CSI Juried Exhibition at Northern Illinois University
2023 Chicago Sculpture International Juried Exhibition
Jack Olson Gallery, NIU School of Art and Design
January 23-March 2, 2023
Exhibition dates: Monday, January 23-Thursday, March 2
Closing Reception: March 2, 4:30-6:30 PM
Pick-up of work: March 2, 6:30-7:30 PM, March 3, 10:00-4:00
For more information: olsongallerycoordinator@gmail.com
Entry deadline: Dec. 1, 2022
Sculptors are invited to enter up to three works in the 2023 Chicago Sculpture International Juried Exhibition at the Jack Olson Gallery, NIU School of Art and Design. The Olson Gallery’s coordinator, Peter Van Ael, will jury the exhibition.
If selected for the exhibition, artists must be a current CSI member or sign-up for membership. www.chicagosculpture.org/become-a-member An artist statement will be required for the accepted piece.
Entry Requirements
All entries will be submitted as digital images; jpeg for still sculpture, MP4 for kinetic works.
Submit application form and images to:
olsongallerycoordinator@gmail.com
Click here to download application form (.doc version).
Click here to download application form (.pdf versionEach entry must be saved with a file name in the following format:
Artist’s name, title of work, and number of the entry, separated by underscore.
Example: JackOlson_SublimeSculpture_2
Please format jpegs to 300 dpi at 4”x5” or 72 dpi, 1024 pixels in longest dimension. Limit length of MP4 files to 60 seconds max.
Calendar
Entry deadline: Dec. 1, 2022
Email notification of acceptance: Dec. 10, 2022
Delivery of Accepted Work: January 10-12, 2023, 10:00-4:00
Exhibition dates: Monday, January 23-Thursday, March 2
Closing Reception: March 2, 4:30-6:30 PM
Pick-up of work: March 2, 6:30-7:30 PM, March 3, 10:00-4:00
For more information: olsongallerycoordinator@gmail.com
Opening Reception: “Femininity, Memories & Allegories” at 3D4D Gallery
Femininity, Memories & Allegories
Felix Suazo, Curator (Venezuela, Miami) brings together Nikki Renee Anderson (Chicago) and Lisu Vega (Venezuela, Miami) for a two-woman show presenting sculpture and installation artworks that dialogue on themes of gender and memory through form.
Opening Reception: Friday, Saturday 9, 2022, 6 - 8pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, September 10, 2022, 3 - 5pm
3D4D Gallery
1912 N. Damen Ave.
Chicago, IL
(at Cortland & Damen in the Bucktown neighborhood)
Gallery Hours:
Thursday-Saturday, 1-6 PM
or by appointment
For more info: 3d3dbycsi@gmail.com
3D4D Exhibit: “Femininity, Memories & Allegories”
Femininity, Memories & Allegories
Felix Suazo, Curator (Venezuela, Miami) brings together Nikki Renee Anderson (Chicago) and Lisu Vega (Venezuela, Miami) for a two-woman show presenting sculpture and installation artworks that dialogue on themes of gender and memory through form.
Exhibition Dates:
September 9th through 30th, 2022
Opening Reception:
Friday, Saturday 9, 2022, 6 - 8pm
Artist Talk:
Saturday, September 10, 2022, 3 - 5pm
3D4D Gallery
1912 N. Damen Ave.
Chicago, IL
(at Cortland & Damen in the Bucktown neighborhood)
Gallery Hours:
Thursday-Saturday, 1-6 PM
or by appointment
For more info: 3d3dbycsi@gmail.com
Virtual Art Classes for Summer
Virtual Art Classes for Summer
A miniature park by Anthony Heinz May
Anthony Heinz May
Miniature Parks
Summertime is a time of year typically reserved to celebrate nature, the outdoors and our parks, especially in Chicago. Chicago has more parks per capita than any other city in the United States. Using found natural materials alongside a few other additions of artistic media, this workshop will encourage participants to create models of their own parks. Twigs, construction paper-cut leaves, water-based clay, and a secret recipe of ingredients will be used to create miniature park replicas to celebrate importance of our natural worlds.
Crepe paper flowers for Micki LeMieux
Micki LeMieux
Crepe Paper Flowers
Reconstruct nature through beauty of expression using delicate paper compositions. Flowers celebrate life through gradients of color. When given, they offer care and kindness; they hold emotional value. Flowers are reminders of the fragility of nature. They can be easily crushed and once picked, can only last indoors as long as water in vases will allow them. Paper flowers last much longer. They can't be found on e-Bay/Amazon because you made them yourself.
Cooper Wire Trees by Kara James
Kara O. James
Copper Wire Trees
Bend, twist and snip user-friendly gauges of copper wire to create small tree sculptures that can be decorated with beads as leaves. Trees breathe in what we breathe out (CO2) and breathe out what we breathe in (O2). Perhaps the most underrated educational lifeforms on Earth, we can learn so much from trees if we only listened to them more. Copper gives unparalleled conductance in so many of the things we use, allowing for human communication like roots of trees that hold conversations with one another. This symbolism presents and reinforces both old and new ways to look at life. Trees for Peace.
Times and dates for classes are expected to be announced soon. Please check in again soon!
We looking to implement more classes for Fall. Send your ideas to: anthonyheinzmay@chicagosculpture.org