Screening

CAROLEE SCHNEEMAN
Monday October 13
4:30pm
A screening of feminist performance artist Schneeman’s lecture and interview from the SAIC Visiting Artist Program archives.
SAIC Auditorium, 280 S. Columbus Dr. Free.

Special Events

SOFA 2003
October 17 - 19
SOFA stands for Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art, and features over 85 galleries from across the globe at Navy Pier. Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, the SOFA events feature eight exhibitions, a lecture series, and glass-blowing demonstrations.
Navy Pier. Check website (sofaexpo.com) or call 800.563.7632 for hours, admission prices and shuttle schedules.

CHICAGO ARTIST’S MONTH
Organized by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, this year’s month-long celebration will highlight “Artists on the Map” — reflecting the diversity of artists in many neighborhoods — and will include a collector’s invitational, a South Loop gallery walk, open studios, the “Lunch with an Artist” program, and a tour of artwork at CTA stations.
Visit cityofchicago.org/culturalaffairs or call 312.744.6630 for more information.

13TH ANNUAL BLACK WRITERS’ CONFERENCE KICKOFF CELEBRATION
October 29
7:30-9:30 p.m.
The event will also celebrate the book release of In Montgomery, the late Gwendolyn Brooks’s last new collection of poetry.
Chicago Cultural Center, Preston Bradley Hall, 78 E. Washington St. Free.

Lectures Readings

CALL AND RESPONSE: ART IN THE AGE OF HIP-HOP CULTURE
ADRIAN PIPER
October 9
6 p.m.
Artist and philosopher Piper is this year’s President’s Council Honorary Visiting Artist.
Rubloff Auditorium, 280 S. Columbus Dr. Admission free for SAIC students, faculty, staff, $3 for SAIC alumni, students and seniors, $5 for the general public.

READING: MICHAEL ANANIA AND HAKI MADHIBUTI
October 21
6:30 p.m.
Michael Anania taught at the University of Illinois Chicago for 35 years, is a founding member of The Poetry Center, the former poetry editor of Swallow Press, and a contributing editor for Tri-Quarterly. His work has been included in the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry and his most recent collection is In Natural Light. Haki Madhibuti is the founder and chairman of Third World Press, publisher of Gwendolyn Brooks and many other African American poets and writers. Madhibuti is an influential poet in the Black Arts Movement and is the author of 19 books, including Earth-quakes and Sun Rise Missions: Poetry and Essays of Black Renewal 1973-1983.
112 S. Michigan Ave., Ballroom, $10 general admission. For more information visit www.poetrycenter.org

READING: MARY KINZIE AND CHRISTIAN WIMAN
October 22
6:30 p.m.
Poet, author of eight books and Northwestern University’s Creative Writing Program founder, Mary Kinzie explores personal, internal themes through her poetry’s lyric grace and innovative meditation. Kinzie’s latest book of poetry is titled Drift. Poet and editor of POETRY Magazine, Christian Wiman is author of the prize-winning book The Long Home, a collection of tight, meditative poems that testify to a vanished world of sharecroppers in North Texas.
112 S. Michigan Ave, Ballroom, $10 general admission.

Exhibitions

SUMAKSHI SINGH: VOID
October 7-18
Reception: Wednesday, October 8, 4 - 7 p.m.
SAIC grad Sumakshi Singh (MFA 2003) converts nooks, crannies, and architectural anomalies of spaces into imaginary landscapes and microenvironments inspired by nature’s responses to urban environments.
Gallery 400 at UIC, 1240 W. Harrison St., 312.996.6114.KERRY JAMES MARSHALL

Kerry James Marshall, “Color Blind Test,” 2003. Courtesy of the artist.

ONE TRUE THING: MEDITATIONS ON BLACK AESTHETICS
October 25 - January 18
Best known for his monumental paintings of subjects stemming from his experiences as an African American, Chicago’s own Kerry James Marshall also works in sculpture, installation, photography, video and printmaking. This exhibition is the first significant showing of his work in more than five years.
Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago Ave., 312.280.2660.ALTERNATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT
Through November
The images featured in this exhibition reflect the creative abilities and collaborative visions of SAIC alum Angela Eve Freese and her partner Anastasios Ketsios, better known as The Image Collective. In their effort to present the human body through powerful images that express their mysterious and unique styles, Angela and Anastasios show a curiosity that comes from examining and viewing these glowing images. The Image Collective duo unveil large-scale backlit alternative photographs of the human body form at the Darkroom in Ukrainian Village.
The Darkroom, 2210 W. Chicago. For more information visit www.imagecollective.com

“Center” by Angela Eve Freese and Anastasios Kersios

MARK MANDERS’S ISOLATED ROOMS
The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago and the Art Institute of Chicago will co-present a single, ambitious exhibition of new sculptures and drawings by Amster-dam-based artist Mark Manders. The project, “Isolated Rooms,” will be on view at the Renaissance Society through November 2 and AIC through January 4.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 135; the Renaissance Society, 5811 S. Ellis Ave. 4th floor, 773.702.8670.

UP TO AND INCLUDING HER LIMITS
Through December 14
A site-specific installation for the Block Museum based on Carolee Schneemann’s pioneering, taboo-breaking performances from 1973-1976.
Katz Gallery, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, 40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL. 847.491.4000.

STAN SHELLABARGER
Through October 11
Chicago artist Stan Shellabarger suspends a loose grid of pine needles in monofilament from the ceiling of Suitable’s gallery space, a converted two-car garage. This contemplative, almost carpet-like installation hangs seven feet from the ground, just above viewers’ heads.
Suitable Gallery, 2541 West Thomas. 773.862.4748.