Anders Zanichowsky, Handwoven Baby Blanket, 2022, cotton and bamboo (machine washable), 36 x 36,” courtesy the artist Anders Zanichkowsky is a transgender artist, writer, and activist from the Midwest making art about grief, desire, and our longing for another world. Anders has been an artist-in-residence with The Arctic Circle sailing expedition in Svalbard, Røst AiR in Sápmi/Norway, and the Chicago Park District's Cultural Asset Mapping Project. They are also the owner and weaver of Burial Blankets, handwoven shrouds for green burial that are meant for enjoyment during life, and to soften our relationship to mortality. |
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Araceli Zuniga, Three Seconds, 2022, acrylic and oil on canvas, 20 x 32," courtesy the artist Araceli Zuniga is a Mexican-American painter based in the Midwest whose work is defined by intimacy and play. Through the genre of masked wrestling, they encourage a reflective process as a mediation between self and others. Their work has been featured at Tala, FLXST, Povos, and Genesis gallery, respectively. They recently completed a residency with Chuquimarca, an art library project based in Chicago, collaborated with Communication, a Madison-based arts nonprofit, and attended ACRE Residency in 2024. They are a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. |
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Bobbi Meier, Nebulous #7 (red and black), 2021, charcoal on paper, 9 x 12," courtesy the artist Bobbi Meier is an artist who explores themes of proper manners, keeping the “dirty laundry” hidden, and repressed sexuality in her work. Her abstract sculptures, collages, and installations cast the audience as voyeur, presenting uncomfortable situations laced with desire and embarrassment towards the body. She is the recipient of numerous awards from organizations including John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Program, Illinois Arts Council, The Ragdale Foundation and Anderson Ranch Arts Center. She has exhibited work in over 40 museums and galleries in the US and Europe and earned both an MAAE and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. |
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D Rosen, Street Treats, 2024, recycled cast pewter with carbon patina (original objects: meat and bones removed from Honey’s mouth during our walks), 4 x 2 x 1," 2 x 2 x 1.5," courtesy the artist D Rosen is a sculptor and writer. They exhibit and publish internationally but are currently based on the stolen lands of the Council of the Three Fires, known as Chicago, IL. Rosen has focused on non-human animals in their interspecies collaborations, domestic care work, and expansive artistic practice for over twelve years. They operate from the position that questions of animality are not binary but rather a tangle of ecologies and richly complicated identities framed by culture. |
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Diana Solis, El Sombrero Regio, 1992, archival piezographic print, 8.5 x 11," courtesy the artist and Chicago Art Department Diana Solís is a Mexican-born visual artist, photographer, and educator whose work includes photography, painting, illustration, printmaking, comics, public murals, and installation. She is inspired by Mexican and Chicano culture, memory, cautionary tales, oral and personal histories, queer identities, and narratives. Hybridization and the convergence between humans and nature are recurring themes in her paintings and illustrations. Central to Solís’s practice is her commitment to being a teaching artist and sharing her knowledge and process in collaboration with youth, immigrant families, and adults to engage and support them in creating art from their point of view. Solís recently presented a major retrospective exhibition of her photography, Images on Which to Build, which traveled to the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, and the Magnum Foundation and Leslie Lohman Museum, New York City. |
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Diego de la Rosa, Adios, 2024, oil and acrylic on panel, 8 x 10," couresy the artist and Povos Diego de la Rosa is a Venezuelan artist that is currently living and working in Toronto. His work explores the cultural impact of the social crisis in his native country, and relies on symbolism to explore the ideas and sentiments born from this reality. His process involves the collection of found imagery of people and places from Venezuela that are then rearranged into painted narratives full of imaginative elements, such as giants, theatrical atmosphere, and fantastical characters. The source imagery represents the perceived reality, while the painting tactics embody the values and ideas that are employed to create a reading for these circumstances. |
