ashley Martinez, Savanah Saltsgaver, and Maxine Touchette.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/04/uis-visual-arts-senior-student-exhibition/">UIS Visual Arts Senior Student Exhibition</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size"><span class="has-inline-color has-dark-blue-color">April 22 &#8211; May 2, 2024</span><br />
Reception: <span class="has-inline-color has-dark-blue-color">Thursday, April 25, 5:30 &#8211; 8:00 p.m. </span></p>
<p>Exhibiting artists include <strong>Sophia Britt, Cicely Flynn, Ashley Martinez, Savanah Saltsgaver, </strong>and<strong> Maxine Touchette</strong>.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/04/uis-visual-arts-senior-student-exhibition/">UIS Visual Arts Senior Student Exhibition</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Wild Boar to Baconfest: Pigs in History and Popular Culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2024 15:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In this lecture, Cynthia Clampitt presents the history of pigs and pork to examine the impact these animals had worldwide. Clampitt will focus on the Midwest, including why poet Carl Sandburg would call Chicago “Hog Butcher for the World.” Pigs were the first food animals to be domesticated, so their history with humans dates back<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/04/wild-boar-to-baconfest-pigs-in-history-and-popular-culture-a-road-scholar-program-by-cynthia-clampitt-2/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/04/wild-boar-to-baconfest-pigs-in-history-and-popular-culture-a-road-scholar-program-by-cynthia-clampitt-2/">Wild Boar to Baconfest: Pigs in History and Popular Culture</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
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<p>In this lecture, Cynthia Clampitt presents the history of pigs and pork to examine the impact these animals had worldwide. Clampitt will focus on the Midwest, including why poet Carl Sandburg would call Chicago “Hog Butcher for the World.”</p>
<p>Pigs were the first food animals to be domesticated, so their history with humans dates back more than 12,000 years. However, antiquity is just one of the reasons why pork is the most eaten meat in the world. This odd, paradoxical animal offers a great range of advantages when it comes to feeding large populations—especially urban populations—though, historically, it has also offered several disadvantages. Once pigs were introduced to the Americas, they became an almost instant success, raised by settlers but also valued by Native Americans.</p>
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<p>As the Midwest opened, pigs moved west and numbers grew rapidly. From Cincinnati, known in the early 1800s as Porkoplis, the center of pork culture moved to Chicago.</p>
<p>Pigs offer culinary delight and potential medical advances, but also create some challenges. Join Clampitt in exploring the topic of pigs, which is as far-ranging as pigs themselves.</p>
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		<title>Kyla Culbertson: Suspended Moments</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2024 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Kyla Culbertson &#8220;Suspended Moments &#8221; Tempe Arizona artist and WIU alumni, Kyla Culbertson will have her solo exhibition &#8220;Suspended Moments&#8221; on display March 19 through April 11 at the ANNEX Gallery. A reception for the artist will be held Thursday, April 11, 4:30-6:00 p.m. The artist will speak about her work at 5:00 pm. Kyla<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/04/kyla-culbertson-suspended-moments/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/04/kyla-culbertson-suspended-moments/">Kyla Culbertson: Suspended Moments</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
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<p>Tempe Arizona artist and WIU alumni, Kyla Culbertson will have her solo exhibition &#8220;Suspended Moments&#8221; on display March 19 through April 11 at the ANNEX Gallery.</p>
<p>A reception for the artist will be held Thursday, April 11, 4:30-6:00 p.m. The artist will speak about her work at 5:00 pm.</p>
<p>Kyla Culbertson is a ceramic artist from Canton, Illinois who is currently residing in Tempe, Arizona. In 2017, she graduated with a BFA in Ceramics from Western Illinois University. In 2019, she was a post-baccalaureate student at the University of Iowa and was awarded Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artist. She attended a residency at James May Gallery in Wisconsin. She has exhibited her work regionally and nationally in exhibitions such as Art of Clay National Juried Exhibition in North Carolina, Conroe Art League 4th National International Exhibition in Texas, The Akar Yunomi Invitational in Iowa City, and The Almighty Cup Exhibition in New York City. Culberston completed an MFA in ceramics at Arizona State University in the Fall of 2023.</p>
<p>Admission is free and open to the public.</p>
<p>ANNEX Gallery, Heating Plant Annex<br />
Department of Art and Design<br />
Western Illinois University<br />
Macomb, Illinois</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/04/kyla-culbertson-suspended-moments/">Kyla Culbertson: Suspended Moments</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Guen Montgomery: Junk Drawer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery is pleased to present “Junk Drawer,” an exhibition by Champaign-based artist Guen Montgomery. “Junk Drawer” will open on Monday, March 18 and run through Thursday, April 11. In conjunction with this exhibition, the artist will present an Engaged Citizenship Common Experience (ECCE) Speaker Series lecture from 6<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/03/junk-drawer/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/03/junk-drawer/">Guen Montgomery: Junk Drawer</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery is pleased to present “Junk Drawer,” an exhibition by Champaign-based artist Guen Montgomery. “Junk Drawer” will open on Monday, March 18 and run through Thursday, April 11.</p>
<p>In conjunction with this exhibition, the artist will present an Engaged Citizenship Common Experience (ECCE) Speaker Series lecture from 6 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 27 in Brookens Auditorium, located on the lower level of Brookens Library. Montgomery’s lecture, entitled “Kinship Stories,” will feature images from her art practice, which draws inspiration from her rural Appalachian heritage and identity as a femme gay person—and the consideration of identity through studies of gender, regional narrative, and family mythology. This lecture is co-sponsored by UIS Gender &amp; Sexuality Student Services &amp; UIS Women’s Center.</p>
<p>Immediately following this lecture, the UIS Visual Arts Gallery will host an exhibition reception for “Junk Drawer” from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the UIS Visual Arts Gallery. This event is free and open to the public.</p>
<p>The prints in &#8220;Junk Drawer” are made from fur pelts and family clothing that were inked and printed on an etching press. Montgomery preferers to create prints this way, to center the sense of touch – both the actual, literal, pressured touch of fur or fabric matrix to paper, and the sense of longing to touch that comes from the printed illusion of fur or fabric. Touch is a key anchor to our bodies and to the world, and it is a reminder that we can’t escape the material.</p>
<p>“Junk Drawer” is a queer meditation on a hard-to-name feeling. It could just as easily be called “Messy Closet” or “Forgotten Crawl Space;” it’s the dropped kitchen-drawer mental state that results from waking up inside the den of all your accumulated stuff, and realizing you’re a furry, smelly animal with a fragile, uncontrollable body. We obscure this fact from ourselves, finding all kinds of fancy ways to hide it. Our storage sheds and attics haunt us with their immutability, becoming unwelcome reminders of our mushy, impermanent organic-ness and the impermanent organic-ness of everyone you love. “Junk Drawer” is trying to figure out what it means to be a person-animal in material culture today.</p>
<p>Guen Montgomery is an artist and performer whose work investigates identity through studies of material culture, gender, and family mythology. Materially, Montgomery’s work is located in the intersections between printmaking, performance, and sculpture. Montgomery has exhibited nationally and internationally and has work in multiple public collections including the Centre for Art and Design in Churchill Australia, and Mushashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan, with recent exhibitions in Nashville and St. Louis. Montgomery currently teaches in the Studio Arts program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she lives with her wife, baby daughter, dog, and two cats.</p>
<p>This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency. The UIS Visual Arts Gallery is centrally located on the UIS campus in the Health and Sciences Building, room 201 (HSB 201). Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday. For more information and future exhibitions, visit the UIS Visual Arts Gallery website.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/03/junk-drawer/">Guen Montgomery: Junk Drawer</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 19:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Junk Drawer Guen Montgomery March 18 &#8211; April 11, 2024 ECCE Lecture &#38; Reception: Wednesday, March 27, 6:00 &#8211; 7:00 p.m. with a reception to immediately follow until 8:30 p.m.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/03/guen-montgomery-junk-drawer/">Guen Montgomery: Junk Drawer</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size"><span class="has-inline-color has-dark-blue-color">March 18 &#8211; April 11, 2024 </span><br />
ECCE Lecture &amp; Reception: <span class="has-inline-color has-dark-blue-color">Wednesday, March 27, 6:00 &#8211; 7:00 p.m. with a reception to immediately follow until 8:30 p.m.</span></p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/03/guen-montgomery-junk-drawer/">Guen Montgomery: Junk Drawer</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2024 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Meet Our Collective Artists Monthly Every 4th Saturday, 6-9pm Dates: March 23, April 27, May 25, June 22, July 27, August 24, September 28, October 26, November 23, December 21 Juli Janovicz &#8212; the memory of flowers &#8212; watercolor florals Kendra Kett &#8212; painted drawings about the power of healing &#8212; watercolor pencils John Kirkpatrick<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/03/meet-our-2024-collective-artists-acrylic-oil-watercolor-encaustic-color-pencil/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/03/meet-our-2024-collective-artists-acrylic-oil-watercolor-encaustic-color-pencil/">Meet Our 2024 Collective Artists: Acrylic, Oil, Watercolor, Encaustic, Color Pencil</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
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<p>Monthly Every 4th Saturday, 6-9pm</p>
<p>Dates: March 23, April 27, May 25, June 22, July 27, August 24, September 28, October 26, November 23, December 21</p>
<p>Juli Janovicz &#8212; the memory of flowers &#8212; watercolor florals</p>
<p>Kendra Kett &#8212; painted drawings about the power of healing &#8212; watercolor pencils</p>
<p>John Kirkpatrick &#8212; figurative expressionism &#8212; acrylic paintings</p>
<p>Ginny Krueger &#8212; combining the gritty &amp; the sublime &#8212; encaustic, water media painting, printmaking</p>
<p>Matthew Padilla &#8212; the human figure + geometric abstraction &#8212; oil paintings</p>
<p>Gallery Hours 1-4pm Starting March 24 &#8212; Saturdays &amp; Sundays</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/03/meet-our-2024-collective-artists-acrylic-oil-watercolor-encaustic-color-pencil/">Meet Our 2024 Collective Artists: Acrylic, Oil, Watercolor, Encaustic, Color Pencil</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>It&#8217;s for the Birds</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2024 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>IT&#8217;S FOR THE BIRDS A Fine Art Juried Exhibition About the Beauty &#38; Allure of BIRDS March 23-April 14 Opening Reception Saturday, March 23, 6-9pm 47 amazing works in a wide variety of media! Participating Artists: Sanjukta Acharya, Maria Ananieva, Kristin Ashley, Maddy Asma, Matt Bellefeuille, Marcia Biasiello, Cynthia Boudreau, Sinead Carus, Paulette Colo, Rudy<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/03/its-for-the-birds/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>IT&#8217;S FOR THE BIRDS<br />
A Fine Art Juried Exhibition About the Beauty &amp; Allure of BIRDS<br />
March 23-April 14<br />
Opening Reception Saturday, March 23, 6-9pm</p>
<p>47 amazing works in a wide variety of media!</p>
<p>Participating Artists: Sanjukta Acharya, Maria Ananieva, Kristin Ashley, Maddy Asma, Matt Bellefeuille, Marcia Biasiello, Cynthia Boudreau, Sinead Carus, Paulette Colo, Rudy DeRam, Jane Ellefson, Jeanne Garrett, Allison Hauslauder, Robert Hilger, Missy Isely Poltrock, Chuck Keller, Julia Kemerer, Kathy Kerner, Marie Luc, Terry Luc, Mike McGuire, Sarah McNabb, Christine Miller, Kristen Neveu, Julie Nykiel, Laura O’Connor, Tara Reilly, Jaynanne Ridder, Amy Robillard, Aruna Sarode, Sandra Saxton, Carol May Scott, Linda Scholly, Phil Schorn, Mary Seyfarth, Barb Skiba-Poinatowski, Kat Strack, Louise Villegas, Mary Voegeli, Marilyn Weisberg, Gail Willert, Kelly Witte, Jeff Wozniak, Debra Zare</p>
<p>Open Weekends 1-4pm Sat/Sun starting March 24</p>
<p>Photo: Fabulous Flamingo by Kelly Witte</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/03/its-for-the-birds/">It’s for the Birds</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Jason Peot and Perry Pollock: Considerations</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2024 21:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Chicago area artists Jason Peot and Perry Pollock will have their two-person exhibition, &#8220;Considerations&#8221;, on display February 20 through March 21 at the Western Illinois University Art Gallery. A closing reception for the artists will be held Thursday, March 21, 4:30-6:00 p.m. The artists will speak about their work at 5:00 pm. Jason Peot and<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/03/jason-peot-and-perry-pollock-considerations-2/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/03/jason-peot-and-perry-pollock-considerations-2/">Jason Peot and Perry Pollock: Considerations</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Chicago area artists Jason Peot and Perry Pollock will have their two-person exhibition, &#8220;Considerations&#8221;, on display February 20 through March 21 at the Western Illinois University Art Gallery.</p>
<p>A closing reception for the artists will be held Thursday, March 21, 4:30-6:00 p.m. The artists will speak about their work at 5:00 pm.</p>
<p>Jason Peot and Perry Pollock have been faculty colleagues for over twenty years in the Art and Design Department at Harper College in Palatine, IL—one of the northwest suburbs of Chicago. Peot oversees the design and sculpture curriculum and Pollock, the drawing and painting curriculum. Both artists work in a non-representational mode and emphasize meticulous attention to design and craft. There is an austerity and geometry that binds their work, but their conceptual intentions offer very different considerations.</p>
<p>The works in this exhibition are juxtaposed to highlight both artists&#8217; shared and contrasting approaches to art making. Pollock&#8217;s minimalist objects are designed independent of their surroundings. In contrast, Peot&#8217;s work directly references it&#8217;s environment or location. The work in this two-person exhibition focuses on these similarities and differences to offer viewers a unique experience</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/03/jason-peot-and-perry-pollock-considerations-2/">Jason Peot and Perry Pollock: Considerations</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Singing Bird and the Importance of Native American Women in Illinois History</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2024 18:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>A Road Scholar Program by Kim Sigafus Dressed in her native regalia, Kim will be giving a history of the natives in Illinois with a focus on native women, or what was considered “The Hidden Half.” Her primary focus will be women such as Singing Bird (Blackhawk’s wife), and Hononegah. Kim will bring the audience<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/03/singing-bird-and-the-importance-of-native-american-women-in-illinois-history-2/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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<p>Dressed in her native regalia, Kim will be giving a history of the natives in Illinois with a focus on native women, or what was considered “The Hidden Half.” Her primary focus will be women such as Singing Bird (Blackhawk’s wife), and Hononegah.</p>
