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2007 Around the Coyote
Winter Arts Festival
Opening Party
Thursday, February 8th from 8pm-midnight
Festival Dates and Hours Friday, February 9th 6pm-2am Saturday, February 10th 11am-2am Sunday, February 11th from 11am-2am |
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Winter 2007 Arts Festival Sponsors
Please join us February 9th, 10th, and 11th, 2007 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, 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.
Visual and Performing Art Venues
Our venues for the 2007 Winter Arts Festival:Around the Coyote Gallery 1935-1/2 W. North Ave. (Curator's Choice Exhibition and festival office)
Preferred Lofts 1552-54 N. Milwaukee (100 visual artists)
Flatiron Arts Building 1579 N. Milwaukee Ave. (60 visual artists)
Dulcenea 1431 N. Milwaukee (visual art, theatre, music, film, and literary events)
Double Door 1572 N. Milwaukee (music)
Debonair Social Club 1575 N. Milwaukee (special visual art installation and after-parties)
Las Palmas 1835 W. North Ave. (visual art)
Piece 1927 W. North Ave (special visual art installation)
Batteries Not Included 1439 N. Milwaukee (special visual art installation)
Rodan 1530 N. Milwaukee (film)
List of Accepted Visual Artists/Galleries and Wall Spaces (pdf)
Installation Information for Accepted Artists (pdf)
Flatiron Wall Spaces Map(pdf)
Opening Night Party
Thursday, February 8 from 8pm to midnight
Around the Coyote Gallery
1935 ˝ 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 Wicker Park 's favorite Mexican restaurant Las Palmas and will include an ample supply of margaritas and Peroni beer. The debut of the site-specific installation by Around the Coyote's Winter Artist-in-Residence, John Kowalczyk, will be featured. The Machine Media will be spinning a roster of some of Chicago 's best bands. 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, Matthew Teti of Teti Gallery and Nova Gallery. Raffle tickets ($10) will give you a chance to win gift certificates to some of Chicago 's best restaurants, spas, salons and nightlife! Tickets on sale now!
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Curator's Choice Exhibition
Around the Coyote Gallery1935 ½ W. North Ave. Our guest curator for the 2007 Winter Arts Festival is Matthew Teti, director of the NOVA gallery in the West Loop and Teti Gallery in Wicker Park. Teti has worked in Chicago since 2003, at Northwestern University, The Art Institute of Chicago and the Douglas Dawson Gallery. In addition to his curatorial and administrative roles in the visual arts, Teti has written for Afterall, sat on and chaired academic panels, worked as an art librarian and exhibited his own work in shows hosted by other galleries. As guest curator, Mr. Teti will curate an exhibition in the Around the Coyote Gallery of a selection of accepted festival artists. This exhibition is a subset of the Winter Arts Festival and will run throughout the month of February. Selected Curator's Choice Artists: Maura Ahern, Sam Balfour, Liza Berkoff, Helga Dangel, Laura Davis, Michael Franzese, Philip Hartigan, Scott Johnson, Kristen Kaniewski, Alysia Kaplan, Michael Radziewicz, Lisa Solberg, Jessica Vaughn, Matthew Winters, and Amy Zavaleta. |
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1579 N. Milwaukee Ave.
February 9 from 6pm to 10pm
February 10 from 11am to 10pm
February 11 from 11am to 6pm
$10, free with Festival Pass
Over 60 visual artists exhibiting in their studios and throughout the hallways of this historic Wicker Park building. This venue combines artists that have been exhibiting in our festivals since their inception along with emerging artists at the start of their careers. Take special note of the installation projects by emerging artists Helga Dangel (#226D), Nicole Dudik (#321B) and Angela Yonke (#321C) and the beautiful painting studios of veteran artists Marketa Sivek (studio 230), Adam Siegel (studio 300), Byron Gin (studio 323) and Kevin Lahvic (studio 352). Also be sure to check out the Around the Coyote Gallery (studio 228) exhibiting live music and the Curator’s Choice exhibition.
