Phantom Gallery Chicago Network Moved to Speaker

"Art is Business"  https://www.spreaker.com/organization/phantom-gallery-chicago--13250816

Phantom Gallery Chicago is a project that examines the current changes in curatorial production, develops innovative displays, and hosts talks in virtual spaces. 

Throughout the years, BlogTalkRadio has been a staple in many households and has reached listeners worldwide since 2006. Bringing hosts, guests, and listeners together through conversation is a unique way of connecting with others while sharing news, telling stories, and getting information out to millions.We are so thankful for the support and creativity that you have brought to our platform.

While no other platforms offer the live guest call-in option, we want to let you know about our sister company, Spreaker, where we can place an easy redirect to ensure the safety of your podcast.

You can find us on our Pop Up Research Station and join the Public Think Tanks and Virtual CAFE.

I didn't get the memo that this platform was closing, effective January 31st, 2025, so I could download the MP3 to my external drive. BlogTalkRadio is no longer in operation, and we must say goodbye to you, our loyal users. This means that some of the data collected has been lost unless I transferred it to the Speaker. A reminder to download and save content onto backup drives. This website was also linked to our Internet Archives. I will need to upload the MP3s and another video recording MP4s from our ZOOM videos as a direct link instead of a link connected to a website, as these platforms are closing down.

You can also find our MP3 uploaded to the Phantom Gallery Chicago YouTube Studio. 

Tactical Urbanism in the Horizontal Landscape, Reggie Nicholson's Concepts 03/23 BlogTalkRadio Interview

Tactical Urbanism in the Horizontal Landscape, Reggie Nicholson's Concepts 03/23 by Phantom Gallery Chicago Network | Visual Arts: 

Reggie Nicholson-Drummer, Percussionist, Composer

 The instantly recognizable style and sound of Reggie Nicholson have elevated him to one of the most distinctive, inventive, and inspirational drummer/percussionists of his generation; a formidable technician, but one who uses his considerable skills constructively and with infinite taste. 

Tactical Urbanism, in the Horizontal Landscape, 'Soundscape Tapestry.' This collaborative project will utilize sound and visual art in a public installation. Soundscape Tapestry will echo the African American music experience unique to the sounds of Chicago.

Two thousand twenty-two project plans are to host and collaborate with composer Reggie Nicholson and develop platforms for exploration and creating new works. They are using tactical urbanism and contributing to the horizontal landscape to expose pedestrians and tourists to the experience of what is viewed inside the gallery. Will create a dynamic platform for large-scale installations and moving image works and sound performances, which did not have a dedicated space at the Bronzeville Art District Trolley Tours in prior years. Music and performances from collaborating artists accompany all the projections. 

The Ocean Between IV Virtual Open Studio

"Art is Business"

ZOOM Phantom Gallery:
https://bit.ly/PhantomGalleryChicago,

IN POSITION/IMPOSITION 2021 a GROUP SHOW

"Art is Business"

 The Wild Yams exhibition will be on display at the Silver Room until December.   I created a new body of work for this show that investigates my passion for Labor & Leisure and expounds upon my Mercy Endureth Forever concept for the Illinois Humanities Envisioning Justice Grant.   I hope you have some time to see the show.  If you are interested, please let me know. Also, if you are in the Hyde Park area tonight, come see us and meet the rest of the Wild Yams.

Musically & Artistically yours,
Lavon Pettis 

She is  working with muralist and sign painter Donnie R. Carter to create his 1970 series of Human Drawing paintings on Black Velvet.  She has a limited edition series of work that she modeled for Donnie.  If you would like a peek at this body of work, contact her direct. 

LavonNPettis@gmail.com

773-458-9864 • Mobile

Lavon will be discussing her work and the legacy she is creating for her daughter Indigo during the Bronzeville Art District Art Tour on October 15th, 2021.

The Phantom Gallery Chicago, 

OPEN VIRTUAL STUDIO, 7pm - 8pm 

Phantom Gallery: https://bit.ly/PhantomGalleryChicago 

Virtual Open Studio- Textile Artists Talk About Their Art

"Art is Business"  Listen to the artist speak on "Creative Conversation," Trish Williams,  Rhonda Hardy.

