Archive for June, 2010


Wicker Park/Bucktown First Friday

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Title: Wicker Park/Bucktown First FridayLocation: Flat Iron Arts Building, 1579 North Milwaukee AveStart Time: 18:00Date: 2010-12-03End Time: 22:00 Share This!

Wicker Park/Bucktown First Friday

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Title: Wicker Park/Bucktown First FridayLocation: Flat Iron Arts Building, 1579 North Milwaukee AveStart Time: 18:00Date: 2010-11-05End Time: 22:00 Share This!

Wicker Park/Bucktown First Friday

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Title: Wicker Park/Bucktown First FridayLocation: Flat Iron Arts Building, 1579 North Milwaukee AveStart Time: 18:00Date: 2010-10-01End Time: 22:00 Share This!

Wicker Park/Bucktown First Friday

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Title: Wicker Park/Bucktown First FridayLocation: Flat Iron Arts Building, 1579 North Milwaukee AveStart Time: 18:00Date: 2010-09-03End Time: 22:00 Share This!

Wicker Park/Bucktown First Friday

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Title: Wicker Park/Bucktown First FridayLocation: Flat Iron Arts Building, 1579 North Milwaukee AveStart Time: 18:00Date: 2010-08-06End Time: 22:00 Share This!

Smart Readings: Containing Emotions: Chairs

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Title: Smart Readings: Containing Emotions: ChairsLocation: Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 5550 S. Greenwood Ave.Description: Read excerpts from poems and essays and think about what it means to be held by ordinary and extraordinary chairs. Led by poet Matthias Regan, workshop participants will examine feeling—the dimension of experience where sensation meets emotion—in relation Read more…

Redrawing Wright

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Title: Redrawing WrightLocation: Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 5550 S. Greenwood Ave.Description: Enjoy an afternoon of sketching Frank Lloyd Wright-designed objects featured in the Smart Museum’s exhibition “Good Design” and then stroll over to the nearby Robie House to sketch the interior and exterior of Wright’s icon of modernism. This adult workshop is Read more…

A Break with the Past: The Bauhaus, Hitler, and Chicago

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Title: A Break with the Past: The Bauhaus, Hitler, and ChicagoLocation: Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 5550 S. Greenwood Ave.Description: Join Alan Fern, emeritus director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery, for a talk about the people and ideas that led to the foundation of the Bauhaus, a school of architecture and Read more…

Smart Readings: Containing Emotions: Bowls

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Title: Smart Readings: Containing Emotions: BowlsLocation: Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 5550 S. Greenwood Ave.Description: Read excerpts from poems and essays and think about what it means to hold ordinary and extraordinary bowls. Led by poet Matthias Regan, workshop participants will examine feeling—the dimension of experience where sensation meets emotion—in relation to objects Read more…

Furnishing the Good Fight: Mid-Century Modern and the Cold War

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Title: Furnishing the Good Fight: Mid-Century Modern and the Cold WarLocation: Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 5550 S. Greenwood Ave.Description: Consider how mid-century modern design helped brand the West and East during the Cold War. This free lunch-hour talk will be led by Maggie Taft, PhD candidate in art history at the University Read more…