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January 2024 Newsletter
News ~ Exhibitions ~ Opportunities
News from the Board
Happy New Year!!!
We wish you a productive and peaceful new year!
In Memory of Richard Hunt
RICHARD HUNT
September 12, 1935 - December 16, 2023
A real loss for the world of sculpture, the Chicago arts community, and the world of fine arts at large. Condolences to CSI member and Richard Hunt's long-time studio director, Eric Stephenson, as well as to other CSI members who had the opportunity to know and work with such a great and talented artist.
With great sadness, we share that Richard Howard Hunt, 88, of Chicago passed away peacefully on Saturday, December 16, 2023 at his home. A private funeral service will be held in Chicago. A celebration of art and life, open to the public, will be held in Chicago in the spring, with dates to be announced.
https://www.richardhuntsculptor.com/obituary
https://www.nbcchicago.com/.../renowned-chicago.../3305005/
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/richard-hunt-dead-1234690115/
Image Credit: Richard Hunt in front of his 2021 Ida B. Wells monument. SCOTT OLSON/GETTY IMAGES, originally posted in ARTnews
News from Outdoor Exhibition Committee
Image credits: (1) "Geometry of Space" by David Skora (2) "Astral Projection" by Ray Katz
(3) "Bloom" by Micki LeMieux and Jeremy Wong
New Outdoor Sculptures for Evanston's Parks
Chicago Sculpture International, in collaboration with Evanston Arts Council is excited to announce new sculptures installed in the City of Evanston. The new sculptures listed below, will be on display for two years. Congratulations and thanks to all the artist for sharing their work.
Eiden Park - David Skora, Geometry of Space
Harbert-Payne Park - Ray Katz, Astral Projection
Twiggs Park - Micki LeMieux and Jeremy Wong, Bloom
Read more here
Image credits: (1) "Geometry of Space" by David Skora (2) "Astral Projection" by Ray Katz (3) "Bloom" by Micki LeMieux and Jeremy Wong
News from Indoor Exhibition Committee
Elemental Impact - Volunteers Needed
The CSI Indoor Exhibitions Committee is seeking members who can help greet visitors in the Chase Gallery at Epiphany Center for the Arts throughout the duration of the Elemental Impact exhibit. Please have a look at the dates and times listed below and select and schedule a date and time using this link when you are available to help. We appreciate your volunteering.
Saturday, January 6 - (Noon-3:00pm) - We will need CSI volunteers in the gallery. The Director of Programming will be on hand to manage the door.
Saturday, January 13 - (Noon-3:00pm) - We will need CSI volunteers in the gallery and The Director of Programming be on hand to manage the door. Afternoon closing reception, with artists deinstalling and taking home their work from 3:00-4:30pm.
For more information and details please contact info@chicagosculpture.org
CSI Project Space and Gallery News
Imagines: (Left to right) Opening Reception for Little, but Bold!; “Franco” by Stella Moon; CSI President Jyl Bonaguro with Emerging Artist Committee members; Ariana Hocking, Juliette Morris, and Spencer Gale.
We had a wonderful December opening for the Little, but Bold! 2023 Exhibit.
Exhibit Dates: Dec. 9 – Jan. 26, 2024.
The above artwork image is “franco” by artist/member Stella Moon, created with Hand-folded paper and LED lights.
And a tremendously heavy thank you to our Emerging Artist Committee for all their hard work and merriment.
Cheers, and Happy New Year!
News from the Education Committee
Merry fun, music, and excitement occurred on December 18 at the Boys and Girls Club of America. Member Jeremy Plotkin Wong shared an amazing educational art workshop including clay, beads, and pipe cleaners. The kids had a great time making creatures and snowmen.
If you have an idea for an art workshop, please contact mickilemieux@chicagosculpture.org
Land Acknowledgement
The City of Chicago, and its surrounding areas, have always been and always will be, home to numerous Native American communities. As a team dedicated to the uplifting of Indigenous People's sovereignty everywhere, we recognize that each program and exhibition associated with this project is taking place on the traditional homelands of the Council of Three Fires - the Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa - as well as the Menominee, Miami, and Ho-Chunk Nations. Further, we acknowledge that Chicago is home to one of the largest urban Native American communities in the US. We therefore invite each of our non-Indigenous colleagues to learn more about the forced removal of many of the communities listed above from the state of Illinois and to incorporate Indigenous knowledge into their line of work. To provide immediate assistance to Native American Communities in Chicago, you can send donations to the city's American Indian Center here
CURRENT CSI EXHIBITIONS
CSI artists images left: Eli Kessler, Searching for Connectivity and Stacee Kalmonovsky, Breast Plate and Tartan
Elemental Impact
November 17, 2023 to January 13, 2024
Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S. Ashland Ave.
Chicago, IL 60607
(312) 421-4600
Chicago Sculpture International Juried Exhibition at the Epiphany Center for the Arts
This exhibition takes interest in the parts that make up the whole, and how a single element can impact the world at large. Much like a single choice in material or form can change an entire piece, each work in a collective can change and impact the whole by proximity.
The works chosen for this exhibition have a strong sense of material choice and presence that is both able to stand on its own while also engaging with its environment and the works around it in a way that fundamentally changes the experience of the space.
Exhibiting Artists:
Brad Cahill | Nicholas D’Alessandro | Christine Forni | Michael F. Gallagher | Mirentxu Ganzarain | Set Gozo | Maki Hajikano | Ariana Hocking | Azadeh Hussaini | Kara Cobb Johnson | Stacee Kalmanovsky | Beth Kamhi | Larsa Kena | Eli Kessler | Seonyoung Lee | Connie Noyes | Julie Mars | Bill Mitchell | Stella Moon | Bryan Northup | Lisa Nelson Raabe | Jeanne Reilly | Gina Lee Robbins | Marci Rubin | Howard Russo | Stephanie Sailer | Olya Salimova | Dominic Sansone | Zelene Jiang Schlosberg | Yvette Kaiser Smith | Diane Tang | Roberta Ulrich-de Oliveira | Nancy VanKanegan | Yimei Zhu
Curated by Kaylee Fowler
CSI artists images left: Eli Kessler, Searching for Connectivity and Stacee Kalmonovsky, Breast Plate and Tartan
The Poetry of Sculpture
Chicago Sculpture International Juried Exhibitions at Prairie State College - Christopher Art Gallery
Delivery of Accepted Work: January 26. 10AM - 3PM
Show Runs: February 5 - 29
Opening Reception: February 7, 11AM - 1:30PM
Closing Reception and pick up work: February 29, 4 -7 PM (work may be removed at 7PM)
For questions about the gallery: Beth Shadur.
Accepted Artists: Michele Corazzo / Debra Couch / Darlys Ewoldt / Michael F. Gallagher / Beth Kahmi / Nancy VanKanegan / Terry Karpowicz / Victoria Kowalczyk / Kelly Lawler / Laurie LeBreton / Margot McMahon / Ruth Aizuss Migdal / Louise Papageorge / CV Peterson / Lisa Nelson Raabe / Gina Lee Robbins / Howard Russo / Zelene Jiang Schlosberg / Michele Thrane
The Christopher Art Gallery is located on the main campus building's first floor, consisting of 1300 square feet.
Prairie State College, 202 S. Halsted St., Chicago Heights, IL 60411
Gallery Hours: Monday - Thursday, 9AM - 5PM on days the college is open.
For questions about the gallery: Beth Shadur
For general information: info@chicagosculpture.org
CSI CALL FOR ENTRIES
Unfavorable Conditions
Chicago Sculpture International Project Space
Entry Deadline: February 2
Exhibition Dates: Feb 17 - April 19
Notification: Weds, Feb. 7-8
Artwork Drop-off: Sat/Sun, Feb. 10-11, from 1-5 pm.
Opening: Saturday, Feb. 17, from 6-9 pm.
Exhibit Dates: Feb. 17 – April 19, 2024
Artwork Pick-up: Sat/Sun, April 20-21, from 1-5 pm.
Unfavorable Conditions prompts reflection on the human ability to navigate storms, both internal and external, and emerge on the other side transformed.
This exhibit examines the resilience inherent in the human spirit, encouraging a collective acknowledgment of the strength that arises when faced with life's challenges.
2D and 3D work accepted - Sculptural work encouraged
Open interpretations of the exhibit theme are welcomed.
Contact Info: Name, address, phone, email, website
1 to 3 jpg images: Title, medium, size, price with 30% donation added
Please Note: We request exhibiting artists to cover 1 or 2 gallery-sitting shifts during the show.
Submit on this Google form found here: https://forms.gle/7MbyRzvcAMg4Kxkf9
MEMBER NEWS
Images: (Left) artwork by Christine Forni; (right) artwork by Jennifer Mannebach
OS Projects Artist Talk
Christine Forni & Jennifer Mannebach
When: Artist talk January 13, 2024, 2 pm
Where: OS Projects, 601 6th Street, Racine, WI
November 11, 2023 - January 13, 2024
Saturdays 12 - 5 pm and by appointment
Christine Forni and Jennifer Mannebach both address the fragmented and shifting terrain of nature and memory in their expansive bodies of work. The artists methodically deconstruct and reinterpret the relationship between past and present, spotlighting areas and remnants that are typically hidden or overlooked. In both Forni’s and Mannebach’s bodies of work, the experience has passed, but the objects remain, remade and reimagined. Nature and memory are not stable, the artists emphasize, but rather always on the threshold of a shift.
The following are not CSI sponsored projects
But may be of interest to our members
RFQ for Southern Illinois University –
Public Art Project
The Capital Development Board Art-in-Architecture Program is pleased to announce a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to Illinois professional artists to create permanent original public art for the Health Sciences Building at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. This public art commission for a terrazzo floor is open to all professional artists, artisans, or artist-led teams that live and work in Illinois.
Deadline to apply is Wednesday, January 10, 2024 at 4:30 p.m.
Learn more: https://cdb.illinois.gov/.../siue-health-sciences...
DCASE 2024 Individual Artists Program Grants
Application Deadline: Tuesday, January 16
The 2024 Individual Artists Program (IAP) grant application is now open. IAP aims to assist Chicago's practicing artists in creating work that develops their craft and elevates their careers. IAP grants support artists across all artistic disciplines including Film & Media Arts, Literary Arts, Music, Performing Arts (Theater/Dance), and Visual Arts/Design. Visit chicagoculturalgrants.org to sign up for an info session to learn more.
RFQ for Cedar Falls Public Art Committee Trail Project
The City of Cedar Falls Public Art Committee (CFPAC), under the direction and approval of the Cedar Falls Art and Culture Board (ACB), seeks to commission a series of permanent, cohesive public artwork from an artist or team of artists to be installed along the existing trail system.
Three finalists will be selected to develop site specific proposals and present to the committee. Each finalist will receive a $2,000 honorarium to develop a proposal with a budget of $100,000. The selected artwork must be made of durable, low-maintenance materials able to withstand exposure to the Iowa climate and safe for public display.
Since1999, the CFPAC has implemented public art projects across the city to enhance and complement the vibrant cultural scene of the community. These public artworks have become iconic elements of the city’s landscape. More information on the CFPAC cab be found at https://www.cedarfalls.com/1170/Public-Art.
PROJECT TIMELINE:
• Application due: January 26, 2024
• Notification of Finalists: February 19, 2024
• Finalist Presentations: March 15, 2024
• Project Awarded: March 2024
• Installation: Fall 2024 thru Spring 2025 depending on location
Click here to download full RFQ and application details
Ring Out for Art - 2024 Call for Artists
Deadline: February 2
Jefferson Matters: Main Street, Tower View Team, Home State Bank and the Greene County Supervisors invite sculpture artists to submit an artwork application to participate in the 9th Annual Ring Out for Art public art exhibit. Ring Out for Art is a temporary outdoor exhibit, displayed on the Bell Tower Plaza located in the National Historic District in Jefferson, Iowa from May until the end of October each year.
Selected artists are paid a $1000 stipend from Home State Bank for use of their artwork ($700 on delivery and $300 on pickup)
Learn more and apply HERE.
2024 Farm/Art DTour Call for Entries
Deadline: February 12
Wormfarm Institute is currently seeking artists to produce original, site-responsive installations for the 2024 Farm/Art DTour (October 5-14, 2024). Artists will install their works in farm fields after the last cutting of hay, to draw attention to the importance of what farmers do every day and the beauty and history of Wisconsin’s Driftless Area.
Learn more and apply on our website: wormfarminstitute.org/dtour-rfp-24.
The Farm/Art DTour is a self-guided, 50-mile drive through the working farmlands of rural Sauk County, Wisconsin, punctuated by ArtWorks (large-scale temporary art installations), Field Notes (interpretive signage), pasture performances, roadside poetry, local food markets and more.
Individuals or teams, formally trained or self-taught, from all disciplines — who are interested in creating works that engage with the landscape and surrounding rural communities may apply. Finalists will be invited to an orientation in Sauk County this spring and receive a stipend to revise their proposals. Selected artists will receive support ranging from $5,000 to $10,000 to realize their work in the fall.
Photo credit: Curious Erratic of the Driftless by W. Scott Trimble, 2022 Farm/Art DTour; photo: Katrin Talbot
SUBMIT YOUR NEWS
Have any news to share?
Shows, awards, residencies etc? Submit here 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.
December 2023 Newsletter
News from the Outdoor Exhibition Committee
Image credits: (1) Let's Get Going by Terry Karpowicz, (2) Victoria by Chris Wubbena, (3) Nature's Quintet by Stephanie Sailer, and (4) Gourd Man by Shencheng Xu
2023-2025 Sculpture in the Parks
Chicago Sculpture International, in collaboration with the Chicago Park District, is excited to announce that the 2023-2025 Sculpture in the Parks exhibition is now installed with nine new sculptures featured in Chicago area parks. The new sculptures, listed below, will be on display through October 2025. Congratulations and thanks to all the artist for sharing their work.
Austin Town Hall - Carrie Fischer, Queen of Hearts
Berger Park - Shencheng Xu, Gourd Man
Calumet Park - Mike Baur, Cliff
Indian Boundary Park - Kara James, The Gesture of Consciousness
Lincoln Park Cultural Center - Michael Young, Going Up
Marquette Park - Stephanie Sailer, Nature’s Quintet
Ridge Park - Terry Karpowicz, Let’s Get Going
South Shore Cultural Center - David Noguchi, Fish In Space
Tuley Park - Chris Wubbena, Victoria
News from the Indoor Exhibition Committee
CSI artists images left: Eli Kessler, Searching For Connectivity and Stacee Kalmanovsky, Breast Plate with Tartan
Elemental Impact - Volunteers Needed
The CSI Indoor Exhibitions Committee is seeking members who can help greet visitors in the Chase Gallery at Epiphany Center for the Arts throughout the duration of the Elemental Impact exhibit. Please have a look at the dates and times listed below and select and schedule a date and time using this link when you are available to help. We appreciate your volunteering.
Friday, December 8 - Golden Hour (5-8pm) - Epiphany Center for the Arts has other gallery openings that night and a couple music performances, so there will be a lot of foot traffic. It would be great to have CSI volunteers in the gallery. The Director of Programming will be on hand.
Friday, December 15 - Golden Hour (5-8pm) - Epiphany Center for the Arts has free live music, plus a Sanctuary performance happening that night. They will need CSI volunteers in the gallery. The Director of Programming will be on hand for visitors.
Saturday, December 16 - Golden Hour (5-8pm) - We have free live music, plus two performances happening at Epiphany that night, so we'll have foot traffic. They will need CSI volunteers in the gallery since The Director of Programming cannot be there that night.
Saturday, January 6 - (Noon-3:00pm) - We will need CSI volunteers in the gallery. The Director of Programming will be on hand to manage the door.
Saturday, January 13 - (Noon-3:00pm) - We will need CSI volunteers in the gallery and The Director of Programming be on hand to manage the door. Afternoon closing reception, with artists deinstalling and taking home their work from 3:00-4:30pm.
For more information and details please contact info@chicagosculpture.org
News from CSI Project Space
Little, but Bold!
Holiday salon-style exhibit of small artworks
Opening Night: Saturday, Dec. 9, 6-9 pm
48 Artists - 56 Artworks
Little, but BOLD! Is in celebration of all things unmonumental. Often flying under the radar, small things have the special ability to bridge private and public spaces. Within the sculpture field, there has been a projected narrative that bigger is better. We are here to assert that small things can hold the same importance as the largest monument.
Artists: John Adduci, Nikki Anderson, John Bannon, Mike Baur, Nicole Beck, Berthold Boone, Bethany Cordero, Debra Couch, Rob Craig, Eoin Cullen, David Curry, Victor Edwards, Darlys Ewoldt, Lynn Floriano, Victoria Fuller, Mirentxu Ganzarain, Ted Sitting Crow Garner, Set Gozo, Carol Hammerman, Ariana Hocking, Caroline Jacobson, Kara James, Kasia Kay, Fred Klingelhofer, Gina Lee Robbins, Micki LeMieux, Dawn Liddicoatt, Ellen Lustig, Marie Magnetic, Angela McElwain, Stella Moon, Juliette Morris, Scott Mossman, Julia Paloma, Thomas Plum, Vaso Georgulis Powers, Marci Rubin, Howard Russo, Divyangi Shukla, Michele Silvetti-Schmitt, Anne-Joelle Tan, Gunnar Theel, Michele Thrane, Cheuk Yan Cherry Tung, Nancy VanKanegan, Patrick D. Wilson, and Michael Young.
Curated by Micki LeMieux
Exhibition Dates: Dec. 9, 2023 – Jan. 26, 2024
CSI Project Space is located at 1912 N Damen, Chicago, IL.
News from the Education Committee
There is one more exciting educational art workshop scheduled for mid-December this year. I look forward to sharing this workshop and photos with our members in the January newsletter.
We are always looking for fun art workshops to share with The Boys and Girls Club at the Lathrop Homes. We are looking for art projects that can be completed in one hour with the children. Artist stipend.
If you have an idea for an art workshop, please contact mickilemieux@chicagosculpture.org
News from the Board
HAPPY HOLIDAYS
THANK YOU CSI MEMBERS
Our 300+ membership keeps growing thanks to community contributions!
Your Chicago Sculpture International contributions support:
(Northern Illinois University, College of Lake County, Epiphany Center for the Arts)
and many other yearly opportunities to showcase your work.
THANK YOU
CSI is a 501(c)(3) organization - Any amount is welcome
(All donations/contributions are tax-deductible)
To donate online via our website portal click HERE
For personalized assistance, please contact info@chicagosculpture.org
Interested to become a sponsor? Click HERE
Land Acknowledgement
The City of Chicago, and its surrounding areas, have always been and always will be, home to numerous Native American communities. As a team dedicated to the uplifting of Indigenous People's sovereignty everywhere, we recognize that each program and exhibition associated with this project is taking place on the traditional homelands of the Council of Three Fires - the Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa - as well as the Menominee, Miami, and Ho-Chunk Nations. Further, we acknowledge that Chicago is home to one of the largest urban Native American communities in the US. We therefore invite each of our non-Indigenous colleagues to learn more about the forced removal of many of the communities listed above from the state of Illinois and to incorporate Indigenous knowledge into their line of work. To provide immediate assistance to Native American Communities in Chicago, you can send donations to the city's American Indian Center here
Current CSI Exhibitions
CSI artists images left: Larsa Kena, Glider and Maki Hajikano, Ambiguous Border #4 Architecture #2
Elemental Impact
November 17, 2023 to January 13, 2024
Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S. Ashland Ave.
Chicago, IL 60607
(312) 421-4600
Chicago Sculpture International Juried Exhibition at the Epiphany Center for the Arts
This exhibition takes interest in the parts that make up the whole, and how a single element can impact the world at large. Much like a single choice in material or form can change an entire piece, each work in a collective can change and impact the whole by proximity.
The works chosen for this exhibition have a strong sense of material choice and presence that is both able to stand on its own while also engaging with its environment and the works around it in a way that fundamentally changes the experience of the space.
Exhibiting Artists:
Brad Cahill | Nicholas D’Alessandro | Christine Forni | Michael F. Gallagher | Mirentxu Ganzarain | Set Gozo | Maki Hajikano | Ariana Hocking | Azadeh Hussaini | Kara Cobb Johnson | Stacee Kalmanovsky | Beth Kamhi | Larsa Kena | Eli Kessler | Seonyoung Lee | Connie Noyes | Julie Mars | Bill Mitchell | Stella Moon | Bryan Northup | Lisa Nelson Raabe | Jeanne Reilly | Gina Lee Robbins | Marci Rubin | Howard Russo | Stephanie Sailer | Olya Salimova | Dominic Sansone | Zelene Jiang Schlosberg | Yvette Kaiser Smith | Diane Tang | Roberta Ulrich-de Oliveira | Nancy VanKanegan | Yimei Zhu
Curated by Kaylee Fowler
CSI artists images left: Larsa Kena, Glider and Maki Hajikano, Ambiguous Border #4 Architecture #2
Call for Entries
The Poetry of Sculpture
Chicago Sculpture International Juried Exhibitions at Prairie State College - Christopher Art Gallery
Entry Deadline: December 8, 2023
Show Runs: February 5 - 29, 2024
Opening Reception: February 7, 11AM - 1:30PM
Closing Reception and pick up work: February 29, 4 -7 PM (work may be removed at 7PM)
Applicants must be CSI members
Sculptors are invited to enter up to three works in the Chicago Sculpture International Juried Exhibition at Prairie State College – Christopher Art Gallery
The exhibition will be juried and curated by Beth Shadur.
For more information and to apply here.
Member News
Tabulsa Rasa Inflight
Member and vice president Jyl Bonaguro has a solo exhibit called "Tabula Rasa Inflight” at Evanston Art Center..
Nov 4 - Dec 17th, 2023
Evanston Art Center, 1717 Central Street, Evanston, Illinois
Gallery Hours
Monday–Thursday: 9am–6pm
Friday: 9am–5pm
Saturday–Sunday: 9am–4pm
Beneath the Visible
Member Laurie LeBreton’s 80 paper tapestries will be exhibited in Beneath the Visible, a showcase of work by artists in Hyde Park Art Center’s Center Program 10 program.
Beneath the Visible translates impermanence, cyclical events, and transformation. By reflecting on the cultural, environmental, and social layers of their work, artists enact poetic research processing beyond immediately apparent material. Fragments are re-constructed into blueprints. What was once an idea becomes a detectable dimension.
Opening reception: December 9th, 2023 - Noon to 4pm
Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S. Cornell Avenue
Chicago, IL
Hours:
M-Th, 10am to 7pm; Fri 10am-4:30pm
Sat, 10am-4pm, Sun 11am-4pm
The following are not CSI sponsored projects
but may be of interest to our members:
Entry Deadline: December 15, 2023
No entry fee
In its 23rd year, the Chicago Sculpture Exhibit is continuing its mission to encourage public encounters with art while going about daily lives. Professional 3-D artists are invited to create and install sculptures at identified public sites. A $2,000 honorarium will be awarded for each selected work – half paid at contract signing and balance at installation. Artwork will remain on display for one calendar year. At least 40 sculptures will be included in the 2024 Exhibition.
Learn more and apply HERE.
Olathe's Annual Downtown Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit
Entry Deadline: January 2, 2024
Notice of selections to artists: March 6, 2024
Art Delivery Deadline: June 3, 2024
Exhibition dates: June 10, 2024 - May 5, 2025
The City of Olathe is seeking large-scale, three-dimensional sculpture entries or temporary art installations. Olathe's annual Downtown Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit supports the City's vision to build the identity of Olathe, activate public spaces, and connect people to the community through art. Public art can help tell Olathe's stories, engage people in meaningful ways and provide valuable, interactive experiences. All sculpture entries will be juried by the Olathe Public Art Committee, and selected sculptures will remain on display in Olathe for a one year period.
Learn more and apply HERE.
RFQ for Southern Illinois University - Public Art Project
The Capital Development Board Art-in-Architecture Program is pleased to announce a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to Illinois professional artists to create permanent original public art for the Health Sciences Building at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. This public art commission for a terrazzo floor is open to all professional artists, artisans, or artist-led teams that live and work in Illinois.
Deadline to apply is Wednesday, January 10, 2024 at 4:30 p.m.
Learn more: https://cdb.illinois.gov/.../siue-health-sciences...
Ring Out for Art - 2024 Call for Artists
Jefferson Matters: Main Street, Tower View Team, Home State Bank and the Greene County Supervisors
invite sculpture artists to submit an artwork application to participate in the 9th Annual Ring Out for Art
public art exhibit. Ring Out for Art is a temporary outdoor exhibit, displayed on the Bell Tower Plaza
located in the National Historic District in Jefferson, Iowa from May until the end of October each year.
Selected artists are paid a $1000 stipend from Home State Bank for use of their artwork ($700 on delivery and $300 on pickup)
Learn more and apply HERE.
Submit Your News
Have any news to share?
Shows, awards, residencies etc? Submit here 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.
CSI projects are partially supported by a CityArts Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events.
November 2023 Newsletter
Above: Stephanie Sailer, Nature's Quintet, painted steel, 7' x 4' x 4', Marquette Park
In this newsletter you will find:
News from the CSI Committees
Show opportunities
Ongoing Member Exhibitions
The Poetry of Sculpture
Chicago Sculpture International Juried Exhibitions at Prairie State College - Christopher Art Gallery
Entry Deadline: December 8, 2023
Show Runs: February 5 - 29, 2024
Delivery of accepted work: January 24, 2024 10AM-3PM, January 27, 2024 10AM-1PM
Opening Reception: February 7, 11AM - 1:30PM
Closing Reception and pick up work: February 29, 4 -7 PM (work may be removed at 7PM)
Sculptors are invited to enter up to three works in the Chicago Sculpture International Juried Exhibition at Prairie State College – Christopher Art Gallery
The exhibition will be juried and curated by Beth Shadur.
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’s statement and short bio will be required for the accepted piece.
About the gallery:
The Christopher Art Gallery gallery is located on the first floor of the main campus building and consists of 1300 square feet.
Prairie State College
202 S. Halsted Street
Chicago Heights, Illinois
For more information and to apply here.
