On the Line: Messages of Care: Terrain Biennial 2025
MotherArt: Revisited, public art installation currently on display in Avondale, Chicago. Interactive AR component, and a toll free # you can call to hear messages of care in multiple languages.
*NAP Teaching Artist Gatherings (*Not Another Professional Development) in partnership with UIC’s Gallery 400, with support from CAPE and Terra Foundation
A year-long program building community, sharing in new experiences with the city as our classroom, learning new skills from each other, and with each other.
SAIC Magazine: MotherArt: Revisited Feature
Poor Farm Experiment: Knitting in the Dark
Murmurations, Northern Michigan University: Marquette, MI
Poor Farm Experiment: Garden the Gardner
WORKROOM RESIDENCY
All City: A bookwork of Arts Education in Chicago
Antennae: The Journal of Art and Nature
To Surrender: Gardner and Gardened
Proximities: participatory audio-visual
Friday, January 17th, 5:30 – 7:30 PM
Join us for an evening of screenings of featured moving image work in the current exhibition, Practices in Proximity: Learning and Unlearning from Pedagogical Experience. The participating artists will discuss the process of making moving image work in relation to participation with others. Afterwards the exhibition curator, Josh Rios, will facilitate a conversation regarding the participatory in video production followed by an audience Q & A. The central question guiding this program is: How can moving image and video work, which tends to favor certain authorial structures, also operate as a form of group dynamics. The evening will begin with a collaborative reading of Design Studio for Social Intervention’s Aesthetic Justice Manifesto.
Artists in this program include Laura Sáenz, Kirsten Leenaars, Alberto Aguilar, Jessica Mueller, Timothy Rey, and Diana Q. Rivera – Curated by media artist, writer and educator Josh Rios.
Exhibition on view from September 10, 2024 – January 17, 2025. Gallery hours 10 AM-4 PM Tuesday-Thursday or by appointment.
The Practices in Proximity: Learning and Unlearning from Pedagogical Experiences exhibition brings CAPE teaching artists and invited creative practitioners into a dialogue about their pedagogical experiences. The sites, scenes, and social engagement of learning—whether formal, informal, institutional, or autonomous—impact how the artists negotiate collective spaces and their personal creativity. Manifesting in various ways, artistic concern toward teaching and learning is a nuanced experience defined by proximity to others in improvisation and uncertainty.
Participating artists: Alberto Aguilar, Kayla Anderson, Molly Cranch, Design Studio for Social Intervention, Eseosa Ekiawowo Edebiri, Flor Flores, Katie Giritlian, Kimi Hanauer, Andres Hernandez, Niema Qureshi + Betsy Zacsek, Kirsten Leenaars, Jennifer Mannebach, Jessica Mueller, Timothy David Rey, Emilie Robinson, Greg Ruffing + Brandon Alvendia, Laura Sáenz, Public Collectors, and Gwendolyn Terry.
Poor Farm: Living in the Play, Manawa, Wisconsin Summer 2024
Big thanks to @kelciafk and @markjosephjeffery for creating and caring for this space that allows artists to openly explore and to @michelleagrabner and Brad Killam for preserving this special historical site.
Barry Elementary School Community Mural Part 2 – Summer 2024
January 2024, Wolfsonian-FIU, South Beach, Miami
Tender Shifting: upcoming performance with collaborators, Alexandra and Ricardo Munguia-Mueller at Wolfsonian-FIU. Performance January 28 at 3pm. Exhibition: November 2 – January 28.
August 2023, Monte Castello di Vibio, Umbria, Italy
Living In The Play: nido II is an international consortium of artists living and working in Monte Castello di Vibio, Italy, during a two week artist residency culminating in an exhibition of artworks. Exhibition: August 24 – August 26.
During this residency, the group individually and collectively explored the social historical landscape, use of land resources, and the hidden histories of Monte Castello di Vibio and the surrounding region. Their journeys to the mummified forest at Dunarobba, the dying city of Civita di Bagnoregio, Sanctuary of the Madonna del Bagni, the cathedral of Santa Chiara, the Basilica of St. Francesco, the Hermitage of the Friars of St Francis, the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli – and more – have guided their conversations and contributed to the making practices of each artist.
This residency is in partnership with the International Center for the Arts in Monte Castello di Vibio and the Poor Farm Experiment in rural Wisconsin, USA, the latter of which has hosted Living In the Play since 2018. The goal of this residency is to gather artists through intentional actions that explore the contingent nature of hosting and gathering in rural environments, locating the fleeting and the reverberating substances particular to the moment of temporary, intentional assembly. Using the “artist residency,” a reliably liminal site, as a platform for inquiry and play – the site of the residency becomes a “stage” or “field” that can collapse forms from daily life, the studio, and the event to produce a living and working space that builds on the natural byproducts of the shared experience (responsiveness) towards a cumulative public occurrence (resonance). In this sense, Material Girl is an exhibition of works which have been composed from the experiences, conversations, images, and materials gathered during the residency.
