Around the Coyote Art Festivals
2007 Around the Coyote
Fall Arts Festival
Closing Party
Sunday, October 14th from 9pm-11pm
Debonair Social Club
1575 N Milwaukee
Free Food & Drink With Festival Pass
Festival Dates and Hours
Friday, October 12th 6pm-2am
Saturday, October 13th 11am-2am
Sunday, October 14th from 11am-2am
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A t Around the Coyote, change is good. That's why we have decided to move our festival to October - that's October 12- 14th, to be exact - smack dab in the middle of Chicago Artists Month!
But that's not all -- in our constant effort to make our festivals reflect the newest and most outstanding emerging art in Chicago, Around the Coyote has hired a
new team of curators to bring an even more dynamic lineup of
theatre events, literary performances, live music shows, film and video presentations,
and
special visual arts projects. We are also continuing our efforts to diversify the nature of our festival's offerings, with new initiatives in interdisciplinary
performance, installation and
public art projects including site-specific
outdoor installations at the Nelson Algren Triangle at the
intersection of Milwaukee and Division Aves.
Viewing work by Austin Eddy during our Opening Night Celebration
Photo: M Taplinger
Some things however are best left the same: The annual
Curator's Choice Show, a
best of the fest exhibition based on visual arts exhibitors
will again be curated by one of Chicago's top contemporary arts professionals -
Shannon Stratton, chief curator of ThreeWalls .
In addition, we will also debut a new site-specific project by Haseeb Ahmed, our
fall artist-in-residence. And, as always, the festival will be riddled with
amazing parties, exhibits and performances at venues throughout Wicker Park. In addition to our nightly after-parties and our wildly popular closing night bash, we will be kicking
things off with our
Opening Night Party (on Thurs, Oct. 11 from 8 - midnight at the Around the Coyote Gallery, 1935 -1/2 West North Ave). The Opening Night Party
serves as the official debut of our artist-in-residence project, Curator's Choice Silent Auction and raffle, a fundraiser for Around the Coyote's free arts education program.
Party-goers will be able to indulge themselves with food catered by a fabulous area restaurant and quench their thirst
with plenty of
Peroni Beer.
Curator's Choice artists include:
Craig Anderson, Agata Czeremuszkin, Mara Baker, Leah Hessler, Sophia Pichinos, Iwona Biederman, Lisa Lindvay, Austin Eddy, Sari Maxfield, and
Robert Burnier
Our 2007 Fall Arts Festival will take place in multiple venues throughout the Wicker Park/Bucktown neighborhood, but the best place to start the festival and pick up your festival guide is the
Around the Coyote Gallery in the Flatiron Arts Building 1935-1/2 W. North Avenue. Over 300 painters, sculptors, photographers, installation artists and printmakers join up with emerging artists
from Chicago's theatre, music, literary and film communities to offer a weekend packed full of exhibits, lectures, art tours and performances.
Guided Tours and Lectures
After all tours, all participants are invited for free appetizers with your dinner reservation at Club Lucky, 1824 W. Wabansia, 773-227-2300.
To reserve space on the tour call 773-342-6777.
Begining Collectors Tour, led by Allison Stites
Photo: J Farmer
Around the Coyote will offer a
Public Art Tour during our Fall Arts Festival (Friday, October 12 at 6:30pm and Sunday, October 14 at 3pm; free.
Tour begins in the lobby of the Wicker Park Fieldhouse, 1425 N. Damen). Public Art curators Ben Schaafsma and Stevie Greco will guide the tour highlighting outdoor public art projects throughout
Wicker Park which have been installed for the festival weekend. Outdoor sculptures in Wicker Park, parking spaces reclaimed as parks, community composting projects and outdoor film screenings will all
be discussed within the context of public art throughout Chicago.
Supported in part by SSA #33
Beginning Collectors Tour
Around the Coyote will again offer the popular
Beginning Collectors Tour (Saturday, October 13 at 1:00pm; $10 in addition to festival admission; limit 20; begins at the Around the Coyote Gallery)
during our Fall Arts Festival. Around the Coyote Executive Director Allison Stites offers a tour of the fall festival meant to demystify the art buying experience. Tips on how to start and
maintain an art collection will be given. Allison will highlight some of her favorite festival artists, introduce the tour to those artists, and answer questions.
Neighborhood Studio Tour
Around the Coyote is offering a
Neighborhood Studio Tour
(Saturday, October 13 at 4pm; $10 in addition to festival admission; limit 20, begins at Wow & Zen, 1912 N. Damen, where drinks and appetizers will be provided).
This tour will be led by Festival Coordinator, Jessica Cochran, and will highlight some of the outstanding artists living in the Wicker Park and Bucktown neighborhoods.
