August 2022
Welcome to the August Newsletter
You will find:
Annual General Membership Picnic
News from the CSI Committees
3D4D Gallery exhibit
Ongoing Member Exhibitions
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.
CSI will provide the sandwiches and asks that you bring a side dish to share. Please bring your own beverages.
News from The Board
On behalf of our partnership with Greater Ravenswood Chamber of Commerce, CSI would like to extend an invitation to all our members to come out and enjoy the Ravenswood ArtWalk (RAW) Tour of Arts and Industry, September 10th and 11th from 11 am to 6 pm.
RAW is a weekend-long celebration of the Ravenswood local creative community. Explore historic architecture, artist studios, manufacturers, and see work from hundreds of local creators.
The event, stretching from Lawrence south to Waveland along Ravenswood Ave, includes open studios and galleries, pop-up performances and activations, and an outdoor arts market featuring over 50 local artists.
Click here for more details.
Click here to RSVP via Facebook.
News from the Indoor Exhibitions Committee
SCULPTURE INVASION 2022 / CSI Biennial
Koehnline Art Museum
Sculpture Invasion 2022 / CSI Biennial at the Oakton Community College’s Koehnline Museum of Art opened on July 14th.
Please share your exhibition images via email at yoonshinpark@chicagosculpture.org. The Indoor Exhibition Committee will archive them.
Transitioning to new leadership
The Indoor Exhibition Committee will work with two board members, Christine Forni and Darlys Ewoldt as new co-chairs for upcoming years.
News from the Education Committee
Art Classes for August
Micki LeMieux
Crêpe Paper Flowers
August 2, 2022
celebrate life through gradients of color, and when given they offer care and kindness; they hold emotional value. Flowers are reminders of the fragility of nature and can easily be crushed underfoot, or once picked can only last indoors as long as water in vases allow them. Paper flowers last much longer, teaching how to appreciate ephemerality found in all nature’s beauty.
This class will be taught in-person at the Lathrop Home Boys and Girls Club summer camp.
Kara James
Little Trees for Little Sculptors
This in-person session, will take place at the Lathrop homes summer camp where young minds will be learning about how trees communicate, while making little trees out of copper wire in the third workshop from CSI’s education committee outreach program. This is the final workshop of the summer and we hope to continue into the fall with more ideas!
If you have any ideas for an art class, e-mail CSI Education Outreach Committee at anthonyheinzmay@chicagosculpture.org
3D4D Gallery
By Degrees
Exhibit runs through August 19, 2022
3D4D Gallery is currently hosting an exhibition in honor of Ron Gard, former CSI Board Member and mentor to many sculptors as they moved from art degree programs into the world as working artists. As you may know, Ron Gard, Ltd. was a set building shop hired by many of Chicago’s top film and advertising agencies. Ron’s widow, Ivy Gard has graciously donated their Bucktown storefront space to CSI as our gallery for many months now and the Gallery has transitioned as an open opportunity to all CSI members.
By Degrees is an exhibit of sculpture, installation, and electronic media work by artists who are enrolled, or recently (2021 or later) graduated from a degree-seeking program. Thirteen new student members will be featured in this exhibition: Brian Divis, Spencer Gale, Musa Ghaznavi, Sarah Goodermuth, Elisabeth Heying, Riley Lauren Lynch, Lisa Nelson Raabe, Jeremy Plotkin Wong, Olya Salimova, Andrew Sokol, Christian Stone, Katie Williams, Connor Young.
The show “By Degrees” was curated by the Gallery’s volunteer committee and jury. CSI has granted these exhibitors honorary one-year memberships into our organization to grow our outreach.
Often an artist’s most groundbreaking work comes from being immersed in a culture of study and intellectual pursuit. Chicago, home to some of the most globally revered academic arts institutions, could be considered a sort of proving ground for tomorrow’s most promising contemporary emerging artists.
3D4D Gallery
1912 N. Damen
Chicago, IL
(At the corner of Cortland and Damen in the Bucktown neighborhood)
Hours: Thursday through Sunday, 1 to 6pm
Upcoming exhibit at 3D4D Gallery
Femininity, Memories & Allegories
Opening September 9th
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.
Members News
Congratulations to CSI members Emily Moorhead-Wallace and J Taylor Wallace on receiving a $44,750 grant from E(art)H Chicago (pronounced Earth Art Chicago) for their Pollinator Solar Column, a project consisting of three seven-foot steel and reclaimed wood structures at Sherman Park in Back of the Yards. This community-sourced public artwork will function as a habitat and resource for insects and animals. The community will help create nesting material and residents will design the carvings to be made into the steel at Sherman Library workshops. Residents will be encouraged to build pollinator habitats at home.