For any questions, contact the gallery at bshadur@prairiestate.edu
For general information: info@chicagosculpture.org
News from the Vice President
Photo credits (top row, left): CSI Vice President Jyl Bonaguro; (top row, right) Patrick Wilson's sculpture Quantum Airbox Micro-Monument; (Bottom row): Scenes from the conference
30th Annual International Sculpture Conference
Jersey City, NJ
On October 10-15th, CSI Vice President Jyl Bonaguro served as ambassador for our organization at The 30th International Sculpture Conference held in Jersey City, NJ October 10-15, 2023. Jyl gave a well-rounded talk discussing the many facets, opportunities, and future of CSI including the Sculpture in the Parks, Big Marsh, Chicago Tree Project, Interior Exhibitions, Project Space and Outreach programs. The presentation was followed by a Q&A.
The conference included ISC’s annual littleSCULPTURE Show exhibition. The exhibit showcases how its talented artist members handle the challenges of space and scale as dictated by the 8" x 8" x 8" size restriction. CSI Outreach Committee Co-Chair Patrick Wilson participated with his piece, Quantum Airbox Micro-Monument, 2023, bronze, 6.25” x 5.75” x 5.75.”
News from the Outdoor Exhibition Committee
Image credits: (1) Let's Get Going by Terry Karpowicz (2) Victoria by Chris Wubbena (3) Nature's Quintet by Stephanie Sailer (4) Gourd Man by Shencheng Xu
2023-2025 Sculpture in the Parks
Chicago Sculpture International, in collaboration with the Chicago Park District, is excited to announce that the 2023-2025 Sculpture in the Parks exhibition is now installed with nine new sculptures featured in Chicago area parks. The new sculptures, listed below, will be on display through October 2025. Congratulations and thanks to all the artist for sharing their work.
Austin Town Hall - Carrie Fischer, Queen of Hearts
Berger Park - Shencheng Xu, Gourd Man
Calumet Park - Mike Baur, Cliff
Indian Boundary Park - Kara James, The Gesture of Consciousness
Lincoln Park Cultural Center - Michael Young, Going Up
Marquette Park - Stephanie Sailer, Nature’s Quintet
Ridge Park - Terry Karpowicz, Let’s Get Going
South Shore Cultural Center - David Noguchi, Fish In Space
Tuley Park - Chris Wubbena, Victoria
Click here to see more recently installed sculptures.
News from the Indoor Exhibition Committee
Above: Images from the 2022 CSI Biennial at Koehnline Museum of Art, Sculpture Invasion
The CSI Indoor Exhibition is seeking for 2 members to join the committee
· Work with Co-Chairs, curators, and exhibitions venue directors
· Assist in securing 2 exhibition venues yearly for CSI members
· Visit and attend meetings with curators and exhibition directors
· Attend 3-4 CSI Indoor Committee meetings yearly via zoom or in-person
· CSI Indoor Committee does not jury exhibitions, nor do they make suggestions to curators of CSI members' work
If interested in networking and learning about the CSI Indoor Exhibition Committee
email: info@chicagosculpture.org
(CSI Indoor Exhibition Image from 2022: Sculpture Invasion / CSI Biennial at Koehnline Museum of Art)
Above: Larsa Kena, Glider (left) and Maki Hajikano, Ambiguous Border #4 Architecture #2 (right)
Elemental Impact
November 17, 2023 to January 13, 2024
Opening Reception: November 17, 2023, 6 to 9 p.m.
Click here to reserve a ticket for the opening reception
Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S. Ashland Ave.
Chicago, IL 60607
(312) 421-4600
Chicago Sculpture International Juried Exhibition at the Epiphany Center for the Arts
This exhibition takes interest in the parts that make up the whole, and how a single element can impact the world at large. Much like a single choice in material or form can change an entire piece, each work in a collective can change and impact the whole by proximity.
The works chosen for this exhibition have a strong sense of material choice and presence that is both able to stand on its own while also engaging with its environment and the works around it in a way that fundamentally changes the experience of the space.
Exhibiting Artists:
Brad Cahill | Nicholas D’Alessandro | Christine Forni | Michael F. Gallagher | Mirentxu Ganzarain | Set Gozo | Maki Hajikano | Ariana Hocking | Azadeh Hussaini | Kara Cobb Johnson | Stacee Kalmanovsky | Beth Kamhi | Larsa Kena | Eli Kessler | Seonyoung Lee | Connie Noyes | Julie Mars | Bill Mitchell | Stella Moon | Bryan Northup | Lisa Nelson Raabe | Jeanne Reilly | Gina Lee Robbins | Marci Rubin | Howard Russo | Stephanie Sailer | Olya Salimova | Dominic Sansone | Zelene Jiang Schlosberg | Yvette Kaiser Smith | Diane Tang | Roberta Ulrich-de Oliveira | Nancy VanKanegan | Yimei Zhu
Curated by Kaylee Fowler
Volunteers needed for Elemental Impact Exhibition
On the following days a volunteer is needed to monitor the alley during drop-offs and a volunteer is need to assist with receiving artwork and completed consignment forms:
Saturday, November 11, 2023 from 12 to 4 pm
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 from 12 to 4 pm.
Pick up Dates
Volunteer are needed to help with pick-up (this may include some packing shipped of artwork with labels provided by the artist), and a volunteer is also need to help monitor the alley on the following days:
Tuesday, January 16, 2024 12-4 pm
Wednesday, January 17, 2024, 12-4 pm
Thursday, January 18, 2024, 12-4 pm
If available and for more information please contact Christine Forni via info@chicagosculpture.org
News from CSI Project Space
CSI Project Space received a grant from The Renaissance Charitable Foundation to promote and advertise the gallery programming; exhibits, events, and art workshops.
Little, but BOLD!
Holiday Members Exhibit
CSI Project Space announces an open call for the 2nd Holiday Member Exhibit of small works at our gallery space in Bucktown.
Little, but BOLD! Is in celebration of all things unmonumental. Often flying under the radar, small things have the special ability to bridge private and public spaces. Within the sculpture field, there has been a projected narrative that bigger is better. We are here to assert that small things can hold the same importance as the largest monument.
Guidelines:
Applicants must be CSI members
All submissions must be smaller than 12 in. x12 in.
2D, 3D, and wall mounted sculptural work accepted
Please Note: We are requesting exhibiting artists to cover 1 or 2 gallery sitting shifts during the duration of the show.
Submission Instructions:
Contact Info: Name, address, phone, email, website
1-2 jpg images: Title, medium, size, price with 30% donation to CSI added
Submit all information and images on this google form here
https://forms.gle/erZHwtgmsVSrAWvm7
Important Dates:
Extended Deadline: Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023
Notification: Wednesday, Nov. 22
Drop off artwork: Fri/Sat, Dec. 1-2
Opening Night: Saturday, Dec. 9
Exhibition Dates: Dec. 9, 2023 – Jan. 26, 2024
Pick up artwork: Sat/Sun, Jan. 27-28
CSI PROJECT SPACE
1912 N. Damen Ave.
Chicago, IL
Micki LeMieux, Gallery Director
Gallery hours:
Fri - Sat 2-8pm
Sun 1-6pm
or by appointment
Wearing masks in the gallery is recommended
For more info: projectspace@chicagosculpture.org
Form Within: Unveiling Hidden Aesthetics
Annual Celebration of Chicago Emerging Artists
Exhibition Dates: Nov. 3 - Nov. 26
In the realm of art, we often find ourselves captivated by the surface beauty of a piece; colors, shapes, and textures that immediately catch our senses. Yet, beneath these visible layers lies a profound world of intricacies, the “Form Within” that gives art its enduring depth and significance.
This exhibition is an exploration of that hidden world. Through a compelling array of artworks in various mediums and styles, this collection reveals the artists’ meticulous craftsmanship, their unique perspectives, and their ability to evoke emotions and provoke thoughts.
As viewers, we are challenged to look beyond the obvious, to see not just what is presented but what lies beneath and within.
Exhibiting Artists: Spencer Gale, Musa Ghaznavi, Sarah Goodermuth, Ariana Hocking, Juliette Morris, Sam Schwindt, and Olya Salimova.
Curated by Micki LeMieux
Gallery Hours: Friday-Saturday 2-8pm & Sunday 1-6pm.
News from the Education Committee
Open Volunteer Position - Board Member, Board of Directors
The Education Chair is the member of the CSI Board of Directors who plans and coordinates educational programming for Chicago Sculpture International membership and the public. They will collaborate with other CSI committees and external organizations to facilitate art workshops and other community outreach.
In 2023, CSI shared 4-5 art workshops at The Boys and Girls Club of America, and 2 workshops at the gallery, CSI Project Space.
There are stipends for participating artists to conduct workshops and other programming.
Main Tasks
Connect with members artists
Connect with community organizations and plan appropriate art workshops
Manage stipends
Email artist invoices to CSI Treasurer
Manage material budget and reimbursements
If interested, please contact info@chicagosculpture.org
News from the Membership Chair
Congratulations to our Inclusion Fellows!
Congratulations to our Inclusion Fellows! Cherylle Booker, Victor Edwards, Janhavi Khemka, Hai-Wen Lin, and Yimei (Emair) Zhu participated by creating new work and installations in the CSI Project Space for the exhibition, COALESCE. The exhibition utilized collaboration and a performance element to bring out the working styles and materials unique to each artist. It was easily accessible to the public through window design, workshops, and artist talks livestreamed on Instagram. The show was ADA-compliant and addressed ideas of balance, deafness, blindness, scale, and freedom. COALESCE opened with a live performance by the exceptional musician, Ron Chambers, who played his cello which was enjoyed by family, friends, and neighbors. Membership would like to thank the gallery committee for their support of this initiative to introduce our fellows in the CSI community. Thank you! Images below are credited to the artists and represent their work and ideas in varying stages of creation. Enjoy!
(1) Yimei (Emair) Zhu, photo by Rudradutt Ranade (2) Work by Yimei (Emair) Zhu, photo by Rudradutt Ranade (3) Work by Yimei (Emair) Zhu, photo by Rudradutt Ranade (4) works by Hai-Wen Lin (foreground) and Yimei (Emair) Zhu back wall and nook, photo by Yimei (Emair) Zhu
(1) Braiding and Tufting Workshop, teaching artist: Yimei (Emair) Zhu, photo by Rudradutt Ranade (2) Victor Edwards between his maquettes, photo by Kara Cobb Johnson (3) Work by Victor Edwards, photo by Kara Cobb Johnson (4) Janhavi Khemka on residency in San Francisco, photo by Janhavi Khemka
(1) Installation view, video still and sculpture by Janhavi Khemka, photo by Kara Cobb Johnson (2) Cherylle Booker, Hai-Wen Lin, and Yimei (Emair) Zhu, photo by Kara Cobb Johnson (3 & 4) Installation and artwork and photo by Hai-Wen Lin (5) COALESCE catalog essay with Yimei (Emair) Zhu installation
Land Acknowledgement
To provide immediate assistance to Native American Communities in Chicago, you can send donations to the city's American Indian Center here.
The City of Chicago, and its surrounding areas, have always been and always will be, home to numerous Native American communities. As a team dedicated to the uplifting of Indigenous People's sovereignty everywhere, we recognize that each program and exhibition associated with this project is taking place on the traditional homelands of the Council of Three Fires - the Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa - as well as the Menominee, Miami, and Ho-Chunk Nations. Further, we acknowledge that Chicago is home to one of the largest urban Native American communities in the US.
Land acknowledgments are not rhetorical gestures, but rather calls to action. We therefore invite each of our non-Indigenous colleagues to learn more about the forced removal of many of the communities listed above from the state of Illinois and to incorporate Indigenous knowledge into their line of work. We also encourage everyone to ask themselves how they may benefit from the continuation of settler colonialism, militarism, and warfare. Confronting these realities allows us to break down our privileges and adopt anti-colonial practices that can one day help us in creating a more equitable society.
Member News
Members are welcome to submit news regarding exhibitions and professional development achievements to info@chicagosculpture.org. We would love to see what you are doing!!
Also, please share your open studio events and any news about new work on our Facebook and Instagram pages.
Chicago Sculpture Facebook Group
Instagram: @chicagosculptureinternational
Above: Artwork by Jennifer Mannebach (left) and Christine Forni (right)
Thresholds
OS Projects exhibition of work by Jennifer Mannebach & Christine Forni
Exhibition:11/11/2023 - 1/13/2024
Opening Reception:
Saturday, Nov. 11th from 1 -3pm
Location:
601 6th Street
Racine, Wisconsin
Gallery hours are Saturdays 12-5pm
Or by appointment (262) 800-3564
Sunday Dinner
Carlson Tower Gallery of North Park University presents fiber-based sculptural works of Bobbi Meier in a solo exhibition entitled, Sunday Dinner.
Opening Reception with Artist Talk: November 7
Reception: 4:30 - 6:00 PM
Artist's Talk: 5:00PM
North Park University
3225 West Foster Avenue
Chicago, IL
Solace Star
Board Member At Large, Nicole Beck was selected to create an outdoor sculpture Sólace Star for the Long-Term Care south courtyard for those vets with cognitive impairments like Alzheimer’s and Dementia, at the Quincy Veterans Home build by the Capital Development Board of Illinois Art-in-Architecture Program. Beck will create a 15’ sculpture using rolled aluminum, custom-laminated dichroic and prismatic glass, custom mosaic back panels, LED lighting and a cast concrete integrated seating platform. CSI Member, Vector Custom Fabricating will be the lead fabricator along with various other subcontractors including NorthcoastCGI who completed the splendid renders.
Member and vice president Jyl Bonaguro will be having a solo exhibit called "Tabula Rasa Inflight” at Evanston Art Center. It will be a showcase of her latest wing sculptures and a book signing for her new book "Hammer & Stone" on the stone carving process.
The human desire to take flight and abandon this earth-bound state is timeless. Tabula Rasa InFlight explores the concept of a mind as a blank tablet by expanding how marble is perceived as sculpture. My new series of Wing sculptures are etched and carved into marble tiles using the intaglio technique and displayed alongside classical sculptures on pedestals. Working in such thin marble slates reveals the little known translucent nature of marble and transforms the heavy material into tablets of light.
Opening Reception Sunday, November 12th from 1-4pm
Nov 4 - Dec 17th, 2023
Evanston Art Center
1717 Central Street
Evanston, Illinois
Gallery Hours:
Monday–Thursday: 9am–6pm
Friday: 9am–5pm
Saturday–Sunday: 9am–4pm
The following are not CSI sponsored projects, but may be of interest to our members.
2024 Perryville Sculpture Trail Call for Artists
Perryville, Missouri
Submission Deadline: December 4, 2023 by 5:00PM
Exhibition Dates: April 26, 2024 to April 25, 2025
The City of Perryville is excited to announce its annual sculpture exhibition beginning in the spring of 2024 for Perryville’s Sculpture Trail, located at Miget Park and historic downtown Perryville. Five sculptures will be selected by this year’s juror, Glenn Williams.
The City of Perryville continues to work toward building a vibrant and culturally rich environment for its residents and visitors. A portion of the exhibit will be in Miget Park, a newly developed city park that is home to the Perryville splash pad and Lucas & Friends an all-inclusive playground. Its newly poured walk/bike trail will provide high visibility to pedestrians, cyclists and motorist at the Perryville Blvd. and St. Joseph St. intersection. Other site locations will be in the historic downtown square where local retail, restaurants, government, and specialty businesses make up a thriving community experience and vibrant social events throughout the year.
All work entered must be durable and freestanding. Each sculpture or sculpture proposal must be safe for the general public and be suitable and maintenance-free for this one-year outdoor exhibition. Each sculpture will be bolted to a concrete pad using Tapcon anchor bolts supplied by the artist.
Each artist selected for the exhibition will receive a $1,500 honorarium to cover transportation, installation and de-installation of the sculpture, and all other expenses involved. Any costs over $1,500 are entirely the responsibility of the artist.
Click here to download full RFP and application.
CSI projects are partially supported by a CityArts Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events.
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 areimportant. 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.
October 2023 Newsletter
Welcome to the October Newsletter
You will find:
News from the CSI Committees
Show opportunities
Ongoing Member Exhibitions
The Poetry of Sculpture
Chicago Sculpture International Juried Exhibitions
at Prairie State College - Christopher Art Gallery
Entry Deadline: December 8, 2023
Show Runs: February 5 - 29, 2024
Sculptors are invited to enter up to three works in the Chicago Sculpture International Juried Exhibition at Prairie State College– Christopher Art Gallery
The exhibition will be juried and curated by Beth Shadur.
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’s statement and short bio will be required for the accepted piece.
About the gallery:
The Christopher Art Gallery gallery is located on the first floor of the main campus building and consists of 1300 square feet.
Prairie State College
202 South Halsted Street
Chicago Heights, Illinois 60411
For more information and to apply here.
News from Development
CSI Awarded IACA Grant
CSI applied for a general operating support grant through Illinois Arts Council Agency, and has been awarded a generous 2024 grant!
The award will be distributed by IACA to support the growth and positive community reflection that CSI offers the greater Chicago area. CSI members, each and everyone of you, and your work in exhibitions, outreach and education has made this possible. Thank you all for your devotion to make CSI what it is, and what it is becoming. Congratulations!
News from the Indoor Exhibition Committee
Elemental Impact
Chicago Sculpture International Juried Exhibition at the Epiphany Center for the Arts
November 17, 2023 to January 13, 2024
Opening Reception: November 17, 2023, 6 to 9 p.m.
Click here to reserve a ticket for the opening reception
This exhibition takes interest in the parts that make up the whole, and how a single element can impact the world at large. Much like a single choice in material or form can change an entire piece, each work in a collective can change and impact the whole by proximity.
The works chosen for this exhibition have a strong sense of material choice and presence that is both able to stand on its own while also engaging with its environment and the works around it in a way that fundamentally changes the experience of the space.
Exhibiting Artists:
Brad Cahill | Nicholas D’Alessandro | Christine Forni | Michael F. Gallagher | Set Gozo
Maki Hajikano | Ariana Hocking | Azadeh Hussaini | Kara Cobb Johnson | Stacee Kalmanovsky | Beth Kamhi | Larsa Kena | Eli Kessler | Seonyoung Lee | Connie Noyes | Julie Mars | Bill Mitchell | Stella Moon | Bryan Northup | Lisa Nelson Raabe | Jeanne Reilly | Gina Lee Robbins | Marci Rubin | Howard Russo | Stephanie Sailer | Olya Salimova | Dominic Sansone | Zelene Jiang Schlosberg | Yvette Kaiser Smith | Diane Tang | Nancy VanKanegan | Yimei Zhu
Curated by Kaylee Fowler
Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 South Ashland Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60607
(312) 421-4600
Volunteers needed for Elemental Impact Exhibition
Volunteers are need to help with the exhibition Elemental Impact at Epiphany Center for the Arts for the following:
Drop Off Dates
On the following days a volunteer is needed to monitor the alley during drop-offs and a volunteer is need to assist with receiving artwork and completed consignment forms:
Saturday, November 11, 2023 from 12 to 4 pm
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 from 12 to 4 pm.
Pick up Dates
Volunteer are needed to help with pick-up (this may include some packing shipped of artwork with labels provided by the artist), and a volunteer is also need to help monitor the alley on the following days:
Tuesday, January 16, 2024 12-4 pm
Wednesday, January 17, 2024, 12-4 pm
Thursday, January 18, 2024, 12-4 pm
If available and for more information please contact Christine Forni at (312) 307-7824
News from CSI Project Space
Form Within: Unveiling Hidden Aesthetics
Join us at CSI: Project Space in celebration with our emerging artist members.
In the realm of art, we often find ourselves captivated by the surface beauty of a piece; colors, shapes, and textures that immediately catch our senses. Yet, beneath these visible layers lies a profound world of intricacies, the “Form Within” that gives art its enduring depth and significance.
This exhibition is an exploration of that hidden world. Through a compelling array of artworks in various mediums and styles, this collection reveals the artists’ meticulous craftsmanship, their unique perspectives, and their ability to evoke emotions and provoke thoughts. As viewers, we are challenged to look beyond the obvious, to see not just what is presented but what lies beneath and within.
Opening Night Event:
Saturday, November 3, 6-9pm
Exhibition Dates: Nov. 3 – Nov. 26, 2023
CSI PROJECT SPACE
1912 N. Damen Ave.
Chicago, IL
Gallery hours: Fri - Sat 2-8 pm; Sun 1-6 pm, or by appointment
For more info: projectspace@chicagosculpture.org
COALESCE Exhibit and Special Events
Exhibition Dates: Oct 8 - 23, 2023
Opening Reception: Sunday, Oct 8, 2 - 4PM
The word COALESCE unites the prefix co- (“together”) and the Latin word alescere, meaning “to grow”.The 5 artists in this exhibition represent the First Inclusion Fellowships awarded by Chicago Sculpture International for their artistic merit and experience in sculpture as medium.
Inclusion Fellowship exhibiting artists:
Cherylle Booker, Victor Edwards, Hai-Wen Lin, Janhavi Khemka, Yimei (Emair) Zhu
Curated by Kara Cobb Johnson, Inclusion Fellowship Director + CSI Membership Chair
Click here to learn more about our Inclusion Fellowship artists.
CSI PROJECT SPACE
1912 N. Damen Ave.
Chicago, IL
Gallery hours: Fri - Sat 2-8 pm; Sun 1-6 pm, or by appointment
For more info: projectspace@chicagosculpture.org
Knitting and Tufting Workshop
Workshop artist: Yimei(Emair) Zhu
IG: emair_zhu
Sunday October 22nd, 2023, 2 to 5pm
This workshop is open to anyone interested in Knitting & Tufting, no skill base is required and there is no charge. Artists will learn some easier ways to make a small piece of their own in 3 hours.
Attention:
Because materials need to be prepared in advance and to ensure that participants have a wonderful experience, this workshop is only open to those who book in advance and will close this booking link when there are more than 10 people or after October 8th.
Everyone who wishes to join needs to fill out the form, even if you are a parent of a child.
Coalesce Artist Talk with Yimei (Emair) Zhu
"E-F-B-P / What We See, What We Can See"
Saturday, October 21st, from 4-6 pm
at CSI Project Space
Livestream on Instagram: emair_zhu (https://www.instagram.com/emair_zhu/)
Little, but BOLD!
Holiday Members Exhibit
CSI Project Space announces an open call for the 2nd Holiday Member Exhibit of small works at our gallery space in Bucktown.
Little, but BOLD! Is in celebration of all things unmonumental. Often flying under the radar, small things have the special ability to bridge private and public spaces. Within the sculpture field, there has been a projected narrative that bigger is better. We are here to assert that small things can hold the same importance as the largest monument.
Guidelines:
Applicants must be CSI members
All submissions must be smaller than 12 in. x12 in.
2D, 3D, and wall mounted sculptural work accepted
Please Note: We are requesting exhibiting artists to cover 1 or 2 gallery sitting shifts during the duration of the show.
Submission Instructions:
Contact Info: Name, address, phone, email, website
1-2 jpg images: Title, medium, size, price with 30% donation to CSI added
Submit all information and images on this google form here
https://forms.gle/7xv2rgjbT5cTkBhW9
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: Sunday, Nov. 12, 2023
Notification: Wednesday, Nov. 22
Drop off artwork: Fri/Sat, Dec. 1-2
Opening Night: Saturday, Dec. 9
Exhibition Dates: Dec. 9, 2023 – Jan. 26, 2024
Pick up artwork: Sat/Sun, Jan. 27-28
CSI PROJECT SPACE
1912 N. Damen Ave.
Chicago, IL
Gallery hours: Fri - Sat 2-8pm; Sun 1-6pm; or by appointment
For more info: projectspace@chicagosculpture.org
Altered Book Workshop
Laurie LeBreton taught an Educational Art Workshop "Altered Book Workshop" on September 24 at CSI: Project Space. The day was full of new ideas, learning, and fun as we made sculptures out of old books.
Open Volunteer Board Position - Education Chair
The Education Chair is the member of the CSI Board of Directors who plans and coordinates educational programming for Chicago Sculpture International membership and the public. They will collaborate with other CSI committees and external organizations to facilitate art workshops and other community outreach.
In 2023, CSI shared 4-5 art workshops at The Boys and Girls Club of America, and 2 workshops at the gallery, CSI Project Space.
There are stipends for participating artists to conduct workshops and other programming.
Main Tasks
Connect with members artists
Connect with community organizations and plan appropriate art workshops
Manage stipends
Email artist invoices to CSI Treasurer
Manage material budget and reimbursements
If interested, please contact info@chicagosculpture.org
News from the Membership Chair
20 Years of CSI
Membership has been working on creating a celebratory book to be produced by PS Hudson, to commemorate 20 years of CSI. The idea is that any artist member can submit content for their “page” in the book and receive a copy for a fee of $30. Additional copies will range from $8-$20 to have on hand for your clients and collection. Content for your page will be accepted through this link until January 2024. The books will be hand delivered at a celebration at CSI Project Space in April 2024 where t-shirts may also be available. If you have talent in layout, design, or publication, I would love to invite you to “the non-committee committee” to creatively realize this publication. Message me at karajohnson@chicagosculpture.org anytime.
Land Acknowledgement
To provide immediate assistance to Native American Communities in Chicago, you can send donations to the city's American Indian Center here.
The City of Chicago, and its surrounding areas, have always been and always will be, home to numerous Native American communities. As a team dedicated to the uplifting of Indigenous People's sovereignty everywhere, we recognize that each program and exhibition associated with this project is taking place on the traditional homelands of the Council of Three Fires - the Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa - as well as the Menominee, Miami, and Ho-Chunk Nations. Further, we acknowledge that Chicago is home to one of the largest urban Native American communities in the US.
Land acknowledgments are not rhetorical gestures, but rather calls to action. We therefore invite each of our non-Indigenous colleagues to learn more about the forced removal of many of the communities listed above from the state of Illinois and to incorporate Indigenous knowledge into their line of work. We also encourage everyone to ask themselves how they may benefit from the continuation of settler colonialism, militarism, and warfare. Confronting these realities allows us to break down our privileges and adopt anti-colonial practices that can one day help us in creating a more equitable society.
Members News
Members are welcome to submit news regarding exhibitions and professional development achievements to info@chicagosculpture.org. We would love to see what you are doing!! Also, please share your open studio events and any news about new work on our facebook and instagram pages.
Chicago Sculpture Facebook Group
Instagram: @chicagosculptureinternational
New Public Work by Patrick D. Wilson
Patrick D. Wilson completed a permanent public sculpture entitled Ground Nest for the University of Minnesota Crookston in August. Ground Nest depicts an abstracted Golden eagle’s nest made from Corten steel perched atop two concrete seating structures. Resting in the nest is a large bronze egg, with an inscribed aerial view of the Red Lake River and partial map of the city. The percent for art project is inspired by the local geography in combination with the nesting habits of the campus mascot, the Golden eagle.
in the midst of things
The ARX Main Gallery will show sculptures by Chris Wubbena in a solo exhibition entitled, in the midst of things.