Featured Artist: Trish Williams,  

Trish Williams was born and raised in Chicago in the North Lawndale community, where she attends public school.  Once she completed elementary and high school education, she attended Malcolm X Community College. Then, under the tutelage of Barbara Jone-Hogu, she was introduced to the AfriCOBRA collective and the South Side Community Art Center, where she was introduced to an even broader spectrum of African American artists.

While she has always created as far back as she can remember by drawing, painting, and sewing, but in 1997 she saw a book titled “A Communion of The Spirits” by Roland Freeman about African American quiltmakers and was reminded of her ancestors who carried on these traditions and knew that is what she must do too, but not for the beds, but for the walls because would encompass most of the things that she loved about art.

She’s exhibited local, national, and international, and her works are collationed globally, and several public art commissions in the Chicagoland area.  Her work is also included in exhibition catalogs, magazine publications, and she is listed as one of 100 artists in the Midwest.  She is also seen in the movie “Southside With You” about President and Mrs. Obama if you look quick enough.

The Women of Color Quilters Network is a non-profit organization* founded in 1985 by Carolyn L. Mazloomi, a nationally-acclaimed quilt artist and lecturer, to foster and preserve the art of quiltmaking among women of color.

It supports its membership through presentations, providing venues for sharing technical information, grant writing, and other services. It offers quilts and fiber art to museums for exhibition and researches and documents African American quiltmaking. In recent years, the Network has showcased the work of its members before national and international audiences. An important component of the network's activity is its quiltmaking in social and economic development projects. Educational projects and workshops foster exposure to the arts, creative development, and improved self-esteem. These programs present the benefits of quilting to audiences of all ages, income levels, ethnic backgrounds,s and learning abilities.     *(IRS 501(c)(3))

Guest Artist - Rhonda Brady: 

Rhonda Hardy is an artist committed to social empowerment by encouraging the appreciation of diverse cultures as seen through art. Her artwork has been exhibited and sold at venues such as the South Side Community Art Center, Gallery Guichard, and the Beverly Arts Alliance. 

The journey to manifest my story started in high school, where I sought to learn everything I could about African and African American culture. I subsequently went to college and obtained a Bachelor's and Master’s degrees in clothing and textiles and became certified in Interior Decorating. So, it is a natural progression that I use my passion, skills, and knowledge as a tool to tell the story of the African American experience using the medium of hand-crafted textiles, fashion, and storytelling.

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Bronzeville Art District August 20th Art Walk Hybrid Experience

"Art is Business"

EITHER WRONG OR RIGHT JUST EXAMINE

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JOIN US: RSVP- 1pm - 4pm, with Virtual Artist Talk 2pm - 3pm

ARTISTIC VISION FOR CURATED EXPERIENCES AT 

EVANSTON ART CENTER. 

Our artistic vision entails an intergenerational curatorial practice that seeks to provide a model for emerging and established curators to innovate in curating inclusive experiences, gain practical curating experience, and critically reflect on how their curatorial style will imprint on the Evanston community and the world. Four exhibitions, each running two weeks, on how artists examine the state of their environment in society through themes of Racism, Spirituality, Documentation, and Art as Wellness

A call for diverse artists (i.e. Women, People of Color, LGBTQIA, and Disabled Artists) to provide works that reflect each theme, ensuring experiences are accessible, inclusive, and educational for all people with visible/invisible disabilities.

Bruton and Adero’s artistic vision entails an intergenerational curatorial practice

that seeks to provide a model for emerging and established curators to innovate

in curating inclusive experience, gaining practical curating experience, and critically

reflect on how their curatorial style will imprint on the Evanston community and

the world. In four exhibitions, each running two weeks, exhibiting artists will

examine the state of their environment in society through themes of Racism,

Spirituality, Documentation, and Art as Wellness.

