After 19 years in Wicker Park , Around the Coyote is moving its fall emerging art festival to the
WEST LOOP. Because of our constant efforts to expand and improve our services to artists, Around the Coyote has found a beautiful new venue for its 2008 Fall Arts Festival in one of Chicago 's most vibrant art neighborhoods.
PLUMBERS' HALL ( 1340 W. Washington Blvd ) will house
VISUAL ARTISTS' BOOTHS as well as our
LITERARY readings,
FILM screenings,
MUSIC and
THEATRE performances. Some of the country's best undiscovered painters, sculptors, photographers, installation artists, printmakers, filmmakers, actors, performance artists, musicians and poets will exhibit, sell and perform their work - all under one roof.
But that isn't the only change Around the Coyote is making to its fall art festival. This year we announce our
BEST NEW ARTIST AWARD.
One deserving artist will be selected by Around the Coyote staff and our guest curator,
ALLISON PETERS QUINN , Director of Exhibitions at
Hyde Park Art Center, as the most promising new artist of 2008 and will be awarded $2,000 to be used as the artist sees fit, in furtherance of their practice.
Allison Peters Quinn is the Director of Exhibitions at the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago) and Adjunct Professor at the School of the Art Institute,
Chicago. She has organized nearly sixty exhibitions at the Art Center over the past 4 years, curating solo exhibitions of Chicago-based artists
including by Max King Cap, CarianaCarianne, Howard Fonda, Theaster Gates, Jennifer Greenburg, Monica Herrera, Kelly Kaczynski and David Lozano.
Currently, she is organizing a mid-career retrospective of artist Mary Lou Zelazny which will be exhibited at the Art Center in February 2009.
A native of the Chicago area, she studied an MA at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, NY and a BA at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
She was the recipient of the 2001 Ramapo Curatorial Prize and has written essays for several exhibition brochures and catalogues.
Every submitting artist will be considered for the cash award. The prize will be awarded based on the quality and progressiveness of the artist's work and the professionalism of their application.
Our festival curators are unparalleled in their connection to the best new artists working in Chicago. Each was given free reign to curate their programs from applying and invited artists and the results have been outstanding. This festival's curators include:
Allison Peters Quinn (visual art),
Catherine Forster (film)
, Kristi McGuire (literary)
, Seth Vanek and
Aaron Rodgers (music),
Oriana Fowler (theatre), and
Daniel Tucker (public art).
Below is a list of the first round of accepted artists, as well as the waitlist. We will be accepting some waitlisted artists by the end of this week after final confirmation from our builders of the number of spaces available in the festival. As soon as a final decision is made, we will post it here.
Visual Art
Final List of Accepted Visual Artists Posted September 22, 2008
Includes Announcement Of Curator's Choice Awards And Best New Artist Award
Artists Placements Posted October 3
Exhibitor Information Sheet.pdf
Exhibiting visual artists include: Ben Cowan, Sadie Harmon, nikki hollander, Peter Hoffman, William Hunter, Katy Keefe, Ross Martens, Darren Oberto, Jie Qi, Shawn Stucky...and many more.
In addition to our Best New Artist of 2008 Award to Myeongbeom Kim, we have an award for BEST NEW PAINTER OF 2008 Sponsored by Golden Artist Colors. Hei Ahn was selected by ATC staff as the recipient of $100 in free paint from Golden. Ahn's work exemplifies all that we love in abstraction - movement, line, color, and an attempt to capture a moment that is both personal, intimate and relatable.
Film+Video
Our video curator, Catherine Forster of LiveBox, took her curatorial inspiration from our new festival venue Plumbers Hall. The site is designed for performance and its beautiful Beaux Arts features and Art Deco Architecture serve as stage. Performance art has a long and intimate history with video, going back to the birth of video art in the 60s. Today technology has broadened the possibilities and nature of performance in video and new media. This year's festival explores the rich context of performance and the diversity of platforms deployed by artists in this arena. Highlights include interactive video (viewers will participate in developing the art piece), real-time Internet performance, and performative video (the artist is the primary medium of the work).
Film+Video Schedule
Video program runs continuously throughout the weekend in the balcony. For complete descriptions go to aroundthecoyote.org/festival/2008_fall.
The Tiny Dance Film Series, 2006
4 kiosks, 4 performance videos. Choreographer Peter Kyle (NY), sound artist James Garver (NY), and dancer Holley Farmer (NY). Very short and very small films screened on iPods in a darkened kiosk for an audience of one.
Second Front, 2008
Live internet performance developed and enacted specifically for the Around the Coyote Festival. Second Front is the pioneering performance art group in the online avatar-based VR world, Second Life. Gazira Babeli (Italy), Penny Leong Browne (Vancouver), Yael Gilks (London), Bibbe Hansen (New York), Doug Jarvis (Victoria), Scott Kildall (San Francisco), Patrick Lichty (Chicago), Liz Solo (St. Johns) and Jeremy Owen Turner (Vancouver).