The term, in the midst of things, refers to the literary device of beginning a narrative work in the middle of the plot. Each small-scale sculpture in this series exists within the moment of its aggregate materials, diving into wandering storylines and intertextual interpretations. The individual sculptures are created mainly with an admix of materials found around the house or discovered in the act of everyday existence with the inclusion of recognizable models and toys. The viewer is invited to lose oneself within the eclectic and intimate objects, multimedia spaces, found materials, and shifting forms to find crossroads of experiences and worlds within worlds.
Residing in each sculpture are small QR codes within various areas of the compositions allowing anyone with a digital device to access inner and outer worlds of short stories, scripts, auditions, audio compositions, and videos, encouraging the viewer to read, watch, or listen while in the presence of the sculpture, or to explore later. Such access into the compositions provides an expansive space to enter new dimensions of experience with a widening range of perspectives, styles, and voices.
Opening: Friday, October 6, 5 - 7PM
Artist Lecture: October 17 at 5PM in the ARX, room 104
Exhibition runs from October 6 to November 10
ARX Main Gallery
Southeast Missouri State University
340 South Frederick Street
Cape Girardeau, MO
Atmospheric Remnants at Ignition satellite space
Opening: Saturday, October 14, 1-5 pm
Exhibition Dates: October 14-27 (by appointment only)
Ignition satellite space is located inside Mana Contemporary Chicago
Studio 421 on the 4th floor, 2233 S Throop Street in Chicago (Entrance on East side of the building)
CSI Member and Emerging Sculptors Chair, Spencer Gale and non-binary artist and printmaker Juliette Morris, are in a two person exhibition at Ignition satellite space curated by Christine Forni.
Spencer Gale - Neon carves out a bubble of atmosphere from any environment, and stepping into its glow can alter your experiences in a space. The impact of witnessing neon physically changes how viewers are able to see and process the colors of the world around them creating an enticing visual field. When I’m bending the glass, I’m trying to create forms that flow. By incorporating found objects into my sculptures, I strive to make light objects. The goal for these creations is to evoke the mysticism that characterizes neon while grounding that energy to object based sculpture.
Juliette Morris - This body of work engages with collage and repetition to create the lush environments that queerness dwells within. These landscapes exist as images generated from figurative abstraction occurring within my sketchbook. The remnants of all my prior artistic endeavors return, being unearthed and reimposed into new compositions layer by layer. Both lithography and screen printing lend themself to this style of production, allowing for pre-planned and reactive making as I run the press, where my hand as the creator of these utopic spaces is always present. Across my work, I try to find a playful rapport between myself, my figures, and the environments I am printing. By experimenting with subtle changes in material and color from one medium to another, I strive to impose new moods onto the same image across multiple prints. The use of bright, whimsical colors and flashy foils play with perceptions of queer joy, leaving behind what I have come to call a queer dreamscape.
To make an appointment at Ignition satellite space, please call Christine Forni at 312-307-7824.
Image: Spencer Gale
Image: Ange Altenhofen; Detail showing the inside of Grotto, 2023
Ange Altenhofen: Transform Any Room
CSI member Ange Altenhofen is in a group exhibit Transform Any Room at the Des Moines Art Center. Transform Any Room features subversive, politicized, and sometimes glamorized versions of the textiles and objects we bring into our homes that inevitably reveal much about who we are and how we live."
Opening reception: Friday, October 6, from 5-7 pm.
Ange will be debuting a new interactive sculpture "Grotto", as well as two additional works from the Scratch Series. This exhibition is curated by DMAC Senior Curator and also features works by Laura Burkhalter, Faig Ahmed, Nick Cave, Max Colby, T.J. Dedeaux-Norris, Jay Lynn Gomez, Liza Lou, Lydia Ricci, Martha Rosler, and Anne Wilson
The exhibition runs from October 7th, 2023 to January 14th, 2024
Des Moines Art Center
4700 Grand Avenue
Des Moines, IA 50312
(515) 277-4405
Hours: Tu, W, Sa & Su - 10am to 4pm
Th & F - 10am to 7pm
Sunday Dinner
Carlson Tower Gallery of North Park University presents fiber-based sculptural works of Bobbi Meier in a solo exhibition entitled, Sunday Dinner.
Opening Reception with Artist Talk: November 7
Reception: 4:30 - 6:00 PM
Artist's Talk: 5:00PM
North Park University
3225 West Foster Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60625
The following are not CSI sponsored projects, but may be of interest to our members:
Wood Studio, Tools Sale
Some items for sale: JET 14" band saw, JET circular sanders, workbench, hand tools, steel cabinets, small refrigerator, microwave, wood, etc.
Saturday, October 14 - Sunday, October 15, 10AM - 1PM
4001 N. Ravenswood, 603C
Cash or check only
Free Structural or Mechanical Engineering Service Assistance for Sculptors from Rbhu
At Rbhu, we believe that art plays a key role in lifting the human spirit; it ignites our imagination with possibilities, helps us process and express our feelings, and brings people together for a collective cause. We believe that monumental sculptures have the power to inspire creativity and can positively impact the health and well-being of those around them.
Engineering large-scale art sculptures is our mission, and we are fortunate to play a part in bringing life-transformative experiences to the world. We exist because of our community and its vision, so we feel the need to do our part to support them. We are honored to announce that we are launching the 2023 Rbhu Gives Back grants, offering $12,000 worth of free engineering services to artists in need.
What we are offering: Structural or mechanical engineering services for any size artwork, which can include analysis, construction drawings, and permit documents, depending on the project's needs. Offerings will be broken down as follows:
One full pro-bono project (up to $6,000 in free services)
One project with 50% discounted services (up to $3,000 in free services)
One project with 50% discounted services (up to $3,000 in free services)
What we’re looking for:
Any art piece that needs engineering services is eligible for this program. We want to get a good idea of your concept so that we understand how we can best help you. Please answer the questions as best as you can. If we need additional information, we will reach out and ask you.
What you need to provide:
A completed application
Visual representation of your concept - this can be anything from a napkin sketch to a 3D model. If you don’t have your idea fully flushed out yet, that’s OK, just let us know in your application
Important dates:
October 16th: Applications close
December 1st : Selected projects are chosen, and applicants are notified
Call for Artists: Sangamon County Atrium, Springfield, Illinois
Sangamon County is pleased to announce a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to professional artists or firms to create permanent original art or installations for a sculpture or piece of art that will be located indoors in a new atrium/lobby space in the Sangamon County building located in Springfield, Illinois.
The county and advisory committee is interested in applications from artists who specialize in sculpture/art that could either be installed on the floor in the space or hung from the ceiling.
As part of a major renovation project at the Sangamon County Building, a new atrium will be built to serve as the new entrance for county employees, county residents and those who seek the services that are offered in the in the Sangamon County building. This space will connect to the planned Springfield-Sangamon County Transportation Hub (The Hub).
The RFQ will be processed in two phases. Phase I will include collecting applications from qualified, interested artists. An advisory committee will score and choose artists from that pool who will be invited to advance to the next phase. In Phase II, the selected artists will be invited to submit a concept, budget and other information for the space for a stipend. The advisory committee will then select the finalist and concept to recommend for final approval to the Sangamon County Building and Grounds Committee and the Sangamon County Board.
The artist and county will agree to the budget and installation timeline in the final contract.
Application Deadline:
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Noon (central)
*Application before the deadline is encouraged.
Click here for more details and to apply
2024 Perryville Sculpture Trail Call for Artists
Perryville, Missouri
Submission Deadline: December 4, 2023 by 5:00 pm
Exhibition Dates: April 26, 2024 to April 25, 2025
The City of Perryville is excited to announce its annual sculpture exhibition beginning in the spring of 2024 for Perryville’s Sculpture Trail, located at Miget Park and historic downtown Perryville. Five sculptures will be selected by this year’s juror, Glenn Williams.
The City of Perryville continues to work toward building a vibrant and culturally rich environment for its residents and visitors. A portion of the exhibit will be in Miget Park, a newly developed city park that is home to the Perryville splash pad and Lucas & Friends an all-inclusive playground. Its newly poured walk/bike trail will provide high visibility to pedestrians, cyclists and motorist at the Perryville Blvd. and St. Joseph St. intersection. Other site locations will be in the historic downtown square where local retail, restaurants, government, and specialty businesses make up a thriving community experience and vibrant social events throughout the year.
All work entered must be durable and freestanding. Each sculpture or sculpture proposal must be safe for the general public and be suitable and maintenance-free for this one-year outdoor exhibition. Each sculpture will be bolted to a concrete pad using Tapcon anchor bolts supplied by the artist.
Each artist selected for the exhibition will receive a $1,500 honorarium to cover transportation, installation and de-installation of the sculpture, and all other expenses involved. Any costs over $1,500 are entirely the responsibility of the artist.
Click here to download full RFP and application.
Chicago Sculpture International is partially supported by a CityArts Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events.
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.
September 2023 Newsletter
Welcome to the September Newsletter
You will find:
News from the CSI Committees
Show opportunities
Ongoing Member Exhibitions
Call for Entries: Elemental Impact
Chicago Sculpture International Juried Exhibitions at the Epiphany Center for the Arts
Extended Entry Deadline: September 9, 2023
Show Runs: Nov. 17, 2023 - Jan. 13, 2024
Epiphany Center for the Arts, 201 S. Ashland Ave., Chicago, IL
312-421-4600
Email notification of acceptance: October 15, 2023
Delivery of Accepted Work: Nov. 11, Noon - 5PM or Nov. 14, Noon - 5PM
Opening Reception: Nov. 17. 6 - 9PM
Pick-up of work: Jan. 16 - 18, 11AM - 3PM
This exhibition takes interest in the parts that make up the whole and how a single element can impact the world at large. Much like a single choice in material or form can change an entire piece, each work in a collective can change and impact the whole by proximity.
The works chosen for this exhibition will have a strong sense of material choice and presence that is both able to stand on its own while also engaging with its environment and the works around it in a way that fundamentally changes the experience of the space.
If selected for the exhibition, artists must be a current CSI member or sign-up for membership. An artist statement will be required for the accepted piece.
Find more information here.
News from Outdoor Exhibition Committee
Ragdale Tree Project Residency: Diversity of Birds - Request for Proposals (RFP)
Application Deadline: Monday, October, 2, 2023, 11:59PM
Chicago Sculpture International, in collaboration with the Ragdale Foundation, is seeking experienced artists and artist teams to give a fifth season to a grand elm on the Ragdale Campus in Lake Forest, IL, by turning it into a sculpture. We are looking for a variety of beautiful, original, unique artistic approaches that will celebrate the diversity of birds in the area and become a distinguishing feature on the Ragdale Foundation’s campus.
Each of the five artists chosen will be working on one of the five large branches of the tree and collaborating on carving the designed wings on the west side of the tree. The approach to the branch sculptures can be additive and/or subtractive. The branches are approximately 8-15 ft. tall. To get an idea of the variety of ways to create a tree sculpture, please visit the Chicago Tree Project’s site www.chicagotreeproject.org.
For this proposal, each artist should submit qualifications that address projects of similar scale. We are looking for evidence that the artist is comfortable working with the appropriate equipment and at heights required for this project. Selected artists must follow safety criteria and are encouraged to complete an OSHA scaffolding certification course.
This RFP is open to professional artists or artist teams 18 years of age or older. 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.
Compensation/Stipend:
A two-week Ragdale Residency and $800 paid on completion of the a branch.
About the residency
Ragdale is one of the largest interdisciplinary artists’ communities in the country. Ragdale residents represent a cross-section of ages, cultures, experiences, and mediums, for a diverse and vibrant community.
In the session at Ragdale, artists-in-residence will enjoy uninterrupted time for work and creativity, a supportive environment, dynamic artist exchanges, 50 acres of idyllic prairie, a 7- acre historically significant campus, and a family-style dinner each evening. See more about us at Ragdale.
The two-week residency will take place between May 20 and June 7, 2024.
Click here for more information and to download an application.
News from CSI Project Space
First Annual Event by Emerging Artist Committee in partnership with CSI Project Space
Join us on November 3rd for the first annual event hosted by the Emerging Artist Committee in partnership with the CSI Project Space. We are celebrating a selection of emerging artists in our community, followed by an exhibition titled The Form Within.
What's next Gallery Goose?
Meet Lenard, our announcement goose.
CSI Project Space, 1912 North Damen, Chicago
By Degree II
Exhibit closes - Sat. September 16
Altered Book Workshop
Sunday 9/24, 1-3pm
Fun - bring in an old book and member Laurie LeBreton will create and share how to turn a book into sculpture and art.
Coalesce (Group exhibit)
Opening Reception: October 8th, 2023, 2-4PM
Artist Talk + Activation: October 21, 6-8PM
CSI Project Space, 1912 North Damen, Chicago
Participating artists: Cherylle Booker, Victor Edwards, Hai-Wen Liu, Janhavi Khemka, Yimai (Emair) Zhu
Curated by Kara Cobb Johnson
Event: Celebrating New Artists
Opening Night and Celebration:
Friday, November 3, 6-9pm
CSI Project Space in conjunction with the Emerging Artist Committee is celebrating our new members and artists.
Followed by an exhibition, The Form Within.
The Form Within
Opening: Friday, November 3, 6-9pm
Exhibit dates; 11/3 - 11/26
Celebrating new members and artists
Little, but Bold
Opening: Friday, December 9, 6-9pm
Exhibit dates; 12/9 - 1/26
Members Holiday Show
News from the Education Committee
Volunteer Open Position - Board Member, Education Chair Member
The Educational chair member plans and coordinates educational programming for Chicago Sculpture International membership and the public. They will collaborate with other committees and organizations to facilitate Educational Art Workshops as a community outreach to venues and educational institutions. The Educational chair member acts as a liaison between the artist and the public.
In 2023, CSI shared 4-5 educational art workshops at The Boys and Girls Club of America, and 2 educational artist workshops at the gallery, CSI Project Space.
There is a stipend for participating artists to conduct Educational Art Workshops.
If interested, please contact info@chicagosculpture.org
News from the Membership Chair
Group photo (left to right): Gene Skala, Olya Salimova, Micki LeMieux, Bruce Webber, Thomas Plum, Kara Cobb Johnson, Darlys Ewoldt, Berthold Boone. Photo credit: Jyl Bonaguro
Annual CSI Picnic
Thanks to everyone who came and enjoyed the annual CSI picnic! The group enjoyed the beautiful weather, good company, and a new member, Bruce Webber! Welcome Bruce!
First Image: CSI Annual Membership Picnic and impromptu visit to McCormick Bridgehouse & Chicago River Museum on Saturday,
August 19th at Vietnam Veterans Memorial along the Chicago River. Special thanks to organizer Membership Chair Kara Cobb
Johnson.
Congratulations to 2023 CSI Inclusion Fellow, Cherylle Booker, on her solo exhibition entitled “Titania’s Masquerade: Unseen Worlds of Wonder”.
Epiphany Center for the Arts
Slemmons Gallery
201 S. Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL, 60609
Opening night September 22, 6-9pm. Tickets can be reserved here: Cherylle BookerTitania’s Masquerade: Unseen Worlds of Wonder - Epiphany Center for the Arts (epiphanychi.com) or www.ephanychi.com/cherylle-booker-titanias-masquerade/
CSI has reserved 2 tickets. Please contact karajohnson@chicagosculpture.org if you would like these.
Member News
Members are welcome to submit news regarding exhibitions and professional development achievements to info@chicagosculpture.org
We would love to see what you are doing!!
Also, please share your open studio events and any news about new work on our facebook and instagram pages.
Chicago Sculpture Facebook Group
Instagram: @chicagosculptureinternational
Christine Forni is a speaker at a Physicists' conference in Italy
Christine Forni is an invited speaker to discuss her art practice and how it reflects a recently discovered physics law at Freedom, Design and Evolution, 12th Constructal Law Conference in Italy.
On September 21st, 2023, Christine will share her artwork and environmental projects with a group of international scientists at the Turin Energy Center.
Following the conference, she’ll lead a “Drawing You Outside,” an outdoor environmental community drawing project at Parco del Valentino in Turin.
The Medium is Technology
CSI member Michael Litewski will be in two upcoming group exhibits at College of Lake County (with Christina Chopalli and Teahoon Kim) and Caroline S. Mark Gallery
Caroline S. Mark Gallery/Center for the Visual Arts in Wausau, Wisconsin presents The Medium is Technology. This group exhibit runs from August 18th to October 28th, 2023. The opening reception is Friday, September 15th at 5pm.
“Technology as a creative medium has a long rich partnership with the visual arts. As technology continues to change so does the definition of technology as a medium. This constant state of change pushes and pulls at the boundaries of art. This show seeks to highlight artwork that is made using ‘technology’ as a tool or medium for the artwork. This includes but is not limited to graphic design, digital photography, 3D printers, NFTs, video art, CNC cut or laser cut materials, web content, and much more.”
Caroline S. Mark Gallery
427 North Fourth Street
Wausau, WI 54403
(715) 842-4545
Gallery Hours: Wed-Fri: 10am-4pm; Sa: 12-4pm, Closed Sunday and Tuesday
For general information: info@cvawausau.org
College of Lake County Group Exhibit
The exhibit at College of Lake County’s Robert T. Wright Gallery runs from August 25th to September 21st.
Richard T. Wright Community Gallery of Art
College of Lake County
19351 W. Washington Street
Grayslake, IL 60030
Gallery Hours: Mon-Th: 8am-9pm; Fri: 8am- 6pm; Sa: 9am-3pm
Closed Sundays. Hours may vary during college breaks
For general information: arintz@clcillinois.edu
Image: Set Gozo, Cartharsis, ceramic and glass.
Set Gozo Wins ‘Best in Show’
Set Gozo won Best in Show for the piece Catharsis in "The Happiness Show" at the Epiphany Center for the Arts. Congratulations, Set!!
THE FOLLOWING ANNOUNCEMENTS ARE NOT SPONSORED BY CSI BUT MAY BE OF INTEREST TO OUR MEMBERS:
International Sculpture Center Artist Exhibition
For the first time ever, you can now be a part of potentially three exhibitions - in Sculpture magazine (March/April ’24), on ISC Artsy Online Member Show (Fall ’24) and an in-person exhibition scheduled for 2024 as well. Preferred options for ISC chapter members.
Application deadline is September 15th. Applications will be accepted only from ISC members and chapters for the first month but the offer will be extended to the public after that.
Learn more:
sculpture.org/page/ArtistExhibition for more details
#sculpture #internationalsculpturecenter #sculpturemagazine
#exhibitions
Indianapolis International Airport Seeks Loan of Sculpture for North Garden
Submissions deadline: Sunday, September 24, 2023 by 11:59PM.
Adjudication of proposals by the curatorial team: October, 2023
Notification of intent to borrow artwork: October 23, 2023
Installation of artwork at Indianapolis International Airport: January, 2024 Estimated date for removal of artwork from site: December, 2025
IndyArts Council and the Indianapolis Airport Authority (IAA) invites artists to provide proposals to temporarily install a work of art outdoors at the Indianapolis International Airport. This opportunity is for one pre-existing, free-standing work of art to remain on display in the North Terminal Garden for two (2) years. To be considered, the artwork must fit within the established engineering guidelines for the selected site, be durable, be impervious to weather (unless natural weathering is essential to the concept of the artwork), be low-maintenance and be suitable in form, material and content for a mixed-ages audience that will include young children.
Eligibility Requirements:
At least 18 years of age
Reside in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio, Wisconsin, or Missouri
Able to obtain at least $2M of general liability and damage insurance covering the artwork during transportation, installation and deinstallation
Call for Outdoor Light Sculptures at GLOW Exhibit
Proposal Deadline: September 30
Installations must be completed by Friday, November 24
Allerton Park and Retreat Center in Monticello, Illinois seeks lighted outdoor sculptures for our annual holiday GLOW installation. Artists may submit proposals including photos of the work, fees, and installation requirements to our online submissions form: https://go.illinois.edu/GLOW2023
For questions please contact Felix Fuenty at fuenty2@illinois.edu or Olivia Bunting at owarren@illinois.edu.
2024 Perryville Sculpture Trail Call for Artists
Perryville, Missouri
Submission Deadline: December 4, 2023 by 5:00PM
Exhibition Dates: April 26, 2024 to April 25, 2025
The City of Perryville is excited to announce its annual sculpture exhibition beginning in the spring of 2024 for Perryville’s Sculpture Trail, located at Miget Park and historic downtown Perryville. Five sculptures will be selected by this year’s juror, Glenn Williams.
The City of Perryville continues to work toward building a vibrant and culturally rich environment for its residents and visitors. A portion of the exhibit will be in Miget Park, a newly developed city park that is home to the Perryville splash pad and Lucas & Friends an all-inclusive playground. Its newly poured walk/bike trail will provide high visibility to pedestrians, cyclists and motorist at the Perryville Blvd. and St. Joseph St. intersection. Other site locations will be in the historic downtown square where local retail, restaurants, government, and specialty businesses make up a thriving community experience and vibrant social events throughout the year.
All work entered must be durable and freestanding. Each sculpture or sculpture proposal must be safe for the general public and be suitable and maintenance-free for this one-year outdoor exhibition. Each sculpture will be bolted to a concrete pad using Tapcon anchor bolts supplied by the artist.
Each artist selected for the exhibition will receive a $1,500 honorarium to cover transportation, installation and de-installation of the sculpture, and all other expenses involved. Any costs over $1,500 are entirely the responsibility of the artist.
Click here to download full RFP and application.
Chicago Sculpture International is partially supported by a CityArts Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events.
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.
August 2023 Newsletter
Chicago Sculpture International Annual Picnic
August 19, 2023
Chicago Sculpture International Membership Picnic at The Chicago Riverfront (with a rain date of August 20th). We will meet at Veteran’s Park Ledges between Wabash and Wacker on the South Shore of the river and picnic from 11-12PM at his spot and may venture out after that. The Air and Water show will also be taking place downtown so please plan to take public transportation or reserve parking through Spothero app. Light lunch and refreshments will be available.
Kindly RSVP to karajohnson@chicagosculpture.org if you plan to attend. If there is a large bunch of people attending, we can set up a potluck-type bring dish to share picnic. I am looking forward to hosting this event that is open to all members!
News from Outdoor Exhibition Committee
Ragdale Tree Project Residency: Diversity of Birds
Request for Proposals (RFP)
Application Deadline: Monday, October, 2, 2023, 11:59PM
Chicago Sculpture International, in collaboration with the Ragdale Foundation, is seeking experienced artists and artist teams to give a fifth season to a grand elm on the Ragdale Campus in Lake Forest, IL, by turning it into a sculpture. We are looking for a variety of beautiful, original, unique artistic approaches that will celebrate the diversity of birds in the area and become a distinguishing feature on the Ragdale Foundation’s campus.
Each of the five artists chosen will be working on one of the five large branches of the tree and collaborating on carving the designed wings on the west side of the tree. The approach to the branch sculptures can be additive and/or subtractive. The branches are approximately 8-15 ft. tall. To get an idea of the variety of ways to create a tree sculpture, please visit the Chicago Tree Project’s site www.chicagotreeproject.org.
For this proposal, each artist should submit qualifications that address projects of similar scale. We are looking for evidence that the artist is comfortable working with the appropriate equipment and at heights required for this project. Selected artists must follow safety criteria and are encouraged to complete an OSHA scaffolding certification course.
This RFP is open to professional artists or artist teams 18 years of age or older. 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.
Compensation/Stipend:
A two-week Ragdale Residency and $800 paid on completion of the a branch.
The artists are responsible for providing their own materials.
About the residency
Ragdale is one of the largest interdisciplinary artists’ communities in the country. Ragdale residents represent a cross-section of ages, cultures, experiences, and mediums, for a diverse and vibrant community.
In the session at Ragdale, artists-in-residence will enjoy uninterrupted time for work and creativity, a supportive environment, dynamic artist exchanges, 50 acres of idyllic prairie, a 7- acre historically significant campus, and a family-style dinner each evening. See more about us at Ragdale.
The two-week residency will take place between May 20 and June 7, 2024.
Click here for more information and to download an application.
News from Indoor Exhibition Committee
ALMA Annual Spring Exhibition
2024 Chicago Sculpture International Juried Exhibition at ALMA Art and Interiors
April 12 - September 1, 2024
3636 S. Iron St, Chicago, IL
Entry Deadline: August 18, 2023
Both Indoor and Outdoor Sculptors are invited to enter up to three works for the Annual Spring Exhibition at ALMA Art and Interiors in Chicago, IL. The exhibition will coincide with Expo Chicago, International Exposition of Contemporary & Modern Art, April 11- 24, 2024 Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois. Alma Art and Interiors, established 2021, is a contemporary fine art gallery in the historic Bridgeport Arts Corridor featuring over 80 artists in 10,000 sq. ft.
This exhibition will be juried and curated by Kimberly Oliva and Gosia Korsakowski.
If selected for the exhibition, artists must be a current CSI member or sign-up for membership here. An artist statement will be required for the accepted piece.
Calendar:
Entry deadline: August 18, 2023
Email notification of acceptance: September 4, 2023.
Delivery of Accepted Work: Work to be received by March 1, 2024.
Exhibition dates: April 12, 2024 – September 1, 2024.
Opening Reception: Friday, April 12, 2024, 5 to 9 pm on opening weekend, Saturday, April 13, and Sunday, April 14, 12 to 5 pm.
Look HERE for application details.
Call for Entries:
Elemental Impact
Chicago Sculpture International Juried Exhibitions at the Epiphany Center for the Arts
Extended Entry Deadline: September 9, 2023
Show Runs: Nov. 17, 2023 - Jan. 13, 2024
Email notification of acceptance: October 15, 2023
Delivery of Accepted Work: Nov. 11, Noon - 5PM or Nov. 14, Noon - 5PM
Opening Reception: Nov. 17. 6 - 9PM
Pick-up of work: Jan. 16 - 18, 11AM - 3PM
This exhibition takes interest in the parts that make up the whole and how a single element can impact the world at large. Much like a single choice in material or form can change an entire piece, each work in a collective can change and impact the whole by proximity.
The works chosen for this exhibition will have a strong sense of material choice and presence that is both able to stand on its own while also engaging with its environment and the works around it in a way that fundamentally changes the experience of the space.
