Phantom Gallery Chicago Network: January 2016

The Forum

"Art is Business"
There is a real revitalization going on in restoring the Bronzeville Forum I'm using the image of the Bronzeville Forum on 43rd Street, to address the need to revisit conversations, and document those conversations on BlogTalkRadio. Giving a Forum for artists to talk about their art practice, and how the use Tactical Urbanism as social engagement.

Stabilization of The Forum complex is complete, and our goal for 2016 is to begin the rehabilitation process. We are particularly excited about what appears to be new energy for community revitalization coming from City Hall. Visit the facebook group to get updates on the project.

Interview this week with Toni Collie Perry and Everett C. William

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/phantomgallerychicago/2016/01/18/empowering-women-through-art-a-creative-conversation-with-toni-collie-perry

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/phantomgallerychicago/2016/01/19/why-oppop-text-portrait-of-yummy-sandifer-everett-c-williams-speaks-out

Toni Collie Perry

Everett C. Williams

The URBAN Dictionary gives a precarious definition of FORUMS, I can't say I agree. though---

Best described as a torrent of little children running around in a minefield (users), some armed with weapons (moderators), forums are the flagship of internet discussion, spam, and flame wars.

Smaller forums tend to be more habitable, but the larger ones have many distinct and similar features. For example, within approximately seven seconds of the creation of a topic, you will have at least one reply, guaranteed. Large forums also tend to spawn makeshift caste systems within themselves, and you're automatically a malefactor in the forum until you have a 4-digit post count.

A forum can sometimes be helpful, but normally they become a time consuming and frustrating thing if you pay too much attention to them.

Alpha Bruton

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.

Women-Rights-Art-Show-Call-for-Artists

"Art is Business"
http://westsidearts-chicago.blogspot.com/2016/01/women-rights-art-show-call-for-artists.html

Submission by Feb. 2, 2016 for

Women Rights Art Show.

GUIDELINES TO SUBMIT ART FOR CONSIDERATION

Women Rights Art show at Liz Long Gallery:

Please send digital images of your original art in time to get your actual art to gallery on time. Send images to contact@urbanartretreat.com.

Email an informative artist statement about you and about your art.

All media is considered with limitations of size to 32″ in all directions.

We will carefully review and consider your artwork. Once accepted, we will contact you via email within 24 hours. Actual art must be rec'd at gallery by Feb. 2, 2016 for Women Rights Art Show.

Prepare your pieces to be formally presented in the gallery. Label with your name and the title of the piece only on the back of each art piece you deliver.

Install display-ready wire on the back of each piece we agree upon for the show.

If a hook is used on back of artwork, it must be claw type and only one in center.

Please don't use any other fasteners.

Deliver your art pieces to the Liz Long Gallery (Chicago Urban Art Retreat Center 1957 S. Spaulding Ave.) by appt. or send via mail/USPS/FedEx/UPS. Art must arrive at gallery by date indicated for that show. thanks.

Artist is responsible for all transportation costs and transportation arrangements. Include two copies of a signed inventory sheet you create that includes all of your contact info at the top (i.e.: address etc.), and a list of all the pieces you send including w/the title, size, description, media, and price or NFS.

Expect that artists receive 70% of all sales with 30% going to CUARC, the non-profit.

Whether you live nearby or faraway- all artists are to invite their support network (family members, friends, co-workers, mailing list, & clients) to attend the opening reception and associated discussions they are interested in. All artists are asked to help publicize the art show online, on their Facebook page, twitter, etc.

Artists must pick up their art on the last day of the show at 4 p.m. or by appt. within 3 days of the end of show or pay a daily fee beginning on 4th day. We do not have storage for your art and a new show is coming in right after your art show ends! Please be respectful and help us out.

We are especially interested in art that spotlights the theme of the show.
International artists are very welcome in our art gallery. You must be willing & able to make arrangements for your art to get to and from the gallery.
Chicago Urban Art Retreat Center's photo.

Alpha Bruton

One-Man Play Has Louis Armstrong Looking Back at His Life

One-Man Play Has Louis Armstrong Looking Back at His Life

Free symposium: Mon, January 25, 7:30pm

The Beverly Arts Center is thrilled to be part of the Louis Armstrong Festival. It will be telling another version of Louis Armstrong's life with the assistance of the Louis Armstrong House Museum and archivist Ricky Riccardi. The archives, located at Queens College in New York, will be loaning components highlighting his gig at the Waldorf, Race and Civil Rights, Armstrong in Chicago, and finally, his relationship with manager Joe Glaser.

Along with the exhibit, the BAC will host a free symposium on Monday, January 25 at 7:30pm featuring Terry Teachout, playwright of Satchmo at the Waldorf, presented at Court Theatre, and Ricky Riccardi, Louis Armstrong House Museum archivist. Mr. Riccardi will also share some of the 700 reel-to-reel recordings made by Armstrong throughout his life.

A film festival will highlight Armstrong's work in February when the BAC will show three films of importance in Armstrong's life. High Society will kick things off on February 3 at 7:30pm. Then, February 5 at 7:30pm will feature Cabin in the Sky. Finally, Sunday, February 7 at 3pm, we will wrap the series with a special documentary loaned from the Armstrong archives. Satchmo the Great, made by Edward R. Murrow, is a 1957 biography film of the jazz great. He and his band tour the world as American goodwill ambassadors bringing jazz at its best to the world's people. Within the film, the life of Louis Armstrong is portrayed through music. One of the outstanding scenes in this "biography/docudrama" shows blind songwriter W. C. Handy, with tears streaming down his face, as Armstrong, backed by Leonard Bernstein, leading the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, play Handy's immortal "St. Louis Blues."