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Dove Hornbuckle, A Choreography of Touches, 2023, wood fired stoneware, glaze, 13 x 11.5 x 4.5," courtesy the artist Dove Hornbuckle is an artist and educator residing in Chicago, IL. They received their MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2018. Solo exhibitions have been held in Chicago, IL at Goldfinch Gallery, What Cannot Be Said Will Be Wept, 2023 and Roots & Culture, Earth, My Likeness, 2020. Previous residences include ACRE Residency, Steuben, WI, 2024, A-Z West, Joshua Tree, CA, 2024, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY, 2024, Ceramics School, Hamtramck, MI, 2024 and SIM Residency, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2022. Hornbuckle was the Ceramics Studio Manager at the Ox-Bow School of Arts & Artists’ Residency from 2019-2024. |
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Drieahus Museum Package: one Household membership, one private tour for up to six people, An American Palace catalog, 10 guest passes The Driehaus Museum engages and inspires the global community through exploration and ongoing conversations in art, architecture, and design of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its permanent collection and temporary exhibitions are presented in an immersive experience within the restored Nickerson Mansion, completed in 1883, at the height of the Gilded Age, and the 1926 Murphy Auditorium. The Museum’s collection reflects and is inspired by the collecting interests, vision, and focus of its founder, the late Richard H. Driehaus. Members of the Driehaus Museum enjoy free admission and a selection of other benefits, including: Access to members-only exhibition previews and events Reduced pricing on select program tickets Discount on private group tours 15% discount at our Museum Store New members receive a membership tote |
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Frances Lightbound, Glass Curtain II, 2023, variable edition screen print (ed. 3/5 v.e.), 22 x 30," courtesy the artist Frances Lightbound is an interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago, working between printmaking, sculpture and installation to address the materiality of built space, and relationships between time, bodies and buildings. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues in the US and Europe, with recent solo exhibitions at Rule Gallery (Marfa TX), Bird Show (Chicago), and the John David Mooney Foundation (Chicago). Lightbound was awarded a Luminarts Visual Arts Fellowship in 2017. Originally from Sheffield, England, she received an MFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BA (Hons) from Glasgow School of Art, Scotland. |
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Haerim Lee, Site Specific Memory (57th Street Beach, 60637), 2024, sand from 57th street beach and acrylic paint on canvas weaving, 17 x 18," courtesy the artist Born in Seoul in 1982, Haerim Lee is a Chicago-based artist with an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has held solo exhibitions at Woodland Pattern and Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, and has participated in various group shows. Grants and awards include the Ignite Fund and the Ox-Bow Fellowship. Currently, Lee works as adjunct faculty at the City Colleges of Chicago and is a lead teaching artist at the Hyde Park Art Center. |
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Inner Freedom + Lakeside Inn Michigan Package: Single Day Herd Session for two people (May-October) at Inner Freedom, one-night stay at the historic Lakeside Inn, and $40 tab at Out There wine bar. Located in Buchanan, Michigan, Inner Freedom shares horse medicine with humans to support inner harmony in everyday life. Guided and supported by the horses, we relax into the flow of life and respond to what is. A Herd Experience for two people with Inner Freedom will likely begin in the upstairs of the barn overlooking the pasture and the herd. We'll have a check-in to land, settle into our bodies and the space, and observe the horses. From there we will enter the pasture to be with the herd. Depending on the day and your own curiosity, options for the experience may include taking a horse on a walk in the woods and embodying grounded leadership, grooming a horse, meditating with the herd, or exploring simple somatic tools to support mind-heart-body alignment with the grounded presence of the horses in nature. This session lasts about two hours. No horse experience needed, horses are free roaming in the pasture, and there are no mounted activities. |
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Jason Guzman, Senor de Relampago, 2024, paper, 7.5 x 9.25," courtesy Guzman Studio Mexican folk artist Jason Guzman specializes in Papel Picado, a paper cutting art that has roots in Mesoamerican ritual and practice. Jason carries on this tradition to honor his culture and cultivate craft. |