<p>Kim will bring the audience into these women’s day-to-day lives, including courting, marriage, and child-rearing. She will also talk about their role in their husbands’ lives, and how those lives affected the history of Illinois.</p>
<p>Kim will bring native items that women would have used in their daily lives, as she discusses the role women played within the family unit.</p>
<p>The audience will be able to pick up and view the items, learn native language and music, and get the chance to play the drum in this interactive experience.</p>
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<p>This event is Free and Open to the public. For more information, please contact Rachelle Gage at <a href="mailto:rgage@quincylibrary.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">rgage@quincylibrary.org</a>.</p>
<p>Learn more about Kim Sigafus, this program, and how to book it <a href="https://ilhumanities.org/speakers/kim-sigafus">here</a>.</p>
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		<title>LGBTQ+ VR Museum</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2024 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>University Galleries of Illinois State University is pleased to present the LGBTQ+ VR Museum from March 21 through March 27, 2024 . The exhibition is free and open to the public. The LGBTQ+ VR Museum is the first virtual reality museum &#8220;dedicated to celebrating artifacts, artwork, and stories of LGBTQ+ people.&#8221; Co-created by Antonia Forster<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/03/lgbtq-vr-museum/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/03/lgbtq-vr-museum/">LGBTQ+ VR Museum</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>University Galleries of Illinois State University is pleased to present the LGBTQ+ VR Museum from March 21 through March 27, 2024 . The exhibition is free and open to the public.</p>
<p>The LGBTQ+ VR Museum is the first virtual reality museum &#8220;dedicated to celebrating artifacts, artwork, and stories of LGBTQ+ people.&#8221; Co-created by Antonia Forster and Thomas Terkildsen, the Museum features personal items and artworks contributed by the LGBTQ+ community to &#8220;disrupt historical gatekeeping and erasure of marginalized voices.&#8221; Each contribution was scanned into a 3D or 2D artwork. Examples include a copy of Giovanni&#8217;s Room, a novel by James Baldwin; Memorial to a Marriage, artist Particia Cronin&#8217;s marble monument to marriage equality; and a vibrant pair of high-heeled wedding shoes. Importantly, each item is accompanied by a story told in the voice of the contributor.</p>
<p>The LGBTQ+ VR Museum has received awards from the Tribeca Film Festival (New Voices) and the XRMust Awards (Best Impact/Documentary). It was an official selection for the Open City Documentary Festival, and a finalist for the AIXR VR Awards (VR Social Impact) and Qld XR Festival (Best in VR and Best in Gaming).</p>
<p>This exhibition is co-organized by Kendra Paitz, director and chief curator at University Galleries, and Roy Magnuson, associate professor of Creative Technologies. The exhibition is presented in collaboration with Prairie Pride Coalition and is co-sponsored by AIB Grant – a Multicultural Center Initiative. Thank you to Technology Solutions and RCAB (Research Computing Advisory Board) at Illinois State for supporting this project.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/03/lgbtq-vr-museum/">LGBTQ+ VR Museum</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>The Happy Invention: History and Significance of Picture Postcards</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2024 18:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>A Road Scholar Program by Katherine Hamilton-Smith The first picture postcards were published for the 1889 Paris Exposition, celebrating the completion of the Eiffel Tower. In America, the first picture postcards were printed for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago —making Illinois the birthplace of the American picture postcard. Since those flowery Victorian originals,<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/03/the-happy-invention-history-and-significance-of-picture-postcards/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/03/the-happy-invention-history-and-significance-of-picture-postcards/">The Happy Invention: History and Significance of Picture Postcards</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
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<p>The first picture postcards were published for the 1889 Paris Exposition, celebrating the completion of the Eiffel Tower. In America, the first picture postcards were printed for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago —making Illinois the birthplace of the American picture postcard.</p>
<p>Since those flowery Victorian originals, uncountable billions of postcards of every aspect of life have been printed, depicting train stations and bandstands, street views and cartoons, ads for products and services, ‘beauties’ and ‘freaks,’ social history both whimsical and dark, and everything in between. An early mention of postcards is in the 1870 diary of a Welsh curate, who called them “a happy invention.”</p>
<p>In 2016, the world’s largest public collection of postcards and related materials, the Curt Teich Postcard Archives, was given to the Newberry Library by the Lake County Forest Preserve District.</p>
<p>Katherine Hamilton-Smith, the founding curator of the Teich Archives, presents a look at the documentary, power, and significance of picture postcards. She touches on the Curt Teich Company of Chicago, the role Illinois played in the history and development of postcards, and the picture postcard as a cultural icon.</p>
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<p>This event is Free and Open to the public. For more information, please contact Barb Peterson at <a href="mailto:bapeterson50@yahoo.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">bapeterson50@yahoo.com</a>.</p>
<p>Learn more about Katherine Hamilton-Smith, this program, and how to book it <a href="https://ilhumanities.org/speakers/katherine-hamilton-smith">here</a>.</p>
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		<title>Peggy West Art Exhibition</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2024 19:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Join the Illinois Central College Art Program in Gallery 336B for an exhibition by award-winning local artist Peggy West. Peggy’s art style is printmaking, and she specializes in realistic botanical illustrations. She holds a Morton Arboretum certificate in Botanical Arts and Illustration and is a University of Illinois Extension Master Naturalist. Her work has been<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/03/peggy-west-art-exhibition/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Join the Illinois Central College Art Program in Gallery 336B for an exhibition by award-winning local artist Peggy West. Peggy’s art style is printmaking, and she specializes in realistic botanical illustrations. She holds a Morton Arboretum certificate in Botanical Arts and Illustration and is a University of Illinois Extension Master Naturalist. Her work has been used by the Ball Seed Company, Prairie State Winery, Western Illinois University Art Museum, and more.</p>
<p>Peggy’s print shop, Wild Type Press, is located in Peoria, Illinois. Follow her on social media <a href="https://www.instagram.com/wildtypepress/">@wildtypepres</a></p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/03/peggy-west-art-exhibition/">Peggy West Art Exhibition</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Ruby Que: Consider a Disappearance: Closing Performance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2024 22:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery is pleased to present “Consider a Disappearance,” an exhibition by Chicago-based artist and experimental filmmaker Ruby Que (link is external). “Consider a Disappearance” will open on Monday, Feb. 12 and run through Thursday, March 7. An opening reception will be held at the gallery from 5:30 to<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/03/ruby-que-consider-a-disappearance-closing-performance/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery is pleased to present “Consider a Disappearance,” an exhibition by Chicago-based artist and experimental filmmaker Ruby Que</p>
<p>(link is external). “Consider a Disappearance” will open on Monday, Feb. 12 and run through Thursday, March 7. An opening reception will be held at the gallery from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 15.</p>
<p>“Consider a Disappearance” is presented in partnership with ACRE, an artist-run non-profit based in Chicago that is devoted to providing resources to emerging artists and nurturing a diverse community of cultural producers. ACRE’s programs support this generative community with materials, equipment, expertise and opportunities to exhibit and share work.</p>
<p>In conjunction with this exhibition, the UIS Visual Arts Gallery will host a closing performance by Que from 4 to 6 p.m. on Thursday, March 7. All events are free and open to the public.</p>
<p>Que is inspired by the work of artist Bas Jan Ader, who disappeared at sea while completing his project “In Search of the Miraculous.”</p>
<p>“I obsessively watched and rewatched his video works, which often involved him leaving frame, becoming hidden and disappearing,” they said.</p>
<p>In an article for the Brooklyn Rail, Ader’s wife wrote, “I’ve never totally given up hoping that he will one day come back.”</p>
<p>“This struck me,” Que said. “I’m thinking about the histories and reverberations of a disappearance: the longing, searching, never finding and sitting with. I’m thinking about figures such as Ader, Connie Converse and Amelia Earhart, but also our obsession with them– more precisely, finding them.</p>
<p>“I’m thinking about the people that have been forced to disappear or into hiding in my distant home, Hong Kong, and the possibility of disappearance or invisibility as resistance.”</p>
<p>Que is an installation artist and experimental filmmaker who occasionally writes, sculpts and performs. In their work, they open portals and create hauntings. Que’s films and installations have been shown at Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago; Comfort Station, Chicago; Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York; and Du Vert à L’infini, Franche Comte, France. They have been awarded residencies including Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont; ACRE, Steuben, Wisconsin; Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, Rockland, Maine; and are currently a HATCH resident at the Chicago Artists Coalition. They were named a 2023 Breakout Artist by Newcity Magazine.</p>
<p>Que grew up in Hong Kong in the lingering shadow of colonialism, and now lives and works on the unceded homelands of the Council of the Three Fires: Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi, or what is known as Chicago. They earned a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and a master’s degree in fine art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.</p>
<p>This project is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Springfield Area Arts Council. This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.</p>
<p>The UIS Visual Arts Gallery is centrally located on the UIS campus in the Health and Sciences Building, room 201 (HSB 201). Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday. For more information and future exhibitions, visit the UIS Visual Arts Gallery website.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/03/ruby-que-consider-a-disappearance-closing-performance/">Ruby Que: Consider a Disappearance: Closing Performance</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>History of American Pies: and Illinois is Well Represented</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2024 19:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>A Road Scholar Program by Catherine Lambrecht Pies are as American as pizza is American: we took a great idea, adapted it to our needs and ran with it. Our ancestors used what they had available locally and made the most from it. You might be thinking that pies are just for dessert, but for<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/03/history-of-american-pies-and-illinois-is-well-represented/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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<p>Pies are as American as pizza is American: we took a great idea, adapted it to our needs and ran with it. Our ancestors used what they had available locally and made the most from it. You might be thinking that pies are just for dessert, but for our American ancestors, they were often considered survival food. Sometimes, they ate pie for breakfast, lunch and dinner for months at a time.</p>
<p>Catherine Lambrecht, who achieved Grand Champion and Best of Show at the Lake County Fair for apple pie, will present the history of pies in America and our state. Illinois’ contribution to our country’s pie culture includes the following:</p>
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<li>Pumpkin Pie is Illinois’ State Pie, with over 90 percent of canned pumpkin grown in Illinois</li>
<li>the pecan pie</li>
<li>Did you know Johnny Appleseed roamed our state? Apples originating in Kazakhstan are an introduced crop everywhere in the Americas.</li>
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<p>Lambrecht will share a story from the Family Heirloom Recipe Contest at the Illinois State Fair of love, family, a special pie, and a gift of immeasurable value.</p>
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<p>This event is Free and Open to the public. For more information, please contact Amy Gee at <a href="mailto:carthagelibrarydirector@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">carthagelibrarydirector@gmail.com</a>.</p>
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		<title>No One Ever Sees Indians: Native Americans in Media</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Meg Duguid]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2024 18:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>This presentation is loosely structured as a three-part magic act. Ernest discusses the many representations of Native Americans in media, how far back these depictions go, and how these representations inform audiences’ perceptions of Native peoples and issues. This presentation reflects the ideology of lived experience, ownership of culture versus the authorship of expertise of<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/03/no-one-ever-sees-indians-native-americans-in-media-2-2-2-2/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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<p>This presentation is loosely structured as a three-part magic act. Ernest discusses the many representations of Native Americans in media, how far back these depictions go, and how these representations inform audiences’ perceptions of Native peoples and issues.</p>
<p>This presentation reflects the ideology of lived experience, ownership of culture versus the authorship of expertise of Native representation, and its reductive constructs. Ernest will show that what people know and see about Native Americans in media has always been an illusion.</p>
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<p>This event is Free and Open to the public. For more information, please contact Carol Inskeep at <a href="mailto:cinskeep@urbanafree.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">cinskeep@urbanafree.org</a>.</p>
<p>Learn more about Ernest M. Whiteman III, this program, and how to book it <a href="https://ilhumanities.org/speakers/ernest-whiteman">here</a>.</p>
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		<title>In Their Own Words: Chicago Gun Violence Survivors Speak on Storytelling</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2024 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Join the Chicago Sun-Times and The Trace for an evening focused on telling survivors’ stories of gun violence. Following our joint publication of Chicago Stories of Survival, a project that trained survivors to tell their stories in their own words, you’ll hear from the participants directly about what it’s like to recover from gun violence.<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/02/in-their-own-words-chicago-gun-violence-survivors-speak-on-storytelling/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Join the Chicago Sun-Times and The Trace for an evening focused on telling survivors’ stories of gun violence.</p>
<p>Following our joint publication of Chicago Stories of Survival, a project that trained survivors to tell their stories in their own words, you’ll hear from the participants directly about what it’s like to recover from gun violence. They’ll discuss their writing process, and talk about what they need from lawmakers and the media to better navigate Chicago’s gun violence crisis and continue on a path towards healing. You’ll also hear from local media leaders about their efforts to better include survivors.</p>
