Visiting Artist Series

As part of the "Hooking Up: Meet The Collection" exhibition artist Britni Mara discusses her work. Filmed in the museum during the reception for the exhibition.

Dustin Hunt is a multi-disciplinary creative and teacher with over ten years of experience working in traditional and alternative schools. Before obtaining his Bachelors of Fine Art from Michigan State University, Dustin spent years exploring graffiti culture as a student and practitioner. After graduating with his BFA and Teaching Certification, armed with a pedagogy shaped by hip-hop, Hunt spent years working in public schools across the country, engaging learners in relevant, creative ways. In 2017 Hunt launched Muralmatics to bridge his creative skillset with his commitment to service. He began facilitating community-based, student-centered, and commissioned mural projects for public, private, and corporate organizations. Hunt continues to develop and paint large-scale murals that beautify communities as an act of service.

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Artist Ayanah Moor discussing her work during an artist talk at the College of DuPage. This talk was presented in conjunction with Moor's exhibition "I Wish I Could Be You More Often" at the Cleve Carney Museum of Art.

Rooted on the West side of Chicago, Jon Veal has forged a Transdisciplinary practice that utilizes installation, writing, painting, drawing, and performance.

Primarily focused on the capacity of symbolic gesture as a means of strategic tool; Veal uses his artistic agency as a platform for social engagement and discourse. Veal has exhibited and performed at Chicago Artist Department, Silent Funny, William Hill Gallery, Homewood Science Center, Chicago Cultural Ball, and the Terrain Biennial.

Veal holds the honor of being the first African American Artist in Residence at Oak Park Public Library. In 2019 Jon also held the Field/Work Artist in Residence at Chicago Artist Coalition. In 2020 he became a recipient of the 3Arts “Make A Wave" grant. In 2021 Veal was invited to join the Resource Global Chicago Cohort in addition to being the 2021 Latham Fellow at IIT institute of Design.

Vladimir Radutny was born in Nikolayev, Ukraine in 1978. In 1989, his family arrived in Chicago as part of an immigration wave of Russian Jewish refugees from the former Soviet Union. He earned his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Architecture from The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. In 2008, Vladimir founded his Chicago-based architecture and design studio, during which time he has held teaching appointments at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture where he continues to teach. Vladimir’s multi-disciplinary architecture practice focuses on innovative design solutions that challenge the conventional interpretations of space, function, and material use. He believes in Architecture as an art form with capacity to not just alter space, but to change perceptions, feelings and habits, transcending the workplace, home, or in-between.

Emily Schroeder Willis received her BFA from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and her MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has been an artist-in-residence/visiting artist at the Archie Bray Foundation in Montana, the Zentrum für Keramik in Berlin, Germany, the Alberta College of Art and Design in Canada and Watershed Center for the Ceramics Arts in Maine. Her work has been exhibited in the Dubai Design Fair in the UAE, the Kansas City Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, the Ohio Craft Museum in Wooster, the Ralph Arnold Gallery in Chicago, and many others. Currently, she lives in Chicago where she is an Assistant Professor, Adjunct at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Tony Fitzpatrick is a Chicago-based artist best known for his multimedia collages, printmaking, paintings, and drawings. Fitzpatrick's work is inspired by Chicago street culture, cities he has traveled to, children's books, tattoo designs, and folk art. Fitzpatrick has authored or illustrated eight books of art and poetry, and is a regular columnist for NewCity Magazine. Fitzpatrick's art appears in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the National Museum of American Art in Washington, DC. The Neville Brothers' album Yellow Moon and the Steve Earle's albums El Corazon and The Revolution Starts Now also feature Fitzpatrick's art. Before making a living as an artist, Fitzpatrick worked as a radio host, bartender, boxer, construction worker, and film and stage actor. Fitzpatrick can be seen in the Amazon original series “The Patriot” as well as his studio and art space the Dime On Western Ave in Chicago

D Rosen is an interdisciplinary artist who exhibits and publishes their work nationally and internationally. They operate from the position that questions of animality are not binary but rather a tangle of ecologies and richly complicated identities, framed by culture. Rosen received a BFA from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in 2011, an MFA from the University of Chicago in 2013, and was an artist in residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2018. Upcoming shows include Exgirlfriend (Berlin,Germany), Roots & Culture (Chicago, IL), and UNCC Rowe Galleries (Charlotte, NC). This fall, Rosen’s essay on interspecies scent rituals will be published in Olfactory Art and the Political in an Age of Resistance edited by Gwenn-Aël Lynn and Debra Riley Parr for Routledge (New York + London).

Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers are architects, artists, and principals of Dream The Combine. They have produced numerous site-specific installations in the U.S. and Canada that explore metaphor, perceptual uncertainties, and the boundary between real and illusory space. They are winners of the 2020-2021 J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize and the 2018 Young Architects Program at MoMA PS1 for their installation Hide & Seek. Jennifer and Tom are both graduates of the Yale School of Architecture.

Dream the Combine has exhibited at MoMA and MoMA PS1 in New York, NY, and in Seattle WA, East Haddam CT, Vancouver BC, Rome Italy, Minneapolis MN and St. Paul MN. Their work has been published widely, including Metropolis Magazine, Architect Magazine, Log, Architectural Record, The Architects Newspaper, and Dezeen. They are currently at work on upcoming installations in Minneapolis MN, Philadelphia and Wilkinsburg PA, and Columbus IN.

Dream the Combine Website

Krista Franklin is a writer and visual artist, the author Too Much Midnight (Haymarket Books, 2020), the artist book Under the Knife (Candor Arts, 2018), and the chapbook Study of Love & Black Body (Willow Books, 2012). She is a Helen and Tim Meier Foundation for the Arts Achievement Awardee, and a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. Her visual art has exhibited at Poetry Foundation, Konsthall C, Rootwork Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Studio Museum in Harlem, Chicago Cultural Center, National Museum of Mexican Art, and the set of 20th Century Fox’s Empire. She has been published in Poetry, Black Camera, The Offing, Vinyl, and a number of anthologies and artist books.

Krista Franklin Resource Guide

Misty Gamble’s life-size fragmented figurative, ceramic sculptures and installations focus attention on issues surrounding femininity and challenge conventional standards of morality, normalcy, and propriety. Misty is the recipient of a number of awards, grants, and fellowships including awards from the National Conference for the Education of Ceramic Arts, the Ellice T. Johnston Foundation, Ruth Chenven Foundation, Martin Wong Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, Windgate Foundation, Byrdcliffe Fellowship, Ansley Park Fellowship. Misty has been awarded residencies and fellowships at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, New Harmony Clay Project, the Armory Art Center, Watershed, SACI Florence, Woodstock Byrdcliffe, Hambidge Center for Arts and Sciences, and Vermont Studio Center among others. Gamble is the co-founder of Studio Nong: International Sculpture Collective and Residency Program which travels to China and the US, focusing on clay figurative sculpture. Misty was a full time Assistant Professor at the Kansas City Art Institute for nearly a decade and has taught throughout Italy.

Taking on New roles, Kansas City Star

A World of Abject Beauty, Kansas City Star

Femininity Seen Through Ceramics, Darkly. Rebecca Dubay

Switching the Price Tags. Review of Misty Gamble

Ceramics and Perception

Misty Gamble Website

Alice Hargrave in conversation with Gavin Van Horn from Center for Humans and Nature and Stephanie Touzalin from Willowbrook Wildlife Center, moderated by David Ouellette

Alice Hargrave, a photo based artist working in Chicago, IL, incorporates sound and video within layered installations of her photographic imagery in space. Her work reflects on the notion of impermanence: environmental insecurity, habitat loss, and species extinctions. Hargrave recently collaborated with The Cornell Lab of Ornithology NY, to create her widely exhibited project Last Calls/Pink Noise— portraits of threatened birds and other species using sound waves of their calls in the wild. Hargrave’s work is included in permanent collections such as The Museum of Contemporary Photography, The Art Institute of Chicago Artist Book Collection, and The Ruttenberg Collection. Her work has been exhibited at The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Yale University Art Gallery, The Smart Museum, The Tweed Museum of Art, Lanzhou China Foto Festival, The Griffin Museum of Photography, among others. Her work has appeared in Huffington Post, BBC News, and ARTNET. Formerly a full time professor at Columbia College Chicago, Hargrave has decided to teach part time while pursuing commissions and conservation work.

