If you are an Illinois resident, the Art Institute of Chicago will admit you for no charge on weekdays through February 10.
You’re still home? Go there!
Join AA in Wauconda
“A national touring exhibition featuring works by celebrated photographer Ansel Adams (1902-1984) extends through January 8, 2012 at the Lake County Discovery Museum in Wauconda.
In Lake County and the Chicago area for the first time, the Classic Images: Photography by Ansel Adams exhibition presents a rare portfolio of 70 photographs hand-printed by the artist, and selected by him to represent the best of his life’s work.
‘The Museum Set’ collection of Adams’s favorites reveals a lifetime devoted to capturing the drama and splendor of the natural world. Through these photographs, museum visitors will be swept away to mountains and horizons in places such as Sierra Nevada and sun-baked geometries of New Mexico, and enjoy them through Adam’s keen eye for the rhythmic detail.
Adams’s prints are known for their technical mastery and subtle gradations of tone and contrast. His vision speaks of the enduring power of fine photography. He promoted his techniques through published writings and workshops, which have influenced photographers through the years.
The Lake County Discovery Museum is located on Route 176, just west of Fairfield Road and east of Wauconda in Lakewood Forest Preserve. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday–Saturday; 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $6 for adults, $3 for students ages 18 to 25, and $2.50 for youth ages 4 to 17. Admission is discounted on Tuesdays: $3 for adults, and free for youth 17 years and under.” A $1.00 discount coupon is available on the website: How much will you have to pay: $3.00? $2.00? $2.50? $1.50? Nothing?
http://www.lcfpd.org/calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=calendar.viewDetail&object_id=35173
Vote Early, Vote Often
The Photo Devoto who wears f13 entered the Reader’s annual photo contest. Rather than rummaging through already-existing digital files that could be perceived, however ironic or propagandistic, as touching on the theme, she set out to make images specifically for the competition which are formally strong and non-doctrinaire. The Reader’s fbook page says: “The theme for photos is money. We’re giving away bicycles, gift cards and Ray Ban sunglasses for the submissions that receive the highest number of likes and comments in this album. This has nothing to do with which photos are published in the paper. There are some details below regarding the content here. Please contact gcook@chicagoreader.com with questions or requests.
1) Only one of your photos can win – even if two of your photos receive a million votes, you still only get ONE prize.
2) Photos with the most votes qualify you for prize winning. Votes do not determine whether or not your photo will make it into the paper. Our editorial staff will choose the pictures that will be published.
3) Your photo might be missing its title. If this makes you angry, feel free to comment below the photo and add your title.
4) If you do not see your photo, you’re not the only one. We did not post pictures that had nothing to do with the theme ‘money’. There was discretionary editing.”
They’re pictures #100 & 101; try to ignore the less than constructive criticism in the comments (apparently, not everyone has adopted a benign avocation with which to while away idle hours). Don’t wait until you’re a ghost voter: do it now!
Hoppa Ottsho
‘Twas a grand evening: a robust turnout from all of the schools’ winners, families, and peers. The HGFOS apparently went into hiding (so few were the sightings), but there was food and there was music.
WRH
There simply isn’t room for all the good work. Aside from drawings, paintings, prints, and mixed-media collages, when the Art Department faculty looked at work to enter into the Harper Art Show they considered over 130 photographs. The final batch of 43 pictures includes 16 photos by Haley Bulandr, Jack Foersterling, Fay Jenson, Melissa B. Jones, Caroline Horswill…
…Michelle Henneberry, Stephanie Walterman, Zach Rowe, Michael Colby, Mikayla Johnson, Justine Kaszynski, Lauren Captain, Rachel Parker, and Nikki Nixon.
Each school is awarded a first, second, and third place in both 2-D and in 3-D, plus six honorable mentions. For Barrington Huge School:
2-D: 1st, Stephanie Walterman; 2nd, Heather Ciskowski; 3rd, Caroline Horswill. Honorable Mention: Becca Mooney, Allison Monie, Maggie Mulica.
3-D: 1st, Alex Guzman; 2nd, Kaitlyn Fitzpatrick; 3rd, Tiffany Chen. Honorable Mention: Annie Graft, Tiffany Chen, Andrea Vizuet.