<p>Together, we’ll brainstorm ways that local news organizations and everyday Chicagoans can help meet survivors’ needs through more human-focused coverage.</p>
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		<title>Ruby Que: Consider a Disappearance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2024 23:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery is pleased to present “Consider a Disappearance,” an exhibition by Chicago-based artist and experimental filmmaker Ruby Que (link is external). “Consider a Disappearance” will open on Monday, Feb. 12 and run through Thursday, March 7. An opening reception will be held at the gallery from 5:30 to<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/02/ruby-que-consider-a-disappearance/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery is pleased to present “Consider a Disappearance,” an exhibition by Chicago-based artist and experimental filmmaker Ruby Que</p>
<p>(link is external). “Consider a Disappearance” will open on Monday, Feb. 12 and run through Thursday, March 7. An opening reception will be held at the gallery from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 15.</p>
<p>“Consider a Disappearance” is presented in partnership with ACRE, an artist-run non-profit based in Chicago that is devoted to providing resources to emerging artists and nurturing a diverse community of cultural producers. ACRE’s programs support this generative community with materials, equipment, expertise and opportunities to exhibit and share work.</p>
<p>In conjunction with this exhibition, the UIS Visual Arts Gallery will host a closing performance by Que from 4 to 6 p.m. on Thursday, March 7. All events are free and open to the public.</p>
<p>Que is inspired by the work of artist Bas Jan Ader, who disappeared at sea while completing his project “In Search of the Miraculous.”</p>
<p>“I obsessively watched and rewatched his video works, which often involved him leaving frame, becoming hidden and disappearing,” they said.</p>
<p>In an article for the Brooklyn Rail, Ader’s wife wrote, “I’ve never totally given up hoping that he will one day come back.”</p>
<p>“This struck me,” Que said. “I’m thinking about the histories and reverberations of a disappearance: the longing, searching, never finding and sitting with. I’m thinking about figures such as Ader, Connie Converse and Amelia Earhart, but also our obsession with them– more precisely, finding them.</p>
<p>“I’m thinking about the people that have been forced to disappear or into hiding in my distant home, Hong Kong, and the possibility of disappearance or invisibility as resistance.”</p>
<p>Que is an installation artist and experimental filmmaker who occasionally writes, sculpts and performs. In their work, they open portals and create hauntings. Que’s films and installations have been shown at Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago; Comfort Station, Chicago; Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York; and Du Vert à L’infini, Franche Comte, France. They have been awarded residencies including Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont; ACRE, Steuben, Wisconsin; Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, Rockland, Maine; and are currently a HATCH resident at the Chicago Artists Coalition. They were named a 2023 Breakout Artist by Newcity Magazine.</p>
<p>Que grew up in Hong Kong in the lingering shadow of colonialism, and now lives and works on the unceded homelands of the Council of the Three Fires: Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi, or what is known as Chicago. They earned a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and a master’s degree in fine art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.</p>
<p>This project is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Springfield Area Arts Council. This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.</p>
<p>The UIS Visual Arts Gallery is centrally located on the UIS campus in the Health and Sciences Building, room 201 (HSB 201). Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday. For more information and future exhibitions, visit the UIS Visual Arts Gallery website.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/02/ruby-que-consider-a-disappearance/">Ruby Que: Consider a Disappearance</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Liz Ensz: Unorganized Territory: Mutable Landscapes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2024 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Liz Ensz &#8220;Unorganized Territory: Mutable Landscapes&#8221; On View: January 16 – February 8, 2024 Closing Reception: Thursday, February 8, 4:30-6:00 University Art Gallery Western Illinois University Macomb, Illinois Baltimore, MD artist Liz Ensz will have their solo exhibition, &#8220;Unorganized Territory: Mutable Landscapes&#8221;, on display January 16 through February 8 at the Western Illinois University Art<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/02/liz-ensz-unorganized-territory-mutable-landscapes/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Liz Ensz &#8220;Unorganized Territory: Mutable Landscapes&#8221;<br />
On View: January 16 – February 8, 2024<br />
Closing Reception: Thursday, February 8, 4:30-6:00<br />
University Art Gallery<br />
Western Illinois University<br />
Macomb, Illinois</p>
<p>Baltimore, MD artist Liz Ensz will have their solo exhibition, &#8220;Unorganized Territory: Mutable Landscapes&#8221;, on display January 16 through February 8 at the Western Illinois University Art Gallery.</p>
<p>A closing reception for the artist will be held Thursday, February 8, 4:30-6:00 p.m. The artist will speak about their work at 5:00 pm.</p>
<p>Liz Ensz was born in Minnesota (unceded Dakota, Chippewa, Ojibwe land) to a resourceful family of penny-savers, metal scrappers, and curators of cast-offs. Liz received a BFA in Fiber from the Maryland Institute College of Art (2005), and an MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2013). Ensz has exhibited their textiles, installation and sculptural work internationally, including The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK; Frontviews Gallery, Berlin, Germany; HTW University of Applied Sciences School of Art and Culture, Berlin, Germany; Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN; Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY; Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY; and Roots and Culture Contemporary Art Center, Chicago, IL. Their work has been supported by The John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Program, Franconia Sculpture Park, City of Chicago DCASE Individual Artist Grant, The Creative Baltimore Fund, and The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Travel Fellowship, among others. They currently live and work in Baltimore, Maryland (unceded Piscataway Conoy and Susquahannock land).</p>
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		<title>Unearth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2024 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Unearth&#8221; is on display now through March 10 at the Cleve Carney Museum of Art, featuring three Chicago-based painters who find beauty and meaning in everyday urban scenes, drawing back to the tradition of early 20th century painters. Karen Perl, Emily Rapport and Gwendolyn Zabicki similarly capture the buildings, streets, neighborhoods and casual interactions that<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/02/unearth-2/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Unearth&#8221; is on display now through March 10 at the Cleve Carney Museum of Art, featuring three Chicago-based painters who find beauty and meaning in everyday urban scenes, drawing back to the tradition of early 20th century painters.</p>
<p>Karen Perl, Emily Rapport and Gwendolyn Zabicki similarly capture the buildings, streets, neighborhoods and casual interactions that make up the backdrop of everyday, urban life and reflect on how we live, while echoing the Chicago community&#8217;s history. Each featured artist delves into perceived reality to unearth a moment or interaction that, when painted, reveals an intensely present experience. Pieces including Perl’s “5400 N. Clark,” Zabicki’s “Man Watching Baseball” and Rapaport’s “Damen Ave Nocturne.”</p>
<p>Entry to the museum is free and visiting hours are 11am &#8211; 5p on Wednesdays &#8211; Sundays.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/02/unearth-2/">Unearth</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2024 22:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Shelby Shadwell &#8220;EMERGENCY BLANKETS&#8221; On View: January 18 – February 16, 2024 Reception: Thursday, January 18, 4:30-6:00 Drawing Demo: Thursday, January 18, 10:00-4:00 University Art Gallery Western Illinois University Macomb, Illinois Wyoming artist Shelby Shadwell will have his solo exhibition, &#8220;EMERGENCY BLANKETS&#8221;, on display January 18 through February 16 at the Western Illinois University Art<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/01/shelby-shadwell-emergency-blankets/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Shelby Shadwell &#8220;EMERGENCY BLANKETS&#8221;<br />
On View: January 18 – February 16, 2024<br />
Reception: Thursday, January 18, 4:30-6:00<br />
Drawing Demo: Thursday, January 18, 10:00-4:00<br />
University Art Gallery<br />
Western Illinois University<br />
Macomb, Illinois</p>
<p>Wyoming artist Shelby Shadwell will have his solo exhibition, &#8220;EMERGENCY BLANKETS&#8221;, on display January 18 through February 16 at the Western Illinois University Art Gallery.</p>
<p>A reception for the artist will be held Thursday, January 18, 4:30-6:00 p.m. The artist will speak about his work at 5:00 pm. Shadwell will also be giving a drawing demonstration in the Gallery 10:00 am – 4:00 pm before his reception.</p>
<p>Shelby is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Wyoming. Born and raised in Springfield, Missouri, Shelby received his BFA in 2003 from Washington University in St. Louis and his MFA in 2006 from Southern Illinois University Carbondale.<br />
A two-time recipient of the Visual Arts Fellowship from the Wyoming Arts Council, Shelby actively exhibits across the nation. His more recent exhibitions include LIKE AND SHARE IF YOU AGREE!!!, a solo show at the South Bend Museum of Art, DRAWN at Manifest Creative Research Gallery in Cincinnati, OH, and Drawing Discourse at the University of North Carolina Asheville. Shelby was awarded a solo exhibition at the APEX Space at the Portland Art Museum in OR in 2016, and his work is included in their permanent collection. For his research sabbatical from 2021 – 2022, Shelby accepted the Manifest Artist Residency Award, and he spent the year making new work at their Gallery and collaborating on educational opportunities at their Drawing Center in Cincinnati, OH.</p>
<p>Shelby was recently honored with the Stone &amp; Deguire Contemporary Art Award in the amount of $25,000 from his alma mater, Washington University in St. Louis. Current and upcoming 2023 solo exhibition venues include Artworks Contemporary Art Center in Loveland, CO, STRATA Gallery in Santa Fe, NM, the Firehouse Art Center in Longmont, CO, and the Kentler International Drawing Space in Brooklyn, NY.</p>
<p>Admission is free and open to the public.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2024/01/shelby-shadwell-emergency-blankets/">Shelby Shadwell: EMERGENCY BLANKETS</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Everyone I Know Is Sick: Day With(out) Art Screenings</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>University Galleries is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2023 by presenting Everyone I Know Is Sick, a program of five new videos generating connections between HIV and other forms of illness and disability. The program features new work by Dolissa Medina &#38; Ananias P. Soria, Dorothy Cheung, Beau Gomez, Kurt<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/12/everyone-i-know-is-sick-day-without-art-screenings/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>University Galleries is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2023 by presenting Everyone I Know Is Sick, a program of five new videos generating connections between HIV and other forms of illness and disability.</p>
<p>The program features new work by Dolissa Medina &amp; Ananias P. Soria, Dorothy Cheung, Beau Gomez, Kurt Weston, and Hiura Fernandes &amp; Lili Nascimento.</p>
<p>A day of mourning and action that uses art to respond to the ongoing HIV and AIDS crisis, Day With(out) Art encourages museums, university museums, and art institutions to present related programming on or around December 1, World AIDS Day.</p>
<p>University Galleries is collaborating with Prairie Pride Coalition on this year’s screening. The five videos will be projected in a one-hour loop beginning at 11:00 a.m. and repeating hourly through 7:00 p.m.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/12/everyone-i-know-is-sick-day-without-art-screenings/">Everyone I Know Is Sick: Day With(out) Art Screenings</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2023 03:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Western Illinois University’s Assistant Professor B. Jacob Skousen will present Collaborating with Tribal Nations: The Noble-Wieting Archaeological Project as an Example as this month’s Illinois Archaeology lecture, on Sunday, November 19th at 2:00 p.m. &#160; The Noble-Wieting cultural site is a sizable and historically important Langford-Mississippian village in east-central Illinois. In 2015, upon learning that<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/11/illinois-archaeology-lecture-series-2/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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<p>Western Illinois University’s Assistant Professor B. Jacob Skousen will present <em>Collaborating with Tribal Nations: The Noble-Wieting Archaeological Project as an Example</em> as this month’s Illinois Archaeology lecture, on Sunday, November 19<sup>th</sup> at 2:00 p.m.</p>
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<p>The Noble-Wieting cultural site is a sizable and historically important Langford-Mississippian village in east-central Illinois. In 2015, upon learning that the landowner planned to mine the site for gravel, the Illinois State Archaeological Survey and Illinois State University began conducting surveys and targeted excavations to salvage information from the site in case it is destroyed. In 2020, the team began collaborating with numerous Tribal Nations, and the discussions have continued for the last three years. In this presentation, Skousen will discuss the collaborative aspect of the Noble-Wieting Archaeological Project – how it began, what worked, what didn’t, how solutions were developed when concerns arose, and future plans for the project – to provide an example of a so-far successful collaboration between archaeologists and Tribal Nations. Skousen’s hope is that collaborative projects like this will become the norm for Illinois archaeology in the future.</p>
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<p>The lecture begins promptly at 2:00 p.m. followed by light refreshments and an opportunity to meet with the speaker and museum staff.  Admission is free; however, donations are appreciated.  Registration is not required.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2023 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Curated by Inés Arango-Guingue November 18, 2023- January 20, 2024 Opening Reception: November 18, 2 to 6 pm “The dictator didn’t realize the power of form over didactic narration.” -Joyce Beckenstein on the work of María Magdalena Campos-Pons The Trick Behind Multiple Trick Ponies will show the work of Aleksandra Walaszek (b. Poland, 1987), Vanessa<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/11/the-trick-behind-multiple-trick-ponies/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Curated by Inés Arango-Guingue<br />
November 18, 2023- January 20, 2024<br />
Opening Reception: November 18, 2 to 6 pm</p>
<p>“The dictator didn’t realize the power of form over didactic narration.”<br />
-Joyce Beckenstein on the work of María Magdalena Campos-Pons</p>
<p>The Trick Behind Multiple Trick Ponies will show the work of Aleksandra Walaszek (b. Poland, 1987), Vanessa Sandoval (b. Colombia, 1990), Kevin Hernández Rosa (b.Puerto Rico, 1994), and Dylan Languell (b. United States, 1985), four emerging sculptors who parasite languages akin to Minimalism and Conceptual Art to address social issues that, contemporarily, are primarily being explored through figuration. Their use of form lets the audience dig for a sliver of communication, a message relating to the artist’s identity, or to take the work as it is presented. Sandoval, Languell, and Walaszek will create site-specific installations along the three sections of the space. Two video performances by Walaszek and Hernández Rosa will also be shown, along with two sculptures also by Hernández Rosa.</p>