ALPHA BRUTON & LIZA SIMONE, POP-UP RESEARCH STATION, EVANSTON ART CENTER "IN FOCUS"

"Art is Business" Sunday, March 21, 2021, at 2pm | Virtual

"In Focus" is a monthly lecture series that features a variety of talks and presentations by ​artists, art professionals, historians, and more! Learn more about our upcoming lectures below.

On Sunday, March 21, 2021, at 2pm, join us for a lecture about Pop-Up Research Station, a Portal to Documenting Our Art Legacy featuring Alpha Bruton and Liza Simone. 

This lecture is a part of the ongoing EAC series, "In Focus." "In Focus" features a variety of talks and presentations by ​artists, art professionals, historians, and more!

Phantom Gallery Chicago's Alpha Bruton and Phantom Galleries LA Liza Simone have created a network of support for artists, curators, and arts organizers who are engaged in temporary public art installations, storefronts, and projects that engage community response. We envision the project as a portal for shared knowledge, a resource of best practices, ongoing professional development, and a place for moral support to enhance our collective impact.

In 2012 we launched a Podcast produced by GYST Radio on BlogTalkRadio. Pop-Up Research Station developed gradually: hosting "Creative Conversations" that explored “Temporary Public Art Installations,” ” Storefront Art Movements,” “Creative Place-making,” and projects that are the impetus for “Cultural Urban Planning.”

The Pop-Up Research Station is a place to glean information. We see the Pop-Up Research Station as the portal to documenting our legacy, giving emerging curators and artists new to the world of creative placemaking a “Tool Kit” that has already been 20 years in the making, researched, developed, and implemented by artists who have carved out niches and built new communities from empty storefront to monthly art walks, and virtual trolley tours.

"Creative Conversation" on BlogTalkRadio will cover snapshots of artist stories, host honest discussions on the problems we face, offer a support system, and solicit advice on how to avoid the potholes moving forward. The interviews done for Pop-up Research Station are conversational and geared toward the artist’s mindset but will be helpful for those interested in our projects as a research tool.

REGISTER TODAY!

Evanston + Vicinity Biennial Awards Juror's Choice Award

"Art is Business" reposted https://art.newcity.com/2020/12/07/all-that-glitters-veronica-clements-paintings-recall-girlhood-in-screaming-color/

Veronica Clements, “Vanitas Film Still #1,” 30 x 48 inches, 2020, Oil on canvas

Veronica Clements grew up on mixtapes, plastic Happy Meal toys, and the purple cheetah print of Lisa Frank stickers. Now as a twenty-four-year-old artist, these themes of playful, gaudy nostalgia run through her paintings like an electric current. She is serving memories on a hot pink platter.

Clements is a Chicago native and recent graduate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. There, she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts with a focus in painting and art history. Chicago’s influence is very present in her work. In a recent painting titled “Vanitas Film Still #1,” a girl is seen dancing on the balcony of the Marina Towers.

Clements lives in Chicago and works as a visual arts and videography teacher at the Elgin Academy. Her studio functions out of her bedroom.

Her paintings are neon-colored, bursting celebrations of girlhood, a state that glimmers, giggles, and shifts. Glass bongs shine delicately, as though made from fine, divine porcelain. A CD player is splattered in rainbow stickers and rhinestones. A horde of girls—loud, sentimental, moody—gather around a bedroom as if at a fire. Sequins flirt. In these portraits, Clements is attempting to “collapse my past into my future.” She is revisiting and relearning her childhood memories. She is painting over them.

Clements works to “modernize seventeenth-century icons” in ways such as replacing realistic butterflies with plastic butterfly clips and a realistic skull with a piggy-bank skull. She is replacing one aspect of girlhood with another while simultaneously reclaiming the power of her own individual girlhood. This idea bleeds through every piece she makes.

What strikes the viewer most is Clements’ confident, bold use of color. Her paintings pulsate and ooze with fluorescent, wet reds, fuzzy blues, and candy greens. The objects in her work seem to have always been that way, in that silky purple light. They ooze fragility and persistence like statues. You almost wish you could touch them.

