Past Events

Join us for a guided tour of Edgar Miller: Anti-Modern, 1917-1967 and The Spaces We Call Home with guest curator Dr. Marin R. Sullivan.

Edgar Miller: Anti-Modern, 1917-1967 —the first retrospective and most comprehensive solo presentation of Miller’s work to date— highlights the achievements of the artist’s rich, multifaceted career, but situates his output within the broader cultural histories of Chicago and the creative communities in which he worked and lived.

The Spaces We Call Home features six artists and designers based in or with strong ties to Chicago whose work straddles, draws from, and complicates divisions between the fields of architecture, design, and fine art. Using a diverse array of materials, techniques, and traditions these creative practitioners grapple with the complexities of placemaking across time and space, interrogating and reflecting on the layered socio-spatial histories of built environments.

Marin R. Sullivan, PhD, is a Chicago-based art historian, curator, consultant, educator, and writer. She specializes in the histories of modern and contemporary sculpture, especially its interdisciplinary, intermedial dialogues with photography, design, and the built environment. Sullivan is the author of Alloys: American Sculpture and Architecture at Midcentury (Princeton University Press, 2022) and Sculptural Materiality in the Age of Conceptualism (Routledge, 2017) as well as numerous catalogs, essays, and articles.

Join DPAM for another Lincoln Park Art Night, alongside Leslie Wolf Gallery, gallery 1871, Madron Gallery and Art on Sedgewick. Free shuttles will be provided for travel between the galleries. This project is part of Art Design Chicago, an initiative of the Terra Foundation of American Art. 

Join us at the DePaul Art Museum for a performative lecture and conversation with Mexico City-based artist Ana Gallardo in collaboration with live, Spanish-to-English interpreter and artist, Fabrizzio Subia. Gallardo will present on her artistic practice spanning over three decades including her current exhibition Tembló acá un delirio on view at MUAC in Mexico City. Ana Gallardo’s work includes drawing, video, social practice, and artistic interventions and is based on the need to make mourning a public process from a perspective that places the open wound of violence against women at the center. An intimate conversation with DePaul Art Museum’s Curator Ionit Behar will follow the presentation.

Born in Argentina and working in Mexico City over the last decade, Ana Gallardo's search as an artist and the vicissitudes of her private life have coexisted fully. She has dealt with different planes of violence as an artist and educator and is currently focusing on the violence of aging. Recent solo exhibitions include: A delirium trembled here, CA2M, Spain (2024) and MUAC, Mexico (2024); Bitácora Guatemalteca (I am looking for you by another name) 1987/2022, Julius Baer Award for Latin American Women artists, Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogota (2023), and School of Aging, Parque de la Memoria in Buenos Aires (2022). 

Gallardo will be visiting Chicago as part of the 2024-25 Collaboration Cohort of the Lit & Luz Festival, a cultural exchange between writers and visual artists from Mexico and Chicago, taking place in Chicago from October 26-November 2.

Presented in partnership with the Lit & Luz Festival and with additional support from the Department of Art and Architecture at DePaul University. 

"Let’s Talk About Art" is an innovative hybrid learning program designed for older adults (65+) to explore and discuss visual and performing arts through both virtual and in-person experiences. This fall, participants will engage with exhibits at Chicago’s leading art institutions, including the Chicago History Museum, DePaul Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Photography, and Jane Addams-Hull House, culminating in art-making workshops at the Hyde Park Art Center. Each session includes lively discussions, Q&A with curators and teaching artists, interactive workshops, and collaborative art projects. The program fosters community engagement and intergenerational connections while enhancing artistic skills and knowledge. To register please click the link below or contact Victoria Sockwell. For special accommodations, please contact Rosé Hernandez.

Upcoming Sessions

• Chicago History Museum: September 16 - 19, 2024
• DePaul Art Museum: October 21 - 24, 2024
• Museum of Contemporary Photography: November 11 - 14, 2024
• Hull House: December 9 - 12, 2024

Time: Virtual sessions and Exhibition Visit run from 1:00pm to 2:00pm. Art-Making workshop is 1:00pm to 2:30pm.

