UIC GALLERY 400
VOICES: Aram Han Sifuentes

In partnership with UIC’s Gender and Women’s Studies program and the Women’s Leadership and Resource Center at UIC

TOMORROW
Thursday, March 9
5:00–6:30pm CT
Gallery 400 Lecture Room,
400 S Peoria St • RSVP »

Artist and activist Aram Han Sifuentes’s work confronts social and racial injustices, interweaving fiber, social practice, performance, and pedagogy to consider themes of immigration, labor, and protest. Many of her projects, such as the ongoing Protest Banner Lending Library, aim to make art more accessible to the disenfranchised, especially immigrants of color. Since 2016, Sifuentes has brought communities together to sew protest banners, creating a creative outlet of resistance for those who cannot attend protests for their own safety.

Join Sifuentes for a lecture on their practice’s trajectory, exploring how they make political statements and engage communities through participatory art. Learn more »

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UIC WLRC
Artist-Activists Reimagining Justice: Ashley Dequilla & Sarah Whyte

Friday, March 10

11:30am–1:00pm CT

Virtual via Zoom • Register »

During Women’s History Month, the Women’s Leadership and Resource Center is hosting dialogues with artists, activists, and educators to explore and inspire new ways to work collectively toward a better world.

Join them for a conversation with artists and UIC School of Art & Art History MFA students Ashley Dequilla and Sarah Whyte about how their work brings visibility to Asian American and transnational adoptee experiences and justice movements.

UIC SAAH + GALLERY 400
Mutual Interpretation:
A Conversation About Abstraction with Elise Archias and Matthew Metzger

Friday, March 10
12:00–1:30pm CT
Gallery 400, 400 S. Peoria St.

Join us this Friday, March 10 at Gallery 400 for the third conversation in our Mutual Interpretation series! Assoc. Professor of Art History, Elise Archias, will be in conversation with Assoc. Professor of Art, Matthew Metzger. Moderated by Nate Young, Asst. Professor of Art.

Upcoming Mutual Interpretation Event:

Friday, March 17, 12:00–1:30pm

Great Space, 5th Floor, 400 S. Peora St.
Nadezhda Gribkova (Art History PhD Candidate) and Eleanor Schichtel (MFA Student)

1st Look + 2nd Friday at Chicago Art Department

Friday, March 10, 2023

Chicago Art Department

1926 S. Halsted St., Chicago, IL

INTRODUCING 1ST LOOK PREVIEW AT CAD Meet the artists. Have some bubbly.

1st Look is a one hour preview for new shows at Chicago Art Department. A more intimate setting, 1st Look allows guests to meet the artists prior to 2nd Friday later in the evening.

Featuring works by: Violet Luczak | Don't Pull My Strings | CAD North Galina Shevchenko | #NonConfirming #NonConforming | CAD East

5:30-6:30pm | 1st Look Preview ($25) | Ticketed guests enjoy complimentary bubbly and sweet treats.
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6:30-10pm | 2nd Friday (Free entry; Cash bar) | 2nd Friday will begin immediately following 1st Look.

2023 Veteran Art Summit SURVIVING THE LONG WARS

March 16–19, 2023

Chicago, IL (Newberry Library, Hyde Park Art Center, and Chicago Cultural Center)

From the “American Indian Wars” to the “Global War on Terror,” the SURVIVING THE LONG WARS (STLW) summit explores the multiple, overlapping histories that shape our understanding of warfare, as well as alternative visions of peace, healing, and justice generated by diverse communities impacted by war. The Summit serves as the opening celebrations for the 2023 Veteran Art Triennial exhibitions at the Newberry Library, Hyde Park Art Center, and Chicago Cultural Center, and it features the STLW performance program and concluding discussion series of the yearlong National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Dialogues on the Experience of War program. There will be poetry readings, panels, artmaking, movement workshops, portfolio reviews, exhibition tours, open platform presentations, and much more.
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SURVIVING THE LONG WARS is organized by Aaron Hughes, Ronak K. Kapadia, Therese Quinn, Joseph Lefthand, Amber Zora, and Meranda Roberts in collaboration with the emerging Veteran Art Movement and with support from University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) Institute for the Humanities Innovation Grant, UIC Award for Creative Activity, UIC Gender and Women’s Studies Program, UIC Museum and Exhibition Studies Program, Chicago Cultural Center, Hyde Park Art Center, Newberry Library, DEMIL Art Fund, and the National Endowment for the Humanities Dialogues on the Experiences of War grant. NEH Veteran Fellows include Gina Herrera, Monty Little, Gerald Sheffield, Anthony Torres, Eric Perez, and Natasha Erskine.

