UIC Art Education alumnus Kevin Dill awarded Master's Degree in Education

Kevin Dill graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art Education (BFAAE) in spring 2021. Then, Kevin accepted a full-time art teaching position at Albany Park Multicultural Academy and started a Master's degree in Education in the College of Education at UIC. Please join us in congratulating Kevin on becoming a double degree holder. He graduated with a Master's in Language, Literacies, and Learning in Dec 2022.

Professor Jennifer Reeder’s Film Acquired by Shudder and Premiering at Berlin International Film Festival

“Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thrillers and content about the supernatural, has acquired Jennifer Reeder’s “Perpetrator.” The sale comes as the film is set to world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival this February in the Panorama section.” Read the full article on Variety »

Mary Helena Clark, Mike Gibisser, and Deborah Stratman at Sundance 2023

Congratulations to Professor Deborah Stratman, and alums Mary Helena Clark (MFA ’12) and Mike Gibisser (MFA ’11) for having their films selected for the 2023 Sundance Film Festival under the New Frontier Films category!

The 2023 Festival will take place January 19–29, 2023, in person in Park City, Salt Lake City, and the Sundance Resort, along with a selection of films available online across the country January 24–29, 2023. “New Frontier champions artists who engage in experimental storytelling at the crossroads of film, art, performance, and media technology, showcasing cutting-edge work that explores and evolves cinema culture in today’s rapidly changing landscape. New Frontier is presently in a process of reimagination.”

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Professor Emerita of Art, Julia Fish, Featured in the Art Institute of Chicago’s List of Notable Events of 2022

View “Artists on Cezanne: Julia Fish and Rodney McMillian | July 21, 2022” for “insightful perspectives on the conservation of the ever-influential Cezanne” here »

Latham Zearfoss Artist-In-Residence at Tiger Strikes Asteroid

“Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago is pleased to announce that Latham Zearfoss [MFA ‘11] will be our next artist in residence. This residency will allow Zearfoss the opportunity to execute a new iteration of his ongoing “Stalagmite Creamsicles” project, a seasonally-iterative body of work comprised of ice sculptures dyed with natural dyes that contain seeds for a native garden that will bloom where they are left to melt.” Congrats, Latham! Learn more »

Ground Floor

December 10, 2022–March 5, 2023

Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S. Cornell Avenue
Chicago, IL 60615

Ground Floor 2022 opened recently at the Hyde Park Art Center and features alums Juan Baños Fonseca (MFA ‘22), and Nick Jackson (MFA ‘21)!

This edition presents paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, fiber, photographs, new media, and performance work that propose alternative ways to see the world, different relationships between the body and nature and new perspectives of history.

This ongoing Biennial exhibition since 2010, brings together work by Chicago’s most promising emerging talent. The exhibition offers a single destination to discover artists, who have recently graduated (in 2021 and 2022) from one of Chicago’s five outstanding MFA programs and whose work demands to be seen and supported. Ground Floor presents art made in the past couple of years in hopes to investigate and articulate conceptual and stylistic trends coming out of Chicago art schools right now.

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Contemplation, Laleh Motlagh (MFA '21) Solo Exhibition at Chicago Artist Coalition

November 18–January 13, 2023

Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W. Fulton St., Unit B
Chicago, IL 60612

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Call for Submissions – Fwd: Museums Journal 2023 - [Redacted]

Fwd: Museums invites academic articles, artwork, essays, exhibition/book reviews, creative writing, interviews, poetry, love letters, and other experimental forms to analyze, critique, and make space for new thinking about museums and exhibitions. The theme for 2023 is [Redacted].
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All submissions should follow the guidelines and relate to the journal’s mission statement. Read the full Call for Submissions » Deadline: Jan. 5, 2023

Call for Submissions – ENCOUNTER

Artist Jason Lazarus invites current and former Chicagoland artists to participate in a public art project at the Chicago Cultural Center they are organizing titled ENCOUNTER, running through January 15, 2023.

"The exhibition seeks to feature small handmade ‘drawings’ by current or former Chicago artist-residents visualizing a TRANSFORMATIVE encounter with a single artwork they had somewhere in Chicago while living in the city. This is a chance to acknowledge a work (and its maker) who helped us see what is possible, urgent, relevant, and liberating."
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