If selected for the exhibition, artists must be a current CSI member or sign-up for membership. An artist statement will be required for the accepted piece.
Find more information here.
Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S. Ashland Ave
Chicago, IL
(312) 421-4600
Color / Form
Chicago Sculpture International Juried Exhibition at the College of Lake County
Exhibition dates:
June 22 - August 9, 2023
Richard T. Wright Community Gallery of Art, CLC, 19351 W. Washington St., Grayslake, IL
Gallery Hours: Mon - Thurs: 8AM - 9PM, Fri: 8AM - 6PM, Sat: 9AM - 3PM, Sun: Closed
No other element impacts aesthetics so directly and urgently as color. Artists who combine color with structure understand the boundless and captivating energy of this synthesis. Using color to evoke a mood is essential in their practice and message. Color/Form’s purpose is to compile creations that celebrate color and form interpreted in three dimensions.
Exhibiting Artists: Mike Baur, Nicole Beck, Michael D. Brown, Kara Cobb Johnson, Deirdre Colgan Jones, Robert Craig, Ei Cullina, Darlys Ewoldt, Lynn Floriano, Victoria Fuller, Shelley Gilchrist, John Hatlestad, Azadeh Hussaini, Yvette Kaiser Smith, Stacee Kalmonovsky, Thom Kapheim, Terry Karpowicz, Youngse Kim, Jill King-Wynn, Fred Klingelhofer, Ginny Krueger, Gina Lee Robbins, Mike Litewski, Nancy Lu Rosenheim, Ellen Lustig, Scott Mossman, Lisa Nelson Raabe, Katherine Nemanich, Janelle O'Malley, Ludvig Peres, Thomas Plum, Marci Rubin, Paul Somers, Diane Tang, Rabia Tayyabi, Michele Thrane, Kyle Triplett, Alexia Trzyna, and Nancy VanKanegan.
News from CSI Project Space
By Degrees II (2023)
13 Contemporary Emerging Artists
Join us at Saturday's opening reception to experience work by and get to visit with some of CSI's newest members!!
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 5 from 6-9PM
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, August 5 - Saturday, September 16, 2023
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.
Exhibiting Artists: Tallulah Cartalucca, Noah Greene-Lowe, Ariana Hocking, Maddy Lee, Stella Moon, Kate Morrick, Fiona Murphy, Greta Olson, Janelle O’Malley , Anna Reed, Kristina Rogers, Check Yan Cherry Tung, and Teagan Walters
By Degrees II Exhibition Committee: Gina Lee Robbins, Nicole Beck, Victoria Fuller, Carol Hammerman and Olya Salimova
Gallery Hours: Friday-Saturday 2-8pm & Sunday 1-6pm.
CSI Project Space: 1912 N Damen, Chicago, IL
Image: Work by Janelle O'Malley, Cheuk Yan Cherry Tung, and Anna Reed
News from the Education Committee
Messy, messy clay fun!
This is what occurred on July 26 at the Boys and Girls Club of America. Member Julia Paloma shared a colorful educational art workshop with clay, beads and feathers.
The kids were thrilled with dirty hands and at what charming clay creatures they created.
News from the Membership Chair
Land Acknowledgment
To provide immediate assistance to Native American communities in Chicago, you can send donations to the city’s American Indian Center here.
The City of Chicago, and its surrounding areas, have always been, and always will be, home to numerous Native American communities. As a team dedicated to the uplifting of Indigenous People’s sovereignty everywhere, we recognize that each program and exhibition associated with this project is taking place on the traditional homelands of the Council of Three Fires—the Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa—as well as the Menominee, Miami, and Ho-Chunk Nations. Further, we acknowledge that Chicago is home to one of the largest urban Native American communities in the US.
Land acknowledgments are not rhetorical gestures, but rather calls to action. We therefore invite each of our non-Indigenous colleagues to learn more about the forced removal of many of the communities listed above from the state of Illinois and to incorporate Indigenous knowledge into their line of work. We also encourage everyone to ask themselves how they may benefit from the continuation of settler colonialism, militarism, and warfare. Confronting these realities allows us to break down our privileges and adopt anti-colonial practices that can one day help us in creating a more equitable society.
Member News
Members are welcome to submit news regarding exhibitions and professional development achievements to info@chicagosculpture.org
We would love to see what you are doing!!
Also, please share your open studio events and any news about new work on our facebook and instagram pages.
Chicago Sculpture Facebook Group
Instagram: @chicagosculptureinternational
Photo: Nicole Beck with Michelle Weddige, Sr. Director, Business Strategy, NASCAR - when Nicole delivered the finished trophy.
NASCAR Street Races trophy by Nicole Beck
CSI Member and Gallery Committee Member, Nicole Beck was commissioned by Nascar Racing to produce a trophy for the Inaugural Chicago July 1 Xfinity Series Race and was awarded to Cole Custer. Nicole subcontracted Vector Custom Fabricating to produce the top spiral element as specified and Nicole fabricated the stainless base and handprinted the trophy in her studio. Beck received overwhelming press about her trophy on national and local news outlets, as well as an article in the SAIC Alumni News.
Check the following news articles: WGN9, NEWSNATION, and SAIC.
Image: artwork by Marie Magnetic
Exhibition by Marie Magnetic
Member Marie Magnetic will be exhibiting her work in ArtSpace’s Annual Abstract Exhibition located in the Logan Square neighborhood.
Exhibition dates: August 4, 2023-August 25, 2023
Opening reception: Friday, August 4th, from 6-9pm
(Refreshments will be served)
Closing reception on Friday, August 25th from 6-9pm
ArtSpace Chicago
3418 W Armitage Ave,
Chicago, IL 60647
Hours: Tu-Sa: 12-9pm; Su: 9-5pm; Closed Mondays
For more information: (773) 562-9760
Click here to learn more about ArtSpace Chicago
Image: Relief sculpture by Michael Litewski
The Medium is Technology
CSI member Michael Litewski will be in two upcoming group exhibits at College of Lake County (with Christina Chopalli and Teahoon Kim) and Caroline S. Mark Gallery
Caroline S. Mark Gallery/Center for the Visual Arts in Wausau, Wisconsin presents The Medium is Technology. This group exhibit runs from August 18th to October 28th, 2023. The opening reception is Friday, September 15th at 5pm.
“Technology as a creative medium has a long rich partnership with the visual arts. As technology continues to change so does the definition of technology as a medium. This constant state of change pushes and pulls at the boundaries of art. This show seeks to highlight artwork that is made using ‘technology’ as a tool or medium for the artwork. This includes but is not limited to graphic design, digital photography, 3D printers, NFTs, video art, CNC cut or laser cut materials, web content, and much more.”
Caroline S. Mark Gallery
427 North Fourth Street
Wausau, WI 54403
(715) 842-4545
Gallery Hours: Wed-Fri: 10am-4pm; Sa: 12-4pm, Closed Sunday and Tuesday
For general information: info@cvawausau.org
Michael Litewski in College of Lake County Group Exhibit
The exhibit at College of Lake County’s Robert T. Wright Gallery runs from August 25th to September 21st and the opening reception is Friday, August 25th at 5pm.
Richard T. Wright Community Gallery of Art
College of Lake County
19351 W. Washington Street
Grayslake, IL 60030
Gallery Hours: Mon-Th: 8am-9pm; Fri: 8am- 6pm; Sa: 9am-3pm
Closed Sundays. Hours may vary during college breaks
For general information: arintz@clcillinois.edu
The following are not CSI sponsored projects, but may be of interest to our members.
International Sculpture Center Artist Exhibition
For the first time ever, you can now be a part of potentially three exhibitions - in Sculpture magazine (March/April ’24), on ISC Artsy Online Member Show (Fall ’24) and an in-person exhibition scheduled for 2024 as well. Preferred options for ISC chapter members.
Application deadline is September 15th. Applications will be accepted only from ISC members and chapters for the first month but the offer will be extended to the public after that.
Learn more: sculpture.org/page/ArtistExhibition for more details
Call for Outdoor Light Sculptures at GLOW Exhibit
Proposal Deadline: September 30
Installations must be completed by Friday, November 24
Allerton Park and Retreat Center in Monticello, Illinois seeks lighted outdoor sculptures for our annual holiday GLOW installation. Artists may submit proposals including photos of the work, fees, and installation requirements to our online submissions form: https://go.illinois.edu/GLOW2023
For questions please contact Felix Fuenty at fuenty2@illinois.edu or Olivia Bunting at owarren@illinois.edu.
A Covid-19 Monument Design
A contest to commemorate honor, remembrance, and resilience.
Submissions must be received by August 31 at midnight.
The winning artist will receive a cash prize of $20,000.
On this day, millions have died from COVID-19 and its variants, or have been infected. For those who have perished, for those who have lost a loved-one, for those who have recovered, and for those who courageously and selflessly served during the darkest and most uncertain days of the pandemic, we announce a competition to design a COVID-19 Monument of Honor, Remembrance, & Resilience sponsored by the Hektoen Institute of Medicine.
This Monument will be a physical sculpture or art installation that addresses and symbolizes the myriad issues and emotions encountered by citizens throughout the world as they navigate this powerful scourge and tragedy of our time. No other event in the past two centuries touched everyone as did the COVID-19 pandemic. Whether by death, illness, grief, or at best, lock-down, the pandemic left no one unscathed. This universal event respected no boundaries and did not discriminate by age, gender, religion, or nationality. As this pandemic excluded no one, our Monument is unequivocally inclusive and will embrace the sentiments of all citizens throughout the world.
Our hope is that we will conquer this virus, and the pandemic will be history—a distant memory. But lest we forget, it is critical that we come together to reflect, and to honor those who continue to fight on the front lines, those brave souls who ensured our survival. They are the nurses, doctors, health care workers, the public service sector employees, airline and banking personnel, those who rang up our groceries and medicines, delivered our packages, prepared our to-go meals, drove our buses, and many more. They all encountered significant risks dealing with an unknown illness. The Monument will honor these individuals and allow those who lost loved ones to mourn and know they are not alone. The monument design contest will bring forth ideas to educate and enlighten with the wisdom and experience we have shared.
Additionally, the Monument will celebrate resilience and victory. The discovery and distribution of the vaccine, engendered by multiple agencies, effectively saved millions of lives. This triumph of science in the COVID-19 vaccine and concomitant testing advances must be lauded and serve as a reminder of hope in the face of intense adversity and obstacles.
About the call FAQ's Submission Guidelines Submission Details
This project is partially supported by a CityArts Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events.
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.
July 2023 Newsletter
Above: Vivian Visser, Bubbling Up (detail), 20232023
Stained cement, high-fire clay, 5' x 8' x 8', located at Big Marsh Park
Cover Image: Peter Krsko, Tree from Within II, 2023,
Wood collected on site, metal plates, screws, 30’ x 35’ x 25’
Welcome to the July Newsletter
You will find:
News from the CSI Committees
Show opportunities
Ongoing Member Exhibitions
Updated Information (Post-publication)
Newsletter Updates
Above: Kokomo Sculpture Walk sculptures by CSI members Ray Katz (left) and John Adduci (right)
This is not a CSI sponsored call but may be of interest to our members.
Call for Kokomo Sculpture Walk
The Kokomo Sculpture Walk is a mile long and winds along trails and waterways through the heart of the city. It’s dotted with a collection of nine large-scale sculptures created by regional and national artists. The juried collection is selected from submissions by artists across the country. The walk includes pieces that are visually interesting and enriching.
The exhibit changes every two years, with a new collection to be installed in 2023. The sculptures are on display along the Industrial Heritage Trail and Kokomo Riverwalk, both paved surfaces.
Deadline to submit: Aug. 8, 2023
Submission fee is $20 for up to 3 pieces
Exhibit dates: September 2023 through August 2025
For more information: Susan Alexander, Greater Kokomo Downtown Association, (765) 457-5301 or salexander@greaterkokomo.com
Call for Entries:
Elemental Impact
Chicago Sculpture International Juried Exhibitions at the Epiphany Center for the Arts
Extended Entry Deadline: September 9, 2023
Show Runs: Nov. 17, 2023 - Jan. 13, 2024
Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 S. Ashland Avenue
Chicago, IL
312-421-4600
Email notification of acceptance: October 15, 2023
Delivery of Accepted Work: Saturday, November 11, 2023, 12-5pm and Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 12am-5pm
Pick-up of work: January 16 – 18, 2024, 11 am to 3 pm
Opening Reception: Friday, November 17, 2023, 6-9pm
This exhibition takes interest in the parts that make up the whole and how a single element can impact the world at large. Much like a single choice in material or form can change an entire piece, each work in a collective can change and impact the whole by proximity.
The works chosen for this exhibition will have a strong sense of material choice and presence that is both able to stand on its own while also engaging with its environment and the works around it in a way that fundamentally changes the experience of the space.
If selected for the exhibition, artists must be a current CSI member orsign-up for membership. An artist statement will be required for the accepted piece.
Find more information here.
News from the Outdoor Exhibitions Committee
Photos from the artist talks. Left: Tree from Within II by Peter Krsko; Right: Bubbling Up by Vivian Visser
Big Marsh Park Sculpture Installations
Big Marsh Park welcomed two new CSI sculpture installations, Bubbling Up by Vivian Visser and Tree from Within II by Peter Krsko. Artists talks (pictured here) were given.
Big Marsh Park is located on Southeast Side of Chicago in the Calumet Area Reserve on the eastern shore of Lake Calumet. Since the late 1800s, the site was an active industrial property for waste and slag dumping from surrounding industrial operations. The Chicago Park District acquired the site in 2011 and it opened as a new 300-acre public park in 2016. Big Marsh Park is the Chicago Park District’s largest natural site. Big Marsh includes a paved bike park, walking paths, dirt trails, jump lines for bikes, and picnicking space, and roughly 45 acres of hemi-marsh is home a vast and increasing variety of native wildlife species, as well as a the new Ford Calumet Environmental Center.
News from the Outdoor Exhibitions Committee
ALMA Art and Interiors
Annual Spring Exhibition
2024 Chicago Sculpture International Juried Exhibition at ALMA Art and Interiors
April 12 - September 1, 2024
3636 S. Iron St, Chicago, IL
Entry Deadline: August 18, 2023
Both Indoor and Outdoor Sculptors are invited to enter up to three works for the Annual Spring Exhibition at ALMA Art and Interiors in Chicago, IL. The exhibition will coincide with Expo Chicago, International Exposition of Contemporary & Modern Art, April 11- 24, 2024 Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois. Alma Art and Interiors, established 2021, is a contemporary fine art gallery in the historic Bridgeport Arts Corridor featuring over 80 artists in 10,000 sq. ft.
This exhibition will be juried and curated by Kimberly Oliva and Gosia Korsakowski.
If selected for the exhibition, artists must be a current CSI member or sign-up for membership here. An artist statement will be required for the accepted piece.
Calendar:
Entry deadline: August 18, 2023
Email notification of acceptance: September 4, 2023.
Delivery of Accepted Work: Work to be received by March 1, 2024.
Exhibition dates: April 12, 2024 – September 1, 2024.
Opening Reception: Friday, April 12, 2024, 5 to 9 pm with opening weekend, Saturday, April 13, and Sunday, April 14, 12 to 5 pm.
Look HERE for application details.
Color / Form
Chicago Sculpture International Juried Exhibition at the College of Lake County
June 22 - August 9, 2023
Richard T. Wright Community Gallery of Art, CLC, 19351 W. Washington St., Grayslake, IL
Gallery Hours: Mon - Thurs: 8AM - 9PM, Fri: 8AM - 6PM, Sat: 9AM - 3PM, Sun: Closed
No other element impacts aesthetics so directly and urgently as color. Artists who combine color with structure understand the boundless and captivating energy of this synthesis. Using color to evoke a mood is essential in their practice and message. Color/Form’s purpose is to compile creations that celebrate color and form interpreted in three dimensions.
Exhibiting Artists: Mike Baur, Nicole Beck, Michael D. Brown, Kara Cobb Johnson, Deirdre Colgan Jones, Robert Craig, Ei Cullina, Darlys Ewoldt, Lynn Floriano, Victoria Fuller, Shelley Gilchrist, John Hatlestad, Azadeh Hussaini, Yvette Kaiser Smith, Stacee Kalmonovsky, Thom Kapheim, Terry Karpowicz, Youngse Kim, Jill King-Wynn, Fred Klingelhofer, Ginny Krueger, Gina Lee Robbins, Mike Litewski, Nancy Lu Rosenheim, Ellen Lustig, Scott Mossman, Lisa Nelson Raabe, Katherine Nemanich, Janelle O'Malley, Ludvig Peres, Thomas Plum, Marci Rubin, Paul Somers, Diane Tang, Rabia Tayyabi, Michele Thrane, Kyle Triplett, Alexia Trzyna, and Nancy VanKanegan. Curated by Ann Rintz
News from the CSI Project Space
CSI Project Space Exhibit: ALIVE
Exhibit Dates: June 16 - July 28, 2023
Hours: Friday through Sunday, 1 - 6PM or by appointment
What does it mean to be alive and a part of Nature?
All animal and vegetable tissues are made up of a complex collection of cells
endlessly at work generating energy for life. In this sense, there is no life without action.
All these little parts and drops of goodness ignite the living in our world illuminated
by the energy of the sun.
We are not mere observers taking measurements and making plans. We are a
structured and complex stimulus being, emerged within the patterns and cycles of Nature. These connections and patterns along with their cycles are expressed as a whole through the living. This experience of life, however interconnected and reliant upon parts both big and small, is inevitably singularly perceived.
Participating Artists: Sam Abrahamson, Yesenia Arroyo, Janet Austin, Lynn Basa, Nicole Beck, Yeong Choi, Bethany Cordero, David Curry, Victor Edwards, Victoria Fuller, Heidi Jensen, Jill King, Victoria Kowalczyk, Alison Mosher, Julia Paloma, Lori Rozdolsky, Paul Russell, Stephanie Sailer, Olya Salimova, Sorin Sukumaran, Diane Feldpausch Tang, Nancy VanKanegan, Vivian Visser.
Curated by Micki LeMieux
More info HERE.
Above: Installation image from 2022 By Degrees exhibition, work by Christian Stone, Elisabeth Heying, and Olya Salimova.
By Degrees II (2023)
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.
Notification by: Monday, July 17, 2023
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, August 5 - Saturday, September 16, 2023
Exhibition Hours: Friday-Saturdays, 1 - 6PM and by appointment
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 5, 2023, 6 - 9PM
Work Drop-Off Date: Sunday, July 29, 2023
Pick-Up/Deinstall Artwork: Sunday, September 17, 2023, 12 - 5PM
News from the Education Committee
There are a few more exciting educational art workshops scheduled for later this year. We look forward to sharing these workshops with our members in the upcoming newsletters.
We are always looking for fun art workshops to share with The Boys and Girls Club at the Lathrop Homes. We are looking for art projects that can be completed in one hour with the children.
If you have an idea for an art workshop, please contact mickilemieux@chicagosculpture.org
News from the Membership Chair
AALANA & BIPOC Inclusion Fellowship Winners 2023/2024
Chicago Sculpture International would like to congratulate five talented artists as our inaugural class of Inclusion Fellowship recipients! A warm welcome to:
Cherylle Booker is an outsider artist who works in ceramic sculpture and painting. Focus is bringing the inner world, emotions, and mental imagery to life through artwork. She is a Project Onward artist since 2018. She has worked with Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art as an artist and guest speaker and helped design the sanctuary doors mural at Epiphany Center for the Arts.
She states: I am inspired by mythology, spiritual traditions, legends, ancient art, and the emotions that we all experience in everyday life. I find it beautiful that we, as artists, can imagine something that doesn’t exist in the physical world and then make it a reality. I work to bring that sense of magic and wonder into the pieces I create, and to give expression to the emotions and states of being that are difficult to put into words. I want people from very different walks of life to be able to connect with what is being expressed through my work, and for those people to be seen and understood.
Hai-Wen Lin received a MDes in Fashion, Body and Garment from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2023 and is currently an artist in residence at The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. They have shown work nationally and internationally from 2015 to the present.
Lin's practice walks the motions of daily life and invites the company of naturally occurring phenomena. It is an act of being present in the world around them. It is an act of reorienting. It is an attempt to attune one’s body to the environment, to unsettle static markers of identity, to offer instead the wind, sun, and sky as constantly shifting relational anchors to gather and situate oneself.
Janhavi Khemka was born in Varanasi, India, and is an interdisciplinary artist in India and Chicago. She has an MFA in print media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2022, a BFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Faculty of Visual Art, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India (2015), and an MFA in printmaking from Graphics, Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati University in Santiniketan (2017). She has shown at Comfort Station in Chicago and is an artist in residence at Bodies of Work, University of Illinois Chicago in 2023.
She states: “As a hearing-impaired person for most of my life, I have often found it difficult to express my innermost feelings, impressions, and reactions verbally. At the age of 15, my mother passed away due to cancer. She was my first teacher and my link to communicate with the outside world. She emphasized lip reading, and it barred me from learning sign language. When she passed away, I was left alone and had to learn to negotiate with the world in my own way. Art helped me find meaning in smaller, intimate things, my hands and their connection to the world, my sight, and my sense of touch. I see and can feel the storm in them but can’t hear.
My practice revolves around finding ways to translate my perception of the world. Therefore, most works are rooted in the personal, psychological, and physical. Each work can be compared to a pin dropped on a map of my being: this is where I was hurt when I cut my hand on a piece of metal; this is where I found my way home when I was lost at a carnival; here I made friends, here I found a child who accepted my shortcomings; here I spread my wings or felt the first touch of affection from another body. Most recently, this mapping has extended to installation-based environments with woodcuts, stop motion, performance art, and vibrational materials, I invite the viewer to experience my perception of the world, devoid of aural stimulation.”
Victor Edwards - BFA Sculpture, Spalding University moved to Chicago after graduating with a thirst for experience in sculpture. He interned at Forrest Boone Studios and is a studio monitor at Chicago Industrial Arts and Design Center. He is creating new work at Park West Ceramics and is a member of South Side Hackerspace where he creates 3D modeling projects.
He states: “I find the stories of artists like Richard Hunt and Nick Cave particularly inspiring, artists whose work is inseparable from the rich and influential nature of Black Chicago culture. Chicago is the city I feel the most at home in and this opportunity would undoubtedly be integral in my emerging artist career… As an artist, my goal is to create spaces and figures to nestle into the collective unconscious. For me, living is a complex and overwhelming thing; I have many conflicting opinions about life. I cycle between being in a state of awe and wonder about all living and being detached, in a state of reflection. I am just one person, and I am riddled with hypocrisy and inconsistency.
Yimei (Emair) Zhu - MFA in Studio Arts, Art and Technology Studies from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2023, Linz, Austria for the 2021 Festival University Program, BFA in Experimental Art from GAFA in Guangzhou, China 2020.
She states: “For many years, I have been concerned about the disabled community, including people with cerebral palsy, low-vision issues, depression and social phobia. I have also been studying sensory systems in the plant and animal realm that are beyond human capabilities. I see art as a powerful way to confront difficult situations and as an engine that can break down barriers between disciplines. My body of work centers around being an experience-oriented creator who focuses on Art, Disability and Posthuman Bodies. As someone who experiences high Myopia, my current works are based on the low vision community, and I attempt to use various sensory and tactile materials to create an abundance of sensations.”
Save the Date: August 19th, 2023
Chicago Sculpture International Membership Picnic at The Chicago Riverfront (with a rain date of August 20th). More details to follow . . .
Land Acknowledgment
To provide immediate assistance to Native American communities in Chicago, you can send donations to the city’s American Indian Center here.
The City of Chicago, and its surrounding areas, have always been, and always will be, home to numerous Native American communities. As a team dedicated to the uplifting of Indigenous People’s sovereignty everywhere, we recognize that each program and exhibition associated with this project is taking place on the traditional homelands of the Council of Three Fires—the Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa—as well as the Menominee, Miami, and Ho-Chunk Nations. Further, we acknowledge that Chicago is home to one of the largest urban Native American communities in the US.
Land acknowledgments are not rhetorical gestures, but rather calls to action. We therefore invite each of our non-Indigenous colleagues to learn more about the forced removal of many of the communities listed above from the state of Illinois and to incorporate Indigenous knowledge into their line of work. We also encourage everyone to ask themselves how they may benefit from the continuation of settler colonialism, militarism, and warfare. Confronting these realities allows us to break down our privileges and adopt anti-colonial practices that can one day help us in creating a more equitable society.
Member News
NASCAR Street Races trophy by Nicole Beck
Read about the NASCAR Street Races trophy created by CSI member Nicole Beck (with help from CSI sponsor Vector Custom Fabricating and a friend who is in CGI design). Congratulations, Nicole!
Link HERE.
Ravinia Steans Music Institute Concert
Kara Cobb Johnson has reserved 10 complimentary tickets to a Ravinia afternoon concert. You can enter the grounds at 1pm and enjoy the outdoor sculptures, then enter Bennett Gordon Hall for a musical daytime dash of piano and strings. July 15th 1pm. Please reach out to Kara at karasusanne@gmail.com between July 6th and July 14th to get the code.
The following are not CSI sponsored projects, but may be of interest to our members.
International Sculpture Center Artist Exhibition
For the first time ever, you can now be a part of potentially three exhibitions - in Sculpture magazine (March/April ’24), on ISC Artsy Online Member Show (Fall ’24) and an in-person exhibition scheduled for 2024 as well. Preferred options for ISC chapter members.
Application deadline is September 15th. Applications will be accepted only from ISC members and chapters for the first month but the offer will be extended to the public after that.
Learn more:
sculpture.org/page/ArtistExhibition for more details
#sculpture #internationalsculpturecenter #sculpturemagazine
#exhibitions
Terrain Biennial 2023
Calling all artists, curators, neighbors, and public art loves!
Open call: April 18 - July 18
Member Bobbi Meier is on the Terrain Biennial team and encourages all to participate! Link HERE.
Photo: 2021 Winner, La Diva I by Ruth Migdal, painted steel, 12' x 4' x 5'
8th Lewis C. Weinberg Biennial Sculpture Competition
Entry Deadline: July 24, 2023
Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park announces its 8th biennial Lewis C. Weinberg Biennial Sculpture Competition and is looking forward to another exciting contest.