The tour will include private homes used as artist studios as well as two major art studio buildings in the neighborhood: The Flatiron Arts Building and The Splat Flats.
Fall Artist-in-Residence lecture
Our resident artist, Haseeb Ahmed, will give a
Fall Artist-in-Residence lecture on the concept and
execution of the site-specific piece created in our gallery space. His motivations, trials and tribulations,
and career as an artist will all be discussed. Sunday, October 14 at 1pm. Free with festival admission or $10.
Haseeb Ahmed is an emerging artist, curator and architect based in Chicago. A founding member of Studio Jeeraan,
an architecture and design studio he has worked on addressing the issues confronting the American Muslim community
internally and externally through public works. A reading room designed for the Downtown Islamic Center in Chicago is to
be completed September 2007. He is completing a Bachelor of Arts in Visual and Critical Studies and a Bachelor of Fine
Arts in Architecture and Sculpture from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Currently Haseeb is curating an
exhibit of the late Palestinian political cartoonist Naji al-Ali and contemporary Palestinian artists in dialogue with
him. Haseeb's studio practice consists of the negotiation of Islamic practice and the American context through large
scale installations. He has worked closely with craftsmen in Pakistan to create Translations Rug Co. which combines
traditional rug making techniques and 3-D modeling technology. Haseeb has exhibited work in Germany , Switzerland, and
United States.
Curator's Choice Tour
We will also be offering a
Curator's Choice Tour highlighting artists included in the Curator's
Choice exhibit. The tour will be guided by our guest curator, Shannon Stratton chief curator at ThreeWalls and one
Chicago's leading art professionals. Her methods of curating exhibitions, how she finds artists, and how collectors
can build solid collections will all be discussed (Sunday, October 14 following the Artist-in-Residence lecture; $10
in addition to festival admission; limit 20; begins at the Around the Coyote Gallery).
Accepted Visual Artists
Around the Coyote Festival in the Media
Press Inquiries
All press inquiries should be directed to
Allison Stites, Executive Director, 773-342-6777.
Online presskit: with press releases, images and captions. Around the Coyote requests that a copy of any articles written about the festival or our organization be emailed to us in .pdf form after it is published.
Festival Curators
Livebox Video Lounge
Photo: M Taplinger
Film and Video
Abigail Satinsky, one of our film and video curators, has a degree in video and electronic media from Carnegie Mellon and is
currently a graduate student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, studying Art History and Art Administration and Policy.
Before coming to Chicago, she worked in Boston at the Harvard Film Archive, Art Interactive, and taught sculpture, video production
and printmaking in an arts afterschool program. She is a Board member of
Harold Jeffers Memorial Residency Program
and is one of the founding members of
InCUBATE, a research institute and residency program dedicated to
challenging current infrastructures for arts production.
Catherine Forster, one of our film and video curators, is a filmmaker, artist, curator and educator. Her
artwork explores themes of identity, social development and the impact of pop culture on individuality. She
completed her artistic training at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Catherine Forster exhibits
internationally, recent screenings and exhibitions include: the South Bend Regional Art Museum, Orange County
Contemporary Art Center, Exit Art (NY), Contemporary Art Centre (Vilnius, Lithuania), Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago),
Liverpool Biennial The Projection Gallery, Kasia Kay Art Projects (Chicago), San Diego Women Film Festival, Magmart Film Festival,
Casoria International Contemporary Art Museum, and the Portsmouth Film Festival. Forster is the founder and director of \
LiveBox Gallery, a not-for-profit focused on filmic and new media art. Curatorial
projects in 2007 include programs for The Directors
Lounge, Berlin; Three Walls, Chicago; Kasia Kay Art Projects, Chicago; and the Around the Coyote Art Festival, Chicago.
Literature
Kristi McGuire, our literary curator, collects master's degrees from local institutions (the University of Chicago, the School of the Art Institute) en route to retheorizing the theory of the
critical space-out. A native Detroiter transplanted to Chicago via New York , she's an associate editor at
Chicago Review, a worker bee at the University of Chicago Press, and the writer of more
than one impenetrable thesis.
Music
Jill Katona, our music curator, got her start in New York City scouting for the
A&R department of Elektra Records during the heyday of Metallica, Missy Elliot and Jason Mraz. After attending her 478,924,234th
show, she decided to up her knowledge of the biz and headed to Los Angeles to study entertainment law. Three years of toiling away in
law school led her to understand, finally, why all the bands that she ever worked with were constantly befuddled by mountains of
paperwork. Wanting to make life easier for her favorite artists she decided to sidestep the traditional law firm route and bring her
talents to where they were needed most: the musicians. To that end, Jill formed
Paperwork Media, Chicago's newest addition to the world
of music management.