The internet is undoubtedly a source of both inspiration and terror for Clements. While maneuvering the depths of social media as an artist is “a game every young artist has to play,” its commonality doesn’t make the actual practice any easier. The constant eye of both the audience and other artists leads to doubt and comparison.

At the same time, Clements believes that “social media is breaking down barriers in art.” Viewers no longer have to go to a museum to see work, they only have to go to an artist’s Instagram page or website. The distance between artist and audience is waning.

On her Instagram, Clements frequently films time-lapses of herself painting and makes posts where she gives an explanation into aspects of her process and shows her studio. This intimacy can mean the difference between gaining an audience and lacking one.

Clements’ work was featured in Woman Made Gallery’s recent virtual exhibition “LOSS.” Her featured painting is a pink, glowing, shimmering still life of beautiful clutter. A rose lays gingerly on a reflective CD. A candy wrapper sleeps. A sea of glitter and tinsel pour out of a glass. The synopsis reads, “Vanitas vanitatum Omnia vanitas. If everything is vanity, everything is lost.”

When Clements envisions her future, she sees herself working as an independent artist. She would love to see herself more involved in a large artist community. She says there is something fiercely remarkable and powerful about a colony of young artists, especially women and artists of color, who deeply understand “the value we bring to the art world.” Her first step toward this goal has been completed, as Clements recently joined the board of the Young Women’s Caucus, a sub-caucus of the National Women’s Caucus for Art in Chicago, a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating opportunities for female visual artists.

Clements’ work is a glittering, blazing goodbye party. A way of celebrating what has left us. She says, “That’s the beauty of paint. You can keep everything and everyone alive.” (Jasmine Ledesma)

Veronica Clements, “Vanitas Film Still #2,” 24 x 36 inches, 2020, Oil on canvas

Talver Germany's Zoom Interview - September 2020 Trolley Open Virtual St...

My vision of beauty is based on my traditional African American culture, coupled with my mother's love and encouragement that has to help me to develop a sense of self-confidence and a true interest in the wondrous world of art.

As a woman of ability and talent, I am able to explore any number of media to express my creativity. My teaching and own work involve working in an easel, plain air, and mural painting, ceramics /clay sculpture, pen and ink, and the experimentation of jewelry making. All contribute to my goal of producing more sophisticated and challenging works that pass to my students and teaching skills. In addition, I have begun to assimilate my personal experiences of the West Indies (Jamaica) in the creative use of color, form, and texture in my artwork.

Overall, I feel strongly that my maturity as an artist has stimulated me to experience new ways of expressing the African ancestry that overwhelms me with a sense of joy, creativity, love, and spiritual bonding.

Conversation Town Hall "You Get What You Deserve: Welcome to the indignation

"Art is Business" Press release update: You may already know,  Space in the Gap (SG).  evolved out of Phantom Galleries LA (PGLA) programming.

 

SPACE IN THE GAP

Every idea needs space

 Space in the Gap produces, co-produces, and hosts cultural events and creative small businesses in vacant commercial spaces.  PGLA organizes the art in storefront programming for SG.  Loiter Galleries, a non-profit art in storefront program that launched out of PGLA’s stARTup program to incubate new art in storefront programs will curate exhibitions as well. 

Pop Up Research Station is a space to pool resources and support those working in temporary public art. PGLA loves The Conversation Art Podcast so we invited Michael Shaw to host his virtual café’ in collaboration with the SG online calendar.  

This last year, PGLA & SG had quite a few false starts. No surprise due to rapidly changing environments  We remain committed to creating opportunities for our arts community. New spaces are launching in Mission Viejo, Orange County this November. Loiter is programming in Long Beach.  This email blast is to invite you to Friday’s Conversation Café!  We knew you wouldn't want to miss it and we look forward to seeing you!   Don't forget to VOTE! :)

Cafe: The Conversation Art Podcast 11:30 AM PST. FRIDAY. 10.30.2020

You are not going to want to miss our next virtual cafe with special guest Nato Thompson  (curator, and author of Culture as Weapon, and former 2-episode guest of this podcast, will be doing a short presentation titled  "You get what you deserve: welcome to the indig-nation." 