- $3,000 Prize
- Expense-paid transportation and installation
- Guest of Honor at the Award Ceremony on site
- 2-year exhibition in SNSP as an honored feature in Section I
For information, application materials, and detailed instructions, please go to our website: www.sculpturepark.org
Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park
McCormick Blvd.
Skokie, IL.
(between Touhy and Dempster Avenues)
For questions and more information:
info@sculpturepark.org
Covid-19 Monument Commission
A monument design contest to commemorate honor, remembrance, and resilience
Submissions must be received by August 31 at midnight.
The winning artist will receive a cash prize of $20,000.
On this day, millions have died from COVID-19 and its variants, or have been infected. For those who have perished, for those who have lost a loved-one, for those who have recovered, and for those who courageously and selflessly served during the darkest and most uncertain days of the pandemic, we announce a competition to design a COVID-19 Monument of Honor, Remembrance, & Resilience sponsored by the Hektoen Institute of Medicine.
This Monument will be a physical sculpture or art installation that addresses and symbolizes the myriad issues and emotions encountered by citizens throughout the world as they navigate this powerful scourge and tragedy of our time. No other event in the past two centuries touched everyone as did the COVID-19 pandemic. Whether by death, illness, grief, or at best, lock-down, the pandemic left no one unscathed. This universal event respected no boundaries and did not discriminate by age, gender, religion, or nationality. As this pandemic excluded no one, our Monument is unequivocally inclusive and will embrace the sentiments of all citizens throughout the world.
Our hope is that we will conquer this virus, and the pandemic will be history—a distant memory. But lest we forget, it is critical that we come together to reflect, and to honor those who continue to fight on the front lines, those brave souls who ensured our survival. They are the nurses, doctors, health care workers, the public service sector employees, airline and banking personnel, those who rang up our groceries and medicines, delivered our packages, prepared our to-go meals, drove our buses, and many more. They all encountered significant risks dealing with an unknown illness. The Monument will honor these individuals and allow those who lost loved ones to mourn and know they are not alone. The monument design contest will bring forth ideas to educate and enlighten with the wisdom and experience we have shared.
Additionally, the Monument will celebrate resilience and victory. The discovery and distribution of the vaccine, engendered by multiple agencies, effectively saved millions of lives. This triumph of science in the COVID-19 vaccine and concomitant testing advances must be lauded and serve as a reminder of hope in the face of intense adversity and obstacles.
About the call FAQ's Submission Guidelines Submission Details
Chicago Sculpture International is partially supported by a CityArts Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events.
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.
June 2023 Newsletter
Christine Perri, Prairie View (view from portal), Beaubien Woods, Chicago
Welcome to the June Newsletter
You will find:
News from the CSI Committees
Show opportunities
Ongoing Member Exhibitions
Updated Information (Post-publication)
Newsletter preview image: Nicole Beck, Populus, from the Sculptura in Urbs in Horto exhibit.
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Big Marsh Arts Festival (info and schedule)
Saturday, June 17th | 11:00 am – 3:00 pm
“A celebration of the arts and artists from in and around Big Marsh Park”
Family Activities (Picnic Grove) 11:00 am – 3:00 pm Roll up your sleeves and tap into your creative self! Paint, draw, print, or just lay in the grass and listen to the wind in the trees.
Featured Artist Dedications (Meet at the Bike Plaza and walk to the installation)
Click here to download a map for Big Marsh ArtsFest
11:30 am Roman Villareal (Spirit of the Marsh) Born in The Bush neighborhood of Chicago in 1950, Villarreal is a self-taught artist with a decades-long body of work including sculpture, painting and assemblage. He demonstrated a strong interest in art from a young age, playing with putty and clay as a child. His mother recognized his talent and described him as a “shaper”—a nod to his future career as an established sculptor. Roman’s work reflects his lived experiences—from personal tragedies to joyful moments with family—and those of his community—the struggles and triumphs that followed the fall of the steel mill industry.
12:30 pm Vivian Visser (Bubbling Up) Vivian Visser has been creating sculptural works that explore our spiritual relationship with Nature since the early ‘90’s. She attempts to share her ideas about our need to create a better relationship with Nature as a way to find peace within ourselves and each other. In addition to the Bubbling Up installation at Big Marsh Park, Visser’s works include a commission of interpretive public art work for the Openlands Lakeshore Preserve, an environmental sculpture for the Guandu International Outdoor Sculpture Festival in Taiwan and three trees for the Chicago Tree Project.
1:30 pm Peter Krsko (Tree House) Peter Krsko listens to nature and creates objects and experiences to share his observations. His approach combines science and art; participatory, interactive and community arts; and play with hands-on education. Krsko also creates collaborative and community public art, such as sculptures and murals, inspired by biological concepts of diversity, differentiation, participation and co-ownership. His sculptural installations mimic the structure and form of natural entities as well as the dynamics and laws of interactions among members of the ecosystems.
MAIN STAGE:
11:00 am – 12:30 pm Band of the Calumet.
11:00 am – 2:30 pm Face Painting with renown make-up artist Anna Todaro-Sadur.
12:30 pm & 2:30 pm Animal Improv with Sonja Moser.
1:00 – 2:00 pm Jabberwocky Marionettes. ‘My Robot's Robot’, a short puppet vignette about friendship.
FORD CALUMET ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER:
11:00 am – 3:00 pm The Art of Making Masa (on the plaza) with C2ST.
12:30 pm Meet the Artist: Norman W. Long: Re-Membering/Re-Presencing.
12:45 pm Juice and Friends: Chicago Street Dance (in front of the Bike Shop)
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Two Important Reminders for our Members:
When sending in a submission for a call, you should expect to receive an emailed confirmation that it is has been received within 24 hours. In case you don’t receive one, please reach out to info@chicagosculpture.org so we can make sure your submission has been received.
Also, throughout each month there may be updated information for events, calls, and other items. Please be sure to check in throughout each month with the online version of the CSI monthly newsletter for any update information on new calls, opportunities, and events here at chicagosculpture.org/newsletter-archive
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Ruth Migdal at Wendlin Park
CSI member Ruth Migdal will have here sculpture (pictured here) installed at Wendlin Park and will be part of the Wendlin Park Grand Opening Event on Thursday, June 29th from 3 to 5 pm., 853 West Blackhawk Street, Chicago, IL. Click here to register for the event.
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This is not a CSI-sponsored call but may be of interest to our members:
Bridgeport Art Center presents:
Sweet Home Chicago
Call for Entries
Chicago Home Chicago, a thoughtfully curated selection of exceptional artworks deriving their subjects and inspirations from the Windy City is looking for sculptors who have pieces with a Chicago-based theme. Curated by Marci Rubin, the exhibit will be in the Bridgeport Art Center's distinguished 4th Floor Gallery.
Call for Entries: Elemental Impact
Chicago Sculpture International Juried Exhibitions at the Epiphany Center for the Arts
Entry Deadline: July 29, 2023
Show Runs: Nov. 17, 2023 - Jan. 13, 2024
Epiphany Center for the Arts, 201 S. Ashland Ave., Chicago, IL
312-421-4600
Email notification of acceptance: Aug. 12, 2023
Delivery of Accepted Work: Nov. 10, Noon - 7PM or Nov. 11, 11AM - 6PM
Opening Reception: Nov. 17. 6 - 9PM
Pick-up of work: Jan. 16 - 18, 11AM - 3PM
This exhibition takes interest in the parts that make up the whole and how a single element can impact the world at large. Much like a single choice in material or form can change an entire piece, each work in a collective can change and impact the whole by proximity.
The works chosen for this exhibition will have a strong sense of material choice and presence that is both able to stand on its own while also engaging with its environment and the works around it in a way that fundamentally changes the experience of the space.
If selected for the exhibition, artists must be a current CSI member or sign-up for membership. An artist statement will be required for the accepted piece.
Click here for more information and submission details.
News from the Outdoor Exhibition Committee
Three Installation Opening Events
CSI members Emily Moorhouse-Wallace, Taylor Wallace, Christine Perri, Vivian Visser and Peter Krsko have inaugural events connected to their recently created outdoor installations.
Right: Emily Moorhead-Wallace and Taylor Wallace, Pollinator Solace Columns; Left: Taylor Wallace
Saturday, June 3*
Emily Moorhouse-Wallace and Taylor Wallace, Pollinator Solace Columns
Member artists Emily Moorhead-Wallace and J Taylor Wallace, host a ribbon cutting and community workshop for their E(art)h Chicago grant.
Workshops:
Plant-stravaganza: pollinator nest building, seed sculptures, and native seed give away. In collaboration with the Sherman Park Library and the Keller Science Action Center of the Field Museum, the Pollinator Solace Columns project hosts a community eco workshop focused on supporting native species in Chicago. Star Farms will join the fun with a pop-up produce stand.
Thursday, June 1, 4-5pm
Sherman Park Library, 5440 S Racine Ave, Chicago, IL
*Saturday, June 3, 10am-2pm
Sherman Park, 1301 W 52nd St, Chicago, IL
Location: Northwest corner of the park, just South of the playground
Click here to download flyer with more information and details
Above: Chris Perri, Prairie Boat gathering space
Saturday, June 10
Christine Perri, Prairie Boat
A Gathering Space at the Forest Preserves of Cook County’s Beaubien Woods. Ribbon cutting with program to follow.
Saturday, June 10, 2023
10-11am
Click here to download flyer with more information.
Location: Beaubien Woods Boat Launch
Click here for map and driving directions
Beaubien Woods
Chicago, IL
W Doty Ave S
(southeast of E 130th St &, S Ellis Ave)
Saturday, June 17
Peter Krsko, Big Marsh Nest & Vivian Visser, Bubbling Up
Come celebrate our new sculptures, explore the park, bike, hike, or picnic! Celebrate local art and artists!
Big Marsh Park
11559 S Stony Is Ave
Chicago, IL
Phone: (312) 590-5993
Click here for map
Click here for more information about the event
Peter Krsko, Big Marsh Nest (in process)
Vivian Visser, Bubbling Up (in process)
News from the Indoor Committee
Color/Form
Chicago Sculpture International Juried Exhibition at the College of Lake County
June 22-August 9, 2023
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 22, 5-7 pm
“Color is a power which directly influences the soul.” — Wassily Kandinsky
Sculptors were invited to enter up to two works in the Chicago Sculpture International Juried Exhibition at the Robert T. Wright Community Gallery of Art at the College of Lake County in Grayslake, IL. The exhibition will be juried and curated by Wright Gallery’s curator, Ann Rintz.
No other element impacts aesthetics so directly and urgently as color. Artists who combine color with structure understand the boundless and captivating energy of this synthesis. Using color to evoke a mood is essential in their practice and message. Color/Form’s purpose is to compile creations that celebrate color and form interpreted in three dimensions.
Exhibiting Artists: Alexia Trzyna | Nancy VanKanegan | Jill King-Wynn | Nicole Beck | Lisa Nelson Raabe | Youngse Kim | Scott Mossman | Azadeh Hussaini | Yvette Kaiser Smith | Robert Craig | Thom Kapheim | Mike Baur | Paul Somers | Kara Cobb Johnson | Darlys Ewoldt | Ludvig Peres | Victoria Fuller | Lynn Floriano | Terry Karpowicz | Kyle Triplett | Deirdre Colgan Jones | Diane Tang | Fred Klingelhofer | Ei Cullina | Gina Lee Robbins | Ginny Krueger | Katherine Nemanich | Michele Thrane | Nancy Lu Rosenheim | Rabia Tayyabi | Shelley Gilchrist | Thomas Plum | Michael D. Brown | John Hatlestad | Ellen Lustig | Marci Rubin | Stacee Kalmanovsky | Janelle O’Malley | Mike Litewski
Robert T. Wright Community Art Gallery
19351 W. Washington Street,
Grayslake, IL 60030
(847) 543-2040
Gallery Hours*
Monday to Thursday: 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Friday: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturday: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Closed Sundays
*Hours vary during college breaks
For more information: com.clcgallery@clcillinois.edu
News from CSI Project Space
CSI Project Space | 1912 N. Damen Ave.
(at the corner of Cortland and Damen, in the Bucktown neighborhood)
Exhibition Hours: Fridays-Saturdays, 1-6pm and by appointment.
For uestions about the gallery or exhibits: csiprojectspace@chicagosculpture.org
Sculptura In Urbs In Horto
CSI Project Space
1912 N. Damen Ave., Chicago, IL 60647
Exhibit dates: May 13- June 9, 2023
Hours: Friday-Sunday 1-6pm, or by appointment
In conjunction with the Chicago Park District (CPD), Evanston Arts Council, North River Commission, and Marquette Park, IN, Sculpture in the Parks (SITP) is a leased program of large scale sculptures in different parks throughout the Chicagoland area organized by Chicago Sculpture International (CSI.) Works are site-contextualized to harmonize with the aesthetic of the particular park. Most of the sculptures are placed in front of park field houses, many of which are architecturally significant and have landmark status. These are designated as "cultural centers," which offer cultural and environmental programs for youth, adults, and seniors. The sculptures are changed out every other year in October. The CPD has more than 600 parks and a total of over 8,800 acres of green space, making it the largest municipal park manager in the country.
CSI also collaborates with the Chicago Park District to organize the Chicago Tree Project (CTP), which transforms dead trees into public art that are infested with Emerald Ash Borer or other diseases. The CTP uses art as vehicle for community engagement throughout Chicago parks and creates unique opportunities for citizens to celebrate the beauty of nature.
Each CTP artist aims to create an impact on the neighborhood and park visitors.
This exhibit Sculptura In Urbs In Horto celebrates this important collaboration between our parks and our organization. Maquettes from exhibiting sculptors are also offered for sale here in our gallery.
Exhibiting sculptors: Terry Karpowicz, Janet Austin, Emily Moorehead-Wallace, Andrew Arvanetes, Nicole Beck, Paul Russell, Brian Monaghan, Ruth Aizuss Migdal, Ted Sitting Crow Garner, Berthold Boone, Indira Freitas Johnson, Kara James & John Bannon.
In memorium: Ron Gard and Dora Natella
ALIVE
What does it mean to be alive and a part of Nature?
All animal and vegetable tissues are made up of a complex collection of cells
endlessly at work generating energy for life. In this sense, there is no life without action.
All these little parts and drops of goodness ignite the living in our world illuminated
by the energy of the sun.
We are not mere observers taking measurements and making plans. We are a
structured and complex stimulus being, emerged within the patterns and cycles of Nature. These connections and patterns along with their cycles are expressed as a whole through the living. This experience of life, however interconnected and reliant upon parts both big and small, is inevitably singularly perceived.
Exhibiting Artists:
Sam Abrahamson | Yesenia Arroyo | Janet Austin | Lynn Basa | Nicole Beck | Yeong Choi | Bethany Cordero | David Curry | Victor Edwards | Victoria Fuller | Heidi Jensen | Jill King | Victoria Kowalczyk | Alison Mosher | Julia Paloma | Lori Rozdolsky | Paul Russell | Stephanie Sailer | Olya Salimova | Sorin Sukumaran | Diane Feldpausch Tang | Nancy VanKanegan | Vivian Visser
Curated by Micki LeMieux
Above: Installation image from the 2022 By Degrees exhibition
By Degrees II (2023)
Application Deadline: Monday, June 26, 2023, Midnight Central Standard Time
Notification by: Monday, July 10, 2023
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, August 5 - Saturday, September 16, 2023
Exhibition Hours: Friday-Saturdays, 1 - 6PM and by appointment
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 5, 2023, 6 - 9PM
Work Drop-Off Date: Sunday, July 29, 2023
Pick-Up/Deinstall Artwork: Sunday, September 17, 2023, 12 - 5PM
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.
Chicago Sculpture International (CSI) is calling for artists who are enrolled in, or recently (2022 or later) graduated from a degree-seeking program to submit works of sculpture, installation and media work to be featured in the second annual juried group exhibition By Degrees, scheduled for August 5 - September 16, 2023 at CSI Project Space in Chicago.
Artists will be able to submit up to 3 works for consideration. There is no fee for entry. Accepted artists will be granted a one year non-transferrable student membership to CSI.
This call is not limited to students and graduates of Chicago-area institutions, but accepted artists will be required to gallery sit for at least two 3-hour shifts (or a single 5-hour shift) during the run of the exhibition.
Click here for more information and to download an application.
Installation Image from the 2022 'By Degrees' Exhibition
News from the Education Committee
There are a few more exciting educational art workshops scheduled for later this year.
We look forward to sharing these workshops with our members in the upcoming newsletters.
We are always looking for fun art workshops to share with The Boys and Girls Club
at the Lathrop Homes. We are looking for art projects that can be completed in one hour with the children.
If you have an idea for an art workshop, please contact mickilemieux@chicagosculpture.org
News from the Membership Chair
Thank you!
Membership wanted to say Thank You to all the members that attended the Edith Farnsworth House CSI Sponsored outing! It was a beautiful spring day and we all had a great time hiking the trails and learning the history of this historic Mies Van Der Rohe designed home.
Thank you!
To Stephanie Sailer for compiling this newsletter every month and creating a living history of our activities and initiatives! You are amazing!
Thank you!
To all the volunteers who have created memorable exhibitions at CSI Project Space (3D/4D Gallery)! If you participated in a show, please consider all the hard work the gallery committee invested to communicate with you and the exhibition of your work in the most professional manner. We cannot wait to see what the rest of the year holds for CSI Project Space!
Thank you!
To all the past leaders and board members who have worked endlessly to create a culture of inclusion and opportunity for the sculptors of CSI!
Thank you!
To all of our sponsors who created meaningful experiences and supplemented our goals over the past 19 years!
Thank you!
To the Chicago Park District and all venues for showing and continuing to exhibit our member's work.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Happy LGBTQ+ and Pride Month from Membership!!
SAVE THE DATE: August 19th, 2023
Chicago Sculpture International Membership Picnic at The Chicago Riverfront (with a rain date of August 20th). More details to follow . . .
Membership would like to mention CSI’s Outreach Chair Shencheng Xu, who will be traveling in China in June to share his sculpture there.
He received an invitation letter for the 2023 Chengdu International Sister Cities Sculpture Creativity Activity. He was invited to a participate in a 6-day sculpture creation workshop with the theme of "Friendship" in Chengdu from June 11 - 16. As a member of CSI, he would like to use this opportunity to gain a better understanding with local organizers and artists, while introducing Chicago Sculpture International to them. We hope to have artistic exchanges and cooperation in the future.
Show and Tell
If you'd like to send a picture of your studio to membership (karajohnson@chicagosculpture.org) and a three-sentence explanation of what is seen in the shot, membership is working on a collection of images to show how our sculptors work, organize, and create in 2023.
Land Acknowledgment
To provide immediate assistance to Native American communities in Chicago, you can send donations to the city’s American Indian Center.
The City of Chicago, and its surrounding areas, have always been, and always will be, home to numerous Native American communities. As a team dedicated to the uplifting of Indigenous People’s sovereignty everywhere, we recognize that each program and exhibition associated with this project is taking place on the traditional homelands of the Council of Three Fires—the Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa—as well as the Menominee, Miami, and Ho-Chunk Nations. Further, we acknowledge that Chicago is home to one of the largest urban Native American communities in the US.
Land acknowledgments are not rhetorical gestures, but rather calls to action. We therefore invite each of our non-Indigenous colleagues to learn more about the forced removal of many of the communities listed above from the state of Illinois and to incorporate Indigenous knowledge into their line of work. We also encourage everyone to ask themselves how they may benefit from the continuation of settler colonialism, militarism, and warfare. Confronting these realities allows us to break down our privileges and adopt anti-colonial practices that can one day help us in creating a more equitable society.
We are thinking about celebrating CSI’s 20 year anniversary in a special way. If you have connections to publishers or have an interest in creating a catalog or online collection to commemorate this event, please reach out to Berthold Boone or myself. Thanks!
Note: The following are not CSI sponsored calls but may be of interest to our members.
A monument design contest to commemorate honor, remembrance, and resilience
Submissions must be received by August 31 at midnight.
The winning artist will receive a cash prize of $20,000.
On this day, millions have died from COVID-19 and its variants, or have been infected. For those who have perished, for those who have lost a loved-one, for those who have recovered, and for those who courageously and selflessly served during the darkest and most uncertain days of the pandemic, we announce a competition to design a COVID-19 Monument of Honor, Remembrance, & Resilience sponsored by the Hektoen Institute of Medicine.
This Monument will be a physical sculpture or art installation that addresses and symbolizes the myriad issues and emotions encountered by citizens throughout the world as they navigate this powerful scourge and tragedy of our time. No other event in the past two centuries touched everyone as did the COVID-19 pandemic. Whether by death, illness, grief, or at best, lock-down, the pandemic left no one unscathed. This universal event respected no boundaries and did not discriminate by age, gender, religion, or nationality. As this pandemic excluded no one, our Monument is unequivocally inclusive and will embrace the sentiments of all citizens throughout the world.
Our hope is that we will conquer this virus, and the pandemic will be history—a distant memory. But lest we forget, it is critical that we come together to reflect, and to honor those who continue to fight on the front lines, those brave souls who ensured our survival. They are the nurses, doctors, health care workers, the public service sector employees, airline and banking personnel, those who rang up our groceries and medicines, delivered our packages, prepared our to-go meals, drove our buses, and many more. They all encountered significant risks dealing with an unknown illness. The Monument will honor these individuals and allow those who lost loved ones to mourn and know they are not alone. The monument design contest will bring forth ideas to educate and enlighten with the wisdom and experience we have shared.
Additionally, the Monument will celebrate resilience and victory. The discovery and distribution of the vaccine, engendered by multiple agencies, effectively saved millions of lives. This triumph of science in the COVID-19 vaccine and concomitant testing advances must be lauded and serve as a reminder of hope in the face of intense adversity and obstacles.
About the call FAQ's Submission Guidelines Submission Details
Member News
Members are welcome to submit news regarding exhibitions and professional development achievements to info@chicagosculpture.org . We would love to see what you are doing!!
Also, please share your open studio events and any news about new work on our facebook and instagram pages:
Chicago Sculpture Facebook Group | Instagram: @chicagosculptureinternational
Photo: Michele Corazzo, Sextet, 2022, clay, 18" x 2' - 4'
Michele Corazzo in MAAC Exhibit
“Sextet”, a sculpture by CSI member Michele Corazzo placed second in sculpture at the juried Michiana Annual Art Competition. The MAAC, a locally juried fine art exhibition is held annually at the Box Factory for the Arts in St. Joseph, Michigan. It recognizes, fosters, and rewards excellence of artists in Southwest Michigan and Northern Indiana.
Exhibition Dates: May 19th-July 9th, 2023
Opening reception and awards presentation: May 19th from 5:30-7 p.m.
Box Factory for the Arts galleries
1101 Broad St.
St. Joseph, MI 49085
Gallery hours: Wednesdays-Sundays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., with extended hours on Thursdays until 7 p.m.
Admission is Free
boxfactoryforthearts.org/maac-show/
Above: Michele Corazzo, So Close, 2016-7, 29.5" x 39"
Michele Corazzo's "Commute" series exhibit in Michigan City
Opening Reception: June 2, 2023, 5-8 pm
Exhibition dates: June 2nd through July 1st, 2023
CSI member Michele Corazzo is showing 7 paintings from her series "Commute" at SFC Gallery in Michigan City, IN. The work juxtaposes both the regularity and convenience of train travel with personal reactions of claustrophobia and visual distress through color and light.
SFC Gallery
607 Franklin St.
Michigan City, IN 46360
Hours: Tuesday to Friday 10am – 6pm; Saturday 10am – 4pm; Sunday CLOSED
For more information: (219) 877-4420
info@sfcgallery.com | www.sfcgallery.com
The following are not CSI sponsored projects, but may be of interest to our members.
Evanston Art Center's 26th Evanston and Vicinity Biennial 2023
Submission Deadline Extended: June 12, by Midnight
Exhibition Dates: August 26 - October 1, 2023
The Evanston and Vicinity Biennial is one of the Midwest’s largest and most prestigious juried exhibitions, offering artists an opportunity to have their work viewed by three talented curators: Chantal Healey (Executive Director, Chicago Public Art Group, Denny Mwaura (Assistant Director, Gallery 400, UIC), and Erica Warren, PhD (Art Historian, Curator, Editor, Craft Quarterly)
Click here for more details.
Calling all artists, curators, neighbors, and public art loves!
Open call: April 18 - July 18
Member Bobbi Meier is on the Terrain Biennial team and encourages all to participate! Link HERE.
Pictured above: 2021 Winner
Ruth Aizuss Migdal, "La Diva I", Painted steel, 12' x 4' x 5’
8th Lewis C. Weinberg Biennial Sculpture Competition
Entry Deadline: July 24, 2023
Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park announces its 8th biennial Lewis C. Weinberg Biennial Sculpture Competition and is looking forward to another exciting contest.
- $3,000 Prize
- Expense-paid transportation and installation
- Guest of Honor at the Award Ceremony on site
- 2-year exhibition in SNSP as an honored feature in Section I
For information, application materials, and detailed instructions, please go to our website: www.sculpturepark.org
Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park
McCormick Blvd.
Skokie, IL.
(between Touhy and Dempster Avenues)
For questions and more information:
info@sculpturepark.org
Detecting Lead & Other Metals Among Metal Sculptors
Seeking adult volunteers for a study
Researchers from the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois Chicago are recruiting metal sculptors to participate in a research project to test for metals related to your work.
You are eligible to participate in this study if you are at least 18 years of age
We will:
• Set up a time to come to your studio that is convenient for you
• Set up air monitors
• Ask you a questionnaire
• Test your body fluids at the beginning and the end of the day
You will be paid $100 in cash for your participation
If you are interested in participating in this project, please email us at: uicheavymetal@gmail.com
A monument design contest to commemorate honor, remembrance, and resilience
Submissions must be received by August 31 at midnight.
The winning artist will receive a cash prize of $20,000.
On this day, millions have died from COVID-19 and its variants, or have been infected. For those who have perished, for those who have lost a loved-one, for those who have recovered, and for those who courageously and selflessly served during the darkest and most uncertain days of the pandemic, we announce a competition to design a COVID-19 Monument of Honor, Remembrance, & Resilience sponsored by the Hektoen Institute of Medicine.
This Monument will be a physical sculpture or art installation that addresses and symbolizes the myriad issues and emotions encountered by citizens throughout the world as they navigate this powerful scourge and tragedy of our time. No other event in the past two centuries touched everyone as did the COVID-19 pandemic. Whether by death, illness, grief, or at best, lock-down, the pandemic left no one unscathed. This universal event respected no boundaries and did not discriminate by age, gender, religion, or nationality. As this pandemic excluded no one, our Monument is unequivocally inclusive and will embrace the sentiments of all citizens throughout the world.
