2006 Around the Coyote Fall Arts Festival Friday, September 8th 6pm-10pm Saturday, September 9th 11am-10pm Sunday, September 10th 11am-6pm updated 9-04-06

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Press Releases
Visual .:. DOC / PDF
Special Visual Projects .:. DOC / PDF
Theatre .:. DOC / PDF
Dance .:. DOC / PDF
Music .:. DOC / PDF
Literary .:. DOC / PDF
Film & Video .:. DOC / PDF
Childrens .:. DOC / PDF
Wicker Park Program .:. DOC / PDF

Festival Images
General Festival Artists (7 images) .:. ZIP / RAR (16 mB)
Curators Choice Artists (4 images) .:. ZIP / RAR (3 mB)
Guest Artists (5 images) .:. ZIP / RAR (2 mB)

Our 2006 Fall Festival Sponsors
2006 Fall Festival Performance Schedules (pdfs)

theatre .:. music .:. dance .:. film & video .:. literary .:. special events .:. childrens program

Please join us September 8th, 9th, and 10th, 2006 as thousands of art collectors, dealers, and visitors will converge on the Bucktown and Wicker Park neighborhoods of Chicago in one of the city's most interesting celebrations of the arts. Each year, hundreds of painters, photographers, sculptors, actors, performance artists, dancers, poets, and filmmakers participate in this unique opportunity to exhibit and sell their work to visitors from the United States and abroad. Our festival brings together neighborhood galleries, schools and non-profit arts organizations under one umbrella with private art studios and local businesses which, for the weekend, transform themselves into public galleries. In addition to the visual art exhibitions, neighborhood theaters and bars host performances both impromptu and scheduled throughout the weekend.

Questions about our festival? First check our Frequently Asked Questions page

The focus of the Fall Arts Festival is on new and emerging artists. We hope to provide the Chicago community with access to the work of these often under-exhibited artists. This festival is curated by ATC staff and our visual arts guest curator, Tricia Van Eck of the Museum of Contemporary Art.

September 7 from 8pm to midnight
Around the Coyote Gallery
1935 ½ W. North Ave.
$20 admission includes drinks and food.
As always, the festival weekend opens with a kick-ass opening party at the Around the Coyote Gallery to benefit Around the Coyote's art education programming. The party will be catered by Las Palmas, Wicker Park's favorite Mexican restaurant, and will include a video program by film/video curator Kim Alpert of highlights from Around the Coyote's short-film screenings over the last decade, and the debut of the site-specific installation by Around the Coyote's Fall Artist-in-Residence, Artledge/iCabin . The opening party music will be provided by DJ Sid Delicious, guaranteed to get your groove on. There will be a silent auction of artwork on exhibition during the party and throughout the weekend at the Around the Coyote Gallery, featuring the “best of the fest” artists selected by our guest curator, Tricia Van Eck of the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art.

Our visual art venues are the Flatiron Arts Building (1579 N. Milwaukee), Spa Soak (1733 N. Milwaukee) and other local businesses, Chopin (1543 W. Division), Double Door (1572 N. Milwaukee), the Wicker Park Field House (1425 N. Damen) and tents on the Wicker Park grounds.

2006 Fall Festival List of Accepted Visual Artists, Galleries, Co-ops and Alternative Spaces with Their Locations in the Festival (pdf)
Installation Times and Other Info for Accepted Artists updated (pdf)

• Art Galleries, Alternative Spaces and Artist Co-ops
  This year Around the Coyote is providing exhibition opportunities for the many alternative art spaces in Chicago. Emerging galleries, cooperatives, and alternative spaces can either open their neighborhood space or, regardless of location, purchase booth space in our festival. Our featured galleries this year include Green Lantern, Art of Designs, DVA Gallery, Chicago Photo Forum, Newspace, Lazerhappy and Teti Gallery.
  
  
• Studio Artists
  Around the Coyote started out as a collection of open studios and empty storefronts. This year we are encouraging every studio between Armitage and Division and Western and Ashland to open their doors and take part in the festivities. We have over 50 participating neighborhood studios. For a comprehensive map pick up a festival catalog at the Around the Coyote Gallery (1935-1/2 W. North Ave) or any of our ticket venues.
  
