artXposium 2008
On its second edition this year, artXposium is a 3-day multimedia art experience with more than 80 participating artists. Local, national and international talent will come together from September 19th to the 21st to display a variety of art work ranging from traditional painting, sculpture, and photography to interactive, multimedia, and sound installations. This years event also include the inaugural month long international artist-in-residence program featuring Danish artist Gudrun Hasle at the West Chicago City Museum.
Gudrun has set up a studio at the museum, where she is working with the community on her project: Demonstrating Dreams. All visitors are encouraged to bring old clothes, fabric along with their dreams and wishes to the museum and help Gudrun create Dream Banners during regular museum hours. Besides a Reception, Dream March, Artist Salon and Talk during the artXposium weekend, a special evening with Gudrun, banner making and refreshments is planned for Friday, September 5, from 6-9pm. Free and open to all.
artXposium Program:
Friday, September 19
5 – 9pm Gudrun Hasle: Demonstrating Dreams Reception (W)
6 – 11pm Grand Opening Celebration Featuring: DJ T-Solo; a Fashion Show by Kreatia; Performances by Wiener Girls, Core Project, and Alison Rhoades; a Silent Auction benefiting the International Artist in Residence Program (X)
6 – 9pm Street Banner Silent Auction, Street Banner People’s Choice Award Announcement and Women’s Wisdom Group Exhibition (G)
Saturday, September 20
12 – 8pm Various Artist Demonstrations (G) (12pm Sue Weibler – Jewelry, 1pm Heide Morris – Clay, 2pm Frederika Howard – Calligraphy, 3pm Marge Hall – Oil Painting, 4pm Richard Byrne – Wood Carving, 7pm Wayne Atkinson – Watercolor)
12.30pm Curators Tour (X)
2pm Artist Salon lead by Gudrun Hasle & Anni Holm (X)
4pm Demonstrating Dreams March (M)
5pm Artist Talk by Gudrun Hasle (M)
6 – 9pm Artist Reception with Artist Talk, Alysia Kaplan: Moving Towards a Phenomenology of Home (O)
9pm Film Screening orchestrated by SpiderBug (X)
10pm Film Screening orchestrated by SpiderBug (Repeat) (X)
Sunday, September 21
10 – 2pm Networking Brunch (X)
12 – 2pm Interactive Art Experiences lead by Rachel Weaver Rivera of Imagine Art Studio (X)
2 – 4pm “One of It’s Kind” Artist Book Closing Reception (L)
3pm Artist Talk Christian Arrecis (L)
3.30pm Book binding Demo by Julia Stotz (L)
To stay updated on the development of artXposium, join our Facebook artXposium group.
On August 6, 2008, Anni Holm was interviewed by Martin Jon from ChicagoArts about artXposium 2.0. You can view the video below:
