Let's Talk About Art with the Hyde Park Art Center
Monday, Oct. 21 - Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024, 1-2pm
"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.
Family Day: Arts and Crafts with the Chicago Mosaic School
Saturday, October 5, 2024, 10am-1pm
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.
Edgar Miller In-Situ: A Panel Discussion on the Artist's Public Works
Saturday, September 14, 2024, 3pm
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.
Edgar Miller Legacy 10th Anniversary Gala with DPAM
Thursday, September 12, 2024, 5-7pm
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.
DPAM Fall/Winter Exhibitions Opening Reception
Thursday, September 12, 2024, 7-9pm
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.
CLOSED FOR INSTALL
Monday, August 5-Wednesday, September 11, All Day
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.
The Image Pool Curator's Tour
Wednesday, July 31, 2024, 5:30-6:30pm
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.
The Art School's 2024 Senior Studio Seminar Thesis Exhibition Opening
Thursday, June 13, 2024, 4:30-6:30pm
All are welcome to come celebrate the work of The Art School at DePaul's senior studio seminar artists Victoria Bush, Mady Cairl, Audrey Dwyer, Julieanne Dworkin, Allison Freeman, Evelyn Rubi Hernandez, Arabella Johnson, Anna Kraus, Jamie Lauderbaugh, Morgan Nugent, Lily Rooney, Cameron Santa-Cruz, Anna Stivers, Jae Valdez, Paul Vaughns, Vyolet Weissman, and Madeline Zawada.
The exhibition will run in DPAM's 2nd floor event space from Thursday, June 13 through Sunday, June 16. Gallery hours are Thursday, 11am-7pm and Friday through Sunday, 11am-5pm.
Artwork design by Quyen Cobb and Zack Ostrowski.
Childhood Memories: Frottage
Wednesday, May 29, 2024, 2-2:30pm
Please join us for a
performative action by Selva Aparicio as she does a frottage of her carved rug Childhood
Memories (2023-24) presented in her DePaul Art Museum solo show In
Memory Of. A frottage is a technique that involves rubbing a medium such as
graphite onto a paper that has been placed on top of a textured object.
Aparicio has done frottages of a variety of surfaces in the past, one of them
being her work Mourning August 17, 2017, as a response to the terrorist
attack in Las Ramblas, Barcelona. Aparicio organized a collective frottage the
morning after the incident, where people created a 1800 ft long frottage of the
van’s path in order to collect a visual history of the moment and initiate a
grieving process.
Image: Selva Aparicio makes frottage of Catalan ruins at Parc Natural de la Serra de Collserola, Barcelona, Spain. ca. 2015.
D.E.F. Showcase 2024
Saturday, May 18, 2024, 1:00-5:00pm
D.E.F.
is both an acronym for “DePaul Experimental Film” and the slang word “def,”
meaning “cool.” Experimental film is a visionary art form, boundary pushing and
virtually limitless in scope. And yes it’s really, really cool!
The juried “Showcase
Screening” features short films that span many forms of the experimental
filmmaking medium, from letterist cinema, to lyrical film, to collage, to
structural, to landscape, to music video, to dance film, to experimental
documentary, experimental narrative, and beyond. In many cases the work is
challenging and complex, stunning visually, and oft times incredibly
personal—it is work that deserves to be seen and celebrated. Preceding the
“Showcase Screening” is Experimental Animation on loop from 1–2:30pm.
These projects were
created by DePaul University School of Cinematic Arts students in Experimental
Filmmaking I and Experimental Filmmaking II classes.
50
tickets will be available for the 3pm Showcase Screening. To reserve a spot
please register below.