Our hope is that we will conquer this virus, and the pandemic will be history—a distant memory. But lest we forget, it is critical that we come together to reflect, and to honor those who continue to fight on the front lines, those brave souls who ensured our survival. They are the nurses, doctors, health care workers, the public service sector employees, airline and banking personnel, those who rang up our groceries and medicines, delivered our packages, prepared our to-go meals, drove our buses, and many more. They all encountered significant risks dealing with an unknown illness. The Monument will honor these individuals and allow those who lost loved ones to mourn and know they are not alone. The monument design contest will bring forth ideas to educate and enlighten with the wisdom and experience we have shared.
Additionally, the Monument will celebrate resilience and victory. The discovery and distribution of the vaccine, engendered by multiple agencies, effectively saved millions of lives. This triumph of science in the COVID-19 vaccine and concomitant testing advances must be lauded and serve as a reminder of hope in the face of intense adversity and obstacles.
About the call FAQ's Submission Guidelines Submission Details
20th Annual Down on the Farm Iron Pour
June 28 - July 2
Look HERE for Schedule of Events.
This annual event caters to your desires to reunite with or find your iron family while sharing a wealth of diverse experience to bring your vision to life.
Enthusiasts, beginners and experts are invited to participate in our family-style meals + camp on-site in order to focus on what really matters: people, art + how they feed each others souls.
This project is partially supported by a CityArts Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events.
Sweet Home Chicago will feature a thoughtfully curated selection of exceptional artworks deriving their subjects and inspirations from the Windy City.
ELIGIBILITY: Sweet Home Chicago is open to artists 18 years of age and older, at all stages in their careers, and who are living or working within 150 miles of the City of Chicago. This curated exhibition is accepting a diverse range of art media and styles, including sculpture and installation based works whose subject is Chicago.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: Monday, June 19th, 2023 11:59 PM
For more information and to apply: https://www.bridgeportart.com/sweet-home-chicago/
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.
May 2023 Newsletter
Above: Dora Natella (1956-2023), Overseer 16' x 3' x 3', cast bronze and cast aluminum. Location: Ronan Park, Chicago
Welcome to the May Newsletter
You will find:
Newsletter updates
News from the CSI Committees
Show opportunities
Ongoing Member Exhibitions
Newsletter Updates
Rock Falls, IL Art in the Park
Call for Submissions
With the continued success of the previous five years’ Art in the Park sculpture walk, Rock Falls Tourism is making preparations for the annual event to be held on September 6, 2023. They are now accepting submissions for the sculpture art to be displayed on its Run, Bike & Walk (RB&W) District along the Rock River. This open space park is used by many organizations and draws people from surrounding communities and states, which will ensure a high amount of visibility for your art throughout the year. The Art in the Park Sculpture Walk is also featured on the Otocast application for smartphones which provides an additional layer of exposure. Artists will be asked to record and audio component for the application, should their sculpture be chosen.
The sculptures will be installed on September 1st, 2022
Artists will receive a $1,250 stipend and make their sculpture available for purchase.
Application deadline: June 1, 2023 (Submissions will be received up until June 7th, 2023)
Submissions can be sent to:
director@visitrockfalls.com
or by regular mail:
Attn: Melinda Jones, Director of Rock Falls Tourism
Rock Falls Tourism
603 W 10th St, Rock Falls, IL 61071
A maximum of two submissions per artist with specifications on each sculpture is needed.
Please include a text document that lists the following:
Artist name
Title of work
Dimensions (H x L x W)
Medium
Click here to download more details
Click here to download contract for work that is selected.
For more info: director@visitrockfalls.com
Call for Entries for Color/Form
Chicago Sculpture International Juried Exhibition at the College of Lake County
Entry Deadline: Friday, June 2, 2023
Email notification of acceptance: June 7, 2023
Delivery of Accepted Work: June 13, 2023, 10:00-4:00
Exhibition dates: Thursday June 22-August 9, 2023
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 22, 5-7 pm
Pick-up of work: Thursday, August 10. 10:00-4:00
No other element impacts aesthetics so directly and urgently as color. Artists who combine color with structure understand the boundless and captivating energy of this synthesis. Using color to evoke a mood is essential in their practice and message.Color/Form’spurpose is to compile creations that celebrate color and form interpreted in three dimensions.
Sculptors are invited to enter up to two works in the Chicago Sculpture International Juried Exhibition at the Robert T. Wright Community Gallery of Art at the College of Lake County in Grayslake, IL. The Wright Gallery’s curator, Ann Rintz, will jury and curate the exhibition.
Find more information here.
CSI Remembers Dora Natella
Chicago Sculpture International is deeply saddened by the sudden loss of member Dora Natella who passed away on April 11, 2023. While gallantly fighting advanced cancer, she was involved in a fatal traffic accident. She is survived by her son Andrea and the beautiful art she created for the world to enjoy.
Dora recently retired from Indiana University South Bend where she was an Associate Professor in the Raclin School of the Arts for nearly 20 years. Her artwork is featured on the IU South Bend campus and in public venues and private collections across the United States and around the world including Rome, Italy; Merida, Venezuela; Chicago, Grand Rapids, Cleveland, Salt Lake City, Indianapolis, and New York City. She has a sculpture currently installed at CSI's outdoor exhibit in Ronan Park. Her art celebrates the human form but also makes a statement about motherhood, sexuality, feminism, and humanity. She left a legacy of beauty in art and sculpture that will move people for generations to come.
Andrea "Dora" Carmen Natella was born on July 24, 1956 in Maracay, Venezuela and raised and educated in Italy where she studied sculpture in the classical tradition at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. In 1980, she moved to the United States where she earned a Master in Fine Arts in Sculpture at Western Michigan University and went on to work as the Sculpture Area Coordinator at Indiana University in Bloomington. In 1996, she joined the Fine Arts Faculty at the University of Oregon and was awarded a Fulbright Award in 1997 to foster ties between Venezuela and the United States. She came to IU South Bend in 2004. She received the IU South Bend Distinguished Research Award in 2021. She was a fellow at the National Sculpture Society and a member of Chicago Sculpture International, International Sculpture Center, and other professional organizations.
Donations in her memory can be made to the Dora Natella Fine Arts Scholarship at IU South Bend.
Source: https://Southbendtribune.com/obituaries/psbn0469709
https://doranatella.com
News from the Outdoor Exhibitions Committee
Photo: Maureen Gray in front of her Balance, Photo courtesy of Chuck Sabey
New Sculptures at Forest Park
Through a call put out by Chicago Sculpture International, The Village of Park Forest in Illinois purchased three sculptures for their permanent collection by Michigan-based artist and CSI member Maureen Gray. The sculptures were installed on Wednesday, April 19th, 2023. CSI would like to thank Maureen Gray and to the Park Forest staff, especially cultural arts supervisor, Chuck Sabey.
https://www.chicagosculpture.org/sculpture-in-the-parks/park-forest
News from CSI Project Space
Sculptura in Urbs in Horto
Opening: Friday, May 12, 2023 6-9pm
Exhibit dates: May 13- June 9, 2023
In conjunction with the Chicago Park District (CPD), Evanston Arts Council, North River Commission, and Marquette Park, IN, Sculpture in the Parks (SITP) is a leased program of large scale sculptures in different parks throughout the Chicagoland area organized by Chicago Sculpture International (CSI.) Works are site-contextualized to harmonize with the aesthetic of the particular park. Most of the sculptures are placed in front of park field houses, many of which are architecturally significant and have landmark status. These are designated as "cultural centers," which offer cultural and environmental programs for youth, adults, and seniors. The sculptures are changed out every other year in October. The CPD has more than 600 parks and a total of over 8,800 acres of green space, making it the largest municipal park manager in the country.
CSI also collaborates with the Chicago Park District to organize the Chicago Tree Project (CTP), which transforms dead trees into public art that are infested with Emerald Ash Borer or other diseases. The CTP uses art as vehicle for community engagement throughout Chicago parks and creates unique opportunities for citizens to celebrate the beauty of nature.
Each CTP artist aims to create an impact on the neighborhood and park visitors.
This exhibit Sculptura In Urbs In Horto celebrates this important collaboration between our parks and our organization. Maquettes from exhibiting sculptors are also offered for sale here in our gallery.
Exhibiting sculptors: Terry Karpowicz, Janet Austin, Emily Moorehead-Wallace, Andrew Arvanetes, Nicole Beck, Paul Russell, Brian Monaghan, Ruth Aizuss Migdal, Ted Sitting Crow Garner, Berthold Boone, Indira Freitas Johnson, Kara James & John Bannon.
In memorium: Ron Gard and Dora Natella
CSI Project Space
1912 N. Damen Ave., Chicago, IL 60647
Hours: Friday-Sunday 1-6pm, or by appointment
2D and 3D artwork by CSI members for upcoming exhibit: ALIVE
Submission Deadline: Monday, May 29, Memorial Day at Midnight
ALIVE - Exhibition dates: June 16 – July 28, 2023
What does it mean to be alive and a part of Nature?
All animal and vegetable tissues are made up of a complex collection of cells
endlessly at work generating energy for life. In this sense, there is no life without action.
All these little parts and drops of goodness ignite the living in our world illuminated
by the energy of the sun.
We are not mere observers taking measurements and making plans. We are a
structured and complex stimulus being, emerged within the patterns and cycles of Nature. These connections and patterns along with their cycles are expressed as a whole through the living. This experience of life, however interconnected and reliant upon parts both big and small, is inevitably singularly perceived.
This is an open call for 2D and 3D artwork that explores the patterns and connections found in life which embrace Nature.
Please complete an entry form and submit 1-4 jpeg images here:
https://forms.gle/LZ27c8KLgjAEaBqx5
Entry Requirements:
1-4 jpeg images, no larger than 2MB. Each artist may submit up to 4 artwork entries.
Artwork information that corresponds with submitted images; including title of work, material, dimensions, year, and sale price with 30% added per artwork.
Artist Statement.
Contact information including email, address and phone number along with optional inclusion of website and Instagram handle.
All accepted artists must be current CSI members or will need to join in advance of the exhibition.
Submission Deadline: Monday, May 29, Memorial Day at Midnight
Notification: June 3
Drop off work: Sat/Sun, June 10 –11, 1-6pm.
Opening Reception: Friday, June 16, 6-9pm.
Exhibition Dates: June 16 – July 28
Pick up Work: Sat/Sun, July 29 – 30, 1-6pm.
Please Note: We are requiring exhibiting artists to cover one or two gallery sitting shifts during the duration of this show. CSI Project Space is run strictly by volunteers, we encourage you to get more involved.
For any questions contact csiprojectspace@chicagosculpture.org
Above: Installation image from the 2022 By Degrees exhibition
Upcoming CSI Project Exhibition: By Degrees II
Notice: Upcoming call for student and recent grad work. Please share this with any students or recent graduates that you know. Important dates, including exhibition dates, submission terms and deadlines will be shared on the CSI website by May 15.
Chicago Sculpture International (CSI) will be calling for artists who are enrolled, or recently (2022 or later) graduated from a degree-seeking program to submit works of sculpture, installation and media work to be featured in the second annual juried group exhibition By Degrees, scheduled for summer 2023 at CSI Project Space in Chicago. (Exact dates and call info TBA.)
Artists will be able to submit up to 3 works for consideration. There will be no fee for entry, but accepted artists will be required to gallery sit for at least two 3-hour shifts during the run of the exhibition. Accepted artists will be granted a one year non-transferrable student membership to CSI.
News from the Education Committee
There are a few more exciting educational art workshops scheduled for later this year.
I look forward to sharing these workshops with our members in the upcoming newsletters.
We are always looking for fun art workshops to share with The Boys and Girls Club
at the Lathrop Homes. We are looking for art projects that can be completed in one hour with the children.
If you have an idea for an art workshop, please contact mickilemieux@chicagosculpture.org
News from the Membership Committee
2023/2024 Inclusion Fellowship for AALANA or BIPOC identifying Artists/Sculptors
In an effort to expand and enrich our community in 2023/2024, CSI Membership is offering three (3) AALANA or BIPOC fellowships in total. The fellowships will be offered to three (3) new AALANA or BIPOC identifying artists of exceptional promise and interest. Fellowships will cover the cost of one year's membership dues, a range of perks, and opportunities to exhibit your work.
Application Deadline: May 31, 2023
Click here for more details and to download an application.
Happy Women's History Month . . . continued!
Happy Women's History Month…continued! In honor of this special month and continuing acknowledgement of CSI Womens’ accomplishments, please click the link! 94 Women strong from the website membership page. The links represent each artists’ singular “greatest hit” it is not exhaustive and may not be what they chose, but it is IMPRESSIVE! Congratulations Ladies, I am honored to be in service to each and every one of you!
Click here to view
Hilde DeBruyne, Tree of Life
International Sculpture Center special discount
For the entire month of May 2023, ISC offers CSI members 50% discount on membership dues! REGISTER
Congratulations to all members who participated in International Sculpture Day April 29th!
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Land Acknowledgment
To provide immediate assistance to Native American communities in Chicago, you can send donations to the city’s American Indian Centerhere.
The City of Chicago, and its surrounding areas, have always been, and always will be, home to numerous Native American communities. As a team dedicated to the uplifting of Indigenous People’s sovereignty everywhere, we recognize that each program and exhibition associated with this project is taking place on the traditional homelands of the Council of Three Fires—the Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa—as well as the Menominee, Miami, and Ho-Chunk Nations. Further, we acknowledge that Chicago is home to one of the largest urban Native American communities in the US.
Land acknowledgments are not rhetorical gestures, but rather calls to action. We therefore invite each of our non-Indigenous colleagues to learn more about the forced removal of many of the communities listed above from the state of Illinois and to incorporate Indigenous knowledge into their line of work. We also encourage everyone to ask themselves how they may benefit from the continuation of settler colonialism, militarism, and warfare. Confronting these realities allows us to break down our privileges and adopt anti-colonial practices that can one day help us in creating a more equitable society.
STARTS Program (Short-term Teaching Residency Program)
Deadline: May 15, 2023
Provides support of up to $4,500 to eligible Illinois not-for-profit organizations, schools, and school districts for short term residencies focused on hands-on learning experiences conducted by Illinois artists, companies, or ensembles.
Grant requests for fiscal year 2023 are for activities occurring by August 31, 2023.
Open deadline program. Applications must be received no less than eight weeks before the project start date as identified in the application. Applications are reviewed in the order in which they are received and will be accepted through: May 15, 2023. Look HERE for more information.
If anyone is interested to apply, I have contacted Jerome Grand (program director) who explained the program is still open and looking for candidates. Specifics can be found online. Otherwise, feel free to reach out to me: anthonyheinzmay@chicagosculpture.org
Save the Date: August 19th, 2023
Chicago Sculpture International Membership Picnic at The Chicago Riverfront (with a rain date of August 20th). More details to follow . . .
Member News
Members are welcome to submit news regarding exhibitions and professional development achievements toinfo@chicagosculpture.org
We would love to see what you are doing!!
Overflow, by Gina Lee Robbins
Epiphany Center for the Arts
Slemmons Gallery
Opening Reception: Friday May 12, 6-9PM; RSVP here.
Exhibition Dates: May 12- June 24
In Overflow, Gina Lee Robbins combines found and reclaimed materials to explore the elements of human experience that we can’t quite contain. Natural debris and spillover from the urban landscape reference our inability to maintain a firm grasp on all that we’d hoped to bear. This might include the perennial lost sock, a wardrobe malfunction, or grief bubbling up at a traffic light. On a deeper level, Lee Robbins is musing on who we are in relation to who we dreamed we’d become, who we present ourselves to be, and how we’re actually seen. Her focus is the confluence of propriety and social norms with the actual spillage that occurs in everyday life–the bits that dribble out and make us uncomfortable.
Hen and Homage x 3 by Jan Petry
CSI member Jan Petry is pleased to relay that her wood sculptures, Hen and Homage x 3 have been accepted into the permanent collection of the Racine Art Museum.
Above (L to R): Sculptures by Scott Mossman, Susan Smith Trees, Bethany Cordero, Brian Northup and John Upchurch
Sculpture: Motley Cruise
Several CSI members will be featured in the upcoming exhibition Sculpture: Motley Cruise, at ARC Gallery.
Scott Mossman, Susan Smith Trees, Bethany Cordero, Brian Northup and John Upchurch will be among the 30 artists participating in the show.
The opening reception will be held on Friday May 26th from 5-8PM. ARC Gallery is at 1463 W Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL
Inevitable Scar by Paul Gerard Somers
Solo exhibition at Ignition satellite space
Join us for the artist talk and closing of our second exhibition,
At Mana Contemporary Chicago, Studio #421 4th floor, 2233 S. Throop St.
Curated by Christine Forni
Thursday, May 25, 6-9pm
Note: The following are not CSI sponsored calls but may be of interest to our members.
A monument design contest to commemorate honor, remembrance, and resilience
Submissions must be received by August 31 at midnight.
The winning artist will receive a cash prize of $20,000.
On this day, millions have died from COVID-19 and its variants, or have been infected. For those who have perished, for those who have lost a loved-one, for those who have recovered, and for those who courageously and selflessly served during the darkest and most uncertain days of the pandemic, we announce a competition to design a COVID-19 Monument of Honor, Remembrance, & Resilience sponsored by the Hektoen Institute of Medicine.
This Monument will be a physical sculpture or art installation that addresses and symbolizes the myriad issues and emotions encountered by citizens throughout the world as they navigate this powerful scourge and tragedy of our time. No other event in the past two centuries touched everyone as did the COVID-19 pandemic. Whether by death, illness, grief, or at best, lock-down, the pandemic left no one unscathed. This universal event respected no boundaries and did not discriminate by age, gender, religion, or nationality. As this pandemic excluded no one, our Monument is unequivocally inclusive and will embrace the sentiments of all citizens throughout the world.
Our hope is that we will conquer this virus, and the pandemic will be history—a distant memory. But lest we forget, it is critical that we come together to reflect, and to honor those who continue to fight on the front lines, those brave souls who ensured our survival. They are the nurses, doctors, health care workers, the public service sector employees, airline and banking personnel, those who rang up our groceries and medicines, delivered our packages, prepared our to-go meals, drove our buses, and many more. They all encountered significant risks dealing with an unknown illness. The Monument will honor these individuals and allow those who lost loved ones to mourn and know they are not alone. The monument design contest will bring forth ideas to educate and enlighten with the wisdom and experience we have shared.
Additionally, the Monument will celebrate resilience and victory. The discovery and distribution of the vaccine, engendered by multiple agencies, effectively saved millions of lives. This triumph of science in the COVID-19 vaccine and concomitant testing advances must be lauded and serve as a reminder of hope in the face of intense adversity and obstacles.
About the call FAQ's Submission Guidelines Submission Details
APIDA Arts Festival
Festival Dates: May 5-7, 2023
Happy AAPI Heritage Month! While this is not a CSI sponsored event, the Chicago Cultural Center will be holding free events with reservations celebrating AAPI artists on May 5th. Check out glass arts with Tiberius Seung Geisen from 3-6 and a Katie Chung fashion installation from 5-8:30. Sign up on this link!
Six Outdoor Sculptures Purchases & Commissions for Boyton Beach
Stipend: The artist contracts will range from $75,000 to $300,000 for the required artistic services in the scope of work including the design, fabrication, delivery and installation.
Schedule: The developers will be selecting artists in 2023 & 2024.
Project Summary:
In the next 24 months, five apartment developers and one hospital will commission or purchase sculptures for six projects. Three of the sculptures will join “Cavalcade” by Albert Paley and anchor the Cultural District at the prime downtown intersection. The intersection links City Hall, Library, Arts & Cultural Center, the Marina and the bridge to the beach with the major north-south Federal Highway or US1. With the completion of the apartments, restaurants, bars and sculptures, the City intends to market the zone as cultural attraction in south Florida between Palm Beach and Boca Raton.
All artist applicants will be presented to each of the developers and hospital for potential selection. Each artist has six unique opportunities with six different selection panels.
Artists can present past work for a new commission and propose the sale of existing work. Existing sculptures (or new commissions) must be resistant to the hurricane force winds, the sun’s ultraviolent light and the salt air.
Some of the developers have specific themes or other attributes required of the artwork. The Pierce by Affiliated Development seeks an engaging, educational sculpture that celebrates Boynton’s connection to the natural environment of the Atlantic Ocean with elements such as coral reef, fish, sea mammals, coral, shell fish, sand, waves, fishing, fishing boats, diving, surfing, etc. Bethesda Hospital wishes the artist to integrate moving water with the sculpture.
In general, the sculptures will be sited on wide sidewalks near the street. Most have backgrounds of 3 to 7 story buildings with retail storefronts. Narrow tall sculptures may be the best solutions. Good surveillance around or through the sculpture should be possible. The sculpture at Bethesda Hospital will be the grassed landscape between the entrance and parking lot.
The sculptures should be engaging to pedestrians and have a strong visual image to automobile drivers both day and night. The works selected might be abstract, narrative, figurative, pop, collage, etc. Durability and repairability against damage by wind, sun, salt air and people including fading, graffiti and scratches are essential. By the Art in Public Places ordinance, the sculptures should last as long as the buildings.
Click here for full details and application
or visit https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=11700
B2B Arts (Illinois Creative Recovery) Grant
Arts Alliance Illinois and Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO)
Eligible Candidates:
• Independent artists (prove through taxes losing a minimum of $5,000 during pandemic).
• Sole Proprietors, Freelancers, Independent Contractors
• Independent Live Venue Operators
• Performing or Presenting Arts Organizations
• Arts Education Organizations
• Cultural Heritage Organizations
• Museums
Applications open through May 10
Grants not on first come first serve basis
Visithttps://dceo.illinois.gov/smallbizassistance/b2b.htmlfor more information
To qualify for the B2B Arts (Illinois Creative Recovery) Grant, you must have been in operation prior to March 12, 2020 and experienced negative financial impact due to the COVID-19 pandemic; past B2B recipients are still eligible
Greater Ravenswood Chamber of Commerce
Call for Utility Pole Sculpture
Proposal Submission Deadline: May 15, 2023
Artist Notification: May 31, 2023
Ribbon Cutting Celebration at Ravenswood ArtWalk: September 16, 2023
The Ravenswood Community Council, in partnership with the Greater Ravenswood Chamber of Commerce and Special Service Area #31, is seeking proposals from artists to beautify two decommissioned utility poles along Ravenswood Avenue. The goal is to transform these structures and add new art to the Ravenswood Sculpture Garden. Artists are invited to submit proposals for work on both poles.
The total stipend for this project is $5,000, which includes all artist fees, supplies, permits (if necessary), and travel expenses.
Click here to download RFP with submission details.
Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities
Submission Deadline: May 22, 11:59PM
The Ohio Arts Council's regional arts organization, Arts Midwest, has just announced a new grant opportunity for visual artists with disabilities.
The Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities supports accessibility in the arts and celebrates the work of Midwestern visual artists with disabilities. Mid-career 2D and 3D visual artists with disabilities may apply for this award. The award application will close at 11:59 p.m. on May 22, 2023.
From 2023 through 2025, this award will recognize 27 individuals (9 per year) in the Arts Midwest region of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and the Native Nations that share this geography. Each awardee will receive a $3,000 check award. There are no requirements for how awarded funds are used, though awardees are encouraged to use it toward growing their art career. Awardees’ submitted work will be featured on the Arts Midwest website.
https://artsmidwest.org/get-support/midwest-award-for-artists-with-disabilities
Evanston Art Center's
26th Evanston and
Vicinity Biennial 2023
Submission Deadline: June 5, 2023 at Midnight
Exhibition Dates: August 26 - October 1, 2023
The Evanston and Vicinity Biennial is one of the Midwest’s largest and most prestigious juried exhibitions, offering artists an opportunity to have their work viewed by three talented curators: Chantal Healey (Executive Director, Chicago Public Art Group, Denny Mwaura (Assistant Director, Gallery 400, UIC), and Erica Warren, PhD (Art Historian, Curator, Editor, Craft Quarterly)
Click here for more details
20th Annual Down on the Farm Iron Pour
June 28 - July 2
Look HERE for Schedule of Events.
This annual event caters to your desires to reunite with or find your iron family while sharing a wealth of diverse experience to bring your vision to life.
Enthusiasts, beginners and experts are invited to participate in our family-style meals + camp on-site in order to focus on what really matters: people, art + how they feed each others souls.
This project is partially supported by a CityArts Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events.
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 areimportant. 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.
April 2023 Newsletter
Welcome to the April Newsletter
You will find:
News from the CSI committees
Opportunities to exhibit your work
Ongoing member exhibitions
News from the Outdoor Exhibition Committee
Image credit: Telos by Ray Katz, and Angele by Chris Wubenna
2023-2025 Sculpture in the Parks
Submission deadline is Friday, April 21, 2023, 11:59 PM CST
Chicago Sculpture International, in collaboration with the Chicago Park District and parks in the surrounding Chicago area, is seeking proposals from artists for the 2023-2025 Sculpture in the Parks Exhibition.
Works must be large scale and suitable for outdoors. They will be installed on hardscape or softscape (grass), so artists must be prepared for either type of installation. Only select sites have concrete pads; all other sites are softscapes. Sculpture will be on view for two years, from October 2023 - October 2025 (exact dates to be determined). Each sculpture will receive a $3000 stipend.
Eligibility:
This RFP is open to professional artists or artist teams 18 years of age or older. Artists whose proposals are accepted, if they are not already CSI members, will be asked to join.
How to apply:
Artists can submit on or two sculptures for review. Click here for submission requirements and application
News from the Indoor Exhibitions Committee
Call for Entries for Color/Form
Chicago Sculpture International Juried Exhibition at the College of Lake County
Entry Deadline: Friday, June 2, 2023
Email notification of acceptance: June 7, 2023
Delivery of Accepted Work: June 13, 2023, 10:00-4:00
Exhibition dates: Thursday June 22-August 9, 2023
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 22, 5-7 pm
Pick-up of work: Thursday, August 10. 10:00-4:00
No other element impacts aesthetics so directly and urgently as color. Artists who combine color with structure understand the boundless and captivating energy of this synthesis. Using color to evoke a mood is essential in their practice and message. Color/Form’s purpose is to compile creations that celebrate color and form interpreted in three dimensions.
