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Photos: Renegade Craft Fair

Photos: Renegade Craft Fair

Kaitlyn Roberts September 20, 2015

After a night of raging thunderstorms, Chicagoans from far and wide swarmed to Wicker Park Sept. 19 and 20 to enjoy not only the beautiful sunshine, but the city’s 12th annual Renegade Craft Fair. The...

Gallery Guichard exhibition features chilling Michael Brown sculpture

Sam Schwindt August 6, 2015

Face down, splayed across the ground is the body of Michael Brown. It is not August 9, 2014 when Michael Brown was shot 12 times and killed by Officer Darren Wilson, and we are not in Ferguson. Instead,...

Julie Rodrigues Widholm named DePaul Art Museum director

Julie Rodrigues Widholm named DePaul Art Museum director

Kirsten Onsgard July 1, 2015

The university announced today that Museum of Contemporary Art curator Julie Rodrigues Widholm has been named director of the DePaul Art Museum, beginning Aug. 31. Widholm will succeed Louise Lincoln,...

This photo of the Chicago skyline called “Jardine Water Treatment Plant” was taken on Oct. 24, 2014 as part of “Liminal Infrastructure.” (Photo courtesy of Metabolic Studios)

DePaul Art Museum’s ‘Liminal Structure’ sees Chicago through a new lens

Lindsay Goldstein May 31, 2015

Last October, artists Lauren Bon, Tristan Duke and Richard Nielsen brought a giant shipping container to Chicago.  That shipping container had been fashioned into a giant photography device, called...

Sonja Thomsen poses with “Trace of Possibility” at the DePaul Art Museum May 14. (DePaul University/Jamie Moncrief)

‘Glowing Wavelengths’ opens at DePaul Art Museum

Jordan Sarti May 17, 2015

Sonja Thomsen’s solo show at the DePaul Art Museum (DPAM), “Glowing Wavelengths in Between,” invites viewers to have temporal experiences with light. The show features photographs, sculpture and...

Kris Martin, “T. Y. F. F. S.H.,” 2011. Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift of Mary and Earle Ludgin by exchange. © 2011 Kris Martin. (Photo: Robert Wedemeyer. Courtesy of the artist and MARC FOXX, Los Angeles.)

MCA exhibition ‘S, M, L, XL’ engages with all shapes, sizes

Tiffany Freeman May 17, 2015

Size does matter, according to the recent exhibition, “S, M, L, XL,” at The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA). The exhibit held four works in varying sizes, spanning five decades with Robert Morris’...

DePaul Art Museum presents ‘Liminal Infrastructure’ May 14

Kirsten Onsgard April 27, 2015

Pinhole cameras are often the smallest and simplest photographic devices, but as one of the world's largest drove through Chicago as a shipping container, it produced stunning landscape photos of the...

Lauren Dyrek leads Human Communion, a participatory therapeutic art series. (Photo courtesy of Human Communion)

Art events in Chicago heal through expressive celebration

Jordan Sarti April 19, 2015

Many students use drinking, dancing and attending art events as opportunities for cathartic release after overscheduled workweeks. But some groups around Chicago are drawing an even more explicit connection...

(Vanessa Bell / The DePaulia)

Louder than a Bomb: World’s largest youth poetry festival empowers and enlightens

Vanessa Bell and Emily Brandenstein April 5, 2015

The floor seating of the Arie Crown Theater was packed with over 2,000 students cheering, dancing and laughing with their friends. In one corner of the VIP section was a camera crew adjusting their tripods...

Sophomore Julia Dougarian and director Katie Sullivan knit pieces during a meeting of Crafting for a Cause. A subgroup of Catholic Campus Ministry, the group meets weekly as both an opportunity to share in their love of crafting and to give back to the community. Many of their blankets and scarves are donated to the needy, sometimes through the St. Vincent DePaul Center. (Emily Brandenstein / The DePaulia)

Bringing crafty back: Crafting for a Cause at DePaul gives back

Colin Sallee March 1, 2015

Creating new things with just two hands and some tools is a rarity for many college students. But Crafting for a Cause, a subgroup of the Catholic Campus Ministry, is trying to change that. The group...

Review: MCA’s Doris Salcedo retrospective

Review: MCA’s Doris Salcedo retrospective

Jordan Sarti February 22, 2015

The Museum of Contemporary Art’s fourth floor houses Colombian artist Doris Salcedo’s first retrospective.  Salcedo has produced sculptures, installations and public interventions for the last 30...

Colombian-born writer and activist Jennifer Tamayo. (Photo courtesy of Poetry Foundation)

Artist Jennifer Tamayo talks Dora the Explorer and Dreamers

Jordan Sarti February 9, 2015

Jennifer Tamayo sat with a long white sheet draped over her front and neatly spread in front of her.  As audience members filled the Poetry Foundation’s reading room, she scribbled the Gloria Anzaldua...

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