The reception and awards presentation is Wednesday, November 30 at 7:00 PM, and it includes music, food, and HGFOS,* some of whom may or may not be among these other winners:
Elk Grove: Taylor Bischoff, Cheryll Victuelles, Patrick Glennon, Elisabeth Puca, Emma Pierce, Margaret Jaryszek, Christi Erbacci, Carolynne Teters
Wheeling: Dasha Krayova,Salvador Maya, Yendi Delfin, Brandon Zaremba, Fonzy Noveron, Daisy Maldonado, Keara Myatt, Karli Falkner, Courtney Kalash, Daisy Martinez
Rolling Meadows: Iga Jedrocha, Jimmy Yeaman, Vinny Carbone, Rachel Weininski, Alex Connor, Lisa Kulvinen, Ivan GarciaMedina, Amy Vitale, Meaghan O’ Brien, Cassie Papciak, Amy Vitale, Nicole Gavin
Buffalo Grove: Mike Kotosev, Oliva Bueno, Starsky Correa, Polina Volodina, Felicia Kranz, Katelyn Berbert, Adam Hintzman, Michael Fisher, Ashley Jones, Angelina Ly, Patrick Boyd, Brittany Rakosnik
Palatine: Chava Krivchenia, Maddi Eppley, Ryan Turley, Itzel Lopez, Jennifer Stanton, Richard Agama, Alex Bogenberger, Emily McParlane, Nieve Heskins, Cornell Jones, Paulina Hernandez, Cody Rejman
Fremd: Sophia Kim, Gina Hublburt, Megan Moroney, Mana Juretic, Jeremy Davis, Sesh Mayo, Min Chon, Julie Comrath, Megan Majewski, Cassondra Pavlatos, Irina Andrianova, Corey Goetz
Hersey: Maddie Weber, Kayla Joo, Aimee Nguyen, Constance Heuer, Alex Lukawski, Tessa Joncas, Sky Baxter, Alexis Ureta, Ariel Wegrzyniak, Jungbin La, Esther Choi, Evan Huff
Conant: Youna Jang, Carly Acks, Nicole Matej, Frankie Garcia, Youna Jang, Abigail Gibson, Ramey Morris, Allie Shive, Lilirose Farnell, Alex Tanchyn, George Ismail
Prospect: Brittany Cavanaugh, Isabelle McGuire, Isabelle McGuire, Nina Churchill, Olivia Burgess, Nancy Chae, Jenna Gudritz, Clair Felde, Angelo Locigno, Brandon Craggs, Alec Backes, Emi Yoshimura
*Hot Guys From Other Schools
Goodbye.
http://sofobomo.org/blogpost35-SoFoBoMo-is-closing
“Twas a swell format and a useful prompt. Let’s create a replacement for ourselves, hmm?
Meatyard
Get thee downtown and bring your student ID, ut get in to see an exhibit entitled Ralph Eugene Meatyard: Dolls and Masks.
http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/exhibition/meatyard
Omigosh! It ends this Sunday!
A Kelly Stachura exhibit at the Barrington Area Library
Not my text (but apropos verbatim):
“A scavenger hunt, paper airplanes, fortune cookies, lottery tickets, and a card catalog that isn’t quite what it seems – it all adds up to artist Kelly Stachura’s amazing vision of what libraries have been and what they can be to users and their communities. Check out the exhibit, meet the artist, try the scavenger hunt.”
A very good time to attend is this Wednesday evening at 7:00. The library’s website says: “Learn about Stachura’s creative process and be prepared to interact with her exhibit via unusual channels, such as fortune cookie messages, a library scavenger hunt, books in which you do the writing, and a ‘wake’ for obsolete technology.”
Galleries, in the libraries, in the exurbs
Kelly Stachura writes: “We’ve charged three artists with the task of creating works that will use the gallery space in new and exciting ways and engage the audience by addressing library-specific themes — with concepts ranging from the accessing of information to the utilization of the library’s resources to patrons’ interactions with their artwork throughout the library environment.
“In part 1, Condition, Iain Muirhead uses the Barrington Area Library and Cuba Township as his research studio, inspecting the role and power of history remembered and forgotten. While his work is grounded in painting, Iain is compelled to work outside traditional parameters and genres and his studio practice extends to actions and environments as aesthetic media. As a result of this process, Iain will exhibit multimedia works that engages the idea of condition as both verb and noun, site-specific installations examining influence and a state (of change) particular to this place. Iain invites his audience to re-enage the notions of information, community, and space with new insight. “Condition will be on display July 8th – September 3rd, 2011″ .
An artist’s reception will be held Friday, July 15th from 7-9pm; an artist’s program will be held Wednesday, August 24th at 7pm ” …at the Barrington Area Library.
Meanwhile, Paige, the Palatine Public Library (the only public library I know where one must show an ID along with a library card–but I digress) presents The Artful Book, a Chicago Calligraphy Collective juried exhibit. The exhibition includes approximately 20 unique handmade books by 20 different artists. Books may or may not contain writing or images, and may feature unique constuction, unusual materials, size, shape, etc. This show continues through July 31, but why wait? The power may go out again. 
Creative Camerawork 