Forrest Nash: artist lecture

 

Image courtesy of the artist
Thursday, November 29, 5:00 p.m. 
Columbus Auditorium, 280 S. Columbus Dr.

Forrest Nash is the founder of Contemporary Art Daily, which publishes a curated program of current exhibitions from around the world. Founded in 2008, the site has featured extensive documentation of more than 1,600 exhibitions and has a wide following internationally. In January, he founded Contemporary Art Group, a non-profit organization, to continue the progress ofContemporary Art Daily and to establish new projects with similar aims. The organization is currently at work on a major new project, Contemporary Art Quarterly, which will feature extensive archives of selected artists’ practices. Nash, born in 1987, has a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

This event is open only to the SAIC community.

Odile Decq: William H. Bronson & Grayce Slovet Mitchell Lecture, 11/27


Odile Decq. Image: Markus Deutschm
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is pleased to host award-winning French architect Odile Decq for a William H. Bronson & Grayce Slovet Mitchell Lecture on Tuesday, November 27, at 6:00 p.m. Her presentation “Horizons” is free and open to the public, and I invite you to attend. The lecture will be held in SAIC’s Columbus Auditorium located at 280 South Columbus Drive.

After several years of running her own firm, Odile Decq created a partnership with Benoît Cornette in 1985 and established the architecture firm ODBC. Decq’s first commission, the Banque Populaire de l’Ouest in Rennes in 1990, resulted in numerous prizes and ignited international attention. The audiences who celebrated the building underlined the emergence of a new hope in architecture directly born from the punk rebellion that was turning old conventions upside down.

As the sole principal of ODBC since 1998, Odile Decq has been faithful to her fighting attitude while diversifying and radicalizing her research. By questioning concepts of commission, use, matter, body, technique, and taste, the architecture of ODBC offers a paradoxical look, both tender and severe, at today’s world. “Horizons ” will examine ODBC projects in architecture, design, and installation at all scales, from urban planning to door handles.

For more information, please contact SAIC’s Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects (AIADO) at 312.629.6650 or email aiado@saic.edu. You may also visit our events page for additional news and information: saic.edu/aiado.
Visual Representations Black History Month 2012 Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of AuthenticityAn Artist Talk with E. Patrick Johnson February 27, 20126:00pm – 8:00pm Columbus AuditoriumThe School of the Art Institute of Chicago280 South Columbus Drive E. Patrick Johnson is Professor, Chair, and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University. A scholar/artist, Johnson has performed nationally and internationally and has published widely in the area of race, gender, sexuality, and performance. His book Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity has won several awards, including the Lilla A. Heston Award and the Errol Hill Book Award. He co-authored with Mae G. Henderson, Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology. Johnson is currently performing Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Stories, based on excerpts from his book Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South—An Oral History. The narratives were collected between 2004 and 2006 from black gay men who were born, raised, and continue to live in the South. The men hail from fifteen different states and range in age from 19 to 93. 

Visual Representations Black History Month 2012

Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity
An Artist Talk with E. Patrick Johnson 
February 27, 2012
6:00pm – 8:00pm 
Columbus Auditorium
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
280 South Columbus Drive 

E. Patrick Johnson is Professor, Chair, and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University. A scholar/artist, Johnson has performed nationally and internationally and has published widely in the area of race, gender, sexuality, and performance. His book Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity has won several awards, including the Lilla A. Heston Award and the Errol Hill Book Award. He co-authored with Mae G. Henderson, Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology. Johnson is currently performing Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Stories, based on excerpts from his book Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South—An Oral History. The narratives were collected between 2004 and 2006 from black gay men who were born, raised, and continue to live in the South. The men hail from fifteen different states and range in age from 19 to 93. 

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Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series

Emily Pilloton 
Thursday, February 16, 2012, 6:00 p.m.
SAIC Columbus Auditorium, 280 S. Columbus Dr.
Free admission

SAIC alumna Emily Pilloton (MFA 2005) founded the nonprofit design firm Project H to use creative capital to improve communities and public education from the inside out. Trained in architecture (University of California, Berkeley) and product design (SAIC), Pilloton believes in design as an honest process of building and activism that benefits communities by engaging them in public education experiences. She spends most of her days in a woodshop with high school students in Bertie County, North Carolina as part of Studio H, a one-year design/build/community program that teaches design thinking and vocational construction skills within the public school system. Pilloton is the author of Design Revolution: 100 Products that Empower People, and has spoken worldwide, from the TED conference stage to the Colbert Report.
Presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Alumni Relations. 