[hosted by artist Michael Shaw host of The Conversation Art Podcast.]

Friday, October 30, 2020, 11:30 am to 1:00 pm PST.  

Online:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86576127651 

Password:  art podcast (zoom details below)

Thompson will discuss "the rise of effect as a semiotic expedient in the age of social media. This net-based emotional roller coaster has lent an all-too familiarity with internet trolls and moral outrage as the go-to language of online communication... this phenomenon that has not only provided the rise of Donald Trump, but also a growing understanding that affects holds more sway than content."

Thompson will do a roughly 15-minute presentation, followed by a q&a.

The continued conversation after the Q&A may be offered where we will choose topics prompted by our discussion and take them into the break out rooms for more intimate and in-depth exchanges. into the break out rooms for more intimate and in-depth exchanges. 

 

About Nato Thompson

From: https://www.natothompson.com/about

I am an author and curator based in the city of brotherly love, Philadelphia. I love this city. I write often about contemporary art and politics. I have also been doing interviews on Instagram on IGLIVE @natothompson with a show titled Let's Talk Alternatives.

Currently, my passion is the production of cultural infrastructure. I should soon be announcing something a little more specific in this regard. It has been a long time coming. I arrived at it by way of working in a variety of contemporary art non-profits while also navigating the complex territories of art, activism, and the production of meaning.

This journey has been informed by my work with Philadelphia Contemporary where the dream has been to build a civically engaged world-class kunsthalle (contemporary non-collecting art museum) in Philadelphia. Previous to Philadelphia Contemporary (I joined in November of 2017), I worked at Creative Time as Chief Curator from the years 2007 to 2017, before that I was at MASS MoCA from 2001-2007. 

 

More about Cafes:

Cafe's range from an hour to 90 minutes. You can drop in at any time during the call. Custom breakouts are available so you can move into small groups as desired with whomever you choose, or on any topic you wish.  A Cafe Menu is posted for each cafe.   Cafes happen on a regular schedule or can occur spontaneously. Cafes are a place to connect, network, and hang out. 

 Our intention is to inspire participation and collaboration creating an online experience like no other.   The SG Calendar offers our communities a place to network on an ongoing and casual basis.

For questions or more information contact Space@SpaceintheGap.com

SG Mailing list  http://eepurl.com/space 

Space in the Gap produces, co-produces, and hosts art & culture events and creative small businesses in vacant spaces. Every idea needs space.

LJA BeanSoup The Social Move Larissa Akinremi Johnson

Larissa Akinremi Johnson:

The Social Move is an initiative founded by Larissa J-Akinremi. She has been a tutor and mentor for over 30 years and is the product of the “ It takes a village to raise a child”.

Artist Statement

The daughter of creative visionary’s activist Bobbie Johnson and Zaid A. Maalikulmulk, 80s club kid and social curator Larissa Johnson-Akinremi (b. Baltimore, MD, 1969) began her career as a jewelry designer in the early 1990s after college and years later as a freelance make-up artist and fashion stylist. In 2000 she became the host, promoter, and nightlife social curator for Deep House Page; Chicago’s premier source for music entertainment and dance culture. Now her focus is on photography and curation. 

She is inspired by nature, people, social interaction, music, and dance culture. She enjoys the surreal, and spiritual realm and some of her work encompass those forms. Larissa’s process includes photography of human form, a play on light, and body movement, which also includes spoken word, animation, video, and performance art. In her spare time and upon request she is also a DJ. Johnson’s first solo exhibition People, Places, and Things took place in 2015 at Tangible Things. Her work was most recently featured at Beats and Treats, a solo exhibition at Chicago’s Bronzeville Room 43.

Michel Delgado- Featured Artist Creative Conversation

 "Art is Business"

Growing up in Senegal, on the west coast of Africa, life and art shared the same space. They were indistinguishable. As a young boy in Dakar, I learned that art is the tool I have for a direct and honest conversation with my own heart. Art always has been my rescuer, my liberator – creatively, emotionally, spiritually. I’m a self-taught painter, able to create in any media, always painting work that is straightforward and personal, work coming from a place within me that is constantly loud and growing.

