Lectures and Events
Lectures and Events
THE COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO
CENTER FOR BOOK AND PAPER ARTS
1104 South Wabash Ave., 2nd floor
Chicago, Illinois, 60605-2328
Telephone: 312-344-6630 fax: 312-344-8082
www.bookandpaper.org
E-mail: book&paper@colum.edu
Anita Garza, Director of Community Programs
Brad Freeman, Studio Coordinator
Gina Ordaz, Administrative Assistant
April Sheridan, Studio Technician
EXHIBITIONS:
REALLY BIG PAPER + POSTCARD ART COMPETITION
June 6–July 12, 2008
Reception: June 6, 2008 5:30–7:30
Peter Sowiski and Jill Littlewood, two nationally known artist/papermakers make VERY large paper. Put them together and you get REALLY BIG PAPER. Jill Littlewood’s full room installation is called Death and Other Lives. As she says, “I chose death as a topic because I wanted something big enough to be both mythic and encyclopedic. It was a good choice–death takes you everywhere.” Peter Sowiski’s large scale art grew out of his experiments with pulp painting and his “All American Boy” interest in army planes and their weapons. He investigates size with his large-scale studies of these nightmarish fantasies of what we now call WMDs.
The Curt Teich collection at the Lake County (IL) Discovery Museum sponsors a biennial “design a postcard” competition. The winners get their art reproduced as a real post card and the collection forms the POST CARD ART COMPETITION EXHIBITION. When this traveling show arrives at the Center its international response brings to the gallery a great variety of art, wit and chicanery.
LECTURES:
All Center lectures are free and open to the public.
15000 YESTERDAYS-PAINTED JOURNALS & OTHER VISUAL NARRATIVES
Andrea Dezsö
Friday, June 27, 2008, 6:30 PM
Andrea Dezsö tells stories through images and creates unique personal
narratives through one-of-a-kind books, paper cutouts and embroidery.
This presentation will showcase Dezsö’s work, executed in a variety of
techniques, touching on major influences such as growing up in
Communist Romania, propaganda images, space exploration, women's
crafts and outsider art.
5th INTERNATIONAL BOOK & PAPER TRIENNIAL
July 26 – September 13, 2008
Reception: July 26, 2008 5:30–7:30
In order to show our students and indeed all visitors to the Center what is going on in the national/international world of book & paper, we call together artists in these fields from around the world for this juried exhibition. For the fifth time, we are casting our nets to find the best and most interesting art in these fields. This always proves to be a real eye-opener as to what can be done in these artistic fields.
Center Contact Information
Book and Paper Office: 312-344-6630, book&paper@colum.edu
Gina Ordaz, Admininstrative Assistant, 312-344-6631
Bill Drendel, Exhibitions Coordinator, 312-344-6684
1104 S. Wabash, 2nd Fl
Chicago, IL 60605
CENTER FOR BOOK AND PAPER ARTS
1104 South Wabash Ave., 2nd floor
Chicago, Illinois, 60605-2328
Telephone: 312-344-6630 fax: 312-344-8082
www.bookandpaper.org
E-mail: book&paper@colum.edu
Anita Garza, Director of Community Programs
Brad Freeman, Studio Coordinator
Gina Ordaz, Administrative Assistant
April Sheridan, Studio Technician
EXHIBITIONS:
REALLY BIG PAPER + POSTCARD ART COMPETITION
June 6–July 12, 2008
Reception: June 6, 2008 5:30–7:30
Peter Sowiski and Jill Littlewood, two nationally known artist/papermakers make VERY large paper. Put them together and you get REALLY BIG PAPER. Jill Littlewood’s full room installation is called Death and Other Lives. As she says, “I chose death as a topic because I wanted something big enough to be both mythic and encyclopedic. It was a good choice–death takes you everywhere.” Peter Sowiski’s large scale art grew out of his experiments with pulp painting and his “All American Boy” interest in army planes and their weapons. He investigates size with his large-scale studies of these nightmarish fantasies of what we now call WMDs.
The Curt Teich collection at the Lake County (IL) Discovery Museum sponsors a biennial “design a postcard” competition. The winners get their art reproduced as a real post card and the collection forms the POST CARD ART COMPETITION EXHIBITION. When this traveling show arrives at the Center its international response brings to the gallery a great variety of art, wit and chicanery.
LECTURES:
All Center lectures are free and open to the public.
15000 YESTERDAYS-PAINTED JOURNALS & OTHER VISUAL NARRATIVES
Andrea Dezsö
Friday, June 27, 2008, 6:30 PM
Andrea Dezsö tells stories through images and creates unique personal
narratives through one-of-a-kind books, paper cutouts and embroidery.
This presentation will showcase Dezsö’s work, executed in a variety of
techniques, touching on major influences such as growing up in
Communist Romania, propaganda images, space exploration, women's
crafts and outsider art.
5th INTERNATIONAL BOOK & PAPER TRIENNIAL
July 26 – September 13, 2008
Reception: July 26, 2008 5:30–7:30
In order to show our students and indeed all visitors to the Center what is going on in the national/international world of book & paper, we call together artists in these fields from around the world for this juried exhibition. For the fifth time, we are casting our nets to find the best and most interesting art in these fields. This always proves to be a real eye-opener as to what can be done in these artistic fields.
Center Contact Information
Book and Paper Office: 312-344-6630, book&paper@colum.edu
Gina Ordaz, Admininstrative Assistant, 312-344-6631
Bill Drendel, Exhibitions Coordinator, 312-344-6684
1104 S. Wabash, 2nd Fl
Chicago, IL 60605