Norman W. Long: Calumet in Dub exhibit
August 16-September 30, 2024
Calumet in Dub features an audio installation, photographs, and videos by Chicago-based artist and Illinois State University alum Norman W. Long '96. This project is a modified version of one that Long recently premiered at the Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College, Chicago. Learn more about the exhibit.
Sound walk with Norman W. Long
Wednesday, September 25
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Meet at University Galleries
Long describes his practice as centering around “walking, listening, improvising, performing, teaching, field recording, and exploring memory, place, ecology, and race.” Each of these elements will come into play when Long leads a Sound Walk around part of Illinois State University’s campus. He has led multiple walks with the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology as part of the Chicago Park District’s Night Out in the Parks program.
Free and open to the public. Registration required. Minors must be accompanied by an adult.
Rafael Soldi: A moon, a peephole, an explosion, or a flashing memory exhibit
August 13-September 29, 2024
A moon, a peephole, an explosion, or a flashing memory features photographs, a handwritten text installation, and an EKG made from 2009 through 2023. Informed by the artist’s queer, Peruvian identity, the selected works reflect on the possibilities of language, memory, and imagining. In Soldi’s words, he “probes states of in-betweenness—especially as it occurs across tongues—providing nuanced insight into immigrant identity while also offering a rich metaphor for queer experience.” Learn more about the exhibit.
Selects: Libby Rothfeld, 2016-2024 exhibit
August 12-September 29, 2024
Since the mid-2010s, Libby Rothfeld has been exhibiting her sculptures, photographs, and installations in galleries and artist spaces across the United States and Europe. Selects, her institutional debut, presents work she has made over the past nine years in a variety of mediums: ceramic, photography, drawing, painting, assemblage, and various combinations of these. Demonstrating the heterogeneity of Rothfeld’s approach to making art, the exhibition contains a sprawl of styles and formats, from combinations of found objects to a slideshow of pictures of birds. What connects these nine very different artworks is the way that each one serves as a reminder of the humor and complexity buried within even the blandest, most familiar-seeming things. Learn more about the exhibit.
All-ages artmaking workshop
Saturday, September 28
1-2:30 p.m.
Join University Galleries education staff for an artmaking workshop inspired by Rafael Soldi’s exhibition A moon, a peephole, an explosion, or a flashing memory. Participants will create text-based artworks inspired by Soldi’s Shards. Registration required and will close when capacity is reached.