This program is supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Stop by DPAM anytime between 10-1pm for Family Day! We partnered with the Chicago Mosaic School (CMS) for a hands-on workshop led by CMS faculty. We will create small mosaics inspired by Edgar Miller’s stained glass and design works featured in our exhibition Edgar Miller: Anti-Modern, 1917-1967. 

The Chicago Mosaic School is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the fine art of mosaics and providing educational opportunities for comprehensive study with an academic, materially oriented approach to Mosaic Art. They aim to increase awareness and appreciation for the ancient art form, and create an open and inclusive community for learning, sharing expertise, while developing the medium within a contemporary context.

This program is intended for all ages and is part of DPAM’s Learning Studio initiative with the Stockyard Institute. Please register at the link below.

Image credit:

Courtesy of The Chicago Mosaic School.

Over the course of his career, Edgar Miller realized numerous private and public commissions across the United States, with the largest concentration in the Chicagoland area. Many of these projects, which include architectural structures, large scale sculptures and reliefs, murals, stained glass, and other ornamental elements, are still extant or in situ today. In conjunction with DePaul Art Museum’s exhibition Edgar Miller: Anti-Modern, 1917–1967, please join us for a series of short presentations highlighting Miller’s commissioned work in public settings. Panelists include: Marin R. Sullivan, Jenn Marshall, Craig Lee, and Eliot Taillon. 

Image credits:

Postcard of the Normandy House Restaurant, c. 1940s. Courtesy of Edgar Miller Legacy.

Join us as we celebrate ten years of stewarding the legacy of artist Edgar Miller and advancing the appreciation of his life and work. Proceeds from the event will directly benefit the Edgar Miller Legacy (EML) and help us continue to preserve and educate the public about the art and design of Edgar Miller. A portion of the proceeds will also benefit DPAM, host of the gala and the exhibition Edgar Miller: Anti-Modern, 1917-1967. For more information and to purchase tickets, please click the link below. This event is open to all with a ticket purchase.

Please join us for an in-person reception celebrating the opening of DPAM’s Fall 24/Winter 25 exhibitions Edgar Miller: Anti-Modern, 1917-1967 and The Spaces We Call Home. Light refreshments will be served. Both exhibitions are generously supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art as part of the Art Design Chicago 2024 initiative and by Gary Metzner and Scott Johnson.

Images:

(Left) Edgar Miller, Celotex Building Products “The Architects Ball,” 1938. Printed program cover. Collection of DePaul Art Museum, gift of Paul and Janis Miller.

(Right) Ania Jaworska, Corner Light, 2021. Custom laminate, wood, mirror. Surface design in collaboration with Zack Ostrowski (Beverly Fre$h). Courtesy of Volume Gallery.

No registration needed for this event.

DPAM is closed to the public from Monday, August 5 through Wednesday, September 11 as we install our fall 2024 exhibitions: "Edgar Miller: Anti-Modern, 1917-1967" and "The Spaces We Call Home." We appreciate your patience and look forward to seeing you for the opening events on Thursday, September 12.

Please join DePaul Art Museum in collaboration with Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art for a curator’s tour with David Maruzzella, PhD., curator of DPAM’s current exhibition The Image Pool. The exhibition investigates artists from DPAM’s permanent collection typically described as “folk,” “self-taught,” “outsider,” or “intuitive,” due to their seeming distance from the institutional sanctions of art schools, museums, galleries, and mainstream commercial success. Intentionally problematizing the insider/outsider distinction, this exhibition—featuring works by Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, Mr. Imagination, Marva Lee Pitchford-Jolly, June Wayne, Derek Webster, and Joseph Yoakum--instead frames these works as exemplary of what it means to be a contemporary artist rather than an exception. The tour will explore the aesthetic materials from personal and imagined histories, ambient culture, and elements of the modern world that influenced these artists and the fundamental shifts that prompted a renegotiation of their deserved place in art history.