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Aden Kumler is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Art History and Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago and an affiliated faculty member of the University of Chicago’s Medieval Studies program, Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality, and Divinity School. She earned a BA degree from the University of Chicago, an MA from the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, a PhD in the History of Art & Architecture at Harvard University, and a Licentiate in Mediaeval Studies from the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto.Her first book, Translating Truth: Ambitious Images and Religious Knowledge in Late Medieval France and England, was published by Yale University Press in 2011. With Christopher Lakey, she co-edited a special 2012 issue of Gesta devoted to materiality and meaning in medieval art. She is the inaugural co-editor of the International Center of Medieval Art’s new “Viewpoints” book series, a new forum for experimental books on medieval art history, co-published by the International Center of Medieval Art and Penn State University Press.

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Mie Kongo grew up in the outskirts of Tokyo, Japan and now lives and works in Evanston, IL, where she makes multidisciplinary work including ceramic sculptures, installations, 2D work, and porcelain designed objects. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including recent exhibitions at the Arts and Literature Laboratory in Madison, WI, 4th Ward Project Space in Chicago, Grunwald Gallery of Art at Indiana University Bloomington, Cleve Carney Art Gallery in Glen Ellyn, IL, and the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago. Her residencies include Shigaraki Ceramics Cultural Center in Japan, the European Ceramic Work Centre in the Netherlands, and Intonation Deidesheim in Germany. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA in Ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the ceramics department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Mie Kongo Website

Edra Soto is a Puerto-Rican born artist, curator, educator, and co-director of the outdoor project space, The Franklin. Soto has exhibited extensively at venues including El Museo del Barrio, NY; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art's satellite, The Momentary, AK; Albright-Knox Northland, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago, IL; Smart Museum, IL and the Abrons Arts Center, NY. Recently, Soto completed a large-scale public art commission titled “Screenhouse”, currently on view at Millennium Park in Chicago. The artist has attended residency programs at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Beta-Local, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency, Headlands Center for the Arts, Project Row Houses and Art Omi, among others. Soto has been awarded the Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship, the Illinois Arts Council Agency Fellowship, the inaugural Foundwork Artist Prize and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, among others. Between 2019-2020, Soto exhibited and traveled to Brazil, Puerto Rico, and Cuba as part of the MacArthur Foundation’s International Connections Fund. Soto holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree from Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Diseño de Puerto Rico. The artist lives and works in Chicago.

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Sampada Aranke (PhD, Performance Studies) is an Assistant Professor in the Art History, Theory, Criticism Department at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. Her research interests include performance theories of embodiment, visual culture, and black cultural and aesthetic theory. Her work has been published in e-flux, Artforum, Art Journal, ASAP/J, October, and Trans-Scripts: An Interdisciplinary Online Journal in the Humanities and Social Sciences at UC Irvine. She has written catalogue essays for Sadie Barnette, Rashid Johnson, Faith Ringgold, Kambui Olujimi, Sable Elyse Smith, and Zachary Fabri. She is the recipient of the 2021 Art Journal award for her article Blackouts and Other Visual Escapes. She's currently working on her book manuscript entitled Death's Futurity: The Visual Life of Black Power.

Katherine is an architect, educator and founder of Latent Design, a practice at the intersection of architecture and community development creating social, economic and environmental impact beyond the building. Leveraging design as a tool to make the invisible forces impacting a project visible through architecture, the firm’s collaborations range from small-scale tactical interventions, new construction community buildings, adaptive reuse, neighborhood master plans and design speculations. She is winner of the 2013 American Institute of Architects Young Architects Honor Award, 2014 Crain's Chicago 40 Under 40, teaches at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Northwestern University.

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