My work has been called expressive. I fill my canvases with intense and basic colors, crisply painted shapes, and meticulous detail; I make work without conventional representational techniques; my work is free of metaphor, irony, and paradox. I paint straightforward narratives, stories of my journey, and memories of everyday experiences.​

Everything I create and paint comes through my relationship with the world around me, my direct response to my fantasies, my wonder, and my spiritual growth. No journey in my life remains as straightforward as painting.

Bronzeville Art District Virtual Trolley Tour - Creative Conversation Presenting Artists Speaking About their Art Practice

"Art is Business"

JOIN US ON AUGUST 21, 2020 AT 7PM FOR A VIRTUAL CONVERSATION

FACEBOOK LIVE LINK: https://www.facebook.com/events/3168078666607321

Bronzeville Art District Trolley Tour 2019, "Experimentalism"

Mother Bessie Turner's Tea Set Collection, gifted to Alpha M. Bruton 1998

Bronzeville Art District Virtual Trolley Tour- Phantom Gallery Chi Featured Artist Shonna McDaniels

"Art is Business"  visit SOJO Museum at https://www.sojoartsmuseum.org/

August 21, 2020, Featured Artist Shonna McDaniel's, Artist/Muralist/Museum Practice

Shonna McDaniels founded the Sojourner Truth Art Museum in 1996. In addition to her Executive Director duties, she is also a professional artist, teacher, muralist, and community activist. Prior to 1996, McDaniels was one of the co-founders and artists of the Visual Arts Development Project, teaching art classes, conducting workshops, and organizing art exhibits throughout the Oak Park and Del Paso communities. 

The Sojourner Truth Multicultural Arts Museum (also known as SOJO Museum) has been actively involved in serving youth and families in the South Sacramento area since 1996 when it developed numerous creative arts programs under the National Academic Youth Corps. Its purpose was to enable youth from culturally diverse backgrounds to stretch their minds and imaginations and to provide a safe environment that stimulates creativity, promotes healthy lifestyles, and develops social skills. After obtaining 501(c)(3) non-profit status in 2002, the Museum has offered scores of no- or low-cost programs, workshops, and activities on-site and out in the community to thousands of youth.

The Museum's programs have positively affected the lives of its participants and the cultural environment of the community. The Museum was founded as collaboration between Sojourner Truth Multicultural Art Museum and the Florin Business Arts Complex where the Museum is housed. SOJO operates as both a traditional Museum and a learning and education center for children, youth, and their families. We offer programs that educate youth about diversity and involve them in hands-on art projects including mural development, clay sculpting, and storytelling. SOJO offers a diverse spectrum of theme-oriented murals, art installations, exhibitions, events, and programs representing African American, Mexican, Latino, Asian, Alaskan, Pacific Islander, Eastern, and Native Cultures. The Sojourner Truth Multicultural Arts Museum was awarded official Sacramento Museum status in 2008, and in February 2009, participated in the highly attended Sacramento Free Museum Day.

Leadership Statement
As the Founder and Executive Director of the Sojourner Truth Arts Museum (SOJO Museum), Shonna McDaniel's takes pride in ensuring community-driven projects come alive and enable underserved children and families from culturally diverse backgrounds to engage in creative experiences. McDaniel's is a highly qualified, professional artist that has an extensive background in art instruction and mural design. Shonna McDaniels also has over 20 years of managerial and executive experience from both the business and non-profit sectors. By providing access to art experiences, she aims to increase livability, spread cultural understanding, nurture healthy interactions, and support socially responsible programs.

GET IN TOUCH
916-320-9573
info@sojoartsmuseum.org
2251 Florin Rd #126
Sacramento, Ca 95822

The museum is located on the corner of 24th and Florin inside the Florin Business Arts Complex, in Sacramento California.

Suspended Gallery Operating Hours Covid 19

"Art is Business"

Has suspended gallery operating hours until further notice. 
You can email us at phantongallerychicago@gmail.com or check our Facebook page and https://phantomgallery.blogspot.com/ for updates to these changes. We are open on virtual Pop Up Research Station CAFE and taking submissions to host artists on our Blog Talk Radio podcast, "Creative Conversation", BlogTalkRadio.