Sculptors are invited to enter up to three works in the Chicago Sculpture International Juried Exhibition at the Robert T. Wright Community Gallery of Art at the College of Lake County in Grayslake, IL. The Wright Gallery’s curator, Ann Rintz, will jury and curate the exhibition.
Find more information click here.
News from the Membership Committee
Chicago Sculpture International Announces:
2023/2024 Inclusion Fellowship for AALANA
or BIPOC-Identifying Artists/Sculptors
In an effort to expand and enrich our community in 2023/2024, CSI Membership is offering three (3) AALANA or BIPOC fellowships in total. The fellowships will be offered to three (3) new AALANA or BIPOC identifying artists of exceptional promise and interest. Fellowships will cover the cost of one year's membership dues.
Click here for more details and to apply
Application Deadline: May 31, 2023
SAVE THE DATE: August 19th, 2023
Chicago Sculpture International Annual Membership Picnic at The Chicago Riverfront (with a rain date of August 20th). More details to follow . . .
News from CSI Project Space
Upcoming CSI Project Student Exhibition:
By Degrees 2023
Notice: Upcoming call for student and recent grad work.
Chicago Sculpture International (CSI) will be calling for artists who are enrolled, or recently (2022 or later) graduated from a degree-seeking program to submit works of sculpture, installation and media work to be featured in the second annual juried group exhibition By Degrees, scheduled for summer 2023 at CSI Project Space in Chicago. (Exact dates and call info TBA.)
Artists will be able to submit up to 3 works for consideration. There will be no fee for entry, but accepted artists will be required to gallery sit for at least two 3-hour shifts during the run of the exhibition. Accepted artists will be granted a one year non-transferrable student membership to CSI.
Please share this with any students or recent graduates that you know. Important dates, including exhibition dates, submission terms and deadlines will be shared on the CSI website by May 1.
Story Time! Exhibition Extended to May 5
Story Time!, the current group exhibition at CSI Project Space, featuring work by 19 CSI members, is extended through May 5, 2023. Each of the works in this compelling exhibition utilize or reference narrative in some way.
Story Time! will be CSI’s feature offering for International Sculpture Day on April 29. If you have not yet seen this exhibition in person, plan on stopping by before May 5.
We are grateful for the support of Otocast, who provided the facility to include recordings of artists’ stories, as well as the generosity of Ivy Gard and legacy of longtime CSI member Ron Gard, for making it possible for us to exhibit in the lovely space at 1912 N Damen Avenue. Artists included in Story Time!: Janet Austin, Nicole Beck, Berthold Boone, Ted Sitting Crow Garner, Sarah Goodermuth, Carol Hammerman, Caroline Jacobson, Kara James, Stacey Lee Gee, Gina Lee Robbins, Micki LeMieux, Riley Lauren Lynch, Scott Mossman, Olya Salimova, Anne-Joelle Tan, Nancy VanKanegan, Jeremy Wong, Niko Woroniecki, Chris Wubbena
CSI Project Space, 1912 N. Damen Ave., Chicago, IL
At the corner of Cortland and Damen, in the Bucktown neighborhood
To listen to the artists “tell a story” about their work in the exhibit, use the QR code below:
News from the Education Committee
On March 7th, Ei Cullina shared a creative art workshop with the youth through The Boys and Girls Club, located in the Lathrop Homes. We had fun and turned cardboard objects into wonderful sculptures.
News from the Membership Committee
2023/2024 Inclusion Fellowship for AALANA or BIPOC identifying Artists/Sculptors
In an effort to expand and enrich our community in 2023/2024, CSI Membership is offering three (3) AALANA or BIPOC fellowships in total. The fellowships will be offered to three (3) new AALANA or BIPOC identifying artists of exceptional promise and interest. Fellowships will cover the cost of one year's membership dues, a range of perks, and opportunities to exhibit your work.
Application Deadline: May 31, 2023
Click here for more details and to download an application.
International Sculpture Day
International Sculpture Day is April 29, 2023
Look ahead to April and submit images of your work, details about an artist talk, or schedule an open studio afternoon in celebration of International Sculpture Day! International Sculpture Day, our most anticipated event of the year returns on Saturday, April 29th! Join the global sculpture community when you register your event and use #ISDAY on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube.
Contact isday@sculpture.org or call 609-689-1051 x319 to learn how to participate in International Sculpture Day 2023 or for more information.
Join the International Sculpture Day Mailing list.
REGISTER
Also, for the entire month of May 2023, ISC offers CSI members 50% discount on membership dues!
News from the Membership Committee
Happy Women's History Month!
Happy Women's History Month…continued! In honor of this special month and continuing acknowledgement of CSI Womens’ accomplishments, please click the link! 94 Women strong from the website membership page. The links represent each artists’ singular “greatest hit” it is not exhaustive and may not be what they chose, but it is IMPRESSIVE! Congratulations Ladies, I am honored to be in service to each and every one of you!
Click here to view
Land Acknowledgment
To provide immediate assistance to Native American communities in Chicago, you can send donations to the city’s American Indian Center here.
The City of Chicago, and its surrounding areas, have always been, and always will be, home to numerous Native American communities. As a team dedicated to the uplifting of Indigenous People’s sovereignty everywhere, we recognize that each program and exhibition associated with this project is taking place on the traditional homelands of the Council of Three Fires—the Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa—as well as the Menominee, Miami, and Ho-Chunk Nations. Further, we acknowledge that Chicago is home to one of the largest urban Native American communities in the US.
Land acknowledgments are not rhetorical gestures, but rather calls to action. We therefore invite each of our non-Indigenous colleagues to learn more about the forced removal of many of the communities listed above from the state of Illinois and to incorporate Indigenous knowledge into their line of work. We also encourage everyone to ask themselves how they may benefit from the continuation of settler colonialism, militarism, and warfare. Confronting these realities allows us to break down our privileges and adopt anti-colonial practices that can one day help us in creating a more equitable society.
To provide immediate assistance to Native American communities in Chicago, you can send donations to the city’s American Indian Center here.
Member News
Members are welcome to submit news regarding exhibitions and professional development achievements to info@chicagosculpture.org. We would love to see what you are doing!!
Image credit: Christine Forni
In Reciprocity: Humans & Nature
Closing Reception and Artists' Talk: Thursday, April 6 (begins at Noon)
In Reciprocity: Artists and Nature, three person exhibition - curated by Sherri Denault. Visual Arts Gallery, 1 University Parkway, University Park, Illinois.
Invited Artists: Deanna Krueger, Joanne Aono and Christine Forni
Congratulations to Bobbi Meier, 2023 Chicago Artadia Awards Finalist
The Finalists will each hold virtual studio visits with second-round jurors, who will ultimately select three artists to receive $15,000 in unrestricted funds. The 2023 Chicago Artadia Awards application was open to visual artists working in any visual media, at any stage in their career, who have been living and working within Cook County for a minimum of two years. Look HERE for more info.
Image Credit (Top, left to right): SaraNoa Mark, Nyeema Morgan, and Julia Phillips. (Bottom, left to right) Orkideh Torabi, Jacqueline Surdell, and Bobbi Meier.
Exhibition by Marie Magnetic
Location: Little Broken Things
2031 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 773-799-8828
Hours: Monday - Closed; T-Th, 8am-8pm; Fr-Su, 10am-6pm
CSI member Marie Magnetic is having an upcoming exhibit at Little Broken Things, an arts-centric hair salon in Logan Square. The opening exhibition reception is on April 8th from 7-9 pm. The exhibit is from April 8th through May 19th.
Image Credit: Marie Magnetic, hang me out to dry, 2022, found object sculpture, 14" x 18" x 8"
"I Find Me In the Strangest Places"
Bronzes by Micki LeMieux
Kara Cobb Johnson presents Falcon Gallery. I am pleased to announce the first show, a solo exhibit by Chicago sculptor, Micki LeMieux. On view exclusively during EXPO CHGO: After Hours April 14th, 2023 from 6-9pm at MANA CONTEMPORARY 2233 South Throop Street, Chicago IL 60608 #913.
In this group of works, LeMieux casts specimen from her garden in bronze to masterfully capture the things that fill her harvest and reveal her unique humor. Root like tendrils appear excavated from deep earth to tether fickle leaves in Once (pictured above). Bulbous and shiny peppers stack into an impish jester in Pepper Clown while Creatures and Flowers evoke a sort of moss covered fairy-garden warming of paws at a truffle like campfire. Her works give the viewer a glimpse into magical places and sharpen our focus to a fantastical sculptural collection inspired by the strangest places.
The following are not CSI sponsored projects, but may be of interest to our members:
Greater Ravenswood Chamber of Commerce
Call for Two Utility Pole Sculptures
Proposal Submission Deadline: May 15, 2023
Artist Notification: May 31, 2023
Ribbon Cutting Celebration at Ravenswood ArtWalk: September 16, 2023
The Ravenswood Community Council, in partnership with the Greater Ravenswood Chamber of Commerce and Special Service Area #31, is seeking proposals from artists to beautify two decommissioned utility poles along Ravenswood Avenue. The goal is to transform these structures and add new art to the Ravenswood Sculpture Garden. Artists are invited to submit proposals for work on both poles.
The total stipend for this project is $5,000, which includes all artist fees, supplies, permits (if necessary), and travel expenses.
Click here to download RFP with submission details.
Three Requests for Qualifications
1. Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts
The Art-in-Architecture Program of the Capital Development Board is pleased to announce a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to Illinois professional artists to create permanent original public art for the Fine Arts Complex at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois.
The Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts “foster(s) curiosity and critical thinking, illuminating the human experience through collaboration, applied learning, and artistic practice.” It includes the School of Music, Wonsook Kim School of Art, School of Theatre and Dance, and the Creative Technologies Program. In addition, the Illinois Shakespeare Festival, University Galleries, Design Streak, Normal Editions Workshop, and the String Project celebrate the arts and community collaborations.
Interior Artwork Design Stipend: $1,000
Exterior Artwork Design Stipend: $3,500
The budgets for the project are:
Interior Artwork Budget: $90,000
Exterior Artwork Budget: $200,000
Click hear to download the RFQ and apply for the call
Application Deadline: Friday, April 13, 2023, 4:30 P.M. (Applying before the final deadline is encouraged.)
2. Quincy Veterans Home
The Art-in-Architecture Program of the Capital Development Board is pleased to announce a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to Illinois professional artists to create FIVE permanent original public art pieces for the Long-Term Care Facility (LTC) at Quincy Veterans Home in Quincy, Illinois. These public art commissions and potential purchases are open to all professional artists that live and work in the state of Illinois.
Project Summary: The Quincy Veterans Home is currently undergoing a $230 million construction enhancement project to upgrade and replace many of its aging buildings and provide upgraded amenities to its veteran residents. Founded in 1886, it was originally known as the Soldiers and Sailors Home. It is now the largest and oldest veterans' home in Illinois. This project will add a new 261,000-square-foot residential Long-Term Care Facility and a 74,000-square-foot independent living building. The project also includes upgrades to existing buildings, infrastructure, utilities, hardscaping, and landscaping to support the new facilities. Art will be an integral part of the entire campus. In addition to providing beauty to the built environment, artwork will provide a sense of placemaking to create an atmosphere of home and well-being for the entire Quincy Veterans Home community—residents, families, staff, and volunteers.
The design proposal fee ranges from $1,500 to $3,000 and artwork budget ranges from $75,000 to $200,000.
Click here to download the RFQ and apply for the call.
Final Deadline: Wednesday, April 26, 2023, 4:30 P.M.
3. Chicago State University Health Simulation Labs
A Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to Illinois professional artists to create permanent original public art for the Health Simulation Lab in Douglas Hall at Chicago State University in Chicago, Illinois.
The Committee is interested in artwork that explores wellness, well-being, and health within a broader context including economic stability, education access and quality, health care access and quality, the neighborhood and the built environment, and the social and community context. The committee does not intend for the artwork to be limited to iconography related to the healthcare field.
The piece must be durable, safe, and cost effective to maintain with limited annual maintenance.
The Committee does not wish to limit artists. Artists are offered the walls throughout the second floor and the ceiling space above the oval conference room as potential locations for their artwork. The artwork can consist of one piece, multiple pieces, or an installation.
Click here to download the RFQ and apply for the call
Final Deadline: Friday, April 28, 2023 4:30pm
City of Batavia’s
West Cemetery Sculpture Competition
Call for Sculpture Proposals
The City of Batavia, Illinois announces a sculpture design competition for a work of public art. In 2021, the City completed construction of a columbarium structure within its west cemetery. The west cemetery was originally established in 1845. It consists of 21 acres of wooded property, just west of the Fox River. The City desires to have a work of public art installed atop the new columbarium structure (see photo). The sculptural work will become a woven part of the fabric of the cemetery and will remain in place for at least the next century. As such, the sculpture should present a timeless design that reflects a level of reverence, honor and dignity befitting of those who rest within the cemetery.
The City has budgeted up to forty thousand dollars ($40,000.00) for commission of the completed and installed sculpture. The actual award value, as well as timing of distribution, will be negotiated with selected the artist prior to the commission grant. A $500 stipend for materials will given to five (5) finalists for the creation of maquettes.
Submission deadline: Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum Biennial
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
In 2008, the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum established a sculpture biennial exhibition to support working artists. The Museum invites artists working in sculpture to submit work for the 2023 Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition. This year we have expanded our eligibility to Great Lakes bordering States. This call is open to all artists working in sculpture who reside in the Great Lakes States of Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Submission deadline: April 20, 2023.
Awards: Merit awards are monetary prizes awarded by the juror. 1st place, $2,500; 2nd place, $1,500; 3rd place, $1000; 4th place, $750
Application fee for 1 to 3 entires: $25 for MFSMs, $35 for Non-members
For details and to apply, visit: marshallfredericks.org/rbjse
Evanston Art Center's 26th Evanston and Vicinity Biennial 2023
Submission Deadline: June 5, 2023 at Midnight
Exhibition Dates: August 26 - October 1, 2023
The Evanston and Vicinity Biennial is one of the Midwest’s largest and most prestigious juried exhibitions, offering artists an opportunity to have their work viewed by three talented curators: Chantal Healey (Executive Director, Chicago Public Art Group, Denny Mwaura (Assistant Director, Gallery 400, UIC), and Erica Warren, PhD (Art Historian, Curator, Editor, Craft Quarterly)
Click here for more details.
Request for Proposals: 2023 Wicker Park Fest - Arts Area
Application Deadline: Friday, April 21, 2023
The Wicker Park Bucktown Chamber of Commerce and Special Service Area #33 in Chicago are accepting proposals for the Arts Area at the 2023 Wicker Park Fest. This Arts Area is intended to enhance the Wicker Park Fest experience and contribute to the rich and vibrant neighborhood art scene. Artists are invited to propose highly compelling, professional quality visual artwork and/or interactive installations, or other engaging works of art that are free-standing or self-sustained and can be exhibited during fest hours.
Stipends range on average $5,000 but cannot exceed $10,000.
The festival will take place the weekend of Friday, July 28th through Sunday, July 30th.
Click here for details and about how to apply.
Calling all Metal Workers/Artists!
Participate in UIC Study
Detecting Lead & Other Metals in Saliva and Exhaled Breath
The study focuses on metal workers/artists in the Chicagoland area and their exposure to heavy metals that may be affecting their health. This can include welding, soldering, brazening, or any process which would produce high amounts of dust particles with metals (such as certain paints or grinding). We would like to monitor your work area for dust samples as well as collect bio-fluid samples prior to the beginning and at the end of the next project you plan to work on.
Here is a breakdown of the work our team would be doing as well as the approximate duration:
· Administer a short survey – (1 time only during the first visit, 15 minutes)
· Monitoring airborne dust at your workspace utilizing a stationary instrument as well as personal monitor attached to your clothing (1st and 2nd visit from morning to afternoon, stationary device would stay at the workspace throughout the study)
· Collect samples of your exhaled breath, saliva, blood, and urine – (1st and 2nd visit, ~ 1 hour per visit)
All information collected will be anonymous so as to protect your privacy, however the data collected from your workspace will be shared with you so as to inform you of any hazards that may be present.
You will be compensated $50 for each of the two visits ($100).
If you are still interested in the study, kindly respond to this email at uicheavymetal@gmail.com to schedule a time that works best for you. We understand that having extra bodies when you work can be a hinderance and will do the best we can to minimize any extra interactions.
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.
March 2023 Newsletter
Welcome to the March Newsletter
You will find:
News from the CSI Committees
Womens History Month
Show opportunities
Ongoing Member Exhibitions
News from the Outdoor Exhibition Committee
Image: Telos by Ray Katz, and Angele by Chris Wubenna
2023-2025 Sculpture in the Parks
Submission deadline is Friday, April 21, 2023, 11:59 PM CST
Chicago Sculpture International, in collaboration with the Chicago Park District and parks in the surrounding Chicago area, is seeking proposals from artists for the 2023-2025 Sculpture in the Parks Exhibition.
Works must be large scale and suitable for outdoors. They will be installed on hardscape or softscape (grass), so artists must be prepared for either type of installation. Only select sites have concrete pads; all other sites are softscapes. Sculpture will be on view for two years, from October 2023 - October 2025 (exact dates to be determined). Each sculpture will receive a $3000 stipend.
Eligibility:
This RFP is open to professional artists or artist teams 18 years of age or older. Artists whose proposals are accepted, if they are not already CSI members, will be asked to join.
How to apply:
Artists can submit on or two sculptures for review. Click here for submission requirements and application
Image credit: Telos by Ray Katz, and Angele by Chris Wubenna
News from CSI Project Space
CSI Project Space, 1912 N. Damen Ave., Chicago, IL
At the corner of Cortland and Damen, in the Bucktown neighborhood
Show runs until April 21, 2023
Storytelling through art is as old as history. We use stories to document reality, craft fantasy, teach, learn, symbolize and forge communication. So much sculpture is driven by a narrative, whether we are telling ourselves the story or sharing it with others. Some work externally presents a story, while others hold many within their membrane. We seek to exhibit the drama.
Exhibiting Artists: Janet Austin, Nicole Beck, Berthold Boone, Ted Sitting Crow Garner, Sarah Goodermuth, Carol Hammerman, Caroline Jacobson, Kara James, Stacey Lee Gee, Gina Lee Robbins, Micki LeMieux, Riley Lauren Lynch, Scott Mossman, Olya Salimova, Anne-Joelle Tan, Nancy VanKanegan, Jeremy Wong, Niko Woroniecki, Chris Wubbena
To listen to the artists “tell a story” about their work in the exhibit, use the QR code below:
News from the Education Committee
STARTS Program
(Short-term Teaching Residency Program)
Deadline: May 15, 2023
Provides support of up to $4,500 to eligible Illinois not-for-profit organizations, schools, and school districts for short term residencies focused on hands-on learning experiences conducted by Illinois artists, companies, or ensembles.
Grant requests for fiscal year 2023 are for activities occurring by August 31, 2023.
Open deadline program. Applications must be received no less than eight weeks before the project start date as identified in the application. Applications are reviewed in the order in which they are received and will be accepted through: May 15, 2023. Look HERE for more information.
If anyone is interested to apply, I have contacted Jerome Grand (program director) who explained the program is still open and looking for candidates. Specifics can be found online. Otherwise, feel free to reach out to me: anthonyheinzmay@chicagosculpture.org
International Sculpture Day
International Sculpture Day is April 29, 2023
Look ahead to April and submit images of your work, details about an artist talk, or schedule an open studio afternoon in celebration of International Sculpture Day! International Sculpture Day, our most anticipated event of the year returns on Saturday, April 29th! Join the global sculpture community when you register your event and use #ISDAY on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube.
Contact isday@sculpture.org or call 609-689-1051 x319 to learn how to participate in International Sculpture Day 2023 or for more information.
Join the International Sculpture Day Mailing list.
REGISTER: Also, for the entire month of May 2023, ISC offers CSI members 50% discount on membership dues!
News from the Membership Committee
Happy Women's History Month!
In honor of this special month, we are including links to some historical CSI Womens’ accomplishments. 94 Women strong; from the website membership page. When you click on a photo of one of these artists, it will take you to an article representing each of the artists’ singular “greatest hit". It is not exhaustive and may not be what these artists chose, but it is IMPRESSIVE! Congratulations Ladies!
If you would like to be included in our April newsletter as we continue to celebrate Women's History month, please send a pic and your “greatest hit” link to Kara Cobb Johnson at karajohnson@chicagosculpture.org.
Click here to view the CSI women’s “greatest hits”
Land Acknowledgment
The City of Chicago, and its surrounding areas, have always been, and always will be, home to numerous Native American communities. As a team dedicated to the uplifting of Indigenous People’s sovereignty everywhere, we recognize that each program and exhibition associated with this project is taking place on the traditional homelands of the Council of Three Fires—the Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa—as well as the Menominee, Miami, and Ho-Chunk Nations. Further, we acknowledge that Chicago is home to one of the largest urban Native American communities in the US.
Land acknowledgments are not rhetorical gestures, but rather calls to action. We therefore invite each of our non-Indigenous colleagues to learn more about the forced removal of many of the communities listed above from the state of Illinois and to incorporate Indigenous knowledge into their line of work. We also encourage everyone to ask themselves how they may benefit from the continuation of settler colonialism, militarism, and warfare. Confronting these realities allows us to break down our privileges and adopt anti-colonial practices that can one day help us in creating a more equitable society.
To provide immediate assistance to Native American communities in Chicago, you can send donations to the city’s American Indian Center here.
Member News
Members are welcome to submit news regarding exhibitions and professional development achievements to info@chicagosculpture.org. We would love to see what you are doing!!
In Reciprocity:
Humans & Nature
Exhibition Dates: March 8 - April 7, 2023
Closing Reception and Artists' Talk: Thursday, April 6 (begins at Noon)
Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
Governors State University
1 University Parkway
University Park, IL 60484
Invited Artists: Deanna Krueger, Joanne Aono and Christine Forni (Left to Right)
The ghostly, dreamlike, floating images by Joanne Aono, the photograms utilizing plant fossils and animal bones, and compositions on glass by Christine Forni, and the mixed media pieces inspired by microscopic cellular structures, or macroscopic images of Earth’s terrain by Deanna Krueger, come together in the Visual Arts Gallery to find a way back to the Sacred Earth. This art is inspired by agriculture, herbalism, preservation, and the notion that all life is intertwined, and it investigates the ordinary to find the fascinating, the present moment to reveal the long distant past, and mixed media materials to embody universal experience.
Gallery hours are variable this semester, please confirm with jstevenson@govst.edu prior to visiting.
Image Credit: Deanna Krueger, Joanne Aono, and Christine Forni (Left to Right)
Depth of Field: A Solo Exhibit by Doug DeWitt
March 5 - April 1, 2023
Sunday, March 5th, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Reception and First Sunday Tea & Talk with the artist
Hours: Monday - Saturday, 10am - 4pm
Free and Open to the public.
Komechak Art Gallery
Kindon Hall
Fifth Floor
Benedictine University
5700 College Road, Lisle, IL
Click here to see more of Doug’s work.
Teetering: An Exhibition by Bobbi Meier
Exhibition Dates: March 4 - April 9
A new exhibit at 10 Fold Projects, “Teetering: An Exhibition by Bobbi Meier,” will open with a reception for CSI member Bobbi Meier on Saturday, March 4, from 5–7 p.m. at the 10 W. Washington gallery in downtown Greencastle. Meier, a Chicago-based visual artist, will travel to Indiana to attend the opening and offer an artist talk at 5:30 p.m. Both the exhibit and Saturday’s reception are free, and the public is welcome.
“Exploring the tactile nature of materials, Bobbi creates a dialogue between hard and soft, playfulness and discomfort, abstraction and figuration,” Maggie Leininger, co-founder and director of 10 Fold Projects, observed. “Her work reflects the complexity of lived experiences, encouraging an emotional response from those who view it.”
Contact: Maggie Leininger, Director
708-203-6843 10foldprojectsgallery@gmail.com
The following are not CSI sponsored projects,
but may be of interest to our members:
Three Requests for Qualifications
1. Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts
The Art-in-Architecture Program of the Capital Development Board is pleased to announce a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to Illinois professional artists to create permanent original public art for the Fine Arts Complex at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois.
The Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts “foster(s) curiosity and critical thinking, illuminating the human experience through collaboration, applied learning, and artistic practice.” It includes the School of Music, Wonsook Kim School of Art, School of Theatre and Dance, and the Creative Technologies Program. In addition, the Illinois Shakespeare Festival, University Galleries, Design Streak, Normal Editions Workshop, and the String Project celebrate the arts and community collaborations.
Interior Artwork Design Stipend: $1,000
Exterior Artwork Design Stipend: $3,500
The budgets for the project are:
Interior Artwork Budget: $90,000
Exterior Artwork Budget: $200,000
Click hear to download the RFQ and apply for the call
Application Deadline: Friday, April 13, 2023, 4:30 P.M. (Applying before the final deadline is encouraged.)
2. Quincy Veterans Home
The Art-in-Architecture Program of the Capital Development Board is pleased to announce a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to Illinois professional artists to create FIVE permanent original public art pieces for the Long-Term Care Facility (LTC) at Quincy Veterans Home in Quincy, Illinois. These public art commissions and potential purchases are open to all professional artists that live and work in the state of Illinois.
Project Summary: The Quincy Veterans Home is currently undergoing a $230 million construction enhancement project to upgrade and replace many of its aging buildings and provide upgraded amenities to its veteran residents. Founded in 1886, it was originally known as the Soldiers and Sailors Home. It is now the largest and oldest veterans' home in Illinois. This project will add a new 261,000-square-foot residential Long-Term Care Facility and a 74,000-square-foot independent living building. The project also includes upgrades to existing buildings, infrastructure, utilities, hardscaping, and landscaping to support the new facilities. Art will be an integral part of the entire campus. In addition to providing beauty to the built environment, artwork will provide a sense of placemaking to create an atmosphere of home and well-being for the entire Quincy Veterans Home community—residents, families, staff, and volunteers.
The design proposal fee ranges from $1,500 to $3,000 and artwork budget ranges from $75,000 to $200,000.
Click here to download the RFQ and apply for the call.
Final Deadline: Wednesday, April 26, 2023, 4:30 P.M.
3. Chicago State University Health Simulation Labs
A Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to Illinois professional artists to create permanent original public art for the Health Simulation Lab in Douglas Hall at Chicago State University in Chicago, Illinois.