Visual Art at the Preferred Lofts
1552-54 N. Milwaukee Ave., 2nd and 3rd floors
February 9 from 6pm to 10pm
February 10 from 11am to 10pm
February 11 from 11am to 6pm
$10, free with Festival Pass
Over 100 emerging visual artists will be exhibiting on two floors of this gorgeous loft building graciously donated for festival use by Preferred Development. Most of these emerging artists are exhibiting in the festival for the first time and are graduates of some of the best art schools in Chicago and the country. There are also four Project Spaces on each floor of the building dedicated to the exhibition of installation art and sculpture. Be sure to catch projects by Jessica Vaughn (2nd floor, Project Space D) and Philip Hartigan (Project Space D on the 3rd floor). Also highlighted are some of Wicker Park’s newest galleries (2nd floor spaces 37-40) – all members of the newly formed Wicker Park Bucktown Gallery Association which works to promote the galleries in the neighborhood through Second Saturday Gallery Walks each month.
Throughout the Wicker Park neighborhood we have Special Curated Visual Art Projects featuring festival artists. Check out the Improvised Identity exhibition at Dulcenea (1431 N. Milwaukee), an installation of three of our favorite festival artists at Piece (1927 W. North Ave), and an exhibit of some of the more scandalous festival art at Batteries Not Included (1439 N. Milwaukee), Wicker Park's newest adult toy store. Debonair Social Club (1575 N. Milwaukee) is hosting, along with the festival after parties, new video and installation work by Vincent Haycock.
Lectures and Tours of the Festival
tours begin at the Around the Coyote Gallery, 1935-1/2 W. North Avenue
To reserve space on the tour call 773-342-6777.
Beginning Collectors Tour
(Saturday, February 10 at 1:00pm; $10 with festival admission; limit 20)
Around the Coyote Executive Director Allison Stites offers a tour of the winter 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.
January resident artist John Kowalczyk will give a Winter Artist-in-Residence lecture on the concept and execution of his site-specific piece created in our gallery space. His motivations, trials and tribulations, and career as an artist will all be discussed. Sunday, February 11 at 1pm. Free with festival admission.
We will also be offering a Curator's Choice Tour highlighting artists included in the Curator's Choice exhibit, co-curated by Matthew Teti and Jesse Cochran. The tour will be guided by Jesse Cochran, Assistant Director of Nova Gallery. Their methods of curating exhibitions, how they find their artists, and how collectors can build solid collections will all be discussed. (Sunday, February 11 following the Artist-in-Residence lecture; $10 with festival admission; limit 20)
Around the Coyote will also be offering a Patrons of the Block Museum of Art Tour in conjunction with the Block Museum of Northwestern University's “Block Out Friday” program. Guided by Around the Coyote's curatorial intern Amy Gadola, favorites of the festival will be highlighted and participants will have the opportunity to meet artists and ask questions. Friday, February 9, 9pm; $10 with festival admission; limit 20. Sign up through the Block Out Friday program. Contact Amy Brandolino at the Block Museum at 847-491-4852.
Performing Arts: Music, Theatre, Spoken Word, Film & Video
This year Around the Coyote is offering an integrated performing arts program of music, literary readings, live critiques by stand-up comedians of short films, improv, film and video, and new theatre productions running all weekend at Dulcenea (1431 N. Milwaukee). In conjunction we will be offering a retrospective of films by Ice Capades at Rodan (1530 N. Milwaukee) and a night of amazing world music at Double Door (1572 N. Milwaukee). Complete Performing Arts Schedule
Festival After-Parties
Thursday, February 8 from midnight to 2am
Friday, February 9 from 10pm to midnight
Saturday, February 10 from 10pm to midnight
Debonair Social Club
1575 N. Milwaukee
Your festival pass includes free admission to the after party on the day you attend the festival. All Access passes are good for free admission to all after-parties all weekend. Debonair Social Club will be providing an open bar with wine, liquor, beer and passed hors d'oeuvres. Artists get in free with their artist pass.