  
• Artists without a studio space in the neighborhood
  We have selected the visual artists for exhibition in our main visual art venues. This fall we have over 245 artists participating including painters, photographers, installation artists, sculptors, and printmakers.
  
  
• Curator's Choice Exhibition
  This year's guest curator is Tricia Van Eck, curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. She has selected artworks for inclusion in the "Curator's Choice", a small group of work deemed "best of the fest" on view at the Around the Coyote Gallery (1935-1/2 W. North Ave.) throughout the festival weekend and the month of September. The artists chosen for this honor will be the guests-of honor at the kick-ass opening party on September 7 from 8-12pm.
  List of selected Curator's Choice Artists

Ellyzabeth Adler, Artistic Director of Adler Danztheatre Company, is our new dance curator. Our dance mainstage will again be the historic Vittum Theatre (1012 N. Noble) as well as outdoor programming throughout the Wicker Park grounds (1425 N. Damen). Complete Dance Schedule

The 2006 Dance program will include:

Nicole Gifford Maiden Voyage
Anatomical Theatre- Heart and Soul
Marquez Dance- "Untitled"
Melissa Mallison- A Goddess' Robe is Seamless and or Breathing Space
Synapse- Language Body
Perceptual Motion INC.- Three Unfolding
RTG- Double Judies
CoCo Dance- Duet for Two

This fall Around the Coyote has numerous film projects on the schedule. Kim Alpert and Kenneth Yoder, Around the Coyote staff film curators, have curated a short film screening at Rodan (1530 N. Milwaukee) on Friday, September 8 and Sunday, September 10 at 6pm. Complete Film & Video Schedule.

Dear Raymond
Directed by Colin Palombi

This short about an amazing boy is set to a beautiful score and masterfully made with found footage. Colin Polumbi, a curator for Chicago’s Ice Capades, is quickly becoming a favorite both near and far for his witty shorts and found footage enthusiasm.

Body
Directed by Kim Alpert

Kim Alpert is a Chicago native and has been film co-curator for Around the Coyote for the past several years. She has been creating independent shorts about social and political themes effective her life. This is the first screening of her latest work, Body. Body is a look at the effects of female objectification, the effects, and an introspective journey into her own experience.

Pep Talk
Directed by Scott Smith

When his fiancé dumps him for a lesbian lover, Roger Gilroy turns to self-affirmation and discovers his inner whale.

Checkmate
Directed by Kenneth Yoder

Kenneth Yoder, co-curator of Around the Coyote, is a local independent film worker. If it was shot in Chicago, there’s a good chance Kenneth was there. This short is about a woman throws away tattered old panties inciting an arguement between her and her boyfriend..

The Index of Absence Vol. 1 (Film Curator’s Choice Selection)
Directed by Mary Scherer
Run Time: 40 mins

The Index of Absence is a participant-based video project that is an anthology of loss. A participant submits footage of his or herself, speaking to the camera, as if it were someone in their life that they have lost in any sense of the word. The demographic of participants are diverse in the ranges of racial/ethnic background, sexuality, and occupation. Mary then selects the one-minute moment from each participant and arranges them in the five stages of grief, beginning with denial and ending in acceptance.
Director's Statement: I am interested in the connection that an audience member has with the screen, and in this context, to each individual's experience. Audiences usually identify with the protagonist, yet ironically, love and loss are the times we feel most alone. I am endeavoring to lessen the distance and separation that the audience has with the screen. The video has a cathartic effect on the viewer. “

Lindsay Bosch has curated three film installations to play during our music events at Double Door (1572 N. Milwaukee). Complete Film & Video Schedule

Screen 1: Slomo Video - (2006) Created by Ryan Junell
SLOMO VIDEO is a unique touring program 100 one minute slow motion videos by 85 filmmakers and video artists from around the world. The creative compilation includes works by artists LoVid, Matmos, Wiley Wiggins, Yoshi Sodeoka, Keith Fullerton Whitman, and Eddie Codel. “This unique compilation of cinematic slowness will pull the audience through a molasses-tinged warp of catastrophic visual and audio beauty.”