Data and Liberation: Publication by MUSE Director Therese Quinn, et al.

More and better data about deaths in custody is needed, argue members of the Illinois Deaths in Custody collective Therese Quinn, Jose Luis Benavides (MFA '17), Matthew Yasuoka (MUSE '17), and Erica Meiners in an essay published in Inquest. Read the essay here »

2023 UIC MFA Thesis Show 1:

a series of encounters

March 28–April 8, 2023

UIC Gallery 400

400 S. Peoria St.

Join us for our first of two upcoming MFA Thesis Show featuring the work of our 2023 MFA cohort! A panel discussion from 5–6pm and closing receptions from 5–8pm will be held on Friday, April 7.

a series of encounters
Teri Carson

Derek A. Holland

Aishath Huda

Erin Palovick

Ramin Takloo-Bighash

Curated by Dr. Lucy Mensah of Museum and Exhibition Studies and the students in her Exhibition Practices class.

2023 UIC MFA Thesis Show 2:

CTRL + histories

April 11–22, 2023
UIC Gallery 400

400 S. Peoria St.

Join us for our second of two upcoming MFA Thesis Shows featuring the work of our 2023 MFA cohort! A panel discussion from 5–6pm and closing receptions from 5–8pm will be held on Friday, April 21.

CTRL + histories

Inseok Choi

Ashley Dequilla

Emmanuel Ramos-Barajas

Eleanor Schichtel

Rabia Tayyabi

Curated by Dr. Lucy Mensah of Museum and Exhibition Studies and the students in her Exhibition Practices class.

JUST ANNOUNCED

Pushpakanthan Pakkiyarajah: Straddling Ocean and Sky

March 11–April 8, 2023

Brief Histories

115 Bowery
New York City, NY

Brief Histories presents Straddling Ocean and Sky, a solo exhibition by interdisciplinary artist Pushpakanthan Pakkiyarajah (MFA ‘22). Opening on March 11 and on view through April 8, 2023, this marks the artist's first exhibition in New York City. Including video, mixed media and works on paper, the exhibition centers on Pakkiyarajah’s iterative system of collating and creating images that weave cycles and ecologies of nature, legacies of colonial histories, and the fallout of globalization. Learn more »

CLOSING SOON
Reckless Rolodex

January 13 – March 18, 2023
Curated by Matthew Goulish, Lin Hixson, and Caroline Picard

UIC Gallery 400

400 S. Peoria St.

Chicago, IL 60607

For more information about the exhibition, click here »

Exhibiting Artists: Susan Anderson, Lilli Carré, Edie Fake, Max Guy, Barbara Kasten, Young Joon Kwak, Devin T. Mays, John Neff, Betsy Odom, Derrick Woods-Morrow, and Cherrie Yu. With performances by ATOM-r, Sky Cubacub, Matthew Goulish, and Natasha Mijares.

Testimonies on Paper: Art and Poetry of South Asian Women

January 20 – June 10, 2023

South Asia Institute
1925 S Michigan Ave,

Chicago, IL 60616

Celebrate Women and Women's History Month at the South Asia Institute with their ongoing exhibition: Testimonies on Paper - Art and Poetry of South Asian Women. This exhibition brings together an array of works on paper by South Asian women artists from the Hundal Collection and scintillating poems penned by South Asian women poets; thus, creating a space for alternative narratives of femininity and identity as the poets respond to the works exhibited. Learn more »

"Testimonies" is curated by Andrea Moratinos (Dual MA, Art History and Criticism, Arts Administration and Policy, SAIC) and advised by poet Dipika Mukherjee. Communications Manager: Harini Nilakantan (MA, Museum and Exhibition Studies, UIC)