Upcoming Programs & Events
Storytelling Through Weaving
Tuesday, November 12, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Dittmar Memorial Gallery
Learn with artist Bryana Bibbs and explore the art of weaving. Weavers will use cardboard looms to weave and explore materiality by using objects they have brought or found and how they are significant to us. In addition to weaving with found materials, weavers will learn how to weave on a frame loom basic using woven structures such as plain weave and slit tapestry weave. Weavers are encouraged to bring materials from home (twigs, rocks, flowers, old clothes, etc.), additional materials will be provided. This event is free for all. RSVP required. All materials provided and all levels are welcome.
Photo credit: courtesy of the artist
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Bio from website: Bryana Bibbs is a Chicago-based artist who works at the intersection of textiles, painting, and community-based practices. Bibbs earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Fiber and Material Studies at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the founder of , serves on the Surface Design Association’s Education Committee, and was named one of
Photo credit: Tanal Simmons
Quilt Poems
Monday, November 18, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Dittmar Memorial Gallery
Quilts tell a story, through the fabric design, material, giver and recipient, and any words the maker chooses to add to their quilt. Workshop participants will learn to stitch their favorite poem, quote, or passage onto fabric, practice different embroidery stitches, and design a quilt block. This event is free for all. RSVP required. All materials provided and all levels are welcome.
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Accumulation as Metaphor Art Workshop
Wednesday, November 20, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Dittmar Memorial Gallery
Artist Richard Serra famously said, "Drawing is a verb." In this workshop, participants will reference Serra’s work Verb List, in which he compiled a series of "actions to relate to oneself, material, place, and process," to create a sculpture. Based on modalities of reuse, participants will collect and transform a quantity of an object into art, using provided fasteners and a verb of their choosing.
This workshop will guide participants to think about common objects in new ways, sparking creativity and fresh perspectives in their approach to art. Participants are encouraged to think outside the box in their material choices by asking:
“Where do I see material excess in my daily life?”
“How can objects considered to be ‘trash’ have second lives outside their intended use?”
“How do I use my networks and community to accumulate enough of something that it transcends our immediate understanding of the object?”
This event is free for all. RSVP required. All materials provided and all levels are welcome.
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Katie Vota seeks to (re)evaluate our relationships to materiality, community, and environment through the medium of tapestry re-imagined in the digital age. Via collecting cast-offs and scavenging colors from nature, she transforms materials to create wholes from smaller parts, finding softness in many forms, textures, colors and patterns based in cloth.
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Past Events
Alimentary Affects: Performance by artist Marvin Veloso
Thursday, October 10, 7:00 - 8:00pm
Dittmar Memorial Gallery
In engaging with Linye Jiang’s photo-series “Sweet, Juicy, and Rebellious”, Marvin Veloso foregrounds the feelings and personal reflections that emerge from an intimate exchange between the viewer, the artwork, and the space they share. Marvin’s performance titled Alimentary Affects, captures these sensational and embodied experiences that can animate the potential of community building through artistic practices. Here, he evokes practice as a participatory way of knowing that unsettles the normative conventions of academic settings. Alimentary Affects explores through a performance lecture on affect theory, critical and poetic forms that will invite audience members with writing prompts that flirt with themes of pleasure, reflexivity, and queerness. Using various works from “Sweet, Juicy, and Rebellious” as a turning point, this interactive mode asks us to consider alternative ways of interpretation, so that we might lean into creative expression, as critical to nourishing our relationships to the production and dissemination of knowledge.
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Marvin Veloso is a Chicago-based artist and researcher pursuing graduate studies in the Department of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Drawing upon themes across queerness and multimodal studies, his interdisciplinary approach to material cultures and social theory. As an artist–researcher within the Filipinx diaspora, his critical interrogations toward ongoing legacies of colonial and imperial expansion, informs his artistic practice with performance, poetry, and moving image.