Screen 2: Machinima Film Festival - (2002) Compiled by the Academy of Machinima Arts and Sciences
The emerging genre of machinima is a convergence of filmmaking, animation, and gaming in which artists use the graphics engines of video games to create cinematic works in real time. Showcasing the winners and nominees from the first annual Machinima Awards held in 2002, the compilation is a showcase for some the very best of what the machinima community has produced so far. Shorts include “Hardly Wokin'” by Frank Dellario, “Rendevous” by Peter Rasmussen “Rick Jones 2” by Byan Henderson.

Screen 3: Decasia - (2002) By Bill Morrison
Decasia is an experimental film composed entirely of decaying, nitrate-based archival film footage from before 1950 which seems to melt, burn, drip and deteriorate on the screen. The film creates an artful collage of visually damaged clips, including everything from fragments of silent melodramas to ethnographic studies, travelogues, newsreel footage and wildlife documentaries.

Special Thanks to www.projector123.com for providing the projectors for this project.

Complete Childrens Schedule
For the children, the Chicago Park District in partnership with Around the Coyote will be playing Ted Passon's Robot Boy followed by Rob Reiner's The Princess Bride outdoors in Wicker Park (1425 N. Damen) on Saturday, September 9 at 7pm or dusk. Robot Boy (unrated, family friendly, 20 min.), made by 24 year old award-winning film and video maker Ted Passon, is about a young boy born to two very particular parents who decide to improve his less-than-perfect human parts with robot parts and a remote control. He spends all of his time mowing his parent's lawn until he meets a friend with an escape plan drawn in crayon. The Princess Bride (PG, 98 min.) is a timeless story of ever-lasting love, rhyming giants, magicians, and six-fingered men. Bring a picnic, your kids, or just yourself and your memories of sword fights in the backyard! Sponsored by Allstate, White Hen Pantry, Mass Video, and the Wicker Park Advisory Council.Complete Film & Video Schedule

Literary curator Eric Strom returns with a program of self-published zines, comic book artists and poets at Subterranean's downstairs lounge (2011 W. North Ave), Club Lucky's outdoor stage (1824 W. Wabansia) and the Wicker Park outdoor stage (1425 N. Damen). Complete Literary Events Schedule.
Participating literary artists include:

Zine Reading

Claire Zulkey (Zulkey.com)
John Pierson (The NeoFuturists)
Anne Elizabeth Moore (Punk Planet)
David Frank (Rocks and Blows)
Joe Meno (Punk Planet)
LB (So Midwest)
Jake Austen (Roctober)
Nathan Rabin (The Onion)
Uncle Butter (DJ)

Poetry Show

See More Perspective
Malcolm Palmer
Tim Cook
Thomas Strunk
Nikki Pattin
Thax Douglas
Charlie Newman
Avery Young

Comics show -a visual and literary art exhibition (Flatiron Arts Building 1579 N. Milwaukee) #226C/#226D

Ezra Claytan Daniels
Nell Taylor
Becca Taylor
Grant Reynolds
Jeremy Tinder
Matt Fagan
Lilli Carre
Beck Kramer
Bernie McGovern
Gregory Jacobsen
Patrick Tianen
Kristen Romaniszak
Kyle Harter

Jill Katona of Paperwork Media, is our new music curator. Complete Music Schedule.

Accepted music artists include:

THE ACOUSTALISTICS
AKASHA
AIR THIS SIDE OF CAUTION
JAMES APOLLO
TED ATKATZ
BATTERY (SOLO)
BIRDHOUSE
THE BON MOTS
BOUND STEMS
ALISON BREITMAN
BUMPUS
CARLOS ORTEGA OF CASOLANDO
CRACKLIN MOTH
DETAGOH
DOGME 95
DOKO BENJO
THE DRASTICS
ELLIE MAYBE
FACES FOR RADIO
...FOR ALL I CARE
GORAN IVANOVIC GROUP
DANIEL GRABALA
ANTHONY GRAVINO
THE HANDCUFFS
EMILY HURD
JIGAWATT TRIO
JSAN & THE ANALOGUE SONS
SARAH LEICHER & tYpsi
CALVIN MARTY
BRIAN MCSWEENEY
MATTHEW
ARTHI MEERA
NYCO
O’NEILL & WEAN
ORANGE ALERT
OTTER PETTER
NICK PERAINO & BLUE MOON RISIN'
PUBLIC FOUR
ABE QUIGLEY
JAKE RANDALL
ROLLING CLONES
ALMOST ROSARIO
DOUG ROSENBERG QUARTET
ADAM SALZMAN
The Ladies and Gentlemen
GREG SPERO TRIO
SWEET JAPONIC
TEAM ROCKIT
THIS IS ME SMILING
KATIE TODD
TREOLOGIC
WILLIAM KURK ENTERPRISE
KATHERINE ZWICK