Embroidering Leaves, 2007
2-channel performative video. Sonja Hinrichsen, Germany. Duing a stay rural Connecticut Hinrichsen embroidered words into live skunk cabbage leaves growing in the forest. The words reflect her perceptions of this particular environment, landscapes described in old fairy tales, where witches and fairies would dwell.
Rain, 2008
Interactive video. Youngsuk L Altieri, Korea/Indiana. A microphone picks up sounds such as stomping feet, clapping hands or talking, which change the digital patterns of imagery.
Self-Portrait, 2006
4 videos. Hye Yeon Nam, Korea/NJ. Self-Portrait is an attempt to literally represent Nam's psychological and bodily displacement representing the experience of immigration to non-immigrants.
Iwano-Frankiwsk, 2007
Painting and performative video. Wojciech Gilewicz, Poland. Iwano- Frankiwsk is a city in the Ukraine that has an amazing collection of art displayed in a Roman Catholic Church built 300 years ago by Poles (Ukraine was part of Poland). Gilewicz work is a dialogue between today and yesterday. Gilewicz deploys representational painting and video to refresh art works long forgotten.
Jane, 2008
Performative video. Moon Na, Seoul Korea. Jane explores the artist's identity as an Asian woman in a society influenced by Western culture. Moon Na deploys her body as the primary medium in her videos.
Literary
Around the Coyote is proud to present Disembodied, a series of literary readings curated by Kristi McGuire. Each reading will exist as a pre-recorded audio track that will be played in between musical, theatrical and video acts.
Literary Schedule
Saturday, Oct. 18
Readings take place on the stage
12-1pm ... Conclave
A Journal of Literary Character presents a series of readings selected by editor Valya Lupescu from the new literary journal Conclave that employ alternative structures and approaches to character-based narratives -- flash fiction, poetry, fiction, and essay -- in order to create an orchestra of voices.
1-2pm ... Landlubber and Hoover Shoats Reading
Landlubber is an artists' broadside project (a single-page, double-sided) that pairs contemporary writers and visual artists in sets of two per issue. Hoover Shoats is an alias of a pseudonym for Chicago-area writer Eddie Dikman, whose stories and feature writing have appeared in The Believer, the Minus Times, and numerous boating-related publications.
Sunday, Oct. 19
Readings take place on the east balcony
12-12:30pm ... Conclave Reading Part II
1:30-2pm ... Canon
Canon performs three pieces that address the field of visual culture, foreground hybrid artistic and critical practices, and feature people working outside conventional means of producing, disseminating, and engaging with images.
3-3:30pm ... Original and Future Antiques
Original and Future Antiques is a hybrid genres / writing collaborative based in the Chicago neighborhood of Uptown. Many of their publications first occurred on bar napkins, though bigger projects are coming soon.
Music
This year's festival will showcase eleven musical acts throughout the weekend. Curated by Aaron Rodgers and Seth Vanek of Homeroom, who believe that collective effort amplifies a project's impact.
Headlining Music Acts
Tomorrow Music Orchestra
Tomorrow Music Orchestra is a chamber group led by bassist/composer Matthew Golombisky. With this 20-something piece ensemble of strings, winds, percussion, guitar and keyboards, Golombisky explores compositional methods that blend chance/random techniques, improvisation, and traditional orchestration. Nothing is too ambitious or grand for Tomorrow Music Orchestra; the forms seemingly leap between atonal, free improv, swing, funk and classical at whim. Since their debut performance at the Ice Factory in 2006, this assemblage of some of the city's finest jazz and classical instrumentalists has been performing in venues big and small all over Chicago and elsewhere.
myspace.com/tomorrowmusicorchestra
Scale Model
Scale Model is a four piece indie rock/pop group with striking vocals and sophisticated arrangements. They are evidence that pop music can be a higher form of music. The female-fronted group utilizes counter-point, syncopation and searching lyrics to create their energetic and dynamic sound. Scale Model draws influence The Cure, The Smiths, Ivy, Midlake, Broken Social Scene, Karate, and anything with strong songwriting.
scalemodelmusic.net
Kyle Mann Combo
Drawing upon a wide range of styles and influences, Kyle Mann Combo delivers a fresh brand of piano-driven rock that blends the unique and the familiar. Evoking colors reminiscent of indie pop, jazz, cabaret, progressive rock and earthy folk, the Kyle Mann Combo contrasts carefully crafted arrangements with extended improvised passages. Since its inception in 2005, the group has explored with a modular approach to both personnel and composition, allowing the music to breathe with a life of its own. The Kyle Mann Combo features: Kyle Mann - Vocals, Piano/Keyboards, Guitar; Vince Naples - Bass, Pedal Steel, Electric Guitar; and Matt Nagrodski - Drums.
kylemanncombo.com
Music Schedule
All music events take place on the stage.