September 2023, Compound Yellow, Oak Park, IL
For the Making: free family (or solo is cool too!) bookmaking and sound exploration workshop.
July- August 2023, Chicago, IL
Community Mural at Barry Elementary School, phase 2 will be underway summer 2024!
Summer 2023 + 2024, Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education, Bridgeport, Chicago
WORKROOM RESIDENCY
November 2023, Montrose Saloon, Chicago, IL
Special collaboration with WAW
2022-23 Artist Researcher Partnerships, CAPE + Multiple Chicago Public Schools, Chicago, IL
The Academy, Design Department Class Trips: Two Rivers, Wisconsin (Hamilton Wood Type Museum); St. Louis, Missouri (Central Print); New Orleans, Louisiana (Inkwell Press + Community Printmaking Studio + Andrea Narno – Just Seeds Artist)
Original student designs and vintage Academy logos screen printed by our team of graphic design students. 100% of proceeds go directly to students- reducing the cost of our art + design centered class trips, this year to New Orleans!
Chicago ACT Collective Exhibition, Workshops and Artist Talk at Governors State University
April 2023
3Arts Crowdfunding Campaign for MotherWords Washcloths 2023
Click here to learn more about MotherWords | with support from 3Arts
The Crowded Table
Artist Residency: PO Box Collective, Chicago, IL
May 1-June 6, 2022
The Chicago ACT Collective; Art in the Time of…
Chicago Art Department | July 9 – August 11, 2021
El Arte de Hablar con Mi Reflejo | The Art of Speaking with My Reflection Book Release
Shelter in Place Artist Mothers Work: A collection of works from the first six months of the Coronavirus pandemic. Book Release & Reading: Shelter in Place: An Afternoon with Artist Mothers | 3:30 – 4: 30 p.m. CDT
Emergency INDEX Vol. 9
Folding Clothes | MotherArt: Revisited
MotherArt: Revisited Responds to “On Tyranny” by Timothy Snyder
November 3, 2020 – Ongoing
Knots & Nodes: Mother to Mother, MotherArt: Revisited Summit
Chicago Art Department
Opening June 12th, 6-8pm (socially distant)
Mothers’ Days by Lenka Clayton | Contribution from Jessica Mueller
Four fantastic art shows to catch before they’re gone
By LORI WAXMAN | CHICAGO TRIBUNE | JAN 22, 2020
Typeforce 11
Co-Prosperity Sphere
February 28th, 6-11:30pm
Opening Reception
Mother Art: Revisited Summit:Knots and Nodes. Mother to Mother.
Chicago Art Department
March 19-22nd
Hyde Park Arts Center, Extended Self: Transformations and Connections
October 12, 2019 – February 9, 2020
January 20th, 12-2pm MLK Day “Freedom Family” Celebration
December 8th 1-4pm Second Sundays
Hyde Park Arts Center, Extended Self: Transformations and Connections
October 12, 2019 – February 9, 2020
Opening Reception October 12, 3-5pm with performance by Jessica Mueller, Alexandra and Ricardo Munguia-Mueller at 4pm.
WOMEN’S CAUCUS FOR ART
2020 Juried National Exhibition: Collectively Shifting
January 17 – February 21, 2020
Third Fridays: January 17th, 7-10pm
Reception: Friday, February 14, 2020 5-7 PM
Maternal Journal 2
November 24th, 2019 Release Party at Red Dirt Studios, 4051 34th St, Mt Rainier MD Click here to purchase
MotherArt: Revisited presents Interruptions with LonArt at Sheroes Revoluciones
November 22nd-24th
Ugly Duck, 47/49 Tanner Street, London
The Chicago ACT Collective @ Grabolandia // Instituto Graphico de Chicago
November 17th, 2019
National Museum of Mexican Art
SECAC, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
From Houston to Chicago; Rethinking Sustainable Art Practices as Mother Artists
October 19, 2019
The Chicago Act Collective @ Networks of Resistance //
Just Seeds
October 12, 2019
6-11pm at Co Prosperity Sphere
MotherArt: Revisited; Interruptions, July 30-August 3, 2019 at Hairpin Arts Center
Artist Parent Index // A searchable database of Artists, Exhibits, and Resources exploring Reproduction and Care taking
Collective Terrain // Inaugural Issue // December 2018
Forefronting art that expresses Humanity’s complicated relationship to land
MFA Thesis Exhibition at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago July 13-29
Opening July 12, 2018 6-8pm (live performance at 7:15pm)
Sullivan Galleries, 33 S. State Street, 7th floor, Chicago
Peeling off the Grey
The Chicago ACT Collective
National Museum of Mexican Art
May 11 – October 7, 2018
Collaborative Collisions, CC’s Art Garage, Chicago, IL 2018
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