Thank you, we appreciate everyone understanding our need to respect national public health and safety. 
Alpha Bruton

2020 Bronzeville Art District Virtual Trolley Tour

"Art is Business" RSVP on Eventbrite for multiple dates.



For our followers and collectors, the 2020  ZOOM Virtual Gallery/Open Studio will focus on artists "Examining the State of Our Environment"- having "Creative Conversations" with artists in their studios. Art Talks are an excellent opportunity to chat with featured artists and discover new ones, as well as to show your support.

The Phantom Gallery will look at how the city influences art and artists transform the city by contributing to civic dialogue and quality of life. These installations will produce "Creative Conversations," presenting artists speaking about their art.

2020 Bronzeville Art District Virtual Gallery Tours
Eventbrite to RSVP-
7pm - 8pm

"Examining the State of Our Environment"

ZOOM ROOM VIRTUAL GALLERY

Topic: Phantom Gallery's Personal Meeting Room

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7810713927?pwd=Sm1QbUNwWks4R2QxT0NvNko1UUpsUT09

Meeting ID: 781 071 3927
Password: Trolley

Forecasting what the future holds and how we adapt to new ways of presenting art engagement and audience development while practicing social distancing. Alpha Bruton, Founder of the Phantom Gallery Chicago, is moving to mark out a new and exciting program for the future of gallery practice in a virtual space.

The Phantom aims to examine changes in current 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. The place where art is imagined and made, whether in a physical or virtual space, affects the idea, the process, and the final product.

Phantom Gallery Chicago Artist in Resident –
Renee Baker, visual artist/media and film, is a resident artist/curator. She has invested in the Phantom Gallery Chicago Loft as an AIR to stage her experimental film screenings and as an ancillary gallery to showcase and exhibit her sculpture and paintings.

RENEE BAKER ANCILLARY STUDIO

Renee Baker, Chicago IL
Renée Baker has created sonic arenas and compositions for many museums, including MCA CHICAGO, MOFA St. Petersburg, Fl., Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MOMA, NY, ARTS CLUB OF CHICAGO, DESTEJILK MUSEUM, Zwolle, NL, MOMA NY, Spurlock Museum Champaign, Il, Krannert Art Museum, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Stony Island Arts Bank, DuSable Museum Chicago, Gardener Museum Boston, alongside prestigious music organizations, Symphony Center, Chicago. She has the privilege of being a Visiting Resident Artist of the CHICAGO SYMPHONY AAN 2017-2020. Her film scores for BODY AND SOUL, THE SCAR OF SHAME, along with two new opera projects, BALDWIN CHRONICLES MIDNIGHT RAMBLE and A SOVEREIGN POUT, both premiered at Symphony Center in 2019 and February of 2020.

July 2020 - September 2021  Featured Artists

 "Creative Conversations" BlogTalkRadio Tuesdays at 11am 

Alpha Bruton- Chief Curator at Phantom Gallery Chicago Network, a project that connects artists to temporary installation spaces. Regarding her social practice, Bruton looks at how the city influences art and how artists transform the city by contributing to civic dialogue and quality of life. These installations produce "Creative Conversations" artists speaking about their art practice. How does the current body of work, professionally and in your curatorial practice, intersect with the ideas of art and social justice, racism, art and wellness, spirituality, and other investigative questions?

Adero Knott- co-curator and founder CEO of A.K. Prosthetics, an emerging voice and activist on perspectives and clarity on topics that include disability and perspective. Her recent curating experience was at the MCA-Chicago. Bruton and Adero's artistic vision entails an intergenerational curatorial practice that seeks to provide a model for emerging and established curators to innovate in curating inclusive experience, gain practical curating experience and critically reflect on how their curatorial style will imprint on the Evanston community and the world. In four exhibitions, each running for two weeks, exhibiting artists will examine the state of their environment in society through themes of Racism, Spirituality, Documentation, and Art as Wellness.