Music venues include the Double Door (1572 N. Milwaukee), Club Lucky's outdoor stage (1824 W. Wabansia), and Wicker Park's outdoor stage (1425 N. Damen).


Cynthia Castiglione, back for her fifth festival, has curated emerging theatre productions for the main stage at the Chopin Theatre (1543 W. Division), as well as a solo/stand-up/improve show at Spa Soak (1733 N. Milwaukee) and outdoor ambulatory programming throughout all of the festival venues. Complete Theatre Schedule

Accepted theatre companies:

The Sweat Girls
Clemson Players/Living Stage
American Myth Theatre Company
The Rescuers
Double Shot Productions
Intuitive Theatre Company
The Super-Cool Sluuts of America!
Hunger and Dread
Physic Effect
The Phase/Girlz o' PHS
ED
Stark Naked and Poised
Wicked Good Productiosn
1, 2, 3
Chicago Opera Vanguard
Lit'l Buds Theatre
Manifest Theatre
Alort Aerial Dance
Make Magazine
Tantalus Theatre Group
Voluptuous Tusk
Something Good: a cabaret musical

Free Coffee!
In support of Around the Coyote and its artists, from September 8-10 you're invited to stop by the Wicker Park Tobacco Lounge (1553 N. Milwaukee Ave.) for an “afternoon coffee break”. Just mention “Around the Coyote,” and enjoy a cup of gourmet coffee on the house and receive a free copy of Time Out Chicago , while supplies last.  Lounge and offer restricted to legal age tobacco consumers (21+). Sponsored by TimeOut Chicago and the Wicker Park Tobacco Lounge.

Practically free haircuts!
Strange Beauty Show (1261 N. Paulina, Unit A) is a place to experience artistic beauty in an upbeat and rock 'n' roll, yet laid-back and intimate environment. Experience a new creative haircut or color, view the work of festival artist, Laura Predny, listen to a favorite song on vinyl; these elements all converge in one creative space at Strange Beauty Show. In order to support our local art community, Strange Beauty Show is running a promotion from the date they open on September 1 through September 10: $10 haircut with a $10 donation to Around the Coyote. Get a great style and contribute to a great organization! Call (773)252-9522 for an appointment, or walk-ins are welcome.

Free appetizer from Club Lucky!
All festival tour participants (see below for tour details) can settle in for some live music and amazing Italian cuisine at Club Lucky (1824 W. Wabansia) where tour participants may enjoy a free appetizer with their VIP dinner reservation. To make your VIP reservation first register for the tour with Around the Coyote then call Club Lucky at 773-227-2300 at least 24 hours in advance. Mention the Around the Coyote tour when making your reservation and be sure to let your server know you are a tour participant!

Tours for Wicker Park Kids Ages 8-12, will be given by Doug Wood, organizer of the Wicker Park after-school program. The tour will focus on artists exhibiting in the Wicker Park Fieldhouse and will feature artists in the process of installing their work. The focus of the tour will be on the myriad ways in which kids can express their ideas. Kids will be able to ask the artists questions and see the process of installing an exhibition. Friday, September 8 from 3:30-4:30 for kids enrolled in the Wicker Park after-school program and from 5 to 6pm for any child in the neighborhood. To reserve space on the tour email wpgarden@aol.com. Limit 25 kids each tour. Tour begins at Wicker Park Fieldhouse 1425 North Damen Ave. Free.

Around the Coyote will again offer the popular Beginning Collectors Tour (Saturday, September 9 at 1:00pm. $10. limit 20. Begins at the Around the Coyote Gallery, 1935-1/2 W. North Ave.). Art collectors and Around the Coyote Board Members, Bridget McDonough of Light Opera Works and Amy Brandolino of the Block Museum, offer a tour of the festival meant to demystify the art buying experience. Tips on how to start and maintain an art collection will be given. Bridget and Amy will highlight some of their favorite festival artists, introduce the tour to those artists, and answer questions. To reserve space on the tour call 773-342-6777.