Public Art
Stevie Greco is an arts worker living in Humboldt Park. She was educated at several Chicago institutions, including UIC, 40000, and the Green Lantern.
Ben Schaafsma, one of our public art curators, studied Art History and Urban Planning at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI. While in Grand Rapids,
Schaafsma was the co-founder of the Division Ave Arts Cooperative and G-RAD.org, the acting curator of music at
the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, and a member of Civic Studio. Schaafsma's interest in the
relationship between art and site and public places has resulted in several public art projects, as well as participating
in conferences such as Provflux in Providence, RI and Conflux in Brooklyn, NY. Since moving to Chicago Schaafsma has also
co-founded
InCUBATE [Institute for Community Understanding Between Art and The Everyday], a working group and artist
residency program dedicated to challenging current infrastructures that support artistic production. Currently, Schaafsma
is a MA Arts Administration and Policy student at the School of the Art Institute and will be working on a thesis about
artists who have reacted against the increased privatization of public sites.
Film screening in the ATC Gallery
Photo: J Farmer
, one of our theatre curators, has been with Around the Coyote since 2003.
She is a producer and actress who has worked in all areas of theatre with such companies as Redmoon, Piven, and Collaboraction.
She is a Board Member of Co-Op Image and a producer for the Human Television Network, with whom she is currently working on an outdoor
installation to be installed in Spring of 2006.Cynthia is a graduate of The Theatre School at DePaul University.
Oriana Fowler, one of our theatre curators, has worked in Chicago arts management since 2002. She is currently the managing director
for Blair Thomas & Company, a touring visual theater & puppet company. She produces, markets, and raises funds, and has
worked with several Chicago groups, including Redmoon Theater, Lookingglass Theatre, the Neo-Futurists, Manifest Theatre, and
the Chicago Green Party. Particularly interested in public art, Oriana has co-produced outdoor events such as Heroes of
Wicker Park , and was the co-curator of the Outdoor Festival for Coyote in Fall 2006.
Jonathan Pitts, Guest Theatre Curator, is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Chicago Improv Festival Productions. He was selected three years in a row by New City as one of “Chicago’s Top 50 Theatre Players”. An international director, performer and teacher, he’s a 9 year faculty member of The Second City Training Center. He’s also a contributing writer to Anne Libera’s book: The Second City’s Almanac of Improvisation, and he also wrote the forward to Asaf Ronen’s book Directing Improv. The Chicago Improv Festival has partnered with Around the Coyote to create this year's new Workshop component to our theatre festival programming.
Viewing work by Gabe Mejia at the Opening Night Party
Photo: M Taplinger
Shannon Stratton completed both her MFA and MA in Art History, Theory and Criticism from the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago. In 2004 she joined Jonathan Rhodes, Jeff M. Ward and Sonia Yoon in founding
ThreeWalls,
a non-profit organization dedicated to art and art education. She currently teaches at the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago and Harrington College of Design and writes exhibition essays, criticism and nonfiction.
Stratton was recently awarded a 2007 Graduate Research Award from the Craft Research Fund in support of her
thesis research, which she will present at the November 2007 conference
Neocraft: Modernity and the Crafts at
the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
Festival hours:
Map & Key
Venues:
Setting up for the Mud Queens
Photo: M Taplinger
Festival Tickets:
Opening Night Party: $20includes food by Las Palmas, Smirnoff Ice donated by Club Lucky, and beer by Peroni
Festival Day Pass: $10includes all parties, visual art, literary, film, music, and theatre venues all day long
All-Access Weekend Festival Pass: $40includes Opening Night Party and all venues all weekend long
To purchase Festival Day Passes or All-Access weekend passes in advance go to
Going.com/aroundthecoyote
Opening Night Party tickets can be purchased in advance only at the Around the Coyote Gallery (1935-1/2 W. North Avenue).
Tickets are also sold at the door throughout the festival.
All-Access tickets are good for any performance, venue and party throughout the weekend while
seating is available. We recommend getting to any 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 .
Artist Applications
How to Sponsor the Festival:
Local Sponsorship Application
Or call the Around the Coyote office at 773-342-6777 to find out how we can tailor our sponsorship opportunities to fit your business advertising needs.
Around the Coyote, a 501(c)3 non-profit, supports, promotes and makes accessible Chicago's multidisciplinary arts community. Our activities enhance public discourse and provide creative outlets for emerging artists. Year-round programming includes multi-media arts festivals featuring visual art, theater, dance, video and poetry in the spring and fall; art exhibitions in the Around the Coyote gallery; an artist-in-residence program; membership opportunities for artists and art aficionados; educational outreach for all ages through multi-media art workshops, lectures, collaborations with local schools and agencies, and career development workshops for artists. This programming is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the CityArts Program 2 grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.
