"What is Public Art, Anyway?"
The City of Chicago, Chicago Transit Authority, McCormick Place, and the Art Institute of Chicago's Ferguson Fund are the major agencies that commission permanent public art in Chicago. Kevin Nance, Critic at Large for the Chicago Sun-Times, talks with representatives from these entities about their funding and artist selection processes, conservation issues, and future plans.
Panelists include: Elizabeth Kelley, Director of the City of Chicago's Public Art Program, Amy Malick, Arts in Transit, Chicago Transit Authority; Jack Johnson, former chief of External Relations for Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority (McCormick Place), and Barbara Hall, Senior Conservator of Objects at the Art Institute of Chicago, who will discuss the Ferguson Fund.
Artist at Work Forums are available as podcasts on Chicago Artists Resource. Click here for more info.
with Ruth Lopez of Time Out Chicago with artists Nick Cave, Jeanne Dunning, Mayumi Lake and Lincoln Schatz.
“Opening Doors: Women in Art, 1972-2007” on Sunday, November 11, 2007, from 1:30-4:00 p.m. at the Katzen Arts Center of American University, located on Ward Circle at Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. Free admission and free parking under the building.
Panel discussion moderated by Josephine Withers with Judy Byron, HIRO, Victoria Reis, and Joyce J. Scott, with audience participation. Sponsored by the Washington, D.C., chapters of the Women’s Caucus for Art and ArtTable to coincide with two important anniversary exhibitions on view in Washington: "Claiming Space- Some American Feminist Originators”, November 6, 2007 to January 27, 2008 at the American University Museum in the Katzen Arts Center, and “WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution”, at the National Museum of Women in the Arts from September 21 to December 16, 2007.
WCA members from around the country are offered a place to stay with WCA/DC members if you wish to participate in these events! Contact Barbara Wolanin at bwolanin@comast.net.
The National Conference for WCA and the College Art Association comes to Chicago in 2010. Get involved with your Chicago Chapter no to help plan for the future of YOUR organization!
The next meeting takes place on Sunday, November 11 at 3pm. Location TBA.
Our National Board and the Dallas Fort-Worth Chapter are working hard on a great line up of activities for February 2008 in Dallas Texas, full details will be available in the Fall newsletter you will receive by mid-October, also check the web site for updated information.
You can go directly to our website to buy your dinner tickets and raffle tickets. Consider organizing a table of friends from your chapter to sit together and support our guests of honor at your table.