Where the future came from : a collective research project on the role of feminism in Chicago's artist-run culture from the late-nineteenth century to the present / Meg Duguid (editor).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Duguid, Meg, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women artists--United States--History--Exhibitions.

Women artists.

History.

United States.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

History.

Physical Description:

272 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago, IL : Soberscove Press, [2020]

Summary:

Chicago is distinctive as a longstanding hub for artist-run culture. 'Where the Future Came From' expands upon previous research into this realm by focusing on the work of women and women-identified makers and their collective efforts from the late-nineteenth century to the present. Active contributors to the city's thriving art scene throughout its history, these artists have long defined how we create and organize collaborative work. This book documents a 2018-2019 participatory exhibition and related programming at Columbia College Chicago's Glass Curtain Gallery. In addition to a chronology of nearly 50 artist-run spaces and projects spanning from 1880 to 2019, this volume shares presentations and essays by 30 artists, organizers, curators, and historians that offer personal as well as scholarly accounts of feminist cultural work, much of which has not been chronicled before. 'Where the Future Came From' reveals a dynamic continuum of practices in Chicago's artist-run culture, shaping a critical conversation that places women and women-identified organizers at the core of the art world in Chicago and beyond. Exhibition: Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, USA (01.11.2018-15.02.2019).

Contents:

Where the future came from is where the future comes from / Meg Duguid

Symposium

Keynote conversation / Courtney Fink, director, Common Field, Lynne Warren, adjunct curator, MCA Chicago

Presentations

Chicago Women's Graphics Collective / Estelle Carol

Caryatids / Carol Crandall

Sisterserpents / Mary Ellen Croteau

Mango tribe / Sharmili Majmudar and Lani Montreal

Sapphire and crystals / Arlene Turner-Crawford

Woman made gallery / Beate Minkovski

Mujeres mutantes / Gloria Talamantes

F4f / Jory Drew and Amina Ross

The overlook / Jennifer Sova

Brown and proud press / Daisy Yessenia Zamora Centeno and Luz Magdaleno Flores

Chicago archives + Artists project / Kate Hadley Toftness

Roundtable discussion / Daisy Yessenia Zamora Centeno, Jory Drew, Luz Magdaleno Flores, Amina Ross, Jennifer Sova, Gloria Talamantes, Kate Hadley Toftness

Exhibition images

Scholars in residence

Women with the world at their feet?: Representing women at the Chicago World's Fairs / Tracey Jean Boisseau

Rooms of their own: Women artists' organizations and collectives in Chicago, 1890-2015 / Joanna Gardner-Huggett

Women's work at Hull-House and beyond: The feminist agenda / Melissa Hiliard Potter and Jennifer Scott, in conversation

Fighting as form: Building community on the Lower West Side / Nicole Marroquin

Women in the alcoves / Tempestt Hazel

Feminism in your face: Public art resistance / Neysa Page-Lieberman, in conversation with Sam Kirk, Media Teresa McNeil, and Gloria Talamantes

Essays

Continuum / Jeffreen M. Hayes

Crowdsourced editing through a feminist lens / Kate Sierzputowski

Safe spaces and collectives: How collectives use safe spaces to amplify voices / Rana Liu

A chronology of projects: 1880-Present.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781940190242

194019024X

OCLC:

1153037032