Guest Featured Artists:

Caryl Henry Alexander, Environmental Installation Artist
Daphne Burgess Moulton, Alabama, Artist Gallery 157 Co-Owner
Talver Germany Miller, Mather, CA, Adjunct Professor of Art History
Shonna McDaniels – Sacramento CA, Executive Director SOJO Art Museum
Larissa AK Johnson- Chicago IL, President of Race to Knowledge and Beyond

Caryl Henry Alexander, Artist/Environmental Installation Artist:
For over 40 years, her work has harnessed the power of creative collaboration with multi-generational, multicultural, and interfaith communities. We conceive, design, and implement public art projects in diverse settings. She works with traditional and experimental media, often incorporating recycled or found objects and natural plant materials. This work has spanned painting, mixed media printmaking, paper making, textiles, installations, and sculpture in the studio. A strong long-term focus in my artwork is on ancestry, culture, environment, and nature. This art has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and internationally in small museums, galleries, and online.

Daphne Burgess of Moulton, Alabama, Artist Art consultant, Gallery Owner
Co-Owner of Gallery 157 was created to increase access to art and art experiences through collaboration, community engagement, exhibitions, and educational programming. She is an African American artist living and working in Moulton, Alabama.

Her work has been shown in galleries and exhibitions, including the Valley Artists Sculpture Exhibition, Sojourner Truth Art Museum, 1001 Del Paso Works, SMUD Gallery, CSU Sacramento, Brickhouse Gallery, Crocker Art Museum, the African American Museum and Library in Oakland, and the African American Historical and Cultural Museum of the Central San Joaquin Valley. In addition, Daphne has been leading artists for several grant-funded programs through the Crocker Art Museum and Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission.

Talver Germany Miller-Mather, CA 

A native of Sacramento, California, received a B.A. in Studio Art, a B.A. in Social Science/ Anthropology, and an MS. Degree in Counseling Education from the California State University of Sacramento. Associate Professor of Art at Folsom Lake College holds membership in Placerville Arts Association, San Francisco Fine Arts Museum, Sacramento African American Art Collection, Phantom Gallery Chicago Network, and California Arts Association. Co-curator of the African American Art Summit at Sacramento City College and San Jose, CA. Presently Co-Founder and Director of the Visual Arts Development Project. Exhibited widely throughout Northern and Southern California, Folsom Lake College, Mc George School of Law, presenter Assisi Italy Third World Art Conference, and resident artist Montego Bay Jamaica, Mazine Inn.

Shonna McDaniels – Sacramento CA,

Founder and Director of the Sojourner Truth Art Museum (founded in 1996). McDaniel's is a professional artist/teacher/muralist and community activist. She has an extensive background in art instruction and mural design. She has studied under some of the finest professors in the Los Rios Community College network and master artists in the San Francisco Bay Area. While residing in Germany, McDaniel's instructed art classes for two years on military bases and organized art exhibitions and programs. In addition, she has over 25 years of community involvement with various organizations that support the arts through displays, artist residences, community activism, community murals, and organizing community-based festivals in South Sacramento. Has contributed to over 150 murals to the  Sacramento, Stockton, and San Francisco landscape.

Larissa AK Johnson- Chicago IL 

Ms. Johnson is the president of Race to Knowledge and Beyond, successor to her late mother's organization, and founder of the Social Move. She received her Visual Arts Certification from the University of Chicago Graham School and Hyde Park Art Center in 2017, and her focus is on photography and curation. She is the curator for Sounding Bronzeville, a gathering space along the Burnham Wildlife Corridor. She was featured by the Phantom Gallery Chicago Network in "Experimental-ism." At the same time, we examined the state of our environment in 2019, presenting an outdoor video wall projection installation of animation and slides of Black Bodies/Black Life.

Ceremonial Teas in the Context of African American Socials Life

SALON SERIES:

February 15th, 2021, is not a well-known day outside the African American community as a memorable holiday. Still, it is just that to the 12 percent of the U.S. population of African American descent. The Tea Ceremony was thought to have been developed by house slaves during the final decades before Emancipation.

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