Also on Saturday, we will be offering a Students of Art Tour (Saturday, September 9 at 3:00pm. $5. limit 20). This tour is designed for young students of art in the Chicago area and will be guided by Around the Coyote Executive Director Allison Stites and festival artist and teacher Gabriel Mejia. The tour will focus on festival artists who are currently in a college or graduate art program with the goal of giving tour participants first hand exposure to life as an art student in higher education. Advice on portfolio presentation and development, how to gain exhibition experience as an emerging artist, careers in the arts, and recommended art programs in Chicago and the United States will all be discussed. To reserve space on the tour call 773-342-6777. Begins at the Around the Coyote Gallery, 1935-1/2 W. North Ave.

We will also be offering a tour guided by our guest curator, Tricia Van Eck of the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, of her favorite festival artists. She will discuss methods of curating gallery exhibitions, collecting emerging art and how to build solid collections (Sunday, September 10 at 1:00pm. $10. limit 20. begins at the Around the Coyote Gallery, 1935-1/2 W. North Ave.). To reserve space on the tour call 773-342-6777. After your tour, settle in for some live music and amazing Italian cuisine at Club Lucky (1824 W. Wabansia) where tour participants may enjoy a free appetizer with their VIP dinner reservation. To make your VIP reservation first register for the tour with Around the Coyote then call Club Lucky at 773-227-2300 at least 24 hours in advance. Mention the Around the Coyote tour when making your reservation and be sure to let your server know you are a tour participant!

Fall Artist-in-Residence lecture on the concept and execution of the site-specific piece created in our gallery space by our artist-in-residence, Artledge, and premiered at the Fall Arts Festival. Artledge motivations, trials and tribulations and their careers as artists will all be discussed. Sunday, September 10 at 4pm. Free and open to the public. Around the Coyote Gallery, 1935-1/2 W. North Ave.

On September 10th from 7-10pm, you and a friend are invited to the official Around the Coyote Festival Closing Party at The Wicker Park Tobacco Lounge. Come enjoy the world's finest tobaccos, cocktails, hors d'oeuvres and the music stylings of DJ Lady D in celebration of the art and artists of Around the Coyote.

Saturday, August 12 from 6-8pm. Sign up early to assure your place in this highly instructive workshop for first-time exhibitors as well as veterans looking to improve the quality of their presentation and sales pitch! Register for the Strategies for Success workshop!
Fee: $25 (Members: $22) Registration limited to 40 people.
Workshop Location: Around the Coyote Gallery - 1935 ½ W. North Ave., Chicago IL , 60622

Visual Arts Day Pass: $7
Theater Tickets: $10 per show or $15 for a day pass. Available at the door.
Literary tickets $5 at the door.
Dance tickets $10 at the door.
Music tickets $5 at the door.
Film Screening tickets $7 at the door.
Opening Night Party tickets $20 includes food, music and drink. At the door or in advance at 773-342-6777.
All-Access Weekend Festival Pass (includes Opening Night Party and all performances): $40

To purchase visual art or All-Access tickets in advance call 773.342.6777. Performance tickets are available only at the door and are not sold in advance. All-Access tickets are good for any performance throughout the weekend while seating is available. We recommend getting to a performance 30 minutes early to assure seating. Tickets held at Will Call can be picked up at the Around the Coyote Gallery and office 1935-1/2 W. North Avenue.

Catalogs cost $3

Mens' T-shirts cost $10, Womens' T-shirts cost $12 (half price for festival artists)

Download our Sponsorship Packet for information on ways to advertise your business to the young, old, hip, square, eclectic, conventional, and wild that will descend on Wicker Park/Bucktown this September!

• Visual artists without studios in the area (pdf)
• Visual artists with studios in the area (pdf)
• Local and non-local galleries, alternative spaces and co-ops (pdf)
• Dance companies and choreographers (pdf)
• Film & video artists (pdf)
• Theatre and performance groups (pdf)
• Literary artists and poets (pdf)
• Musicians (pdf)
• Business sponsorship application (pdf)