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
Annual General Membership Picnic
Come join all your CSI friends at Montrose Harbor, for the Annual General Membership Picnic on Sunday, August 14th, from 6 to 8 p.m. The picnic will be held at the tiered concrete breakers, south along W. Montrose Harbor Drive, with a panoramic view of the Chicago skyline. (Add map)
CSI will provide the sandwiches and asks that you bring a side dish to share. Please bring your own beverages.
Click on map for Google map and directions
Sculpture Invasion 2022 at Koehnline Art Museum (CSI Biennial)
Sculpture Invasion 2022 / CSI Biennial at Koehnline Art Museum
July 14 – September 30, 2022
It will be CSI’s fourth time sharing our members' work at the Koehnline Museum of Art at Oakton Community College, and it will serve as a CSI Biennial exhibition.
Members of Chicago Sculpture International (CSI) return for the fourth time to one of the area’s largest juried exhibitions. Sculptures and scale models will be on display in the Koehnline Art Museum, and an impressive group of outdoor sculptures will “invade” the Des Plaines campus. CSI seeks to expand public understanding and appreciation of Chicago sculpture, engage artists and art professionals in a dialogue to advance the art form.
Participating artists: Ange Altenhofen, Nikki Renee Anderson, Janet Austin, Nicole Beck, Sharon Bladholm, Joseph A. Burlini, Mia Capodilupo, Gwen Yen Chiu, Michele Corazzo, Daryls Ewoldt, Christine Forni, Steve Gaeth, Amanda Gentry, Shelley Gilchrist, Barbara Goldsmith, Carol Hammerman, Donna Hapac, Suzanne Horwitz, Indira Johnson, Karl Johnson, Terry Karpowicz, Keith Kaziak, Fred Klingelhofer, Laurie W. LeBreton, Boruch Lev, Margot McMahon, Bobbi Meier, Brian E. Monaghan, Scott Mossman, Katherine Nemanich, Christopher Newman, David Noguchi, Christine Perri, Jan Petry, Jean Jacques Porret, Gina Lee Robbins, Nancy Lu Rosenheim, Dominic Sansone, Samuel Schwindt, Yvette Kaiser Smith, Eric Steele, George Everet Thompson, Michele Thrane, John Upchurch, Patrick D. Wilson, Chris Wubeena, Shencheng Xu, Plamen Yordanov
Opening Reception: July 14, 2022, 5 to 8pm
Koehnline Museum of Art
Oakton Community College
1600 Golf Rd, Des Plaines, IL 60016
(847) 635-1600
Click here for map.
Scale (Group exhibit at 3D4D gallery)
Scale
3D4D gallery group exhibit
June 3-July 9, 2022
3D4D Gallery presents an exhibition that plays with the concept of scale, where tiny things are made huge, or life-sized objects and installations are reimagined in miniature. These 24 artists use perspective and scale to draw attention to, and affect the ways people perceive and respond to their work.
This show will include miniature works, micro galleries, maquettes, and oversized 2D and 3D artworks and installations.
The exhibiting artists are: Sharon Bladholm, Berthold Boone, Tomas Co, Michele Corazzo, Christine Forni, Victoria Fuller, Set Gozo, Celia Greiner, Carol Hammerman, Irene Hoppenberg, Fred Klingelhofer, Gary Kulak, Laurie LeBreton, Micki LeMieux, Margot Mcmahon, Bobbi Meier, Scott Mossman, Thomas Plum, Howard Sandroff, Samuel Schwindt, Paul Gerard Somers, Nancy VanKanegan, Marjorie Woodruff, Chris Wubbena and Plamen Yordanov.
Opening Reception: Friday, June 3, 2022, 5 to 8pm
Exhibit closes: Saturday, July 9th, 2022
RFP: Public Art Projects in Big Marsh Park
RFP: Public Art Projects in Big Marsh Park
Chicago Sculpture International (CSI), in collaboration with the Chicago Park District, is seeking experienced artists and artist teams to create original, site-specific, public sculptures for Big Marsh, a 280-acre park on the Southeast Side.
Big Marsh had been the site of a waste and slag dumping ground from surrounding industrial operations since the late 1800s. In the early 2000s, the City of Chicago and the Chicago Park District teamed up to restore this area to a healthy habitat and eco-recreation park.
This is an opportunity to create an artwork that will emerge from the park; the majority of the materials used will be found in the park. There are available natural materials such as rocks, stones, standing dead trees, logs and certain plants—for example, the plentiful phragmites. And although Big Marsh has undergone an extensive renovation in this century, one can still find remnants of its industrial past, such as shipping containers, tires, bricks, cobblestones, cement fragments and slag; these materials can be used for the artwork as well. Durable sculpture materials such as stone, metal and wood that artists need but cannot be found in the park can be brought in to create the artwork.
The image gallery above shows possible sites for projects (as well as materials), and artists are encouraged to visit Big Marsh during public hours to see them in person.
(Note: photos were taken in late winter, before spring blooming.)
Artists can also create earthworks with soil that is brought into the park; extensive digging is restricted because of the presence of buried industrial materials. Plantings with native plants are permitted.