E(art)H Chicago (pronounced Earth Art Chicago), is a public arts project launching in June 2023 funded by The Illinois Science and Energy Innovation Foundation (the project’s originator and lead funder), along with Builders Initiative, The Joyce Foundation, the Chicago Frontline Funding Initiative and the Regeneration Fund. The project sets out to stimulate community engagement on climate change and environmental justice with public art. Using Chicago as their canvas, the selected artists are tasked with raising awareness of key environmental issues in communities across the city to nurture urgency and inspire action in neighborhoods. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle are honorary co-chairs of the initiative.
“We have a powerful lineup of projects,” said Uzma Noormohamed, Program Director, Illinois Science and Energy Innovation Foundation (ISEIF). “We set out to raise awareness, create dialogue and inspire action on climate change, natural resource use and environmental justice. The artists and organizations that we are funding have a history of doing just that. And the submissions we received centered on themes of healing, community, resiliency and hope. We believe this initiative will reverberate across the city for many years to come.”
image: Doug DeWitt, Edge Effects
CSI Member Doug DeWitt is having a solo exhibit titled Hedgerow at Noyes Cultural Arts Center in Evanston. The exhibit runs until September 5th, 2022.
Noyes Cultural Arts Center
927 Noyes St, Evanston, IL
(847) 866-5917
Hours: Monday-Saturday 10am - 6pm; Sunday 10am - 5pm
Image: R. Douglass Rice, Portrait of Friends in Isolation, Edward Coaxum
After a 45-year career as an internationally recognized composer of chamber, orchestral, and computer-generated music, CSI member Howard Sandroff turned his gifts to sculpting in welded steel in the early 2000s. This July and August, the Village Hall Art Gallery in Northfield, Illinois is hosting an exhibit of his sculptural work from July 1st through August 31st.
Opening reception: July 1st, 5 - 7pm, Village Hall Art Gallery
Village Hall Art Gallery
361 Happ Road
Northfields, IL
Gallery hours: M-F, 8am - 4:30pm
For more information: (847) 446-9200
Image: Yvette Kaiser-Smith, Phantom Distinction 10, 2021 Matte black acrylic sheet, felt, sashiko thread, carpet warp yarn, upholstery thread, Nu pastel, graphite, and grommets, 24 x 28.5 x 0.5 in.
A solo exhibit, Drifting inside Traditions by CSI member Yvette Kaiser Smith continues in the Atrium Gallery at Evanston Art Center until August 14th.
Evanston Art Center 1717 Central Street, Evanston, IL 60201
Gallery hours: Mon - Fri: 9am-6pm; Sa-Su: 9am-4pm
Another exhibit that features work by Kaiser Smith along with another CSI member, Jill King is at the DuMA Craft Invitational until October 2, 2022 at the Dubuque Museum of Art in Dubuque, Iowa.
Falb Family Gallery, Dubuque Museum of Art, 701 Locust Street, Dubuque, Iowa
Museum hours: Wed – Sat, 10 am-4 pm, Sunday, 1 pm-4 pm (Closed Mon & Tues)
For more information: dbqart.org
Howard Sandroff, Boundary, 2022, Welded steel shards, copper
After a 45-year career as an internationally recognized composer of chamber, orchestral,
and computer-generated music, CSI member Howard Sandroff turned his gifts to
sculpting in welded steel in the early 2000s. This July and August, the Village Hall Art
Gallery in Northfield, Illinois is hosting an exhibit of his sculptural work from July 1st
through August 31st.
Opening reception: 5 - 7pm
Village Hall Art Gallery, 361 Happ Road, Northfields, IL
Gallery hours: M-F, 8am - 4:30pm
For more information: (847) 446-9200
CSI member Mirentxu Ganzarain has a solo exhibit of her work titled Humans, Spirits and Power. The exhibit is at University of Chicago’s Corvus Gallery located in the Gordon Parks Arts Hall. The exhibition runs until Aug. 19th.
Corvus Gallery
UIC Gordon Parks Arts Hall
5815 S Kimbark Ave
Chicago, IL 60637
Gallery hours: M-F, 8:30 am-4:30 pm
For more information: (773) 702-9450
Looking for seasonal work? Nadeau’s Ice Sculptures is currently hiring seasonal drivers and ice carvers. Feel you're up to the task to carve a block? Come try it out? Pm/dm me if you or someone you know is perfect for our brand of fun. DRIVERS: Go interesting places, meet lovely people, set up "cool" items!
If interested, please contact CSI member Max Barajas at Nadeau’s Ice Sculptures at maxicedesigns@gmail.com.
While you're here...
Have any news to share? Shows, awards, residencies et al.? Send the particulars along to info@chicagosculpture.org, and we'll include them in an upcoming newsletter.
While you're at it, your profile and images on CSI’s website are important. When CSI applies for grants and upcoming shows, images are solely chosen from those you have uploaded to our website. Please take a minute to look over what you have posted and make sure you are presenting the best work. Member Shelley Gilchrist sgilchristart@gmail.com has volunteered to help you if you need it, so feel free to contact her.
