Maker Residency Workshop: Light Up Your Work with DIY LEDs | Jesse Seay | July 2, 2015, 1-5pm

For this Maker Space workshop, maker-in-residence Jesse Seay will demonstrate how to add LED lights to art projects. Participants will learn to design a basic LED circuit, choose appropriate components, and embed circuitry into projects using fiber and paper craft tools. After a crash-course in basic electronic […]

Drawing Plans for the Next American Revolution | Dan S. Wang | July 16th, 5:30pm-9:30pm

  Drawing Plans for the Next American Revolution. Dan will guide students in a reading of “A Job Ain’t The Answer,” a short pamphlet written and disseminated by Jimmy and Grace Lee Boggs in the 1980s, and lead a discussion about current political conditions. Participants […]

Immersive Space | Perry Chen | August 3, 1–5pm

Join Perry Chen to create an immersive site-specific installation in an abandoned, soon-to-be repurposed space. Work independently and collectively to explore creative and innovative approaches to the altering of space and mood through aesthetic transformation using existing objects, light and sound. The workshop will run […]

The Un-Selfie: Portraits on the Porch | Irina Zadov | Multiple Dates and Times

Join socially engaged artist and educator Irina Zadov on the porch of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum for a one on one portrait session. Students ages 10+ are welcome to sketch, draw and paint; look close, listen deeply, and explore transgressive slowness. Dates and times […]

GRAFFITI INSTITUTE/INTRO | Miguel Aguilar | Aug 1-10 | 10am-12pm

Join graffiti creative and activist Miguel Aguilar, commonly known as Kane One, along with other local experts in the field, for the Graffiti Institute. This program is being offered as part of the UIC Free Art School where teens can enter the arena of graffiti, […]

Storytelling in India: Pabuji’s phad, with Copious Quantities of Chai | Catherine Becker | August 3, 2–5pm

Join Art Historian Catherine Becker to read an enormous picture scroll from Rajasthan that revolves around a semi-divine hero, Pabuji, and his exploits. In great detail, the scroll depicts an epic tale of blood feuds and she-camels. Learn about the Indian performance tradition and the struggles […]

City Mouse Country Mouse | Dan Peterman | July 19, 8am–2pm

Convene at  8am in Millennium Park and take the train from Millennium Station to Manilow Sculpture Park (1 hr direct) with a lively discussion and light reading about the ecology of sculpture. Take a 2 mile walking tour of Manilow Sculpture Park set in a […]

A Choir of Glances | Christine Sun Kim | July 15-16, 3–5pm

Each workshop will be followed by a public performance at 5:30 pm at the Chicago Cultural Center, Garland Room Christine Sun Kim, an artist who is deaf and uses performance and technology to explore her relationship with sound and spoken languages, leads a workshop that investigates […]

Feminist Parking Lot | Jennifer Reeder | July 12, 2-5 PM

Celebrate and explore CRAFTING as a radical feminist form of production and economy. Join us for an afternoon of workshops and demonstrations in zine production, print making, nail art and more. 400 South Peoria, 5th Floor, The Great Space This is an all ages event […]

Soul Sharing | Theaster Gates | August 4, 7pm

Join Theaster for an evening of making- music, clay things, ideas, all at his studio on the south side.  From Kimbark Studios, we will get insights into how Theaster thinks about the relationship between performance, making objects and  building community. Theaster Gates Studio This class […]

AFRO-SURREAL MANIFESTO Workshop| Krista Franklin | August 2, 2-5pm

Learn about Afro-Surrealism through an exploration of D. Scot Miller’s AFRO-SURREAL MANIFESTO, and practice how it relates to contemporary cultural production engaging in a cross disciplinary workshop that includes hip-hop, visual art, writing and performance. 106 Henry Hall, 935 West Harrison Street This class is […]

“Seat of Power” Sculpture Class | Faheem Majeed | July 19-20, 2-5pm

Join Faheem Majeed for a two-day workshop and sculpture class. The first day will start conceptually and engage students in brainstorming and getting acclimated to a range of material culture in order to begin making their “Seat of Power.”  The second session will be a […]

Ghost Bodies Portraiture Workshop | Riva Lehrer | July, 17-18th, Two-Day Workshop, 2-5 PM

Join portrait artist Riva Lehrer whose groundbreaking work on identity and disability has transformed our way of seeing and understanding the body, for an exploration of your own imagined, real, fantastical, and remembered body.  Students will use a variety of media to draw their own […]

GRAFFITI INSTITUTE / INTERMEDIATE | Miguel Aguilar | Aug 1-10 | 1-3pm

Join graffiti creative and activist Miguel Aguilar, commonly known as Kane One, along with other local experts in the field, for the Graffiti Institute. This program is being offered as part of the UIC Free Art School where teens can hone their skills with local […]

Drawing Interventions | Matthew Metzger | July 28 1-4pm and July 29th 1-4pm

This two day workshop will focus on drawing as a catalyst for exposing the unconscious states of ourselves, the city and its various ‘publics’. Through a series of drawing exercises about the meaning and context of the “line” and the self in public space,  we will think […]

“What the Hell is Contemporary Art Right Now?” | Elise Archias | July 6, 2-3pm & July 8, 6-7pm

Join feminist art historian Elise Archias on a romp through the MCA’s four exhibitions:  Isa Genzken, Leslie Hewitt, Artists “after” Frida Kahlo, and Zach Cahill to learn the fundamentals of contemporary art. Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 East Chicago Avenue This class is appropriate for […]

Croissant, Cafe Au Lait, and Hausmann’s ‘City of Light’ virtual Paris tour | Hannah Higgins | July 12, 9–11am

From 1853 to 1870 Emperor Napoleon III hired Baron Georges Hausmann to tear down Medieval Paris and replace it with the ‘city of light.’ Equal parts blatant power grab and technological innovation, police action and aesthetic masterpiece, modern Paris is a product of these highly […]

An Extraordinary Family Time with a Surprise Ending| Alberto Aguilar | August 2 & 3, 2–5pm

Come couples, come brothers and sisters, come parents and children, come grandparents and grandchildren! Join Alberto Aguilar with your family to participate in an extraordinary art adventure that includes drawing outdoors, making a public art intervention in the surrounding UIC neighborhoods, and taking a tour from an artist’s curious […]

Graffiti Walking Tour | Kevin Coval | August 1 5:30pm-8:00pm| August 2 10:00am-12:30pm

Join poet and educator Kevin Coval for a walking tour that will explore the history and aesthetics of this public art form. Learn about art crimes,  the politics of style and grapple with why graffiti is considered so dangerous and why so many artists are […]

Critique as Ritual / Critique as Creation | Jason Lazarus | July 26, 1:00-5:00pm

One of the fundamental educational experiences of MFA programs is the group critique–a student presents work to a class who then question, interpret, analyze, contextualize, and assess the work. Jason Lazarus offers an introduction into the ethos of this important art school practice–as idea, process and […]

Poetry Workshop | John Yau | Dates Announced Soon

More information to come. Keep checking back as we add more classes throughout the summer! Artist Bio Poet, art critic, and curator John Yau has published over 50 books of poetry, fiction, and art criticism. Yau is a Guggenheim fellow and was named a Chevalier […]

Michael Rakowitz | Dates Announced Soon

More information to come. Keep checking back as we add more classes throughout the summer!   Artist Bio Michael Rakowitz is an Iraqi-American conceptual artist who operates within art spaces and beyond them. Rakowitz has shown in venues including dOCUMENTA(13), The MoMA, MassMOCA, the 10th […]