<p>The exhibition has happily adapted to Mayfield—a crowded lived-in studio that moonlights as an artist-run space— and uses its low visibility as a reflection of the works’ affinity with ambiguity. An array of smaller pieces will be deliberately camouflaged around the space’s native objects, staging a game of hide-and-seek with the audience and further highlighting the artists’ preference for play over communication.</p>
<p>This show—like many others— aims to understand the persistence of artistic languages from the 20th century, while also suggesting that these languages aid artists in getting away with the most tyrannic questions the art world increasingly demands answers to, namely identity and subject matter. Stewarding the right of artists belonging to any community labeled as “marginalized” to refuse overt representation of themselves, their communities, and their issues, this show asserts that parasitizing hegemonic art is yet one more trick they have up their sleeves to escape such tyrannic questions. Artists are not a one-trick pony.</p>
<p>Aleksandra Walaszek is an interdisciplinary artist, currently pursuing her MFA degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She received an MA in Media Arts (2011) from Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw. During her studies she was awarded exchange stays at École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg, France (2009-2010) and Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, USA (2010). Wałaszek is a co-founder of the FAH foundation and an artist-run space called Forma Otwarta in Oleśnica, Poland. She has received several scholarships including the Fulbright Graduate Student Award, an Individual Artist Grant from the Polish Cultural Institute in New York, and the President of Wrocław City Scholarship in the Field of Culture and the Arts for outstanding achievements. Often working collaboratively, she participated in many exhibitions, festivals, biennales, and art residencies. Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally at various venues, including the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Wrocław Contemporary Museum,16th WRO Media Art Biennale among others. She has been Artist-in-Residence at [R.A.T.] Residencias Artísticas Por Intercambio in Mexico City, 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica, USA, Centre for Creative Activities in Ustka, Poland; AIR Wro in San Sebastián / Donostia, Spain; Paradise AIR in Matsudo, Japan; Hidden Places in Görlitz, Germany. Wałaszek tends to focus on subjects such as identity, memory, and history intertwined with geography and language. Her work has involved the creation of conceptually based objects, photography, and installations as well as happenings.</p>
<p>Vanessa Sandoval Is a visual artist with a practice in the fields of sculpture, drawing, and installation. In 2014, she was a recipient of the BLOC grant, in Cali, Colombia. In 2016, she obtained a national fellowship in visual arts from the Ministry of Culture and participated in the 44th National Artists’ Salon. In 2017, she was a resident of RÉSO in Biella, Italy, and was awarded the V Sara Modiano Prize in Bogotá. In 2018, she was invited to show her work at Nuevos Nombres, Banco de la República, Bogotá. She lived in Cali until 2019, where she coordinated the Documentary Center at Lugar A Dudas. That same year she was invited to participate in the exhibition Voces Para Transformar Colombia by the National Museum of Memory. She now lives in New York where, in 2022, she was one of the artists in residency at the Center for Book Arts, and participated in the 46th National Artist Salon in Colombia. She is currently doing an MFA at Hunter College, as a recipient of the NOIR scholarship for BIPOC CUNY students.</p>
<p>Kevin Hernández Rosa (b. 1994, Caguas, Puerto Rico) is an artist, writer, and rapper currently living and working in Hartford, CT. He received an MFA from the Yale School of Art in sculpture in 2021 and is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Hartford Art School. Hernández Rosa’s work has been exhibited at Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art (Fall River, MA), Hunt Gallery (Toronto, Ontario, CA), Weather Proof (Chicago, IL), Hatred 2 (Brooklyn, NY), Slought Foundation (Philadelphia, PA), M23 (NYC), Ely Center of Contemporary Art (New Haven, CT), 891 N Main (Providence, RI), LeRoy Neiman Gallery (Columbia University, NYC), Hill-Stead Museum (Farmington, CT), Chelsea College of Art and Design (London, UK), and Art Lot (Brooklyn, NY). Before the end of 2023, his work is slated to be exhibited at the Austin Arts Center (Trinity College, Hartford, CT), as well as D.D.D.D. Pictures (NYC). His first book titled ‘Brandishing, EX-WRITER, etc.’ was published by Bench Press in 2018 and he was a 2021 Graham Foundation co-grantee.</p>
<p>Dylan Languell is an interdisciplinary artist and event organizer currently residing in Chicago. He received his MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and his BA in Art History from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). Languell has shown at the Institute of Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University and at Ice Box in Philadelphia. His work has been published in New American Paintings and Emerge Journal. His work navigates interior spaces from the body to architecture, archival practices of identity, disposal, and contextual histories through the lens of wonderment of how to be closer to art as a spiritual praxis and the greater public whether as spectacle or care.</p>
<p>MAYFIELD is a multi-use space housed in a near west suburb of Chicago. It’s a private residence &amp; public site collectively organized by members of the Aguilar family. It functions as a studio, a museum, an exhibition space, a gym, a bath house, a car port, an office, a small press, a library, a recording studio, a residency, a badminton court, a fire pit, a dining hall, a deck, a stage, a kitchen, a workshop and possibly other things.</p>
<p>visit: by appointment only<br />
contact: mayfieldartspace@gmail.com</p>
<p>Image: Aleksandra Walaszkek, detail from Down Below, 2022</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/11/the-trick-behind-multiple-trick-ponies/">The Trick Behind Multiple Trick Ponies</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Rita Grendze: Softer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2023 17:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Rita Grendze&#8217;s recent work explores her relationship with &#8216;stuff&#8217; she has accumulated. The artist uses yarn to create colorful, large-scale hanging pieces. The whimsical works of art are meant to be interacted with and viewers are encouraged to touch, and even hug, the pieces.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rita Grendze&#8217;s recent work explores her relationship with &#8216;stuff&#8217; she has accumulated. The artist uses yarn to create colorful, large-scale hanging pieces. The whimsical works of art are meant to be interacted with and viewers are encouraged to touch, and even hug, the pieces.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/11/rita-grendze-softer/">Rita Grendze: Softer</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Kid&#8217;s Day: Indigenous Lifeways in the Central Illinois River Valley</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Nov 2023 02:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In celebration of Native American Heritage month, participants are welcome to explore how people lived in the Central Illinois River Valley thousands of years ago.  Through displays and hands-on activities, kids ages 5 years and up with an adult may enjoy learning about Indigenous tools, subsistence patterns, and how people used their environment in day-to-day<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/11/kids-day-indigenous-lifeways-in-the-central-illinois-river-valley/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/11/kids-day-indigenous-lifeways-in-the-central-illinois-river-valley/">Kid’s Day: Indigenous Lifeways in the Central Illinois River Valley</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
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<p>In celebration of Native American Heritage month, participants are welcome to explore how people lived in the Central Illinois River Valley thousands of years ago.  Through displays and hands-on activities, kids ages 5 years and up with an adult may enjoy learning about Indigenous tools, subsistence patterns, and how people used their environment in day-to-day life.</p>
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<p>Admission is free; however, donations are appreciated.  Registration is not required.  This program may fulfill some scout badge requirements.</p>
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		<title>Nour Malas⁠: Heavyweight</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Nov 2023 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘺𝘸𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵⁠ Nour Malas⁠ November 11–December 17⁠ ⁠ Opening Reception⁠ Saturday, November 11, 5–8 PM⁠ 342 Park Avenue in Glencoe, Ill.⁠ ⁠ Mae Lombardi is excited to present 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘺𝘸𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵, an exhibition by the Chicago-based artist Nour Malas. This presentation marks the artist&#8217;s first solo exhibition in the Chicago area. The works included in the exhibition reflect<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/11/nour-malas%e2%81%a0-heavyweight/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘺𝘸𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵⁠<br />
Nour Malas⁠<br />
November 11–December 17⁠<br />
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Opening Reception⁠<br />
Saturday, November 11, 5–8 PM⁠<br />
342 Park Avenue in Glencoe, Ill.⁠<br />
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Mae Lombardi is excited to present 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘺𝘸𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵, an exhibition by the Chicago-based artist Nour Malas. This presentation marks the artist&#8217;s first solo exhibition in the Chicago area. The works included in the exhibition reflect her fearless exploration of emotional and psychological realms within her artistic practice. ⁠<br />
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Image:⁠<br />
Nour Malas⁠<br />
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘏𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘔𝘪𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩 !!⁠<br />
Oil and pastel on canvas⁠<br />
60 x 55 in (152 x 140 cm)⁠</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/11/nour-malas%e2%81%a0-heavyweight/">Nour Malas⁠: Heavyweight</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Sara Dismukes: mishearing Mnemosyne</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2023 22:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Montgomery, AL artist Sara Dismukes will have her solo exhibition, &#8220;mishearing Mnemosyne &#8220;, on display November 6 through December 15 at the Western Illinois University Art Gallery. A reception for the artist will be held Tuesday, November 6, 4:30-6:00 p.m. The artist will speak about her work at 5:00 pm. Sara Dismukes is a multidisciplinary<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/11/sara-dismukes-mishearing-mnemosyne/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/11/sara-dismukes-mishearing-mnemosyne/">Sara Dismukes: mishearing Mnemosyne</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Montgomery, AL artist Sara Dismukes will have her solo exhibition, &#8220;mishearing Mnemosyne &#8220;, on display November 6 through December 15 at the Western Illinois University Art Gallery.</p>
<p>A reception for the artist will be held Tuesday, November 6, 4:30-6:00 p.m. The artist will speak about her work at 5:00 pm.</p>
<p>Sara Dismukes is a multidisciplinary artist and educator currently living in Montgomery, Alabama. She is a member of the art and design faculty at Troy University. Her studio practice includes drawing, painting and graphic design, as well as traditional bookbinding.</p>
<p>“We all move back and forth between public and private spaces. Rather than call attention to the origin or the destination, I pay attention to what is found along the way. I am compelled by the social mediation of landscape, and how desire and disregard are manifested in objects and spaces over time.</p>
<p>My work celebrates the things we pass by, often unnoticed, while moving about our day. I am interested in entropy as well as the growth that is its companion. Close observation of the patterns and structures in nature, as well as the rhythm of its seasonal cycles, is an enthusiasm and an influence. I see tenacity and resilience within these systems and feel deeply connected to them.”</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/11/sara-dismukes-mishearing-mnemosyne/">Sara Dismukes: mishearing Mnemosyne</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Past Perfect: Celebrating 30 Years with 30 Artists</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Nov 2023 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Past Perfect: Celebrating 30 Years with 30 Artists Opening Reception: Sunday, November 5, 2023, 3:00 – 6:00 pm Join us afterwards for a private happy hour across the street at the Quincy Street Distillery for handcrafted artisanal spirits. Exhibition Dates: November 5, 2023 – January 6, 2024 Gallery Hours: Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays 1:00 –<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/11/past-perfect-celebrating-30-years-with-30-artists/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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<p>Opening Reception: Sunday, November 5, 2023, 3:00 – 6:00 pm<br />
Join us afterwards for a private happy hour across the street at the Quincy Street Distillery for handcrafted artisanal spirits.</p>
<p>Exhibition Dates: November 5, 2023 – January 6, 2024</p>
<p>Gallery Hours: Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays 1:00 – 5:00 pm</p>
<p>Artist Panel Discussions: TBA</p>
<p>The artists in Past Perfect: Celebrating 30 Years with 30 Artists include:<br />
Candida Alvarez, Karen Azarnia, Aimeé Beaubien, Deborah Boardman, Larry Bookbinder, Whitney Bradshaw, Tom Burtonwood, Paola Cabal, Bob Faust, Andreas Fischer, Ruth Freeark, Nancy Hejna, Heather Hug, Indira Freitas Johnson, Anna Kunz, Jason Lazarus, Riva Lehrer, Tim Lowly, Janice Nowinski, Nnenna Okore, Sabina Ott, Yoonshin Park, Tony Phillips, Kim Piotrowski, Colleen Plumb, Judith Raphael, Camille Silverman, Altoon Sultan, Jennifer Taylor, and Erin Washington.</p>
<p>The Riverside Arts Center is pleased to present Past Perfect: Celebrating 30 Years with 30 Artists, a group exhibition commemorating our thirtieth anniversary. This exhibition will be on view in RAC’s Freeark Gallery, FlexSpace, and Sculpture Garden from November 5, 2023 through January 6, 2024.</p>
<p>Established in 1993, the Riverside Arts Center has evolved into a respected destination led by its world-class exhibition programming. In recognition of the hundreds of artists whose art has similarly grown through the years, thirty extraordinary artists were selected from RAC’s solo and two-person exhibitions.</p>
<p>Representing a diverse range of artistic mediums, the exhibition includes a wood sculpture by one of the Riverside Arts Center’s founders, Ruth Freeark; a colorful multimedia installation by Aimée Beaubien; and a figurative oil painting by Janice Nowinski. Photography and video are explored by Whitney Bradshaw and Colleen Plumb, while painting is represented by respected artists such as Kim Piotrowski, Anna Kunz, Candida Alvarez, and Andreas Fischer. In addition, we honor Sabina Ott and Deborah Boardman posthumously through their art.</p>
<p>The exhibition will open with a reception for the artists on Sunday, November 5th from 3-6pm. Coinciding with the exhibition, several of the exhibiting artists will participate in panel discussions led by the exhibition’s curators, Anne Harris, Laura Husar Garcia, and Joanne Aono, on select Saturday afternoons.</p>
<p>Riverside Arts Center<br />
32 East Quincy Street<br />
Riverside, Illinois 60546</p>
<p>Gallery Hours: Thursday – Saturday, 1-5pm, Closed Sundays – Wednesdays and major holidays.<br />
All of our exhibitions are free and open to the public.</p>
<p>For press inquiries and high-resolution images or for additional information contact Gallery Director, Joanne Aono at jaono@riversideartscenter.com</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/11/past-perfect-celebrating-30-years-with-30-artists/">Past Perfect: Celebrating 30 Years with 30 Artists</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Schingoethe Center of Aurora University Family Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Nov 2023 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Join us for crafts, music, food, raffles, ascavenger hunt, games, and exhibition micro tours</p>
