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January 2024, South Beach, Miami
Tender Shifting: upcoming performance with collaborators, Alexandra and Ricardo Munguia-Mueller at Wolfsonia-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, 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 (New Orleans Glassworks + Printmaking Studio)
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 27, 2023


Click here to learn more about MotherWords | with support from 3Arts


The Crowded Table
PO Box Collective, Chicago, IL
May 1-June 6, 2022


Click here to view 3Arts artist profile.

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

Four fantastic art shows to catch before they’re gone
image: Emily Lindskoog, Winter Break (detail)

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

Spread from MJ2 | Left: Camila Ussa Villamil | Right: Tsedaye Makonnen, photo by Ayana Evans

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

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Collective Terrain  // Inaugural Issue // December 2018
Forefronting art that expresses Humanity’s complicated relationship to land

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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

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Peeling off the Grey
The Chicago ACT Collective
National Museum of Mexican Art
May 11 – October 7, 2018

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Collaborative Collisions, CC’s Art Garage, Chicago, IL 2018