"The City as Studio"
This year’s theme explores the impact of the urban environment on Chicago artists and their work, as well as the contributions artists make to the vitality of our city. The place where art is imagined and made, whether in a physical or virtual space, affects the idea, the process, and the final product. And the art, once created, leaves a mark on the place it occupies. Chicago Artists Month 2010 examines how the city influences art and artists, and how artists transform the city by contributing to civic dialogue and the quality of life.
The Phantom Gallery seeks to provide a model situation for emerging curators to gain practical curating experience and to critically reflect on the issues involved.
The aim of the Phantom Galleries during Chicago Artists Month is to examine changes in current curatorial production and to develop innovative displays in relation to these physical storefronts or virtual spaces.
BRIEF description of the proposed program: Transforming Urban...
Curating means creating innovative structures for presenting cultural artifacts through interdisciplinary collaboration. In this field, art, digital media, and design relate to one another in new ways. The last few years have seen curators working in increasingly close collaboration with artists, designers, and educationalists on the development of exhibitions, projects in the public sphere, the design of museum spaces, and the presentation of collections. Contemporary exhibitions are changing, with new interpretative strategies complementing the integration into exhibitions of innovative display structures, lounge areas, archives, reading rooms, and new media interfaces.
This project will be sponsored by Lauren G Lowery, Vice President
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PHANTOM GALLERY CALL FOR CURATORS FOR CHICAGO ARTISTS MONTH 2010
Alpha Bruton is the Chief Curator at Phantom Gallery Chicago Network, a project that connects artists with temporary installation spaces. She aims to examine the current changes in curatorial production and develop innovative displays concerning virtual spaces. "Curatorial Practice" explores the impact of the urban environment on the artist and their work and the contributions that artists make to the vitality of a city.
Alpha Bruton completed her studies in art education at California State University, Sacramento, and earned an MAAA in Art Administration from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.