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		<title>2023 Latinx Heritage Month celebration: A month-long journey through culture, identity, and art</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2023 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>2023 Latinx Heritage Month celebration: A month-long journey through culture, identity, and art Wednesday, November 1 , 12:00 pm Art curator: Carla Acevedo-Yates, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Explore the art of curation with Carla Acevedo-Yates, a seasoned curator, researcher, and art critic whose career spans Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States. Acevedo-Yates’<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/11/2023-latinx-heritage-month-celebration-a-month-long-journey-through-culture-identity-and-art/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>2023 Latinx Heritage Month celebration: A month-long journey through culture, identity, and art<br />
Wednesday, November 1 , 12:00 pm</p>
<p>Art curator: Carla Acevedo-Yates, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago</p>
<p>Explore the art of curation with Carla Acevedo-Yates, a seasoned curator, researcher, and art critic whose career spans Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States. Acevedo-Yates’ passion lies in amplifying artists’ voices and forging connections between their work and audiences. Her portfolio includes curatorial roles at esteemed institutions like the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. Acevedo-Yates has curated groundbreaking exhibitions, featuring renowned artists such as Johanna Unzueta, Claudia Peña Salinas, Jesús “Bubu” Negrón, Duane Linklater, and Scott Hocking. Notably, she curated “Fiction of a Production,” an exhibition spotlighting the innovative work of Argentinian conceptual art luminary David Lamelas.</p>
<p>With an academic background encompassing an M.A. in curatorial studies and contemporary art from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and a B.A. in Spanish and Latin American Cultures from Barnard College, Acevedo-Yates’ insights have earned her acclaim, including a Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.</p>
<p>Join us for an enlightening lecture by Acevedo-Yates as she shares her journey as an art curator and her dedication to enriching our interconnected cultural landscape.</p>
<p>Sponsored by: University Galleries, the Latin American and Latina/o/x Studies program, and the Organization of Latinx Employees (OLE).</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/11/2023-latinx-heritage-month-celebration-a-month-long-journey-through-culture-identity-and-art/">2023 Latinx Heritage Month celebration: A month-long journey through culture, identity, and art</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Heather Bennett: Night Watch (Origin of the World)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2023 22:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>SPRINGFIELD – The University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery is pleased to present “Night Watch (Origin of the World),” an exhibition of photography and drawings by St. Louis-based artist Heather Bennett. “Night Watch (Origin of the World)” will open Oct. 19 and run through Nov. 16. A reception for this exhibition will be held<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/10/night-watch-origin-of-the-world/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>SPRINGFIELD – The University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery is pleased to present “Night Watch (Origin of the World),” an exhibition of photography and drawings by St. Louis-based artist Heather Bennett. “Night Watch (Origin of the World)” will open Oct. 19 and run through Nov. 16. A reception for this exhibition will be held at the gallery from 5:30 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 19. This event is free and open to the public.</p>
<p>In conjunction with this exhibition, the UIS Visual Arts Gallery will host a remote artist talk by Bennet at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 2. Attendees can join via Zoom.</p>
<p>“Night Watch (Origin of the World)” addresses the question “How can we hold spectacle and depth together in one body?” through a collision of works that trace the female subject, traditionally stuck within invisibility &#8212; though ironically, often a showpiece and endlessly gazed upon. In this work, the ever-present female body and the simultaneously unseen female subject are transformed towards a celebration of their irreconcilability, the sparkling beauty of the subject in its place among the shadows. Within this contradiction there is an underlying ecstatic freedom that cautiously steps over a precipice. There is a devastation present, as well as an effusive and elaborate beauty, which hints at a truth.</p>
<p>Bennett maintains a multimedia practice which consists of photography, video, drawing, text, sculpture, installation, as well as collaborations with musicians and writers. Her work traces the female subject and its historic irrelevance, focusing specifically on representation in contemporary culture. Bennett attempts to reveal an embodied subjecthood held within her protagonists. Pushing expectations of media, she disrupts assumptions, hoping to realign and reframe the relegated, feminine tinged space, to even recreate this space anew. Bennett has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, nationally and internationally. She is currently a senior lecturer at Washington University in St. Louis.</p>
<p>This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency. The UIS Visual Arts Gallery is centrally located on the UIS campus in the Health and Science Building, room 201 (HSB 201). Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday. For more information and future exhibitions, visit the UIS Visual Arts Gallery website.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/10/night-watch-origin-of-the-world/">Heather Bennett: Night Watch (Origin of the World)</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Edra Soto: Artist lecture and reception</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2023 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Join us at University Galleries for the 2023 Anne and Stephen Matter Artist Lecture by Edra Soto. This event is co-organized by the Wonsook Kim School of Art and University Galleries and sponsored by the Anne and Stephen Matter Artist Lecture Series. Edra Soto is a Puerto Rican-born artist, curator, educator, and co-director of the<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/10/edra-soto-artist-lecture-and-reception/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Join us at University Galleries for the 2023 Anne and Stephen Matter Artist Lecture by Edra Soto. This event is co-organized by the Wonsook Kim School of Art and University Galleries and sponsored by the Anne and Stephen Matter Artist Lecture Series.</p>
<p>Edra Soto is a Puerto Rican-born artist, curator, educator, and co-director of the outdoor project space, The Franklin. Growing up in Puerto Rico, and now immersed in her Chicago community, Soto’s work has evolved to raise questions about constructed social orders, diasporic identity, and the legacy of colonialism.</p>
<p>Soto has exhibited extensively at venues including Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago; Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City; and University Galleries of Illinois State University, among others. Recent presentations include the Chicago Architecture Biennial, O’Hare International Airport’s T5 Expansion Project, and Untitled and Art Basel Miami Beach. Soto has been awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters &amp; Sculptors Grant; Illinois Arts Council Agency Fellowship; inaugural Foundwork Prize; Ree Kaneko Award; and the US LatinX Art Forum Fellowship, among others. Soto traveled and exhibited in Brazil, Puerto Rico, and Cuba as part of the MacArthur Foundation’s International Connections Fund. She has attended residency programs at Skowhegan, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Headlands, Project Row Houses, and Art Omi, among others. Soto holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree from Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Diseño de Puerto Rico.</p>
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		<title>Illinois Archaeology Lecture Series</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2023 22:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>SM-Dickson Mounds Curator of Anthropology Logan Pappenfort will present “From Piasa to payiihsaki: Supernatural Symbolism and Misconstrued Tales in the Illinois Valley” as part of the Illinois Archaeology Lecture Series, on Sunday, October 15th at 2:00 p.m. in the Museum’s auditorium. ISM- Dickson Mounds Curator of Anthropology Logan Pappenfort will present From Piasa to payiihsaki:<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/10/illinois-archaeology-lecture-series/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="cmp-image__title">SM-Dickson Mounds Curator of Anthropology Logan Pappenfort will present “From Piasa to payiihsaki: Supernatural Symbolism and Misconstrued Tales in the Illinois Valley” as part of the Illinois Archaeology Lecture Series, on Sunday, October 15th at 2:00 p.m. in the Museum’s auditorium.</span></p>
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<p>ISM- Dickson Mounds Curator of Anthropology Logan Pappenfort will present <em>From Piasa to payiihsaki: Supernatural Symbolism and Misconstrued Tales in the Illinois Valley </em>as this month’s Illinois Archaeology lecture, on Sunday, October 15<sup>th</sup> at 2:00 p.m.</p>
<p>For Archaeologists and many occupants of the land we now call Illinois, one of the most enduring symbols has been that of the image of a creature long referred to as the “Piasa”. The Piasa is a term which has been used for decades to represent various iconography across the midcontinent. However, the truth of this tale has been building for over a century.</p>
<p>This talk will deconstruct the various stories in the modern day surrounding the Piasa, and how that narrative has been misinterpreted from its origins over the years. Pappenfort will present information from various lines of evidence, including ethnographic, historical, and oral traditions to elucidate the connection between the original native tradition of the payiihsaki and the modern-day interpretation of the “Piasa” and the many forms it takes.</p>
<p>The lecture begins promptly at 2:00 p.m. followed by light refreshments and an opportunity to meet with the speaker and museum staff.  Admission is free; however, donations are appreciated.  Registration is not required.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2023 16:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Come join us for an opening reception of the new art exhibit, No Place Like Home!  View artwork by Skokie artists in celebration of Illinois Arts &#38; Humanities Month.  This event is free and open to the public in the lobby of the Devonshire Cultural Center 4400 Greenwood Street Skokie, IL 60076. https://www.anatomicallycorrect.org/</p>
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<p>Come join us for an opening reception of the new art exhibit, No Place Like Home!  View artwork by Skokie artists in celebration of Illinois Arts &amp; Humanities Month.  This event is free and open to the public in the lobby of the Devonshire Cultural Center 4400 Greenwood Street Skokie, IL 60076.</p>
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		<title>Biennial Art &#038; Design Faculty Exhibition</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2023 21:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Biennial Art and Design Faculty Exhibition Reception: Tuesday, October 10, 4:30-6:00 pm On view: October 3 – October 27, 2023 University Art Gallery Western Illinois University Macomb, Illinois The Western Illinois University Department of Art and Design will have their Biennial Faculty Exhibition on display October 3 through October 27 at the Western Illinois University<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/10/biennial-art-design-faculty-exhibition-2/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Biennial Art and Design Faculty Exhibition</p>
<p>Reception: Tuesday, October 10, 4:30-6:00 pm<br />
On view: October 3 – October 27, 2023<br />
University Art Gallery<br />
Western Illinois University<br />
Macomb, Illinois</p>
<p>The Western Illinois University Department of Art and Design will have their Biennial Faculty Exhibition on display October 3 through October 27 at the Western Illinois University Art Gallery.</p>
<p>A reception for the artists will be held Tuesday, October 10 from 4:30-6:00 p.m.</p>
<p>Exhibiting Artists: Jan Clough, Susan Czechowski, Tyler Hennings, Bill Howard, Jenny Knavel, Damon McArthur, Kat Myers, Duke Oursler, Nancy Shahani, Ian Shelly, Tim Waldrop</p>
<p>Admission is free and open to the public.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/10/biennial-art-design-faculty-exhibition-2/">Biennial Art & Design Faculty Exhibition</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Jason Dunda</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Oct 2023 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Jason Dunda Solo Exhibition Sunday, October 8, 2023 2-5pm Cultivator at Bray Grove Farm Cultivator is pleased to present Jason Dunda’s solo outdoor exhibition during Bray Grove Farm’s Autumn Farm Day. Jason will be exhibiting several of his large sculptures in addition to performing Green the Acre with Larry Lee in their acclaimed International Chefs<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/10/jason-dunda/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jason Dunda Solo Exhibition<br />
Sunday, October 8, 2023<br />
2-5pm<br />
Cultivator at Bray Grove Farm</p>
<p>Cultivator is pleased to present Jason Dunda’s solo outdoor exhibition during Bray Grove Farm’s Autumn Farm Day.</p>
<p>Jason will be exhibiting several of his large sculptures in addition to performing Green the Acre with Larry Lee in their acclaimed International Chefs of Mystery! duo.</p>
<p>Please rsvp and join us on Sunday, October 8th from 2-5pm for art, conversation, light refreshments, and an afternoon on our small holistic farm. Bray Grove Farm is located 70 miles southwest of Chicago in Grundy County. To confirm your attendance and receive directions and parking information, kindly email joanne@cultivatorarts.com</p>
<p>Jason Dunda is a Chicago-based Canadian painter who also creates sewn and carved objects. His work deals with intersections of power, labour, and humour, usually through depictions of figures and the spaces they occupy. Recent projects include “A Hall of Unflattering Portraits,” a solo exhibition at the MacLaren Art Centre in Barrie, Ontario, Canada and “Highly Illogical,” a two-person collaborative installation at langeroverdickie in Chicago. International exhibits include the Heine-Onstad Art Centre in Oslo, and the Kuwait Art Foundation in Kuwait City. His work is represented in the collections of Todd Oldham, the Agnes Etherington Art Centre and the Doris McCarthy Gallery at the University of Toronto. Recent residencies include the Corporation of Yaddo, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the SÍM Residency in Reykjavik, Iceland, and a four-month research and production residency in Paris sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts. He holds the position of Assistant Professor at the Wonsook Kim School of Art at Illinois State University.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.jasondunda.com">https://www.jasondunda.com</a></p>
<p>The International Chefs of Mystery!</p>
<p>Like instant ramen noodles and hot dogs, like Cheech and Chong, certain things just go together that really seem out of place and by sheer happenstance but in hindsight, kind of work. A love for the silliness of life barely imitating art (and vice versa) describes the improvisational nature of how Larry Lee and Jason Dunda collaborate in their alter egos as International Chefs Of Mystery!</p>
<p>And what began as two School of the Art Institute of Chicago faculty members sharing ideas to propose a joint studio course centered on humor in art then blossomed into the good old fashioned “Heavens to Betsy!” videotaped performances, Boo’s and Bakin, Cooking the Books, Serving the Man, Early to Bed and Q &amp; A with Theodore Horner, President of the ICM Fan Club, Junior Chapter based loosely on Martin Yan (PBS’s Yan Can Cook) and the Swedish Chef (The Muppets). Of course, the whole point of such antics throws a pie in the face of society infected by cults of personalities and vox populi culture through a comedy of mannered errors as larger sociopolitical commentary.</p>
<p>Green the Acre</p>
<p>Receiving a grant for the woods, the International Chefs of Mystery! bid adieu to city life in search of their long lost American gothical regionalism and rediscover the joy of Action Cooking, an abstractly expressionistic cuisine of amber waves of grain of salt lightly peppered with grapes of wrath. Watch as the duo recreate such forgotten dishes as the Jackson Potluck, a Depression era favorite made from bacon, goose, and other animal fat drippings on a huge flat pan served on the floor. Or John’s Steuart Curry (not to be confused with John Steuart’s Curry, a completely different recipe) which called for egg tempura that Thomas Hart Benton despised because of his well-documented ovaphobia.</p>