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Jerome Caja, St. Lucy Incarcerated, 1993, nail polish on roofing tar, salt, wax, enamel paint, bird feathers, eye makeup, whiteout, in artist’s frame, 7 x 6.5 x 1.25," courtesy of Anna van der Meulen Jerome Caja (b. 1958, Cleveland, OH, d. 1995, San Francisco, CA) was an interdisciplinary artist whose practice included painting, sculpture, and performance. Using found objects and everyday materials including nail polish, makeup, white-out, and glitter, Caja created often-humorous miniatures that expressed themes of spirituality, mortality, and sexuality. He received a BA from Cleveland State University and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Caja died from HIV-related complications in 1995, during the height of the AIDS-Art-Activism era in San Francisco. His work is in numerous public collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), the New York Public Library, and the Los Angeles County Museum (LACMA). His papers and many small works are part of the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art. |
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Jesse Ly, show your teeth (hound), 2023, custom laser etched ash wood frame, archival inkjet prints, frame, 10 x 14”, print 4 x 5,” courtesy the artist Jesse Ly is an Asian-American photographic and image-based artist. They hold a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the University of Cincinnati’s college of DAAP. They currently are the Graphic Design and Photography Media Facilities Coordinator at the University of Dayton. They have exhibited work nationally and internationally at galleries and museums. They are a recipient of two Culture Works Artist Opportunity Grants, an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council, a Regional Artist Renewal Grant via the National Endowment for the Arts, and was a finalist for the Aperture Portfolio Prize in 2023. |
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Kitty Rauth, Pressed I, 2024, monotype on Rives BFK, 15 x 13," courtesy the artist Kitty Rauth (b. 1992, New Jersey) is an artist and organizer based in Chicago, IL. Drawing from personal experiences navigating classed systems of etiquette, Rauth’s work uses the charged map of the dining table to locate personal and shared ghosts of classist systems of etiquette and reorients towards uncharted ways of being in order to find spaces that allow for authenticity. They graduated with their BFA from Arcadia University in Glenside, PA and their MFA in Studio Art from the Sculpture Department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Rauth currently serves as the Artistic Director of Comfort Station, a multidisciplinary art space in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago. |
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Kushala Vora, Overwrite, 2021, porcelain, 6 x 8 x .25," courtesy the artist Kushala Vora is a visual artist and organizer working in sculpture, drawing and installation. She was named one of Chicago’s 2023 Newcity Breakout Artists. Her work has been exhibited at American Museum of Ceramic Art (Sonoma, CA), Indian Ceramics Triennale 2024 (New Delhi, India), Engage Projects (Chicago, IL), Goodman Theatre (Chicago, IL), Museum of Fine Arts (Nagoya, Japan), South Asia Institute (Chicago, IL), Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) among other places. She has been an artist-in-residence at Skowhegan School of Painting and Drawing, Hyde Park Art Center, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Chicago Artist Coalition, ACRE Residency and most recently Shillim Institute (India). Kushala received a MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a post-graduate diploma in Modern and Contemporary Indian Art History from Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum in Mumbai, India and a BFA from SMFA at Tufts University, Boston. She is the co-founder of Atmo, a reading + praxis forum, and is an active contributor to Spaceshift Collective. |
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Latham Zearfoss, homebodies, 2024, rope, recycled latex, repurposed packing pallet, charcoal, 26.5 x 27.5," courtesy the artist Latham Zearfoss works in Chicago, where they produce time-based images, objects and experiences about selfhood and otherness. Outside of the studio, they contribute to collective motions toward joy and reflection through social projects such as a queer dance party (Chances Dances), a critical space for white allyship (Make Yourself Useful), and an itinerant conference on socially-engaged art (Open Engagement). Latham graduated from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA in 2008 and the University of Illinois at Chicago with an MFA in 2011. They have exhibited their work, screened their videos, and DJed internationally and all over the U.S. |
