No Walls, New Ways: Giving up the Building to Connect and Create

Episode 598: The Floating Museum

November 30, 2017

6:00pm–7:00pm

Griffin Court

Free with museum admission*

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Jacqueline Terrassa, Woman’s Board Endowed Chair of Learning and Public Engagement, leads a conversation with panelists Mark Kelly, commissioner of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs, Katherine Darnstadt of Latent Design, and Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford of the Floating Museum, on the future of public art as part Continue Reading…

PALAIS DE TOKYO | HORS LES MURS

SINGING STONES
SEPTEMBER 12 —OCTOBER 29, 2017

Curated by Katell Jaffrès (Palais de Tokyo)

Residency: July–August, 2017
Hors les Murs Exhibition: September 12–October 29, 2017
Opening Reception: Tuesday, September 12, 2017

FEATURING

Wilfrid Almendra, Daniel G. Baird, Floating Museum, Dorian Gaudin, Lola Gonzàlez, Bouchra Khalili, Guillaume Leblon, Florian Pugnaire, David Raffini, Andrew Schachman, Cauleen
Smith, Continue Reading…

How to give life to a mountain is open at the DuSable Museum of African American History, exhibition link here

Many thanks to the British Council for an Arts and Social Practice Fellowship to travel to the UK in the Spring.

The Arts and Social Practice Fellowship is a reciprocal exchange program with our US partners offering fellowship grants to socially-engaged artists in the US and UK. Fellows are offered residencies Continue Reading…

Many thanks to the Awesome Foundation for supporting Floating Museum.

Many thanks to the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs for a project grant to support work next year.

Floating Museum is excited to start a residency with the Chicago Park District to begin the first phase of our project.  Here’s a video about the residency.

Many thanks to the Propeller Fund for supporting Floating Museum and its first building phase in the Chicago Park District this summer.  The announcement and a list of all the awardees can be found here

Schrott Center for the Arts at Butler University

Exhibition Reception: Friday from 6-9 p.m. at the Schrott Center for the Arts for “You are your own area.” Meet guest artists Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford and Mike Calway-Fagen. At 6 p.m. the artists will present a free association, call and response talk (complete Continue Reading…

I have a new piece in the Terrain Biennial at 215 Le Moyne Parkway.  The opening is at 3pm on Sunday, August 23.  Here’s the link.

The 2nd Terrain Biennial is an international exhibition of site specific art made for front yards, balconies and porches. Centered in the historic village of Oak Park, Illinois, the Biennial Continue Reading…

Faheem Majeed, Andrew Schachman and I will be working on Floating Museum in a Propeller Fund residency studio at Mana Contemporary in Chicago until May 2016.

Here’s the residency announcement.

Many thanks to the Chicago Artists Coalition and Other Peoples Pixels for a Maker Grant!

Happy to announce I’ll be a fellow at the Sculpture Space in Utica New York in 2016

I look forward to a fellowship in July at the Dora Maar House in Menerbes France

Many thanks to the School of the Art Institute for a Faculty Enrichment Grant

The documentary Illinois Artists at Work: Cannot Live Without recently aired on Channel 11.  Profiling 5 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship recipients the documentary highlights a couple of my recent projects.  Here’s the link: http://video.wttw.com/video/2365429331/

State Park
March 7 – May 1, 2015

There are 6,624 state-owned and run parks in the United States that exist, ostensibly, to preserve a location on account of its natural beauty, historic relevance, and recreational potential. They have also functioned as templates to examine how the US thinks of, envisions, and exploits Continue Reading…

I am very grateful to be a recipient of an Emergency Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.