<p>So in the name of plein air, join our two city mice on their day trip to green the acre.</p>
<p>Please rsvp to joanne@cultivatorarts.com and join us on Sunday, October 8th from 2-5pm for art, conversation, light refreshments, and an afternoon on our small holistic farm. Bray Grove Farm is located 70 miles southwest of Chicago in Grundy County. To confirm your attendance and receive directions and parking information, kindly email joanne@cultivatorarts.com</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/10/jason-dunda/">Jason Dunda</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Larry Lee</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Oct 2023 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Larry Lee Sunday, October 8, 2023 2pm-5pm Cultivator at Bray Grove Farm Cultivator is pleased to present Larry Lee&#8217;s solo outdoor exhibition during Bray Grove Farm’s Autumn Farm Day. Larry will be exhibiting several of his large sculptures in addition to performing Green the Acre with Jason Dunda in their acclaimed International Chefs of Mystery!<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/10/larry-lee/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Larry Lee<br />
Sunday, October 8, 2023<br />
2pm-5pm<br />
Cultivator at Bray Grove Farm</p>
<p>Cultivator is pleased to present Larry Lee&#8217;s solo outdoor exhibition during Bray Grove Farm’s Autumn Farm Day.</p>
<p>Larry will be exhibiting several of his large sculptures in addition to performing Green the Acre with Jason Dunda in their acclaimed International Chefs of Mystery! duo.</p>
<p>Please rsvp to joanne@cultivatorarts.com and join us on Sunday, October 8th from 2-5pm for art, conversation, andlight refreshments on our small holistic farm. Bray Grove Farm is located 70 miles southwest of Chicago in Grundy County. To confirm your attendance and receive directions and parking information, kindly email joanne@cultivatorarts.com.</p>
<p>My work remakes high/low culture as multimedia “orientalia”, stylized reproductions of cultural objects, images and actions that fit a stereotype, perspective or aesthetic often associated with anything Asian which explores how the production of culture and its byproducts constructs and typecasts the discourse of Self versus Other by reinventing or reinterpreting what is accepted cultural capital as private/public record with tongue firmly planted in cheek.</p>
<p>-Larry Lee</p>
<p>Larry Lee is a multimedia artist, independent curator and writer who earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago and his Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he also teaches Art History, Theory and Criticism.</p>
<p>His practice includes sculpture, video, installation and painting that “remakes” his personal history in specific and the Asian American experience in general into stylized multimedia objects and images he facetiously terms “orientalia”. His work has been exhibited in Chicago at the Chicago Cultural Center, Gallery 400 and Evanston Arts Center as well as New York City, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Dallas, Houston, Cleveland, New Haven and Glasgow, Scotland. In addition to his curatorial project, Molar Productions, Lee collaborates with the painter Jason Dunda to perform as &#8220;The International Chefs of Mystery!&#8221; in a long-running video series available on Vimeo.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.larryleechicago.com">https://www.larryleechicago.com</a></p>
<p>The International Chefs of Mystery!</p>
<p>Like instant ramen noodles and hot dogs, like Cheech and Chong, certain things just go together that really seem out of place and by sheer happenstance but in hindsight, kind of work. A love for the silliness of life barely imitating art (and vice versa) describes the improvisational nature of how Larry Lee and Jason Dunda collaborate in their alter egos as International Chefs Of Mystery!</p>
<p>And what began as two School of the Art Institute of Chicago faculty members sharing ideas to propose a joint studio course centered on humor in art then blossomed into the good old fashioned “Heavens to Betsy!” videotaped performances, Boo’s and Bakin, Cooking the Books, Serving the Man, Early to Bed and Q &amp; A with Theodore Horner, President of the ICM Fan Club, Junior Chapter based loosely on Martin Yan (PBS’s Yan Can Cook) and the Swedish Chef (The Muppets). Of course, the whole point of such antics throws a pie in the face of society infected by cults of personalities and vox populi culture through a comedy of mannered errors as larger sociopolitical commentary.</p>
<p>Green the Acre</p>
<p>Receiving a grant for the woods, the International Chefs of Mystery! bid adieu to city life in search of their long lost American gothical regionalism and rediscover the joy of Action Cooking, an abstractly expressionistic cuisine of amber waves of grain of salt lightly peppered with grapes of wrath. Watch as the duo recreate such forgotten dishes as the Jackson Potluck, a Depression era favorite made from bacon, goose, and other animal fat drippings on a huge flat pan served on the floor. Or John’s Steuart Curry (not to be confused with John Steuart’s Curry, a completely different recipe) which called for egg tempura that Thomas Hart Benton despised because of his well-documented ovaphobia.</p>
<p>So in the name of plein air, join our two city mice on their day trip to green the acre.</p>
<p>Please rsvp to joanne@cultivatorarts.com and join us on Sunday, October 8th from 2-5pm for art, conversation, andlight refreshments on our small holistic farm. Bray Grove Farm is located 70 miles southwest of Chicago in Grundy County. To confirm your attendance and receive directions and parking information, kindly email joanne@cultivatorarts.com.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/10/larry-lee/">Larry Lee</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Kahapon, Ngayon at Kailanman</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2023 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>KAHAPON, NGAYON AT KAILANMAN (Yesterday, Today, and Forever) OCTOBER 7-28, TUE-FRI 10AM-5PM, SAT 10AM-3PM Kahapon, Ngayon at Kailanman showcases the presence of Filipinos in Chicago through items drawn from the collection of Estrella Ravelo Alamar (1936-2022) who founded the Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago in 1986. Elements of her collection were displayed at the<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/10/kahapon-ngayon-at-kailanman/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/10/kahapon-ngayon-at-kailanman/">Kahapon, Ngayon at Kailanman</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>KAHAPON, NGAYON AT KAILANMAN<br />
(Yesterday, Today, and Forever)<br />
OCTOBER 7-28, TUE-FRI 10AM-5PM, SAT 10AM-3PM</p>
<p>Kahapon, Ngayon at Kailanman<br />
showcases the presence of Filipinos in Chicago through items drawn from the collection of Estrella Ravelo Alamar (1936-2022) who founded the Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago in 1986. Elements of her collection were displayed at the FAHSC Museum of Filipino American History and Heritage in Chicago which she and Willi Red Buhay founded and kept open for three years beginning in 1999. In 2001, they used her collection to co-author Filipinos in Chicago in the Images of America Series of Arcadia Publishing.</p>
<p>The photographs in this exhibit testify to the vibrant community created by Filipinos in the Windy City who came together to affirm their identity in provincial clubs and religious organizations, in sports teams and family gatherings, and in annual banquets honoring Dr. Jose P. Rizal, the national hero of the Philippines. What is shown here is but a tiny part of the vast, 400 box collection that Estrella Ravelo Alamar lovingly assembled over the years. “Who would get to know about this history if someone did not start to show it,” she once remarked. FAHSC aims to continue her work and perpetuate her legacy.</p>
<p>Kahapon, Ngayon at Kailanman simultaneously celebrates the artistry of Willi Red Buhay, a Knight Commander of the Order of the Knights of Rizal. Buhay’s work in this exhibit includes “MooMoo the Cow” and paintings about different passages of Philippine mythology and memory, the immigrant experience, and FAHSC commemoration.</p>
<p>Barbara M. Posadas, Ph.D.<br />
CLAS Distinguished Professor of History Emerita<br />
Northern Illinois University</p>
<p>In celebration of Filipino American History Month<br />
Featuring selected materials from the archival collection of Estrella Alamar and the Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago.</p>
<p>FREE TO THE PUBLIC, DONATIONS WELCOME<br />
Opening Soon</p>
<p>SPECIAL PROGRAMS</p>
<p>October 7, 2023 10am to 12 Noon – Opening Progarm</p>
<p>October 7, 2023 5pm – 8pm – Fundraiser Dinner<br />
Suggested Donation – $ 75 General, $ 50 Members &amp; Partners<br />
To attend, please RSVP and send payment via PayPal to fanhs.greaterchicago@gmail.com no later than October 4, 2023 or<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fahsc-fundraiser-gala-dinner-tickets-714109449587?aff=ebdssbehomepeforyou"> respond to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fahsc-fundraiser-gala-dinner-tickets-714109449587?aff=ebdssbehomepeforyou</a></p>
<p>October 21, 2023 12 10am to 12 Noon – Estrella Alamar 1st Year Death Anniversary</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/10/kahapon-ngayon-at-kailanman/">Kahapon, Ngayon at Kailanman</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>October National</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2023 22:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The October National is a celebration of originality and craftsmanship in any visual art medium.  Artists from across the country are invited to share in this annual exhibition staged in the Anne Lloyd Gallery of the Madden Arts Center in Decatur, IL.  For many years now the Come Together, Be Empowered organization (previously RACE for<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/10/october-national/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/10/october-national/">October National</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The October National is a celebration of originality and craftsmanship in any visual art medium.  Artists from across the country are invited to share in this annual exhibition staged in the <a href="http://www.decaturarts.org/gallery/">Anne Lloyd Gallery of the Madden Arts Center</a> in Decatur, IL.  For many years now the <a href="https://cometogetherbeempowered.org/">Come Together, Be Empowered</a> organization (previously RACE for the Cure) has partnered with us to present an award for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.</p>
<p>For Breast Cancer Awareness month, we celebrate and honor those who have been touched by breast cancer in some way whether or not they, themselves, are the survivor. Artists are encouraged to enter work &amp; check the box that their entry is for cancer awareness. Those entries will be recognized at the reception.</p>
<h3 class="fusion-responsive-typography-calculated" data-fontsize="22" data-lineheight="33px">Judge – Michael Miller<br />
Associate Professor of Art at the University of Illinois Springfield</h3><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/10/october-national/">October National</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Don&#8217;t &#8216;Drag&#8217; Me Down: Today&#8217;s Battle for Liberation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2023 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Gather at the Koehnline Museum of Art for the Opening Night Reception for Oakton&#8217;s Annual WGSS Art Show, &#8220;Don&#8217;t &#8216;Drag&#8217; Me Down: Today&#8217;s Battle for Liberation.&#8221; Opening Night Reception takes place on October 5, 2023, from 5 p.m. &#8211; 8 p.m. For this year’s annual juried art exhibition, Oakton College invited professional artists of all<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/10/dont-drag-me-down-todays-battle-for-liberation/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/10/dont-drag-me-down-todays-battle-for-liberation/">Don’t ‘Drag’ Me Down: Today’s Battle for Liberation</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gather at the Koehnline Museum of Art for the Opening Night Reception for Oakton&#8217;s Annual WGSS Art Show, &#8220;Don&#8217;t &#8216;Drag&#8217; Me Down: Today&#8217;s Battle for Liberation.&#8221; Opening Night Reception takes place on October 5, 2023, from 5 p.m. &#8211; 8 p.m.</p>
<p>For this year’s annual juried art exhibition, Oakton College invited professional artists of all media, including performance artists, to submit a single work that provides social commentary and inspiration on the ways that marginalized communities create courageous spaces, empower each other and change the world. Submissions focus on women, non-binary, or queer communities in the United States or globally, have either a contemporary or historical context and may focus on either the public or private sphere. This exhibition is a collaboration between Oakton’s Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies program and the Koehnline Museum of Art.</p>
<p>Viewings of the exhibition run from October 5 through November 3 at the Koehnline Museum of Art during regular museum hours of 10 a.m. &#8211; 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 11 a.m. &#8211; 4 p.m. on Saturdays.</p>
<p>For any questions about viewing the exhibit or about the Opening Night Reception, please email Lindsey Hewitt (lhewitt@oakton.edu).</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/10/dont-drag-me-down-todays-battle-for-liberation/">Don’t ‘Drag’ Me Down: Today’s Battle for Liberation</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1940s-1970s</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2023 12:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1940s-1970s is the first major traveling exhibition that analyzes modern Native American art from the mid-1940s through the 1970s that was inspired by Abstract Expressionism, Color Field, and Hard-edge painting and created by leading artists, including George Morrison, Fritz Scholder, and T.C. Cannon. Their paintings, sculptures and works on paper<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/10/action-abstraction-redefined-modern-native-art-1940s-1970s/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/10/action-abstraction-redefined-modern-native-art-1940s-1970s/">Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1940s-1970s</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1940s-1970s is the first major traveling exhibition that analyzes modern Native American art from the mid-1940s through the 1970s that was inspired by Abstract Expressionism, Color Field, and Hard-edge painting and created by leading artists, including George Morrison, Fritz Scholder, and T.C. Cannon. Their paintings, sculptures and works on paper were created at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe and in art studios across the nation. Like Abstract Expressionists, who broke with representational conventions and prioritized experimentation, IAIA artists redefined the concept of abstraction by creating deeply personal works informed by their own traditional aesthetics and art influences coming out of New York. Their innovative works pushed the boundaries of Native art and contributed to the development of contemporary Native Art.</p>
<p>The Schingoethe Center will host an opening reception for Action/Abstraction Redefined on October 3 from 5 to 6:30pm, followed by a keynote address by Manuela Well-Off-Man and Tatiana Lomahaftewa-Singer, Chief Curator and Curator of Collections, respectively, of the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts. Both worked on the curation team for the exhibition.</p>
<p>The Schingoethe Center is located at 1315 Prairie St., in Aurora, Illinois. The exhibition can be viewed Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday from 10a.m.-5p.m. and Tuesday from 10a.m.-7p.m. The Center will be open on the following Saturdays from 11-3pm for this exhibition: October 7, October 14, October 21, November 4, and November 11. Admission is free and open to the public.</p>