Artists must do the majority of their work on site. Heavy items in the park that artists want to work with will be transported to the site of the art projects if help is needed.
Artwork can be functional, such as seating, animal habitats or way-finding structures; or non-functional. The work should reflect the color palette of the park and not employ any fluorescent colors. The work must be safe for the public and be able to last for up to three years, resilient to varying temperatures and other outdoor elements. Structural integrity and safety are primary considerations.
Artists will be asked to commit to two talks about their completed projects at the Ford Calumet Environmental Center in Big Marsh Park.
Stipend: $10,000-$30,000
Timeline: Submissions due on Friday, June 3, 2022, at 11:59 pm CST. Projects must be finished by November 30, 2022.
Requirements
This RFP is open to professional artists who are at least 18 years of age. Artists whose proposals are accepted, if they are not already CSI members, will be asked to join. There are many membership benefits, including exhibition and networking opportunities, a presence on our website and access to valuable professional information. See what we’re all about at: www.chicagosculpture.org.
Sculptors must have, according to the Chicago Park District, “Commercial General Liability Insurance (Primary and Umbrella) on an occurrence basis with limits not less than $1,000,000 single limit per occurrence and $2,000,000 in the aggregate for bodily injury, personal injury and property damage. The Chicago Park District is to be named as an Additional Insured on a Primary, non-contributory basis.”
How To Apply
You may propose two concepts, but only one will be accepted. In other words, your application can describe either one or two concepts. You may submit a concept sketch or other rendering.
Materials to be submitted:
A document describing your proposed project(s) (limit 300 words per proposal).
A maximum of 6 digital images—samples of relevant past work and any proposal renderings. File names should make it clear which images are of proposal renderings, and they should be numbered and named in this manner—last name, first name, number, description or title of work; for example: doejohn01_proposaldrawing, doejohn02_recycledbottlesculpture, doejohn03_woodsculpture, etc. Images should be jpegs of a maximum 1MB apiece.
Image List (not to exceed 500 characters for each image). Please use this document as an opportunity to explain/describe your past work images and their relevance to this project. If you completed a project as a team member, the image list should indicate your role for each image submitted.
Bio. A document of 200 words. If you are applying as part of a team, please provide a bio for each team member (not to exceed 200 words per artist).
Resume with name, street address, email, phone number and web site.
Send all materials in a zip folder, with your last name and “Big Marsh 2022,” to info@chicagosculpture.org
If you have questions about the project and/or application please contact: info@chicagosculpture.org
International Sculpture Day
Per the ISC website, "International Sculpture Day (ISDay) is a worldwide celebration event to further the International Sculpture Center’s (ISC) mission of advancing the creation and understanding of sculpture and its unique, vital contribution to society. ISDay occurs on the last Saturday of April every year. Anyone or any organization with an appreciation and commitment to the field of sculpture is invited to participate."
SPECIAL NOTE:
There is no better time to renew your ISC membership and update your ISC Sculptors Portfolio. There are currently over 240 opportunities listed for Sculptors. DON'T DELAY!
Your ISC membership provides you with:
• Your listing on ISC Sculptors Portfolio
• Access to Weekly Art Slams, Artists Talks, Sculpt ER - virtual critique sessions, opportunities to present your work for constructive dialogue while connecting with other sculptors.
• Attend Free Workshops
• ISC Opportunities listings
• Sculpture magazine
• Access to Weekly Art Slams, Artists Talks, Sculpt ER - virtual critique sessions, opportunities to present your work for constructive dialogue while connecting with other sculptors.
• Attend Free Workshops
Plus, you get a chapter discount - 20% off Essential & Professional levels.
Sign In to your ISC member account or click here to renew your ISC membership.
(Contact membership@sculpture.org for questions or assistance with logins/renewals)
Limited Time Offer: If your ISC membership has lapsed, take advantage of the lapsed member offer (50% off) to rejoin by emailing membership@sculpture.org today.
Also, If you are a CSI member and have a sculpture-related special event planned to coincide with ISDAY ‘22, let us know and we’ll help get the word out! Send your information along with an image of your work or graphic to info@chicagosculpture.org
RFP: Sculpture in the Parks 2022-2024
Damon Hamm, From Orion, Marquette Park, 2021
RFP: Sculpture in the Parks 2022-2024
Chicago Sculpture International, in collaboration with the Chicago Park District, is seeking proposals from artists for the 2022-2024 Sculpture in the Parks Exhibition.
Works must be large scale and suitable for outdoors. They will be placed near cultural centers (fieldhouses) within the parks, as determined by CPD. They will be installed on hardscape or softscape (grass), so artists must be prepared for either type of installation. There are no concrete pads for sculptures. Sculptures will be on view for two years, from October 2022 to October 2024 (exact dates to be determined). Each sculpture will receive a $3000 stipend.
Application Deadline: Friday, April 22, 2022, 11:59 PM CST
Click here to download the application:
.docx version
PDF version
For questions about the RFP or application, please contact: info@chicagosculpture.org