Bringing pop culture and people together to drink, dance, and eat in a provocative atmosphere, Debonair Social Club is one of Wicker Park's newest late-night hot spots. With an art curator on staff, and upcoming installations by Cody Hudson planned, Debonair Social Club combines all of what we love about Wicker Park....art, fashion, food, and entertainment. A true social club pairs people, culture and all things good in life and in that spirit Debonair Social Club brings a fun yet cool new vibe to the historic Flatiron Building.
Closing Party
Sunday, February 11 from 10pm to 2am
Dulcenea
1431 N. Milwaukee
free with festival pass or artist pass. ($10 at the door)
The Machine Media will be spinning a roster of Chicago's best bands as we come together one last time to end the 2007 Winter Arts Festival. The closing party features Improvised Identity, a visual art exhibition curated by Around the Coyote curatorial interns Amy Gadola and Tracey Drobot. This exhibition delves into the special applications of identity in art. Artists must negotiate the complexities of stereotypes, self-awareness, portraiture, and what it means to be an artist. The success of an artwork is, for better or for worse, often contingent on the reception of the artist's desired or illusioned identity. The artists included in Improvised Identity explore notions of identity in very disparate ways and through the use of various media. Featured artists include Travis Pickard, Tim Lane, Philip Hartigan, Jennifer Schuberth, and Tewz One.
Festival Dedication
The 2007 Winter Arts Festival is dedicated to the memory of Malachi Ritscher.
Volunteer at our 2007 Winter Arts Festival!
During our arts festivals, we particularly need your help at the information and ticket booths, during the build-out of exhibition spaces, on artist installation days, at our opening party, and running around throughout the festival weekend. Sign up here to help Around the Coyote at our upcoming art festival!
2007 Winter Festival Online Volunteer Application
See our ads and articles about the festival:
The Onion. back cover ad. Jan. 18, 2007
Online listing at Metromix
Online ads at SunTimes.com
Online ads at Centerstage.com
Online ads at FallofAutumn.com
BBC Radio interview. Broadcast in Europe and the USA, January 28, 2007
The Onion. center spread with festival highlights feature. Feb. 1, 2007(pdf)
The Chicago Journal. ad. Feb. 1, 2007
Chicago Life Magazine. ad insert in the New York Times. Feb. 4, 2007
Flavorpill. Feature on Festival Music. Feb. 6, 2007
The Onion. ad. Feb. 8, 2007
TimeOut Chicago. ad. Feb. 8, 2007
The Booster. feature on festival by Anitra Rowe. Feb. 8, 2007
The Chicago Reader. ad. Feb. 8, 2007
Chicago Sun Times. article on the Flatiron Arts Building by Mark Konkol. Feb. 8, 2007
Crain's Chicago Business, article by Margaret Littman.
Radio spots on NPR from Feb. 5 thru Feb. 11
Univision TV. interview from Curator's Choice Exhibition to broadcast Feb. 10, 2007
Daily Candy. feature on festival.
Questions?
If you have questions about your application or how the festival works, please first check our FAQ.
If you can't find your answer there, email us or call the office at 773-342-6777.
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 Tickets:
Visual and Performing Arts Day Pass $10. Opening Night Party $20
All-Access Weekend Festival Pass $40
All tickets and passes are available at their respective venues throughout the festival, or in advance by calling 773-342-6777, or by email. If ordering tickets by email, we need your first and last name; mailing address; the amount of tickets and which kind of tickets you will be purchasing; your complete credit card information (the type of card, name on the card, the credit card number, expiration date, and the 3 digit security code on the back of the card); and your telephone number. Tickets ordered via email will be processed through Paypal. You will receive a Paypal receipt in your email inbox.
Tickets ordered after February 3, 2007 will be held under the purchaser's name at Will Call at the Around the Coyote Gallery and office 1935-1/2 W. North Avenue. We request that you bring your Paypal email receipt with you to pick up your Will Call tickets.
We recommend getting to any performance 30 minutes
early to assure seating even if you have an All-Access Weekend Festival Pass or a Performing Arts Pass.
Artist Applications