Friday, Oct. 17
6:15-7 ... Anomie
8:15-9 ... Sonic Inertia Group
9-10 ... Tomorrow Music Orchestra
Saturday, Oct. 18
5-5:45 ... Todd Kessler
6-6:45 ... John Wesley's Band
8-8:45 ... Mike Musikanto
9-9:45 ... Scale Model
Sunday, Oct. 19
12:30-1:15 ... The Arts of Life Band
2-2:45 ... Moshier-Lebrun Collective
2:45-3:30 ... Grun-Tu-Molani
5-5:45 ... Kyle Mann Combo
Our 2008 Fall Festival theatre programming, curated by Oriana Fowler, seeks to highlight new and experimental theatre and improv from some of Chicago's brightest performers.
Theatre Schedule
Saturday, Oct. 18
2-5pm (stage) ... Play
An exploration of improv and game-play with Playground Theater.
3:30-4:15 (balcony east) ... Inside Fighter by Lindsay Muscato
The true story of a 1940s boxer, Phil Muscato, and his granddaughter Lindsay, who can't even throw a punch.
4:30-5 and 6:55 - 7:30 (balcony east) Something Life by KEN
This experimental theatre story about the different moments, experiences and discoveries one has through birth to wisdom.
Sunday, Oct. 19
Program repeats on Sunday, Oct. 19 without the 6:55 performance of "Something Life"
Tours and Artist Talks
Topics in Curation: Video Art with Catherine Forster
Saturday, October 18 at 2pm. Lecture takes place on large balcony. Free.
Catherine Forster, our film and video curator, discusses methods for curating and tips on collecting video art. She will highlight some favorite video artists working today, and introduce the work she has chosen for the festival video program.
Catherine Forster is a filmmaker, artist, curator and educator. Forster is the founder and director of LiveBox Gallery, a not-for-profit focused on filmic and new media art. Recent curatorial projects, in addition to her work for Around the Coyote, include programs for The Directors Lounge, Berlin; Three Walls, Chicago; and Kasia Kay Art Projects, Chicago.
Festival Tour: Beginning Collectors Tour
with Allison Stites of Around the Coyote
Saturday, October 18 at 3:00pm. $10. Tour begins in the 2nd floor lobby. Limit 20.
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.
Artist Talk: Deadline Projects Discusses Art-Making
Sunday, Oct. 19 at 1pm. Free. Talk begins at nikki hollander's artist booth #66.
Festival artists nikki hollander, Sarah Perez, Shawn Stucky, Stephen Shapiro and Damien James are members of a Chicago-based art collaborative called Deadline Projects. They have been brought together by the mutual desire to create art by setting deadlines for themselves while working within a set theme which will culminate with a unique and memorable art show. The four members will be discussing how the set themes generate inspiration, the benefits of working in a group dynamic, and the general objectives of the group. Other members of Deadline Projects include: Gretel Garcia-Cuba, Marc Salha, Arielle Bielak, Michael Una, Blake Parish Lewis, Holly Sabin, and Kyra Termini.
For more information deadlineprojects.com
Festival Tour: A behind the scenes tour for VIP Donors
Sunday, October 19th at 2pm. Free with VIP Donor ticket or donation of $100 or more.
Tour begins in the 2nd floor lobby.
Around the Coyote Executive Director, Allison Stites, leads a tour highlighting festival artists whose work has been receiving particular attention from gallery owners, press and collectors. Ways in which the festival is curated and new directions for the future of Around the Coyote will be discussed. Tips on collecting emerging art, doing studio visits with artists and new and inventive ways in which you can be an art patron will also be highlighted.
Festival Tickets
Tickets Now On Sale at Going.com
Friday night opening party admission: $40 (includes weekend pass, food and drinks)
Festival Day Pass: $10 (one day of visual art, literary, film, music, and theatre)
Weekend Pass: $15 (includes Saturday and Sunday admission to visual art, literary, film, music and theatre)
VIP donor All-Access Pass: $100
To purchase tickets in advance go to Going.com/aroundthecoyote. Tickets are also sold at the door throughout the festival. Passes 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 throughout the festival weekend at Plumber's Hall, 1340 W. Washington. All fees are suggested donations.
Chicago Artists Month
The Around the Coyote 2008 Fall Arts Festival is part of Chicago Artists Month, the thirteenth annual celebration of Chicago's vibrant visual art community coordinated by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and sponsored by the Chicago Office of Tourism with additional support from 3Arts.
For more information, call 312/744-6630 or visit
chicagoartistsmonth.org