<p>Image: &#8220;Untitled&#8221; (1968), Lloyd Kiva New</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/10/action-abstraction-redefined-modern-native-art-1940s-1970s/">Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1940s-1970s</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2023 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Anne Loucks Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibition, Rodney Smith: A Leap of Faith. The show will open September 29th and run through November 30, 2023. Included in the exhibition will be twenty-five exceptional examples of the artist’s work from 1992-2015. The show also celebrates the recent release of the<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/09/rodney-smith-a-leap-of-faith/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/09/rodney-smith-a-leap-of-faith/">Rodney Smith: A Leap of Faith</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anne Loucks Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibition, Rodney Smith: A Leap of Faith. The show will open September 29th and run through November 30, 2023. Included in the exhibition will be twenty-five exceptional examples of the artist’s work from 1992-2015. The show also celebrates the recent release of the Getty Museums’ retrospective monograph, Rodney Smith: A Leap of Faith.</p>
<p>The book’s author, Getty photography curator Paul Martineau, will be present at the opening reception at the gallery, Friday September 29th from 5 – 7:30 pm.</p>
<p>Rodney Smith (1947-2016) was a prominent photographer whose whimsical work invited comparison to that of surrealist painter Rene Magritte. Long acclaimed for his iconic images that combine portraiture and landscape, Smith created enchanted worlds full of subtle contradictions and surprises. Using only film and light, his un-retouched, dream-like images are matched in quality by the craft and physical beauty of his prints. Throughout his four-decade career as an artist, he cared deeply about sharing his vision of the world with humor,grace, and optimism. “I want people to see the beauty and whimsy in life, not its ugliness. I feel the need to reach out for its soul, its depth, and its underlying beauty. I represent a world that is possible if people act their best,” he wrote.</p>
<p>Born and raised in New York City, Smith was inspired by trips to the photography collection at the Museum of Modern Art. After receiving his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia in 1970, he studied photography under Walker Evans at Yale University while receiving a masters in theology. While he rose to prominence as a fashion photographer in the 90s, his work clearly transcended from fashion photography into fine art during this time. Today, Rodney Smith’s photographs are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Getty Museum, among others.</p>
<p>The Rodney Smith: A Leap of Faith exhibition includes a selection of black and white and color images spanning the artist’s extraordinary career. Set against a backdrop of beautiful cities, gardens, and landscapes, each composition reflects his response to the world around him and his attempt to offer beauty, wit and whimsey to a world sometimes filled with chaos. From Reed Leaping over a Giant Top Hat to Saori on an Airplane Wing and Reed Reading Upside Down, each image in the exhibition combines brilliant composition, gorgeous color, and magical light with Rodney’s distinctive style of grace, substance and humor.</p>
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<p>For additional images or information, please contact Anne Loucks at 847-835-8500 or anne@loucksgallery.com.</p>
<p>Anne Loucks Gallery specializes in contemporary American painting, photography and works on paper. Celebrating its 23rd year, the gallery is located on the Northshore of Chicago at 309 Park Avenue in Glencoe, IL.</p>
<p>Hours are 10:30am – 5pm Tuesday – Saturday or by appointment.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/09/rodney-smith-a-leap-of-faith/">Rodney Smith: A Leap of Faith</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Kambui Olujimi: The Rock that Cuts the Night in Two</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Kambui Olujimi: The Rock that Cuts the Night in Two University Galleries of Illinois State University is pleased to present Kambui Olujimi’s solo exhibition, The Rock that Cuts the Night in Two from September 28 through December 10, 2023. This survey exhibition encompasses all four galleries and the lobby. The Rock that Cuts the Night<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/09/kambui-olujimi-the-rock-that-cuts-the-night-in-two/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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<p>University Galleries of Illinois State University is pleased to present Kambui Olujimi’s solo exhibition, The Rock that Cuts the Night in Two from September 28 through December 10, 2023. This survey exhibition encompasses all four galleries and the lobby.</p>
<p>The Rock that Cuts the Night in Two features Olujimi’s expansive and diverse output, including videos, drawings, paintings, photographs, silkscreens, sculptures, installations, and textiles made by the artist from 2005 through 2023. Embedded with a sense of duration and exploration of memory, the exhibition demonstrates Olujimi’s long-term interest in both the construction and deconstruction of mythic spaces, via memories, monuments, and other forms of memorials. In the artist’s words, he “mines the collective psyche as a source of social and political commentary and brings them out of the world of the implicit. Once given gravity, weight, and shape, it becomes possible to reveal their incongruities and illusory nature.”</p>
<p>The exhibition includes work from multiple series, many of which were long-term projects ranging from three to ten years. By presenting these bodies of work simultaneously, it becomes possible to glean the overall weight and significance of Olujimi’s practice over the past two decades. For example, this exhibition traces the evolution of Olujimi’s research related to the history of Depression-era dance marathons in the United States. Lasting for weeks or months at a time, these marathons were described by curator José Carlos Diaz as “acts of performative desperation.” For over a decade, Olujimi has created performances, installations, videos, and long-exposure photographs that explore the underlying implications of these events and examine how dance marathons embody, in his words, “endurance, defiance, and a desire to live beyond the capacities we have internalized.”</p>
<p>Watercolor paintings from Olujimi’s series When Monuments Fall attempt at grappling with the impact of historical monuments worldwide that were created to mythologize and perpetuate global white supremacy. The artist depicts them in various states of revision or removal; for example, a bronze equestrian statue wrapped in ropes and about to be toppled from its pedestal, or a cloth draped over the bust of a Confederate general who was also the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Small-scale ink drawings from Olujimi’s QUARANTINE series capture his reactions in real-time during the COVID-19 pandemic as he processed events such as Minneapolis’s 3rd Precinct on fire following George Floyd’s murder, mailboxes removed during mail-in voting for the 2020 election, and mass burials of unclaimed bodies on New York’s Hart Island. Seen three years after the events took place, the works from QUARANTINE provide an opportunity to reflect further on the urgency, grief, and unresolved questions of that period and the reverberations still felt today.</p>
<p>Sixty ink drawings from Olujimi’s five-year series Walk With Me sensitively memorialize the artist’s mentor and “guardian angel,” Catherine Arline. She was a beloved pillar of the community in the artist’s neighborhood when he was growing up. Begun after her death, Olujimi created the series to honor her memory and legacy and to process his own mourning. We Became Statues, a 22-minute video that includes Olujimi’s interviews with Arline, is featured with other videos created since 2005.</p>
<p>Olujimi’s ability to weave together his personal experiences with global, and even cosmic, trajectories can be seen in Wayward North, a three-year interdisciplinary project rooted in cartography, astronomy, navigation, and storytelling. Olujimi wrote a novella, which he describes as a “mythology” that is “a mix between personal biography and historical as well as current events.” Through twelve monumental textiles, each representing one month of the year, Olujimi explores the constellations of the northern and southern hemisphere. For this exhibition—which is titled for a quote from the novella—three of the twelve textiles are on view at a time, so an entire season is visible at once. They will be switched at even intervals until all four seasons have been exhibited. Each rotation will feature a public reading of Olujimi’s accompanying texts.</p>
<p>This exhibition is the center point of multiple programs in University Galleries’ 50th anniversary celebration. Olujimi is delivering a public artist lecture. Readings and performances are presented by university and high school students. University Galleries’ staff is leading art-making workshops for ISU students, K-12 students, and community members. Sensory-friendly times, scavenger hunts, and AR experiences are available. Virtual and in-person curator-led tours are available by appointment. Field trip reimbursements are available for K-12 schools and community organizations.</p>
<p>Kambui Olujimi: The Rock that Cuts the Night in Two is curated by Kendra Paitz, University Galleries’ director and chief curator. An exhibition catalogue is forthcoming in 2024. This exhibition and programming are supported by University Galleries’ grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Illinois Arts Council Agency, Alice and Fannie Fell Trust, Harold K. Sage Foundation, and the Illinois State University Foundation Fund. Workshops and field trip reimbursements are supported by the Lori Baum and Aaron Henkelman University Galleries Community Fund.</p>
<p>Artist biography</p>
<p>Kambui Olujimi is an artist, filmmaker, and writer. His work has been screened or exhibited at Sundance Film Festival; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherlands; Para Site, Hong Kong; and on the screens in New York City’s Times Square. His work was also featured in the 2023 Sharjah Biennial in the United Arab Emirates. Olujimi has been awarded residencies from Black Rock Senegal, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and MacDowell. He has received grants, commissions, or fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, NYSCA/NYFA, MTA Arts &amp; Design, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. His work has been reviewed in The New Yorker, Artforum, The New York Times, Art in America, Brooklyn Rail, The Guardian, and CNN. Olujimi was born and raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. He received his M.F.A. from Columbia University. He is based in New York City.</p>
<p>Events and programming</p>
<p>All events are free and open to the public.</p>
<p>Opening events<br />
Thursday, September 28<br />
4:00 p.m.: Artist lecture by Kambui Olujimi<br />
5:00 &#8211; 6:00 p.m.: Opening reception</p>
<p>Independent drawing hours<br />
September 29 from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. October 27 from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. November 29 from noon to 1:00 p.m. No registration required. Materials provided.</p>
<p>Sensory-friendly hours<br />
Saturdays from 11:00 a.m. to noon. (September 30, November 4, November 11, November 18, and December 2) and by appointment.</p>
<p>Drop-in art-making workshops<br />
Saturdays from noon to 2:00 p.m. (September 30, October 14, November 4, November 11, and December 9). No registration required. Materials and instruction provided.</p>
<p>Stop-motion animation workshop<br />
Friday, November 10 from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m.<br />
Ages 18 and up. Registration required . Materials and instruction provided.</p>
<p>Field trip program, curator-led tours, and workshops available by appointment throughout the exhibition. Reimbursements are available for K-12 schools or community organizations to offset the costs of transportation. Please contact University Galleries at Gallery@IllinoisState.edu or (309) 438-5487 to schedule an appointment.</p>
<p>University Galleries</p>
<p>University Galleries, a unit in the Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts, is located at 11 Uptown Circle, Suite 103, at the corner of Beaufort and Broadway streets. Parking is available in the Uptown Station parking deck located directly above University Galleries—the first hour is free, as well as any time after 5:01 p.m.</p>
<p>You can find University Galleries on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, and sign up to receive email updates through the newsletter. Please contact Gallery@IllinoisState.edu or call (309) 438-5487 if you need to arrange an accommodation to participate in any events related to this exhibition.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/09/kambui-olujimi-the-rock-that-cuts-the-night-in-two/">Kambui Olujimi: The Rock that Cuts the Night in Two</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Sep 2023 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Janet Trierweiler: Small Works &#8212; Gestural Abstract Paintings</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>“My passion for gestural abstract painting is reflected by my focus on the sensual nature of art and the healing aspect of beauty. The acceptance of paradox has been one of the most healing lessons of my life. My process reflects this attitude. It is both fluid and structural, organic and geometric, improv and laborious<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/09/janet-trierweiler-small-works-gestural-abstract-paintings/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“My passion for gestural abstract painting is reflected by my focus on the sensual nature of art and the healing aspect of beauty. The acceptance of paradox has been one of the most healing lessons of my life. My process reflects this attitude. It is both fluid and structural, organic and geometric, improv and laborious design. For me, painting is the challenge of bringing together what is seen and what is felt as one integrated unified whole.” &#8212; Janet Trierweiler</p>
<p>Opening Reception: Saturday, September 23, 6-9pm<br />
2nd Reception: Saturday, October 28, 6-9pm<br />
On view through November 5<br />
Open Weekends 1-4pm</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/09/janet-trierweiler-small-works-gestural-abstract-paintings/">Janet Trierweiler: Small Works — Gestural Abstract Paintings</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Green Noise This is an exhibition about what it is to make a noise. 7 artists chose their favorite noises and these descriptions were given to 14 object makers who translated those descriptions into objects, photographed them, and these photographs were given to 7 artists to translate into noises. To be noisy is to be<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/09/green-noise/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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<p>This is an exhibition about what it is to make a noise. 7 artists chose their favorite noises and these descriptions were given to 14 object makers who translated those descriptions into objects, photographed them, and these photographs were given to 7 artists to translate into noises.</p>
<p>To be noisy is to be aberrant by the standards and rules that the social imposes us on. Noise, by this virtue, is radical. It would seem that background noise, in its capacity to be ignored, circumvents this radicality. Yet, on the level of analogy, contending with the sounds of what might be overlooked is the current struggle of our moment. By foregrounding the background noise of the world, “Green Noise” will suggest, through its relational and work responsive nature, that within the oft-overlooked there is radicality and potency waiting to be heard.</p>
<p>Noise curators: Avril Thurman, Chris Collins, Danny Floyd, Katie Meuser, Kimberly Kim, Madison Mae Parker, Veronica Ann Salinas, Yulian Leshuk</p>
<p>Noise translators: Aleksandra Walaszek, Andi Crist, Angela Inez Baldus, Bárbara Baron, Camille Casemier, Elana Adler, Erin Palovick, Gabriel Chalfin-Piney, Hai-Wen Lin, Jesse Malmed, Julian Van Der Moere, Maggie Wong, Ricardo Vilas Freire, Sonya Bogdanova</p>
<p>Translators of the noise translators (live sonic accompaniment): Breanne Trammell, Elizabeth Flood, Fetter, Lauren Sudbrink, Mike Green, Veronica Ann Salinas, Paige Naylor + more TBD</p>
<p>Organized and with a free takeaway zine by Chris Reeves</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/09/green-noise/">Green Noise</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Celebrate the opening of the Tarble’s Fall 2023 exhibition cycle with a reception and live performance by Dr. Bradley D Decker, Instructor of Music Composition and Technology. This exhibition proposes new and challenging ways to shift our understandings of and relationships to whales and other nonhuman animals. Through interdisciplinary artworks in video, installation, painting, tapestry,<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/09/who-speaks-for-the-oceans/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Celebrate the opening of the Tarble’s Fall 2023 exhibition cycle with a reception and live performance by Dr. Bradley D Decker, Instructor of Music Composition and Technology.</p>