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Latham Zearfoss, mountain, 2024, wax, twine, plywood, vintage nails, 9.5 x 9," courtesy the artist Latham Zearfoss works in Chicago, where they produce time-based images, objects and experiences about selfhood and otherness. Outside of the studio, they contribute to collective motions toward joy and reflection through social projects such as a queer dance party (Chances Dances), a critical space for white allyship (Make Yourself Useful), and an itinerant conference on socially-engaged art (Open Engagement). Latham graduated from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA in 2008 and the University of Illinois at Chicago with an MFA in 2011. They have exhibited their work, screened their videos, and DJed internationally and all over the U.S. |
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Leonardo Kaplan, Shoreline with Glass, 2024, acrylic medium on toner, 9.5 x 7," courtesy the artist and Mickey Gallery Leonardo Kaplan (b. 1985, Bogota, Colombia) is a working artist in Chicago. He has exhibited in galleries across the US and Europe, including Specialist Gallery, Seattle; Mickey, Chicago; The Graham Foundation, Chicago; New Capital Projects, Chicago; Rivalry Projects, Buffalo; Freies Museum, Berlin; No Place, Columbus, OH; and at NADA Art Fairs, in New York and Miami. He co-directed The Hills Esthetic Center and BOYFRIENDS, and currently directs Special Feature, which founded in 2021, exhibits emerging artists working in all media. |
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Plein Air Painting Date with artist Leslie Baum, session will take place on a mutually agreed upon day/time with the artist between October 2024 and January 2025 Leslie Baum’s painting practice is invitational in nature and informed by her long tenure as museum educator at the Art Institute of Chicago. Baum received her BA from the University of Vermont and studied abroad at the Glasgow School of Art. Her drawings and paintings are in permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Elmhurst Art Museum. Baum's exhibitions have been reviewed extensively, including in Artforum, Art in America, Hyperallergic, New City, and the Chicago Tribune. She received residencies at Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, Maine; the Nido project in Monte Castello di Vibio, Italy; Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY; and the Vermont Studio Center. A 2020 grant funded the creation of pleinairarchive.com, a site documenting her ongoing painting social practice. |
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Art Consultation Session with Maggie Porter of Powell Fine Art Advisory, 4 hours of art consulting services This session is for 4 hours of art consulting services with Maggie Porter, Powell Fine Art Advisory’s Chicago representative and Senior Art Advisor. The session may be used for assistance with artwork acquisition, sale, framing guidance, or any other advice needed regarding collection management. Powell Fine Art Advisory provides art consulting and advisory services for collectors of modern and contemporary art across all media. Whether you are an experienced collector or new to the field, interested in building a comprehensive art collection or purchasing a single work of art, PFA can guide you with objective professional advice. |
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MCA Chicago Package: one Circle membership, tote bag, catalogue The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is one of the world’s largest museums dedicated to contemporary art. Here, the public can experience the work and ideas of living artists and understand the historical, social, and cultural context of the art of our time. Since our inception in 1967, it has been our mission to exhibit new and experimental work in all media, paired with ambitious learning programs. In 1974, the MCA expanded its mission to include collecting and preserving contemporary art for future generations with the inauguration of a collection that has grown to include more than 2,000 works. Circle members gain special access to the museum, including private curator tours and Circle Previews—premier opportunities to see major exhibitions before anyone else. |
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Millicent Kennedy, Mirror Poetry, 2024, pocket watch, key, shells, bells, coral, paint brush, fortunes and other items hand sewn into dye printed cotton in a frame, 30 x 24," courtesy the artist Millicent Kennedy’s (they/them) practice is interested in how we archive a physical world in flux. Through skills both laborious and ancient their work as a whole is interested in connecting two or more things that could seem separate or worn away from one another. They received a Bachelor's Degree from Northeastern Illinois University and MFA from Northern Illinois University where they were awarded the Helen Merritt Fellowship. They’ve presented solo exhibitions at Belong Gallery, SXU Art Gallery, Roman Susan and Parlour and Ramp, as well as site specific installations with Charles Allis Art Museum, Terrain Exhibitions Biennial, and Purple Window Gallery. They have been awarded artist residencies with ACRE, Ragdale, Roman Susan, Terrain Exhibitions, Awakenings, Lillstreet Art Center, and the Bridge Program at Hyde Park Art Center. They also serve as the Director at NEIU's Fine Art Center Gallery and teach at Northern Illinois University. |