Painting and Drawing Visiting Artist Lecture: Matt ConnorsTUESDAY ,December 13, 5:00–6:00 p.m.Columbus Auditorium, 280 S. Columbus Dr. Painting and Drawing visiting artist lectures are open to students, faculty, staff, and alumni.“Matt Connors’s paintings […] are scruffy, minimal and coolly cerebral. In his promising debut at Canada two years ago, he employed various tropes of modernist abstraction. […] In his second solo show at the gallery, Connors seems increasingly focused on the process of art production and display, even as he continues to reference stylistic conventions drawn from recent art history,” according to Time Out New York. Connors has also exhbited at Cherry & Martin (LA) and Luttgenmeijer (Berlin).

Painting and Drawing Visiting Artist Lecture: Matt Connors
TUESDAY ,December 13, 5:00–6:00 p.m.
Columbus Auditorium, 280 S. Columbus Dr. 
Painting and Drawing visiting artist lectures are open to students, faculty, staff, and alumni.

“Matt Connors’s paintings […] are scruffy, minimal and coolly cerebral. In his promising debut at Canada two years ago, he employed various tropes of modernist abstraction. […] In his second solo show at the gallery, Connors seems increasingly focused on the process of art production and display, even as he continues to reference stylistic conventions drawn from recent art history,” according to Time Out New York. Connors has also exhbited at Cherry & Martin (LA) and Luttgenmeijer (Berlin).

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Beehive Collective Event Thursday, November 10, 4:15–6:00 p.m.Columbus Auditorium, 280 S. Columbus Dr. Join us in welcoming the Beehive Collective to SAIC! The Bees are known internationally for their collective symbolic murals that depict all the Earth’s creatures both in struggle against oppressive forces and in beautiful connections. This “picture-lecture” will cover their latest mural, The True Cost of Coal.Learn more about the Beehive Collective at http://www.beehivecollective.org/

Beehive Collective Event 

Thursday, November 10, 4:15–6:00 p.m.
Columbus Auditorium, 280 S. Columbus Dr. 

Join us in welcoming the Beehive Collective to SAIC!
The Bees are known internationally for their collective symbolic murals that depict all the Earth’s creatures both in struggle against oppressive forces and in beautiful connections. This “picture-lecture” will cover their latest mural, The True Cost of Coal.

Learn more about the Beehive Collective at http://www.beehivecollective.org/

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Type A Lecture Monday, September 26 · 6:00pm - 8:00pm Columbus Auditorium280 S. Columbus Type A is a collaboration between Adam Ames and Andrew Bordwin. Working together since 1998, Type A create videos, video installations, photography, sculptures, and drawings that deal with issues of masculinity, territory, competition, and collaboration in contemporary society. Though competition runs through every element of existence, the demand put upon men to be competitive can be especially severe. This is initiated in childhood and continuously intensified; if one is “type a,” then these challenges are not only expected but also necessary to the definition of one’s character. Type A explores the ways in which men compete, challenge and play, and the resulting social and psychological imbalances, in works ranging from psychologically disarming to profoundly absurd.More info here: http://www.saic.edu/art_design/vap/#current_series/SLC_35931

Type A Lecture

Monday, September 26 · 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Columbus Auditorium280 S. Columbus

Type A is a collaboration between Adam Ames and Andrew Bordwin. Working together since 1998, Type A create videos, video installations, photography, sculptures, and drawings that deal with issues of masculinity, territory, competition, and collaboration in contemporary society. Though competition runs through every element of existence, the demand put upon men to be competitive can be especially severe. This is initiated in childhood and continuously intensified; if one is “type a,” then these challenges are not only expected but also necessary to the definition of one’s character. Type A explores the ways in which men compete, challenge and play, and the resulting social and psychological imbalances, in works ranging from psychologically disarming to profoundly absurd.

More info here: http://www.saic.edu/art_design/vap/#current_series/SLC_35931

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