<p>This exhibition proposes new and challenging ways to shift our understandings of and relationships to whales and other nonhuman animals. Through interdisciplinary artworks in video, installation, painting, tapestry, music, performance, and more, Who Speaks for the Oceans? analyzes epistemological and historical knowledge built around what we think we know about life in the ocean through the charismatic “whale song.” As we approach a crucial moment concerning the condition of our planet, listening to whale vocalizations and other marine creatures can bring us closer to understanding their needs and encouraging action toward healthier stewardship of the oceans.</p>
<p>This exhibition was organized by Alaina Claire Feldman, Director and Curator of Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College; David Gruber, Distinguished Professor of Biology and Environmental Sciences, Baruch College; and Jennifer Seas, Director and Chief Curator of the Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University.</p>
<p>Featuring: Ant Farm, Ursula Biemann, Else Bostelmann, Myrlande Constant, Jacques Cousteau and Louis Malle, Pia Dehne, Miho Hatori, Amber Hawk Swanson, Will E. Jackson, Joan Jonas, Jenny Kendler and Andrew Bearnot, Dominique Knowles, Chris Marker and Mario Ruspoli, and Roger Payne</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/09/who-speaks-for-the-oceans/">Who Speaks for the Oceans?</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Peoria Guild of Black Artists II</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2023 19:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Peoria Guild of Black Artists II August 28th – October 6th SCHOLAR PANEL: PGOBA, Intersectionality, and Diaspora: A Conversation September 13, 5pm Panelists: Dr. Darius Bost, Dr. Hermann von Hesse, Alexander Martin, MFA. Reception to follow, 6-7pm</p>
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August 28th – October 6th</strong></p>
<p><strong>SCHOLAR PANEL:<br />
</strong><em>PGOBA, Intersectionality, and Diaspora: A Conversation<br />
</em>September 13, 5pm<br />
Panelists: Dr. Darius Bost, Dr. Hermann von Hesse, Alexander Martin, MFA.<br />
Reception to follow, 6-7pm</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/09/peoria-guild-of-black-artists-ii/">Peoria Guild of Black Artists II</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Michael K Paxton: Interpolated</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2023 21:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Michael K. Paxton a well-established Chicago fine artist who is also a sixth generation West Virginian with a career that now spans fifty years. His awards include a grant from the Adolph &#38; Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Inc., New York; Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Visual Art Award and two Professional Development Grants; Fellowships with both<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/09/michael-k-paxton-interpolated/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Michael K. Paxton a well-established Chicago fine artist who is also a sixth generation West Virginian with a career that now spans fifty years. His awards include a grant from the Adolph &amp; Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Inc., New York; Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Visual Art Award and two Professional Development Grants; Fellowships with both Air le Parc, Project and Research Center, Pampelonne, France and Jentel Artist Residency Program, Banner, Wyoming; a Marshall University Alumni Award of Distinction; Individual Artist Program Grant, DCASE, Chicago; six Professional Development Grants from Columbia College, Chicago; two CAAP Grants, Chicago, IL; Open Studio Residency, Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, IL and a Purchase Prize, fom the Chicago Federation of Labor, Chicago, IL.</p>
<p>He as an MFA in Drawing and Painting from The University of Georgia, 1979 and B.A. in Art from Marshall University, 1975; he retired from the Faculty of Columbia College Chicago in Art and Art History and Design Departments in 2021.</p>
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<p>Michael K Paxton &#8220;Interpolated&#8221;</p>
<p>September 12 – October 19, 2023<br />
University Art Gallery<br />
College of Fine Arts and Communication<br />
Western Illinois University<br />
Macomb, Illinois</p>
<p>Chicago artist Michael K Paxton will have his solo exhibition, &#8220;Interpolated&#8221;, on display September 12 through October 19 at the Western Illinois University Art Gallery.</p>
<p>A reception for the artist will be held Tuesday, September 12, 4:30-6:00 p.m. The artist will speak about his work at 5:00 pm.</p>
<p>Admission is free and open to the public.</p>
<p>For more information about the Gallery, visit wiu.edu/artgallery.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/09/michael-k-paxton-interpolated/">Michael K Paxton: Interpolated</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Karen Noble: Intuitive Abstract Painting</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Meg Duguid]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Sep 2023 19:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>No formal instruction &#8211; no rules &#8211; no expectations &#8211; no failure! Join Karen Noble in this series of five (5) intuitive abstract painting sessions. Every second Saturday, September 2023 through January 2024.  $20.00 per session, or $15.00 if you sign up for all 5! Keep your canvas for an extra $5 each. REGISTER HERE!<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/09/karen-noble-intuitive-abstract-painting/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/09/karen-noble-intuitive-abstract-painting/">Karen Noble: Intuitive Abstract Painting</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
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<p><em>No formal instruction &#8211; no rules &#8211; no expectations &#8211; no failure!</em></p>
<p>Join Karen Noble in this series of five (5) intuitive abstract painting sessions. <strong>Every second Saturday, September 2023 through January 2024. </strong></p>
<p>$20.00 per session, or $15.00 if you sign up for all 5! Keep your canvas for an extra $5 each.</p>
<p><a href="https://galesburgarts.networkforgood.com/events/60538-intuitive-abstract-painting-with-karen-noble" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">REGISTER HERE!</a></p>
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<p><strong>ALL SESSION DATES //</strong></p>
<p>&#8211; Saturday, September 9th 10:30am-12:00pm</p>
<p>&#8211; Saturday, October 14th 10:30am-12:00pm</p>
<p>&#8211; Saturday, November 11th 10:30am-12:00pm<span class="redactor-invisible-space"><br />
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<p><span class="redactor-invisible-space">&#8211; Saturday, December 9th 10:30am-12:00pm<br />
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<p><span class="redactor-invisible-space">&#8211; Saturday, January 13th 10:30am-12:00pm</span></p>
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		<title>Big Picture Peoria Street Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Sep 2023 19:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The 2023 Street Festival Will Take Place September 9th in Peoria’s Warehouse District. Join us for this one-of-a-kind interactive celebration of the arts in our community. Admission is donation based, simply pay as you are able. The Street Festival has something for everyone! See live mural painting, performers, and musicians. Take part in chalk painting<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/09/big-picture-peoria-street-festival/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/09/big-picture-peoria-street-festival/">Big Picture Peoria Street Festival</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The 2023 Street Festival Will Take Place September 9th in Peoria’s Warehouse District.</p>
<p>Join us for this one-of-a-kind interactive celebration of the arts in our community. Admission is donation based, simply pay as you are able.</p>
<p>The Street Festival has something for everyone! See live mural painting, performers, and musicians. Take part in chalk painting and art projects. There’s tons of fun for kids, too, with make-and-take activities in the KidZone.</p>
<p>Enjoy local food and drinks while watching any number of creative happenings.</p>
<p>Mark your calendars and join us!!!</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/09/big-picture-peoria-street-festival/">Big Picture Peoria Street Festival</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Butterfly Effect/Efecto Mariposa</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Sep 2023 19:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Come celebrate Hispanic and Latino Heritage Month at the opening reception of the art exhibit, Butterfly Effect/Efecto Mariposa! See the new artwork on display in the lobby of the Devonshire Cultural Center 4400 Greenwood Street Skokie, IL 60076. The opening reception is free and open to the public.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/09/butterfly-effect-efecto-mariposa/">Butterfly Effect/Efecto Mariposa</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Come celebrate Hispanic and Latino Heritage Month at the opening reception of the art exhibit, Butterfly Effect/Efecto Mariposa! See the new artwork on display in the lobby of the Devonshire Cultural Center 4400 Greenwood Street Skokie, IL 60076.</p>
<p>The opening reception is free and open to the public.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/09/butterfly-effect-efecto-mariposa/">Butterfly Effect/Efecto Mariposa</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Our Family&#8217;s Violin Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2023 19:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The concert is free but an RSVP is required to attend. Learn more about the exhibition. The Jewish Federation of Springfield proudly brings the Violins of Hope &#8211; A Celebration of Survival exhibition and programs to the Springfield community and has partnered with the Illinois State Museum to host the exhibit. The series of events<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/09/our-familys-violin-story-2/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/09/our-familys-violin-story-2/">Our Family’s Violin Story</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
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<p><span class="cmp-image__title">The Jewish Federation of Springfield proudly brings the Violins of Hope &#8211; A Celebration of Survival exhibition and programs to the Springfield community and has partnered with the Illinois State Museum to host the exhibit. The series of events will occur throughout the community from Thursday, September 7, to Wednesday, September 13. The first of six concerts and the exhibition will be held at the Illinois State Museum beginning at 6:30 p.m. on September 7th. The concert and exhibition will be open to the public and free of charge throughout the program’s duration. The Violins of Hope initiative showcases 12 violins played by Jewish musicians before and during the Holocaust. These violins have been lovingly restored and have traveled around the world to share the stories of the victims and spread messages of hope, unity, and survival. They serve as symbols of the Jewish community’s strength, perseverance, and survival through the power of music.</span></p>
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		<title>Jesse Howard: Chaos in a Warm Village</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Meg Duguid]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Sep 2023 19:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>“Chaos In A Warm Village” reflects and illustrates the diversity and complexity of the African American community. Jesse Howard depicts a story about the hopes and dreams of disenfranchised people. His drawings show the contradiction between the portrayal of African Americans through mainstream media and the reality of their everyday lives.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“Chaos In A Warm Village” reflects and illustrates the diversity and complexity of the African American community. Jesse Howard depicts a story about the hopes and dreams of disenfranchised people. His drawings show the contradiction between the portrayal of African Americans through mainstream media and the reality of their everyday lives.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/09/chaos-in-a-warm-village/">Jesse Howard: Chaos in a Warm Village</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Join us in the Friendly Community Room on Saturday August 26th at 7pm for an artist’s reception to celebrate the vast landscape of Mark Anderson’s visual stylings. Mark has been an illustrator for over 25 years whose work has appeared in Time, The New Yorker, National Geographic, Newsweek, Outside Magazine, Chicago Tribune and many other<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/08/mark-anderson-watercolor-2/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Join us in the Friendly Community Room on Saturday August 26th at 7pm for an artist’s reception to celebrate the vast landscape of Mark Anderson’s visual stylings.</p>
<p>Mark has been an illustrator for over 25 years whose work has appeared in Time, The New Yorker, National Geographic, Newsweek, Outside Magazine, Chicago Tribune and many other periodicals.</p>
<p>He has illustrated and designed over twenty books for Triumph Publishing and has illustrated the country’s longest running illustrated advertising campaign for Allstate Insurance.</p>
<p>FRIENDLY COMMUNITY ROOM | 6729 ROOSEVELT RD, BERWYN, IL 60402</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/08/mark-anderson-watercolor-2/">Mark Anderson: Watercolor</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Aug 2023 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>National award-winning pastel artist Darlene Bock — back at the Blue Moon for an encore! — will be showing NEW works in this new exhibition: landscape, figurative, and still life. Darlene Bock has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has earned Signature Status with the<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/08/darlene-bock-pastel-artist/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>National award-winning pastel artist Darlene Bock — back at the Blue Moon for an encore! — will be showing NEW works in this new exhibition: landscape, figurative, and still life.</p>
<p>Darlene Bock has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has earned Signature Status with the esteemed Pastel Society of America and the Chicago Pastel Painters. Over the last 15+ years Darlene’s award-winning artwork has been juried into multiple national and international fine art competitions. She also shows her work in solo and group exhibitions in galleries throughout the Midwest.</p>
<p>&#8220;The moment I tried pastel it was love at first touch. My passion for drawing now had an expression in color. When painting, I expand on what I see, keeping my strokes visible, allowing the viewer to “see my hand” and better experience my process as well as the interaction of color.” &#8212; Darlene Bock</p>
<p>Opening Reception — Saturday, August 26, 6-9pm<br />
2nd Reception — Saturday, September 23, 6-9pm<br />
Open Weekends | 1-4pm</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/08/darlene-bock-pastel-artist/">Darlene Bock</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Lived-in</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>&#8216;Lived-in&#8217; at NON STNDRD opens THIS SATURDAY! Join us for this inaugural exhibition. 📣 &#8216;Lived-in&#8217; will open with a free and public reception on Saturday, August 12, from 3:00 – 6:00 pm. The exhibition will run through October 31. Featured artists include Grant Benoit, Joseph Canizales, Jen Everett, Abby Flanagan, Gina Hunt, Lee Hunter, Sarah<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/08/lived-in/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8216;Lived-in&#8217; at NON STNDRD opens THIS SATURDAY! Join us for this inaugural exhibition. <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.0.3/72x72/1f4e3.png" alt="📣" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p>
<p>&#8216;Lived-in&#8217; will open with a free and public reception on Saturday, August 12, from 3:00 – 6:00 pm. The exhibition will run through October 31.</p>
<p>Featured artists include Grant Benoit, Joseph Canizales, Jen Everett, Abby Flanagan, Gina Hunt, Lee Hunter, Sarah Knight, Melissa Pokorny, and Lynne Smith.</p>
<p>Funding for NON STNDRD was provided by The Luminary’s (St. Louis) Futures Fund Regranting Initiative.<br />
#FuturesFund<br />
#warholfoundation<br />
@theluminaryarts<br />
@nationalbuildingartscenter</p>
<p>NON STNDRD, a new exhibition and project space for contemporary art located on the campus of the National Building Arts Center in Sauget, Illinois &#8211; just across the river from St. Louis.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2023/08/lived-in/">Lived-in</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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