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Nancy Lu Rosenheim, Queen of Leyak, 2021, stone lithograph, 28.5 x 19.5," courtesy the artist Nancy Lu Rosenheim is an artist and educator based in Chicago. Her narratives examine the exquisite yet sinister constituents of the natural world, distorted through the lens of the human psyche. Exhibited throughout the US as well as in Thailand, the Netherlands, and Spain, Rosenheim has attended residencies in Illinois, France, and Thailand. Rosenheim is Instructor at Northeastern Illinois University. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She advocates for the pristine karst geology of the Driftless Area of Wisconsin by battling the factory farms (CAFOS) that threaten its land, water and air. |
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Neal Vandenbergh, Snake Mind 22, 2024, charcoal, pastel and acrylic on paper, 16 x 12," courtesy the artist and Mickey Gallery Neal Vandenbergh (b.1986 Harvey, IL) lives and works in Chicago. He received his MFA from University of Illinois at Chicago in 2012. Recent solo exhibitions include Vivarium Glass at Silke Lindner, NYC (2023) and Landscape with a Man Killed by a Snake at Mickey, Chicago (2022). His work has been presented at NADA Miami with Mickey Gallery, Felix LA with Silke Lindner and has a forthcoming solo presentation at Material Art Fair, Mexico City with Mickey Gallery (2025). Recent group exhibitions include The Hole, NYC (2024), Good Mother Gallery, Los Angeles (2023), Apparatus Projects, Chicago (2021), and Massimo De Carlo (2020). |
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Olivia Zubko, Bathsheba II, 2022, stoneware, 8.5 x 9.5 x 11," courtesy the artist Olivia Zubko (b. 1995) is a Chicago-based artist who works primarily in sculpture, utilizing ceramic, fibers, and found materials. She received her BFA in sculpture in 2020 from Northern Illinois University. Recent exhibitions include a two-person show at DeGroot Fine Art (Chicago, IL), a solo presentation with Cleaner Gallery+Projects for NADA House 2023 (New York, NY), NADA Miami 2023 (Miami,FL), Neccessarium, a solo exhibition at Cleaner Gallery + Projects (Chicago, IL), West, Wester, Westest 4 at Left Field (Los Osos, CA), and Soap Opus at Rockford University (Rockford, IL). Her work has recently been featured in Create! Magazine and Red Skate Mag. |
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Ricki Dwyer, Stone Roses, 2024, cast hydrocal, textile dye, screws, 3.5 x 3.5 x 2" (individually), courtesy the artist Ricki Dwyer (USA) is an artist from the San Francisco Bay Area, living in Brooklyn. His practice considers the intersections of material, industry, and the somatic. This research addresses weaving and craft in both theory and practice. Dwyer is currently a Bronx Museum AIM Fellow and teaching with the Parsons School of Design. He received his undergraduate degree in Fiber Arts from the Savannah College of Art and Design and an MFA in Studio Practice from UC Berkeley. |
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Package includes: Six general admission tickets and one free parking pass to Slow & Low: Chicago Lowrider Festival, October 12, 2024, 10am-8pm, Navy Pier Limited edition Slow & Low retrospective book (2024) Four t-shirts, pins, tote bag, and sticker Established in 2011, Slow & Low: Chicago Lowrider Festival celebrates Lowrider's heritage - the customized car as a way of expressing beauty and self-expression by owners, master craftspeople, innovative mechanics, and modifications including wire wheel rims with whitewall tires, custom pinstriping and upholstery, airbrush muralism, and other contributing visual aesthetics or material objects. This curated community-cultural public sphere exhibition explores and presents Lowrider culture as an original form of American folk and contemporary art. |
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Weekend at ACRE: Weekend stay for two guests at the farm and residency in Steuben, Wisconsin, June 6-8, 2025. Activities and amenities include: Saturday dinner and cocktails by the bonfire Sunday brunch served by ACRE Kitchen Interactive tour of studio facilities Overnight stay in our rustic lodge Additional optional activities include nature walks and board games on the porch |
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Fermentation Workshop: Three-Hour Fermentation Workshop Using Local Produce (For 8 Participants) Yejin Yoon seeks to create spaces for folks to commune and learn over nourishing, accessible food and cooking. As someone who grew up immersed in Korean culture and cuisine, fermentation has always been a part of their practice and lifestyle. Fermentation imbues food with time itself - and the measured consideration it takes to arrive at a finished product juxtaposed with the spontaneous nature of bacteria has always been a fascination of theirs. |
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