Archive for June, 2010
Wicker Park/Bucktown First Friday
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010Wicker Park/Bucktown First Friday
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010Wicker Park/Bucktown First Friday
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010Wicker Park/Bucktown First Friday
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010Smart Readings: Containing Emotions: Chairs
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010Title: 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, 2010Title: 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, 2010Title: 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, 2010Title: 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, 2010Title: 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…