The Committee is interested in artwork that explores wellness, well-being, and health within a broader context including economic stability, education access and quality, health care access and quality, the neighborhood and the built environment, and the social and community context. The committee does not intend for the artwork to be limited to iconography related to the healthcare field.
The piece must be durable, safe, and cost effective to maintain with limited annual maintenance.
The Committee does not wish to limit artists. Artists are offered the walls throughout the second floor and the ceiling space above the oval conference room as potential locations for their artwork. The artwork can consist of one piece, multiple pieces, or an installation.
Click here to download the RFQ and apply for the call
Final Deadline: Friday, April 28, 2023 4:30pm
City of Batavia’s
West Cemetery Sculpture Competition
Call for Sculpture Proposals
The City of Batavia, Illinois announces a sculpture design competition for a work of public art. In 2021, the City completed construction of a columbarium structure within its west cemetery. The west cemetery was originally established in 1845. It consists of 21 acres of wooded property, just west of the Fox River. The City desires to have a work of public art installed atop the new columbarium structure (see photo). The sculptural work will become a woven part of the fabric of the cemetery and will remain in place for at least the next century. As such, the sculpture should present a timeless design that reflects a level of reverence, honor and dignity befitting of those who rest within the cemetery.
The City has budgeted up to forty thousand dollars ($40,000.00) for commission of the completed and installed sculpture. The actual award value, as well as timing of distribution, will be negotiated with selected the artist prior to the commission grant. A $500 stipend for materials will given to five (5) finalists for the creation of maquettes.
Submission deadline: Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Pentwater Sculpture Opportunity
RFP for outdoor sculpture 2023
Six curated sculptures will be on display for summer 2023.
To download the RFP with full details and submission information HERE.
Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum Biennial
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
In 2008, the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum established a sculpture biennial exhibition to support working artists. The Museum invites artists working in sculpture to submit work for the 2023 Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition. This year we have expanded our eligibility to Great Lakes bordering States. This call is open to all artists working in sculpture who reside in the Great Lakes States of Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Submission deadline: April 20, 2023.
Awards: Merit awards are monetary prizes awarded by the juror. 1st place, $2,500; 2nd place, $1,500; 3rd place, $1000; 4th place, $750
Application fee for 1 to 3 entires: $25 for MFSMs, $35 for Non-members
For details and to apply, visit: marshallfredericks.org/rbjse
Calling all Metal Workers/Artists!
Participate in UIC Study
Detecting Lead & Other Metals in Saliva and Exhaled Breath
The study focuses on metal workers/artists in the Chicagoland area and their exposure to heavy metals that may be affecting their health. This can include welding, soldering, brazening, or any process which would produce high amounts of dust particles with metals (such as certain paints or grinding). We would like to monitor your work area for dust samples as well as collect bio-fluid samples prior to the beginning and at the end of the next project you plan to work on.
Here is a breakdown of the work our team would be doing as well as the approximate duration:
· Administer a short survey – (1 time only during the first visit, 15 minutes)
· Monitoring airborne dust at your workspace utilizing a stationary instrument as well as personal monitor attached to your clothing (1st and 2nd visit from morning to afternoon, stationary device would stay at the workspace throughout the study)
· Collect samples of your exhaled breath, saliva, blood, and urine – (1st and 2nd visit, ~ 1 hour per visit)
All information collected will be anonymous so as to protect your privacy, however the data collected from your workspace will be shared with you so as to inform you of any hazards that may be present.
You will be compensated $50 for each of the two visits ($100).
If you are still interested in the study, kindly respond to this email at uicheavymetal@gmail.com to schedule a time that works best for you. We understand that having extra bodies when you work can be a hinderance and will do the best we can to minimize any extra interactions.
Request for Proposals
2023 Wicker Park Fest - Arts Area
The Wicker Park Bucktown Chamber of Commerce and Special Service Area #33 in Chicago are accepting proposals for the Arts Area at the 2023 Wicker Park Fest. This Arts Area is intended to enhance the Wicker Park Fest experience and contribute to the rich and vibrant neighborhood art scene. Artists are invited to propose highly compelling, professional quality visual artwork and/or interactive installations, or other engaging works of art that are free-standing or self-sustained and can be exhibited during fest hours.
Stipends range on average $5,000 but cannot exceed $10,000.
The festival will take place the weekend of Friday, July 28th through Sunday, July 30th.
Deadline to Apply: Friday, April 21, 2023
Click here for details and about how to apply
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.
March 2023 Newsletter: Special Supplement
Happy Womens History Month!
In honor of this special month, we are including links to some historical CSI Womens’ accomplishments. 94 Women strong from the website membership page. The links represent each artists’ singular “greatest hit". It is by no means exhaustive, and while they may not be what these artist's chose,it is IMPRESSIVE! Congratulations Ladies! If you would like to be included in our April newsletter as we continue to celebrate Womens History month, please send a pic and your “greatest hit” link to Kara Cobb Johnson at karajohnson@chicagosculpture.org.
Click on any of the photos below to view the sculptor’s “greatest hit”.
February 2023 Newsletter
Welcome to the February Newsletter
You will find:
News from the CSI Committees
Show opportunities
Ongoing Member Exhibitions
Image: Mull by John Upchurch
2023 Chicago Sculpture International Juried Exhibition
Jack Olson Gallery, Northern Illinois University, School of Art & Design
Jack Arends Hall, Rm 200, DeKalb, IL
Exhibition Dates: January 23 - March 2
Closing Reception: March 2, 4:30 - 6:30PM
Exhibiting Artists: Nicole Beck, Jyl Bonaguro, Michele Corazzo, Bethany Cordero, Eoin Cullen, Brian Divis, Darlys Ewoldt, Shelley Gilchrist, Yvette Kaiser Smith, Gina Lee Robbins, Terry Karpowicz, Scott Mossman, Katherine Nemanich, Connie Noyes, Howard Sandroff, Dominic Sansone, Zelene Schlosberg, John T. Upchurch
News from the Board
Welcome CSI Board
We have a strong board committed to serving CSI’s growing influence in the sculpture scene.
Our motto for 2023 is: Building an informed, engaged and interconnected community.
Executive Board
President: Berthold Boone
Vice President: John Upchurch
Treasurer: Steven Franklin
Secretary: Stephanie Sailer
Board of Directors
Development: Anthony Heinz May
Education: Micki LeMieux
Emerging Sculptors: Spencer Gale
Indoor Exhibitions: Darlys Ewoldt and Christine Forni
Membership: Kara Cobb Johnson
Outdoor Exhibitions: Ray Katz and Chris Wubbena
Outreach: Patrick Wilson and Shengchen Xu
Here is some information on a few of our new board members:
Berthold Boone, President: Berthold’s sculptural career began in the outskirts of Kansas City where he helped restore slave-built limestone walls. His most recent preoccupation has been the conceptual novelty of making large-scale outdoor reductive tree sculptures. On warm pleasant days, Berthold can be found in his backyard covered with wood chips, whittling models for monumental compositions.
Chris Wubbena, Outdoor Exhibitions Co-Chair: Chris’s artwork fluctuates between interdisciplinary ways of working, focusing on small-mixed-media sculptural compositions, multi-media installations, and large-scale public sculptures. He is currently a tenured Full Professor of Sculpture at Southeast Missouri State University.
Kara Cobb Johnson, Membership Chair: Kara is a process-based installation artist who works across media with experience and interest in curating exhibitions. She welcomes questions and ideas about CSI Membership for 2023 and beyond.
Micki LeMieux, Education Chair: Micki creates outdoor sculpture for public exhibits and fine art. Her work focuses on organic shapes, life forms, and patterns found in nature. She currently teaches a mold making and casting class at a teaching foundry makers space.
Patrick Wilson, Outreach: Patrick uses 3D modeling in conjunction with metal and wood fabrication to explore themes of urban expansion and technological development. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo.
Ray Katz, Outdoor Exhibition Co-Chair: Ray retired from teaching after 48 years as Professor of Art at the Auburn Hills, Michigan Campus of Oakland Community College. He continues to create and exhibit art in his Pontiac studio. Ray Katz has exhibited his sculpture throughout Michigan and in over 21 states nationally, as well as Japan and France. His work is represented in private, corporate, and institutional collections.
Please welcome our new leadership and have a look at their accomplishments on our website here.
News from the Outdoor Exhibition Committee
Image: Telos by Ray Katz, and Angele by Chris Wubenna
2023-2025 Sculpture in the Parks
Submission deadline is Friday, April 21, 2023, 11:59 PM CST
Chicago Sculpture International, in collaboration with the Chicago Park District and parks in the surrounding Chicago area, is seeking proposals from artists for the 2023-2025 Sculpture in the Parks Exhibition.
Works must be large scale and suitable for outdoors. They will be installed on hardscape or softscape (grass), so artists must be prepared for either type of installation. Only select sites have concrete pads; all other sites are softscapes. Sculpture will be on view for two years, from October 2023 - October 2025 (exact dates to be determined). Each sculpture will receive a $3000 stipend.
Eligibility:
This RFP is open to professional artists or artist teams 18 years of age or older. Artists whose proposals are accepted, if they are not already CSI members, will be asked to join.
How to apply:
Artists can submit on or two sculptures for review. Click here for submission requirements and application
Image credit: Telos by Ray Katz, and Angele by Chris Wubenna
News from CSI Project Space
Call for Submissions: Story Time
Call for Submissions: Story Time
Submission deadline: Friday, February 17, 2023, 11:59 pm
Opening Reception: Friday, March 3rd, 5-8 pm
CSI Project Space
1912 N. Damen Ave.
Chicago, IL
At the corner of Cortland and Damen, in the Bucktown neighborhood)
Storytelling through art is as old as history. We use stories to document reality, craft fantasy, teach, learn, symbolize and forge communication. So much sculpture is driven by a narrative, whether we are telling ourselves the story or sharing it with others. Some work externally presents a story, while others hold many within their membrane. We seek to exhibit the drama.
In the spirit of sharing, CSI Project Space invites members with a tale to tell to submit pictures of narrative sculpture alongside a written account of the story that the work is telling, or goes with it, or inspired by, or whatever that means to you.
Works of all media and installation formats will be considered, multi-sensory and time-based works encouraged, with performances to be arranged for opening night.
With this collective gathering of narrative artwork, we hope to to expand our audience’s understanding of what they are looking at and celebrate the timeless power of storytelling. The exhibit is curated by Kara James and Jeremy Wong.
Submission Details HERE
A special thank you from CSI Project Space to Giovanni Mayfield-Wubbena and Violet Bowdle for their help during the installation of the Intersections exhibit.
News from the Education Committee
Have Your Art and Eat It Too was another fantastic art project workshop that was held at The Boys and Girls Clubs at the Lathrop Homes.
Janet Austin shared a fun project that used different fruits and food to create creatures and art. The kids were full of smiles and afterwards could eat their art projects.
Membership Opportunities
This following is not a CSI-sponsored event but may be of interest to our members:
The Negro Motorist Green Book
CSI Membership Chair Kara Cobb Johnson has six free tickets available for The Negro Motorist Green Book, a special new exhibit at The Holocaust Museum in Skokie in observance of black history month. The Negro Motorist Green Book explores the history of a publication designed to assist black travelers during the era of Jim Crow and was believed to have been inspired by Jewish Vacation Guide, a catalog of hotels welcoming to Jewish travelers. While the exhibit is not directly related to sculpture, it does correlate to an upcoming exhibit at CSI Project Space as well as CSI’s ongoing commitment to diversity and inclusiveness. For more information and to reserve tickets please contact Kara Cobb Johnson at karajohnson@chicagosculpture.org.
The Language of Beauty
A few photos from the January group outing of CSI members to see The Language of Beauty exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago. Members were impressed by the vast methods of creating sculptural works and their arrangement en masse. The event was led by Kara Cobb Johnson, our recently appointed Membership Chair. Kara is process-based installation artist who works across media and brings curatorial experience which explores conceptual ideas including safe spaces for opinion sharing and co-mingling diverse groups.
CSI Development/Outreach Upcoming Opportunities
STARTS Program (Short-term Teaching Residency Program)
Deadline: May 15, 2023
Provides support of up to $4,500 to eligible Illinois not-for-profit organizations, schools, and school districts for short term residencies focused on hands-on learning experiences conducted by Illinois artists, companies, or ensembles.
Grant requests for fiscal year 2023 are for activities occurring by August 31, 2023.
Open deadline program.
Applications must be received no less than eight weeks before the project start date as identified in the application. Applications are reviewed in the order in which they are received and will be accepted through: May 15, 2023. Look HERE for more information.
If anyone is interested to apply, I have contacted Jerome Grand (program director) who explained the program is still open and looking for candidates. Specifics can be found online. Otherwise, feel free to reach out to me, Anthony Heinz May at anthonyheinzmay@chicagosculpture.org
Henry Moore Grants
Individual Artists: New Projects and Commissions
Deadline: March 1, 2023
Development/Outreach will apply for CSI as an organization:
Acquisitions and Collections
Research/Development
Conferences, Lectures and Publications
Reach out to me: anthonyheinzmay@chicagosculpture.org if there is any interest in specific areas of these three possible grant opportunities, where CSI as an organization could benefit. Look HERE for more information.
Luminarts Visual Arts Fellowships
Deadline: March 3, 2023
Look HERE for more information.
Member News
Members are welcome to submit news regarding exhibitions and professional development achievements to info@chicagosculpture.org. We would love to see what you are doing!!
Image Credit: Chromatic Spectrum Landscape by Christine Forni
ENVIRONMENT/S/TALLATION
ENVIRONMENT/S/TALLATION is an invitational group exhibition of installation art curated by Marci Rubin, Curator, Bridgeport Art Center. Each invited artist works within a discourse about the environment through their process and materials. Installations constructed from reclaimed materials such as plastic packaging, clothing, and furniture create lush colors, and textures while playing with the light and shadows of the gallery's environment.
ARTIST TALKS: FEBRUARY 25, (begins at 1PM)
JANUARY 20 - MARCH 3, 2023
Bridgeport Art Center: 1200 W. 35th St., Chicago (4th Floor Gallery)
Invited Artists: Christine Forni, Michael F. Gallagher, Bobbi Meier, Bryan Northup, Marci Rubin, Hereaclitus Here Vernon, Toby Zallman
The following are not CSI sponsored projects, but may be of interest to our members.
Art-in-Architecture Program
Application Deadline: Friday, April 13, 2023, 4:30 P.M.
The Art-in-Architecture Program of the Capital Development Board is pleased to announce
a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to Illinois professional artists to create permanent original public art for the Jefferson Terrace Building in Springfield, Illinois.
This building renovation provides office space for approximately 200 state of Illinois
employees from several state agencies. An ADA accessible concrete and metal panel ramp has been added to the existing building, east of the existing stair, as shown in the drawings and images in the RFQ (https://tinyurl.com/4wkfw8bn). The artwork is located on the exterior of a three-story,130,000-square-foot office building several blocks from the Illinois State Capitol Complex. It is located along the accessible ramp added to the building during the project. Jefferson St., also the path of Illinois Route 97 West, is a very busy Springfield thoroughfare used heavily by residents, visitors, and travelers. According to the Illinois Dept. of Transportation, Jefferson St. sees an average daily traffic count of over 11,000 vehicles per day at this location. The addition of artwork to this corner will enliven and activate the exterior of the building and will also serve as a wayfinding aid.
Stipend: An initial $1,000 to selected artists to develop site-specific proposals.
$27,000 to execute approved proposal.
Project summary and more information.
City of Batavia’s
West Cemetery Sculpture Competition
Call for Sculpture Proposals
The City of Batavia, Illinois announces a sculpture design competition for a work of public art. In 2021, the City completed construction of a columbarium structure within its west cemetery. The west cemetery was originally established in 1845. It consists of 21 acres of wooded property, just west of the Fox River. The City desires to have a work of public art installed atop the new columbarium structure (see photo). The sculptural work will become a woven part of the fabric of the cemetery and will remain in place for at least the next century. As such, the sculpture should present a timeless design that reflects a level of reverence, honor and dignity befitting of those who rest within the cemetery.
The City has budgeted up to forty thousand dollars ($40,000.00) for commission of the completed and installed sculpture. The actual award value, as well as timing of distribution, will be negotiated with selected the artist prior to the commission grant. A $500 stipend for materials will given to five (5) finalists for the creation of maquettes.
Submission deadline: Wednesday, April 19, 2023
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.
January 2023 Newsletter
Welcome to the January Newsletter
You will find:
News from the CSI Committees
Show opportunities
Ongoing Member Exhibitions
Post-publication additions
News from the Board
HAPPY NEW YEAR
from the president
CSI had an outstanding year in 2022. We are up to 256 members, our biggest membership ever. We presented two indoor exhibitions: Sculpture Invasion 2022 CSI Biennial at the Koehnline Museum of Art and Responding to Rhythms at the Beverly Arts Center. Our gallery mounted eight exhibitions, featuring 102 artists. We added more cities and park locations—meaning more of your sculpture—to our Sculpture in the Parks program, and we have begun to put installations in Big Marsh, the former industrial site that has been transformed into a natural area.
We stayed within our budget of $133,675 and grew our income for 2023 and 2024 thanks to a $20,000 DCASE grant. Next year’s budget will be approved in January and available to members to look over on our website.
In 2023, I’ll be stepping down as president. Look for information on our new president and board members in our February newsletter.
Thanks to all of you who volunteered or participated in our shows. The involvement of our members is the number one reason we are successful and continue to grow.
Thanks for all the support and friendship you gave to me during my time as president. I look forward to all that 2023 brings to CSI.
Janet Austin
News from the Indoor Exhibition Committee
2023 Chicago Sculpture International Juried Exhibition
Jack Olson Gallery, NIU School of Art & Design
2023 Chicago Sculpture International Juried Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: January 23 - March 2
Closing Reception: March 2, 4:30 - 6:30PM
Exhibiting Artists: Nicole Beck, Jyl Bonaguro, Michele Corazzo, Bethany Cordero, Eoin Cullen, Brian Divis, Darlys Ewoldt, Shelley Gilchrist, Damon Hamm, Yvette Kaiser Smith, Gina Lee Robbins, Terry Karpowicz, Scott Mossman, Katherine Nemanich, Connie Noyes, Howard Sandroff, Dominic Sansone, Zelene Schlosberg, John T. Upchurch
News from the Education Committee
To All CSI Members,
The outreach educational program wants to build a stronger presence in the community for CSI and the gallery, CSI Project Space. Promoting marginalized communities to use art as a way for people to become more connected.
Presently, we are looking for artists with creative projects to be completed in roughly 60-90 minutes for the boys and girls at the Lathrop Homes at Damen and Diversey in Chicago.
The Artist stipend is $500.
All supplies needed for project(s) will be given out to communities in individual boxes paid for by CSI grant funds. We would rather have simple materials and supplies to maintain a feasible budget, so those CSI members interested should keep simplicity in mind. All we need are interested members, with ideas and a supply list for the workshop/activity. The in-person activity is roughly 60-90 minutes.
Groups including the Lathrop Homes (low income/mixed income), Boys and Girls Home, Wicker Park Senior Housing CHA Property, and A Special Place for Veterans have all showed interest in participating.
Any member interested, should reach out with their ideas to mickilemieux@chicagosculpture.org
A very special thanks to Anthony Heinz May for getting this program started.
Membership Opportunities
Slow Looking: The Language of Beauty in African Art
January 20, 2:00 - 3:30pm
Art Institute of Chicago
In this facilitated conversation, visitors are invited to spend time in The Language of Beauty in African Art and share questions and observations among each other and scholars from our staff who can offer researched social and historical context.
Join us in viewing this sculpture exhibit. 20 spots were reserved for Illinois resident members. Contact Kara Cobb Johnson for more information: karasusanne@gmail.com
News from the CSI Project Space
(formerly known as 3D4D Gallery)
Intersection
Exhibition Dates: January 14th – February 24th
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 14th, 5-8 pm
Intersection is an exhibition featuring a vast range of sculptural artwork exploring the idea of intersection – whether it displays a formal joining of materials or processes; discusses contemporary issues of intersectionality in concept or content; presents differing or contrasting views within one united three-dimensional form or space; or emerges as a collaborative endeavor between two or more individuals. On display in the Chicago Sculpture International Project Space at 1912 N. Damen in Chicago, this exhibition celebrates multiples ways of working, expressing, and being, where artists reinforce the inter-connective nature of art and humanity within a shared, supportive space.
Intersection was juried by a committee of Chicago Sculpture International Members
Exhibiting Artists: Mike Baur, Bethany Cordero, Robert Craig, Darlys Ewoldt, Rebekka Federle, Michael Gallagher, Musa Ghaznavi, Kara Cobb Johnson, Yvette Kaiser Smith, Laurie LeBreton, Micki LeMieux, Marie Magnetic, Scott Mossman, Kunal Sen, and John T. Upchurch
Member News
Members are welcome to submit news regarding exhibitions and professional development achievements to info@chicagosculpture.org
We would love to see what you are doing!!
OPENING RECEPTION:
JANUARY 20, 7-10PM
EXHIBITION DATES:
JANUARY 20 - MARCH 3, 2023
Save the Date for Artist Talks:
February 17
Bridgeport Art Center
1200 W. 35th St., Chicago
(4th Floor Gallery)
ENVIRONMENT/S/TALLATION is an invitational group exhibition of installation art curated by Marci Rubin, Curator, Bridgeport Art Center. Each invited artist works within a discourse about the environment through their process and materials. Installations constructed from reclaimed materials such as plastic packaging, clothing, and furniture create lush colors, and textures while playing with the light and shadows of the gallery's environment.
Invited Artists: Christine Forni, Michael F. Gallagher, Bobbi Meier, Bryan Northup, Marci Rubin, Hereaclitus Here Vernon, Toby Zallman
Cover artwork: ''All This and More" by Bryan Northup
Image credit: Bobbi Meier, Sunday Dinners (girly-girl), 2022, Pantyhose, fishnet stockings, fiberfill, thrifted needlepoint, various accoutrement, on stretched canvas, 13.5 x 13.5 inches. Image taken by Tom VanEynde.
Imperfect Rituals
Exhibition dates: January 8th - February 18, 2023
CSI member Bobbi Meier is having a solo exhibition at Riverside Arts Center. Imperfect Rituals is an exhibit of ceramics, textiles, drawings and sound by Bobbi Meier; imbued with emotional reaction to the break in personal, social and political rituals of the past six years.
Curated by: Judith Mullen
Riverside Arts Center
32 East Quincy St.
Riverside, IL 60546
For more information: info@riversideartscenter.com
(708) 442-6400
Gallery Hours: Thursday, Friday, Saturday: 1-5pm Closed Sunday - Wednesday, Holidays Admission is free
The following are not CSI sponsored projects, but may be of interest to our members.
2023 DCASE Individual Artists Program Grants
Application Opens November 28, 2022
The 2023 Individual Artists Program (IAP) grant application will open on November 28, 2022. IAP aims to assist Chicago's practicing artists in creating work that develops their craft and elevates their careers. IAP grants support artists across all artistic disciplines including Film & Media Arts, Literary Arts, Music, Performing Arts (Theatre/Dance), and Visual Arts/Design. Visit chicagoculturalgrants.org to sign up for an info session to learn more.
Art Opportunities at Quad City Arts
Group Exhibition for Artists of African Descent
Quad City Arts' and Azubuike African American Council for the Arts are partnering to curate a juried, group exhibition of artists of African descent. The show will be juried by a group of Quad City based African American artists, along with Azubuike Arts and Quad City Arts.
All artists of African descent residing within a 250-mile radius of the Quad Cities are invited to submit up to four artworks of any medium for a juried, group exhibition in Quad City Arts' Rock Island Gallery from Feb. 3 - March 17, 2023. There is NO entry fee. Submission deadline is Jan. 1, 2023. Look here for more information.
2023-24 Call for Proposals
Quad City Arts invites artists residing within a 230-mile radius of Rock Island, IL (most of Iowa, Illinois, parts of WI and MO) to submit a proposal for a gallery exhibition during 2023-24. Selected artists will be paired with one or two additional artists for a 2-month long exhibition between Sept. 2023 and Aug. 2024 in one of our two large exhibit spaces. Cohesive bodies of work are highly desired. All media will be considered. All exhibited work will also be featured in our online sale gallery. Look here for more information.
Six Mile SculptureWorks is excited to announce our second outdoor sculpture exhibition in downtown Granite City, IL! We're hoping you would be willing to share this announcement and prospectus with your membership? This exhibition is a partnership between SixMile SculptureWorks, a program of Alfresco Productions, and America's Central Port. We'd like to invite your members to submit work for this show - the prospectus for the show, as well as the entry form is attached - entries are due by 5pm (central) on February 1st, 2023. If you have any questions please send all inquiries to SixMileSculptureWorks@gmail.com. The honorarium for the year-long exhibition is $1,500, and the exhibition begins in May of 2023.
Post-Publication Additions
This call is not sponsored by CSI but may be of interest to our members who live and work in Illinois:
The Art-in-Architecture Program of the Capital Development Board is pleased to announce
a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to Illinois professional artists to create permanent original public art for the Jefferson Terrace Building in Springfield, Illinois.
This building renovation provides office space for approximately 200 state of Illinois
employees from several state agencies. An ADA accessible concrete and metal panel ramp has been added to the existing building, east of the existing stair, as shown in the drawings and images in the RFQ (https://tinyurl.com/4wkfw8bn). The artwork is located on the exterior of a three-story,130,000-square-foot office building several blocks from the Illinois State Capitol Complex. It is located along the accessible ramp added to the building during the project. Jefferson St., also the path of Illinois Route 97 West, is a very busy Springfield thoroughfare used heavily by residents, visitors, and travelers. According to the Illinois Dept. of Transportation, Jefferson St. sees an average daily traffic count of over 11,000 vehicles per day at this location. The addition of artwork to this corner will enliven and activate the exterior of the building and will also serve as a wayfinding aid.
Stipend: An initial $1,000 to selected artists to develop site-specific proposals. $27,000 to execute approved proposal.
Application Deadline: Friday, February 17, 2023, 4:30 P.M.
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 areimportant. 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.
Preview image: Image credit: Bobbi Meier, Sunday Dinners (girly-girl), 2022, Pantyhose, fishnet stockings, fiberfill, thrifted needlepoint, various accoutrement, on stretched canvas, 13.5 x 13.5 inches. Image taken by Tom VanEynde.